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October 2004
Tuesday, October 26th, 2004 08:03 pmAt the beginning of October 2004, I got quite a nice substantial pay rise. This helped my saving considerably! I managed to break the $1000 barrier in savings, which I've never done before when saving. I don't have this much anymore, due to things happening later in the month, but I'm aiming for it again. It's such a lovely number to aim for.
I now have 6 christmas presents and a wedding present. Seems like good progress, until I remember christmas is not too far over 8 weeks away. Should knuckle down and cut my spendings, so I can spend my money on the presents instead. It's not just presents for christmas either. I still have to get the present for the second couple getting married in November, a birthday present for both my nephew and my niece, and buy a ticket for a wine tour that's in lieu of the hen's night for the first couple. Couple this with my steady diet of fast food for lunch and most dinners, along with my phone bill each month, and I'm amazed I managed to save as much as I did! At least my car runs cheap.
I booked into a learner brass band with my mum. I was going to pick up my trumpet again, but they need trombones more, so I said I'd do that instead. It wasn't until a week later that I remembered I actually played trombone in the jazz band in highschool for at least a term. It's funny how one's memory escapes without one even noticing it. It feels like learning from scratch, since I remember hardly anything from before. The proper band meets on Tuesday nights, but the learner band mum and I will be in meets on Thursday. It's rather neat. They loan you an instrument, teach you, and loan you a uniform when required all for free. There's more on the subject, but in the interests of keeping my post moving....
( I had a double whammy of shock last week. )
Onto the good news. I get the WASO (West Australian Symphony Orchaestra) newsletter in my email every so often. Two weeks in a row, they had a competition at the very end of their emails. If you were one of the first 20 or so to reply with your name and address, then they'd post you free to tickets to this movie. I replied both emails, and won both times. Each competition was a different movie, although the second movie was during work and I passed those tickets on to other people to enjoy. Z and I used the first lot of tickets I won, and that was nice. Afterwards, I didn't feel like going home, but Z did. We had separate transport, so he went home and I stayed behind with a hot chocolate and did a lot of thinking. It's amazing how I haven't actually stopped to think for many months. There's always something I find to fill in the blank in my brain so that I don't actually have to think. I thought about this and that, and discovered a few nasty revelations about myself that I hadn't noticed before. I thought about those until I had resolved them. I'd talk about them, but this post is getting rather long already. So I arrived home, and Z had glorious carnations waiting for me! *swoon* He'd used an angle grinder to cut the top off a wine bottle and smoothed the edges to create a vase. Surprisingly, it looked rather elegant.
In wine bottle related news, I have suddenly started liking wine. I haven't experimented to far with it, mainly stuck to the two I've discovered I like. Houghton's late picked verdello (white), and Jacob's Creek brut (champagne). It's odd, but since I discovered I like wine all of a sudden, I also have suddenly not minded getting drunk either. I think I've been at least tipsy-drunk every weekend for the last month at least. Rather odd. I'm enjoying the sensation of drunken youthfulness. I restrict it a little though, since wine doesn't actually agree with me all that much. It makes my digestion go odd for the next day or so. One bottle a weekend and that's it.
Yesterday my new glasses arrived. I have two new pairs of spectacles, due the "buy one get one free" deal at Just Spectacles. The perscription (s/p?) for my left eye stayed the same, but my right eye had changed. Everything I looked at is now photo quality again, and no more having to constantly tighten up the screws in my five-year-old pair. Yay!
....and various other things, but that'll do for now.
I now have 6 christmas presents and a wedding present. Seems like good progress, until I remember christmas is not too far over 8 weeks away. Should knuckle down and cut my spendings, so I can spend my money on the presents instead. It's not just presents for christmas either. I still have to get the present for the second couple getting married in November, a birthday present for both my nephew and my niece, and buy a ticket for a wine tour that's in lieu of the hen's night for the first couple. Couple this with my steady diet of fast food for lunch and most dinners, along with my phone bill each month, and I'm amazed I managed to save as much as I did! At least my car runs cheap.
I booked into a learner brass band with my mum. I was going to pick up my trumpet again, but they need trombones more, so I said I'd do that instead. It wasn't until a week later that I remembered I actually played trombone in the jazz band in highschool for at least a term. It's funny how one's memory escapes without one even noticing it. It feels like learning from scratch, since I remember hardly anything from before. The proper band meets on Tuesday nights, but the learner band mum and I will be in meets on Thursday. It's rather neat. They loan you an instrument, teach you, and loan you a uniform when required all for free. There's more on the subject, but in the interests of keeping my post moving....
( I had a double whammy of shock last week. )
Onto the good news. I get the WASO (West Australian Symphony Orchaestra) newsletter in my email every so often. Two weeks in a row, they had a competition at the very end of their emails. If you were one of the first 20 or so to reply with your name and address, then they'd post you free to tickets to this movie. I replied both emails, and won both times. Each competition was a different movie, although the second movie was during work and I passed those tickets on to other people to enjoy. Z and I used the first lot of tickets I won, and that was nice. Afterwards, I didn't feel like going home, but Z did. We had separate transport, so he went home and I stayed behind with a hot chocolate and did a lot of thinking. It's amazing how I haven't actually stopped to think for many months. There's always something I find to fill in the blank in my brain so that I don't actually have to think. I thought about this and that, and discovered a few nasty revelations about myself that I hadn't noticed before. I thought about those until I had resolved them. I'd talk about them, but this post is getting rather long already. So I arrived home, and Z had glorious carnations waiting for me! *swoon* He'd used an angle grinder to cut the top off a wine bottle and smoothed the edges to create a vase. Surprisingly, it looked rather elegant.
In wine bottle related news, I have suddenly started liking wine. I haven't experimented to far with it, mainly stuck to the two I've discovered I like. Houghton's late picked verdello (white), and Jacob's Creek brut (champagne). It's odd, but since I discovered I like wine all of a sudden, I also have suddenly not minded getting drunk either. I think I've been at least tipsy-drunk every weekend for the last month at least. Rather odd. I'm enjoying the sensation of drunken youthfulness. I restrict it a little though, since wine doesn't actually agree with me all that much. It makes my digestion go odd for the next day or so. One bottle a weekend and that's it.
Yesterday my new glasses arrived. I have two new pairs of spectacles, due the "buy one get one free" deal at Just Spectacles. The perscription (s/p?) for my left eye stayed the same, but my right eye had changed. Everything I looked at is now photo quality again, and no more having to constantly tighten up the screws in my five-year-old pair. Yay!
....and various other things, but that'll do for now.
