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11:42pm: So in the daylight this morning the car didn't look nearly as bad as I feared, although the scratches are still most unfortunate. My poor poor car. I did actually try to use my auto paint to cover them, but I dunno how well that'll work, however, I'm in no position to spend any money fixing it, especially with the letter I got today.

Yes, when I got home from Mrs S's and the Warriewood Square and saw the envelope in the mailbox my spirits lifted! Until I picked it up and felt how light it was and then saaw it was from the Office of State Revenue.

They didn't overturn my speeding ticket! What a bag of dicks, I have sped one other time during my whole driving life (and there were no cops or cameras around soo they don't know that), it was 7 minutes before the school zone time ended and the fact that $180 is a financial burden on me (more than a shift's worth) fell on deaf ears. What a fuck-up.

Obviously, I'll have to pay it since I'm certainly not going to court to argue about it - it'd cost me even more money and time.

So yes,not the best of luck there.

However! Because my place wasn't very tidy and Mum had to go shopping for some stuff, as well as it being unseasonably warm today instead of coming over to the Granny Flat, we went to Warriewood Square where I finally found a pair of shorts suitable for work (it only took going to just about every clothing shop in the place!) and got my medication - which I hadn't been able to purchase before because my low-income card has expired so now I have to pay the full subsidised price, which is $26.

Note to self I owe Mum $150 all up now...but hey! The shorts were only $12, nice.

Right, better wrap this up and hit the hay, I've got a library shift and volunteering tomorrow so I need my zzzs!

Goodnight all!

PS Oh I almost forgot, I had the weirdest dream last night - I was on a cruise ship with my two brothers, my parents and another person I didn't know. Although shit got rather weird when Dad seemed to be drunk or something yelling at people and my brothers, the mystery person and I couldn't find our muster point during the drill.

Brain, what's your deal? LOL

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11:36pm: As we all know I've been waiting for my new bank card to arrive, I checked the letterbox when I got home from Mrs S's, but no luck, so I was most pleased when the landlord's wife came later in the afternoon with a letter for me! At least until I opened it.

It was a speeding ticket! From last Tuesday! Fuck! I hadn't realised that in my rush to get to work on time I'd gone 50kms in a school zone. That was 10km over the speed limit!

FUCK! I already had and paid that parking ticket I got on that day, but a $189 speeding ticket?! I may as well not have turned up to work! I make $22 an hour and I worked for four hours that day...which if my maths is halfway decent means I'm out of pocket $100!

And just to rub salt in the wound, the time of the speeding ticket was 9:23am, literally seven minutes before the school zone ends! If I had have been actually late I would have been better off! In fact I would have been going 20kms under the normal speed limit of that road!

I was going to suck it up and pay it, as painful as it is, when I noticed that on the back you could apply for leniency if you have a clean driving record - which I do - although it also seemed to suggest that wasn't possible if it was a school zone related fine, it wasn't really clear. The letter also said that less than 4% of applications succeed. But nashira and her Nan said to me over Facebook I might as well give it a go.

Seriously, though, I hope I have some good luck here, I know a speeding fine is supposed to be expensive to stop you from doing it, but when you make minimum wage like me it's a total kick in the face. Not to mention a bit unfair, if kids are still going to school at 9:23 they're running pretty bloody late.

Anyway, aside from that I don't have much else to say except I did pop over to the Disability Service that I'm employed through now to drop off my timesheet and enquire about possibly getting more hours. They're gonna look into what the have and get back to me, I wonder if I'll be able to do any of them, working as a carer is quite hard work and a lot of responsibility so...

And, it's coming up on midnight so I better head off, I keep undersleeping, it's no good for me, dang it!

So I shall say, goodnight!

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11:18pm: Well, after my rather exciting entry yesterday regarding the apartment and the floor plan, I got the very unwelcome news this morning via phone call that I was unsuccessful with the part-time Librarian job.

Well, fuuuuck. That job would have been great! Well...at least in terms of hours...I guess I wasn't all that sure about my ability in a supervisory role. Now, there's only the full-time library assistant job left as an opportunity. Which I haven't heard back about...and being full-time would mean leaving Mrs S. And all this job-hunting is making Mrs S a bit worried about what would happen if I did get a job, which could result in her letting me go, which would really screw me over in terms of finance.

