I'm going to Kentucky in March to play the Mass Effect 3 with my friend Sara, which I am really looking forward to, as she is like my best friend and I have reasons to be extra excited for ME3.
I am also gonna find a new job sometime, or I am thinking about going back to school for something. But I'm not sure what. I might get some mechanic training? I DON'T KNOW STOP PRESSURING ME.
What do you do at the moment? You know, you could be over here earning $180k+ a year as a mechanic. Just sayin'
Right now I sit on my ass alllllllllllllllllll day.
I don't know if I'm really up for moving further from home.
I actually just realized that I probably would have NO way of watching NFL football there so...
That's not true at all! Foxtel shows some (maybe all?) NFL games live.
Probably not all, and if it's not all (meaning I can't watch my specific team) then no way. Sorry Viv. I'M SORRY.
Look, I've turned down PROMOTIONS because they wanted me to work on Sunday.
BUT JORDYN
IT'S $180,000 A YEAR
*shrug*
Not worth giving up football.
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VivixenneRemember your training, and we'll get through this just fine.Registered Userregular
I'm going to Kentucky in March to play the Mass Effect 3 with my friend Sara, which I am really looking forward to, as she is like my best friend and I have reasons to be extra excited for ME3.
I am also gonna find a new job sometime, or I am thinking about going back to school for something. But I'm not sure what. I might get some mechanic training? I DON'T KNOW STOP PRESSURING ME.
What do you do at the moment? You know, you could be over here earning $180k+ a year as a mechanic. Just sayin'
Right now I sit on my ass alllllllllllllllllll day.
I don't know if I'm really up for moving further from home.
I actually just realized that I probably would have NO way of watching NFL football there so...
That's not true at all! Foxtel shows some (maybe all?) NFL games live.
Probably not all, and if it's not all (meaning I can't watch my specific team) then no way. Sorry Viv. I'M SORRY.
Look, I've turned down PROMOTIONS because they wanted me to work on Sunday.
Hey, that's a really great list, @MetroidZoid! Good luck with all of that.
What do you grow? Vegetables?
I'm not even going to try and include the various pots of perennials and stuff, succulents and annual combination pots, around the house. But last year in the garden, which is like a 8' x 28' area, I managed to squeeze in:
Tomatoes (10 of 'em!)
Peppers (cheating, actually they were in pots on the railroad ties bordering the garden)
Strawberries
Snap peas
Potatoes (a good quarter of the garden, and so worth it)
Cucumbers
Squash
Corn (failed, but this year I have plans ... oh how I have plans)
Spinach
Basil (eh, did not fall under the category of 'usable'. See Corn)
salad greens
And just outside the garden, I had mini pumpkins and watermelons growing on metal arches. Well, not so much growing on them as around, because I didn't train them. This year the peppers are going in the garden, small stuff is going out (in pots where available), going to shelter the peppers with hops I have in containers already, everything gets shuffled around so they're not relying on already depleted nutrients, growing mushroom corn instead of normal ear corn (it's the kind of kernals that give you the round popcorn, like caramel corn). What else ... strawberries are going into an artsy-container, an abandoned shopping cart I'm going to line and fill with dirt. And the melon experiment did tell me that they'll grow way beyond the reach I expected them too, so they'll go up the trellis along with some more vigorous squash, and I'll forego the pumpkins. I couldn't even grow enough to satisfy my carving needs anyways. If any of you are driving through Southern Oregon this spring/summer, feel free to stop by and I'll make you some fresh salsa and we'll share a beer.
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Wait how hard is it to move to Aussieland for a year to make a bunch fo money so I can move to Canada
I hate to nonconstructively post, but the idea of using Australia - pretty much the most isolated place on the planet - as the jumping off point to move to other places just makes me giggle. I mean, it shouldn't be how things work but hey, thats life and whatnot.
Wait how hard is it to move to Aussieland for a year to make a bunch fo money so I can move to Canada
I hate to nonconstructively post, but the idea of using Australia - pretty much the most isolated place on the planet - as the jumping off point to move to other places just makes me giggle. I mean, it shouldn't be how things work but hey, thats life and whatnot.
Hey man, if it works in Risk...
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Wait how hard is it to move to Aussieland for a year to make a bunch fo money so I can move to Canada
I hate to nonconstructively post, but the idea of using Australia - pretty much the most isolated place on the planet - as the jumping off point to move to other places just makes me giggle. I mean, it shouldn't be how things work but hey, thats life and whatnot.
Yeah I mean
I wouldn't go direct from Australia
Just make some money and move back and then get my ass up to Canada to be with Buttlady
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VivixenneRemember your training, and we'll get through this just fine.Registered Userregular
edited January 2012
Australia's hungry for workers and some industries pay ridiculously well
and when you consider an almost 1:1 exchange rate between the USD and AUD
and the fact that Aussies get paid, by numbers alone, what amounts to almost DOUBLE the amount someone in the same occupation in the US would make (more than double if you're in Western Australia or working in rural Australia)
it's definitely tempting
I mean sure you'll have to pay for a higher cost of living, but your savings will go farther if you decide to take them back to the US
Australia's hungry for workers and some industries pay ridiculously well
and when you consider an almost 1:1 exchange rate between the USD and AUD
and the fact that Aussies get paid, by numbers alone, what amounts to almost DOUBLE the amount someone in the same occupation in the US would make (more than double if you're in Western Australia or working in rural Australia)
it's definitely tempting
I mean sure you'll have to pay for a higher cost of living, but your savings will go farther if you decide to take them back to the US
Hey, that's a really great list, @MetroidZoid! Good luck with all of that.
What do you grow? Vegetables?
I'm not even going to try and include the various pots of perennials and stuff, succulents and annual combination pots, around the house. But last year in the garden, which is like a 8' x 28' area, I managed to squeeze in:
Tomatoes (10 of 'em!)
