4 posts tagged “housemate”

As the title indicates, I am suffering from some serious focus problems at the moment. It can't be that I need a holiday, cos I just had a week. It isn't that I don't have anything to do, cos I have heaps. It isn't that I'm unmotivated, because I find a lot of this work interesting. I'm just BLAH.

What do I do to get out of this funk?

Went to aquarobics last night. Tried being friendly to people. They weren't particularly friendly back. Country towns suck sometimes. My legs hurt today though, which is both a good (yay, we were worked hard) and bad (you haven't done much with us in a while) sign. Ate too much for dinner, and then had to lie on the couch holding my belly. Oof.

Sort of looking for to getting a housemate. Will be nice to have someone to talk to when there's nothing on telly. Which is always. Still, does mean I have to stop doing the morning bedroom-to-bathroom stagger nekkid. Time to get some PJs, methinks.

So last week's meeting went okay... not brilliant, but okay. There was no yelling at me, which was a pleasant change! I did the 5 hour drive all by myself both ways; I wanted to know that I would be okay to do it if I have to do one of these trips alone for any reason. It certainly helps having people to chat to, especially since the radio / CD player is broken, and I was damn tired by the end of it, but it is really a pretty easy drive. There has been some rain lately, so there are less goats on the road which makes things much easier - don't have to play dodge 'em quite so much.

Strangely today at work I am listening to my Christmas playlist. Which would be strange enough if the playlist itself wasn't so strange - it goes from Carols from Kings, to bits of a CD called Brightest Morning, to Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe, to the Muppets Christmas Carol. What can I say... it makes me happy.

In other news, I have a new housemate! She's gonna get back to me, but I'm pretty sure she's in. Don't know a whole lot about her, but she is nice and friendly and earns money. That is all I need at the moment. This will be a huge financial relief. I got a raise from work, however our HR bitch, being useless, was somehow unable to make it so that the raise, which was effective 27 March 2008, went into my pay packet. Similarly, my leave loading was mysteriously missing. These sort of errors cannot be blamed on us being underfunded - it is sheer incompetence and it drives me nuts. I really needed the extra $200 from my leave loading this fortnight. Oh well, you can only work with what is. I;m also looking forward to having someone around the house a bit. She sounds like she works pretty hard too, so I'm sure we won't be in each other's pockets, but it would be nice to have someone to say hello to at night.

Got very bored this weekend, so I did heaps of cooking. Saturday night I cooked lamb with homemade tzatziki and dressing, which was pretty tasty. Too much garlic in the tzatziki though... but otherwise good and nice and healthy. Last night I cooked steak and then made roast pumpkin and chickpea salad with sundried tomato dressing to go along with it. No greens, which was a bit naughty of me, but overall pretty scrummy. Both dinner recipes were from my low GI diet book, which makes me feel somewhat virtuous.

Marry me jason

Yesterday I also made cupcakes to bring into work, it being grumpy Monday n all. I took some photos with my phone, but unfortunately the phone will not behave and upload them to the puter. Anyway, they are carrot (no walnut, lots of cinnamon and ginger) with coconut icing (icing sugar + coconut cream) topped with caramelised carrot. I have been assured by my colleagues that they are very tasty. Not sure that I love the caramelised carrot - I think next time I might sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top instead, although the carrot does look nice. Hmmm... Anyway that recipe came from a cookbook my lovely friend gave me as a going away present - it is the "5 best" cookbook put out by delicious magazine, which is my favourite cooking magazine.

On Saturday night I went to the movies alone, again. If I'd thought it through, I probably wouldn't have gone on "date night", but I certainly wasn't the only single loser in there. I saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which was damn funny. All actors involved were strong, and the ending was cute. It ain't rocket science, but it hit the spot. Anyway, if you don't mind full front nudity, go and see it. It is totally worth it for the vampire puppets.

It seems that the office mate is much better behaved / focused when our boss is in the office next door and can see him through the glass window. This could bode well for my future concentration levels. Hurrah! It probably isn't often that junior staff like me celebrate the return of their supervisor, but in this case, I am gleeful all over.

This morning I got some work done, and then sorted out my office by finally unpacking my 10 boxes of files (ick) and sorting through a box of documents which I had helpfully labelled "to be filed". I also got two whole hours to myself while the office mate and my supervisor were in a meeting. In just a few short weeks I have forgotten what it is like to be alone in my office.

This post definitely makes be realise that I am a crochety old lady who shouldn't share a house with anyone. I loved my last sharehouse, but I think I'm done with living with other people for the next little while. I'm slowly adjusting, in a positive way, to being alone a lot more. Although I'm aware that this could have some negative, hermit-esque consequences, I feel like my head is less cluttered. I'm sleeping better, eating better and generally calmer.

Ehhhh-xcellent.

Housemate #4 left for Thailand this morning, and as last night was officially the last night we would be housemates, he made me a lovely phad thai from the recipe he learned when on a cooking course the last time he was in Thailand. It was sooo scrummy - seafood and tofu - and I felt very spoiled to have been cooked such an amazing dish. I'll be sad not to be living with #4 anymore; in many ways he drove me nuts (mostly because of his apparent inability to do his dishes) but he was fun to live with.

So sayonara #4! We'll have to meet up for a Frosty Fruit* sometime...

* Have any of the other Australians noticed that Frosty Fruits are no more? They have changed in name to "Frujus" and are smaller and no longer have the ridges. I am greatly distressed! For one, Frujus were in and of themselves fantastic icypoles which seem to have disappeared. Secondly, why change the Frosty Fruit at all? It is an Australian classic, and was fine without the additional passionfruit they seem to have chucked in to the recipe. I object to paying more for less / inferior Frosty Fruit. I'll continue to consume them, however, if only because there is nothing that hits the spot on a hot day in quite the same way, and out of respect for the amazing ice confection that they once were.