New Job and Carrie Underwood - St Kilda

So last week I got offered a job working for the city of Port Phillip doing city permits. I started Monday, and am slowly starting to do more things and learn what's going on.

The drive to St Kilda is not quick, but at least I don't have to leave before 8am really. Traffic varies because of all the schools around there. The shops are okay. I've got Safeway and Coles for groceries if I need them. Priceline and Chemist warehouse for makeup and other stuff. No clothing stores, but that's ok - I can sit on amazon if the prices are right. 

I'm exhausted and have had a long hard week. Mostly cause I'm not used to getting up early and I am not getting to bed early. Monday night cause I was waiting for The Newsroom - the new Aaron Sorkin show to finish downloading, and tuesday night cause I was out at the Carrie Underwood concert at the Palais. Since the concert was so close to work, I decided not to go home and come back, and instead hang out for 2 and a half hours. I got food, changed, got petrol and found The Palais -which I had never been to. It's next to Luna Park - which looks even scarier when closed! I lined up for ages in the freezing cold to get my parking ticket, with tons of people - I never realized that there were so many Aussie fans of Carrie out there! I was genuinely surprised by the number of couples, kids, and young straight guys. I had decent seats. The support act Damien Leith was really good. Carrie was really good, sang plenty of my fave songs, and when you have four albums of great songs, you are bound to miss out on a few faves, but that was okay. I had a great view, even though it was further back than I would have liked...except for when the three people infront of me - a husband, wife and their adult daughter kept putting up their phones or cameras to take video and pictures...which they did a lot! I kept having to not only look around the guys big tall head, but around his arms and phone. It started getting ridiculous and I probably should have said something, but I didn't want to lose my focus on Carrie by wasting time telling off people who probably would have ignored me anyways.

My only real complaint with the Palais was the whole no water thing...I understand the no alcohol thing, but I can take water into plenty of shows elsewhere, is it really necessary to throw out bottles of water? I think if they are going to do that they should at least offer you a free bottle of water (even if it was small), because having to buy water is annoying and I don't like to spend.

Last night I finally got some decent relaxation and was in bed at a reasonable time. Today and work I started doing stuff on my own, so its starting to all sink in. They are nice people, but I don't know, they are a bit weird. But time will tell. I'm still new and quiet.
I seem to get home around 6:45pm...ish. Its not that bad, at least I don't have to spend hours on a train.

Looking forward to some quiet time over the weekend, and sleep ins!

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Carlie

Monday. The Start of a Brand New Week

You know what was really weird today? The fact that when I was reading today's paper this morning, while I was watching Providence on tv, I got totally weirded out and confused that the paper said it was Monday. I swear it felt like Saturday, and Monday was a few days away. lol.
I think this had something do to with the Survivor Finale. Which rocked and I was so happy Danni one. Someone I wanted to win for weeks, actually won. This seems to be my year, especially after Carrie winning American Idol earlier in the year.

Now what did I do today?
Not a lot really. I watched quite a few eps of Las Vegas, including one that I had missed on foxtel and one of my faves for season 1 (I have only seen just over half though...).
In the afternoon I made pikelets for Nikki, cause I was starving and needed something other than bread and was sorta craving cinnamon.

Tonight I saw a new ep of Will and Grace. Big yay. It was good, okay, but not great great. and I missed the end, cause I ran into the lounge room to watch Survivor, which was just about 10 minutes of recap at the start so I could have stayed watching W&G doh!
During Survivior, Toffee tried to climb into the Christmas tree a few times. We had to scare him off. He's trouble that boy. But he's SO cute! I love my kitty!

Elsa asked me if I wanted to meet her in the city for afternoon tea, but it was so hot today and I was just feeling like relaxing and being at home, so I didn't end up going.

But hopefully I will be able to rangle her into coming over here sometime soon.

Well I believe that's all for today. OOo I have a brand new ep of CJ downloading and I have written more of my script now. yay. hehe. Hopefully I will get it finished soon!


Seasons Greetings

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Carls