  At last, I am starting to feel better. That doctor on Monday was very accurate- how did he know to give me a medical certificate that would run out on the very day I felt good enough to go to work (if I was not on holidays! ) Despite feeling exponentially better than I had the past couple of days, I did not do anything much today. I spent the greater part of the morning sunning myself on the lounge chair while watching television. I am truly going to miss this when I go back to work. If there is ever a reason to look forward to getting really old (old enough not to be working any more!
); this is it. There is, in my opinion, nothing better than laying down on the couch, in full sunlight, while watching television in winter. I love it. Luckily for me, my desk at work is right next to a north facing window (ceiling to floor window I might add…), so I do get to sit in the sun all day at work anyway, but it is just not the same.
I doubt I would be allowed to lay on the carpet at work dressed in my shorts and socks only (though I should try it one of these days! ) Getting closer to midday, the cloud came over and it started to rain a little. It then became really cold inside and I had to put on some more clothes. How inconvenient. I went outside after the shower and inspected my bulbs that I had planted a couple of months ago.
They are all looking really good. Most of them have come up, which is a really good thing. There are a few (that I didn’t plant! ) that do not seem to be coming up. I have tried to find the bulbs in these areas to replant them in a more sunlit area- however I have not found any yet- so I am thinking maybe there were none planted there in the first place. In the afternoon, I put on foxtel digital radio. I think foxtel digital is not worth the money I am paying for it.
Only six extra channels and an extra $35- not very nice at all. I was getting radio anyway in the past with satellite analogue service I was getting- so I don’t know where they get off by saying we have soooo much more choice now. Having said that, I do need my how to channel and tech tv. Why can’t they let us choose which channels we want to watch- on a channel by channel basis? In all the packages there is shit I would never watch and stuff I would be really interested in watching.
I think it is just their way of ripping us off even more. I am seriously considering cancelling my subscription altogether. I was living ok without it- while I waited the 3 months to get the bloody thing installed in the first place. This will be something I need to consider in the coming months, especially as I start paying back my substantial tax office bill. About that tax office bill, I found out today in the paper that interest incurred in the repayment of tax office debt is tax deductible. In other words, I get my marginal tax rate back on the value of the interest I pay back to the ATO. Maybe if I get a job there they will waive my debt altogether…. Or maybe not! ;p I will see if I can get away with paying back $65 a fortnight to it- so I can focus on repaying higher effective interest credit that I have outstanding… hmmm… All you young kiddies out there- DON’T EVER GET A CREDIT CARD!!!
;) definitely not worth it in the end. Also in the paper today were hints and tips on how to maximise your tax return…. All very interesting. I should really keep all my receipts for things like pens and paper I get for work….
Then again I get it all free from the stationery room anyway! I should make the most of my deductions this year, and next year too, because I found out that if you owe the tax office money, they will take your refund and pay it straight to your debt that you have with them…. So if it means less money from my pocket … its all good! (yeah yeah I know its all from my pocket anyway lol) Later in the evening, I learnt some more German. I am getting good at it, well lesson one anyway! I am enjoying all the word and grammar and vocab games in the program I am using and yeah… I’ll be writing this blog in German before you know it (or maybe not…. ) I got a phone call from my nz buddy reymond at about 8:30. We chatted for an hour about nothing in particular. It is very unusual with us- how we are friends and all, because we have never met in person. Not once! How it all started was I used to be pretty big on (how embarrassing! ) pen pals- and my pals and I used to swap these things called “friendship books”, where you would write your address and vital stats on a page about 4cm by 4cm and you would send it onto someone else, who would put their details on the next page and so on until it was full, where you would then send it back to the originator.
ANYWAY- one day I came across his name and details in one of the books, so I wrote, and soon we were writing letters that were 20pages long, 40… and by the end of it, we were sending letters that were well over 100 pages long to each other!!
(Unbelievable I know, but true!). Then came university, and email, so we stopped sending paper letters and started using chat and email, and now it is the occasional email, and occasional hour long phone call… He surprises me all the time though, by telling me stories I told him from a few years ago. Some of them truly outrageous- I didn’t know I used to be like that! But it all good hey, because at the time I was ok with it and yeah- no need, or reason, to be shamed over what you did when you were younger right? ;) Anyway after that enjoyable and fun conversation with rey, (whose weblog is today’s “steves link of the day” {just click on the title of today’s entry to get to the link…}) I went to go and watch more television. Today was the first day in all of my holidays that I have not had a nap through the day- so I was by this time feeling very tired. I thought if I don’t want to feel like shit when I go back to work, I will have to start sleeping normally and ease myself back into the 6am wake ups that I will have to endure everyday when I go back to work.
I am definitely not looking forward to going back to work. I want to stay home and do nothing all day. I am so lazy. At this time, becoming a dole bludger is looking like an ideal career option. But then, I would not be able to buy as many bikkies and lollies as I do now… heheh Anyway nothing much more to write for today. Thankfully I am feeling a lot better today than I have recently. Perhaps I will be able to go out for a day trip sometime this week to a place out of town. I have not really been out of Melbourne much since I have moved here, so it would be nice. Catchyas! 
