Technically Brunette

I don’t know how many of you have been into Target recently but if you can help it please don’t! What used to be a great place to go for a bargain in clothes, bedding, toys, cosmetics and home wares has now decided to live up to it’s school yard name of “Targét” and has almost become another Myer.

After going there today i have to say i am in shock, not only is everything neat and spotless (there where no clothes carelessly flung over racks or falling off hangers) but everything was colour coordinated… no joke. However shoppers beware, apart from the occasional bargain ( i got a heap of men’s work shirts for $12-14) the average price of things has not just increased but SKYROCKETED. Where you use to be able to get cheep women’s shoes and clothing for around $10 a pop the average price for a top is now $50. How on earth do they rationalise this? The fact is that target changed it’s image (and prices) when they caught on that shopping at target was the ‘COOL’ thing to do in high-school, i mean they even get some woopty-doo fashion designer to do a line for them, which might i add they are charging Boutique prices for. The fact is that they have totally missed the point. Target was cool because it was so cheep and junkie, kids could afford stuff there and they had stuff kids like none of this fancy-nancy stuff they have now. So until the real target returns i encourage every one to support Kool-Mart (Aka: K-Mart) and not this middle Australia crap.

Well as they say breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But out of curiosity what do you do if you’ve run out of bread, milk eggs, basically everything but cereal?

Unfortunately, like most students who take on to, much i haven’t had the time to actually go to the shops and replenish which has led to a tinsy-winsy problem. I am left with my All bran, Vita Bricks, about two thimbles worth of Soy milk, and coffee. My dilemma? Well i need my cereal and although i like my late for breakfast i’ll settle for a white coffee.

So how did i manage this dilemma? Did i go up to the shops or to the BP next door? No way, that was far to ambitious for 8:30 on a Sunday morning. Instead i made my latte and TIPED it over my cereal… It seemed like an awesome idea at the time, in-fact i was proud that i managed to for-fill the imposable.

The problem? Well for those of you who eat All-Bran (60% of your daily fibre intake!) you will understand that you need to eat it before it goes soggy, otherwise it tastes as though you are eating wet cardboard (YUMO). So unfortunately at the instant you ad the steaming hot latte to the All-Bran the heat of the latte causes the cereal to turn to smush in record time, leaving my with a chunky - lumpy latte in a bowl.

My ratting on this student survival tip? I give it two and a half donky farts:

I would like to extend an apology to every one who reads my blog… Ok let me rephrase that… I would like to extend an apology to all of those lovely robots who have the time of day to frequent and sometimes even spam my blog as i have not really given it any time at all.

But guess what my torturous robotic friends, I am back! Between catching every bug under the sun (and i am not talking about my poor computer who has recently been dumped by Norton) and the attempting to catch up on the month of uni missed my liofe has gradually frayed not only at the ends but everywhere until it became this knotted mess. Like every knot i am now required to go through the tedious and painful process of untangling this matted mess, I started today with the house.

As everyone would be aware (possably excluding my belovered spam robots) when your health goes to shit along with your work your house seems to follow rapidly… well mine most definatly did. So i have dedicated today to getting my house back into order.

Once the house is bearable my next step is to make myself up a daily time table which will hopefully assist me in never getting back into this mess again. This time table will cover everything from work, cleaning, exercise and bogging.

And then comes the most important thing… MY HEALTH… over the past 6 months my cholesterol levels have crept up and my waist line has crept out and I’m sick of it!!! So Cardio twice a day and a VERRRY healthy meal plan for me.

Hopefully all these changes will result in my life getting back into shape….

What is this country coming to? Aren’t we Australia, the land famous for meat pies with tomato sauce? All i can say is that i am ashamed, ashamed that it seams that you can no longer get free sauce with your pie. Not only that but the sauce you now get is in tiny one serve packets which contain more plastic then sauce and you are charged between 35c - 60c per sachet!!!

So what is the reason for this disgusting un-Australian charging for sauce when you buy food? The logical answer would be that the price of manufacturing sauce has increased considerable and this increase has been passed on to the consumer, well is this the case?

Funnily enough the only statistics i could find on tomato sauce prices was from California, so here it is:

As you can see from this graph the real price for tomato sauce has actually decreased since the nineties (the days of FREE sauce with food). In-fact it has gone from just under $17 (USD) per carton to just under $11 (USD) per carton that is a whopping 35% decrease from the earliest recorded price (1990). Australian figures may be slightly different to this and i will continue to search for them, but until then i will assume they are similar. So why is it that cafes and other places are now charging for sauce when the cost price has actually decreased?

My assumption is that it is a very sneaky way of getting in that little bit if extra dosh. I feel that it is simply a ploy to take advantage of us poor Australians who can not and will not eat their pie, sausage roll or chips without a smothering of that salty goodness we call tomato sauce. It is disgracefully that any business would take advantage of this weakness and charge for sauce when you are already buying their pie for $3 - $4 when you could really just duck into Coles, get a hot pie for $1 and buy a bottle of sauce.

So i am calling on all you sauce lovers, don’t fall for this revenue rasing scheme, boycot all places who insist on charging you for sauce when you buy food. Togerther we can win, together we can get back free sauce with food.

FREE SAUCE FOR ALL!!!

Arrrh procrastination, an art-form of which i am very familiar. In fact i must admit i am procrastinating at this very moment. But why is it that people see procrastination as so bad and evil?

During one of my many “procrastinate from my exam study sessions” I came across this article by some Hara Estroff Marano bird, who stated that:

Procrastinators sabotage themselves. They put obstacles in their own path. They actually choose paths that hurt their performance.

Now to be honest is this a fair statement? I personally think that i not only learn some great facts and skills through my procrastinations but i also get things done around the place. For example if my procrastination gets really bad i will actually resort to cleaning the house, going for a run, or posting on the web. i feel that each of these things are vital to ensure i have a balanced life.

If i didn’t procrastinate, my life would be dull, I would spend 18hrs a day doing maths, Dynamics, curriculum programing (they always choose the most boring tasks), etc. But as a part of my procrastination i not only learn a number of new skills, I socialise, and i actually get things done around the house (washing, cleaning, etc - you know those silly hygiene things….)

Anyway as a celebration of the art of procrastination i would like to dedicate the following OUTRAGEOUS film clip to Bungalow J. Wombat, esq. Who is the true king of procrastination:

Good-luck in the BAR Exam mate, we all know you can do it.

xxx