It's Curtains!

Hi!

Well. That week went by pretty fast and thankfully uneventful. Well, after the last couple of weeks with being sick and whatnot, it was good to just have a normal week and for it to move quickly. Whew!

So the week at work was fine. Starting to pick up a little, got stuff to do. Excellent. The manual that I was first hired on to fix up, organise and get out has hit the streets of Queensland. 3,500 copies have been scattered across this massive, sunny state. Ended up costing somewhere in the neighborhood of $90,000. shudder. So hopefully the little fire folks like it! I still like my job helping to keep their training manuals up to date! They're starting to plan their Xmas party. No one seemed to be able to think of anything they hadn't done before so I threw in croquet. And amazingly, they went for it! The whole office of 30-some folks are going to a croquet club a couple 'burbs away - on my idea! Wow, cool! Gee, I hope they like it and have a good time..... I'm not even sure if I'll be around to attend, but I sure hope so. Heck, it'd be great not only to go play at their Xmas day out, but to have a job to come back to in the New Year!? Fingers crossed!

And the weekend, well, not bad. I've gotten kinda lazy about not bringing my camera out. That's a bad habit. I'll start dragging it around more. Friday night I met Natasha and a few of her friends for after work drinks at The Fox hotel in South Brisbane. Eh. Even tho the new owners of the pub have thrown millions into making it look cool (and it does, tho I never saw what it looked like before), I just can't stand the place. Not sure why. Could be the staff. Could be the way too yuppie crowd. Could be the over-loud music. Could be the over-priced drinks. Dunno, but I hopefully won't be going again anytime soon. But, it's always nice to get out and see Natasha and her friends. They're a good group.

Saturday I went with Cindy and her man Miles over to her friend Jeannette's house for an Aussie Rules Grand Final party. It's basically rugby but I'm not supposed to call it that, it's Aussie Rules! It's different! I can't tell, but ok). It was a very lovely afternoon, met some neat people and came home at a respectable hour. The weather is really starting to warm up. And get muggy. Ahhhhhh, summer in the sub-tropics. Mmmmm. Like Florida.

And today I went with Natasha into town for pancakes and curtains. I have an inspection of my little apartment on Wednesday and I've been pretty ashamed of my bits of fabric for "curtains", so I got real ones. They're pretty nice. Cheap, even better. And they look pretty darn good if I say so myself. And because it was hot and muggy, that was about all the energy we had and came home. I put up the curtains (they fit!) and had a nap. Man. I haven't even done my chores yet. Guess I'll do them after work tomorrow. Gotta vacuum and tidy the place up, even tho the dude doing the inspection won't be able to tell the difference, I'm sure. They feel the need to inspect these little piles of plaster every four months, "for the owners peace of mind". Hmm. Yeah. Ok. So I have to take half the day off of work to escort this real estate monkey through my place. They usually do these when you're not home. And most people are pretty cool with that. Not me: A)The Illegal Roommate and B)Trust issues with having strangers wandering around unsupervised through my digs. So I have to be here to babysit. I hope the dude comes on time (9am is when we agreed I'd let him in) and that it takes the five minutes I figure it will. What a pain. I just moved in! Anyways...... The joys of renting.

And that's that. No adventures on the cards just yet. Tho there's a gal at work, Maree, who's threatened to take me down to Byron Bay one weekend. Cooooool. Will keep you posted. Otherwise, I really need to knuckle down and saaaaaaaave!

So there! Hope you're all well up there! Drop a line sometime because you may know what I'm up to, but I have no idea what you're up to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BYE!
J!

Weekly: One Good Thing About Little Apartment, #8:
Bars on two of the windows (the kitchen and bedroom) - keeps the breeze coming in and the murderers out!