AbsolutChic

You know, I like reading celeb gossip as much as the next person, mainly because work can be very quiet sometimes and it’s nice to spend 10-15 minutes reading over the news, and some gossip  here and there, but I really really really dislike Perez Hilton. His site isn’t a staple for me and my gossip needs, not by a long shot, but once in a blue moon I’ll flick over to see what shit he’s dribbling, and he really irritates me.

I just get a bit fed up  of the personal-attack aspect of his blogs, I know gossip isn’t supposed to be all  niceties at the best of times, but something strikes me as wrong when you’re drawing dicks on a 15-year old and labelling her a slut, what is worse, is that it isn’t just “words on the Internet”, no, he has some pseudo-celeb status and gets spots on media talk show outlets, and sits there constantly ragging on everyone, and it just does my head in after a while. To be honest, I’m glad that I’m not in a position to have his shit forced on me via TV etc and that if I feel the need to witness his shit, I  have to seek it out, it almost makes me feel sorry for Americans (and Canadians perhaps?) who have to witness his attempts at celebrity on their TV’s.

Actually I lie, not on purpose of course, I just remembered, “Perez” has signed on with ‘Famous’ (a magazine here) to do a regular column, subsequently I don’t buy Famous anymore.. mind you I didn’t really like it all that much except for the crossword/puzzles in the back of it. I believe he also has some kind of radio segment with a station here in Aust, but it’s not a station I listen to so I only know this due to a news article a few months ago. I did stumble across his first attempt at an article in Famous though. All it was, was a name dropping session about how he had dinner with his “dear friend Delta Goodrem..” blah blah blah, he is worse than Molly Meldrum (Aussie reference), basically all he does is drop-names of celebs who he thinks are his friend/s.

In all honestly, I believe they only pretend to be his friend in the vain hope that he wont go on to attack them and their family on his blog, and it works. Any celebrity who seems to ‘befriend’ this poor soul, don’t seem to get vilified on his blog.

Another thing I find amusing is that he picks on celebrities over some of the tiniest things, and some of it is so hypocritical, I’ve seen him whinge and moan about x-amount of celebrities coming up with fashion lines and how they’re selling out etc, and suddenly he has a range at hot-topic? Of the photos I’ve seen of him in all the ‘worst dress’ categories, his fashion sense is reminiscent of the flash-dance era, and fluro is not attractive on anyone.

In the end, whilst I understand that celebrities put themselves out there for a certain level of criticism being in the public eye, but to me, that criticism should be limited to their work, their music, movies, TV etc whatever… I don’t think they need to be vilified for being like everyone else, especially when it comes to children. 

Either way, that’s just my take on a 31 year old bitching about everyone else for the sake of hearing his own voice. It’s like a new level of narcissism.

First, you must listen to this:

It’s a new (I think it’s new..ish.. it’s new to me), Lilly Allen song called ‘Fuck You Very Much’, so yeah maybe don’t listen too loudly kiddies, but it’s so upbeat and awesome, I love it. It’s the best therapy for road rage haha!

This week has been pretty speedy. Had normal work on Monday, then Tuesday/Wednesday I was at a training course learning how to be a ‘Team Leader/Manager’ so that was pretty cruisey, then I’ve had normal work on Thursday/Friday.. and Friday (today) I left at like 1:30pm because it was so quiet and my boss was like ‘Meh you’ve worked hard, go home’ haha.

I had a hearing test this afternoon, mainly out of curiosity.. My dad is deaf (wont admit it though), his mother was deaf, and my eldest brother is deaf in one ear.. but my hearing is fine apparently. Not just ‘borderline’ either, it’s a little above average, so that’s good to know. I just think I’ve been stressed lately and that kind of interferes with what I choose to hear from people haha.

I met up with my dietitian on Thursday morning too for my monthly check in, she’s got me trying some Yakult drink thing.. I haven’t had it yet, I know they don’t taste too well, but she’s hoping it will help settle my stomach with some of my ‘food intolerance’ issues and help even out my fibre/calcium intake or something. Either way, it’s something worth trying. The irritating thing is, that this last month since I saw her, I lost like 500grams hah, but I lost 6cm’s from my waist.. not sure quite how that works.. but she thinks I’ve just been building muscles so the physical weight-number hasn’t changed but my body is, so that’s good.

I didn’t get much gym time this week. I’ve had a cramped calf all week, and walking has been a bit iffy. I get calf-muscle issues, I stretch when I’m sleeping and get major painful cramps (charlie horse if you wanna wiki it..) and yeah I think I ‘bruise’ the muscle sometimes and it just ends up being really tender for a while.. I’m going back tomorrow though, it’s been okay today and less painful. So tomorrow I’ll take it easy, do my weights, and maybe a cycle class or something. Laney has been busy too so she hasn’t been at the gym this week much either. I feel bad because if one of us has a bad week, we kind of drag the other down and it hurts our ‘motivation’ I guess..

Brian got his promotion, huzzah! He’s a very happy chappy! He got officially told today and got to accept his new role as ‘Infrastructure Support’ or something.. it’s nerdy IT stuff hehe, but he’ll be going from a salary of 49k to 65k so it’s a very big jump for him, and he’s only been with his employer for about 8months, and he has no real paper qualifications just hands-on experience, so he’s rather stoked. His folks are stoked, and my parents are over the moon for him. It’s good for all of us really, we’re hoping it’s a sign that our luck is changing.

