I started out this week feeling like total crap...and here at it's I still feel like total crap. But at least I'm total crap with a shiny new prospect. On Tuesday I skipped classes to enjoy the absence of my mother (who has been driving me CRAZY but more on that another time) and got a call from a property management company I'd applied for a ( Read more... )

Man, this has been a crappy week. I can't shake this cold, my ovaries decided to rebel against their current habitat and wage war on me, job hunting is just depressing, my mother returned and declared that every aspect of my life is inadequate and oh yeah, both my grandparents are dead so their estate has to be split between three siblings who can' ( Read more... )

My grandfather died yesterday. It was peaceful, he was in his bed at the time, surrounded by his children. I'm still in New Zealand, but I'm leaving early, going to Brisbane tomorrow and then driving up on Sunday. The funeral will probably be on Tuesday. I'm strangely calm about the whole thing, I think because it's not quite real yet, but also ( Read more... )

My good friend Vanessa's brother and sister-in-law had a little girl last night! They called her Julia. Even though she's not on LJ, I just wanted to post and say CONGRATULATIONS! Nieces are the best kind of relative; I say that as one four times over (well eight, technically)!

I love Ugly Betty. Mostly because it's a mock soap opera like Desperate Housewives, but not bogged down by all the taboo-crossing shock factor gimmicks. And also because of this ad. Plus it has the guy from Popular in it (another awesome mock soap).

So Sister the Second has departed and we all breathed a sigh of relief and put it all down to ( Read more... )

Kylie Concert: Oh. My. God! Is it possible to squee for three hours, because I think I did last night. It was ( [select an effusive adjective] !!!!!!! )

Happy Thirteenth of December! Officially Twelve Days Until Christmas now. Fitting then, that today was filled with good news. Firstly, I did get the job (yay!). Secondly, the job doesn't start until January. Which, although it means a few more weeks of destitution, also means that I can go home for the holidays without it being an issue (double yay ( Read more... )

A lot of things have happened lately that I haven't really written about. Allow me to fill you in:

1.  Job hunt appears to have ended with the successful transition from group interview to training at Potential Workplace Inc (note: not real title of company). Apparently this is the next step in the recruitment process, so who knows if I have ( Read more... )

I'm so over McDreamy. More like McAsshole. Also, Meredith is bugging me again. "Oh no, two gorgeously attractive men are in love with me, one who does brain surgery for a living and the other who saves fluffy little animals. Whatever shall I do? My life is so hard!" Oh piss off and eat a sandwich girl. That musical montage of the whole last two ( Read more... )

Typical that just when I have ever so much work to get done right now, I'm on a major LotR kick. I blame mrbnatural for making some kick-ass icons of the original animated film (for a fine example, see my own). I also blame Sister the First for tempting me with her birthday present to herself of Scene-It and all it's trivia glory ( Read more... )