Peppers (cheating, actually they were in pots on the railroad ties bordering the garden)
Strawberries
Snap peas
Potatoes (a good quarter of the garden, and so worth it)
Cucumbers
Squash
Corn (failed, but this year I have plans ... oh how I have plans)
Spinach
Basil (eh, did not fall under the category of 'usable'. See Corn)
salad greens
And just outside the garden, I had mini pumpkins and watermelons growing on metal arches. Well, not so much growing on them as around, because I didn't train them. This year the peppers are going in the garden, small stuff is going out (in pots where available), going to shelter the peppers with hops I have in containers already, everything gets shuffled around so they're not relying on already depleted nutrients, growing mushroom corn instead of normal ear corn (it's the kind of kernals that give you the round popcorn, like caramel corn). What else ... strawberries are going into an artsy-container, an abandoned shopping cart I'm going to line and fill with dirt. And the melon experiment did tell me that they'll grow way beyond the reach I expected them too, so they'll go up the trellis along with some more vigorous squash, and I'll forego the pumpkins. I couldn't even grow enough to satisfy my carving needs anyways. If any of you are driving through Southern Oregon this spring/summer, feel free to stop by and I'll make you some fresh salsa and we'll share a beer.
Awesome! I looove home grown strawberries. And oh gosh, homemade, fresh salsa is possibly one of the best things ever (Mori's parents also grew tomatoes and made salsa!), I'd be sorely tempted to pass through for that alone!
And I can agree with more melons, fewer pumpkins.
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although
Australia does have rather nasty spiders
have a rough plan
don't stress about the minute details of that plan, just stick to it where you can and let it slide where it must
control what you can and maneuver around what you can't
and y'all are gon' be FINE
pffffffffft not in WA we don't
there is basically no spider in WA that can kill an adult in less than the time it takes for you to get to antivenom or to a hospital
*shrug*
Not worth giving up football.
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http://www.immi.gov.au/visitors/working-holiday/417/
(my application for this visa got approved overnight)
I know, I was just joking.
Who has a couch I can sleep on
Okay so maybe it wasn't a poisonous spider
But man, spiders in the car are one of my worst fears ever
I got an Enhanced License to go between here and Canada but that's it
I want to get money from that lady that rear-ended me.
And then lay around on the couch in my underwear.
JordynNolz.com <- All my blogs (Shepard, Wasted, J'onn, DCAU) are here now!
I'm not even going to try and include the various pots of perennials and stuff, succulents and annual combination pots, around the house. But last year in the garden, which is like a 8' x 28' area, I managed to squeeze in:
Tomatoes (10 of 'em!)
Peppers (cheating, actually they were in pots on the railroad ties bordering the garden)
Strawberries
Snap peas
Potatoes (a good quarter of the garden, and so worth it)
Cucumbers
Squash
Corn (failed, but this year I have plans ... oh how I have plans)
Spinach
Basil (eh, did not fall under the category of 'usable'. See Corn)
salad greens
And just outside the garden, I had mini pumpkins and watermelons growing on metal arches. Well, not so much growing on them as around, because I didn't train them. This year the peppers are going in the garden, small stuff is going out (in pots where available), going to shelter the peppers with hops I have in containers already, everything gets shuffled around so they're not relying on already depleted nutrients, growing mushroom corn instead of normal ear corn (it's the kind of kernals that give you the round popcorn, like caramel corn). What else ... strawberries are going into an artsy-container, an abandoned shopping cart I'm going to line and fill with dirt. And the melon experiment did tell me that they'll grow way beyond the reach I expected them too, so they'll go up the trellis along with some more vigorous squash, and I'll forego the pumpkins. I couldn't even grow enough to satisfy my carving needs anyways. If any of you are driving through Southern Oregon this spring/summer, feel free to stop by and I'll make you some fresh salsa and we'll share a beer.
3DS FC: 4699-5714-8940 Playing Pokemon, add me! Ho, SATAN!
And walk and talk I guess
Gonna get my certification and get a raise and be able to work from home more again
Maybe finish my book
Also this
I'm playing it right now!
It's actually evolved into a genuinely enjoyable game (with some interface issues.)
Yes me as well!
-this weekend
-getting over this cold
-getting rid of this headache
I hate to nonconstructively post, but the idea of using Australia - pretty much the most isolated place on the planet - as the jumping off point to move to other places just makes me giggle. I mean, it shouldn't be how things work but hey, thats life and whatnot.
Hey man, if it works in Risk...
Yeah I mean
I wouldn't go direct from Australia
Just make some money and move back and then get my ass up to Canada to be with Buttlady
and when you consider an almost 1:1 exchange rate between the USD and AUD
and the fact that Aussies get paid, by numbers alone, what amounts to almost DOUBLE the amount someone in the same occupation in the US would make (more than double if you're in Western Australia or working in rural Australia)
it's definitely tempting
I mean sure you'll have to pay for a higher cost of living, but your savings will go farther if you decide to take them back to the US
Which one of you Aussies has a couch I can sleep on while finding a place to live
hmm!
Make that two!
Awesome! I looove home grown strawberries. And oh gosh, homemade, fresh salsa is possibly one of the best things ever (Mori's parents also grew tomatoes and made salsa!), I'd be sorely tempted to pass through for that alone!
And I can agree with more melons, fewer pumpkins.
Blake has been known to offer up our couch if you bring him alcohol.
That said this has only been offered to forumers he knows quite well.
I have basically nothing keeping me here besides my friends and family and they're used to me pulling up stakes with a hair up my ass
http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/_pdf/sol-schedule1.pdf
no harm in having a look!
the species of bear
Oh wow I want to do this.
!
General Electrician is on there! I can do that job!
(!)