I know what you want…!

 Beach, Family, Friends, Nostalgia, Summer, Wooloweyah  No Responses »
Nov 032001
 

Yeah, i do, you want… a sunny boy!. I had this weird conversation with mum last night about sunny boys, cause i had bought some on friday. My favourite is still ozzie orange, but I also like raz raspberry. Mum told me that the cola one is called a glug, and I didn’t believe her, but then I saw them at the supermarket and they are called glugs! what an odd thing to call the cola sunnyboys. Agh memories are wonderful ^_^ it’s strange how your mind seems to gloss over the more unpleasant memories, and you have to try really hard to remember them. It’s like your past is a cave with veins of gold running through it, and the good times are the gold, that stand out more than the dull rock. me and my metaphors.

Rosie woke me up this morning. It was about 9:30am, and I heard her talking to someone as she walked down the stairs. It sounded like she was giving them a tour or something. Then she stood in the doorframe of my room and I opened my eyes. She laughed and I said “who’s here?” and she tried to tell me it was no one. Eventually she admitted that it was her friend, Cassie. they both came in and talked to me for a while before I kicked them out so I could get dressed. That’s about all that’s happened today… I’ve also been playing SNES roms on the computer, and I just downloaded an N64 rom so that I can play my zelda game on the computer too.

Yesterday I went to the beach with Lou, Mike, Luka, Ceda, Horst and Gitar. Luka, Ceda and I ran over to our favourite rock pool, which they nicknamed mermaid cove. They named the rocks ’seal rocks’. Ceda pretended to be a seal, and started making stupid honking noises… it was funny ^_^. After about an hour of swimming, I went back to the car and lay down on the sand to warm up. When I got up, I had the worst stomach ache ever, and no idea why… I couldn’t do anything to stop it hurting, not even the yoga that usually helps. The only thing that took my mind off it was running, which was a little weird. So, I ran from one end of the beach to the next, and then back again. When we finally left the beach, I was feeling better, but Lou, Gitar and I had to back to the dirt road from the beach because Mike didn’t want to risk the 4wd becoming bogged… ho hum. I don’t think i would have made much difference to the overall weight, but that’s men for you. Gitar didn’t believe me that I wouldn’t get sunburnt… As we were walking back, she said “you see, you are sunburnt” and I said I wasn’t, and she said “you cannot see it, but I can with my glasses on”. she had sunglasses on, and I put them on and found that they were tinted with a bugundy colour. ha ha ha. very funny.

Anyways, tomorrow I get paid and I’m going to go back to Crazy’s to see the manager, if he is in, so that I can explain the wage subsidy thing. I’m not really in a writing mood, so you’ll have to forgive me if this entry is filled with meaningless drivel and useless trivia… ^_^ I promise I’ll try harder next time… if i feel like it ;)

 Posted by casbot at 11:40 pm

There’s a shadow in the sky, and it looks like rain

 Christmas, Family, Friends, Shopping, Summer, Wooloweyah  No Responses »
Nov 022001
 

Oh well. Too bad I suppose. Today turned out to be such a hectic day, but I feel great. I was all excited and happy this morning because:

1. I get paid today ^_^ and

2. I was going to apply for a job at a place in the “Yamba Shopping Mall” where they are proud to annouce that they have “25 specialty stores!” WOW. hmph. lol.

I was supposed to be getting a lift into the mall with Lou and Mike, because they were going in to take the germans shopping. So, at about 9:30am, I decide to call the automated bank thingamajiggy, to check my bank balance… and I find out that, surprise surprise, my money hasn’t gone through. Bloody centrelink. So, I call the job agency I’m registered with (it’s called Chess, because I had a major depressive illness/anxiety disorder, I get special treatment.. woohoo) and talk to the lady who is handling my file, Lyn. She’s heaps cool, and gets real pissed off at centrelink because this is the millionth time they’ve stuffed me around this year. Anyways, centrelink ended up admitting it was their fault, not mine, that the money didn’t go through (which we knew all along), but that didn’t help me at all. Sure I got an admission of guilt from them, but it’s not like I could use that to buy my groceries with. Now my money isn’t going to go in until Monday. Oh well. I called mum, mum called centrelink too, and got real mad at them. mum is really good at getting things like this sorted out. So then mum rings dad, and he actually comes out here, picks me up and takes me to the mall, and gives me $100 until I get my money. Wow. I’m a happy chappy once again. Not that I wasn’t before… I used to cry when stuff like this happened, but now I just don’t see the point. When I started to feel overwhelmed, I just made myself smile and the whole situation seemed comical. Whenever I smile, it’s like my whole mood changes. I can cope with anything, and still be a shoulder for everyone else to cry on.

