December Approaches

Well, only a few weeks to Christmas, and I don't feel as overwhelmed with christmas spirit as I usually do, and thats a good thing. Sometimes Christmas can be just too much, and I grit my teeth till its here, then enjoy. I've been working lots, but the carols have been interspersed with other songs (so far) and there is only a minute or two of pain while they play through. I miss American christmas, where everything about this time of year makes sense, right down to the weird egg nog and ginger bread men. Awesome.

I found yet another reason NOT to shop at BILO, aside from the fact that it is a smelly, dirty, unorganised shop at the best of times, the customers are bad. And typical of the steriotype I have in my head of them. I had come to the end of the small shop I was doing, and there were only two registers open, express and a big register, I had a few things so I waited at the big register. There was a lady unloading a shopping trolley, and a lonley little basket sitting alone on the floor. The trolley lady finished unloading, I looked around, and, stepping over the basket, started unloading things myself. This skanky looking thing comes up behind me and says 'oh, right oh! in a condescending tone. I turned around and said to her 'if you aren't here, then I'm not waiting. But if you must go first then go right ahead!' Not a word of thanks or anything, cause I could have just gone on ahead of her. Wish I had just gone to Safeway.

My piano students are coming along sooo well, sightreading stuff, playing everything from memory, asking heaps of questions, and having fun in the lesson. I really look forward to wednesdays.

My sister has officially moved in, she's been here for a week and still doesn't want to leave just yet. She's been trying to find a hairdressing apprenticeship, but it is so hard to get a position. Perserverance will pay off in the end, we will just have to try harder. Annoy them so much they take her. She is such a lovely girl, and so hard working, she would be an asset to any business. Am I biased? Shamelessly.

Marks eyes have almost totally recovered from the surgery. He is reading things he can't remember being able to read before, it's been a while since his eye sight was the best. I was reading a thing in the paper talking about eye surgery, did you know you can have a lense inserted in your eye to fix your vision? How crazy would that be? They said it takes 15 minutes to do, and potentially hurts less than lasers. I recon that the drugs must be better for such a painful thing. Wont remember the two weeks afterwards! No, they said that some patients reported improved vision within an hour. Whatever the truth or spin, it has worked wonderfully for Mark.

Right, bed time. Night.