One + 1 = Thr3e

Well, after being sick to death about the way I've been looking for a while now, I've taken some changes. Now this happens maybe once a year. This year, it started this morning. I went and got my hair cut and coloured. Well not an all over colour, but one that just highlights :P

I haven't had my hair cut for ages, so I decided to go get it cut, and also to try some colour in it as well. Its got two different colours running through it now, blonde and caramel. Its also cut shorter so I'll probably spend tonight running through how to style it in front of the mirror.

I also got myself two new tongue piercings, seeing that I was annoyed of only having the two, yin-yang and plain-and-boring. So now I have one which is black with a white star and another one with flames. Who knows, maybe one day I'll have enough to co-ordinate them with what I'm wearing!

Also going to start going to the solarium, which I know I have been talking about for ages, but I'm actually going to do it. So that should be exciting, no more being white, or orange. Damn fake tan. Yes, I did try it. Yes, I'm still suffering the consequences. Please don't ask any more questions, I thought it was a bronzer :S

Below is a photo of my lovely back of my head. I was hesitating about posting this on here, seeing that it makes my ears look HUGE! Believe me, they aren't really that big :S

That photo also looks like a have a block shaped head as well... Hmmm, I wonder how I can change that :P Maybe not let Jasmine take any more photos!

AdamMac

1. Chocolate
2. Anything from the work vending machines
3. Fast food, from any company that has a business that operates a drive thru, we aren't allowed to buy food from any of their franchises.

That's the name of the decor in our new place. Well that's what Meghan calls it. Been a week now, and I've been quite lazy, still haven't moved everything yet. Hopefully one more car load and I should be set. All the big things have been moved so that's good.

Quick rundown of whats been going on in the last two weeks:

• Credit card back, and they are waiving all the charges.
• The move has happened, or should I say still happening.
• Softball is still going strong, except for today when we lost 6-1!
• Work is getting no so busy, and still having fun, so that's good!
• Car not fixed yet, another thing I need to get down.

AAAAARRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

I have the keys. Which means its getting closer to happening. There was an open for inspection at my St Kilda place yesterday, and about 8 groups of strange people walked through my house. Don't worry, nothing was taken. Well nothing that I've noticed. It felt weird, as I walked away from my apartment, and the real estate agent showed people through. They got an application so that's a good sign. I obviously it was my placement of furniture that did it.

Work has been full on in this last month, so yesterday and today have been great. Not having to worry about taking calls, the amount of calls I have to get done for quality and other things has been a great stress-free break. I'm really needing that holiday later this year.

Speaking of the holiday, I've started looking at things that I want to do, at the moment I'm tossing up between Europe or the US. Apparently the US is too much like here, and if I wanna go someone, I need to go somewhere that doesn't feel like I'm still at home. So at the moment, I'm still thinking about what to do. I'm also tossing up who I go with, in terms of travel companies. Contiki is winning at the moment, mainly because I've heard so much of Jo's trip and I want the same sort of thing, but STA travel has given me some ideas in terms of going to both and maybe back packing or something. I have no idea. All I know is I don't care where I go, so long as I do!

I have the keys to the new place. Dad is coming around tomorrow morning and we are going to move everything. Got to love a dad with a trailer. I don't have that much stuff to move, its mainly little things, which I'm planning to move in my 100 trips between the two places. Also looking forward to just having everything moved and sleeping for a whole weekend. Its kinda sad really, I'm starting to miss the city already. Mainly because I've only really just started going out more around here, and catching up with mates at St Kilda Beach, which I probably won't be able to do for a little.

Just think of all the money I'll be saving. I keep telling myself that all the time now, mainly so that I can justify moving away from the city. I know that its up and down for the last twelve months, with probably more downs then ups, but there is just something about being so close to everything that I'm going to miss.

I got a phone call from my credit card company this morning. They went through all this legal stuff with me, told me what was stolen and they were kinda scared at how I got robbed. They hadn't heard of that many cases where only the credit card was taken and nothing else. I think they've done it so I wouldn't notice and cancel the card on them. Here I was thinking they were smart, but clearly I was wrong. Who steals a credit card and then buys cartons of cigarettes and booze!?! But everything is getting wiped and I should have my card back in the next couple of days. WooHoo!

Well I should continue packing, seeing that if I don't my mum will kill me. That's the reason she texted me at 7 o'clock this morning, and when I thanked her for waking me up, she said she only did it so that I could have more time packing. So thanks mum. I love ya.

Anyway, with the whole moving thing, may not be online for a couple of weeks, so all those that speak to me on MSN, I won't be there for a little while. But I will be back.

StressMac

I very rarely get telemarketers call me. I suppose this would be a good thing for most people, I actually love getting them. Well, only when they call to try and make me change to their company for my home phone needs. Seeing that I work in customer service for home phones, the likelihood of me actually changing providers is very slim, but I like to listen to see what they have to offer, and then ask them questions.

