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So I must apologise for a rather lengthy absence from blogging. According to my records (this site) I completely forgot to blog in the month of September. I looked at the calendar at work today and nearly freaked out when I saw it was October. Where the hell did September go!

Well I did move 60KM’s from the place I lived for most of my life. And by that I mean the area, not the terribly shitty house with no insulation that was a horrendously overpriced 3 bedroom house with an 80 litre gas tank. That is just ridiculous in itself. What was more ridiculous was the fact there was a 30 year old stoner living in our backyard in a “granny flat” - read garage.

And now I’ve had a month to get settled in I must say it was the best thing we ever did! I absolutely love where I live now. It is a world apart from the cesspool that is the Central Coast. People wear shoes here, and I haven’t seen a junky since I moved!

There are so many wonderful things about living where I am. The house, I love it. If I came into the position of having $750,000 pocket change I would be phoning the owners in a flash. I would pay through the ass to own this house, failing that I have found the area I would love to buy in (even if it’s horrifically expensive). Before I moved here I had always had electric cooking and water. For the first time, I have hot water whenever I want it, and it never ever runs out. I cook the same old crap I used to cook, but it tastes a zillion times better. If you haven’t had gas, you haven’t lived!

One of the most awesome things about this house, is that I don’t have to wake up at 5AM every day. I wake up at a more sane hour of 6.30AM. In reality, I could wake up at 7AM and still get to work on time, but I like having half an hour to myself for breakfast and news reading. This means that I no longer get up in the dark, and get home in the dark. At the old house, I would only see daylight on weekends. It doesn’t seem that bad, but it really started to piss me off after awhile. You couldn’t do anything, no washing, nothing outdoors, nothing fun! Also the transport. I save $13 a week just on my train ticket, and I fill up once a month as apposed to once a week, which is a rough saving of $150. Now I’m wondering why we need two cars!

On top of the move, my parents came down and visited and also love the place. It is a definite improvement over the old pad. I could probably have Christmas dinner here and do it comfortably with enough room for everyone! Hey that’s an idea… 

But anyway apart from the big move, things have been going swimmingly well. I’m working on a major project at the moment and loving every minute of it. It helps when it’s something I’ve always wanted to do! I need to do some certification and training, I want to know everything. 

Chaos and Possum love the place. There are plenty of trees for them to climb and grass for Chaos to lay in the grass and ninja other cats. Oh and a barking dog next door for him to play with. The cat is retarded, he comes back smelling like dog because he’s been playing with one all day. I let them out almost straight away, once I fed them they ran around and marked their territory and all was merry.

In other news, how good is it that the TV season has started again! New House, Dexter (*Swoon*), Desperate Housewives, American Dad, Gossip Girl, oh why aren’t there more hours in the day! 

That’s a good enough update for October, hopefully I will remember to make another one before November starts. I always was pretty shit at keeping diaries

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I will give you an idea of how shit my suburb is. This afternoon, we ransacked the house and threw out everything we no longer needed. I mean a couple of boxes of stuff, some furniture, a couch, a bike and all bits and pieces in between for a council pickup.

No less than 1 hour 17 minutes later were two guys in a ute rummaging through my garbage, taking anything made of metal, taking old burnt CD’s from when I was 10, all sorts of rubbish. They left a huge mess, and didn’t seem to care who was watching. HILARIOUS. 

Oh well. I don’t care.

I’M MOVING. FAR AWAY. THANK GOD. 

These will be the longest 4 days of my life. 

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During this time, they were not contactable. If you rang the supposed 1300 support number you’d get a pre-recorded message saying that there was a nation wide outage and no ETA on when services would be restored. Now that in itself is pretty horrific, I didn’t think it could get worse until next time you try and call them the message advises you that the phone number has been disconnected. Any emails sent to the support addresses bounce, and then you realise that both the members URL and forums are also down.

