2003-08-23 - 12:04 p.m.
Renaissance Woman

(Bah, I typed this out last night while mucking around with settings and stuff, and I was sure I'd posted it, but obviously I hadn't cos here I am typing it out again and trying to remember what I said.)

It's my diary and I can call people what I like in it so there Phynnntosia (hehe no link for you) You're just lucky it wasn't something insulting. What would you prefer to be called? Phyntosia is too long to type most of the time, and I usually end up having to look at my fingers to find where I'm up to. I think I might confuse everyone and call you Pippa. At least for as long as I remember to.

I have got a link to my guestbook, it already has an entry in it too. Which means someone else found it before you.
But I don't prefer Signmyguestbook over Bravenet. So bravenet stays, at least for the meantime. As with everything else, I haven't changed it much past default, so it's not vewy pwitty at the moment.

Keeping you up to date with the progress of the new template; I got the pictures scanned in last night! SO there'll be a few weeks of editing them I'm sure, before i even get them to fit into the template. But the coding bit should be easy enough, there are enough examples out there and help files. Goodo.

Work last night was boring since I was stuck on one of the 10 Items or Less checkouts (Can everyone figure out where I work?) and most of the time there was no one beside me. SO that was a bit lonely. Also, some nights there is a nice steady stream of customers, some who chat to me about various things and it's nice. Last night was flat-out, when it wasn't absolutely dead and boring and I sat there watching the clock not change.

3 things weren't so bad tho: 1- I got to sign a kid's cast! (There have to be some perks to having a broken bone eh..and then when I finally injured my arm enough to have a cast it was one of these annoying new ones that you can't really write on anyway. Typical.)
I confused him by writing "Angela the Kiwi" with an arrow to one of those little stylised NZ Made kiwis. It was nice to be asked :)

2- I had a bit of a chat to a woman who has similar hair to mine, only shorter, and a bit thicker I think, and she told me a good hair product to make mine stay curly rather than frizzy. Anyone with curly hair knows this problem, especially people who know me!

3- In my break I was looking over someone's shoulder at the paper she was reading (don't worry, she's a friend and didn't mind) and noticed an interesting looking advert in the Jobs section. It was worded really well, and was for at the Local Paper as Assistant Editor or something. I've forgotten exactly what it was called now. I think I might apply for it and see what happens :D I don't expect anything to really come of it because I'm sure I don't have the experience, the maturity or be staying long enough for it to be worth their while. (That reminds me, I actually have to go find the paper and copy down details and post CV!)

I've been having a minor hair crisis lately *so shallow I can't even get my toes wet*
In the past I haven't worried about my hair (or the rest of my appearance) overly much. Not to say I don't shower or brush my hair, but it doesn't matter if I wasn't wearing makeup or my hair was messy or if what I wore was up to the minute fashions.
Lately I've been more interested in actively getting my hair to behave. Haven't actually bought any hair gunk yet, but I've been looking, and asking random people I meet with nice hair ;) Also I'm thinking of getting a pair of straightening irons, but they're not cheap so I don't know if I will ever get around to deciding I really do want them that much.
A good pair of ceramic straighteners is about £50-90. So I think I would appreciate if anyone in NZ could find out if the prices are the same (only converted) there, or if they would be cheaper (please please pleaseplease)

It's rather annoying not knowing what I want to do for my Permanent sort of job when I get to the stage of staying somewhere a while. I've been called fickle for wanting to study Science at university, then applying for a job as trainee Dental Technician, now looking at a job as Assistant editor while considering local courses on Hairdressing or Beauty Therapy. It's not my fault I'm so talented in a wide range of interests.
Or more like I'm mediocre at a bunch of things without being Good at any of them.

Someone remind me I still want to learn to play the piano better. Preferably by learning songs no-one will ever want to hear me play like "I will Survive". *Waits for the many spam messages reminding me*

Oh, and do the template. I hope I get it finished before I lose interest, I definitely have "da Vinci Syndrome" without being all famous and really good at art and stuff. Although with my above paragraph about being interested in loads of things maybe I am a bit Renaissance.