For about 3-4 months I did the “1 blog a week” thing and in the last month I’ve barely written a thing.

What’s worse is that I can’t think of anything vaguely interesting to write. I don’t even have a youtube to post, which we all know too well is the fall back for every blogger…

Wht’s most upsetting is that blogging makes you realise how truly boring your life can become… I no longer can live in ignorance of the fact that some weeks all I do is work, sleep, eat, and poo… Though come to think of it, I do have some interesting stories from those topics, mmmm…

Wait, Wait! I think I hear the rains are comin! Yep. Some things did happen this week. Owe Owe, I feel a blog comin on!

I saw this today and laughed… so posted it!

So here’s a dilemma I face on pretty much a daily basis, although today it was obvious.

I work in the same centre as Coles Narromine and they have one of those trolley systems where if you want one you put $1 or $2 coin in the slot and disconnect it from the the one in front. Which I think is an awesome system as all the kids from around Narromine will bring back stray trolleys so that they can get the money out of them.

Here’s the problem I face:

Today there was a trolley no more than 15 metres from the front door of Coles and therefore about 17 metres from the trolley return bay. Now this trolley clearly had a $2 coin in the slot. Should I have pushed it back and redeemed the said $2, or will I then just be seen in the same light as the young teens who do such a thing?

Simply you could just say push it back and grab the $2, not a lot of money, but I could then get an Ice Cold Coke from the vending machine and have change to spare.  If it was a one off then maybe this would work, people who saw me would just think that I was just returning My trolley.

But what if I got addicted?? What if from doing it once I caught the bug that the aforementioned kids have?? What if it really isn’t about the money, but rather a reward for a job well done?? More a satisfaction thing! How would I then be viewed by others??

Would there be other consequences?? For example I work in the Real Estate office about 10 metres from Coles, would the image of that then suffer by an employee being seen as one of these ‘trolley boys’…

I read an article on Tim Rogers today, and it reminded me of how frustrated I get with life sometimes… The most talented people can often be the most unstable, and in the end, so many people end up in such horrid situations that it all just starts to feel hopeless.

I’m sure he would think I was being foolish, and I don’t even know if he’d appreciate the sentiment, but I’m going to be praying for Tim as often as I remember to… I think he’s as deserving of God’s grace as the next person.

Not much else to say about that…

Except maybe these things:

1) It’s AMAZING how much more I find I get done when working from home. I don’t know if it is the lack of interruptions, or maybe the feeling that you need to justify yourself and show that you weren’t just slacking off so you work your bum off so that you have a decent amount to show for your day.

2) You get to work from the comfort of your bed!! I love that, a perfect example of this was not today, but last time I worked from home it was a very cold day and the in-laws were ripping up our back decking so that they could lay a new one. I spent most the day under the doona doing my work, anyway there was this one time where I had decided to go to the kitchen to get myself a drink, I must have been working hard. As I walked through the house I was thinking to myself how cold it was, then I came to the glass doors which lead out onto the deck and looked out to see my mother-in-law trying to remove the old planks of wood with a claw hammer.

It looked cold, I wouldn’t want to be out there, so after I got myself a drink, and a little snack, I headed straight back to the warmth of my doona, well after watching them work for another few minutes. I did feel a little bad, but what could I do?? My hands were tied!! There was work that I just had to get done, I mean it was a work day for me and my boss doesn’t pay me to do renovations to the house I live in…

3) Almost finished making changes to another website, hopefully will be done by the end of the day so Monday morning I can move onto something else.

4) I’m eating ice blocks, actually whilst doing my work on the new deck!!

So heard about another bargain that I couldn’t pass up. The gym at Dubbo RSL has a special on this month, 6 weeks membership for $60.

Thought this was a good opportunity to give it another shot, so tomorrow morning and hopefully each weekday morning my alarm will beset for just after 6ish at which point I’ll head to the gym and do gym stuff!!

Another good thing is that I can keep telling myself that it is only for 6 weeks!!

The Swans are out of the finals… We really never looked like making it this year.

So, in the AFL I think I’m going for a Geelong to win in Cats Vs Port Grand Final.

In the NRL I’m going for a Cowboys Vs Eels Grand Final.

In other news, my old Sydney AFL team the St. George Crows lost to the North Shore Bombers in the 1st grade Sydney AFL grand final. That’s the 3rd win for the Bombers in 4 years…. The Crows haven’t won a 1st Grade premiership since 1993 even though we’ve made the GF about a dozen times… depressing.

OK, so it’s been a heck of a week…

We’re meant to be getting a new kitchen put in, so we spent all of Wednesday ripping out the old one and making a lovely pile on the front lawn.

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I thought that we were going to be able to take the ex-kitchen to the tip on Wednesday evening, so that it wouldn’t inconvenience the neighbours (we live in a block of 4 flats). One thing led to another, and the ex-kitchen was going to stay where it was until after we’d finished fitting the new one on Thursday… so far so good-ish.

Thursday morning I waited around for the new kitchen to arrive (due at 10am), but at 11am I got sick of waiting and headed to work (the office is only 5 minutes drive away), and figured that they could deliver it without me there (Vanessa was home).

Got a phone call saying that someone (not allowed to mention names, so as to protect the guilty) had fallen off his motorbike and due to a hospital visit, wouldn’t be able to help us fit the kitchen. He was also the contact person for the kitchen guy, so the phone calls saying that they didn’t have the address, could we please call them back ASAP weren’t getting through…

( ’Motorbike-falling-off-guy’ is fine, but bruised. A car pulled out in front of him and he laid the bike down, rather than hit the car. The car didn’t stop. Not sure about the bike, yet.)

On Friday morning the new kitchen (and wardrobes and laundry cupboards) arrived (yay!), but they couldn’t fit one of the cupboards up the stairs, so had to cut it in half. They were really nice about it, and had no other choice, but it’s still a bit annoying to see your brand new cupboards being chopped up on the back of a truck, in pouring rain, with a jigsaw that kept breaking down… Eventually got all of the cupboards into the house, which means that now we have to thread our way through a series of small VietCong style tunnels which we’ve created to get to the bedroom / bathroom from the front door.

I came home last night to find Vanessa asleep on the floor under our desk, because she couldn’t get to the bed or the couch… (I’ve since remedied that with more tunnels)

The ex-kitchen is now partly in our carport (around the back), and partly still on the front lawn. A friend is going to help me move it with his ute this afternoon (hopefully), and take it to the tip. The neighbours have been very generous and haven’t complained at all, which I’m attributing to our general nice-ness, although I can’t actually back that up with any evidence.  

 Phew.

 Ripping it out:

 Continued:

The ex-kitchen:

Our loungeroom, with the new cupboards piled up:

We recently changed our credit card to one with a lower interest rate and that, (although in the process we got a credit card from another bank and an extra $2000 credit, but that’s a different story) in doing so we were going to lose the Award Points we had saved up, so we thought we better redeem what little we had.

So after looking through the catalogue the best thing we could see for the amount of points we had was a $50 Sanity voucher, so we ordered it, and it turned up like a week later which was surprising.

So we headed off to shop, and of course went straight for the $10 table to buy a bunch of cd’s we’ve always wanted but never got around to buying, or didn’t have the money at the time. There’s some Gold on these tables usually, not so much this day, although I did get something I have wanted for a long time… The Offspring!

It was a best of album so I now have a bunch of great songs to reminisce to…

We also picked up a copy of the movie The Fastest Indian… AWESOME movie! Unfortunately we gave it to Nat’s dad as a birthday present, but will borrow it back soon to watch again.