Reverb Part 2

6.  Who was important to you? 
My family is always important to me, even more so since I moved out with my boyfriend nearly 2 years ago. I talk to my mum or dad usually everyday, and while my brother and I have had our differences he's usually there for me. Of course my boyfriend is also important, he's helped me through some rough times and visited me twice while I was in hospital overnight.


7.  What do you hope to remember? 
Be careful - really careful - when  handling kittens with ringworm. Or you will get it yourself, and be forever known as wormy. Even though it's not actually a worm, and no however many times you tell people that it won't matter.

8.  Where did you spend money?
Um where didn't I. From my complete inability to take a packed lunch to work; to possibly needing to take out shares in Subway in particular their chocolate chips cookies (is that possible, I'll have 12 million shares in baked goods) to the never ending process of trying to make our small tiny house with a huge backyard livable (new fly screen door, new floorboards, new rug, another 30 square metres of grass that we laid rather lumpily, numerous plants - some which have survived).

9.  When were you most scared?
Probably the few times Sabrina the cat stayed out all night. Or thinking about possibly having to pay some student loan debt back in 2012.

10.  What questions did you ask?
Why am I watching Jersey Shore?

11.  Who surprised you? 
 That I got through an operation. I haven't been in the hospital since I was 8. I was totes nervous.


12.  What did you learn?
Community is an excellent show.  And I have friends who will still come out with me to a club for my birthday even though they all think we're too old. My boyfriend can make an excellent pool cake.

Reverb 2011

Stolen from Reno, the Girl and maybe a little late but what the heck. It's time for some reflecting, feel free to ignore.

1.  Where did 2011 begin?
2011 began with another year in the boring job I was boringly comfortable with. Still fostering animals, about to celebrate my 27th birthday, but with only 1 permanent dog and cat in the household.

2.  Who did you meet?
Through my new job I have met a lot of cool new people. Became better acquainted with someone I went to high school with and still kept in contact with 'my girls' (10 high school friends I still regularly see and have monthly catch ups with).

3.    What books did you read?  
A lot, and re read a through for when I wanted comforting. But new ones included (what I can remember) the Hunger Games trilogy, The Slap, The Woman in Black, Fast Food Nation, The Seance, Don't Look Now and Other Stories, The Year of Magical Thinking, The Giver, Fade.

4.  When did you struggle?
 I really struggled while recovering from my knee operation and have still in some ways since even though now I can walk pretty well, I still cannot run, jump and play team sports. Not working for 2 months and having very little money was challenging.

5.  What did you discover?
I can live on little to no money but not for long and I really should take control of my debt. I can do things I'm scared of and live to tell the tale.


Part 2 soon if I'm still feeling reflective.

Just because.

Starting to freak out about lack of money as evidenced by my dreams

So last night I'm drifting off to sleep and it's fricken freezing but I can't have the heater on for too long as I only have 3 more days of employment before I have to consider doing something drastic to earn money so we can't afford a high electricity bill. But it's okay because I have my hot water bottle between my knees and I begin to think that this is a great idea but what about my feet? They're cold, maybe I really need a full length hot water bottle like the full length body pillow I like to hug more than my boyfriend when I'm going to sleep because it doesn't move around a lot, snore or try to grope me. Then I know I'm nearly asleep because I start having the most random thoughts/ideas which I only have in the last 5 minutes before I'm actually asleep. Because we know a full length hot water bottle would also be very costly to my budget every night, not to forget the facts of possible burns etc etc.

Then I had a very unsettling dreams where clowns were trying to eat me much like Bart Simpson, but we warded them off with some quick thinking ie we locked the doors.
By the way does anyone know where Dibly Fresh has gone?

Like totally redundant

So the job hunt begins...

umm

Happy birthday to me! For yesterday actually.
I spent the afternoon off work and went to the beach with my boy and my dog. Bliss.
Me and Dad circa 1984...

I love the 80s