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i love being treated as the only child.
went yum cha with mum and dad. and then we spent the day shopping. and my parents paid for everything today (albeit most of it wasnt for me).
mum paid for lunch, she paid for my tank of petrol.
we went to roselands where we bought a $240 wok and a slightly less expensive fry pan at $199. obviously not at those prices but still hefty.
mum bought me a dress =D but hey, it was 10 bucks so it wasnt a big deal.
we checked out the plasmas and lcds. we've decided 42" is way too small. looking at 50" if it fits our tv stand thingthing.
happy new year!!!!!!!

and what's boxing day all about??
GAMBLING!!!!
and i am literally shaking and the adrenaline is about to kill me.
this arvo, was playing mahjong with the aunts and omg.. i lost big time and then i won it all back and then some.. all the spectators were like. omg.. yeah, shes gonna jii-mor and i kept doing it. HAHAHAHAHA YEAH!! =D won $42 there.
then dinner as usual
and after dinner was poker. haha $2 buy in and we were all joking that facebook "prepared" us for this. lol lol.
stakes got pretty high. half bluffed my way through.. played for like 5 hours.. and had to strike a deal with justin (we were the only two left) to split the jackpot cause its getting late and i need to work tomorrow at 8 and they had to go home.
and amy and andrew traded the monaro for a gti gulf. now tat is style. =)

yum cha at rockdale rsl was worse than sunnys in hurtville.
but it was lunch with grandma =)
last minute shopping rush.
and more christmas baking!

YAYNESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it wasnt as mad as expected again we cleaned up pretty well. 3 day break yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and thanks carl for waking me up so early in the morning =P

for the last saturday before christmas, the store was constant but not what you would have expected. we made good sales but there was something lacking in the last dash for crap before we closed for the holidays. constant, busy. messy but still lacking.
although, highlight of the day, martin found a whole box of sour peach hearts. YAYNESS!!! tho imo, theyre no longer as good as they once were. not that sour anymore but still good. haha we were all excited over it. lol
we had this huge group discussion (managers included) in the middle of the store about the two pregnant mannequins today. LOL LOL LOL so random and so funny. ran along the lines of, 'that cushion stuffed in it is definetely too low, too obvious' APO: 'yeah, only really fat women get pregnant like that' HAHAHAHAHA WTF!?!? ROFL

so so so so boring!
and haha, i was invited to drinks at the meridian with the boys. like.. no thanks. lols
places like work are where u see hsc results fluctuating from * to the 90s. and where a lot of not so nice comments come out to play. so glad im not one of them. and a little envious of those who werent ever stressed bout it.
it has again gotten to the point where u put out any crappy stock and make it look pretty that people will frantically buy.

Target plans to open as many stores as it can on Boxing Day, which is
its biggest trading day of the year. The only metropolitan store it can open in
New South Wales on the day is the Broadway store in Sydney. Target will also
open in Canberra on Boxing Day as well as most stores in Victoria, Tasmania and
Queensland most Target stores. Shoppers in South Australia will have to wait
until 12.01am on the 27th for Target to open its doors.

went shopping with my sister today. basically just country road where she bought her much wanted everyone-has-one black bag and where i decided not to get my no-one-has-it clear plastic one (yes.. even when it came down to $20, i decided not to get it). esprit was supposedly on sale too but the stuff wasn't that cheap despite their "up to 50%" off advertising. the 30% all merchandise sale the week before was much better.
we walked all the way down to central for lunch but it was worth it. the place that everyone says, 'we'll go there one day' cause of the massive lines outside - i'm talking about the little jap place on the corner opposite market ct - well, it was really good. and the price was good too.
went home and monkey went to watch her boys play bball while i went to the gym. and lol, her friends are going down next time i see them. how dare they diss my dragons. anyway their bball outing gave me a sense of deja vu with our soccer thing all those years back.
then tonight, went shopping with mum. yeah, we braved the traffic and the crowds to battle it into the centre. didnt even see mandy until she was caling out to me.. lol. im so lost. at least we managed to get everything we needed. and i managed to get some new gym gear. omg.. i never thought it would come to the day where mums like.. i'll pay for it. and im like 'no, its ok' and shes like 'if u dont let me pay for it, ur offending me.' and im like fully arguing with her that its my stuff so i should be paying for it. LOL
yet again bored...

