Trick or Treat?? You Got To Be Kidding!

I know its been ages since I sat on the couch, mainly because I moved to the coast and I haven't had much to yarn about. But here goes a posting.

Last night as I turned into our suburban neighbourhood I was faced with children dressed in sheets, feathers, glitter and rubberbanded clothing. Accompanied by partental guardians or older siblings.

When I got home our front door was closed (normally open when Phil's home)
"Whats going on?" Holloween. "But we're in Australia? We're not American." Yeah and when they come to the door and they say Trick or Treat and you reply Trick. They just look at you blankly. We spend the rest of the evening not answering every knock at our door, with one lot of kids yelling we know youre in there... why on why do we have to put up with this?
I eventually yelled go away at a knock on the door, it turned out to be Phils brother dropping by... Trick?!

So I'm A Coastie?

So I guess I'm a coastie now... if you would call people that.

We moved house, or rather two houses/homes on Saturday. Big thanks to ReBee for helping me pack, you though I was bad at not packing, Phil's house wasnt even boxed when we got there!

Anyway, after an entire exausting day of moving, we finished unloading the truck at 4.20pm and had to get ready to go out to a 50th suprise birthday that evening, we were to leave at 5.45pm - not exactly the best timing, it was hard to find stuff but we got there and had an ok night.

So now we (I use that word lightly, cause i seem to be doing everything else thats not the TV room!! lol) are unpacking.

Phil's cat Gary, has joined us and he seems to like me and hes a bit sooky which is different from when I first met Gary! Put though claws away!
I'm working this Saturday too at work cause they have a sale on... go figure (when are we not on sale!!)

I feel like I've been away for heaps, but now I'm getting settled in the new house, the foxtel and the internets on, I should be sweet to get back into posting. I was even thinking about setting up my own website (AGAIN) but then i figured i still have about ten that are waiting to be finished still too... maybe one day. or maybe im over it completly.

How are you going with the new job Andy? Have you started there yet?

BTW I have a one way ticket with virgin to Melbourne on the 10th March. I'm still thinking about using it, i think you guys were semi-interested before, does everyone, or anyone still show interest in maybe going? Just want to know to see if i should start saving or just forget about the virgin credit.

Stay Groovy

Scaring the New Girl

I've been teaching my replacement for my current store for a week, today was the second week of training, and funnily enough I feel that by the end of today I may have scared her off for good. *Sigh* Hopefully she'll stick it out enough for me to move to the new store before she decides to give it the flick.

I started talking about stock coming in and out, and monitoring that, and keeping customer happy and she just looked at me it absolute horror,
"oh god!!" i could see her eyes going.
Then to add to that the staff who are incompatent around here try to pull a swifty on her and get her to do stuff shes not supposed to, to which I had a yell at them because of, that scared her even more when people who have been here longer are trying to manipulate her and get her to do the wrong things, cause they know she wont know any better and she'll do it. Arghhhh I'm so glad I'm being transferred!! YESSSSSS

Poor new girl

Darwinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

Hello happy couchers.... so half the couch is sitting in Darwin Airport... waiting for Jackie's flight to arrive. Stupid late night flights only ones out of Darwin.
The convention went well this year, unfortunetly only two of the four kids turned up, sure one lives here and the other was on a holiday... but thats not the point. Stay tuned for some Tracy Couch photos later to be published... maybe tomorrow if i load them onto my damn computer... stupid kleyboard....arghhhhhhhhh
Bloody F11
See ya soon... or not since i only post here anyway. whatever.

Birthday-ness

Happy birthday to meeeeeeeee. They had a cake for me at work today and a girl at work gave me a box of lindt chocolates mmmm.
Dad got me and him an upgrade for our room for Darwin, mums giving me cashhhh, and my brother said
"23 years down, 53 to go, happy birthday" erm josh, im 22.... "close enough" he says

Whoop whoop

I is single again. Short lived romance, maybe that should be my middle name... but thank god im not with him anymore, i dont feel restricted. that was just a ridiculous relationship!

a week and a bit to darwinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

Who's Counting?

Only two weeks to gooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

LIAR!!

