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1月30日 The (Not Very) Final CountdownOnly 29 days left until I am unemployed!
I would like to remain so but I, Mr Pigalina and my menagerie do need to eat. Mr Pigalina has given in to the incessant mewling of William and has granted the cats Whiskas Vitabites biscuits instead of Cat Meow. So, there are posh cat delights to fund. Also those damn rats keep turning their teeny, twitchy noses up at anything except human food.
I am currently "the floater" (how flattering) at work. This means I am covering for people while they are on holiday and it means a couple of days at this desk, a couple at another, trying to answer their emails and doing all of the jobs they usually do.
It is quite entertaining and, up until today I have been very busy. Alas today I got a bit bored so, while trying to find the address for a parcel I was overjoyed to find this hilarious name in the phonebook. How we laughed (ah, simple pleasures). Before you ask I wasn't looking up silly words, it was genuinely the surname on the parcel, most unfortunate. The name at the bottom:
Man I get bored. Well, on March 1st if I have no job I have to get down to Maccas. Fingers and toes crossed that the couple of jobs, I am picky, I have applied for will yeild a fantastic result. 1月11日 No Book For PigalinaI was in the fabulous shopping metropolis known as South Dunedin today waiting to have some tyres fitted on my car. Whilst strolling past the many, many second hand shops I noticed a copy of The Queen and I by the fabulous Sue Townsend. It was only $4! I went inside to pay and the man swiped my card and then - "Invalid Transaction". They didn't take credit cards and that was all I had on me (makes a difference to how I used to be). I told the man I would go and get some money out and would be back.
As credit cards start charging interest straight away for any cash you get out I didn't want to have to use an ATM and get out $20 when I only needed $4. I also needed to top up my cellphone so I trotted along to the post shop. After waiting in line with bogans and a stinky lady it was finally my turn. I asked for a Vodafone recharge and $4. The lady set up the order and I swiped my card. "Invalid Transaction".
"Oh, can I not get cash out on credit?" I asked.
"No you just can't use credit to pay for Vodafone, not at the Post Shop." What? What a stupid rule that is, usually it is the other way around, you can pay for whatever you like but no cash out. So, I trotted off down the street to the bookshop, even further from the second hand shop where I wanted to make my purchase. I approached the counter and asked: "Can I get cash out and Vodafone recharges from here using credit?" The lady kind of looked at me. I continued, "because other places won't let me." She kind of edged away fom me and muttered that the man would serve me. (I suppose I was looking quite menacing in my pink hoodie). So she repeated to him what I had asked and he swiped my card. "Invalid Transaction".
"You can't get cash out with credit" He informed me. Didn't I just ask that to save the embarassment? By now I was getting annoyed (it doesn't take much) so I took my phone top up and left. Bah! I went back to the tyre shop and read Cosmo which told me about the hottest looks for 2005.
Now I know why South Dunedin is full of morons, nobody can buy a book without hassle.
Also today was my reading and sorting test, it was easy, shame I don't want the job. 1月10日 Shame is Potentially Heading Pigalina's WayTomorrow holds potential to shame me. I have applied for a job sorting the mail, as I am due to leave the courier place in a month. However I am to undergo a reading and sorting test tomorrow. I have been sorting parcels for the past year and have been reading for the past 21. I am hoping that my brain works properly tomorrow and I don’t end up embarrassing myself. One lady apparently sorted 211 letters correctly in 2 minutes. We shall see, I won’t cry too much if I don’t get it anyway. Onwards and upwards should be the motto when getting a new job, not backwards and downwards in order to not be poor. I have just revealed to my mum my TradeMe name. I then realized that she will be able to look up all of my past transactions which may or may not include some things that I would rather not my mum know I owned. It would be like her rifling through my undie drawer. Literally. Also, on the subject of shae - if you are going to send for “blue movies” in the mail, make sure you get your address correct. You know who you are. I know you are getting “Lady of the Rings”. Tut tut. 1月2日 Tonight We're Gonna Party Like It's Two Thou Sand 'n' SevenThis New Years Eve was a quiet but fun one. Mr Pigalina and I spent it at my parents with my two cousins, my aunty and uncle. We played Cluedo and Buzz Jungle Party. That's Buzz Junior, for children, yet still the forty year olds in the group had some issues with how to play. The countdown passed without too much cheering and no images of partying masses. Mum and Dad have a new TV and, farcically, it took seven minutes for them to get the TV back onto a channel and it was 00.06am by the time that we finally managed to see Meatloaf belting out a tune.
Though it was a rather fun night, it was not as we had planned. The whole night had been planned out before Christmas. We were to have a barbeque and then boogie the night away at the disco bar to The Jackson 5. Imagine our suprise when the hosts of the barbeque went away on holiday the day before this planned shindig. We were told to fear not because camping was on the cards. There were four problems with this idea though:
1 - The Pigalina's do not camp, we require proper toileting facilities.
2 - Shaun is dreadfully allergic to pollen so a night upon grass would see his eyes swell shut and his nose turn into a river.
3 - The organizers had not selected a location.
Most of all though, number 4 - None of us owns a tent.
After that little revelation plan 2 was thrown out of the window.
It was then that Mum rang to say that my family was down from Christchurch and we decided to spend the night with them. We decided that we would meet up with the others in town for the countdown.
People, who may or may not be named Murray and Shaun, were supposed to text us when they got to town. No text came and, as we were highly engrossed in Jungle Party, we decided that they must have stayed at home so we gave town a miss. However it seems that they did go to town and did indeed dance the night away. All knowledge of my telling them to text us has been denied yet sitting in the sent items on my phone are two messages reading: "My aunty is down so we having tea at mums text us when you get to town :)" and "Tee hee text us when you get to town." I shall forgive them, eventually. After they admit that they must learn to read properly.
The 1st was also mine and Mr Pigalina's 4th wedding anniversary, aww, we are old. Well that was how the year began. The first two months are already pretty much mapped out for me too. I have about two weeks of work then I am off to The Big Day Out (woot) and turning 25. Then February sees a trip to Australia and unemployment as of the end of the month. Yes, I must look for a job again. My favourite. So who knows what I will be doing for the rest of 2007? Hopefully something exciting (dream on Pigalina, dream on).
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