Catching Up

It’s been just over a week since I last blogged, so I thought this a good opportunity to catch up on what’s been going on.

Nothing exciting much happened last week with the exception of Sunday at work. I was the only one starting at 10 because Deb had called in sick, not that anyone let me know of course. It was drama from the beginning with problem after problem. I ended up having a queue at the register of about 5 deep with other people mulling around the department waiting to be served. I was not a very happy chappy. The only thinking that made me slightly happier was the arrival of Craig about 20 mins earlier and he saw me, saw the people and basically got straight to work. The day did get easier after that, but it still put me in a mood for the rest of the day.

My 2 interesting days consisted of Monday and Tuesday, my day’s off from work, I like to refer to them to my weekend. On Monday morning I mowed the grass like a good little Tina and then got a pone call from Pop because he wanted to come up and visit me to buy a Camera. Considering I wasn’t working I decided to go for a ride down to their house (Bellmere, Caboolture) and take them down to North Lakes. I found it quite interesting that the Myer at North Lakes sill had Mid Season Sale material up at the front door, even though the sale finished on the Sunday before. Apart from that pop found a camera he liked and we got it at a pretty good price so he bought it. After finishing the shopping expedition when we got home pop informed me that he wanted to go and look for some suitable cars to get for Nagyi (G’ma) so that she can start driving again. Nagyi hasn’t driven a car for 18 years after a bad accident that she and Pop were involved in. and since pop drives a big Toyota Prado, we were hoping to find something a little smaller for Nagyi to regain the ropes of driving. As Pop’s health is fading, he wants to do it now for her so she can still get around if he is unable to drive.

So I told them that I would come and visit Tuesday as well and Pop and I could go car shopping. As the weather was good I was able to ride my bike down both days and really stretch her legs, haven’t been able to do that for a while :).

So Tuesday I decided that I would also give Pop my old iPhone 3G. I restored it and got it all ready to go and headed on down to their place. The main reason for this is because Nagyi said that she would like something to play card games on when they have to take the train into the city etc. so I got there and set it all up for them, I did however have to take Pop into the Telstra shop to get a 3G simcard, since the one in his phone (and his phone for that matter) were both about 10 years old! We also had to add a data pack onto his plan so when he checks the weather he won’t get charged through the nose!

So after all of that we headed out car shopping. Went to almost every brand we could think of, and the end result was between a Suzuki Swift / SX4 or a Hyundai i20 / i30. Although Nagyi did inform me that she liked the new Lancer very much :).

After that we went back to there house and it was time for me to teach them how to use the phone. Pop took to it pretty quickly considering the technology change he had just been given. I hope he doesn’t forget how to use it!!

So that’s about all for my adventures for this week. Just an update on my Nail biter post, it lasted about 2 weeks… then I went to Fiji and my nails didn’t stand a chance! I will try again at the beginning of November.

Until next post…

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OH MY GOD

Well. What a day. Today Monday the 11/10/10 started out alright. Had to wake up early to take Lea to work as I had plans to take the car into nambour to get new tyres on her. This all was okay until I got to the tyre place and Peter (my friend who works there) told me that there was a big chuck missing out of the front left tyre. This chunk was about as big as a 10c coin and the rubber was down to the cable/wiring inside the tyre itself. So that ment that instead of getting 2 tyres, I needed to get 3. Not the most fun thing to do when these tyres cost $240 each!

However Peter did inform me that he could do a deal where if I bought 3, I'd get the 4th free. So instead I ended up getting 4 new tyres on Annabelle.

So everything was good then until I left the place. Was driving home from nambour, just heading down the hill that the Coles Express Servo is on (for those of you who know where that is) and the battery light comes on the dash. It felt like the car had stalled because the power steering had gone also. So I stopped at the bottom of the hill in the safest place I could find to find at the engine was still running and it had not stalled. By this time I'm stating to get a little freaked out. I thought to myself, I can still drive it without the power steering so I gently took off. Only got about 20 metres up the road and then the temp. light comes on. Now I'm worried and I pull the car over at a bus stop.

I rang the RACQ peeps and because it's raining and what not, she informs me that they are busy and it could be up to a 90 minute wait. Great. So after an hour the patrol guy pulls up, pops e bonnet, pulls out a loose belt and also tells me that the water pump had died. The car is going to need towing.

