Just when I thought I was getting a little better ….

…. with my footy tipping, Hawthorn goes and stuffs it up for me. How dare they have a win this week, RUDE. Who’d had thought they could win. HUH.

Let’s not even talk about Richmond….this was only the second week that I tipped against my own team and was successful. YAY.

In other news for the week, have been spraying the car this weekend, almost 40% of it is in primer now, plan for today is to get either the bonnet or the roof done, or both but I think I will run out of paint.

Work was a little better on Friday (Because it was Friday) got to know a few of the staff, there is still one 21 year old, high class, Uni educated no-nothing that I am yet to get to know better….not that I want to, but it helps to at least get along in the office.

I am slowly getting the hang of the ‘other duties’ that I am responsible for at the office. Tuesdays are HELL DAY (late night reporting day) but happily I leave at 5pm, it is the most busy day of the week. Monday and Friday there is not alot to do, so I will be able to get use to the procedures of those days.

Child one doing pretty well at Tafe this term, OMG, school holidays are coming up again. Child two still struggling along with school, when he attends. Child three doing well.

Only one mistake………

Great start, that’s right, I only made one mistake. Pity the mistake was I forgot to send the mail. How bad can that be? I will find out tomorrow I guess. I realised my error on the way home, well and truly after the post office had closed it’s doors. SIGH. First thing tomorrow I guess I am off to the post office to express post the items I neglected today. I am thinking that I wont be making that mistake again. Damn.

Apart from that hiccup, I had a great day. Busy as hell. I now call it HELL, the name suits it well actually.

Working for the Dept…?

Well, there you go, student placement really does get your foot in the door, sometimes. They have now sent me to another office for six weeks paid work. Wow, wonderful, well done, I hear you say. I thought this way for about a millisecond too. Until I realised that they were desperate to fill the position for the said six weeks, and that I have already done the Federal Security check before I started my student placement. Which makes me think that I was actually the quick choice not the best choice. Anyway, doesn’t matter, six weeks pay is six weeks pay in anyones book.

Said position is to start on Monday, in a really really ‘bad’ suburb. In an office of only eight staff, so should be a little quieter than the office I ‘was’ doing placement with. Still need to sort out placement criteria sheet for Tafe, just incase the work finishes at the end of the financial year, at least then I can continue the Diploma. Naturally, if they offer me a position then I will stay.

Sigh…………….

Infected Hair follicle……??? What the ???

That’s right, I have an infected hair follicle, you know, the spot where hair protrudes and grows from your skin. And it is very annoying and sore too. Now, I am sure that this occurrence seems a little ‘funny’, I beg to differ.

Oh, I am sure that all of you blog readers have experienced this before, and felt the same pain, too sore to pull out, so you just leave it there until your body starts to reject the huge infection, causing even more pain. Ouch.

Now I will get into the areas of the body that this may happen. ANYWHERE that hair grows is susceptible to this danger, and I mean anywhere, think about it.

I suppose that by now you may be thinking that poor Nell has an abscess on her arse. Well, you are wrong, it is much worse than that I can tell you. I have an ingrown hair on the most important feature of my body, not my arse, and it hurts. I can’t see it properly so I can not remove it, no, it is hidden amongst other equally unruly hairs, that’s right it is in my right eyebrow.

Pain in the eye.

That is all I have to say.

Hope everyone has a great day, and dont forget to brush your eyebrows.

Who invented weather stripping?

Title refers to the fact that I would like to punch him or her (although it couldn’t possibly have been a woman, could it now????) lights out, I would have thought that it was designed to keep the wet weather out…. but no, not on the bloody Kingswood, it seems to have not only allowed the rain to ‘get into’ most crevices in the vehicle but assisted the rain to stay trapped in said orifices. Q: Exactly how much rust can be in one damn car, sheeesh. A: Sadly, heaps.

So, I figured that I would start on all the door frames of the Kingswood today, I now look back and think well that was a big mistake, but it needs to be done. Undid all the screws holding (sorta) things like the sill plates, air vent (?) and weather strip from the surrounds of the rear driver side door, only to discover more rust. These areas (remembering that I have only looked at one door so far) will require some attention. Time, Time, Time. So, from now on I am going to assume that all areas are now totally rusty and be pleasantly surprised when I actually find any metal.

The kids gave me an early Mother’s Day gift of a mobile phone, Yay, so I guess I have now returned to the ‘real world’, and as Brother Scoop put it, “Now the world can reach you again”. Yes, this is true, but I was totally contactable prior to today via Morse Code or pigeon. P.S. Please send pigeon to collect my new number.

Note to SIL…K, I mopped the floor. Reluctantly.