I'm 3 days in to working and, while the job is everything I knew it would be (easy, boring), it's still pretty good.  We're currently understaffed and probably under-budgeted, so the non-essential bakery staff are only working in there a couple days per week while the rest of us (4 trade-qualified bakers) are running the show every day - 1 baker is ( Read more... )

 For some reason the most recent photos I posted on Flickr were set to private, so I've fixed that.  Now everyone should be able to click the link and be able to see my photo page.

Not quite sure how the privacy setting got changed, but it's back to normal now.  So view away, people!

Finally got photos of the house posted!  Check 'em out here.

And...I got a job!!

Well, I'm not THAT excited about it, save that it gets me out of the house and earning money again.  But it IS a job with the same company I've been with for the last 2 years, so my pay stays at the same rate, my super/pension will stay the same, and my time accrued won' ( Read more... )

I hate days where there's nothing I "have" to be doing, because that's invariably what I end up doing - nothing.

Somebody hire me already.

looking for ideas and suggestions for a good Twitter username.  Possibly incorporating being American, being Aussie, and/or being a foodie.

Thoughts?

Today is my last paycheck from my paid leave (all 7 weeks of it) and I still have no confirmed job.  I've interviewed at a grocery store in Shepparton (same company as I was working for in Mackay), and the manager wants to hire me, but HR is hesitant about hiring me because of the travel - it's a 90 minute drive one way.  Waiting this week for the ( Read more... )

TV commercial tonight, for a company that makes fresh pasta in the flat cannelloni sheets:  'regular cannellonis are so hard to fill!  Use these fresh sheets of flat pasta for easy filling ( Read more... )

Was having a horrible morning yesterday - I'd been forced to be at home all week waiting for various things to happen (phone line to be fixed, gas oven to be installed, etc) and it was starting to make me crazy...plus I'm having trouble finding a job, and I'm down to one week left on my holiday pay from my job in Mackay, so that was increasing the ( Read more... )

Survivor: Heroes vs Villains.

Does anybody even watch Survivor anymore?

I've decided I need a blogroll!

So here's the stuff I read regularly, or check up on at least once or twice a month:


The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl
Two Fit Chicks
Waiterrant
Live Cheap
Economy Bites
101 Cookbooks
The Atlantic  and The Atlantic Food
Foodgawker

Hopefully one of these blogs will be of interest to one or two of you out there.