So he organized a tow to come and get me and told me that he would be there in about 30 mins. So after an hour and 15 mins of further waiting I was about ready to ring the RACQ people back again to see what was going on when the tow truck showed up. As it had just started raining I asked the guy if I could get into his truck, and he said yeah, but the passenger door was locked, and the lock was broken so I had to wait for him to crawl across the drivers seat to open the door for me. Good start.

As soon as the towie gets in the car, he grabs his mobile phone, makes a call and off we go. So this guy is on the phone, it's rainig, he's got my ute on the back of his truck, and he is NOT wearing his seatbelt. Again, great. So after talking for about 10 mins, he hangs up and then decides to inform me that he hasn't put one of the wheel straps on the back tyre because the tyre was on the strap and he couldn't be bothered. Right now I am feeling really safe and secure.

We finally make it to the mechanic and I tell him what I have been told. The only good thing is the my mechanic is within walking distance from home so I grabbed my gear and brelly and headed home.

The only savour from boredom that I had with me for the day was the fact that I had my iPad with me. I Read a book (well, some of a book anyways) played bejeweled and mahjong. And I am so far extremely impressed with the functionality of the iPad and the extrodinary battery life!!

So all thats left now is to wait until the mechanic calls me and tells me what it will cost to get Annabelle back up and running again. Although it will be funny to see me collect Lea this Arvo on the bike if the car is not fixed, specially if it's still raining!!,

Here's hoping my day turns up.....


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I hate being Forgotten!

Now I know this headline is a bit of a contradiction, as I have such a bad memory, but I still hate being forgotten!

This all stems from my activities for the day. Woke up at 7 am, had to take Leanne to work as she started at 8am. From there it was off to the Chiro for a very needed snap crackle and pop! I will admit I have forgotten a Chiro appointment in the past!

After which I thought a quick stop into Telstra would be okay, little did I know you can NEVER have a quick stop in the Telstra Shop. And that didn’t help that the lady behind the counter couldn’t even answer my Question! She gave me the option to get on the phone and ring them, to which I promptly declined. I have worked out the best way to contact Telstra and get a prompt response is…. Wait for it…. TWITTER! I got a response to my Question in about 5 minutes, which beats waiting on hold for ½ hour!

So anyway after that I got a call from Leanne asking to go and collect her from work as she had a sore back. She blames that on Craig and her personal training session of course… hehehe.

I thought that since I was in Mooloolaba I would head down to the Mower place to check up on the Brush Cutter I put in for a service 2 weeks ago. The guys told me that it would take prolly a week to look at as they were running a little behind and then they would give me a call. Since I had not heard anything, when I asked the guy, he looked it up on the system, noting that nothing had been done yet. I must have looked more then a little quizzical. “Apparently” the paperwork got lost. Now, usually if I have a machine just sitting around with nothing on it taking up space that wasn’t mine, I would prolly look it up to see what the go is. Too much trouble apparently for those guys. They tried apologising and said they would look at it today. I was miffed but too tired to argue the point.

After heading home with a broken Lealea in toe, we decided we needed to head out again and grab some medication for her sore back. I took this opportunity to bank my coins I had saved up, which totalled $89.90!!! I could not for the life of me find another 10c!!!! After banking the coins I got a call from the mower place saying it was ready to collect (only took about an hour). So they had the machine for over 2 weeks and only needed it for 1 hour!!! I was not very impressed.

Anyhoo, I thought after getting it home it would be a good idea to test out the newly serviced machine, 1^st plus, I could start it!! Always a good thing. Worked out well and I had just mowed the lawn yesterday so now it looks all bootiful!.

One more thing I wanted to mention was the switch over of the new registers at work. This happened on the 30^th September 2010 after we had been promised them for the past 5 years or so. so far so good, some functions seem  little harder then before, but all in all, an easier process. I thought I would try and get as familiar with the machines as possible so I kept checking out the functions and exploring what these machines can do. As I like to keep an eye on my sales for the day I found the function where it can show me what I have done for the day, or a selected period, which I found quite useful on keeping an eye on my $$ targets. Apparently I must have been accessing it a bit too much as I was then promptly told by my team leader to stop going in there or we will get banned. So I guess I won’t be doing that anymore.

So all in all a pretty good week or so for me. Nothing else outside of the ordinary has happened. Right now just watching the Commonwealth Games and the gold Rush that is Australia cleaning up the medals!!! Good luck team!!

Aussie Aussie Aussie!!!!

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