I've had a mix of busy and bored this week. The boredom has nearly driven me to such extremes as cleaning up the boxes of old junk (that could probably be thrown out... but i probably will decide not to part with) - but not quite. Apart from spending hours on end sitting around, sick of reading, sick, even, of Grey's Anatomy, i have achieved a few things...
I've started sorting the mess from my old laptop onto my new one... only to find that the majority of the music i listen to has mysteriously disapeared into cyber space. After i emerged from the foul mood that put me in, i started the laborious task of scrolling through my i-pod and checking it against my now diminished i-tunes library, to see what's missing (everything decent... somehow the computer KNEW what to lose, what would be most annoying!) and trying to find it on Limewire... it's slow, it's frustrating, it's wreaking havoc on our download quota. I'm up the the 'B's'. But i'll get there - the perk of being ever-so-slightly OCD is that you won't rest until you've completed such mundane tasks as these...
I had another night at the Ed, where i caught up with someone from Contiki... it was a little awkward. Apparently, he has no social skills. Therefore, my bubbling chatter could only continue un-aided for so long... and eventually i retreated back to my friends, leaving him to stand nearby, but not engaging, for over an hour... he wouldn't join in conversation, he wouldn't take the offered outs (as in, he wouldn't take the hint and go home...)... he did, however, freak everyone out with his silent standing there. He offered to take me home (no) and to see me again, without the rest of the adelaide-contiki-crew... talk about clueless. Here's a nice guy (albeit socially deficit), who has never had anything to indicate that there's a 'budding relationship' in the offing - yet he calls, facebooks, messages, clings... i really dislike this kind of situation...
Other than that, it was a good night; i saw some of the guys who i've not seen in ages. I also saw someone who i'd inadvertently blow off last thursday... apparently, what i'd thought of as causal plans to possibly bump into each other at marble, if we were both there at the same time, was misconstrued as a definate 'i'll see you there'... so, when he turned up alone and i wasn't there, he eventually left... oops! But in my defence, how was i to know he wouldnt come with mates and just be having a good time with them, keeping one eye out for me if i happened to show... but i think my grovelling got me back into the good graces...
After lunch with Ayles yesterday, SB and i went to HarbourTown - always an experience. We got things like earings and headbands for $1 each, tops for $2, random singlets, jeans, tops... it was all crazy cheap and we left having spent less than what we would have spent on just one of these items should we have shopped elsewhere. Perfect.
Afterwards, Ayles rocked up at my place. Halfway through tea, i freaked out, realising that i had meant to visit the Onkaparinga/Port Noarlunga Jubilee Community Playground, to assess it's suitability for an all-day Kids Club activity - before i finalised the brochure at work... oops! So, supplies in hand (minties, chocolate and a warning to be back in the car before it got dark - all supplied by my mother), we set off. Our navigational skills holding us in good stead, we made if well before if got completely dark. We spent an awesome half hour on the playground, deeming it completely suitable for us, if not for Kids Club... We're such children! On the way home, we were left speechles at the sight of the bay, which seemed to stretch into eternity in all directions, framed by a beautiful, sandy beach and picturesque jetty on the landward side... with the sunset, it was gorgeous. We made it home in one piece and deemed the adventure oh-so-worthy - even if i now have to come up with another idea for Kids Club!
Today at work i've, once again, earnt brownie points with the littluns - i've washed one in her 'bath' (a toy-tub), carried two little girls at once, let them carry my lunch (the smallest things make them happy), tickled them to within an inch of their lives - and had a few more 'you'll make a great mother' comments, which is always nice. Those littluns have made today bearable - i've had lots to do, but managed to get most of it done fairly speedily. Now, until i've got the a-ok from Dr.B (who is currently) on holidays, i can't do anything more... but still can't go home! So, i'm stuck wasting time here AND now i'll have to come back tomorrow to keep working... I've run flat out of things to do! Grr...
While everyone else is in a meeting and i've not even got anyone to talk to, i've updated facebook, myspace, my blog... there's nothing left to do but sign off and go see if the dog wants to play...
Annabel
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I've lost tons of music on my computer. I used to collect MP3's and at one time I had over 31,000 on my pc. Then.. *ominous music* .. I had to do a reload. ACK!
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