Things are looking up :)

I don't know if I like this roller coaster my life is in. Some days awesome things will happen and I will be jumping up and down. Other days things just go to shit. But I guess it balances it out, right? No point having fun all the time or being shitty all the time.

So last Wednesday I had my job interview at Studio 2000 Photographers. I think it went well. But the lady told me there were lots of people applying and there were 5 spots available. I haven't heard back from them yet, so I might go in this week to see how things are going. I feel like I would be sounding needy, but people around me say I should go in and ask, that it will make me sound interested. I guess I'll give it a shot.

I haven't heard back from the house me and Alex applied for either. But it hasn't been a week yet. So fingers crossed!

The last few days have been pretty good. On Friday I worked until about 2.30pm. We got our discounts back (because we are nice people who do temp checks now! ha) so I had some very healthy chicken fillet wrap. After that, I rushed home, had a shower and off I went to the city.

There's this campaign, 'Make Poverty History' which is supported by many organisations. One of them is Oxfam. And since I volunteer there, I know people who do this kind of stuff. So I heard they were doing a road trip (which I didn't go to because I was in France). And after the road trip, when they were back in Adelaide, they were gonna do a "freeze". And that is why I went to the city. I didn't know how it was gonna go. So what happens is, people get together. We walk down Rundle Mall and a guy has this huge drum. At a given time, everyone stops. They freeze. Only thing they could do was blink. They stay like that for a while. That's when people start staring and slowing down to see what's going on. Suddenly, the guy with the drum hits his drum. And keep hitting it every 3 seconds. Every time he hits it, someone collapses. They just fall to the ground. And it keeps going until everyone is dead. That represents the people who die from poverty every 3 seconds in the world. I wasn't one of those people, I was walking around getting everyone to sign the petition. We need something like 400,000 signatures so that this campaign can be sent to parliament. It is all about getting the government to send some aid to places where poverty has hit. Quite amazing, hey? I thought it was a great idea and an awesome way to get people to pay attention and sign the petition. We got lots of signatures.

So after we did the freeze a few times, it was time to hit the unibar! Hooray! I was driving, so I couldn't drink much. But it was the unibar, I had to have a tequila sunrise ;). I also had some wedges. Healthy, I know. Hugh then came around for a bit and we talked about the help-portrait photo shoot we are going to do. We will get people who can't afford getting professional photos done and will photograph them and give them the photo. The point of it? To spread love. To tell people that there are still people out there who care. To show that they can feel good about themselves. To give them good memories. I think it is an awesome movement and I am VERY excited to make it happen! (If you live in Adelaide and would like to help, let me know! We are gonna need plenty of people to organise this and to help us on the day).

So after talking to Hugh, we went to this Thai Vegetarian restaurant which was fantastic! I was full of wedges but had a tea, which tasted awesome. And I don't even drink tea! We then went back to the unibar for a bit, before heading out to the Austral, where I had my second and last drink: $4 tequila shot! Hooray! By that point, my hands and knees were very swollen and they hurt like hell. But I stayed out because there were loads of fun people around. We went to hungry jack's too, which is where I realised I had to go home or I would die of pain right there. The drive home SUCKED. I drive a manual, so changing gears with a swollen hurting hand is horrible! I barely slept all night...

When it was about 6am I figured I had to see a doctor. So off to the hospital we go again, second time in less than 5 days. We waited for a good 2 hours but there were loads of ambulances arriving (it was a Friday night after all...). We headed out to my GP and he told me i had temporary arthritis. Which was caused by something (probably my cold triggered it... weird I say). He gave me loads of stuff to take and I headed back home, where I spent the rest of the day watching movies with Lu and eating chocolate. Good day overall.

Today, all the pain was gone. Everything was kind of working again. To celebrate, I went to Ikea with Alex and Stam. Fun times! We had cheap ice cream, which was awesome. And cheap lunch too. After that, we went back to my place, played to Trivial Pursuit (where Stam cheated!) and Wii Sports. We then went out to have some healthy Maccas food and they went home. Fun weekend I say :) Despite the hospital part, it was pretty awesome :)

Now this was a long "this is my life" post. Sigh.