Day 30 A New Attitude

Today I took my mum out on a spin in the ole Camry. I spent the night at the parent's house because I didnt want to be waken up by the builders who were renovating our Kealba bathroom. I was treated like a guest here. Mum even went up stairs to tell my brother off for making such a racket.

"Anio!! Be quiet!!

Jenny is sleeping in the next room and you're going to wake her up!!"

I woke up to this at 12:20pm. I ate the breakfast she had made me and my brother; mushroom omelette and watery butternut pumpkin soup which I drank out of my Astro Boy mug. I saw my brother for the first time in 2 weeks. He still dressed like a muzza. I proposed to my mum that we go DFO Essendon.

"Do you know how to drive there??"

"Yes!" Obviously.

The air of confidence around me when I am with mum. I have to prove to her that I'm not a little kid anymore, I am a capable adult. I bet she sat in the passengers seat with controlled awe as I merged onto the Calder Freeway from the Melton Highway exit. Yep. I was braver than she.

I never leave DFO Essendon empty handed and/or disappointed. I love it there. I visit my usual shops:

1. Barkins
2. Sunglass Shop
3. Charcoal
4. Tony Bianco
5. Flockhart Street
6. Dotti
7. Glassons

The sales are really sales here. I spent about $95 today which got me:

1. Navy blue chiffon singlet dress
2. Khaki/brown elastic waist belt
3. Black knitted oversized jumper with sequined shoulders (buy two and get the third item for free weeee!)
4. Modal/Cotton black work pants (pleasant to touch)
5. Hooped earrings
6. Oversized black torn jumper/dress ($5 because it was a faulty item, the knit was coming apart but I think it looks kinda cool like that)

That averages out to be $15 per item. So good. I went home and tried them all on again. Then wore the dress + sequined jumper to the movies later.

New dress & belt

So this new attitude I have with mum. I've decided to let her be my friend. I speak to her now and I was driving her around yesterday and today. After six months of ignoring her, greasy-ing her, yelling and trying to hurt her feelings, I have decided it's time to make peace. Hopefully she has learnt her lesson to leave me alone, stop bitching about me and sticking her head into my business e.g. my rubbish bin. But as soon as she crosses that line, it will be another 6 months of fighting.

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We caught the 8pm 'Conan The Barbarian' movie at Sunshine Village Cinemas. I remember when that place first opened, it was the place to be seen. Us little asian gangstas would be seen hanging around the Arnold Swartzineger (?) holding a globe statue and giggle at the site of his crotch. Food Star All You Can Eat buffet was packed and it wasn't all reheated oven food like it is now. The laser lighting, like in the batman movies, that Sunshine once had and were visible from Delahey were gone due to financial costs. This place isn't what it used to be. It was kinda sad.

So the movie. I tried to save us some money by bringing my own chips and candy. Vince likes spending $15 on large popcorn and coke that we dont even finish. It kills me to think one hour of jwow work = popcorn and coke. Ouch. My standards.... But vince bought a $4 bottle of Mount Franklin.. oh and can you make that two?? So he spent $8 on two bottled waters. Ugh. Thats 30minutes of jwow work!

The movie started off OKAY... but I knew pretty much from early on it was gonna be a shit movie. A strong and interesting story line was not apparent within the first 20 minutes. I felt the casting acting of conan's dad a tad distracting and unbelievable. He played One from the City of Lost Children and I couldn't imagine him as Conan's dad. The name Conan was distracting too because its also the name of Vince's bunny labrador. When I hear the name Conan, I usually follow it with the words 'Big Doggie'.

The movie was violently graphic. Much decapitations. The bad guys didnt die any way memorable and it was a little disappointing.

What?!

All those years trying to track him down and he just falls off a cliff?!?!

I found some of the lines sexist like:

'Woman. Come here! I said come here!'

'Get off' and

'You do what I tell you to do. Go to sleep!'

The cinema was mostly full of guys, groups of tough guys. They snickered at these lines. Definitely get some complaints about it. And the fight scences, I felt they took inspiration from Lord of the Rings.

The picky movie critic that I am did not enjoy the movie. It was tolerable. I closed my eyes during the movie and my thoughts were elsewhere.