Mum thinks that maybe I need to sign up with the company she works for, but on a full-time basis, my original thought had been to sign up on a causal basis, so I could still stay with my other jobs. But maybe that's not what that company is going for... Of course, that would leave me having to get used to multiple clients and as I've previously mentioned I'm not the best at first-impressions.

Moving on, it's quite a bit later than I realised - time flies when you're surfing the net and watching DVDs I must say! So I'll should wrap this entry up and hit the hay.

Oh! I finally got onto the Payroll Office for Mona Vale Library and as it turned out I did mark the 'no' box for claiming the Tax Free Threshold, but for some reason they didn't mark it in the system, so that's why I have such a big tax bill! It's been changed now, but still what a pain in the butt.

Right now, I better be off, although I'm intrigued by this doco I'm watching Hurricane 360 about Hurricane Sandy. that was some serious shit...I have to wonder did that policeman really keep his hat on during the whole storm? Because that's pretty amazing.

I almost forgot! After getting the news about the job, I went over to my parents place where I got to go swimming at the Retirement's Home pool. It also has a spa, so nice.

OK, definitely going to bed now. :OP

Goodnight all!

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10:16pm: What did I fuck up? My car...my poor lovely car! I was pulling out of the Aldi parking lot at Mona Vale when I completely scrapped up the left side of my car! D: The sound of the metal crunching was so loud! I didn't pull over right away but as I drove past a big picture window I saw all the scraps and dents and it only got worse when I got out and took a closer look. Paint has been scratched off completely in places! There's areas that are dented in...and it's an absolute mess. D:

And now, when I drive around I feel like people are judging me when I drive because...well if you saw a car as badly fucked up as mine you'd wonder what the Hell they'd done too!

It was bad enough when I was reversing out of the parking spot and clipped my wing mirror, to complete mess up the car! I can't believe that happened! And I was so relieved because when I got to work at the library this morning the Librarian on Duty came up with a piece of paper and said that at the end of the month and into April the council is looking for people to man a booth in the library to let people comment on the situation with the Council Mergers (long story, some dumb thing the State Government is doing), which will be paid! So I was super quick to put my name down for a few.

Of course now...650 of those dollars now have to go to paying for the car! Well, thank God I have insurance because that's how much the excess is. The smash repairer said that had I been uninsured it would have cost nearly $4,000! That's half the cost of the car!

That was another patch of good luck, I found a smash repairer who was open on Saturdays and was able to bring the car in for a quote, the man there provides hire cars so I'll get one while mine is getting fixed. The only problems were he doesn't have a hire car to offer until Wednesday and secondly, he's not an NRMA (my insurance company) recommended repairer (although he does have a plaque from them in his office) so NRMA have to send an accessor out in person to sign off on the repairs before the panel beating can start.

Which better not be too long because the car's rego is due on 17th March and I need to get a pink slip! Actually the smash repairer guy said he could arrange that - he knows the mechanics in the area - but I still need to arrange the car's yearly service - I was hoping to do that together with the pink slip...

Oh and finally just to put an icing on the cake of bad luck...I called the NRMA from the car and stupidly sat in it with the aircon on, but the engine off and when the time came to turn the engine on so I could drive home....

The battery was flat as a pancake.

So like a total loser I had to go back to the Smash Repairers, where I'd just been to give the man the claim number and ask if he could give me a jump start. He very kindly did, but as a result I had to drive around for no good reason for half an hour and there's still a slight chance the car might not start tomorrow.

Ugh, so not a good day. Plus I was planning on going skating tomorrow morning to see what it would be like, but as I said I hate the thought of driving around in my car when it looks so sad. Plus, as I think I've mentioned previous that time o' the month is drawing closer and my knee is sore.

In other news, I haven't done the Memes is so long I can't even remember which ones I haven't done...but i think I've got it right starting with

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14/2/16

:The Theme from Love Story (1970):

1) The very popular tagline for this movie is, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." Here's your chance to rewrite it. "Love means being able to laugh at/with each other."

