It's about time that I maybe started writing in my blog a bit more often - especially as I am still gainfully unemployed - a state which is causing me much concern. Not because I have nothing to do, but because I have nothing to spend. Or pay bills with for that matter. So if you are offering a job, I want to hear from you!
What's a day like in the life of the unemployed? Sleeping in is one of them. Wondering around the house in your PJs till midday is another provided that I don't have a pressing engagement with my GP or the grocery store. A lot of time looking on the internet at career websites. And of course, the watching of DVDs. Which is hard to do when your DVD player has given up the ghost and duly informs you that there is "NO DISC" when you know that you put one in. Is this a bit like when you put a pair of socks in the washing machine and only one comes out?
Anyway, the DVD player has gone off to be fixed and it must be something serious because it's taken them a week already.... how hard can it be? So I am forced to watch local TV and let me tell you it is CRAP. It's October which is an excuse to put on the cheesiest B type Halloween movies on - seriously one Friday night I was forced between choosing Jaws or Dracula: Dead and Loving It. I chose life and went to bed.
A typical day would involve going to the beach if the weather would cooperate which at the moment it isn't. Today for instance, the weather went from cool and cloudy, to warm and sunny, to cold and dark, to thunderstormy and gale force wind, and back to cool and cloudy again. What do you wear on a day like that? Needless to say, I am still the same shade of pale white that I have been all winter. And just as grumpy.
Other than that, a day in the life seems to involve more downs than ups. One the one decent day with sun and warmth and no wind my little sister through some serious arm twisting (and I mean serious because the beach is always my no. 1 priority) managed to persuade me to go with her to get half price sushi for lunch. So off we went. And serendipitously we found parking right in front of the restaurant. Impressive. We go into the restaurant, place our orders and sit in the lovely warm sunshine waiting for gastronomous fulfilment. About 15 minutes later our waiter comes to us and tells us that they have run out of fish. Seriously. But if we wait 45 minutes, they'll have more and they can fill our order. We chose to go elsewhere at that point.
Unfortunately it meant that we now were going to have full price sushi, so this was becoming an expensive little luncheon. We had our sushi and went back to the car only for me to find an unwanted pink ticket on the window. It turns out that my car licence disc had expired and I now owed the City of Cape Town R500 for the privilege.
The way it works is that you have 21 days of grace to pay the licence. My licence expired on 30 Sep but I knew I had some time. I always pay by posting a cheque and the reason I hadn't done it was because my cheque book was finished and I needed to collect a new one from the bank. And we all know how much I love going to the bank. When I eventually did go to the bank to collect it they told me that they had destroyed it because I took too long to come and collect it. So I had to order a new one which would take a week. The 21 day grace period ended on 21 Oct. I got fined on 22 Oct. My cheque book was ready on 23 Oct. Lovely. That turned out to be the most expensive lunch I have ever had. And I still blame Standard Bank for it. I knew I should never have gone against my gut. Beach always first. Lesson learnt.
Then yesterday the wind was seriously gale force and gusting. So much so that it slammed our bathroom window shut and shattered it completely. We got an almight fright and all the glass ended up in the bath which was quite fun to clean... and now it's going to cost about R1000 to fix - and I suspect that the price will go up once they see that we live on the second floor.
So when people say, "Oh, you are so lucky to be unemployed, it's like being on holiday," don't be surprised when they get the death stare. Bru, it's not fun at all.
Soundtrack of the Day: Bulletproof - La Roux
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