My love hate relationship with the beach

Since I'm chilling in a beach house with my 4 best girl friends, I have had a refresher on why I both love and hate the beach (and this house).

Love: I can run all over the same dunes.
Hate: When it's been raining, every step is like walking in quick-sand.
Love: It's a great place for swim and stamina training.
Hate: You get sand in places you didn't know sand could get.
Love: I can sit in the sun and internet.
Hate: The internet inside the house is shitty.
Love: Being with my friends for 2 weeks.
Hate: Having 1 bathroom between the 4 of us.
Love: There's a massive garden.
Hate: It's all in bloom at the moment. Hayfever.
Love: My friend's family owns the house, so we don't have to worry about paying for it.
Hate: My friends have decided that I'm the one who has to walk to town and buy the food.
Love: We have a washing machine.
Hate: We don't have a dish washer.
Love: It has massive windows in all the rooms (except the bathroom).
Hate: None of the windows have curtains. Not even the ones in the bedrooms.

I'm going to keep adding to this list as I think of things, so hold your horses for more.

Okay, so...

The blogging everyday thing sort of went down the tubes, since I lost all internet access for a couple of days, and I wasn't willing to go pay for internet at the library. Not even for you guys.

But, I present a challenge to all other bloggers (NoComedy, I'm looking at you). Don't worry, I'm going to do this too, eventually.

You must post some photos (as many as you like) that capture your life. But they can't have any people in them. Animals are fine, as are people walking down the street etc. who aren't actually the subject of your pictures. 

I'm off to take some pictures. I might post them later, if I've got them all. If I don't, then possibly tomorrow.

Do I have to have a post title?

Hiya everyone!

I had a bitch of a day today.

It all started when I had a client come into my workplace with her 7 year old daughter. The client went off to her consultation and asked if I, the receptionist, could watch her daughter while she was busy. I tried to say no, but I was pushed into it by my boss.

The kid was wearing a short tank top and tiny little denim shorts. She was okay to start with, and just played on her iPhone (I don't even have an iPhone. How does a 7 year old get one?). But then she started to get bored, and came over to my computer while I was getting a cup of coffee. When I got back, all my windows had been closed and she was watching a video on youtube at full volume.

So, I told her off and restarted all my work. I managed to get a little quiet before she suddenly started tell our clients how rubbish the place was as they walked in the door. I had some people walk straight back out, and some come and complain to me.

I'd had enough at this point, so I looked her in the eye and said "where did you find that outfit? Did you take it from your barbies?" Then I marched her up to the conference room where her mother was and told her that I couldn't handle it anymore. I told her everything that had happened and she took her daughters phone away and made her sit quietly while she finished her consultation.

So now I'm sitting at home drinking a mojito and watching Doctor Who, finally glad to have a chance for peace (did I mention that was happening for the entire time I was at work?)

Hey y'all

Hi everyone. So, just a quick little post, so that I keep my promise and post every day. Even though it's 1 am Wednesday morning here. We won't tell anyone, right?

So, I had a really dull day today. I watched Doctor Who all day with Jae. He has this really irritating habit of, when he gets bored of the episode we're watching, pointing out all the inconsistencies and flawed logic in the episode. It really pisses me off. So today I did something about it.

I let him get away with it a few times, hoping he would get it out of his system. He didn't. So, I quietly got up and found some duck tape. I don't think he even noticed I left the room. I came back and hid the duck tape as I sat down. Then, the next time he did it, I pulled the duck tape on him, taped over his mouth as well as I could. I haven't let him talk since. This happened about 7pm, just after dinner.

The moral of this story is: There is nothing ducktape can't fix.

Sudden decisions

Okay. I've made a decision. I'm going to try to post everyday for the rest of September. If it works, it's going to be a permanent thing. If it doesn't, I'll go back to my regular posting 'schedule'.

I'm going to ramble about what ever happens to me during the day, or maybe stories from my childhood.

This is my post for today (because I'm a cheater). I'll be back tomorrow.

Bucket List

Okay, I said I'd post it, so I'm going to. This will be updated as I do them and think of more.

Have a piece of work in the Victorian State Library

Get a tattoo

Get an interesting piercing

Visit 10 different countries

Meet a celebrity

Ride a camel

Bungee Jump

Take a ride in a hot air balloon

Make a full length movie

Parachute out of a plane

Make a chess set
Be on TV
Paint a mural
Write a song

What I love about where I live

So, for my first post of the month, I thought I'd share with you my favourite things about where I live.

• My house is about 200 metres from both a pizza hut and a Hungry Jacks.
• My neighbours have honeysuckle (it's not honeysuckle, but it's close enough) and they have a sign out the front that says 'take us much as you like'.
• I live near a bike path on which you can get anywhere in the city.
• It's a semi-gated community. There's a gate at the front, but it's not fenced or anything.
• All my neighbours have awesome gardens.
• Someone set up a basketball hoop on one of the power line poles for the whole court (yes, I live in a court) to use. We often decide on weekends to go around, knock on all the doors and get everyone to play.
• My elderly next door neighbours have internet that they never use. They let everyone in my building (we're all poor students) use it for free.
• My upstairs neighbours (I live in an apartment building) have lots of parties which they invite everyone in the building too.

That's all I can think of right now. I'm sure there were more that I thought of before. But they're gone forever.

I might make a post featuring my bucket list (which I am currently writing) later.