*yawn*

Well, for those of you who said I should do a blog, ya gotta blog, and with it comes all the annoying and boring posts as well. (I really only post something every day in order to keep my mom sane).
Anyway.. today was pretty mellow. I went to Warringah mall, hardly did any shopping at all. Anton and Kalina took me and they had things to pick up, so it was a total divide and conquer method. Although Kalina helped me find a couple of cute tunics for wearing over my swim suit. They tried to get me to buy a large brimmed floppy hat, and I would have, had they not all sucked and looked ridiculous. I'm not a floppy hat kinda person.
So I did that, got some good sunscreen - *ahem* no jokes please - got a SIM card for my phone, got my account activated was super stoked and headed back to the house to set it up and make some calls.
Well, we get home and I put the card in my "unlocked" phone... and I don't have any signal. So I thought I needed to actually purchase some time, so I did... turned off, turned on. No signal. Tried to activate my account online.. no workie. So I called customer service. She said my account was active, I had plenty of $, so to try turning it off and then on again. I did... twice. Finally we tried putting the SIM in Kalina's phone and boom... workie workie!
SOOOOOo, it's my phone! Apparently when I "unlocked" it, I only unlocked it to accept any service provider in the states. NOT any service provider anywhere..... neat.
So, tomorrow I gotta go BACK to the mall, actually browse around a bit more and get an actual phone that will work with my new SIM. *sigh*

Other than that, I hung around the house, looked for jobs, made a PDF of my work samples, watched some cricket... yay....
Later though I thought I'd walk down to Manly and grab a bite, maybe take the dog, Moose, with me. Then Anton brought up meeting one of his mates down there and I was like sure!
So Moose and I walked down to Manly to meet my new friend Richard. Very nice, chill lawyer guy. We went to this corner pizza place and hung out for a couple hours chattin it up till about 8:30, then called it a night, and I got the awesome job of walking all the way back... up hill.. in the dark. Which was fine, it's really not a scary place here, there's hardly anyone out and about outside the pubs and restaurants. Although there was this sketchy, creepy person that was walking on the sidewalk ahead of us and Moose was pretty wary of them so I kept my guard up.. but it was too funny... as we were coming up on them to pass them, they let out a really long fart!! I really tried hard not to bust out laughing.. the creepiness of the situation kinda helped, I say "them" because it was too dark to see if it was a man or woman and I wasn't gonna stare at them to try and figure it out.
So yeah... walked all the way home (about 4 KM total) and my dogs are now officially barking. I wouldn't be surprised if I have blisters on my feet tomorrow.

So sleep well my friends, as I will be in a mini coma till tomorrow morning!
Cheers!

~The hobbling Quasay Australia Backpacker