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I am absolutely buggered and we haven’t even started moving the furniture.. LOL Looking for a place really takes the energy out of you. I am glad to have found somewhere. If we hadn’t found a place by Monday we would have to have started to apply for places that were not-so-nice as time was running out.

It’s a nice double story place with living quarters upstairs and plenty of storage, two car garages and even a little room underneath. Will be great to have parties and barbecues in. I am even considering having our wedding reception at home as there’s plenty of room out the back and downstairs.

I was really looking forward to going back to work in a couple of week until we realised that I can’t. If I did do work before the end of the financial year (31 July) then my ENTIRE 12 months of youth allowance becomes taxable income and I’d end up having to repay the tax department thousands of dollars. We decided I need to wait until after the first of July. Why the hell your youth allowance turns into taxable income once you start earning from work I don’t know. It’s a very fucked up system we have.

In saying that I have some spare time on my hands, so between my centrelink responsibilities I plan on getting a good garden started with chillies, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber etc. I also want to get my sewing room set up so I can start making things. The sooner I can get that done the sooner I can start selling my creations, doing clothing alterations etc.

Aanyway, I should keep moving along, things to pack, forms to fill out (stupid entry condition report), stuff to do etc.

My dream diary page is finally up and running. The link is right at the top of the window. Definitely check it out. Soo worth the read and giggle.

From January 25th to 29th, certain Australian websites will “blackout” in protest of the governments proposed internet censorship. This website will be one of those websites! I have also changed my Twitter and Facebook profiles to reflect my disgust that the Australian government is going ahead with this, proven to be useless, filter. And to think, I actually helped vote this out of touch government in. They may be doing some good things but when it comes to technology, they’re all dim-witted idiots. Well, mainly Conroy and Atkinson really.

I urge anyone with a Facebook profile, a Twitter profile or a personal website to join in the campaign next week by going to The Great Australian Internet Blackout website and do your part for this worthy cause. Imagine an internet where Google or Youtube or Wikipedia was banned. Steam and other digital download services removed from the face of the Australian internet! The only thing stopping our internet from being censored worse than the Chinese is us. We need to show this government that they are out of touch with the digital and technological world and stand up for our rights for once.

http://www.internetblackout.com.au/

This is how much junk mail we recieve in our letter box in ONE DAY.  We get this volume of junk FOUR DAYS a week.

Now, lets say on average we receive twenty pieces of junk mail 4 days a week.  That’s EIGHTY pieces of junk mail a week.  I filled over HALF our recycle bin last fortnight with junk mail ALONE.. that was before bottles and jars and other recyclables.

It gets worse then Christmas gets closer than it is now.  Think.. this is week one of December.  By the time we get to a week before Christmas, we get this volume SIX DAYS of the week.  And there’s usually 5five or so more catalogues along with the usual twenty or so.

It’s a waste.  We are of the low income bracket and thus we VERY RARELY buy anything because we see it in a catalogue.  Out of that  lot you see in the picture that I retrieved from the letterbox, we will use ONE thing.. the Eagle Boys pizza voucher.

When retrieving it out of the letter box there were ants everywhere and upon closer inspection I saw the remains of a poor lizard that got crushed under the weight of all that paper and ink and plastics.

*sighs*  I turn 26 this year.  That scares me soo much.  I know that I have done and experienced so much for someone my age which yes I am thankful for but when I was younger I had expected myself to have been settled down by now.  And whilst I was under 25 I figured that you only live once and I wanted to keep a firm grip on my youth and live as much as I can.  Now that I am in my mid to late twenties I do have that niggling urge to settle down.

I really want to do so many things in my life.  I want to own and run a nightclub or / and a dance studio.  I really want to learn German.  I’d love to learn to dance again.  I’d like to own a toy store.. one that sells real toys not the packaged plastic crap you buy these days… like toy stores used to be.  I want to own a nice house, have two kids and be happily married (we’re getting married in 2011.. yay!!).

There is more but I cant recall all of them.  Now the one thing in common that all of my work related goals have is that I am in most cases the owner of the establishment.  Has been this way since high school.  I have always loved helping others and loved being team leader in cadets and at school.  When I did my diploma of retail management I always said that I wanted to own a company so I can treat my employees right, as I have been in many a job where the employees have been treated like absolute crap.  The mood and comfort of your employees directly reflects your sales.

One thing I’d love to just leave uni right now and do is go through Centrelink’s NEIS (New Enterprise Incentive Scheme) Program.  It’s a course you do through them that helps you develop a business plan and start your business and they also help fund you and keep in touch with you for 52 weeks after the business opens.  I’d looovvee to have my Dance School up and running.  I could learn to dance again and help others to learn at the same time (hiring a teacher of course). *sighs*

Sad thing is that I have some major hurdles to get over.  One – somehow explaining to people that I lift my Uni coure to open a business that could potentially fail in its first 3 years of running (soo many do these days). Two – Making sure my finances are in order because if I get in trouble it not only gets me in trouble but also my fiancé and our housemate.  Three – getting over my lack of confidence to actually go and do it anyway.  I keep feeling like either I am not worthy of owning my own business or that I am going to fail at that too or that people won’t support me and that for me is HUGE as I am a people person.

Oh, I dunno hey.  I really don’t know.  I can’t do my real dream and that is to be a dancer… so this is why I want to achieve the next best thing…helping others reach their dreams.