2) The movie was famous for a montage of the lovers frolicking in the snow. Do you enjoy sledding, skating, skiing, snowball fights, snowmen, etc.? Or do you just want spring to hurry up and get here? Well, we don't get snow in Sydney...at least not since the 70s. I enjoy ice skating of course and also skiing although I haven't done the latter in ages. And as I'm in the Southern hemisphere it's now autumn and winter is coming...which I'm none too pleased about.0

3) In the movie, Oliver asks his father for $5,000. The money is required for wife Jenny's hospital treatment, but Oliver is too proud to tell his father why he needs it. Adjusted for inflation, $5,000 in 1970 is $30,000 today. How much would you be willing to lend a friend or family member without knowing the reason? Uh...I guess it depends? I don't have much money myself, but if they were really desperate I could probably stretch to lend $1000.

4) In the movie, Jenny is the daughter of a baker who owns a little shop in Cranston, Rhode Island. Think of the last baked goods you consumed. Were they home made? Did you buy them from a bakery, the grocery store, or a coffee shop, like Starbucks? It was a mini-blueberry muffin from Woolies, and it was very tasty.

5) In 1970, when the movie was first released, California's First Lady Nancy Reagan said she liked it but was upset to hear Ali MacGraw's character swear. What's the curse word you use most often? (Feel free to spell it with *'s, in case Nancy Reagan stops by Sat. 9) Hasn't Nancy Reagan died? I'm pretty sure she has. Anyway, the ship has sailed on the swearing :OP and I think you can guess what my favourite word is.0

6) Now 75, Ali MacGraw has let her famous hair go gray. She says she's glad to "look like a grown up." Do you feel your age? Or older or younger than your years? Nope, I feel way younger than my years. But then I've usually felt like that.

7) MacGraw and her Love Story co-star Ryan O'Neal are currently on tour in the play, Love Letters, and they're drawing big crowds of fans who remember them in their famous film. Tell us of another movie couple you felt had romantic chemistry. Uh...I dunno. No-one really comes to mind.

8) Red is the signature color of Valentine's Day. Are you wearing red right now? There's a few bits of red on my boxer shorts.

9) Because Valentine's Day is such a big day for chocolate ... would you prefer a large, solid milk chocolate heart or a small box of four assorted chocolates? I want the heart! Yum! :OD

21/2/16

:Sixteen Tons (1955):

1) 16 tons = 32,000 pounds, because there are 2,000 lbs. to a ton. Without looking it up, do you know how many ounces are in a pound? I haven't got a clue.

2) The singer describes himself as having "a mind that's weak and a back that's strong." Think about yourself. Which feels more powerful today, your body or your brain? Quite frankly neither. What with the sore knee and general discomfort and my lack of attention that resulted in severe car damage. :O(

3) The poor chap in this song has money troubles. Are you good at sticking to your budget? I am, but let's not discuss money right now.

4) Tennessee Ernie Ford snapped his fingers as he recorded this song. It's been said that while it's possible to snap your fingers of both hands, the noise is louder with your "dominant hand." (So if you're a rightie, the finger snap will be louder with your right hand.) Try it yourself. Did you find this to be true? I can't snap the fingers on either hand, I do't know why, but I can't. Maybe because I have weak fingers? Although I have been working on them and there's still no finger snapping to be had.

5) Mr. Ford appeared as "Cousin Ernie" in three episodes of I Love Lucy. What's your all-time favorite sitcom? Excluding The Simpsons I'm gonna say Frasier, great show. :O)

6) Tennessee Ernie took the money he made from his performing career and invested in a California cattle ranch. Think back to the last beef your ate. How was it prepared? It was a beef burger, which I had between two slices of toast with melted cheese and tomato sauce on the patty.

7) Mr. Ford passed away at age 72 in 1991. That year, Dr. Seuss also died. What's your favorite Dr. Seuss book? Eh, I don't recall actually reading that much Dr. Seuss. Although our family did have a "My First Alphabet" book which I really liked.

