WEEKEND WRAP UP... (THE GOOD BAD & UGLY)

G - sunshine this week
B - usually being stuck inside
U - getting slightly burnt yesterday

G - kapahaka at school coming along nicely
B - trying to set an example of how the dance should be done
U - my quads STILL being so fuckn painful from friday (i can barely walk or not swear between the transition of sitting & standing)

G - only working 2 days at the bank this week
B - most probably having to make up all the lost time
U - everyone at works pay day

G - working 24-7 to make money
B - working 24-7 taking its toll on our relationship
U - arguing over stupid shit & hurting each other

G - realising working 24-7 isn't working for us
B - not living as frivolously as i once did
U - nothing really

G -going to samoa soon!!
B - realising some family members are actually low-key psycho
U - all the dramas that entail & could possibly put a damper on my holiday fml

DOCTORS CERTIFICATE...

yesterday i go sent home from work within half an hour of beginning my shift. that's the first time i've ever been sent home before. even if i was sick at school, because my mum taught at the same school i just had to sleep in the back of her class until the school day was over.

today i woke up still feeling like someone was having a drum & bass gig in my head. every step i took equalled a good thump to my brain. not cool.

i mustered up the courage to seek professional medical help. (i usually google everything..) so now not only have i got an official gp (i think the last gp i had i was like, 7?) because i never go to the doctor. i have a real big "i'll sleep it off" mentality about everything. (that failed when i contracted a kidney infection earlier this year by the way).

basically she told me i was run down & working too much. i was like, umm hello? do you know the life i like to live? do you know my shopping have to haves? (hahahaha) but anywho, she wanted to give me a week off to rest and recover and i was like "hellz no!" 2 days max (and i was totally gonna go to work tomorrow) but i'm still not feeling 100% so perhaps i'll take her advice and use the doctors cert and have 2 days off work.

i'm slightly gutted because this weekend is our work party which means free piss and a free feed at a swanky restaurant on the waterfront (i mean hello, i work at a bank!) but i don't want my team leaders to be all like, "oh well she's had the last 3 days off and here she is getting pissed on the free bar tab".. fml and my morals.

so i think i will still go to the dinner part, but retire early once everyone starts to hit the juice. i don't really have anything to wear anyway, considering the theme is "silver and gold" (wtf?) i have gold strappy wedges and silver peep toe heels but no silver and/or gold clothing..

it has taken me over 24 hrs to watch "eat, love, pray".. i don't know if it was because the movie was shit, or if i was feeling like shit, or a combination of both but i kept falling asleep during it hahahahaha.

and i'm not sure if you still read this, (because i'm pretty sure that i said to piss off and stop reading my shit so i can rant about you haha) but if you still do, thank you.. 143 ^_^

P.S: my aunty (the one i lived with overseas) was in the country and bought me this.. yaaaay!

THINGS WORTH MENTIONING..

- D.I.N.K.S = me & friend boy are currently working 2 jobs, it's nice to have your head above water again

- New Flattie = Canadian dude who is so obviously fucked up he is actually one of the most normal human beings I've ever met

- Christmas & New Years = Samoa here I come!!

- No Sun = my legs being so white they glow

- Lazy Sundays = working 6 days a week make me appreciate the Lord's "day of rest" so much more

- Living with 4 boys & 1 girl = no more dramas!! (but the bathroom needs to be disinfected alot more frequently haha)

- Gots me some new headphones (FINALLY!) How I heart my Sennheisers..

- Friendboy's brother came back from 10 days in Hawaii and he finally got his BBD's

- The Boondocks = like seriously? no-one told me about this before??? My Canadian flatmate intro'd me this week and apparently everyone knew about it a couple of year ago.. Have I really been living that much of a sheltered life?

- Working alongside the friendboy = we're bothing teacher aiding at his mum's school.. we were skeptical that it would work but it actually is pretty cool.. One of those things that I highly doubt will ever happen again to be honest so we're making the most of it

- Impromptu Dates = being shown around friend boys work place, and then continuing on to town for cocktails at The Library, a dance at Mixjah and then a stroll home...

24 - 7? MORE LIKE 25 - 8..

so much to say, so little time.. that's what happens when you work 13hr days and that thing called sleep is not as common or frequent as it once was. not to mention the both of us are working 13hr days that span over 6 of the 7 days of the week. everything and everyone else fit somewhere in between running after buses and paying bills...

