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It seems appropriate that for my 1000th post I tell you where you can actually find updates re my life - after all, it's clearly not here. First up has to be flickr. Followed by twitter or facebook for status updates. To be honest, I'd rather you all looked at twitter - it saves me logging on to facebook and the status updates copy across anyway. So there you are. This may be my last blog post. I can't even remember html anymore. Go find me somewhere else. Or even better, email me or call me on skype!!

Those of you not following my status updates on Twitter or Facebook may not know that I'm in LA. This is because said status updates seem to have supplanted blogging. They're way easier, for one, and I don't have to think too hard about what to say. However, there are times when they just fall short. Like today, when I've done so much stuff I can't fit them all in. So here goes.

Kirsty:

- has rented a convertible chrysler sebring
- has had lunch on the beach - yes, as sandwich!
- resisted the temptation of the "Aussie Special" - meat pie and any side.
- listened to "The World's Greatest Wino" sing "jingle bells, jingle bells, give me some money so I can get drunk".
- avoided buying a CD of "happy Senegal music".
- narrowly resisted buying a T-shirt saying "I need more cowbell".
- had the best value $12 massage ever and now feels a lot less pain!
- got her feet wet in the sea
- drove on the right nearly all the time :O but remembered just in time on the exception!
- bought Oreos, the world's best biscuit. Sorry, cookie.
- discovered that her hotel charges for parking. Cheapskates.

That's all for now, folks!

Labels: holiday, LA

Tomorrow I'm running 4km (quite a long way for me at the moment) to raise money for breast cancer research. If you want to sponsor me, you can! Just click this link. If you do, thankyou. If you don't, then please give some money to another good cause.

Dear Mr(s) Estate Agent,

Can you manage my property? I ask only 4 things.
1. Will you respond to my questions and emails promptly and fully?
2. Will you respond to the tenant's requests for maintenance promptly?
3. Will you avoid using bad excuses for non-communication such as dodgy email systems?
4. Will you value both tenant and landlord as a customer and treat them as such?

If you can answer yes to 3 out of 4 of these questions, please contact me! If you can answer yes to 1 out of 4 of these questions, you're already doing better than our current estate agent.

Labels: estate agent

The sound randomly came back but only for TV, not skype. Then, as of 10 minutes ago, it's gone again. Still okay with headphones, though. The guide still won't pick up the programming for most of the channels, but htey're there, I can see them! Just a bit concerned I'm going to miss the amazing race because of it. Camera cable has turned up. It's gone on holiday with Pete, to Hong Kong. I hope it's enjoying itself.

Pete's gone to HK, and since he's been gone (less than 48 hours) I've had a techno blip. I worked out how to get ABC back on our TV. I lost all the TV channels. I got them back. The guide doesn't work. The sound on the TV doesn't work. I did lots of diagnostics. It works with headphones, therefore it's the speakers. I'm currently watching TV close up with headphones on. I've lost my camera cable so I can't get the photos off. Life is hard, without a husband!!

Today I set off to do a very simple thing. I wanted to pay our returned bond cheque into the bank. I handed over the cheque and my bank card, a visa debit. I was told I couldn't pay it in because it's a joint cheque, but my credit card. I had forgotten - this isn't a bank account (despite the fact that we both put our wages into it and we both have cards on it and we both have internet banking access to it). It's a credit card, and Pete has an extra card on it. A somewhat heated discussion followed, ending up with the manager turning up and taking me off to a private office. I pointed out a number of times that we don't have another bank account, we both put money into this one, we both take it out - how can that not be a joint account? Anyway, the upshot was I had to open another savings account with them, a joint one this time (we already have one, but because I opened it it's just in my name). And because they had Pete's details on file he didn't need to sign anything, and I could pay the money in straight away. Same end result, no extra permission from Pete, utter waste of 30 minutes.

I was so upset and angry with them they gave me a pig for my pain, so I now have two, one from the first savings account I opened, and one from today. If I keep going I'll have a family!

Labels: banks, oneaday, photos, pigs