Jenamireal

I went back to work today after having 3 days off.. First I was sick and then Alek caught my never ending cold.  I spent time watching Dr Phil and Oprah, a bit of cleaning, a bit of sleeping.. life was sweet..  Now i’m back at work to deal with the usual same old thing…. 

a client who has apparently lost a $8,000 ring somewhere at some time over the last 7 yrs. The house was burgled in 2001 and it could have been lost since then?? What the hell.. if i had an $8,000 ring I would know when it went missing!! So now he has to make a police report about a ring he lost somewhere at some point – not sure that’s even possible.. but anyway the insurer approved the claim straight away.. I love my prestige insurer..

then there was the frustrating liability claim i’ve been dealing with for almost 12 months. Sure liability claims can often be complicated but this one was not and could have been paid in a week without any dramas. But no, its taken 12 months and regular contact with the insured, insurer, third party and managing agent.  After thinking all was said and done i get in today and the third party has claimed another $400 because she decided to hire a car because she didn’t get the cheque fast enough hahaha but what was more funny is the insurer agreed to pay.. They didn’t “have” to but it wasn’t worth the hassle.

Anyway enough of my whinging.. back to work tomorrow… oh I got a pay rise today so that will help me wake up in the morning..

Well I thought i’d do the right thing by coming home and cleaning, put on the dishwasher and sat down to watch big brother whilst listening to the rain inside.. took me a few minutes to realise the rain wasn’t outside, it was much closer, it was in my kitchen and coming from my dishwasher and all over the floor. Another call the to real estate.. currently my lights aren’t working properly, my dishwasher is stuffed (not just the flooding issue), the front door lock has issues… umm I think thats it but theres probably more.

And to think I had to increase my rent payments today by paying an extra $30/wk.  I hesitate to call the real estate because it seems some comparisons have been made between how often things break down in my place compared to the neighbour with the same owner. This is where I get annoyed… My townhouse has had 4 different tenants over the 6 yrs since it was built. The last tenants were evicted so damage was done, the only time i’ve complained about something is when my oven and downstairs toilet was out of action for 3 months and I think thats fair enough.. So tomorrow i’ll be seding another email and then the battle begins trying to get the handyman to come out and fix the damn things..    arrrgggghhhhhH!!!!!!!!!!

Most of my weekend was spent cleaning at my mums and my own house.. another part was spent in bed after catching a cold from someone somewhere.. it’s an evil thing but at least I achieved something with all the cleaning.. Wet and windy so nothing else to report really.

I was really looking forward to end of June for our end of financial year celebration which will this year be on 4th July. Ok so i usually end up pretty messy and for two years in a row I have attempted to walk home from Cronulla, luckily last year I had pre-arranged a lift.  After Tom being diagnosed and having other staff off on extended sick leave as well as all the family/private issues people seem to have we need a big party!!!

Unfortunately yet again we were asked for suggestions and yet again our suggestions were ignored.. In the end I guess we can choose to make the most of it and being in the middle of nowhere arrange a lift to continue the party or have a few drinks and go home.. I don’t know yet which I will be in the mood for..

Regardless, for the third year I have promised not to get so messy…Guess we’ll see what happens..

Confusion is what we see when we don’t want to see the truth

I’m tired after not having a great sleep for 3 days… can’t write much because I don’t want to think.. thinking means no sleeping at the moment.. so Good Night!!

So how are we feeling about Big Brother this year?? 

I’m thinking.. they bully Travis too much even though he is freaking annoying.. Brigitte is a disrespectul biatch.. Rory gets cosy and hugs anyone and everyone.. the new guy apparently keeps a diary with the names and number of times he “gets with girls”, the new old guy is funny and strange…but i still continue to watch it.. 

Well after googling DORE is appears that the UK and US centres have also gone down… Its amazing to hear all the success stories on the websites of people who have had children on the program and have enrolled their siblings… If only the government would put money into a non drug program like this one rather than spending millions on Ritalin then maybe the world would be a better place.

Written 30th May – Yesterday I lost a lot of money… well it was actually last week but i didn’t find out until yesterday. I’d understand if i’d invested in some high risk money making scheme but i hadn’t. I had invested so to speak $5,200 in a drug free exercise program to help Alek concentrate, write neater, organise himself etc..  It was a 12 month program and we are a few months into and seeing great improvements in writing, organisation, behaviour in general was also improving – until we missed a few weeks.  Last week I phoned to make an appointment and I asked if we were the only ones that skipped a few weeks and he chuckled and said its fine, plenty of people do it but you can get back on track.  He told me to call back this week to make an appointment.  Yesterday I went to the website to get the contact no and found this message: www.dore.com.au

“It is with great regret that on 15th May 2008 that Dore Group (Australasia) Ltd (“Dore”) has appointed a Voluntary Administrator. As a result Dore is closing all of the mainland Australian clinics which deliver the Dore Program with immediate effect. “

So I email the administrators to basically ask what happens next and today I received a call.  I was advised that this company owes so much money to creditors that it is unlikely that anyone will recover their money