General updatey goodness

Lily Allen is so amusing. I love her. I recently downloaded her old album Alright Still. Here's a couple of samples for you, readers.

Knock Em Out
Alright so this is a song about anyone, it could be anyone.
You're just doing your own thing and some one comes out the blue,
They're like, "Alright" What ya saying,
"Yeah can I take your digits?"
And you're like, "no not in a million years, you're nasty
please leave me alone."

Friday Night
Good dancing love but you should of worn a bra.

Not Big
Now listen I think you and me have come to the end of our time,
What d'you want some kind of reaction?
Well, OK, that's fine,
Alright, how would it make you feel if I said you that you never ever made me come?
In the year and a half that we spent together,
Yeah, I never really had much fun.

All those times that I said I was sober,
Well I'm afraid I lied,
I'd be lying next to you, you next to me,
All the while I was high as a kite.
I could see it in your face when you break it to me gently,
Yeah, you really must think you're great,
Let's see how you feel in a couple of weeks,
When I work my way through your mates.

That'll do, haha. I love her :)

Anyway, Dad moved to Victoria for work today. He couldn't find anything that paid decently up here, and they offered him a good position down there managing the Melbourne depot of RTS, a transport company. He managed the Brisbane one till they closed it due to the shitty economy. He's going to fly up every weekend to visit us, and hopefully it's only temporary. If it ends up being permanent, the whole family will move down and then I'll have a really hard decision to make. Hopefully that doesn't happen.

Work is still awesome. Although, I need less shifts right now because I'm falling behind on uni stuff. Oh well. The boss is on holidays so I guess it's to be expected that I'd have extra hours.

I've decided to spend Mothers' Day with my step-mum. My own mother didn't even wish me a happy birthday. She's not worth my time. Bec (step-mum) has been really great to me since I moved back in.

I built a computer all by myself! My Dad taught me well :) I bought all the parts, picked them out myself, and put them together. Took several hours but my computer is AWESOME. I haven't named it yet - I'm thinking maybe Shepard, after the Mass Effect character. I was so proud of myself.

I leave for Costa Rica on Jan 3, and return Feb 7. I'm kinda scared.

Best job yet.

It's really nice to go to work and genuinely smile the majority of the time I'm there. To genuinely enjoy the company of my co-workers. It's nice that the shifts don't drag unbearably and that the thought of work doesn't make me wonder if suicide would be a better option. It's nice that the customers have jobs and showers and don't abuse me because they brought their movies back late and got fees. It's nice that the whole computer system is really efficient and consistently works properly. It's nice that there's a store manager who isn't the owner and who works there full time as opposed to popping in once a week or so. It's nice that we can order the intelligent or foreign language or arthouse films because people in this area can actually comprehend them. It's nice that there's a really good sushi place just down from the store as opposed to McDonald's. It's nice that we do stocktake every quarter instead of once in four years (which only happened after we, the staff, harrassed the owner into organising it). It's nice to have a boss who has both a normal, functional brain and a sense of basic employee rights. It's nice that we don't have unpaid breaks that we can't even take. It's nice that we get proper public holiday rates. I never thought that a job in the EXACT SAME INDUSTRY could be so unbelievably better. It's just so nice :)