Forever Young

No its not the same one as you gave me, i knew it didnt sound right!!

oh btw this is for Re
feel free to download it though, its by Youth Group

The Dreaded Gym

A terrible place I must go... The Gym. I've been trying to psych myself up but it just hasnt happened... I hope to go tonight but by the time I get home and think of dinner, I couldn't be bothered... *sigh* must get motivated, as gym membership is going to waste, wheres my old flat-mate Sam when i need her, she'd kick my butt.

Website-y

Im questioning if i should put my personal site back up, i mean im working on a site that shows off all the stuff ive done, but its taking so long, and then i realise i never reallyyyyyy finished anything i started... hmmm

My Links

added mine :)

The Young Kids of Today

These young kids of today, sometimes I really don't get them, and it's then i feel old old.
Like for instance today at work. The NRL footy game at Telstra Stadium, I was sitting in my Box Office waiting for customers... when a bunch of young kids around say fifteen walk by the window. They stop out the front and talk about something, I look at what one of these kids are wearing, hes got a backwards cap on, a singlet, grey undies, and denim three-quarter pants. How did I know what kind of undies he had on, well his pants started around the bottom of his arse. Thats way too much undie show for anyone liking!
So to make matters worse, this kid I was staring at trying to figure out what kind of mother would allow her son to step out of his bedroom, little lone go out of the house to a football match, he comes up to my window.

"I wanna change this" he says to me waving his ticket in my window
"There are no exchanges" I say to him, as this is policy
"No, I want to change it" he says to me again
I sit there wondering if I was talking to myself
"You can't change it" I said, trying to bring myself down to the new generation lingo... which seems to have lost all common sense.
He gummbled and then walked off.

I am hoping to god that it was just that one kid who doesnt understand that when you want to change something you have already bought for something else from the place you bought it, it indeed is called an EXCHANGE.
Is it me, or is it hard to understand what an exchange is... I swear I even knew that at 15!

The Brown Couch Loser

So... I put on a pair of shorts today that used to be loose. Now they're somewhat tight. It was at this point that I felt I need to do something really drastic about this.

I feel fat, I could do with loosing some KGs and I have a gym membership.
I had a chat with Re this evening about loosing some weight and what we could do, as I know Re would like to shed some KG as well. We came up with a rip off of the show "The Biggest Loser"

The challenge is as follows:

The Brown Couch Loser

Objective: to be the biggest loser in weight - judged by the biggest percentage of your total body weight.

I.E. If you weigh 100KG and you loose 20KG you have lost 20%
If you weigh 80KG and you loose 18KG you have lost 22.5%

the 80KG person would be the biggest loser.

Entry Fee: $100.00

Time Frame: 3 Months - Start Date March 1st, Finish Date May 31st

Weigh in: Every two weeks.

Prize: The total pool of the entry fee (i.e. two people entered, winner takes $200 CASH)

I know youre in Re. Andrew, wanna take up the challenge? Entry fee is high, but prize is high if you win also!

Darwin, March 15 - March 19

So... I'm going to Darwin! I had a sticky on qantas website today ... who knows why and the prices had dropped... the flight that I wanted that was going to cost me $524.96 (AUD) had dropped to $357.76 (AUD). Having no money available until Monday and the sale ending Sunday, I rang my dad and grabbed his creditcard number, what a good daddy he is, he asked how much it was and sounded like he did a backflip over the phone on how cheap it was. So he happily gave me the number, after asking what year he'd receive this money back, I told him he'd get it Monday, it was just my money from ING takes 24 hours to transfer, hmmm.

So!! I'm saving $167.20 (AUD) which made me make my decision fast, stuff it, I'm young, I only live once, I'll worry about my finaces later.
I'll be leaving the day before pay day also, so that will help.

I'll only be able to stay for 3 & a half days in total but at least I'll get to go and see Andrew also, "sup canny!" almost a year after I was supposed to go, but doing it, yayyy. I'm excited.

I guess I should organise somewhere to stay, you got connections Andy? Any good mates rates?
Even though it's not quite my birthday or Andrew's, it's the day after Andrew's at least!
I'm exited... oh I already said that. Hmm.