So you go to Whirlpool, the next source of information for all things internetty  and find hundreds of users just like yourself, who have been without internet and basically cut off from the outside world. Many of us were using mobile broadband dongles, and I assume some of them may even have been borrowing their neighbors unsecured wireless to access the site. I got reading quickly and read bullshit after bullshit excuse for why the services had been disconnected, and the ETA for restoring services got further and further away, each time with “probably” or “maybe” added to give them even more room to move. 

Still no internet, still no response from staff, just an idiotic tech support and staff member calling people who posted at Whirlpool whingers. Well honey, if we can’t post on your own support forums, and we aren’t getting a service, of course we are going to fucking whinge. They obviously don’t hire the brightest tools in the shed, maybe that’s why they’ve gone under for a third time?

The next thing that has been annoying me lately, real estate and everything real estate related. I am sick to death of looking at houses, and then finding out something incredibly important was left out of the online advertisement. Something like say… a 3 bedroom house advertised as an actual house, and then you find out upon further inspection there is an 84 year old man living and taking up all of the downstairs area.

Hello real estates, if I was after that sort of living arrangement I’d be looking at units. I’m not. I’m willing to pay an extra $200 just for this luxury of having your own property, not sharing with some old guy who could drop dead at any minute, or continually yell at you for having the TV on or god knows what. When you are looking in a high budget, you should not have to share with “some guy”. 

Also, the prices are getting ridiculous. Why are people happy paying $450 a week for some tiny 1 bedroom shitbox in the ghetto? Honestly when did the housing scene become such a joke. For all those people who are like “Well it’s your own fault, you should just buy”, buying ain’t no freaking walk in the park either! Everything is over priced, under specced and just not worth it. I don’t want to sacrifice the next 30 years of my life just so I can die on a piece of land that is my own. Somehow sacrificing 30 years just doesn’t appeal to me. I can understand if you have a combined income of more than $150,000 how it might be alot easier, but for people with any less it looks to be impossible without having to make huge sacrifices. 

Another thing that has pissed me right off lately is the sort of derelict style drongo’s we get wandering around my current suburb. No wonder I want to move so bad, not just because of distance to work but also I’m sick of surrounding myself with shit. Why do I want to go shopping only to get angry because some dumb hick slut is having trouble parking her SUV and then having trouble getting her 6 children out of the car because she’s knocked up with another one, has trouble moving and can’t drive for shit?

Why do I want to go down to the shops to buy groceries and see junky scum wandering around, and why do I want people to ask me if I have “any spare change for the bus/phonecall/train ticket? You’re right! I don’t want anything to do with these people, even seeing them is enough. Don’t even get me started on these sadistic little emo’s we have running around. When I was a kid I wasn’t an angel  but at least I had manners and at least my parents taught me good values. Now you see little kids wearing black eye liner swearing their heads off about everything under the sun, trashing parks, trashing McDonalds, you named it just generally being spoilt little bitches. If they were my kids, I would put them in a hessian sack and throw them in a well out of embarrassment. 

There is another thing, why are people around here so insistant on getting knocked up as soon as they can? It’s practically a career path for some of the people I went to school with. Right, schools up, time to leech onto the nearest guy with a job, get knocked up and do nothing with my life! Yeah girls, great career plan. Your baby bonus is not your meal ticket or your boyfriends heroin fix. It’s for the BABY. The babies you punch out like it’s a freaking baby factory. You know what else I hate? Flannelette. It’s everywhere. Can’t people afford nice clothes? I can’t remember the last time I saw someone dressed nicely. 

The TL;DR version:

• My Internet sucks ass, because there isn’t any.
• I hate Real Estates
• The people around here are all hicks
• Pregnant teenagers are stupid
• Flannelette is really ugly.

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They always say bad things come in three’s. I’ve never really believed it or given it much thought but lately I am starting to think they might be on to something!

It all started when I busted my foot. Honestly, I have never even so much as had a sprained ankle before and then BAM, hello cripple town. It’s still hurting, but at least I can walk again without crutches. I just have to force myself to walk flat to the floor so it doesn’t heal wrong. It hurts more to walk like this, but as an upside at least I don’t look like a drunk person walking on tippey toes.

