setting up house

S moved in today. She’s connecting everything and I move in next week, woohoo!
S was in my younger brothers year at school, and she attended a club we went to as well. I don’t remember how I actually ended up meeting her, but I guess I somehow came to know her at school (or know of her) then properly met at a club outing. I ended up working in the shop her parents bought for her so that she had a job near home, that’s about all you can do to get work around here – own a business. There are not a lot of job opportunities in our town, unfortunately. S has a job in my new city, she’s doing evening reception work at some place, actually I don’t know where she works, she said down the coast a bit from where our new place is. I’ll have to ask her.

preparing for independence

Did a spot of shopping today and bought a few bits and pieces I need for my move – just some house stuff and some personal stuff, nothing major, our place is fully furnished even with all the kitchen things apparently, but I’m gonna buy a lasagne dish, I can’t do without one even if there’s already one there I like my own dish. Shame I can’t take my mother’s, it’s the best.

animals

Guys around here really are completely fucked in the head, I mean honestly, on which planet is it acceptable to pinch a girl on the ass or molest a girl who is dancing? Both those things happened to me last night. The group I hang with decided to go out in the nearest biggest town to where we live, so we drove up there in a couple of cars (I drove, natch!). It was early, like about 8pm so I thought I’d have a couple of small wines early on so they’re out of my system by the time we drive back (the place shuts at 2.30am). We had scored a good table, one of the benefits of getting there early, so I went to the bar to get myself a small white wine. I’m standing there waiting to be served and I feel a pinch on my ass. This infuriates me, I can’t stand disrespectful men so I swing around and throw a punch, which hurt my hand, he was a solid bastard standing behind me with a girl, I told him not to fucking touch me, and the girl with him laughed at him and told him it serves him right for doing it. He apologised and said I have a great ass and he couldn’t resist. WTF? Where do these imbeciles get off thinking that a pinch on the arse is a compliment, or even the type of attention that a girl wants? Maybe some slags like it but I certainly do NOT and I don’t look like a fucking slag thank you very much.

Oh and that wasn’t all, later in the night when we were all up dancing, some idiot grabs me by the hips from behind, leans around to my front and tries to kiss me on my snatch. He gave me the shock of my life, so my natural reaction was to smack him on the head while he was down there, hard. I nearly knocked him over, fucking wanker. I think it was only the fact that he had hold of me that keep him upright otherwise I’d have knocked him on the floor, so I went after him and slapped him across the face as hard as I could when he stopped and turned around. In hindsight, I was probably lucky he didn’t hit me back, he was pretty drunk, but all the guys that were standing around watching gave him so much shit that I reckon they would have completely had him if he’d even raised his hand at me.

I stalked off and sat down for a while, I was too angry to keep dancing. A couple of girls I don’t know came over and said they saw what happened and it was good to see a girl stick up for herself, they were nice we had a bit of a chat and they bought me a diet coke. Some guys also commented, they said it was funny seeing a girl smack a guy, but in a good way and that he definitely deserved it. Aside from all that drama it was an ok night out, shame it takes an hour’s drive to get there and then to get home, after dropping everyone one off I got in at 4am.

yay!

We’ve got a new place! S made an offer to the landlords and they accepted it so she’s going to move in in 2 weeks as she’s got to give notice where she is. I’ll move in a week later. Wow I can’t wait, it’s finally really happening! City life, here I come!!

things are moving fast

S thinks she’s found us a place, it’s got 2 double bedrooms both with ensuites and is only a walk to the beach and one of the cool night clubs is close by, wicked!! It’s not too expensive too which is good, S said it’s similar to her current place so that’s good but I don’t like the area she’s living in at the moment apparently it’s not safe. Thank god I didn’t know that until recently, cos last time I went out with her and L we went to a night club where L used to see the owner and I got so rat arsed drinking illusions that I got lost and found myself in the foyer of a hotel, I think it must have been the hotel above the club. No idea how I got there, I think I took a wrong turn somewhere on the way back from the ladies. I made it back to S’s place but couldn’t get the key in the fucking door to let myself in, I could hear her cat inside meowing at me, but all I could do was sit on the floor and laugh at myself until I sobered up enough to get inside. I spewed all day that next day, I was so ill, and the bloody phone wouldn’t stop. I don’t usually drink much, never really been into it, so I guess you could say that was the first time I've ever been drunk. I've only ever been tipsy before that. Not sure I’ll do that again in a hurry that’s for sure! I don’t like the feeling of losing control.

