The Best Day Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have had an absolute screamer of a day. I have been bouncing off the walls.

It all started pretty ordinarily, the alarm went off 4 times before I managed to kick my husband out of bed to deal with the kids. I went back to sleep blissfully unaware that he also had fallen back to sleep in the lounge room and school time was rapidly approaching. "OH SHIT!!!!" I hear bellowed from afar, waking me with a start. It was 8:45am and we had but 15 minutes to get ready, out the door and to school. By some miracle, the time when we got in the car was 8:51am (I think there is a difference between the car clock and the bedroom clock because 5 year olds just do NOT get dressed that fast). We race off to school, me in my daggies and Emily still in PJs, drop off the boy - thankfully we beat the bell so I didn't have to get out of the car Phew. Drop David at uni and Emmy and I went home for what was supposed to be a relatively uneventful day.

Before we go any further I must remind you that this is not a normal week, this is the week that my GAMSAT results are due. I have been on a knife's edge and have developed an insane OCD tendency of checking my email every 2 minutes. Today was no different; the moment I got home I tore into the computer room to check the email and Paging Dr for any news. Nothing. I was once again disappointed. I start on the housework. Put on a load of washing, checked the computer, brought the washing in, checked the computer, hung more washing out checked the computer. Still no email. Hop on Paging Dr, what's this???? Some one has posted their results!!! Heart starts pumping, check email again....Nothing, check Paging Dr again, more people with results, but where is mine? About to burst into tears and fearing the worst (that I hadn’t even qualified to get a score as I had done so badly) I begin to read......emails not sent yet.......results are available.......someone has found the link!!!........follow it, log in and get your results. I froze. Do I really want to see? This could be the end on the dream; maybe I am better off being blissfully unaware. That last all of 2 seconds and I scream OH MY GOD OH MY GOD (Emily was probably very confused at this point wondering what was wrong with mummy) I log in. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got 67!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All sections passed and I got 67!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(This is top 10% for all those not fluent in GAMSAT scores, great score; I can get an interview practically anywhere)

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

These screams aren't me trying to dramatise it, I was actually screaming.

The next hour passed in a flurry of phone calls, text messages and forum posts. I was so high.
I baked cookies to celebrate.

The next good thing was a phone call. David rang to say that he had just spoken to his mother and they were only going to charge us $150 a week rent for David's grandfather house as that is all he needs to cover his expenses. Cool! We had just been freaking out last night about how we are going to survive financially with the move then this falls out of the sky (it is times like this I love being a belrite)

After this I had to go to uni to tutor a girl in physics. I know it sounds boring but I haven't tutored physics before so I was a little unsure of myself but everything went really well. And I got $50 bucks for my troubles. Perfect considering that we needed some groceries and petrol.

Then I had to go to work. Such is life.

Here is the results curve so you can see for yourself how brilliant I am.

Move

It is a ticker but you can't see the number because of the background LOL

Not good

So I have officially won the right to complain about uni again. We went on an excursion for Environmental Chemistry, guess where we got to go...... the sewerage treatment plant. It freaking stunk as expected. and it was sooo boring. Sure I know what happens in each tank and can grasp all of the mechanisms used and why but that doesnt make looking at tank after tank of oozzing stinky liquid any more interesting. The only bit I thought was interesting was that the environmental guidelines that are imposed on them don't have to be met! Some only have to be met 50% of the time and others only 90% of the time. So 1 day out of 10 that can be washing god knows what into the ocean and no-one gives a hoot. That just does not seem right.


I have horribly sad news.
Gilmore Girls is no more. It has 1 show left. I am so upset by this.

Birthday Day

Today is Birthday Day. Not my birthday but the Birthday of Erin, Adeline and my sister Aimee (who is 16!!! OMG she can get her L's no-onw is safe anymore) so rather than having the mouthful of saying 'Erin, Adeline and Aimees's Birthday' I simply call it Birthday day.

So HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!

Mmmmm..................

I have been doing an assignment for marketing communications, and we had to come up with an ad. To demonstrate our ad we had to create storyboards, which fell to me. As I am completely and unequivocally hopeless at drawing I have been trolling the net for useful images. These are just a few that I have been forced to look at.

Remind me not to complain about doing uni work again.

this is so addictive!

Free Online Flash Games

Rejected

Well as GAMSAT results approach I am getting even more uncertain. To the point where I have actually applied for a graduate position at P&G. Me and my back up plans LOL. I always have back up plans it becomes second nature once life has knocked you on your arse a few times. Well I filled out all the forms and sent off my application and they wanted me to come in for a 'problem solving test'. It was all the way at Macquarie (next to the uni) so it took me like ALL day to sit this piddly 1 hour test. I got there at 10am for a 10:30 test but thought that that may look a bit over eager so waited till 10:20 to go inside to find out that the 10:30 test had gone in at 10:15 and I would have to wait for the 12pm test. I was sooo cranky considering that I left home at 8am!!!!! and I was just sitting in the car waiting. So I went shopping across the road for an hour and made sure I turned up for the 12 test at 11:30 (which of course didn't go in till 12 Grrrr). The test was really easy although everyone seemed to be complaining about it as we left. I got through that stage and had to fill out some behavioral questions, you know the ones, explain a time when you have had to work in a group etc etc etc. I sent that in and I am waiting to hear if I got an interview. I am starting to think no :( . The interview are Wed-Fri this week and I haven’t heard yet (we had to have the questions back by Thursday morning). I am upset that I haven't gotten an interview which is stupid because really I don't even want the job I want to study medicine, but that doesn't mean that I don't want to get the job. How am I meant to get into something with entry as competitive as medicine if I can't even get a stupid graduate position? I am trying to convince myself that it is because I applied for a marketing position and I have a bachelor of science. I mean I almost will have the B Com (marketing) too but if I decide to graduate this year then I wont have finished that (by all of 2 subjects) so I can't say that I have it on an application. I just want my Gamsat results so that I know if I have a chance of getting in or not.

On the move to Picnic Point, Yes it is happening. We are going to move in the next school holidays. I have moved 20+ times in my life and I can honestly say that this is the most uncertain that I have ever been about a move. The house is good, the area is nice I have no apprehensions about that, even the fact that we will have to travel to uni and find new jobs doesn't bother me that much but I feel like I am just getting to know the school mums. James has settled into school really really well and I can se myself becoming good friend with the other mums. I am not the type of person that is comfortable socially. It is going to be so hard for me to have to start this whole relationship building exercise from square one again. Let’s just hope that they are as friendly and welcoming as they have proven to be at James' current school.