– T’s aunt and uncle won the grand prize in some competition run by Coca Cola – $250,000 and a bunch of tickets to the Rugby World Cup. Crazy! You never actually KNOW the people who win things like that. Well, until now. They’re lovely and deserving people, so I’m glad they won and am happy for them.
– My mum just got back from a quick visit back to Malaysia. I’m feeling EXTREMELY unaccomplished after hearing all about what family/family friends are up to. Doing postgrad in San Francisco/Switzerland/Hong Kong, travelling to Milan, getting married etc….
– I mentioned to her we were looking for a duvet/vacuum. She responded by offering to buy both for me as an early Christmas present. So, so awesome. I don’t know how much she got the duvet for (queen size goes for maybe $60 to 100+, but she wouldn’t have paid that much) and got a blinging vacuum ($270, down to $110). It is seriously awesome. It is the best vacuum I’ve ever encountered – barring Dysons which I’ve heard so much about – and is so hitech it looks like something from Transformers. It’s going to be unbelievably helpful this weekend when we get to cleaning up the old place. I am SO grateful and better make sure I get her an awesome Christmas present. I was planning on putting together a big hamper for the whole family, which I think will be useful because…
– She just told me (after giving me the gifts) that she almost lost her job. To elaborate, she’s gone from two days a week to one day a fortnight. That’s a 3/4 cut. They may as well have laid her off!
By the way, Dyson’s are not all they’re cracked up to be.
Sure, it keeps sucking, and it’s awesome and bla bla bla.. but the version I bought, the stupid stretched out handle won’t stay stretched out and keeps trying to retract into itself.
So when I’m vacuuming under a table, suddenly my hand will jolt forward because the clasp let go and tried to retract into a foldable vacuum again
Highly annoying.
Jaysus, you’d think for the price you pay they would have fixed up any problems like that!
I’m just grateful to have a vacuum with REAL suction power, that actually latches onto the carpet rather than having to be forced down onto it. And that has the extension pipe so that I don’t have to crawl around on the floor…