First Day Of Work

First day working at Projo (project x) in Buxton....waitressing.....was really good, hard work, but the people are really nice and theres a good mix of people who work there. I worked 11-6pm, didnt sit down once in that time, and having been a lazy bugger for the last 4 months, im not used to hard graft! Should get into the swing of things soon though, and it seems easy enough to pick up....
All for a good cause though-Indonesia Wooo!
Will write more on the subject when i have enough energy to move my fingers!
xxxx
P.s- Sold 3 canvases for £200 yesterday! Woohoo!

An aimless hunt for some Money!!!!!

Its been a bit of a rollercoaster ride in the job hunting, over the past couple of weeks. For the first time ever, ive started to claim JobSeekers Allowance (£40 a week), which is weird....not too keen on being on the dole! It made me realise though, what taxes are for, and how insainly looked after we are, in our little 'nanny state'. I think i can be less grudge-ful at pating with my earnings for taxes, now that ive been on the other side of it all. I can see why people can get stuck on the dole though......
But things are looking brighter, im waiting on a job offer from The Beltane, as Assistant Chef (£7.10 an hour!), after a couple of trial shifts i did....not the perfect job but bloody good pay (seriouslt taxed at that rate though-back to last paragraph!).......and ive been offered a full time job at Project X from next monday, £5.20 an hour, but the managers are LOVELY and its really nice young staff, just have to make sure i stick away from the desserts or i might not be able to find a wetsuit to fit me next march!!
So jobs wise ive got some options, which is always good!
Other news, mums still got 'milky-moo-moo' in tum, her bumps looking huger then ever
.......everyones in good spirits but rather impatient to see him/her. Names are slow to come, but if its a boy they're thinking of Jonas........better then Freya's idea of 'Bottom'!!! 3 year old humour, got to love it!!!

Monday night :)

Had a really fab night out on Monday night, with Jen. It was our first night out in Sheffield since Indonesia and we were in need of a good old Boogie! After mega hassle with joyous-ly horrible bus drivers, we amazingly managed to get ourselves to Sheff. We went to a few bars, found a really nice one next to the Forum, where they could see we were poor and gave us half price shots (HORRAH!). Then we met Maxine Lategan at Corperation, and consequently drank copious amounts and danced through the night til we calapsed in a cab and persuaded the lovely taxidriver to get us to Eyam on £20! Not bad not bad, as it would have cost about £30.........
So a lovely night out with Jenjen, reminising on our travels and organised the next batch. Its good to finally have a plan of what were doing. Jobs are in the pipe line, didi a couple of trial shifts as Assistant Chef at the Beltane in Buxton, which is good (as far as jobs go!). The Head chef's the same age as me, and my wage would be £7.10 and hour plus tips.....should find out if ive got the job by sunday.
The next batch of travelling, by the looks of things should be around the end of Feb/beginning of July, for about 4 or 5 months between New zealand/Australia and Indonesia. Dive Masters and Dive Instructor courses are also in the works!
Im applying for Unis for Sept 2008, unless anything more interesting turns up that is!!?
So serious amounts of dosh must be earned, to pay back what i owe already and make dosh for the next bash of travelling and diving! HORRAH.......

Its been a gap of about 1 1/2 months since last blogging, and life has got thoroughly normal-ified in that time! Jen and I have been home for about 3 weeks now, and only in about the last week have we been 'functioning' human beings- quivering wrecks for the first 2 weeks!
Being back is shit in someways and okay in others.....its nice to be home, with my sisters and see the peeps again. As all my belongings are down south still im still living on a bags-worth of clothes and borrowing my mums boots, so no change there!
Jen and i are seeing a lot more of each other then before travelling, which keeps us both sane/insane (AS IT SHOULD BE!), we havnt really gone more then 3 days without seeing each other!
I went boldering/climbing, another new activity(!), at the edge in sheffield, which was a great laugh.....there were some amazing climbers there-possibly more egotistical then divers (she says in awe).....i could see myself getting addicted to it. My hands are skinned, and my arms feel about 2 feet two long for my body after it all though!
Had the first of two trial shifts as assistant chef at the Beltane in buxton today (9-4). Went well , i think, and the managers and staff are really lovely. The head chef, jess, is my age and went to Lady Manners so we have some mutual friends......hopefully will work out well, as the pay is £7.10 an hour+tips! Cant scoff at that dosh......even if you do leave smelling of other people's food, thankfully its not all fried! Ive got another shift tomorrow (10-5) and then i should find out if ive got the job-fingers crossed cos i SERIOUSLY need the dosh!
Jen and i are already planning to head off again, to indonesia and maybe australia, around march time for about 5 months....Im going to do my Rescue Diver training and then were both going to do Dive Master and hopefully Instructor, maybe a job in it! Were thinking that we may get a Holiday Working Visa for Australia so that we can 'self sustain' for 2 months and then we should have enough dosh saved up for the diving courses and travelling in Indonesia.....in THEORY anyway! All debts have to be paid off first, but hopefully thats all possible on £7.10 an hour?!
Ive got to sign of and finish making a fab mermaid costume for Lani for her 7th birthday tomorrow....(7!!!)....she loved the ones jen and i made in Gili Trawangan, but hers is WAY better!
Til next time......