Anyways, I applied for a job in stupid crazy clarks, which is the only place i’d be willing to work in the whole of yamba mall. All the other shops are crap… I wouldn’t work at Bi-Lo, because that place is like the Bermuda Triangle or something.. Once you go in, you do not come out. You stay around yamba, get married and have a few kids, and that’s your life. Besides, crazy clarks is a job, and I would not say no if they rang me tomorrow to say they had some work for me to do. I also applied for a job at a holiday place called “the blue dolphin”. When I rang up to talk to the guy in charge of the hiring, he asked me some weird questions. The first two weren’t so bad – “What’s your name” “How old are you” – but the next one sort of confused me. “Are you single?”… um… was that a reference to marital status? Is that a normal question for an employer to ask a prospective employee?

Another weird thing happened at the supermarket – i was at the checkout, and had put all my stuff through, and saw a life support charity thing where you buy a coloured piece of plastic that looks like a hospital tag, to put around your wrist. I bought one last year, and the year before that, and so I decided I would this year too. I picked one up and put it with my stuff. The girl at the checkout looked at me strangely, and half smiled/half laughed. I wanted to say “what???” but was in too good a mood. I said “I buy one of these every year.” and she started laughing. Hmm. I said some other stuff to her, but I can’t remember. Lou was behind me at the checkout, and when we got home she asked me if I knew the checkout chick. I said I’d never seen her before in my life. Lou said that it had seemed like we were really good friends or something, and that it was probably just because I talk to everyone. But I said that she was laughing at me and I had no idea why. Oh well. I couldn’t stop laughing when I got out of the supermarket. What was so funny? I don’t know. I was in a giggly mood today when I got home too, and went over the road to see Lou and the Germans – Horst and Gitar. They are cool – they brought birkenstocks for Lou, Mike, Luka and Ceda. Really cute.

I’m in such a happy-smiley mood right now. Nothing can bring me down. I hope I get some work before christmas, because I owe mum about $350. I’ve never owed anyone so much in my life. It’s just because I had to borrow lots when I went to Brisbane… But I’ll eventually pay it all back.

Ceda, who is the younger girl from across the road, seems to be really attached to me. When I told her I would be moving out after christmas to go to uni, she got really upset and started crying. Also, a few weeks ago, she brought over a note from school that was about some play her class was going to, and would I be able to go along as her guardian, because her mum and dad wouldn’t be able to make it. I would’ve loved to go, but her teacher said that only real parents were allowed to go. What a load of crap. Kids love me, for some reason. I guess I know how to talk to them, or something. I’m a kid magnet. I like it though, because they make me laugh. Kids are so cool.

Anyways, how much have I written today? jees… I’m sure mum is going to tell me to get off soon, cause I’m tying up the phone. That could be literal, except I’m not the one that tied the phone cord in knots. I think it was rosie…

 Posted by casbot at 2:48 am

This is how you remind me (of a bar of soap)

 Friends, Nostalgia, Summer, Wooloweyah  No Responses »
Nov 012001
 

This afternoon, when I was outside getting the mail, I decided to write a list of things that remind me of summer and childhood… sound stupid? could be… but who cares ^_^

Here we go:
-The smell of the trees along the road to our place. From the inside of a bus, they have a scent not unlike vomit. I’m sure they’re really nice when you smell them up close…
-Walking barefoot on hot sand. This reminds me a lot of when I was younger, and I’d spend the majority of summer holidays at the beach. It was too icky putting shoes/thongs/sandals on just after you got out of the water, because they’d just be all glugged up with wet sand by the time you got to the carpark… so it was barefoot all the way ;)
- the smell of sunscreen. This is guaranteed to give me the worst case of nostalgia…. I remember wearing about four different types of sunscreen – the sloppy one for back, arms, legs etc… the sticky one that was like glue, for your face, the lip balm, and sometimes even coloured zinc cream. That wasn’t often though, because we never owned any.
- the smell of chlorine. This takes me back to the days when I was a little swimming star, destined for greatness ^_^… not. I was quite a good swimmer – still am, but for some reason I just sort of drifted away from training…
- the smell of those floaty rings… the ones with pictures on them… also the smell of floaties, and the smell of plastic placemats.

Anyways, I’ve got to go. Ceda just asked me to go collect some flowers for the germans. The avid gardeners around here never know what hit them when me and Ceda go flower-collecting ;)

More later ^_^

 Posted by casbot at 12:34 pm
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