Singular Scene

So Singular in Each Particular

Count Me In

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He moved in today.

The Count, I mean.

I think it’s going to be ok, I will probably get used to the toilet seat being up won’t I? I feel like it should irritate me but do you think it’s something I should make an issue about? I’m not sure, because if I get piqued about that already when there are likely to be more irritating things to get piqued about in the future I might be going half the way towards making this more difficult than it’s going to be.

I actually think I might have a few bad habits to break myself and may in fact not be a prize to live with having set the tone and embarassed myself already by forgetting that there is now a bloke about who is not used to living with girls in the house. I made the mistake of leaving certain girly things lying around in the bathroom and going out in a hurry to come home and find he’s been home and in the bathroom making his way around my unmentionables and doing his laundry…

Good grief… I think I should be living alone….

Thai me Up and Leave me to Starve

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I’ve a hate relationship with Telstra our national Telco (henceforth referred to as “Tellsomeonewhocares”) … This is because I believe their service to be apalling and their prices extortionate. So I don’t use them. My calls are carried by “the competition”. However there are times where contact with “Tellsomeonewhocares” becomes unaviodable.

This evening was one such time…

As I said Hooroo to the lads at work and was about to leave on the button of 5pm, I remembered one crucial bit of website administrating I had forgotten to do so switched on ‘flightdeck’ to get things back on track. Of course, it always takes 2x as long to do something when you are in a hurry… So at 5:40 I left the building and as I was driving home I decided that a Thai takeaway would be in order as I had to be at work (sitting on babies) at 7pm.

Not being in posession of the number for my local Thai establishment I called “Tellsomeonewhocares” to ask them to connect me.

Now… having been so flustered that I couldn’t pronounce the name of said local I did my best with the rather impatient “Tellsomeonewhocares” representative who answered my 1223 inquiry. When I explained what I wanted she flippantly directed me to a number, which I dialled, and which was answered by a suitably Thai sort of voice.

Of course, being that such establishments are staffed by non english speaking persons I did not hear the correct articulation of the name of that fine restaurant so had no reason to suppose that there was anything untoward going on.

Until I showed up to collect my dinner.

It was emphatically not waiting for me and there was no record of a Chicken and Cashews (no mushrooms) with small boiled rice for a ‘D’

Bu**er

I rang the number given my by “Tellsomeonewhocares” and found that my dinner was waiting for me across town… I apologised profusely, tried to explain in broken Thai (actually, very loud English) that I would not be coming to pick up dinner and they could charge “Tellsomeonewhocares” for the food. And waited another 15 minutes for my local to cook for me.

Now… if my ‘friendly’ “Tellsomeonewhocares” operator had been less concerned with meeting her quota of information calls, she may have extended her time allocation to me to actually give me some kind of restaurant in an approximation of my neighbourhood.

But no… she fully confirmed my distaste for the company and decreased the opinion held by my Thai friends in the restraunt trade in Mosman…

When will they learn that customer service is the means to their success? Oh right… they are government owned.. they can do as they please…

15 mins of Fame

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I have another opportunity like the Idol one.. though perhaps, slightly more uncool… all for $100 dollars pocket money (maybe 200) and 6 free cds…

I am shooting an infomercial next Thursday…

I know… what are they thinking? Is it not bad enough that I’m comfortably upholstered? Now I have to gain that on camera 10lbs and show it off to the whole of Australia!!!!

I must be insane…

Still, I decided, after shying away from these kind of opportunities in the past, that I would take them up when I could… hence the ‘yes’ vote when asked to listen to these cds and undertake an on camera interview to tell the director of the commercial how great the are!

It’s for the latest collection of Time Life ‘Songs 4 Worship’ – you know, those collections of choruses that are sold in the middle of the night on the telly!!!

Well, if you stay up late enough and assuming my ugly mug doesn’t get left on the cutting room floor, you might get to see me… (if the camera likes me extra 10lbs and all…). If I am one of the favoured and my interview is included I will get an extra hundred bucks into the bargain… Christmas Money – gotta be happy with that, right? Not to mention getting my make up done and having wardrobe provided… Gotta be good for you… Unless I have to wear a suitably conservative Floral number…

Actually, I’m not sure if I get to keep the cds – oh well, I own most of the albums these songs are collected from anyway… At least I wont have to lie if asked “did you listen to them?”

Advent Cal

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I never usually have an advent calender, I guess I am much more aware of advent in the traditional sense since I joined the wibsite and widened my exposure to more traditional expressions of faith. I am really loving being more aware, I feel as though it is going to make Christmas last a lot longer. So, here is my first advent calender ever to add to the others being posted this week!

Advent Calendar from Live Pencil. It isn’t actually a very spiritual one but the animations are cute and you get to keep them!