Inside My Mind

I ordered my groceries online on Tuesday afternoon.  I’d never done that before.  It was a pretty cool system.  Mind you it does take a long time, to sit there and select your catagory and then what brand you want, then you have the option of looking at what’s on special and all these other gadgets.  In the end, I got through everything I wanted, and it’s cool because it calculates your order as you go along, and the prices don’t seem much different to those in the supermarket, give or take a few cents probably.  In the end, I saw what I had, decided I wanted to make it cheaper, so swapped some brands for less expensive ones.  Got my order down to $108.  It then asks you to select a delivery window, such as between 7am-9am, 8am and 12am, 5pm and 7pm etc, there are a whole heap, and the delivery prices differ depending on when you want it delivered (peak times = more).  this almost put me off the whole thing because although my delivery was only $5 (between 8am and 12pm the following day) I’d heard that delivery was free.  Sure enough on the final payment summary screen, they had deducted the delivery fee.  Maybe it was because i’d spent over $100?  I dunno.  Either way, I was very happy with that.  So Tuesday night I worked, and it was such a fast shift, in fact I wish all shifts were like that, and I got home the next day.  I was going to go to gym but decided not to, even though I had plenty of time, I was excited about my groceries arriving lol.  I know, lame right?  I’ve turned into an old grandpa waiting for his 5am milk bottle delivery 🙂

So, of course, I fall asleep don’t I?  It”s hard you know?  I mean, normally I’m awake til midday anyway but I remember putting on part 2 of ‘night at the museum’ and I crashed out about three-quarters through it.  I wake up to the sound of a truck reversing outside my window, and my phone ringing, but it had just rung out before I could answer it.  SHIT!!  I knew it was the delivery truck outside my window and I saw I had 2 missed calls from the unknown mobile number.  But I didn’t answer it the 3rd time he called because I’ve been avoiding my dentist like the plague lately (I’ll get to that), so I didn’t wanna answer and it be him or his receptionist.

So I tore myself out of bed, wearing only underwear as I do.  I thought about just answering the door in my hot-pink underwear and screaming, ‘STOP!!!!’ out to the street but decided rushing around trying to pull on a pair of pants and a shirt would be more appropriate, being a first time customer and all.  Luckily I’m right near the front door, and opened it.  The truck was still there, the driver in the seat, as though he was just about to leave and take my paid-for groceries along with him.  Thank GOD I caught him is all I was thinking.  They tell you to be home between the window period you’ve selected.  I was home alright, I was just off in the land of slumber.  I believe I even set my alarm for 8am in the event that I did drop off.  Clearly THAT didn’t work.  He’d rocked up at 10:15am.  I thought that was impressive, precisely between the window times I had specified.  He brought all my groceries up to the front steps, and they were all bagged correctly (colds with colds, breakables with soft foods etc).  I signed the form he had on his clipboard and he asked me, ‘Is this your number?’ pointing to the number on the page.  I laughed awkwardly and was honest, "Yeah it is, I’m sorry, I fell asleep."  He didn’t say anything, I just thanked him and off he went, me inside to start putting my stuff away.

"Well, that was pretty cool" I thought to myself.  My car isn’t going and all, so doing that saved me a lot of trouble, especially with carrying heavy items by hand like the 3L orange juice bottles.  I really liked the convenience of it, and to me, it didn’t cost me any extra whatsoever!  I think I’ll definitely stick with doing that, but might only do it for the big shops.  Like I even entered in my rewards card on the website and it gives you points and such.  It’s a really good system.  I even have an itemised invoice of everything I bought with price and only one thing wasn’t available.  You can ask them to substitute it for something similar, but I chose not to.  They couldn”t supply me with the bread I wanted, so have credited me for $1.98 lol.  Woot, that’ll be taken off my next order.

So yeah, something a bit different I thought i’d try.  I know Kiki did it back in tbar so yeah I figured I’d give it a go, and I’m impressed.  I have no idea what happens if you miss the delivery truck LOL.  Kinda sucks having to be home, but I figured I’d be home at that time anyway, so yeah.

I worked that shift on Tuesday night after having three nights off, and now I’m on another two nights off.  Weeeeiiird roster, but I’m not complaining.  Once again I’m thinking too much and getting in that restless rut slash borderline depressive stage, which annoys me, but I finished watching that movie, and we finally got the modem from the post office so me and new housemate were trying to figure out that one.  The DSL light won’t light up though so I’m assuming stupid Telstra hasn’t activated the line yet.  New housemate organised someone to come out tomorrow though so hopefully that can get sorted.

