It dawned on me that I never really write a follow-up blog and may be some people are wanting to know what happens. So here is a dot point list of updates. Soon I will install a twitter/sidebar update plugin so the small things not worthy of it’s own post are still mentioned.

• I am still a little sick, but I have been over-dosing myself on Panadol and cough medicine, as well as eating lemons whole, and feeling a lot better.
• I haven’t finished writing the rest of my list, therefore I cannot start completing it. Ideas would help.
• The lady from the car accident we had yesterday, probably will get away with what she did. Mostly because the damage is under $1000 so it is not compulsory to report it (by WA law) and the owner of the car told us not to worry about reporting it. I am still angry at her and wish I could have reported it, but it’s not my car. One day, hopefully, that lady will get what’s coming to her, and she (as well as her son/grandson) will learn their lesson about responsibility.
• The complex logo I had to re-draw on Thursday still hasn’t been done. I have not worked since then, so therefore haven’t had time to do it. Come tomorrow when I go in to work, I will no doubt be rushed into completing it under an hour for a rush job. All because my boss can’t be decisive about what days and hours she ‘needs’ me to work.
• My Sony DCR-SR42 Video Camera prize for winning the Youth Week design awards arrived yesterday. I love it!
• The library book my two cats totally destroyed, was dried with my hair dryer, glued back together and returned to the library.They called me and told me I had water-damaged the book and would need to pay for it. A week later they told me they didn’t need me to pay for it, the repairs were sufficient.
• The elephant upstairs still makes a lot of noise, but his nightly shower routine has changed, he now showers at 2am instead of 3am, and he showers for 75 minutes (I seriously timed it) instead of 45 minutes. Way to save water.
• I am finally getting the phone line installed in the apartment today. The Telstra guys will be here to connect it, then I can go on a higher (yet cheaper) broadband/phone plan with iinet, and get rid of this stupid (and expensive) wireless connect laptop modem.
• I have not put the award I won from Youth Week onto my resume, as I have not even applied for any other jobs yet. As much as I hate to admit it, I think I am beginning to like where I work, and despite the crap pay and crap hours, I can’t see myself anywhere else. I applied for another job today. Fingers crossed.

So that should just about re-cap it. Right now I am sitting here waiting for Telstra to turn up, whilst my sister is watching a movie and filing her long nails. Worst sound ever! Seriously my ear drums are going to burst, I cannot stand it! Stop it dammit!

So if you couldn’t be bothered reading all that crap up there my ending question to you is:

“What is the sound that annoys you most?”

Today my sister and I were involved in a car accident. It was nothing major where anyone was hurt but big enough that the car’s back end now sports a huge dent.

It happened when my sister was reversing out of a car bay and another car reversed and hit us. It was not my sister’s fault, she looked to see a car go past, she waited for the car to go completely past her and then reversed, then all of a sudden we hear a big bang. We looked back and saw that the car who had just gone past had suddenly reversed into us. Immediatly I got out of the car and then woman in the other car got out and started yelling at me. I told her we were reversing first and she had gone past us already, why did she need to reverse her car. It turns out she had gone past a bay to park in, so she reversed to go back and get it, thus hitting our back end.

My sister wrote down her number plate, whilst the other lady attempted to park her car. As she parked her car she scratched the side of another car and knocked its side mirrors back. She was clearly not a good driver. Once she got out of her car she proceeded to walk away into the shopping center. I called out to her “excuse me, what are you gong to do about this?” She yelled back saying it was our fault and we would have to see our insurance company about it because she had nothing to do with it. I told her it is law to report an accident and as an Australian license holder she must give us her details, but she refused. Her son/grandson that was with her and aged about 7 turned around and told us to shut up and that she didn’t need to listen to us.

It is her responsibility and obligation to tell us her details and to sort this out, yet she didn’t seem to care. She already had dents all over her car on every possible panel, so this was obviously not the first time she had hit another car. I yelled out to her that we had her number plate and would be reporting it.

The worst thing is, that it wasn’t my sisters car. It was her friends (brand new) car which my sister was looking after for a few weeks whilst he is out of town for work. Thankfully we rang him up, sent him a photo (via sms) of the damage and he said not to worry about it. I am still angry though and wish this woman could be accountable for her mistakes and be made responsible.

Everyone in my family has been sick with some sort of flu for the last 2 weeks. First it started off in my dad’s household. I’m not entirely sure who the culprit was, but since my dad never gets sick I have my suspicions¹. Then my sister who lives with him (but stays with us mostly) got sick, and brought it to my home. I tried my best to avoid getting sick, because I hate being sick and because I know the last one to catch it always gets it worse. I stayed away from her, didn’t share drinks or food with anyone and tried everything I could.

Then on Monday Carl got it. He was so sick he had to take the week off work. It was also his birthday on Thursday and my sisters on Tuesday. We are having a joint party tonight, and I had planned on getting very drunk. I hadn’t even let Carl kiss me all week, scared I would get the flu. Last night I was really tired and had a major headache. I was wishing it was nothing and I would be fine.

Today I woke up with a sore throat, aches all over and a stuffy nose. I had tried my best not to get sick and here I was in bed and I felt like I was dying. So much for enjoying the party tonight.

^{1. My dad has recently let his girlfriend’s daughter and boyfriend move in the spare room.}