8) Gene Roddenberry also died that year. Mr. Roddenberry is best known as the creator of Star Trek. Who is your favorite Star Trek character? Eh, never watched it, so I don't have one.

9) Random question: We're having smoothies. What's your favorite? Dunno, never had a smoothie...I guess strawberry? Or maybe watermelon.

28/2/16

:The Times of Your Life (1976):

1) This song is all about memories. How far back can you remember? What's your earliest memory? I remember lying in the hallway of our house in Canberra.

2) The first line is "Good morning, yesterday." What do you remember about yesterday morning? That I was in a bit of a hurry because I had to get to work earlier than usual and even though I'd set the alarm earlier I didn't take into account that I need to wash my hair. I managed to do it all though.

3) This song was originally a 60-second jingle, featured in a commercial for Kodak film. Do you ever use film? Or are all your pictures digital? Nope, all digital now. I haven't used film in forever.

4) Who took the most recent photo of you? Uh...myself I think?

5) This week's featured artist, Paul Anka, was born in Canada and enjoyed appearing in a made-for-TV Perry Mason movie with fellow Canadian, Raymond Burr. Do you enjoy courtroom dramas? Hmmm, I do enjoy the odd Law & Order episode, but I perfer the police procedural more.

6) At 15, Anka won a supermarket contest by collecting the most Campbell soup can wrappers. The prize was a trip to New York. Do you enter contests and sweepstakes? Play the lottery? Wow, that's a fab prize! I wonder how many he had to collect though. Anyway, nah I don't, I need to save my money.

7) This year Paul Anka performed throughout Florida (Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Clearwater and Fort Myers). The Sunshine State is a popular vacation destination. Do you have a favorite spot in Florida? Never been, but Disney World sounds very cool.

8) In 1976, the year this song was on the charts, an earthquake hit China. Have you ever experienced an earthquake? Nope. They're not that common in Australia.

9) Random question: Do you know CPR? I know CPR, I know CPR. :OP Could I actually do it in a high pressure situation though? I don't know.

5/3/16

: FortyFive Seconds (2015):

1) The very bad day described in this song began promisingly enough. The lyrics tells us, "Woke up an optimist, sun was shining, I'm positive." How did your day begin? Hmpf! The same way.

2) This song refers to Monday morning. What's on your plate for Monday? Work at Mrs S's and then the day is pretty much open.

3) The lyrics request, "promise you'll pay my bail." Have you ever had to bail anyone out of jail? (Or have you been bailed out?) Nope on both counts!

4) Rihanna gets top billing in this all-star trio. She says that when she was a little girl, she used to walk around singing "A Whole New World" from Disney's Aladdin. What's your favorite song from a Disney movie? Ha ha, I like that song too! But my favourite would be Part of Your World from The Little Mermaid.

5) Rihanna dated outfielder Matt Kemp when he was with the LA Dodgers. Opening Day is less than a month away. Are you a baseball fan? No, I'm an Aussie! Although we are getting games down here...

6) Kanye West also sings on this week's song. When he was a little boy, he spent a year in China with his mother. Have you ever lived overseas (as opposed to just visiting on vacation)? Really? That's interesting! Our family didn't spend a year but we did go for four months and spent two of them in Great Britain, my brothers and I even went to school for half a term. Good times.

7) Mr.West is part owner of the Fatburger chain. Do you like grilled onions on your burger? That name doesn't bode well...to answer your question though, nope don't care for onions at all.

8) This week's third artist, Paul McCartney, is a vegetarian. Think about your most recent meal. Did it include chicken, pork, or beef? Eggs or dairy? Chicken. I made my terrayki chicken legs, good eatin'.

9) Paul was born at 2:00 PM on a Thursday. Do you know what day of the week you were born? Do you know the exact time? Not sure of the day...but it was about 9:35pm.

Right, better wrap this up.

Wish me a better day tomorrow!

Goodnight all!

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10:56pm: So Operation Move has begun and some bad luck has come along to kick me in the butt...or rather the knee.

I guess it might be related to the fall I took in the parking lot yesterday, but this morning I woke up before my alarm when I moved my left leg and felt a very uncomfortable pain in my knee area. Ow.

