Compliments (pics)

Finally the photo of me holding my newest nephew has appeared!  Yes that is my little brother on the left (Tobie’s father).  Still baffles me that my little bro is a dad haha!

 
Clearly I have no idea how to hold a child LOL.  Sorry to all the parents out there!  But I didn’t drop him 😉  Now I’m the only sibling out of all my parents kids (four of us) who doesn’t have a kid, for obvious reasons lol.  The idea of being a dad definitely doesn’t not-appeal to me however!  In fact, far from it!  Tobie was an absolute delight, despite ignoring me for the better part of the visit lol, but the poor fella had just been woken from a slumber in the back seat to meet me.  My point is, he barely made a noise!  only a grizzle every now and then when he dropped his wooden aeroplane or something lol.  I mean, I would love a kid like him!  Just not a screaming every 5 minutes one 😀  Can I pick and choose one?  The idea of being a father to a little one is pretty fucking amazing, teaching him or her the ways you think they should behave in the world, and yet letting them develop their own little personalities and do their own thing as they grow.  My main issue is I would want to be able to adequately provide for the child in the best way possible and also for the child to have the best mum ever!  🙂  I was thinking about this a bit more before elsewhere but of course now that I sit down to write I can’t think of what it was lol.  I think that’s the main gist.  

My gym membership has run out, and I rang them yesterday to see about renewing, but only got an answering machine where I left my details – not that I got a return call back.  i swear to God business’s I’ve been wanting to give hundreds of dollars to lately have just been NOT INTERESTED IN MY MONEY!  I mean, what the fuck IS this??  First my car, which I STILL haven’t even heard from them back about even once, and quite frankly am even getting sick of mentioning it myself, and I figured my gym would want my renewal by ringing me back and at LEAST providing me with an answer on if I can pay over the phone or not, but to me, it seems like they aren’t interested in my $340.

So, because of that, rather than just not do gym, I decided to walk home via the Kangaroo Point cliffs, and set up my towel on the grass in the nice area up there.  I laid my towel out on an upward grassy hill, and I did pushups.  I was conscious of taking off my work-shirt in the middle of a park where heaps of people were working out, but I quickly slipped into my singlet.  I couldn’t do my exercise in a restricting shirt like that.  I left my work pants on though, they didn’t matter – I was only intending to do some pushups.  It was a pretty view, as it always is up there, so i snapped a few quick shots.  I realise I take a LOT of photos from that location, but I guess each time is different, so I don’t really care.  There were a lot of personal trainers there and group classes and people running, all out exercising at 5:30am.  It is a very popular early morning exercise location, and of course it is, with the nice view.  After I did my pushups, I sat down on the seat in the lookout area and watched some guys doing lunge-jumps on the running/bike path below down the cliff.  
 

 

It was really warm walking home across that bridge, and I was glad I’d changed into the singlet!  I could feel myself starting to sweat, and I don’t sweat much, and this is at like 6am.  The last few days have been cloudy and cool, but today, phew!  I think it’s meant to rain again later.

I had a really good night at work.  It was great actually!  Really really busy and I put $3000 through the safe just in cash so that’s getting more toward the busy nights in my store – I didn’t see how much the actual shift made with cards and all, but it pretty much didn’t stop.  I found out later on that the Mobil servo that is around the corner has shut down for three weeks whilst they change into a 7-Eleven.  Ahhh, it suddenly made sense why I was much busier than usual!  The load was huge as well, and I’ve appreciated the notes left in the diary from my manager saying how good of a job I’ve been doing with keeping the stockroom looking perfect.  After I had to put all that shit away, it pretty much looks back the way it was.  Kinda depressing, but I guess it would be worse if nothing had been cleaned up at all!

A customer gave me a nice compliment last night, sorta.  He’s a regular in pretty much every night.  He said, "You’ve always got a smile on your face, it’s great to see!"
He continued with, ‘How old are you?"
"How old am I?" I asked, confused at why he wanted to know, "I’m 28" I answered.
"You don’t look that old…. When’s your birthday?"
"December" I answered.
"Ahh, Saggitarian – hard working and very easy-going."
I went with it and said, ‘That’s me!’, especially after all my shifts lately! 🙂 
I’ve got one more to go tonight!!  🙂 🙂  Woooooo, nights off!!  I’m still tossing up whether I’m gunna save my money and be boring or head to the beach.  I’ve got a few things to get done that will make things easier, but after that, I’m plurging on myself in one way or another.