This morning it was pouring down rain. Luckily, while I was on my 19 minute walk to the bus, I managed to escape this and also when I was walking from the train to work, I was also able to escape this.  While I was staring out the train on the way to work this morning I couldn’t help but think how much I love it here and also how lucky I was to find such a good job.  I had a feeling from the start that this would be the job for me and as I was really thorough in the interviewing process, I knew what I was getting in to.  The job is better than I could have expected and it’s such a turn of the tables.  Especially when I think back to the past year with my accident.  I think I’ve nearly fully recovered, I’m about 85% there.  I still get tired and then I can’t remember what things are called.  I don’t have all my memory from the years before.  There’s people that I can’t remember.  So there’s still a lot of gaps in my memory.  Apparently, I’ll get it back, but I’m not too fussed right now as my life is going great, I’m not going to bother to dwell on the past.  I’m also trying to loose some weight as I’ve had that injury, I haven’t been able to do too much.  It’s hard now with so much travelling time to and from work, but seeing I get to walk to and from the bus, it’s some great exercise. I’ve also been fitting in 1 hour of pilates every 2^nd day and about 30 mins every other day, so I’m getting there!

 

So I’ve been searching for somewhere to live in Melbourne.  And I must say easyroommate.com absolutely sucks ass.  I have been using realestate.com.au and domain.com.au to help me find a place. There is a bit out there now it’s just trying to decide what to see.  I will probably have to look fairly extensively. I don’t want to travel more than 30 minutes on public transport!

 

This weekend is also grand final weekend. I don’t care much for the AFL but I’m really excited about the NRL grand final. I’m hoping that if the storm win they’ll have a parade in the CBD!

 

Oh and I can’t stop singing when will I will I be Famous!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Embarrassing

Oh the shame of it all! Today I went downstairs to get a salad box which I have to say was divine.  The only thing was that I must of sat on some of the chicken schnitzel and had it stuck to my pants for a few hours!! Oh well. I was also trying to sort out an issue with one of our clients and then I noticed that I was just being stupid and reading the screen wrong! So far, I still love my new job and everything is going grand.  SQL rocks!! On the bright side, I have managed to get my walking to bus time in the morning down to 20 minutes. Though by the time I get to the bus I’m all sweaty. It’s actually quite gross!

Allergic to Amoxycillin

After much torment over the past couple of weeks I have now realised I am allergic to Amoxycillin. Like really allergic. Today I have a v-neck shirt on and have wonderful bright red rash above it that goes all the way up to the base of my neck. When I touch the area it is like it’s on fire. I went earlier to the ladies to put cold water over it. The relief only lasted a few minutes. Tomorrow morning I will now be a few hours late as I’ve got to go to the doctors to get something else.

Starbucks - new drink

I’m not a coffee lover – only because of that fact that it turns into an instant laxative as soon as it hits my stomach, so when I go to Starbucks in the morning, I normally get something that has caramel in it.  Caramel hot chocolate, Caramel Chai Tea latte but when I was there the other morning they gave me a coupon for a Green Tea Latte.  Great I thought, this morning is the morning to try this.  Loving Chai Lattes I thought this one would be interesting.  Green – it certainly was! It made me feel Green. I’ve never tasted a more disgusting drink than this.  It was like I was drinking something warm with grass in it.  It was so foul that I couldn’t bear to finish it.  After the first 5 sips it got a tad more bearable however I chucked it out on the way.  Not finishing a free drink as it was that terrible.  I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone!

Australia..

It’s been nearly 2 weeks since I moved to Australia and while I try to type this in my room, my nephew is having a mega fit.  I don’t really feel like listening to it this evening.

 

The first week I just spent getting everything sorted, the second week I started work.  My job is great so far and I’m learning lots of new stuff. The people I work with are pretty awesome, the office is awesome and it’s the first company that I could say I want to stay with for a few years. 

 

I have not yet started looking for a place but will do so when I get paid.  The easy things to work out when you migrate are Drivers License – registering in Victoria was pretty easy. I got an appointment with Vic Roads then got my license there within 15 minutes.  The bank account was also easy as I had already set up an account before I came over. 

 

The things that are more difficult are things like Medicare and getting a tax number.  While you can apply over the internet for a tax number, it takes about 28 days (or more) to come.  They don’t give you a temporary number however they say if you need to get paid up until this time, you have to get taxed at 46% then basically you get it back at the end of the year, which I think is pretty lame.

 

Transport from where I am is a bit of a pain so when I get a new place I will make sure it is by the train.  It took me about 1.5 hours to get home tonight as I get a 45 minute train ride, then wait for the bus to arrive (sometimes they don’t even turn up at all) then get off the bus and tonight it took me 30 minutes to walk home as I couldn’t remember the way home but knew where the milk bar was but normally it would take me 25 minutes.

 

Taking public transport again is pretty hard case.  Every day you get a different person sitting next to you. Yesterday this asian lady sat next to me and she kept sucking up her snot all the time. I was quite put off.  Today there was a really tall man who stood the whole way with a Harry Potter book in his hand who just pulled faces looking at everyone disapprovingly. 

 

While I got most of my stuff across OK, the most frustrating process was dealing with DHL for my computer.  Costing $433 for a supposed “door to door” service took 1 week instead of their promised overnight service.  Horrible to deal with I was calling back and forth to Australia and NZ to try to get this sorted.  DHL NZ was saying Aus will be able to help you and Australia were laughing at what NZ had said. When you travel and send your things home, most companies get you to fill out a customs declaration before you go.  DHL didn’t do this at all and after driving 50 minutes to the airport, I had to go to DHL get the paperwork for my computer, go to Customs House spend about 30-40 minutes there clearing my own items then going back to DHL paying $50, picking up my computer then my sister driving 50 minutes back home!  They truly are a bunch of wanks and I would not recommend anyone sending their items this way. I only did it because they said it was overnight. I could have gone to excess baggage handler Jetta and done it for half the price.  

 

This week has been fairly exhausting with all the new information I haven taken on – Friday night all I will do is sleep. I might do a face mask, but I just want to chilly chill.