Tails’ Blography

So happy days for me! I got news today that I’ve been waiting on for almost a month now…I got a new JOB!

I got a job with Asus as Channel Manager in Cape Town! I will be the face of Asus in this region, trying to intergrate it into the market a little more, seeing what and dealing with problems people (read: shops) have, sending promotional material to stores, etc.

I start in January with a week’s training in JHB which is going to be a huge step for me to do alone. No one else that I know will be with me, and I’ll be meeting everyone for the first time. Not sure where I’m staying, they said if I dont have anyone to stay with in JHB they’ll make a plan, but I dont know if that means a B&B or one of their work people….however, would I be comfortable going to a stranger’s house to stay haha probably not, so I’m probably being silly and they’ll organise a B&B. But then I’ll be all alone at night le sigh.

But, 2010 comes with a bigger salary, more responsibility, and a new routine. I think I’m ready for it! Hell, I’ll give it all I have! Yay for me!! However, it is bittersweet ‘cos I love working for my dad and the hours are flexable and the days are easy…and he needs me. So I made this decision with a heavy heart, but he’s been nothing but extra supportive, and I love him so much for that. And of course I’ll try help where I can!

In other, though somewhat old news, I mentioned before that my car was dented and I was fighting with this guy to pay for it (since he reversed into me)…well, he’s FINALLY claiming on his insurance, a year down the line (after ignoring all my lawyer’s letters and summons, etc)!! But, not a moment too soon ‘cos next year in March I’ll be in the market for a new car and needing to sell mine. I’ll be very sad to see ol’ Bluebetty go, cos she’s been good to me, but I’ll be looking at a new (read: slightly secondhand) Getz or Yaris or something.

Now I just need to see if I’ve been accepted into Unisa for my studies! What a year 2010 will be!

Last week V expressed an interest in washing and polishing her car, and enquired if I’d like to join. Having never before polished my car, I agreed, and gleefully went out to purchase some supplies!

I stood for a while in the automobile section of Pick ‘n Pay and pondered over the various polishes. Wax or liquid? This brand or that brand? Eventually I found a special for R49 on a liquid polish and a dashboard cleaning spray which I decided to purchase. Now my decisions moved to which dashoard spray smell would be least offensive. I settled on Musk after the Cherry reminded me of when I was 6 and my dad let my sister and I choose a scent from the valet service being done on my mom’s car. We chose strawberry. And oh boy, did we have strawberries. For the next 8 months we had to drive with the windows wide open. It was killer! Right at the end I found a set of 3 microfibre cloths which I also bought. May as well do it right, right?

V brought J (bartender I mentioned in Girls Night: The Aftermath) for some “muscle”, though he was lured under the pretense of being able to sit back and watch us washing cars in bikinis…ha! I was originally going to wash my car at her place, but she ended up coming to me instead cos of my holey exhaust. We got buckets of warm water, added car wash soap and got washing. J & V did her car, I did mine with V coming over to help once hers was done.

As like any time when V and I get together, there was lots of giggling and laughing, and poor J dutifully helped, though I daresay we made it interesting for him. After a spout of girly gossip while doing the rims, we moved on to drying the cars with my “moist chamois”. J showed us an innovative way of using these cloths and now drying will never be boring again!

Having never polished a car before, I looked to V & J for guidance, J being a little more pedantic about being neat than V lol. We all got started on my car, and of course more laughter ensued, ending with V and I attempting to “wax on and wax off” with our boobs, much to J’s delight!

We decided to move on to lunch of hotdogs before tackling V’s car. After lunch, we did V’s car, which due to her paint work was a lot harder than mine and our arms very nearly fell off by the time we were finished. Then we mixed and matched a bit while J sat back and watched (all he needed was a deck chair and a beer haha). I washed windows while V did her dashboard. Of course fumes engulfed us in the car and we giggled and laughed even moreso.

Our extension and vacuum cable wouldnt reach the parking area, so we had to reverse our cars onto my lawn…poor V’s car protested so much and eventually my entire lounge smelt like burnt rings and smoke haha but we managed to get half the car onto the lawn which was juuust enough. I vacuumed her car whilst she cleaned my dashboards. By the time we got to vacuuming my car, it was around 7.30pm so J came in handy again holding the flashlight while I vacummed my car and V cleaned up all the loose papers.

By the end of the evening we were pooped, so we ended up getting some pizza and subs and choc brownies with icecream….and so ended a thoroughly tiring but fun day. Might do it again next month….might. Hehe.