new photos are up on my flickr site!

start here and keep on going

p.s. i know the flower pictures are really badly named but i have no idea what the proper names are. all the same, they are pretty!

ooh and before the day is done, i should mention that it's fatherloo's birthday !! and in this wondrous age of technology, i designed a card sent it to the mothership and got her to print it, sign it and present it!

as promised, a post on yesterday's big move. it's very wordy though. you have been warned.

SO! the delivery company said they'd be around at 8am to drop off the furniture. THAT'S RIGHT PEOPLE 8 in the @#$*!*#$& morning.

0730 :: zoot and dingo arrive at castle anthrax and await the delivery of the goods.
0800 :: furniture arrives.
0830 :: set off to get breakfast and to buy some carpet stain remover.
0915 :: zoot vacuums, dingo scrubs the kitchen and laundry. zoot battles stubborn stains in the carpet, dingo battles dirt, spider webs and a billion dead daddylonglegs.
0930 :: zoot temporarily abandons vacuuming due to technical issues and fixes her coffee table together.
1200 :: bboj comes over, dingo and bboj do another kmart run. return with household-y things. zoot goes to petersham to get charcoal chicken.
1345 :: we re-convene at castle anthrax for our first meal!
1430 :: work resumes, with zoot vacuuming and bboj ripping ikea packaging open. dingo runs to get coffee and cake.

now, allow me to rewind to saturday for the bed-purchasing story. at first, i wanted to get this bed, which at $119 for a double would have been cheap. then we found out that it didn't come with slats, which would cost another $40. which is rubbish. so, zoot points out this bed, which is $109 for a double.

however, i didn't find it aesthetically pleasing enough and was kind of mopey about getting it. (oh come on, it's the cheapest double bed, and you can hang hats and belts off the bed post! ok fine whatever) THEN, we chance upon this bed! "oh, i wish it came in a double size", sighed i. "WELL," quoth bboj, "wouldn't two single beds joined together form a double bed?" perhaps! thought zoot and i. after doing a quick measurement that yes, it would fit in my room (with 10cm to spare even), i got 2 of those frames for $9 less than the not-so-pretty one (SCORE! BARGAIN!)

scroll back to 1430 hrs on sunday and bboj's laid out the pieces of the first bed frame and yells for help to hold the pieces together. it's difficult to place the slats across the supports because they are too thin and wobbly on their own. then i yell for help because the room is too narrow for me to hold it in place the logical way. much co-operation is required to execute this exercise.

1700 :: both bed and wardrobe have been assembled AT LAST! dingo's bed measures an impressive 2180 x 2400mm. and the mattress? a paltry 1350 x 1890mm. "OH MY GOD GIRLIE!" exclaims zoot. "your bed takes up two-thirds of your @#$*!&@^ room! this is the most ridiculous bed in the world. your mother will scold". this is true. mother will possibly not be impressed with this even-bigger-than-a-king-sized-bed. but i'm sure she will get over it once she realizes that i can actually fit my entire family in my room when they come to visit.

and as you will soon see, the most ridiculous bed in the world is just one flat (not fitted) queen-sized sheet away from being the most awesome bed in the entire universe.

TADAA !!!

i've moved into the new house! also known as castle anthrax*.

zoot and i cleaned the house from top to bottom and spent the better part of yesterday assembling ikea furniture.

i'll post pictures as soon as i get new batteries for my camera

* for we are zoot and dingo.

today i learned a new word courtesy of R. and that word, ladies and gentlemen, is "felch".

go on, wiki that. and then tell me your mind isn't boggling at how it exists.

oh. also, i'm trying to give up swearing for lent. previous years i've tried and failed, but not this time BECAUSE there are penalties for swearing this time. i have to put 20cents in the swear jar for each rude word i say. 

so far, there's 80cents in the swear jar.

bizzy bizzy bizzy

today i went to manly (heehee) beach, and then to the botanical gardens. there are some pictures to be posted! i'll do that when i can because they're not on my camera.

and tomorrow we sign the lease and pay our bond, then do the condition report, then get our keys! HUZZAH! and then on thursday we go shopping at ikea and then hopefully by thursday night i'll be moved in. yay!

we have a house we have a house we have a house we have a  we have a house we have a house we have a house.

come visit us whenever!! 

so i was thinking how cool it would be to work at a cosplay/manga/anime/maid cafe. i mean i'd get to dress up, and get paid to do it. and i think the rules at such places are no touching no groping. so if anybody knows of such a place in sydney, i would be very appreciative if you let me know about it.

failing that, i think i will march up to the anime club in sydney uni and suggest opening one! moving out of home has made me feel really brave n_n

courtesy of auntie pratma:

oh. my. goodness.

so i have no house yet, nor a job. so what does a girlie with no house and no job do all day? nothing much really, except trawl seek.com.au all morning and send out resumes. 

then spends the rest of the afternoon window shopping along king street because the shops are fun. to be fair, this time it was because austrian housemate christine said she wanted to go shopping so i tagged along. 

anyway, there's this clothes place two doors down that i stepped into last week. didn't buy anything but got into a conversation with the guy about op-shopping in perth. anyway today we went in again and the same guy was there and he asked me how it was going so i said "oh same ole same ole" and we talked about uni enrolment etc and then he said "so have you found a job yet?" and i said no and he said "well i'm thinking about giving up some shifts here, why don't you leave your resume?"

and i said hells yeah! so fingers crossed something comes of it. otherwise my bank account won't be looking very healthy very much longer.

hot patootie bless my soul! we just watched the rocky horror picture show performed by live actors in front of a cinema screen at the george street cinema and it was amazing! they give you rice to throw during the wedding scenes, and the cast members run through the audience and people really dress up to get into the spirit of things. and also, there were many boobs on show. some of which belonged to men. 

tonight was the last night they were performing at the george street cinemas and they don't know where their next run will be, so zoot and i are very glad that we noticed the small flyers they'd put up on lampposts etc in our neighbourhood. 

i think i really need to buy the dvd and listen to the audience participation so i know what to yell the next time we go watch it. whee! ok bedtime.