I love living at my parents place, but it’s time for me to move away from this area. Don’t get me wrong, I’d live at home for the rest of my life if they lived in a big city, and I guess that’s purely a testament to how well we get along and they let me do my own thing in peace, but they don’t live even remotely near to what I would consider modern civilization. In fact, where I’m moving to next is 3 hours drive away from here! They really do live in the middle of “nowhere”, in the sticks, but it’s a very beautiful place, this “nowhere”, and aside of the all the small town gossip and lack of things to do, I guess it’s a great place to live if you have a family or are retired. But for a young single person, it’s boring. The only positives for staying are my immediate family are here, and the beaches are so close, but there are plenty of beaches closer to the bigger cities. Kids finish school and move away to go to college / university, because there is nowhere nearby to go. Sometimes they come back once they’re married and have a family, but more often they stay away and settle elsewhere, which is why the population never seems to grow. The only growth area is pensioners (although they move here then die cos, well, they’re old and that’s life), cos it’s such a nice place to come here to retire – lots of oldies live here so there are plenty of people from around a similar generation, there’s golf and fishing, lawn bowls and RSL’s, and other various clubs and things to do for the oldies. Maybe I’ll retire back here, but for now it’s too small, at this stage of my life I need more!

exciting!

Wow, now that I've decided I’m actually going to do this I’m getting excited. And very nervous, I guess that’s to be expected though right? Called S and she’s actually looking to move out of where she is and get a place so we’re going to go in together which is good, I won’t have to worry about looking for a place she’s going to start this afternoon and find something to suit us. So I’ll just have to get up there, find myself a job and get my bearings in the new area. I've got some savings so I think I’ll take some nice time off first, meet people and go partying and just relax and chill out (chillax!), I haven’t had a holiday in ages, not a proper one anyway only a weekend away here and there but that’s not really a holiday is it?

a hard day's work

Tough day at work today and I’m exhausted so this won’t be very long. Had a woman in today who tried to steal some things from us, I caught her, loser! I hate people like that, if you can’t afford it then you can’t have it. Period. Go make your own money instead of stealing from someone who is working hard to make theirs.


Enough ranting. Going to bed now.

decisions...

After much deliberation I've finally come to the conclusion that I need to get out. Out of this small town, take my first steps towards big city life. It’s something I've always wanted to do – move to the city, get a social life and a job that pays me enough to support myself and save up to buy my own place. My home-town is a very small mainly farming community(about 2500 people spread out over a large area), if I move to a capital straight up I’m pretty sure it would eat me alive and I’m not sure I’m confident enough to go there yet. It’s a scary thought... No, I’ll start off somewhere with a bit less size to it, I’ll move to a small city of about 1 million that’s not too far away, stay there a while then graduate to the capital. I need to get out of here: ex-fiancée won’t leave me alone, not happy working where I am, none of my friends live here anymore, I’m so bored, bored, bored of this boring, mundane life!!! I want to live in lots of places and go travelling and see amazing sights, meet people and experience different cultures. In this country you can drive for 20 hours and still hear the same accent and the people are the same, I want so much more than that. A girl I’m friends with S is living where I want to move to so I might ask if I can stay with her for a few days until I get sorted with a room of my own.

Went out Saturday night with a group of friends, actually they’re more like acquaintances as nobody I’m close to lives around here anymore. They are all younger than me but I look younger than all of them which is a bit strange. We had dinner at the Chinese restaurant, it was ok, then went to one of the three pubs in our town, the owner has tapped into the bored youth around here and puts on a band on every other Saturday night. The band was good too, I went to school with the drummer he was a cutie back then and they played good music, but I liked the dance music they put on in the breaks. I think this puppy is gonna go clubbing a LOT when she gets to the city!

Kissed a cute boy that night too, win! Can’t wait to get to the city though, the guys are much better looking there. Didn’t drink except for one wine, I prefer to drive as my parents live 15 minutes drive from both the towns nearby and you just can’t get taxi’s in a small place like this, but that’s ok I wasn’t hung over at all yesterday which is good cos I had to work, yuck!