Father's Day and other ramblings!

So at home its Father's Day on Sunday, something my lovely family neglected to tell me until Monday!!! So I did some very last minute internet shopping and I fink I found him something he'll like! It's a t-shirt from an Irish website called Road Race Ireland of all his favourite road racers TT wins! For those of you who don't know what the TT is it's an annual motorbike road racing event in the Isle of Mann. So yes hopefully that will arrive on time, and I of course turned to my old faithful Moonpig to sort out a card! I really do have too much fun making those cards! I already have his birthday card made for July! Back to my normal organisation! Ahh! So anyway, I ramble, here's a picture of the t-shirt, I think it looks rather like the Jack Daniels t-shirt too which is cool!

This month we've started to talk about our options for staying here. So we either have to do our farm work, hopefully before summer or we'll bake out in the heat all day, and get to stay here for a second year or else Conor's boss is talking about possibly sponsoring him so that we could stay as long as we like, which is not something we can turn down without a lot of thought, if it does happen! So we've been trying to weigh everything up and decide what we want! It kind of all depends on whether Conor wants to go back to college or not, because if he does it would be Sept '13 that he would be hoping to start, meaning he would have to go through an interview for a place on the course as a mature student, most likely in February '13! I think! Ahh!! We have put all the options on the table and not ruled out or decided on any! We're extremely organised as a couple in case you haven't guessed that already! But we have decided that if he does get sponsored and he's not going for the college interview this year, we will go home for Christmas which would be lovely! Although either way we'll be going home, because he will not be going home without me in February! Ha! Least I've decided on one thing!

So my hours in work have been cut, which I'm pretty disappointed with but not too much I can do really but I think I shall have to get back on to SEEK and start looking for a new job, perhaps something Mon-Fri so I'll actually get to spend my weekends with Conor and get to do stuff with other people for my days off!!! Oh the novelty! Ha!

So in line with my shorter hours and the fact that we are struggling to save money, we are going to look for an apartment with cheaper rent in the next few weeks! Although we love this apartment and how close it is to everything we reckon it makes sense! And there seems to be a few nice ones going at the moment for at least $100 cheaper a week!! I'll take that, and possibly run with it! So hoping to get a place with another couple and hopefully not as much of a disaster as our current housemates! The Irish ones are great craic but the Chileans are kind of hard work! They aren't the most thoughtful about when they bring people around and they are constantly stoned or having people over to get stoned! Even midweek which is a bit shit because we all work midweek, especially poor Conor who gets up at 5.30 every morning! So yes they're driving us a little nuts! So we reckon all of these things are good reasons to pack up and move on!!

I have been having loads of fun with Instagram for the last month and now I'm using a colour splash app too so I feel a bit stuck to my phone, although I really only do it on my tram rides or when I'm on my own, otherwise I would be just plain antisocial!! I'm constantly looking for things I can take photos of or mess around with which is cool too but I feel a bit lame at times just stopping to take photos!! But anyway, here's some of my favourite pics! The top row are my Colour Splash pics and then the rest are the instagram ones!

 So they're not great by most standards, but I'm pretty fond of them! Ha!


So yes, there's my ramblings for today, and seems as how it's now 00.50 I think it's time I hit the hay! Good night people!!


Amy :)

Work!

So I haven't written in ages due to the fact that I'm working now! Such a bad excuse I know! So I decided that I would write a post about work and how it is going!!! I love it so far! The girl's I'm working with are all really nice and go for drinks at the weekend together which is pretty cool! I've only gone on one night so far on my first week and it was really good fun! We went straight out after work and headed to the Bridge which is so cool! It has a couple of floors all decorated in a cool way. There's a little alleyway down the middle of the ground floor that looks like there is loads of different cafes along it! It reminded me of Paris! Ha! Next we headed to The Precinct which was pretty cool too. There was a band playing there and a pretty cool smoking area. It was a cool way to get to know everyone. Going from the bridge to precinct we got a taxi, in which the ozzy girls sang along to every song on the radio and changed the channels on the driver if they didn't like the music. It was very funny! I had to head home around twelve because I had work in the morning but the other two Irish girls carried on down to St.Kilda  for a few more drinks. 

I'm undecided as to how I feel about one of my bosses, he does not cope well with stress and gets stressed very easily. Once he's stressed he gets a bit rude and got a bit like that with me my first time working with him which wasn't the best first impression! But we shall see! I won't write him off just yet! One of our other bosses came in last Monday telling us there was a camera crew on it's way to interview him! I did my best to tidy everywhere out so shot but when Claire went to the bank they cornered my and got me to pretend to talk to him about some stock! Cringe! It was a prime example of bad tv! So yes I'll be signing autographs out here yet and looking for my name of one of these! Ha!!