Thoughts on Darwin

So... it's coming close to that time of year... round my birthday.

I'm wondering if indeed I will make it to Darwin, my father advised me to go a few days after my birthday so that I can keep peace with my boyfriend, but also forget to mention it until the day I'm leaving (or alternativly, call/sms him when I get to Darwin). Mum says if I don't go I'll forever regret it.

Hmm.. so the thoughts are, the week following my birthday take the trip to Darwin. That way it will be after my birthday so the bf can't complain toooo much, and it will be after pay day, so I will semi-able to afford it.

Still thinking about it... mums probably right though.

Mickey Badge

I want to know who won the Mickey Badge AND if it indeed was me, I'd like to know when I can receive it :)

Death

My dad's father (aka my Pop) died on the weekend that just past. Strangly enough I wasn't that upset about it. Sure, the funeral was today and the thought of other people being upset and crying made me feel a bit teary but I wasn't upset that the old guy died. He had been sick for years, in and out of hospital for eight years so much that the staff knew him that well.. the hospital staff knew him better than I or my brother did.
When they read out the stuff about his life, I realised I really didn't know my Pop, I asked my brother later if he felt like any that was said about his children and grandchildren came even close to home for him, he said no too.
My brother and I are probably considered the snobs of the family... we didn't cry, we turned up, we sat in the back and we said hello to our Nanna and left.
I felt sympathy for all nine brothers and sisters, it was their father and it is sad.

My mother paid for the funeral, which I am shocked over, between nine brothers and sisters none of them can fork over $1,000 each? shocking, what a bunch of drop kicks my dad's side is.

no comments needed for this post i just felt like venting.

Hehe

I think this email from work (box office staff for my casual job) was funny... just wanted to share ;)

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Hey Team,

Please be aware that some of the old timesheets are still floating around and they have the old (incorrect) fax number on it. I've attached the new timesheet template (with the correct number) below.

And just as a heads up, a lot of people are getting confused and sending the timesheets through to 02 9299 4242- (The Red Cross), instead of 02 9266 4242 thinking that it was only the last 4 digits of the number that have changed and that the prefix remained the same. This is not the case, the entire number has changed and The Red Cross are getting a bit dirty as they are far too busy extracting blood to process our timesheets!

So please triple check that you are sending your timesheets through to the correct number.

The 'NEW' msn

is it just me or am i forever updating to the 'new version of msn available'... whats new, i wanna know, did they fix that bug in the last beta version??? hmmm, whats the go.

Time Travel

So some guy says he has traveled back in time from 2036... here's what he posted on the net... no seriously he posted on the net, heres my comments on his posts from November 2000. He came back to get an IBM computer from 1976, sounds plausable.. or is it all a hoax? Who cares, but I differ from his opinion.

taken from www.johntitor.com

Yes I believe in Jesus Christ and we pray to God in churches. There are some differences you may be interested in. Religion is a major part of people's life in 2036. Pain and change tend to bring people together and closer to God. However, religion is far more personal than it is now. There are no huge, centralized religions and people talk openly about their beliefs. It might also interest you to know that the day of worship is Saturday, the day God meant to be the Sabbath and the 10 commandments have been restored to the "10" that God gave us.

Let's just take a look at that comment. Ohhhh, God screwed it up, I meant it to be a Saturday, not a Sunday. Frankly, I don't think God gives a shit what day of the week you make it a Sabbath, just as long as you worship his Arse, it'll all be good... that has nothing to do with Time Travel, that's just my personal opinion on religion!

Let's also take a look at this Time Travelers initals.. JT... is anyone thinking Justin Timberlake... or is it just me?

If telling us about your time machine won't change anything, what would happen if someone built one based on your information?
What you do on your worldline is your own business. I can't think of any better way to start a war than for someone to figure out how to make a time machine. Go for it.

Does this guy mean that the reason for his war was to make a time machine?? That makes no sense.

Growing up might have been a vastly different experience for me than it was for most of you. Personal responsibility, determination, honor, friendship and self-reliance are not just words we try to live up to or fantasize about.