As you can imagine this is most inconvienent, what with all the stairs and the kneeling and lifting I have to do at work to say nothing of carrying stuff down to the car. I got most of my clothes down along with the bed legs and one of the mattresses - the thin one because sleeping on that last night was not comfortable. However, my knee became progressively sorer during the day and now whenever I have to get up and walk around it hurts.

The furniture arrived at 1:30 and it all fitted nicely! Plus, as predicted I managed to fit quite a bit more in the drawers then Mum thought I would and the two small wardrobes will fit my clothes nicely. The place looks great :O) I just have to make sure to keep it clean.

This is most concerning, because the weather is supposed to go downhill on Wednesday afternoon so tomorrow I really should make a push to move more stuff over. But I don't want to overdo it on the knee because if I hurt it I won't be able to work - whereas I technically have another week until I need to be out of the granny flat here.

However, Mum wants to make the big push this week, which means I should go to the doctor and see what they say... If they think I should rest it I can let Mum know this and even get a doctor's note!

But yeah, what an ass!

Further to my bad luck I've just realised...the VCR/DVD combo recorder I have can't actually record DVDs it can only record from DVD to VHS, which is bloody useless. So I've ordered an analogue to digital cable thing which I can attach to my computer and dub my tapes through that onto my computer. It's coming by post though so it'll be a few days, so the dub plan has stalled.

Anywho, I better get to bed!

By the way, everyone pray and hope that Iowa doesn't fuck us up by voting for Trump, because the world is in a delicate place right now and we don't need that train wreck.

Oh I watched Australia's Got Talent tonight and I really loved it LOL. There's someone I want to vote into the Grand Final though, but I forgot what the website was. Damn.

But lastly...my laptop is being a dick and not playing music so I can't study my Russian. Damnit!

Well, it's too late to do anything now, so I'm hitting the hay.

Goodnight all!

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11:01pm: The phrase could probably have been uttered by Mrs S, because in my scattered-brainedness I forgot all about the fact I was supposed to start at 8am today! So there I was making what I thought was good time, when I got a call from her asking if I was all right.

I hurried to get there, of course, but just my luck there was road-work going on and then I got the red lights and then the traffic was slow near the park at the back of where Mrs S lives - every week they have a market there and in the end I got there at the same time I always do! Which was bad since Mrs S had to leave the house at 10am! Fortunately, we managed! Go me. Although Mrs S was a bit disappointed because the other carer was also late yesterday which almost caused a big bruhaha, so I felt like a real ass. :OP

The other reason for the phrase? Well, it being November 12th over in the US today I decided I would watch the new 30th Anniversary Blu-Ray edition I got to celebrate. Except...my blu-ray player has this problem where it's constantly switching itself on and off, so I couldn't watch it!

My laptop has a blu-ray player, but for some reason it wouldn't play the disc at all! WTF? Apparently this is a common issue, because despite the laptop having a blu-ray player, Windows itself doesn't have the software to play it! By this point, it was getting close to 10:04 California time, so I gave up on watching the whole movie and just watched the November 12th scenes on my old DVD player with a non-blu-ray disc.

After that, I hurriedly got dressed to take the car to Pittwater Road and also meet my parents and little bro for dinner at the nearby Golf Club that has $10 meal nights. Niice. The grandparents were supposed to come too, but after starting off lovely the weather went to Hell (there was even hail in nearby suburbs!) and it put them off. Dad also wasn't in the mood to be there because his scooter got caught up in a mini-flood and the engine got water logged and stopped working so he had to push it the rest of the way home!

For all that though, it was a delicious dinner - fish and chips and though it was very loud when we arrived the noise eventually calmed down. Phew.

I also got a ride home from the little bro in his new (2nd hand) car, after dropping off the Chery and putting up the signs. Nice car for sure.

So, now we play the waiting game, I've put an ad up on Gumtree for the car too, but all phone enquiries will go to Mum, so we'll have to see what happens there.