I like to sound keen, like to give them that slim glimmer of hope that I might change to their company. By doing this, it makes the end of the call more satisfying. I'll explain.

I listen to them tell me everything, which usually takes a good five minutes, then when they ask if I have any questions, that's why I really start playing with them. My favourite question, 'I've got family visiting Diego Garcia*, and I need to call them everyday, so I need good rates to that country.' I feel a sense of accomplishment when I have to repeat myself because they need to write down Diego Garcia because they have never heard of it. I'm then put on hold by the representative, who has gone on a hunt trying to find the best rate to this country thinking that if they come back with something good they may have made a sale. Now the conversation goes either two ways. One, the representative discovers that majority of calls to this country are barred**, or two, they have found some really expensive rates and feel bad telling me them so they try and win me over with something else.

Seeing that they took forever to find the rates, I then tell them that they've wasted so much of my time today, and I'd be ridiculous to go to their company, tell them to have a nice day and then hang up the phone.

That's the approach that I like to take. I don't get aggressive, I just make them feel bad for wasting my time, when it was actually me wasting theirs. For the first time yesterday I wasn't able to use this, mainly because the rep was a bitch.

She called me yesterday morning, saying she was from so-and-so company, and proceeded to bad mouth my company. This was before she even knew I worked for them. So I let her continue, letting her ride her high horse for a little bit longer until the perfect moment came to knock her down. She told me a blatant lie, to try and bring me across. Basically, she said that there are no contract breakage fees for going to that company. BULLSHIT! I then told her I was on a 12 month agreement with my current company and she said that didn't matter. To which I told her that I actually worked for that company, and it does matter. Her response. 'Well that's what we were told in training, so I'm right!'.

I knew I had two options at that point, politely hang up or correct the cow. I'm sure you can guess which one I choose...

'I'm sorry to tell you this, but your training is wrong. Your the reason why I have customers calling me at my work, because you have promised this exact same thing and obviously can't deliver. Your the reason why I have people screaming at me through the phone, and then having them come back to our company because your telling them lies. If I was you, I would consider not telling people that and getting someone to re look at your training. I hope you have a nice day.'

At that, I hung up the phone.

BitchMac

*For those that don't know, Diego Garcia is an atoll located in the heart of the Indian Ocean.
** This is because of a thing called Internet dumping, where you can only really call this country by paying premium rates.

... and she hates me!

Last night while jogging, yes I did say jogging, I was feeling pretty good about myself. I had gone for a jog, actually eaten dinner, and things were kinda going okay.

When I got back to my car, I noticed that the keyhole on my passenger side door was broken, so I looked inside and saw that my CD player was still there, so I assumed that somebody had tried to break in and couldn't.

Until. I get a phone call from my credit card company this morning, wanting to confirm some suspicious transactions that happened last night. $1000 worth of transactions to be precise. Ranging from Coles supermarkets to Safeway liquor stores to a petrol station where it was finally declined. I told the guy on the other end of the phone, that I didn't make any, and he asked if I had my card. So I put the phone down, went to my wallet and alas, no card!

FUCK! That was the first thing that came into my head. Hang on, it was the first, second, third, fourth, etc thing that came in my head. I now have to go to the police station, fill out a report, and then do further investigations with my card company. And because they pushed me over my limit, I don't get my card back for a while! Woo Fucking Hoo!

So a message to those lovely fuckheads who broke into my car:

I'd thought my chipmunks had died. I thought they were dead. Over the last couple of days, I've been border lining on tears due to their lack of existence. But alas, they are working again. I didn't realise that I needed to plug my speakers in for them to work.

A couple of weeks ago, I discovered an option on my media player to speed up songs, so they sound like chipmunks, and being the bored drunk at home, I think I have sped up almost every song in my library*. There are some songs that work well being munk'd, and others that are really, really bad.

After a far bit of experimenting, I've found out some tips for people who are munking for the first time. These are:

• Majority of songs with more than 2 female vocals singing together, don't really work well together. Mainly because their voices are already high enough, and when you speed it up, you really can't hear the song over all the dogs in your neighborhood barking!
• Any sort of male ballad works well, for example, Shannol Noll - What about me.
• Any sort of remix'd version of a song, usually doesn't work well. All you get to hear is a loud thumping through the song and its really really fast, so unless your a real quick dancer, then don't try it.
• Any song with a loud male screaming is funny at first, but windows break quite easily...
• Eminem sounds funny after he sounds like his been sucking on helium balloons!

• What about me - Shannol Noll
  
• Tribute - Tenacious D
  
• I don't feel like dancing - Scissor Sisters
  
• I put a spell on you - Bette Midler
  
• Love Shack - B'52s
• A Public Affair - Jessica Simpson