The Knitting Revolutionary

It's Friday, and all is well...

Life has been pretty good to me lately.

So far, I'm enjoying my new job as youth worker. Unfortunately I don't really get to talk about work at all on the blog, so booooo to not being able to share one of the coolest and most interesting bits of my life with you all. Those of you who know me in person will have to catch up the old-fashioned way. :D

The weird thing about me is that the more I'm doing, the more I get done. No, wait. That sounds like a statement of the obvious, but it's not really. I mean... when I was not working, I tended to just get around to the housework whenever. But now that I'm working again, I'm remembering how much energy I used to have, and am rediscovering. So I'm actually doing more housework, and getting back to the gym (whee!) and knitting! Because my work hours aren't flexible (double boooo) I get up at about 7ish, but don't have to be there until 9am... and I usually have about 1/2 an hour free in the morning to hang out and do whatever.

So instead of playing WoW for that 1/2 hour (30 mins isn't really enough to get into it and have a proper play) like Marty-Bear has been (tsk tsk Marty, you'd better start leveling that shaman), I've been doing a little bit of housework some mornings, and knitting. Yay! AND... the days I'm in the office for lunch (it happens occasionally), I pull out my knitting. It's attracted less comments than I thought it would, but my work colleagues are slowly realising that I'm not likely to poke them if they're nice to me. *evil giggle*

I finished the back of my green jumper last night, yay! And I'd be casting on for the front of it, but I felt like bragging instead. :D Isn't it loverly? After the setback which saw me frogging a good 20% of the back, I put it aside for a little while and voila! I get a job, have hardly any time any more, and the only thing that's suffered is my gaming time. *blush* Funny that.

SSK last Saturday was AWESOME! The piccies will go up sooner or later, but M-H is even busier than she usually is these days, and for now you'll just have to believe me that it was huuuuge and there were so many people there that I didn't get to talk to most of the new peeps. My priority was more to catch up with my buds that I hadn't seen for so long though, so no biggie. Ooh! There's my alarm... I'm off to work, more later! :D:D:D

The other *other* white meat

I have a new car.

The new car has been the source of much joy and much woe, and a few hiccups have been had getting it on the ACT road (which apparently requires something of an initiation ceremony. Special roads here. Ya huh.)

So I got an inspection done by one place, a nice sort of place with clean shaven, respectable looking dudes working there, and a nice man who didn't perv at me or snigger when I walked in, as generally happens in mechanics' workshops. He went over the car in the same way a cop would go over a young hoon's car, frothing at the mouth with a big "UNROADWORTHY" stamp in one hand and a Sherlock-esque magnifying glass in the other. Wow, he was mean. Nice, but mean. My report card came back with a great big F on it, and a huuuuge ($1,500 or so) repair bill attached. Mmm.

He told me that if I wanted to I could get a 2nd inspection somewhere else, so off I toddled today. It was something of an experience.

I had a little trouble finding the place, and when I did, it made my heart sink. I opened the door, and two tattooed, pierced, grungy-looking baby-eaters glared at me. One was on the phone, and continued to growl into it menacingly, and the other took one look at me and said in a commanding tone "yeah, wait." After a few seconds of me standing stunned in the doorway, bunny-in-headlights impression at its very best, the skinny one with the beanie snapped, "You're late".

Eep.

Long story short, they didn't have a fine-toothed comb or a magnifying glass, and didn't list obscure stuff like "play in left front seat". Ya huh! Way to save myself about $750. It still needs new tyres of course, and a new muffler. But hey. I'm much much happier with this quote. Oh yeah. I have two new friends, and their choice of white meat is really none of my business. Is it now.

La la love

Highlight of the day:

Wandering through Civic past the big horsey carousel, and amidst the squeaking kiddies and bored parents, a couple on the love-seat, they were probably in their 30s, laughing, cuddling, occasionally a quick kiss, and just beaming with happiness.

Awwww!

I missed you guys at knitting group... once more my course was scheduled for the SnB weekend! *sob* Soon, soon!

Oh, Joy!

... and because every woe in life should be balanced by joy...

I have a new job! Woot!

5 days a week (omg a REAL job!), regular hours, outreach work (woot not chained to a phone and a desk), the possibility of turning it into an internship, and... well... lower than average pay. Ah well. You can't have it all, and I know that Bernie *did* spoil me in the way of my pay packet. Hehe.

AND!

I'm going to SSK! Woot! I'll be coming along to the 23rd. With any luck the car will be all spick n span and ready to roll by then.

YAY!

Oh, woe!

... and weeping even!

My lovely new car, which only cost me $2500, needs repairs of somewhere between $1,300 and $1,900. Rust. Bald tyres (I need 4 new ones). Several other things including brake pads, wheel bearings, blah blah blah. Should have bought that one I saw for $4,000 after all, despite it being (!!!) out of my price range.

WOE!!!!!!