Meanwhile, I've been NaNoing and trying to solve my blu-ray problem, the NaNoing has gone quite well, but apparently blu-ray keeps getting new DRM software put on it and the free programs can't keep up! Bloody Hell, I'm glad I paid top money for something that won't work on my own computer!

And damn my blu-ray player! I bought that thing brand new and it was about $250! I expected it'd last longer than three years. Bull shit man.

And finally, I just realised today that the black dress I exchanged at Aldi yesterday isn't the same style as the one I had before! And it doesn't look nearly as nice so...now I have to try and return that too! I guess I've found something to do tomorrow when I get to Dee Why half an hour earlier.

Speaking of, I better head to bed soon so I can get up refreshed.

It wasn't all bad luck today though...I thought I'd lost my activity tracker...again...which really irked Dad, but I took a look around in my bedroom and found it!

Oh, and I sent my future self another email, with any luck it'll arrive in 2020, I'll keep you posted! ;O)

And I've hit 15,000 words finally...phew!

15000 / 50000 words. 30% done!

Still behind, but steady on!

And now, goodnight!

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10:32pm: Hmmm, that doesn't really roll off the tongue like "Hold your horses" does, but it's an apt subject heading for today.

My friend very nicely emailed the service report on the Citroen, but alas...it wasn't all that good (I even popped in to see my parents mechanic and he didn't think it was a good idea to purchase), I mean the car's fine at present, but there's a number of things that will probably need repairing within the next year and it won't be cheap to do so. It seems kind of pointless to buy a cheap car just so you can spend all your money on keeping it on the road! Might as well save up heaps of money and buy a new one with a warranty and all that jazz. There is actually one I couldn't help loving...it has green accents in the interior! It's also $15,000 so I don't think I'll be getting that one. But seriously...look how boss it is.

Anyway, I had to very awkwardly send an email to my friend telling her all this, I haven't heard back yet, so I'm worried she's really quite annoyed at me. I said I'd definitely buy it if she could lower the price to $4,100, but that's like almost $2,000 less than she asked for! Which is kind of an insult really, although it does match the high-end offer for such cars that I looked up online.

That's another thing...for such expensive cars they sure devalue quickly! No-one must want Citroens, I saw one that was $23,000 new and the resale value for it only 6 or 7 years later was just $500 on the low end! Seriously, WTF? That's a rip off. I wonder if my friend knew about this when she bought the car? Although it has given her a good 10 years worth of driving.

I hope I hear back from my friend, I was hoping to arrange a meet-up of some sort, although not for this weekend because I've managed to book myself in for a Saturday and Sunday shift at Dee Why Library! This is great because I had to turn down the Library at the Mall for Thursday after telling them I could do it because I realised that I'm all ready booked in for Mona Vale Library on that day! Bit embarrassing that.

I'm a little worried about the Saturday shift, because it ends at 4pm, which gives me 45 minutes tops to get to church before the organist will start to get tetchy that I'm running late. But I ain't turning down that money! Or experience for that matter.

On another note, I've just realised, N the landlord was supposed to install new lights at my place tomorrow, but since I need to work at the library, that can't happen. I'll have to send an SMS to let them know - although I'm not even sure N has the lights!

Plus, my cleaning from the weekend has been somewhat undone - seriously, I don't even know how I can do that! - so yeah.

Oh! And I almost forgot! I have a set 1pm to 6pm shift at Dee Why on Tuesday all the way to December! Sweet! :OD I feel loved. At least I've got luck there!

On that note I must be off, originally it looked as if I'd have to go early to Mrs S's place tomorrow - like 7:30 rather than 8:30, but fortunately she called to say nope, we can start normal time, even so, I better get to bed, I didn't get quite enough zzzzs last night and it kind of showed today, I even had a short nap not that it did much good.

So yes, goodnight all!

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10:21pm: I'm so embarrassed...you know how last night I was lamenting that I wouldn't be able to watch Wimbledon because I had to get up in the morning? Fat lot of good that did! Somehow I fucked up my mobile settings, I meant to put it on silent mode except for alarms, but somehow that didn't work, so there was no alarm! When I woke up and looked at my watch I saw to my horror it read 9:30am! FUUUUUCK.