We got an SMS last night, my partners grandmother was taken to hospital. We went down today to see her, and she was asleep. We didn’t want to wake her as rest is the best thing for her at this stage, especially given her age and the circumstances that led her to be there…

On the way back home, I get a phone call from my own mother telling me one of my aunties (not just an aunty, my favorite aunty) booked in on the 5th of May to get her kidney removed. Why the f**k would someone have their kidney removed?! Oh right. Apparently she has Renal Cell Carcinoma, which in layman’s terms is kidney cancer. It’s not all that common, and I’d never heard of it prior to the phone call. It all started with her migraines which she has had since she was a kid. Then she got blurry vision, and next thing you know she has high enough blood pressure to give her a one way trip to stroke town.

After switching doctors, to one that didn’t get his degree from a box of cornflakes, she was diagnosed with kidney cancer. The affected growth is hanging off one of her kidneys and is the size of a tissue box cut in half. That’s a pretty f**king big growth.

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How’s these for ping times?

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64 bytes from 72.14.207.99: icmp_seq=284 ttl=235 time=5267.250 ms

That’s what I get for pairing my phone with my laptop to get online

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So for the last couple of weeks you may have read I was doing boxing. I chose boxing because as far as I was aware there would be no running involved. Let me tell you I f**king hate running. So imagine my despair when 2 weeks ago I was made to run in my boxing class. Then after that I had a full hour of running around like an idiot. My foot hurt like hell after the first time, and I just assumed it was due to my crappy K-Mart quality running shoes. So I went and purchased a new pair, hoping that it would make a difference.

It didn’t. On Monday my foot, which had been sore for the previous 2 weeks, decided it would swell up like a balloon and start bruising around the ankle. It then decided it was going to cause me a horrible burning pain that felt like it was on fire literally. I slowly hobbled from from work and to the hospital where I had to wait 3 hours to be diagnosed as “well you’ve fucked your foot” and given crutches. Also I was given a referral to a medical centre to have X-Rays taken, as well as a handy guide on “How To Use Crutches” and “Going Up Stairs”. 

After a couple of visits here there and everywhere I was told that I had a torn ligament in my foot, as well as a minor crack in one of the bones. (Cornicular or some crap). It could have been from a pre-existing injury, however the tear in the ligament has aggravated my entire foot. It hurt so badly and I really suck at using crutches. I find the whole ordeal embarrassing. I don’t like having to ask people to do things for me, and as a result I just went without what ever I needed. I’ve been working from home the last couple days but hope to return on Monday to work. The doctor told me I need about a week on crutches, but to see how I go on Sunday. I have to take it easy and no walking fast or running for 8 to 12 weeks. He said I should notice things improving soon, but I may have to go back for physio if it doesn’t get better. 

So out of everything this has taught me the following:

• I still really f**king hate running.
• If your foot starts to feel like burning see a doctor ASAP.
• New shoes do not fix a torn ligament.
• Crutches make you feel useless.
• Oh, and crutches also require co-ordination. Something I apparently don’t have.

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So. Yesterday afternoon I was a tad late from work because I chose to be. Well hell, I have too much fun at my job I’m sure I’d live there if I could. I’m standing on the platform when a familiar sound, the train howling close, the way the wind gusts up, the baulking voice of the station attendant warning to me to step the fuck away from the yellow line.

And then, I looked up.

Heading towards me was a beautiful site. A train from Cityrail. But no, this was not just any train. It actually looked like it came from this century. They had LED display panels on the front, that even said the station! It was amazing. I thought they must have screwed up as usual, but when I got home I saw a double page spread.

This new train was called an “Oscar”.

Oscar is comfortable, large, and can hold up to 500 passengers per 8 car train. They are made up of the fashionable colours, blue and yellow. They have a flashy LED display inside each carriage. They also never ever ever come to my area, until now.

I’m currently writing this from one, and let me tell you they are quite a step up from the old Rattler’s and Tangara’s.

However, it is then I realise I still ive in a shithole, and the trains rarely turn up on time.

Nice bribe Cityrail! :@

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