PN WOAH...

ahhhh the goodness of palmy.. i went home on saturday after work to spend the night with my nana. it's her birthday today, but i had to work so the best i could offer her was having me over for the weekend. i did plan to take her out for tea and for brunch on sunday morning but she was totally not interested! lolz i had to COOK! jeez! but i did it and i made a little old lady happy.

it reminded me that the people you once thought would be around forever, actually aren't. it made me sad to think that she was all alone in her big house next to drug dealers. (like, actually. he's a dealer).

when i first arrived all i could do was mock what i considered to be "junk" around the house and i was itching to throw crap out and re-arrange everything to be more spacious and easy to move around. then it hit me. it wasn't my place to do that. i mean seriously, how pissed would i be if someone came to my flat and did that to my stuff? how rude was i for even thinking that all her stuff was junk? i decided that i'd leave it because in all honesty compared to having 'not alot' growing up in samoa, her house is her castle.. i had no right what-so-ever in touching anything. i can't believe it's taken me lik, 25yrs to finally come to that realization. i mean, my nana has been telling me off for that for as long as i can remember! haha!

but anywho, i spent 25hrs away from wellington and i really couldn't wait to go back. in all honesty, i think it was the freedom to do whatever i wanted whenever i wanted that i missed the most. i did however, manage to 'sort of' ask permission to use her car to go and visit my friend who had a baby shower that day & drop off her present. (on a side note: OMG how expensive is palmers no stretch marks tummy butter?!). i must get my license! i'm so naughty for driving around without one. i miss driving.

this youtube clip reminded me of how much (at times) i actually miss palmy. especially the price of living compared to here & the plaza (like actually!!)

randomness:

- welsh dude moved out on sunday leaving this note on the white board: "guys & girls, it's been emotional. good luck for exams etc." (like seriously WTF? who writes that?!)

- new flat mate, canadian dude moved in on sunday. i'm pretty sure he's a self made millionaire aaaaand also a stoner & low-key alchy that's just bumming around the world because he can.

big week ahead:

- the girls arrived from samoa yesterday & are here for 10 days

- ghetto booty arrives from auckland this thursday and is here until sunday

- friendboy's dad arrives from samoa on thursday after being away since june

- mumzy comes down for the day on saturday to get her haircut at buoy

hmmm that's all i can think of for now..

have a great week y'all.

*UPDATE* THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY...

G:i love my new day job as a teacher aide!!
B: the kids i work with hardly every turning up to school
U: their families bringing their issues into the classroom

G: pay day when working 2 jobs
B: not getting paid from 1 job this wk
U: 2.5% gst increase

G: celebrating friend-boys birthday this weekend
B: not realizing it's a family tradition for every person to say a little something about the birthday person & having a really crap speech haha
U: gaining weight from all the food i've eaten over the weekend

G: getting my hair did!
B: chipping my newly polished nails
U: beautician still in brazil & friendboy having a heart attack at my hairiness

G: vodafone's free calls to 021's & landlines if you top up this month
B: only realizing towards the end of this month
U: people's answer phone messages

G: wearing jeans to school every day
B: having to wake up at 6.45am week days
U: catching the same bus as my little sisters ex-boyfriend

G: TREY SONGZ opening for usher in nz march 29!!!
B: one of my younger brothers already having tickets
U: telling everyone i'm going to buy the meet & greet tickets.. and not actually having any money to do so

G: all the kids at the ghetto school i teach at owning air max, or air jordans or nike hi tops
B: some of the kids at the ghetto school i teach at not having lunch on a regular basis
U: most of the kids at the ghetto school i teach at having eczema

G: the other flatmate we didn't like moving out
B: meeting the dude he's replacing himself with & realizing he's sort of a douche
U: the high probability that we will grow to dislike the new guy very soon

G: winning "best dressed" at our work party last weekend
B: not being able to find my party feet for my 5" heels, but braving it anyway
U: trying to stick up for a particular workmate getting shit faced when everyone decided they hated him

G: dropping my macbook once & it being alright
B: dropping my macbook twice because i though i knew better than my friendboy
U: dropping my macbook a third time & now it makes a weird whirring noise when i turn it on :(

BREAKING POINT...

yesterday i was having one of those ugly days.. you know when you just aren't feelin' it no matter what clothes you pull out of the closet or what products you use to make you smell or look good?? you just feel like a big fat dumpy hobo. i had a shitty day at work, and was close to tears after afew encounters but of course i hate when people cry so i was not going to do that it public.. not even hanging up on the customer, giving the fingers to my computer screens & saying "fuck you" very loudly made me feel better.

i came home and the friend boy knew something was up but i was far too embarrassed to admit to my shallowness and say that i was feeling ugly and it was the worlds fault for breeding beautiful people. or more like the media's fault for selling the fantasy.. (of course i'm not gonna admit i'm partly to blame for buying into it.)

he encouraged me to try and fix my gloomyness (is that a word?) so i washed my hair, shaved my legs and... nope still didn't fix how i was feeling. this morning i got up and went to get my eye brows threaded and... nope that wasn't the problem either. i ended up returning home, ordering hellz pizza & garlic bread and then eating it in bed while i surfed the net.

while surfing i found miss keri's new music video and even though i'd love to hate her i'm pretty sure it's a sign for me to go to the goddamn hairdressers because i'm sure my problem areas are a) my head and b).. my beautician went home to brazil for 6wks and i missed my appointment with the stand-in beautician so i'm hanging out for her to return to the country to de-fuzz me lolz

i'm pretty sure life will pick up from there. here's hoping.. in the meantime, things to look forward to: friend boy is taking me out on a "dinner & movies" date that HE is paying for all by himself because he now has a job & got paid. this double income thing i'm totally liking. i've never been to the movies in wellington so that's pretty cool.

moral of the story is- i love keri hilson and she told me to go get a hair cut. the end.