Cactus Floats

Hi!

Well. Another week, another weekend. This time I knew I would be in no mood whatsoever to face work so early as Monday, so I took the day off ahead of time. Properly, like a normal person, instead of coming up with an illness. I marched into the boss' office first thing Friday morning, said 'I need to take Monday off, is that ok?' And it was! Cool. Trick is, the other boss, who wasn't in on Friday, the one who thinks I'm her slave "Jennifer, answer my phone! Jennifer, go get my printing from the printer! Jennifer, peel my grapes!" etcetcetc.... won't like it one bit. Who'll answer her phone?! Gasp! God forbid I take a day to myself! I need the day to re-write my resume for the 900th time and find a new job! Duh!!!! So yeah. That's my splurge day off. Get this, it'll be PAID! One benefit to having a "real" job. Whatever. It's not worth the poo I have to swim through just to get stuff done in that job. Jobs. I actually do 3 jobs, but who's counting. I'd like just one, thank you. Or, 3 that pay lots. Hmmm.

So anyways. Quiet weekend. Hot. Muggy. Hard to do much. It's their monsoon season down here, so the sky is full of puffy and sometimes scary clouds that don't do anything. Ahh, sometimes it'll sprinkle, but nothing much. Kinda like the monsoon season in Tucson, only minus the awesome storms and lightning and torrential rain for 1/2 an hour. I think it does that here in the spring actually...... Will pay attention when that season rolls around again. Either way, they reallyreally need the rain. They're in the middle of a very bad drought. Yet everyone wants lush, green lawns and gardens full of flowers.......... Cactus for everyone I say!

So yeah, quiet here, again. Hey, I read a few of those travel brochures I'd picked up last weekend at the Travel Expo..... Yeah. I've now learned that they don't put the prices in for a reason - because if they put the prices in, you would leave the brochure with the travel agent and your money safe in your wallet. I looked at one really cool 16 day trip to the Kimberly's (northern Western Australia) and including everything minus the flight from Brissy to Darwin (a few hundred on its own), the trip cost (have a seat) $4,500. Yeah. So Plan B for trip planning I believe! No wonder Australians all go overseas for a trip.

So the week went by fast, stressful and busy. Eeeeew, this work stuff........ And then the weekend was here and I didn't do half of what I'd hoped. I always have grand plans to do stuff, like rent a car and get outta town, write the screenplay I keep thinking about, write emails to everyone I've neglected, make jewellery, paint a painting to liven the place up a little, ride over to Chinatown and pick up more A&W Rootbeer....... Nah. Though I did manage to watch "The Poseidon Adventure". Excellent, excellent film.

And today I did the usual stuff, after having rested all day Saturday. What an old lady I am anymore. I blame the humidity. But anyways, today I met Natasha and her brother and his girlfriend at the pub, the Paddo (or, for the tourists, The Paddington Tavern) in, well, Paddington (cat food central). Today, being Sunday, they do a $4.95 Sunday Roast. It's a big British thing these Sunday Roasts. It's basically a slab of roast beef, potatoes, veggies and a roll. $4.95. And pubs, if they don't make money any other day of the week, they make it Sunday afternoons with this. I went once with Roger and Mave to a pub for their Sunday Roast and it cost $25 and it was one of those artsy kinda servings with not a lot of food. It was a joke and Roger was less than impressed. I must remember to tell him about the Paddo..... Anyways, it was pretty good! Course, you spend the money you save on booze, but that's beside the point! It's the meal that lasts all day! For me anyways. And then I had a ride around the neighborhood on the little scooter, then to the store, then home for a nap. Whew! What a day! What a grandma! Ahhhhhhh! It's too hot and humid to be able to do much!

And that's about it. Resume revamp tomorrow. I bet the high-maintenance boss will call me by.... 10am and maybe again in the day around........ 3........ Hopefully she won't, but I wouldn't put it past her. Did any of you see "The Devil Wears Prada"? Almost, but not quite. This is Australia after all, and a little trade college, not Vanity Fair. But the sentiment is the same. Yep. Only 2 people won the 1st division in the lottery this weekend. They got 2 mil each. Yeahyeahyeah, you can't win if you don't play........ Well, I think I'm gonna. Because this work stuff sucks!

Hope you're all well up there! And if anyone wants to come down for a visit, well, it's hot and humid. But if you do, bring Mexican food - 3 rolled tacos with guacamole and 3 hot sauces, a quesadilla with a side of guacamole and a medium coke from Nico's on Ft. Lowell and Campbell! Mmmmmmm!

BYE!
J!