I quickly grabbed up my phone to confirm this and saw that I'd missed some calls, unsurprisingly, I was an hour late for work! And without me Mrs S can't get ready in the mornings! So I called her right away, relieved to find she wasn't upset - however, the other carer was all ready on her way so there goes a day of pay for me. Even more embarrassing since I didn't answer the phone Mrs S was worried something had happened to me. Then I called my parents since I'd missed a call from them too and Mrs S had called them when I didn't show, and they had also been worried, not that worried, Mum assured me, she was going to come over and see what was happening, but she was going to have her coffee first.

But, God damn, how do these things happen? And whyyyy? I know I've put my phone on "Priority" mode before and the alarm has gone off, why not this time? I checked the volume and it seemed fine, plus I had put my phone right next to my bed so even at a half volume it should have woken me. Life can be such a dick.

However, life can also be good! Because I still went to do my volunteering at the library today and I received some seriously exciting news, apparently the Inter-Library Co-ordinator had been speaking with a higher up and they're going to put me on the Casual Library Assistant Pool at the Warringah Libraries too!

Ohmergerd! I could hardly believe it! What amazing luck! Go me! I didn't even have to apply! Although I've been volunteering for a year so how's that for a trial! :OP

I did tell the Home Library Co-ordinator and the Inter-Library Co-ordinator my tale of woe and I've been advised to set a back up alarm, so I have using one of my old mobiles. Although, the Home Library Co-ordinator feels something that is on an old-fashion battery is better, but here's hoping the mobile phone option will work. Seeing, I'm pretty sure those old-timey wind-up alarm clock tick loudly, and I can't abide by ticking clocks.

After volunteering I rang Mum to tell her my exciting news, and it turned out that she and Dad were in Dee Why so we met up for a bit, although it was too late for lunch so all I just helped them with making a few purchases - I had to go to the newsagency to buy an A3 sleeve and also Lincraft for those seam ripper things - two of them, one for Mum and one for M. I all ready have one, but when I went to Lincraft I discovered there's green handled ones! So I'm going to keep that one and give Mum mine. Which was supposed to happen on Sunday - there's a get together with the grandparents and Great-Aunt Mary.

But as it turned out...I had to make an unexpected drive to my parents house to pick up some wine for the landlord's, which was a bit annoying, hmpf! And I couldn't even stay to have half a cupcake, since I didn't park in a designated spot, I was in front of the next-door neighbour's garage (although I think she's away, that sort of thing doesn't fly).

And the final stroke of bad luck wasn't mine, it was Jonno's on Million Dollar Minute, he was back to play for $200,0000, but alas...was beaten! What a shame! He still got $75,000 so nothing to spit at, but I liked him and was hoping he'd go all the way.

Anyway, I better wrap this up as bed is definitely calling, my mobiles better not let me down! }:O/

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9:32pm: This was a very unfortunate day, very unfortunate indeed. It started off innocently enough when I managed to put my phone pouch around my neck and return to the flat because I forgot my driving hat but failed to pick up my mobile phone! So I was without that.

Work went quite well, and after delivering some of Mrs S's stuff and her husband to their new house I headed to the shopping centre nearby that has a K-Mart where I finally found something that would do for a soaking bucket and a new pair of gray woolen gloves and a beanie.

However, my luck took a very, very bad turn when I arrived at the library for volunteering. I was pulling into a parking spot when I heard a strange noise, like I'd bumped into something...one of those weird bump things some parking spots have, but then when I reversed...there was horrible grinding noise and a man who was getting out of his car further down the parking lot looked up and winced.

You can see what's coming, I'm sure, the car seemed to be caught and hurriedly put it in park and jumped out to look and discovered...

The left side of the front bumper was caught on the little block thing (this motherfucking thing) and had been just about pulled off!!!

You can imagine my horror! After almost three months, with the parents due home in two weeks and I'd messed up my mother's car! A BMW at that!

