Thoughts and other mad ramblings

I can't think of one topic in particular so I'm going for the shotgun approach of blogging - random thoughts!

First, I really shouldn't blog when slightly intoxicated as it highlights my bad typing. Please note that I have bad typing and it is not my spelling that is bad, it just happens to make my spelling look bad.

Second, George Clooney. He looked gorgeous at the Oscars. Don't care about anybody else there *grins hugely*. Staying on the subject of George, Mr M has a colleague over from Atlanta who we caught up with again on the weekend. We talked about the American take on Australia with the Outback restaurants, Harley motorbikes *drools*, Keith Urban and how much his girlfriend loves him, and of course if the topic of convo heads to people you will never get a chance with but enjoy to drool over anyway, I say that my Homer Doughnut moment happens with George Clooney. Well, I must have said the magic word 'cos this guy just did not stop saying how great it was that I liked George. I did mention that as there is a bit of an age difference between myself and Mr M that it just fits it with my sexy older man thing I have going on. Perhaps that was why it was so good, who knows. But most people would have just said that they agreed, disagreed, didn't really care. Nonetheless, the reaction tickled me.

Third, family. Oh yes, the dreaded family. For most parts my family are good and don't bother me that badly but of course that would be my immediate family consisting of my mum, my brother and his family, my dad, my stepmum, her family. Even my almost family which is actually Mr M's family, his mum, his sister and her family, his aunt and her very close friends. Yes, all those family people are generally pretty good, of course we all have our moments but on the whole my family isn't that bad. So why doesn't my cousin comply! Bless her, I know her heart is in the right place but..... but..... please drop the subject of residency otherwise we are gonna have such a major falling out and I really don't want that to happen. And of course my cousin speaks often to my aunt who happens to live in North NSW who then phoned to ask how the residency was going. My cousin lives with rose tinted glasses and would dearly love to move to Australia, this is fair enough because Australia is a lovely country, but I and Mr M miss home... Lots! That's not to say we won't miss aspects of Sydney when we finally go home but home for us is still very much the UK and we want to go back.
We would have liked to have gone for residency and been granted citizenship as we could have moved out of Sydney to somewhere else and Mr M wouldn't be tied to the company. But the only option we have for getting residency is Employer Nominated, which I have stressed to my cousin and aunt is just not an option we are willing to look at because it means we are, yet again tied to the company. Besides which we don't have time on our side, if we even did consider it as the company would go for the option until the current four year Visa runs out in December '08. We would then have to wait at least 2 years until we could go for citizenship and by which time Mr M would be undesirable in the workplace because of his age. Which means if we did then go back to the UK he would struggle to get a decent job and the same would apply in Australia. And what's the point in applying for Permanent Residency unless you go for Citizenship, if you leave the country for too long your residency gets revoked and you have to start from scratch so your better off going for the full monty. But for us it is not going to happen. We both have elderly parents (I hate calling my mother elderly! She can still kick arse!) and they won't be around forever and it would be nice to be closer to them. And we still have many close friends back home, not to say we don't have friends here, most of them know that we will be going back but my other best friend doesn't know that we will be leaving yet. Somehow, with my moving countries I always seem to hurt a best friend :-( Fortunately they are both fantastic women and I'm sure my Aussie best friend will be just as understanding as my UK best friend was when I left. Plus, she would love to get UK citizenship so at least we will sort of help as she can stay with us when she comes over. I will miss her, just like I miss my UK bestie. Perhaps we should all go and live in Spain!

Four, why is it when I have no job that I find sooooo much stuff at good prices that I need to buy? Thank heavens for savings even if it was earmarked for a new, or rather nearly new car back in the UK. I have the pleasure of having student discount so I have found the software I want and a Wacom Tablet to boot! I can get such a huge amount off that I would be stupid not to buy the things I need now. As opposed to the things I don't need such as the pair of Converse Allstars I bought a few weeks ago and that I still haven't really worn. They're great and look so good but my feet are having problems with them. For some bizarre reason my feet will not let me wear shoes with no arch supports anymore. So to combat this I bought heel and arch supports to go into my Converse but because they are three quarter lengths, which Scholl reckon are brilliant because they don;t cramp your toes, they slip down the shoe! So then I get rubbing and blisters - thanks Scholl! And my feet still don;t like my Converse as much as I do. Just have to stick to my New Balance for now.

Five, I am a night bird. I hate mornings with a passion but have plenty of energy at night. It's not normal and I'm beginning to not like it because it makes me sleep in until midday and not sleep (even though I do go to bed early most nights) until gone 2am! It's getting annoying now, I do have stuff I need to do during the day.

Six, I really need to find motivation to study and to exercise. I've let both slip recently and feel terribly about it. The only good thing is I feel much better for finishing the cross stitch I did as I'd been itching to do cross stitch for ages and feel so much better for scratching my itch. I though it would aid my studying by making me focused, but sadly it didn't. Tomorrow I MUST make a real effort to at least answer the questions in assignment 3 even though I haven't finished by practical for assignment 2 and am generally still not happy with assignment 2.
As for exercising, looking in the mirror should be enough motivation for that, I just need to get up earlier!

Seven, I think I must be having a sense of humour failure. It seems lately that what most people find funny I simply don't. I think it started when "The Office" was the comedy on everyones lips. Sorry, leaves me cold. Not tickling the funny bone. I also can't get on with "Extras", actually I just don't find Ricky Gervais funny. Just not funny, not to me. And my not funnyitis has spread. Everybody, supposedly found "Little Miss Sunshine" hilariously funny. I, however, did laugh out loud and almost cried with laughter at Olive doing the strip to Super Freak. That whole section was the best part of the film, just a shame it took so long to get there.
I am clearly missing something!
But it's not all bad, "Family Guy" is funny, "The Simpsons" are funny, "Phoenix Nights" is funny, most but not all of "Little Britain" is funny, "Crackerjack" is hilarious as is "Keeping Mum"..... Hmmm, I must still have a sense of humour it just doesn't seem to match everyone else's. I can handle that. Crisis over.