Dec 18 - Clothes Shopping and Reading

Woke up at 1:30 PM today, wow, should probably set an alarm. Got up and showered and dressed and surveyed the food situation. Starting to run low on groceries so we opted for a kebab at Yummy's, which was delicious as per usual. B got a call yesterday about an interview for an accounting job on Monday, so he needed to get dress shoes and pants. I tagged along and we headed to Market City, which is adjacent to Paddy's Markets, but is actually a mall with legitimate retailers, albeit often discount ones. Came across a shoe store having a sale of buy one pair, get 50% off the 2nd pair, so after he picked a pair, I chose a pair as well. We both got black loafer style dress shoes, mine having a bit more stitching and shininess to them than Brennan's. He picked up pants at a dress clothes store that had surprisingly affordable prices and I tried on some dress shirts but didn't like how they looked, so I left that store empty-handed. Probably for the best anyways, as I don't have any interviews, let alone knowing if I'll even be working in a job I have to dress fancy for and I already have an extra pair of shoes recently purchased. On the way back to the hostel we see a shop having a going-out-of-business sale and they have shoes that look just like ours for even cheaper, but we shrugged it off, not wanting to have to return ours and re-buy new shoes to save a few bucks. Our shoes only ended up being about $40 per pair anyhow.

Back at the hostel I spent some time looking for retail jobs online, but there weren't many leads and I think I may have to just go in person to random places and ask if they're hiring. Did some reading; Catch 22 for Brennan and Scar Tissue for me before wandering to the kitchen for supper. Made up dinners of soup, corn niblets, pasta and toast, which was sort of everything we had left. Read some more after dinner then went for a Krispy Kreme dessert snack. Learned that they have no loyalty card program (at that store anyways) which was disappointing, but we felt better after eating some original glazed. Stopped at Cole's supermarket after that and got some fruit and cereal and milk for breakfast tomorrow, then went back to the hostel and tossed our stuff in the fridges and on the food shelves. Then read for probably 2 or 3 hours after that. I'm starting to understand how people can really get into reading and spend a lot of time doing it at the beach, at home, etc. Tomorrow I want to go to Bondi and get some surfing lessons, provided the waves are cooperating. We're thinking of attending church in the morning also, so it should be a busy day. I really need to find myself a job and therefore attain some interviews, so I'll probably put some time into that tomorrow as well.