I’m a bit disappointed that this other guy from work, Brett, hasn’t moved on yet.. we’re ’sharing’ this manager role, I’m doing it until end of Sept, and then he takes over from 1st Oct.. and it kind of sucks because I go from being the manager on a 59k salary, to back to my normal gazette officer role to like 55k.. it’ll only impact me by like $100 or whatever, but still.. I like the actual role as the manager, it’s fun and I’ve got more experience in the team than Brett, but he’s got more management experience.. but it wont help him much when he realises how little he knows about the team and its operations..

I’m not really sure what I’m doing workwise at the moment, right now the experience in managing etc and the course/s I get to do are going to help me heaps in the future, but there isn’t much more room to move within the department, and I want to work in the communications section soon.. I want my next job to directly relate to my degree, I want it to be more of a career move than a money thing. I’m looking into a job with defence in their comms team, but it’s more admin/data entry stuff.. and it’s a drop of like 7k in salary.. and I’m not 100% sure I’m prepared to do that.. although I’m still putting myself forward for the role and it might be something I can negotiate if I get to the interview level, but I’m going to have to start going for higher roles because everyone comes back with ‘You’re too skilled’ or ‘This is too basic for you, you’ll get bored’.. which is a bit irritating but I understand it.. I’m glad they’ve got that kind of faith in my skill set, I just hope that it translates to potential employers when I apply for jobs that are higher up..

I’m looking into doing journalism next year too.. once I’ve graduated this December with my degree in public relations, I’m interested in maybe doing journalism too.. it was what I was originally going to study but then PR caught my eye, but now I’m tempted to have both degrees.. it would come in handy and I just like studying. If I do it through my current uni, I can get about a year and a half taken off the degree, because I’ve done all the foundation communication units already since it’s the same for PR.. so I’d probably only be looking at another year and half to get a second degree.. I also want to get my cert I in mandarin next year.. so I’m just weighing up my options and seeing how motivated I am.. like mum said, I’m only 21.. so really another year or two at uni isn’t going to kill me.. by the time I’m 23 I could have two degrees and be on my way to fluently speaking a second language.. it’s something I’m thinking about at the very least.

Otherwise life has been the usual… the cats are mental, the turtles are alive, and Brian is an extremely happy chappy plotting all the things he can do with his extra money (mainly pay off his debts haha).

How is everyone else going this week?!

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The cats are still mental. Ever since we got pixie desexxed about two weeks ago, she’s been bouncing off the walls, and Lolly just goes along with it for shits and giggles, so we’ve got two cats running around the house going mental. It’s hilarious to an extent, except when they wont give up and are darting across your lap while you’re trying to eat, drink, or use the computer. It’s still cute though.

On Friday we scored a free lunch. The local radio station here had a competition to win a free lunch with them, and Laney was deadset on winning, so she entered, and brian and myself entered. On the Thursday, Laney won tickets, so that was her and I set. Then on Friday morning, Brian won tickets, so he brought his boss as to ensure he could have the few hours out of the office without worrying about getting back too early. So yeah, it went from 1:30pm to about 4pm (we left at 4:30pm..) and it was free food and free alcholol, w00t, I had the rest of the day off work, so we just had a cruisey afternoon chatting with radio people.

It is the second thing we’ve won from the radio station too, last time we won tickets to the stations “birthday” party, which was nice. So we seem to be almost stalking the people there, but in a nice way of course.

Uni has been going alright. I did my presentation for my Internship last week. That’s 40% of the assessment out of the way, I’m so happy to have it out of the way and I’m fairly confident that i did really well, had a good class discussion going, the tutor was asking me some questions and he seemed genuinely impressed. So I’m happy to know that is one major assesment for this semester done and dusted. Now I’ve just got to show up to every tute and make some contribution to other peoples discussions, and then my other unit I’ve got a small presentation worth 20% due in about 6 weeks, and an exam for that one.

Mum is getting antsy about when I get to accept my graduation invitation and get the tickets and hire gowns and stuff. It’s not going to be for another month or so but she is just excited. It’ll be the first University Graduation for the family, so Mum and Dad have taken like 3 weeks off work to come and stay and celebrate and have a mini holiday really.

My brothers girlfrends 22nd is in 3 weeks, and I’ve managed to get an entire new outfit almost I’ve bought this awesome black dress, it’s kind of baby-doll style, and it has these nice grecian straps with silver sparkles on them, and I’ve bought some black leggings, and a pair of gorgeous silver heels from ZU, and now I just need to buy a new bra, one that is black so it just melds in with the dress , since it’s  fairly low cut. I’m pretty much going with a black and silver theme since it’s on the dress and shoes; so now I’m deciding whether to get like a nice sparkely silver nailpolish and eyeshadow or something and play up my makeup.. not sure if I’m wearing my hair up or down, straight or wavy, etc.. I also want to find like a cute black bolero-esque thing, to cover my arms.. it’s going to be a little chilly still, so I want to have something light over my arms since my legs will be fine with leggings. Decisions decisions.

I’ve also got an appointment with this Gyno woman in September.. so I plan on bringing up all the issues I mentioned in my previous blog.. just because I’m a bit fed up, Mum has offered to come with me, I told her she doesn’t have to, but if she wants to, in order to help get the point across then she is welcome to come up for a few days.

Anyway, it’s 10:24am on Sunday morning… I suppose I should figure out how lazy my day will be, it’s raining outside.. so I’m tempted to go walk through the markets or op-shops for some lazy sunday bargain hunting.. otherwise I’ll just sleep.. I also want to see what gym classes are on later today..we’ll see.. I’m starving and need breakfast.. or brunch.. hehe

Ciao