Work itself is going well, kind of know how to do everything now and know what I'm at but sometimes I find that people struggle to understand my accent, which is embarrassing! Some people are lovely about it once I repeat myself but sometimes I've found that once people realise that I am Irish they can turn a little rude, but not many people thankfully! Most people ask where I'm from and how long I'm here for and how I'm enjoying it which is nice! Being on Chapel St, we get a lot of people coming from Perth and Sydney and other places just for shopping too so it's nice to hear about where they are from too and being able to recommend stuff for them to do in Melbourne is a nice twist! :D

So for work I have to wear the clothes from the store, either their own stock or the Mink Pink stuff! It is a nice change from the plain black uniform I used to wear, only thing is is that I am so going to end up spending a fortune if I'm not careful, even with our discount! So far I've been trying to buy stuff that I can mix and match or wear outside of work. So  these are the things I have bought so far! I love the pink shirt and my god those pants are the most comfortable things ever! They are a little stretchy but skinny fit so they still look good! ♡

The weather is starting to get bad here in Melbourne now ☁ so I said a few nice thick jumpers were in order so this green one is perfect! I also got the wine dress so that I can wear it with black tights! Snug! I figured when summer comes around again the skirt will be really handy too!

So yes, now all I need to do is invest in a warm jacket and a pair of boots and I'll be sorted for winter! A sentence I did not think I would be saying out here, but hows ever!

I do want to note that I do still have a life outside of work however! I am still technically on holidays you know! Ha! Been having a great time with our housemates this weekend! We had a board games night last night with a few drinks. It was way more fun than that sentence conveys! We played Monkey Barrel which was fun, considering how excited Jamie got by it! Uno for a little bit, which I lost, and then Scattergories, which was going to make or break friendships! Ha! As usual Scattergories was great fun and full of nonsense answers, so we adopted a Caeser way of voting on an answer! 

It is my brothers birthday today!! I sent him a card from Moonpig which I had great fun making and tried to send him a present of some clothes but unfortunately the company supposed to deliver the package messed up the order so it was never sent and has since been sent back to River Island, which I didn't find out until two days ago! It was a little frustrating that they didn't even try to contact me  about the problem, even though they had my number and email address. So I have decided that I'm not ordering from them again. Was so upset thinking he wouldn't be getting a present from me! Thankfully my Mam went and picked out some stuff for him in town for me but its not the same! :( That is part of the joys of being away I suppose!

I have started a new book, having finally finished The Murder Room. It wasn't fantastic so I think that is what had me taking ages to read it! So I'm now on to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, courtesy of Jamie which is meant to be very good! I have also found a book in our apartment by the author who wrote the Kite Runner, one of my favourite books, so I have something to read straight after so I'm hoping that will motivate me! Ha! I'm also doing a challenge on Instagram called #photoadaymay from fatmumslim's blog, which is fun so I may post some/all the photos from that at the end of the month!

Amy ツ

Happy Days!

Oh what a good week it has been!! I have just been offered a job!!! I did three trial days for them on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday! So yes it is in between stores in Prahan and Richmond and is a pretty quirky place so we shall see how it goes!! Excited!! :)

As well this week Conor went for a job in a joinery shop and got it so he is pretty happy as it is something he hasn't done before and it is in a set place with better hours and better money! As the title says, Happy Days!!

On Thursday night, just to make my week even better we went and saw James Vincent McMorrow in The Toff in Town, which is a pretty cool venue. It is small so we were right in front of him!

He is actually a pretty funny man, once he got over his initial awkwardness!! Ha! He told us about how he had almost got on the wrong flight and ended up at Ayers Rock! He asked if there were any Irish people in the room after talking about how weird it was to see people from home this far away and once the screams drowned out just very quickly said, your mothers all say hello! He also stopped mid song as he decided that his guitar wasn't tuned right and 'it would have annoyed him the entire time!' Got to love the Irish honesty!!

On Sunday myself and Conor went and got breakfast in La Roche! Again it was amazing but this time I tried the fruity french breakfast! Delish!! Then again give me anything with strawberries and I am content!!

Afterwards Conor headed to play his first hurling match in Gaelic park in Keysborough and I followed him out afterwards! Actually got there without going wrong once! Pretty proud of myself getting used to driving over here, still a little nervous though! The match was actually pretty good and Conor's team, Gary Eoin won! He managed to score a point after starting the match but had to come off with a dead leg, which he is still hobbling around with!


We headed to Greasy Joe's once we got home for some grub! Not the most appealing of names but the food was very good!! I had a lovely burger, which I'm not normally a fan of but it was pretty fab!!

Overall, a great week! And here's to many more weeks in Melbourne like it! So here's a video of him that we took as he stepped away from the mic and played 'If I had a Boat' as only he could do!!
Enjoy!


Amy :)