someone has a turquoise star on ebay.
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =D
yeah totally random and im getting excited over nothing.
haha

my day just got better and better despite all the setbacks.
work was work with christmas trading. thank goodness i didnt have to stay back eventhough DM was visiting.. i was kinda disappointed at first (time and half and all) but turned out to be a very good decision.
ppl started arriving at around 4ish.. which was also the same time it decided to start to rain.. but still, heaps of fun we had.
we played wii olympics.. LOL omg.. tat was so FUNNY.
and godbrother was here too.. and all my relos are like.. aw.. and HAHAHAHAHA funny (and not so funny) things that happened:
- justin was pinched and he has a scab now from ari
- ari fell for all of justins pranks
- ari vomited after all my uncles (i mean, my two uncles with married kids who are desperate for grandkids *hint hint*) fed him cake (ROFL ROFL)
- coz in law andrew asked if ari was "hire-able" (ROFL ROFL ROFL, the reply was "yeah, ill give u a discount, $100 per hr" andrew: "wait a minute... shouldnt YOU be paying ME?" *everyone ROFLs* HAHAHA)
- ari fell down the stairs (it was just 2 steps and was all happy 2 mins later)
- we had heaps and heaps of cake!!!
- everybody who came brought a botle of red wine (mum was like wtf? and dad was like yep, its a entry requirement)
- bottle of vintage 1992 grange was opened (the cost of the bottle of wine was in excess of $600. no joke.. and it was NICE)
- for some reason, we kept getting international phone calls from relos (these were independent events)
- we all ate too much and theres too much left over even though everyone doggy bagged
- fireworks at the oval was cancelled (boo...)
- andy was sending me stuff and my phone died on me AGAIN (I WAS AND STILL AM V PISSED OFF)
- justin made a comment 'wats wrong with all the phones u own?' (grr..)
i have to say, eventhough it wasnt a complete, every person present, kind of gathering, it was one of the most happy and satisfying ones i've had in a long long time. makes u all warm and fuzzy inside (awwww...) even took a few random pics. mostly of my cakes. my gingerbread house is still alive eventhough more than one person wanted to chop it up!! =D can't wait for the new year one =) i love my family
im all peachy yet pissed off atm.

esprit sale was great. picked up some denim clothing (i finally found a pair of esprit jeans that actually felt okay)
and so the christmas parties begin
along comes the food, the drinks and the piling on of kilos
yippee
its gonna be a huge huge weekend in more ways than one.

i got my phone fixed. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but all my contacts are gone gone gone.. and i dont have them anywhere else =( =( really really sucks.. but quote 'if they're important enough, they will call you' HAHAHA
and this extended trading business is so so boring. like.. i was folding and refolding clothes cause i was bored.. walked around the store about a million times and well, was generally bored. there were like.. 10 customers total in the extra 3 and half hours. what a waste. didnt even have stock to put out.

because im such a nice sister, i got up at the crack of dawn to drive my sister and her friend to padstow so that they could be driven to windsor for their duke of ed camp. and for goodness sakes, it was still dark out. my mum cant give directions and shes just a crappy front seat passenger. i turn onto the RIGHT road and shes like 'what are you doing? this is the toll road. get off it' and so i pull onto a side street. read the map and i was right!!! so we had to go in a circle. tsk tsk tsk cannot doubt whereis directions.
came home and it was only like 7 so i decided to make scones for breakfast. they turned out really really good =D and hahahaha my mum went back to sleep wen we got home. did not expect that at all.. and i was all peachy and awake although i did end up taking an arvo nap.. im such a good napper these days.
and then i decided that since the ovens still warm, i'd try my luck at making my gingerbread house and yayness to me!

there was this punk of a chick who came to the fitting rooms and requested to try on bras. she said she had 4 and we counted 5.. that was kind of suss already. then it got busy and she came back out saying that they were 'no good' and cause there were so many ppl we didnt get a chance to check properly the returned items.. she just dumped them and left.. and it turned out she 'returned' the bra she was wearing and essentially, stole one of our ones. yan was so pissed off... like.. she slipped through our fingers damn it!!! and thats just totally disgusting but at least we got a good look at her.
extended trading begins tomorrow. yay (hear my sarcasm)

i don't know whats funnier. the fact that we got smashed at work and there were rumours that district maanger was on his way or that my (naughty/well, naughty) godbrother dialled triple 0 when i was at his place tutoring his brother and then his mum took him out and the police arrived. and they were like 'we received a triple 0 call from a small child...?' and i was like '....wtf? i dont think so....' and yeah so had to give then details and sht. far out.. no offence but thats just really irresponsible parenting *sigh* at first i was well surprised, then i was not surprised and then got to the stage where i was like apologising to the officers for wasting their time (and thinking of how irresponsible his mum was) and yeah.

i tried to make a gingerbread house today. it was good until it started cracking. guess i was too impatient and mentally tired for it. so i ended up binning about 3 bags of confec along with one batch of gingerbread. i might try again later on in the week pending time. it hurts more when your parents tell you theyre not disappointed. in need of some stability.

okay so like im back in sydney but i have so much catching up to do and stuff on my pile on my 'to do' list that i will pretend that im not reallly here.
add on top of it my phone woes and the list gets greater.
maybe in a couple of days when things settle down will i feel more normal.