I imaging my childhood and my growing up is a lot different from the kid who lives on the west side in south australia as well... probably got the shit kicked out of him, where as I didn't. Of course, even without time travel growing up is vastly a different experience for most people. Mine was different from the crack hoar down the street who got molested as a six year old too.

I watch every day what you are doing as a society. While you sit by and watch your Constitution being torn away from you, you willfully eat poisoned food, buy manufactured products no one needs and turn an uncaring eye away from millions of people suffering and dying all around you. Is this the "Universal Law" you subscribe to?

Dude, show some respect then, our society has made your "worldline" what it is today, no need to bag us. One persons opinion. An athest of your time might see things differently....

Perhaps I should let you all in on a little secret. No one likes you in the future. This time period is looked at as being full of lazy, self-centered, civically ignorant sheep. Perhaps you should be less concerned about me and more concerned about that.

A little secret? I think Time Travel was enough for our brains to take in, but lets brace ourselves.
We're lazy, yeah, no one liked us. No one liked Hitler either, but its history and its what makes the future what it is. I thought this dude was all about love and hippies and community etc... wheres the love. No one wants to be told theyre not liked, expecially not society! Society determs whos liked, and if society doesnt like its self, who does like anyone if liking exsists.... i've confused myself now.
BTW save us the lecture on what we're doing wrong, we already knew years ago we f**ked up the planet, just ask the hippies in the seventies, those flower power kids will tell ya!



And all in all, my conculsion?
Sounds a little too much like Back to the Future meets Sliders... but who am I to judge. I don't believe him in the first place because he loves Jesus... lol

Lunch Time Crisis!

The following information some readers may find disturbing, please only read if you have a high threshold for shocking news.

I went into town today to do the banking, as I normally do for work. While I was out, I stopped off at bakers delight to get myself my rolls for my tuna and salad that I had brought into work. Yummmm, fresh bread rolls, nothing I like more! So I was happy as I entered work, and also starving. I walk up to the back kitchen of the showroom where two of our store guys are, I look at what they're cooking...
'That looks like tuna' I think to myself, but being the Administrator who orders the food for this store, I know there is no tuna that has been bought for the showroom.... 'they couldn't have'
"Where did you get that tuna from?" I asked
"In the back cupboard" the guy says
Oh My F**KING God!
"That was mine" I say angrily, "That was my lunch"
"Ohhhh... sorry"
"You can't just eat whatever, some things in this showroom are peoples food or are for a reason."
Insert Jackie being fumming mad at this point.
'Calm down' I said to myself, 'Just have to have egg and salad sandwich now.'
I open the showroom fridge, there are no eggs left. This same guy has used the last of the eggs into some egg mash gook, that i wouldn't taste little lone put on my sandwich.
Is he trying to make me hit him?
"You've used all the eggs!"
Is this guy going out of his was to use not only my lunch, but all the optional ingrediants I like?

I angrily say he ows me three-fifty for the tuna, he says sorry, i huff "forget it" i go down stairs and get some hot discustingly fatty wedges for my lunch with sweet chilli sauce and sour cream, this makes me feel better for two seconds....
MY LUNCH TIME CRISIS.... GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Will Jackie Ever Make It To Darwin?

Well for hevens sake! I just had a fight a few hours ago about me going to Darwin... who pray tell would be stopping me, my parents... no. Its this new boyfriend of mine. Apparently he trusts me but not Andrew... im like what???
My new beau is gathering Andrew has had a plan all along to jump my can collecting bones... yeah right.
He said he knows ive known Andrew for years (that made me sit there and wonder how long i have known you Andrew for... not too sure, but I dont think its THAT long really, two three years maybe?) But i ended up having an fight about me going up for my birthday.
"Oh you don't even consider me in your plans at all, you say youre going and thats it"..... for shits sake!!! i just wanna go visit my friend and for us to have a joint birthday celebration. only my birthday should be important to me
i voiced back "its not like its your birthday!"
I told him FINE I WONT GO, then hes all like NO GOOOOOOO.
Sigh.
Im thinking i should just make plans and not tell him, then happen to be missing the week of my birthday... why is my mobile always off hmmmm.

