Not so fast food

Thought we'd be lazy today and just pick up some lunch from a fast food joint, which shall remain nameless. We were out at Floriade checking out the flowers, as you do when Spring comes and the days get nicer and the flowers come out. We figured since we were going to be a little short on time, we'd just get some take away for lunch so that we could concentrate on giving our little Peanut his lunch and then getting him down for an afternoon nap. Unfortunately, we didn't allow for the incompetence of fast food workers in our well laid plans...

Quin: *places order*
Fast food worker (henceforth known as FFW): $6 burger + $7 burger + $6 chips... That'll be $19.
Quin: *hands over $50 note*
FFW: *enters it all in the till which says to give me $31 in change*
FFW: *looks at till in puzzlement. Takes out $30 in change, hands it to me and walks off*
Quin: Ummm, excuse me... Hello? You short changed me by $1. Can I have my $1 please?
FFW: Oh, sorry! *presses random buttons on till but can't get it open*

Anyway, we eventually sort that all out and I go and sit down to wait for my order. I figured the guy was just new and left it at that since I'm sure we've all been there and done that at some point or other in our lives. No biggie, mistakes happen right? BZZZT. WRONG! I should have taken that as a sign to check my order before I walked out of there. Silly, naive, trusting little me, I just walked out of there with my bag thinking that all my food was in the bag that they handed me. It wasn't until we got home and unpacked it that we realised a burger was missing. Sigh. So we had to make another trip back to the store and get the burger they owed us. Lucky they believed me when I said we weren't given the second burger and they made up another one for me.

I think in all, we wasted half an hour or more getting this food. And the first burger was cold and shitty by the time we got home with the second one. So it was a pretty crapola lunch all round. That'll teach me for thinking that fast food will actually save me any time. Next time, I'm going straight for the instant noodles if I need a quick lunch. At least, I know I won't screw those up. And if I do, it'll be no one's fault but my own...

Because life just isn't hard enough yet

I'm planning to do the GAMSAT next year and apply for med school. I always wanted to be a doctor when I was young but I sort of lost my way through high school and college. When I got my craptastic UAI after year 12 (and believe me, it was well deserved due to lack of effort and motivation and untreated shortsightedness), I thought I'd pretty much shut the door on any hopes of becoming a doctor. Hell, I thought I'd shut the door on uni full stop, it was that bad. Lucky for me, my parents were able to pay for me to do a couple of units of my IT degree full fee so that I could use the results of those to gain a place at uni.

I only found out earlier this year that post grad medicine was actually a possibility, assuming my GPA is good enough and I kick GAMSAT butt. I do have a fail in my academic transcript that could screw me over a bit. And it was for a class I didn't even need to do so now I'm kicking myself for doing it and not withdrawing when it looked like I wasn't going to be passing...

Anyway, now I'm looking at what I need to do to prepare for this exam. I think first thing I need to do is to brush up on my science knowledge a bit since I'm pretty rusty there. And practice essay writing. And somehow prepare for the reasoning in humanities and social sciences section. And since I've spent most of this year procrastinating and doubting myself, I've got about 6 months or less to do all this preparation. Should be no worries fitting that in around my work and my family responsibilities right?

Lol, wish me luck hey? I'm sure I'll be back here whinging and procrastinating when things get too hard...

Is this lame or just typical?

We had a BBQ at our place today. One of our friends was meant to come but he had to clean his room up before he could leave the house. So what's wrong with this picture? Well for one, he lives in a pigsty of a room most of the time. He doesn't clean it up unless his parents do something drastic, like effectively grounding him til it's done. And did I mention he's in his early 30s? Well he is and he doesn't seem all that keen to move out of home in spite of the occasional grounding when his room gets messy enough for his parents to notice.

I know statistically, people are staying at home with their parents for longer and longer these days but to me, it just seems wrong to be living like an irresponsible teenager when you're in your 30s. I know I wouldn't like having my parents watching my every move and doling out punishments to me when they think I've crossed the line. In fact, that was part of the reason I decided I had to get a place of my own and get the hell outta there! And I thought I'd left it pretty late to be moving out in my mid 20s when I knew heaps of people who were out of home at 18 or so!

