It’s 2.15pm (AEDST) and I’m about to close the computer (on which I’ve been watching long stretches of the delightful english comedy ‘Coupling’) and go to the mall…

Cue Jaws music.

I hate the mall… It’s scary and busy and there are … [sharp intake of breath]… shops.

Yuk.

It has to be done… I have to spend money… [shoulders sag]…

If I’m not back and blogging about it in 3 hours… call the SES*.

*State Emergency Services…

Just in case I needed another surface in the room to accumulate all the stuff I can’t be bothered putting away, I went to the Salvos (Sallies) on the weekend and picked up a table (bargain, $40.00) to convert into a bit of office space.

This is ostensibly so I can make room to concentrate on work and study…. otherwise I’m usually trying to study from the bed, where the temptation to read novels, or just plain sleep takes over, or in front of the tv where I miss half the show because I was concentrating on work, or miss half the work because my attention was diverted to CSI or whatever crime time drama is on the box…

So Saturday I picked up the bargain table… and Sunday we went to Ike(a)’s to see what kind of office bargains we could get… (but mostly for the $3.75 (for 100) tea lights, we’d run out of those…).

Basically, I spent $100 this weekend and now am in a much better place to work from home.

Which is a good thing given that, come May 1st, I am dropping a day a week from work…

Hmmm… must think of cunning plan to get billions of comments…

[brain ticks over… tick tock… tick tock….]

*bing!*

Tell them it’s my birthday….

Yeah that’ll work…

[Ed. now then, you wouldn’t be lying to those nice wibbers to get comments under false pretences would you?]

Me *blushes* No, I wouldn’t… actually, it really is my birthday…

*shy smile*

Happy Birthday to Me…

(at least on Australian time it is… for you Brits it will be in about 10 hours…)

Oh yes, and it’s favourite photo Thursday too…

An early morning bather in the pool at Dee Why, NSW