le sigh..

guess i cant have a dog afterall..

extremely out of mood and i dunno what to do..

:(

the last few days, we've been playing nintendogs on his DS and we have a miniature schnauzer named...poobum! lol, yes i know, what a name, but that aside, it's made me realise how much i actually want a dog!

so after a few discussions (more like pleas from my side), we're considering to have a dog at our new place when we move out. i've decided that i want a chihuahua coz they are so small and are low maintenance. i've been reading up all morning about chihuahuas and apparently they will get enough exercise roaming around a small apartment! amazing eh?

plus, because a chihuahua is so tiny, i can bring it out with me easily when i go shopping or whenever i'm out. and the most important thing is, since my boy is allergic to animal fur, we can get the short haired breed :)

i'm so excited! i saw some ads just a moment ago and i fell in love with one of the chihuahuas!

(pic courtesy of www.adoos.co.nz)

ahh love at first sight. lol..but anyway, i'm gonna try my luck to see if i can get one sooner :P i'm sooooooooooooooo excited! and even better news, they only cost about nzd10 a week to look after, and vet expenses every now and then, which works out to be nzd150-nzd200 a year!

i can afford that!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! I WANT A CHIHUAHA NOWWWW!!

it's almost noon and i'm still at home, even though it's a working day. yes, i start my late shifts from today :(

i have decided to go buy some books at fox outlet on my way to work later, so i will have something to keep me occupied during the quiet times...

i really hate the late shifts, now that i've moved out of home. i never really did mind doing the late shifts when i was working as a lifeguard. i guess it's because work was really close to home, plus is was always fun working late coz you get to lounge around after 7pm. but with my current job, it's different. work is about 15 minutes drive away, and when i get home, it's quite late and i dont get to spend much time with the bf, coz he'll be in bed an hour or so after i get home :(

but such is life, innit? you take it as it comes...

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was feeling a it sick yesterday. took some dimetapp before going to bed, and it kept me sleeping the whole night. i woke up at 0545, feeling as if i've had 12 hours of sleep! and this morning, i feel much better and very much revived from the good night's sleep!

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went to see the doc regarding my itchy spots and my ibs. the itchy spots..apparently it's some sort of bug that clings to your clothes/ laundry when you dry them and bite you when you put the clothes on. i dont really see the logic to this, coz i only get the itchy spots in winter? i can only think of it as eczema, but whatever, she gave me some cream to soothe the itch anyway.

now, for my ibs, i need to do a poop test. gah i was thinking what would be the best way to go around collecting my poo. lol. i've decided to do it next week when i have my days off again. it's such a pain when i need to send it to the lab and etc when i have to go to work. plus, the lab closest to me would be the one on symonds st, which means no parking...so i'll do it next week, drive to the lab in east care, and then go visit my family.

and she also gave me some medication to help with my tummy cramps. she said it may be drowsy, so i dont know if i should take it now...seeing that i have work in the next 2 hours or so! later i cannot drive how? maybe i'll take it when i'm at work, and if i feel drowsy, i'll ask to go home early, and get the bf to catch a bus to come to my workplace and then he can drive me home. lololol. early planning. no la, see how first later..if i get bad cramps then i'll take it. if not...i'll take it at night before sleeping!

anyway, better go get ready for work. tata!

i went to visit my little niece today, and boy is she growing fast1 she's over 5 months now :)

and here's a pic of her:

little katie busy sucking on her fingers..

i sat her on the couch while i was playing with her, and she kept falling forward or to the side when i'm not holding her. right after this pic was taken, she leaned forward and almost flopped her head on her little feet. hahaha~

anything that she gets hold of, she'll put it in her mouth. if she has an item in each hand, she'll try hard to stuff both toys into her mouth. greedy baby! and when there's nothing in her hand, she'll stuff her whole fist into her mouth, or sometimes her teenie-weenie fingers will do the trick.

when she has slobber all over the hands, she'll rub it all over me -.-" but i dont mind that, coz for the past 2 months or so, everytime she sees me, she'll cry. but today...ah today.....she played with me for a whole hour without crying! she kept smiling and laughing with me if anything!!!


anyway, time to go pick the boy up from work and go get dinner.

toodles!

update update:

i actually bought more than what i mentioned at the bottom. i bought 2 tops from cotton on for nzd5 each, and also 2 opaque tights for nzd10, which was a cheap buy coz elsewhere is selling it for over nzd15!