So why do people live at home for so long these days? Is it because we have a longer life expectancy and don't feel the need to grow up as quickly? Or the fact that it's just about impossible to actually buy a place of your own unless you live at home and save all your pennies for a house deposit? Or is it the parents who are encouraging their kids to stay at home for longer so they can delay having to find a life for themselves once all the kids have left? Or some other reason that hasn't occurred to me yet?

I might be going senile

We were trying to decide what to have for dinner tonight and I thought it'd be nice to have some curry since we haven't had that in awhile. Now, the last time we had curry, we got it from somewhere close to us (i.e. we didn't drive halfway across town to go to our usual favourite). Anyway, this new curry place was good but neither of us could remember where it was or what it was called. We were totally 100% convinced it wasn't this place in the city that we'd eaten at before though. We went over it and over it trying to remember where we'd gone, what we'd ordered, blah blah blah. Anyway, turns out it was the place in the city we were both convinced it wasn't. Is this just another symptom of mummy brain? If so, does it affect men too??

Sniffles and snot and general yuckiness

We've all been a little sick for the past couple of weeks. I'm almost over it now but my husband (let's call him D) is still coughing and my little peanut is still waking up with a snot encrusted nose. I heard him coughing a bit last night too so it sounds like he's still trying to get rid of his cold.

Peanut woke up for a feed at about 7 this morning and it looks like he's gone back to sleep again. D's fallen asleep on the floor of Peanut's room and he's snoring away like a chainsaw. Not that this is anything out of the ordinary. He snores at the best of times so it's no surprise he's snoring now that he's sick. The only real surprise is that I'm not totally deaf on one side from sleeping next to the snoring all these years :(

Hey, who turned out the lights??

Apartments + halogen down lights + a dodgy builder and his dodgy electrician mates = Profit????

We bought this apartment brand new and these lights have been nothing but trouble since we moved in. Heaps of the transformers in the roof have blown and needed to be replaced because they were cheap and nasty and not made to last (but then again, is anything made to last these days??). Now we're starting to find some of these lights and their transformers don't seem to have enough space around them in the ceiling space. Fire hazard anyone? Two of the lights in our living room are out of commission because they just look too dangerous to keep running. One of them is burning a hole in the air conditioning tube-y thingo that's running above it. The other has burned a hole in it's transformer and so last night, our lights kept overloading and turning off.

Sigh. Bet there's a bunch of electricians out there that are just rubbing their hands in anticipation at the amount of work they'll have coming out of this place for the next few years. Meanwhile, we'll just have to live with a bunch of wires hanging out of our roof until we can get someone in to fix these lights and make them safe to use. Awesome.

Unexpected visitor

Don't you hate it when people come over and you're not expecting them?? Our place is a mess, we've just had a whole heap of Tupperware arrive today and are in the process of washing it and sorting what will go in each container so there's containers and lids everywhere. And I'm on the breast pump, boobs exposed to the world. That's an awesome look right there. I hear it's the latest trend for this spring...

Anyway, you can imagine this is not the best time to have a distant friend from out of town turning up to use the internet because he's just arrived in town and hasn't booked any accommodation yet. Who the hell travels to another state without arranging where he's going to stay beforehand? Sure hope this wasn't his surreptitious way of trying to bum some free accommodation from us while he's here. I mean, hey, I'll be on and off the pump all evening and tomorrow morning. But don't let that stop you. Feel free to stay and enjoy the boobie show every couple of hours!

And there she is. My bitter, twisted and cynical side. I knew I couldn't keep her hidden for long.

Spring is here!

Well, officially it's the first day of Spring! Hooray! Bring on the warm weather and sun and flowers and pollen! I do like Spring though, in spite of the pollen and other itchy things that blow around at this time. The days are brighter and longer, I don't have to wear layers and layers of clothing that make me feel like an overstuffed pillow and the trees and flowers are blooming. Ah, Spring is such a wonderful time :)