Not to mention the car was all but stuck! I couldn't move it forward without causing further damage and reversing it would probably cause the whole bumper to come off! Fuck! Fortunately the man who had heard the noise came to my rescue - since my attempts to lift the bumper up to free it wasn't working - but he was able to manhandled it free and sort of put it back where it's supposed to be. But it was now loose quite noticibly so.

Fuck!

There wasn't much I could do at that point but head off and do my volunteering, which I did. I looked up "front bumper almost came off car" on Google, but it didn't really have much advice, however I did recall the location of the mechanic Mum used for the car when it got back-ended a year and a half ago, so when I finished my volunteering I headed there.

The good news...the mechanic says he can fix it for about $100. The bad news he can't fix it until Tuesday because he's flat out - and Monday's a public holiday for the Queen's Birthday. So I'm leery of taking the car anywhere until then, but I don't want to mention the damage to Mrs. S because it's awkward, so hopefully she won't want to move anything else until next Wednesday.

Oh and of course...I have to drop the car in at the mechanics at like 7am so I'll have to get up at some stupid hour to get to work on time. Shit.

Then to top all this off when I got home I took a look at the Car website to see that the car I was talking about the other day has been sold. Which I suppose isn't too surprising, but it certainly brought me down.

Although after everything I have to wonder if this is a sign that I shouldn't buy a car...But having got an email from the parental units I did bring up the idea what with Mrs. S moving and the two bus situation I will soon be faced with.

So yes, this day has been decidedly unlucky and messy. :O/ Oh and I forgot to mention another aspect of bad luck...my allergies were trying to kick my ass today, itchy nose and sore eyes...I was going to buy some Clartyne for it but the car shit happened.

However, in closing, there's some good news, the new lid for the washing machine arrived today! Early! I didn't think the courier would actually leave it on the veranda of the main house - they probably shouldn't have done that - and N is going to put it on tomorrow and hopefully set the washing machine up in the shed next to the flat on the weekend.

So...perhaps there is light at the end of the day. I also got to enjoy lasagna for dinner, so there's that...

On that more positive note I shall wrap this up here.

Goodnight all!

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9:26pm: Well, there's sure been a fuck up in the electrical cables that supply my flat, basically whoever used to own this house did something screwy with the laying of said cable, it's supposed to be at least half a metre underground, but instead it was practically on the surface! With all the bad weather that's been happening lately it's a surprise that the power has only died now. But son of a bitch, what a mess!

Although at least I'll be able to go to bed early because once again the district nurse fucked up and didn't come so I need to get to work at 8am again tomorrow. God damn.

After that I went to the library for my volunteering, good times as ever, but on my arrival home I discovered the power wasn't on in my flat. I didn't notice at first until I saw that the clock on my microwave wasn't on. Nor were the lights working. I went down to the main house but the power was fine there, so it was fast becoming a huge mystery.

In the end an electrician friend of there's came over to check out things too and he couldn't figure out what the problem was either, but after unplugging everything in the flat then doing something with the fuse box that got everything going again. The root of the problem seemed elusive...although we noticed the plug for my laptop looked a bit dodgy, so I didn't plug that in. Instead zip watched Million Dollar Minute and then headed to the mall to get a new plug part, the bit that plugs into the laptop itself is fine.

I also picked up one of those portable power things that you can charge up and then use to recharge your phone or whatever when out and about with no access to a power point. It was on special and also available in green so woohoo.

Not long after returning home and turning on the stove to prepare a late dinner, N called me to ask what if anything I'd just turned on and to turn it off right away. A few minutes later he and C practically ran out of the house telling me to turn off everything! Apparently the cable was exposed and arcing and melting a fence that was put up in preparation for the dogs and probably ready to catch fire!

Since all this happened at almost 8:30pm, there was no chance of fixing it tonight, so poor N had to go out to Bunnings to get a really long extension cord to run from the main house to the flat so I can at least keep my fridge going, charge my phone, plug in my TV and Foxtel and chill my water. Oh and make use of a small lamp.

And to top it all off, the flat is a total mess and N and C were quite displeased about that, now embarrassing, I really need to clean this place up and keep it clean! That's what I need to do tomorrow after work and the gym, so wish me luck.

For now though, I'm turning in.

Goodnight all!