I’m wondering if I wanna continue my broadband stick modem contract for another 12 months.  They are putting my limit up to 14gb, which would be awesome for me.  I mean yeah it sucks I still can’t download tv shows and such, but it gives me a lot more leeway.  Andd it’s half price for the first three months.  I kinda wanna get it as well as this internet my landlord is getting, just because it’s really handy for travelling and such when I do.  I just have to go down to the store to get it activated.

I had a mini spaz this morning when I read my vodaphone email bill.  It was $145.  I was like, ‘WTF?  Don’t tell me I’ve used my phone too much!’ because I’m on the infinite plan which gives me unlimited everything.  It’s only suppose to be $70 a month.  So I open it up and read through all the calls and stuff and was confused when I read it had two numbers on it.  They have combined my internet and my phone onto the one bill.  Convenient sure, but they could’ve warned me first!  It also said that my bill was going to be automatically direct debited in May, which I am fine with for my phone because that’s what I signed up for, but my internet I’ve always paid by BPAY!  So now, it looks like by agreeing to the phone direct-debit, that automatically means the internet is too.  Guess I’ll find out next month.  But according to the bank statement I looked at, that’s what they are doing.  Nice of them to tell me this!

I’m just hoping they are right when they say their service has improved.  Last year was a shocker for my phone company, to the point where they even sent out an apology letter to their clients lol.  I had to laugh getting that.  I’m sure it’ll fuck up at some point.  I mean, which phonecompany doesn’t really?  I did want to go with Telstra with this phone but other than the Iphone, all the other phones Telstra was offering were, to put it bluntly, absolute SHIT.  This phone I wanted was only available with these guys, and I have my internet with them, so I’ve just gotta wait it out and see if the service holds out.  Having the bills together makes a lot more sense.  i don’t mind that they’ve combined them, they could’ve just warned me.  If I was on a set budget and didn’t have the money in the bank when they did that debit, I’d have been overdrawn without even knowing.  Thankfully that didn’t happen and I’ve paid everything owing to me.

I’m getting really restless and i can feel a change coming soon in my life.  I really need it.  I need to go back to doing days and knowing what it’s like going to bed when the sun does again.  I often thought to myself that the sometimes depressive feeling I get is because of a lack of Vitamin D?  I dunno, could be anything.  I’ve been eating way too much junk-food again.  When you work the hours I do, on your nights off, healthy options of food are pretty damn rare.  Especially at my workplace.  We have a small heathfood section but most of it is riddled with sugar.

As for the dentist, which I forgot to mention before I saved this entry (Thanks KK!), I’ve been avoiding him.  I still only have a temp crown in there and have for ages.  He said they’d contact me when the crown was ready.  However about 2 weeks later he did ring me and tell he he couldn’t do the crown but would put some metal in there instead?  I was so confused about  the whole conversation, with his accent and something about there not being enough room for the crown, so I said that was fine, just put metal in there.  Anyway later on, they ring me again and leave a voicemail saying the crown has arrived and to make an appointment ASAP.  What the fuck??  But that’s not the reason.  The reason i haven’t gone back is because I was absolutely traumatized last time I went to get the temp crown, if you remember my entry back when I had it done, I was a mess and walked out of there $200 later and tears streaming out of my eyes.  So even though I know the procedure hasn’t been finished as I don’t have a real crown yet, I told myself ‘never again, FUCK you dentist’ so I’ve kind of got my own vendetta against him and he can go and get screwed if he thinks I’m going back there.  And why ring me telling me you can’t do the procedure and then tell me you have the crown?  That just confuses me.  I have an un-checked voicemail on my phone from them which I’m refusing to check.  I’m leaving it as it is.  I don’t know how long a temp crown will last, if at all, but it’s better than the gap I did have there.  If I have any problems I’ll be changing dentists.  I don’t expect my dentists to make my feel literally violated.  I’ll leave that for my sex life.

I’m still happy with my body, but since I didn’t go to gym because I was excited about the groceries (lol I feel so stupid even saying that), I keep telling myself I have to really push myself on Saturday morning after work.  And I will.  I WILL.  Good thing is, there’s rarely ever anyone there on weekends.  It’s usually the only time I have the whole gym to myself.  I guess all the other patrons are workers who gym it up before their day.  I’m the opposite, I go after work.  And it seems to be the only progressive thing I’m doing with my life.  I just need to learn how to push myself into doing it in other areas of my life, and once I start having a sense of achievement, I’m more than likely going to start feeling a lot better about myself inside my own head.