Lisa is stuck in Hong Kong (the joys of staff travel when you work for an airline, you have to travel standby everywhere!) – she’s missed out on two flights today, but hoping to get on the final one tonight … or she’ll have to try again tomorrow. Which means I’m housesitting here for one more night – if she doesn’t get here tomorrow, then I’ll have to work out how to get Ally into her cat basket and take her to the local vets until Lisa can get home (I have a dog to look after tomorrow night, so it isn’t an option to stay on longer here).
Because I had the day off today (I swapped with a girl at work, so now I’m working her Sunday instead), I had a lovely relaxed day washing the bedding and headed off for a quick drive to the Edithvale Wetlands & Bird Hide. Unfortunately the Bird Hide was closed, and it was blowing a gale, so there wasn’t too much to see. I then drove down to the beach and sat in relative shelter and spoilt myself with a big cooked breakfast … even more special because they had HP Sauce!!! haha. You can take the girl out of Britain, but you can’t take Britain out of the girl! LOL. That’s about the only thing about me that’s British (aside from the pale freckly complexion maybe) … I’ve been brought up on HP sauce, Bovril, and Yorkshire puddings – and to me a cooked breakfast is without a doubt the best with HP sauce!! 😀
The main BIG news is that today after stuffing myself with breakfast, I went shopping … and I surprised myself by coming home with a wireless internet modem! One of the girls at work yesterday was telling me about an offer for existing 3 customers that gives half price internet access for the first 6 months, with a free modem (worth $299-$399) – while it means having to sign up for a 24 month contract, I chatted with the guy today about the price of cancelling out earlier than that – and as long as I stay for 9 months, even with having to buy out the contract, I’ll have recouped the cost of the modem etc, so it works out quite do-able. The offer ends this Sunday, so it was a make-or-break decision today, as I’m working all weekend. While I still won’t have the same amount of uploads/downloads as I used to have with iinet, at least it means I can access my own emails and check the internet occasionally without having to go to a cafe etc on a regular basis. And the best thing about the modem (as opposed to using my mobile phone, which I was originally planning to do), aside from the fact that it’s super fast, is that it’s automatically set not to pick up roaming signals – meaning there’s no chance of accidentally slipping into roaming and getting charged big bucks for the access (which you can’t do with the phone option) … that in itself could potentially save heaps of money anyway! I’m basically getting 3GB for an extra $5 a month I was thinking of paying with my mobile phone for only 1GB … at least it means I’m more portable, and contactable wherever I go now!! And the USB modem I opted to get (as opposed to the PCI card) is minute compared to the stupid brick Unwired give you! It truly IS portable!! 😀
I’m also considering checking out the possibility of a secondment to Sydney with work for 12 months – it’s a more senior appointment, although it’s pretty hard and gruelling work, but would give me the opportunity to work in the main ‘hub’ of the business which would give me a great grounding if I wanted to go further within the company down the track … and it almost makes sense to try it while my household items are in storage. Anyway, I might check it out tomorrow to see if I’ve missed the deadline yet and see if it would be an option … hmmm …
Rightio, time to get back to packing the place up … I’m going to try to squeeze some more winter clothes into my storage locker on the way to work tomorrow, as well as some items I haven’t touched over the last 3 months, which will hopefully free up some space in the car boot/trunk. Then I might be able to squeeze in those extra stitching projects I brought from the storage unit last week when I was craving a new project! 😉
Anyway, hopefully I’ll be able to keep in regular contact again now … yippee!! 😀
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Best of luck with the Sydney thing if that is what you really want (I loved my little week long holiday there). I miss my mum;s yorkshire puddings – I’ve got no one here to make them for me now – I’m only up to toad in the hole – can’t quite get the little puddings right!
Just have to ask…what is HP sauce?
Hooray for technology. Hooray for wireless internet connections! Hooray for more blogging!
Any job can get stale after a while. If a change is offered, make it.
Great news that you won’t have to go on hiatus!!
The Sidney opportunity sounds intriguing, Anne! The timing does seem fortuitous and I wish you the best of luck in obtaining the job. 😀
You’re going to be thrilled with wireless. I want to thank you so much for your comforting words for Anna. They were comforting and so helpful. Thank you again for your kindness.
Yay!! After what we were discussing was it yesterday?
HP sauce – best with sausages and bacon – yummy!!
Wonderful news about your new wireless modem! I don’t know what I would do without technology and now we get to see you post more often. The job change sounds interesting-it always good to progresss. Take care!
I love HP sauce; unfortunately, local stores don’t sell it here – I have to look for specialty stores that sell English food, so it’s kind of expensive. 😦
Good luck with deciding about whether to make a move to Sydney.
Can’t beat a bit of HP! lol.
Great to catch up with you and all your news and stitchy stuff! I’ve been in a bit of limbo without my blogland pals but hopefully that’s behind me now and I can get back up to speed quickly.
How wonderful! I hope the Sydney job works out for you!