Why we'll never understand the opposite sex

For men, they don't get women, they probably never will. For women, we don't get men, and we probably never will.
Sure sometimes we like to think we have a fair idea of what the opposite sex is about and then they throw a spanner in the works and you sit back and think... "I honestly just don't know, and I can't think of how to fix this... WHAT THE FUCK"

After having a conversation with the new guy I'm seeing who likes to call himself my boyfriend (sometimes I even call myself his girlfriend, crazy), he says that he doesn't like me touching him so much in public or around his friends. Holy shit, I didn't realize that I molested the people I go out with.
What makes matters more confusing is that behind closed doors I'm not over the top, its fine (quote, unquote). So basically he says its his problem and that he needs to get us(bah)ed to it, but at the same times needs me to cool it down a bit.

Jesus, Christ. When am I aloud to touch him now, can I hold his hand, or only at certain times can I, am I aloud to kiss him, or is that out of the question. I'm thinking obviously I'm not aloud to be dry humping his leg like I have been... Oh wait a minute I haven't been.
*sigh* I even asked my former lover was I too clingy in public, he answered no, I was normal. THERE IT IS, NORMAL. He said I was NORMAL, that means my new boyfriend is..... Everyone say it together NOT NORMAL!

Ok... Breathing in and out.

So... Bottom line is, I don't get guys, when am I aloud to touch him, if at all. And why is it ok behind closed doors, I'm not that butt ugly!!

Intervention: Justin

I call an intervention, as Justin is not posting... often at all.

NYE 05: Foam Party > Sydney, Castle Hill Tav

Behold the photo of the foamy people. From left to right, top to bottom, Marinco (Reanans NYE kiss), Reanan, Jackie, Brooke, Neil, Cute guy (Jackie was interested in), Hat Guy (he tried to feel Jackie up), Guy being covered by Hat Guy (who was just there for the ride).



So that was Re & my new years eve. Maybe Re would like to post about it, after all she got a date outta it with Marinco (aka Marocco)

Bonus Round

Extra question for the profiles.

What do you hope to achieve here on the brown couch?

Can Openers

In this day in age I have found it unnecessary to own a can opener, my mother owned one, both my flat mates had owned one, thus there was no need for me to own one, until tonight.
Sure, I could have bought one months and months ago, back in august, when i first moved into my unit, but i have since done somewhat of a mini-protest against buying an item i will seldom use. Instead I have been buying only cans that have ring-pulls and do not require the assistance of such an opening device that barley gets used.

This was working quite fine for me, most items these days DO come with a ring pull top on the can, so why bother buying a can opener when i wont need it! RIGHT?

I open my mac and cheese deluxe box tonight. And to my dismay, there is a can.... WITHOUT A RING PULL TOP!

Oh for crisis! What on earth would any normal person do. Sigh in defeat and vow to go out an buy one tomorrow and put the tin away.
Yes, maybe they would... but me? No.

What would i do in this instance? I find the sharpest knife i can find and i stab it hard at the top of the tin. 'Hmmm, wont open. What else can I try?'
I take the knife again and poke it round the edges of the tin... my brain says to do this, then i start to wonder why im doing it, like i can open the tin with a knife in the fashion of a can opener.... not happening.
By now any normal person would have called it a day and given up. Not me.

I get really angry... I want my mac and cheese deluxe dammit! I grab a more solid knife, one that i shouldnt be poking at a tin with, and begin to stab hard at the top of the tin, over and over and over, just dents, i stab more, yay the knifes entered the tin.... now what? i stab a few more times till i make another sliver in the tin, then i run the knife until the tin, in the sliver and push the tin up, some of it moves up and away... HORRAY! i did it, i concored the tin with no ring.... now how do i get the cheese out in that small hole... ohhhh another deliema for another day. *sigh*

Hello 2006, Goodbye Wallet!

So the best way I find to start of a new year is to loose your wallet at the cinemas, its most exciting when you do this and then have NO MONEY, NO CREDIT CARD, NO DRIVERS LICENSE and its double demerit points, excellent Jac, just excellent work!

Thank god your staying at the hotel with your best friend, who DOES have their wallet, and likes to not loose hers.

Pat on back. Happy 2006!!