All The Small Things

Mood: Happy.

Well, I'm a bit embarassed to say that nearly all of my great plans have come to nothing.

1. Boys. Well, I did get rid of the Farmboy. There was a distraction free period of about three minutes where I was single and fancy free.

Do you remember the watchmaker? I think I've mentioned him once or twice. He's just moved back to Sassville, after living in Adelaide (does everyone live there?? LOL) for a couple of years.

He's set up a new business in town, with his Dad, who is also a watchmaker. Its on the main street, and I went in in late December to get him to fit a new watchband to my watch. Santa decided to pay for it, when Christmas rolled around.

I'm still waiting for my watchband... which I'm not totally crushed about, because there are worse things than having to visit the watchmakers occasionally to chase it up and be served by the Calvin Klien Model Hotness that is the watchmaker.

This week just gone turned out to be quite interesting. The watchmaker had come to (yet another) standstill on getting my band, and had offered me some alternatives (again) which he said he would fit for me if I left my watch with him overnight. So he took my watch on Tuesday, and dropped it back to my office on Wednesday (he dropped it off to my office!!!) but he hadn't fixed it!! (Again!!) This has been going on since December.

So he said that if I headed up to the shop on Friday, he'd check with one last supplier, and get some other alternatives together for me, and we could sit down and go through the options.

I said, no worries, I'll head down about 4.30 on Friday, but I can only stay until 5, as I have to be at the pub to do the raffle at 5. All fine.

Later that same day... My girlfriend came into work with her little bub. She had her hubbies broken watch with her, and in a not-at-all-engineered kind of way, I ended up taking the bub for a walk so that she could get her work done, and dropped into the watchmakers to get the watch fixed for her. Aren't I charitable?? LOL

So while I'm in there, and he's replacing the battery in the watch, he says to me "So is there bingo on at the pub on Friday as well?"

"No, no bingo I'm afraid."

"Thats a pity... if there was bingo you could convince me to come over." Smiles.

"Well, no, sorry, no bingo. Besides, you aren't much of a pub person anyway are you?"

"Depends on the company I guess..."

"What kind of company would you require?"

"Oh, well, I don't know..."

MMM. Interesting... The conversation then moved on to what we both did on weekends, and pets and other stuff.

"Well, I am going to head over to the pub on Friday, so I'll see you there?"

"Sure, but you know this means you have to buy a ticket from me!" Laughing

"I can do that. Here's the watch. All fixed. Just needed a new battery."

"Thanks! How much do I owe you?"

"Don't worry about it. You can buy me a beer on Friday. And I have to challenge you to a game of pool too, if you're up for it?"

Swoon.

So Friday rolled around, and I headed up at 4.30. He'd managed to find a  band in the rose gold that I love, but it was just so fussy and chunky, it wasn't me at all. I picked a different one instead, and he refused to fit it. He's going to check with a couple of other watchmakers, because he wants to get  me the one that I want.

Later he joined me at the pub, and was lovely. We chatted and stuff, until at about 7.30pm, he had to drop his mate off at home. He turned to me and asked me if I'd still be there if he came back. Naturally I would be... after all, its not everyday that someone of that level of hot sweet niceness wants to spend time with you...

So when he came back, we played pool, (I beat him two games to one!) and had lots of interesting conversation...

He asked me out to breakfast on Sunday. I said no.

He asked me out for pizza during the week. I said yes.

He asked me to decide which night suited me, and to let him know.

He also said that the reason he hadn't fixed my watch yet was because if he did, I'd stop coming in to the shop, and he likes to see me. AWWWW.

 

2. The car. Advice from all sources is that I would be better off to keep it. Because I won't get back nearly enough to buy something decent, its reliable, and really not that heavy on the tires and petrol comparitively.

Plus I ran into a stump today, and now the front bumper is rooted. Think I need driving lessons.

 

3. My Job. I've spoken to the Management Committee and they understand what I have to do. I've started applying for other work, and I'm waiting to see how I go.

 

4. Fridays at the Pub. Well, last Friday was my last night on the raffle, so I'll be out for the next four weeks at least. I'm making the pizza date with the watchmaker for this Friday (hope he's free) and that will take out at least one issue. I can't give it up completely, after all, its one of the major fundraisers that we have for the Kinder and the Childcare Centre.

 

So although I haven't hit all my targets, I have ended up with some solutions.

I will get a new job.

I will keep my car.

I will cut down on my time at the pub.

I'm spending time with a complete hottie!!.

Hooray for resolutions that don't work out as planned!!