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update:

i spent a whooping nzd200+ today, getting a parking spot for myself close by, and also on my shopping spree!

<3

got a parking spot coz i was sick of moving my car from one spot to the other in the early hours of the morning when i'm on my days off and when i start later...

and for my shopping spree, i got a nice Abercrombie & Fitch jacket which was nzd80! i thought it was a bargain since it got slashed by half and it's gorgeous! and i go 4 sets of undies from my fave lingerie store (nzd3 each!) and some contact lens solution. mmm...i iz happy!

and the bf has agreed to take me to blush to get my dose of pearl milk tea! w00t!

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omg the bf is taking me shopping tmr. VOLUNTARILY. omg omg omg omg!!!

lol. he was the one who suggested we go shopping tomorrow, as long as i buy him sushi! haha~ done deal hun!

on happier news, pay day tonight, which includes all the unpaid days of sick leaves they owe me, plus my incentive. w000000000000t!

something interesting just happened. as i was walking to the toilet, i bumped into a couple of my team mates and one of them came up to me and asked if i really was tranferring to the city.

i told them my reasons for wanting to transfer, and they totally agreed with what i had to say. i told them i didnt feel like i was growing in the team and that we aren't being developed to be where we want to be. i remember when we first started working here, we were told that we can tell our team leaders what our goals are, and i have done that with my team leader, yet she has done nothing.

most of my team members seem to agree as to where our team leader stands. we all know that she is a very nice lady, but she is too busy doing her own things, and not paying too much attention to us. we are meant to have regular coaching sessions to help manage our work stress, yet, i've only received 3 coaching sessions since i started, 2 of which were asked for.

i personally feel like if i stay put in this team, i will be in the exact same position as i am, say in the next 10 years :P and that, my dears, is why i requested to be transferred to another team, in the city..

but i am just glad that i am not the only one feeling that way, now that i know a couple of other people that i have spoken to feels the exact same way too.

before i say anything else, i need to say this:

everything's sorted now. sorry i got some of you worried!! but it's all gooood now :)

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i have self-diagnosed myself with IBS (irritable bowel syndrome). my stomach's been rumbling like mad, even after a meal, and when it rumbles, it feels like i'm letting off a huge fart, but i really am not! it's been pretty bad in the last few weeks, but the last few days got me really concerned with my health!

so i hopped onto trusty google yesterday while at work, and looked up my symptoms. turned out that it was IBS, as what was diagnosed to me a while ago by my doctor, but the symptoms are completely different now. i can pretty much tick off all the symptoms on the list, except for constipation. that, is one thing i do not suffer from! phew!

from what i've read, peppermint tea helps to soothe the stomach. so after work, i dashed to foodtown to get a packet of peppermint tea, and had it before and after my dinner. if anything, it made my stomach feel worse, but i dont think it worked coz my stomach's been bad since earlier in the day anyway. i brought along a small packet of peppermint tea with me today, hopefully it'll work its charm. i mean, it's not the best tasting tea ever. it tastes like toothpaste stirred into your earl gray tea. but if it'll work, then i wouldnt mind!

another way to help reduce the problems of IBS is to eat smaller portions of meals. now, that i am very keen to try, because it's also healthy! so today, i packed my brekkie to have at work - soy milk with oats, and sugar. it was meant to be brown sugar, but i couldnt find any, so yeah..

hopefully all will be good today and the stupid rumblings will stop. rumblings and other stuff that i wont even go into, because it's gross!

i need to go toilet now. :x