So, now where do I start?
I'd have updated earlier in the week, but blogger tagged my blog as spam and I had to contact them within a certain time frame or they were going to delete my entire blog. Yes, I was impressed! While they were considering if I was real, or a robot, they wouldn't let me post. But...moving on...
I'm in my new place and I only have two boxes left of 'stuff' to unpack. It's things that don't really have a place, or I can't find room for. I've also realised I have far more books than I had noticed previously. I'm not sure why that is, but it means I have to invest, at some stage soon, in a rather large, additional bookcase. At least now I have the space for one.
Living with my bro-in-law has been good so far. My sister thinks all his military stuff that he's received and/or collected over the years is just stuff to collect dust. I think it's all very cool, including a framed collection of knots that now has prime position in our place when previously it was banned from being shown. Yes, go on, laugh if you will, but I love the thinking and skill involved in making them. The combination of my very large tv, my collection of military books/dvds and other guy interest stuff, as well as the fact that I'll sit down and watch football apparently makes me prime girlfriend material. All I have to do now is find a guy. :p
The flip side of all that is that I get to spend every second weekend home alone, while he goes to visit my sister interstate. And those are/will be my girl weekends.
I'm no longer working in the place they keep people in cold storage and I miss it already. The CEO of the organisation and the State C.o.r0n3r want me to go back at some stage, which is really nice to know. The guy who can make that decision knows what terms I'll go back there on, so I'm hoping to hear from him soon. In the meantime, I'm working for an IT r3cruit1ng company. Corporate is sooo different from government! I'm working my butt off for the first time in 8 months. As much as I enjoy it and the people are nice, it's so not what I want to do and I can't wait till the balance of office hours vs personal training hours shifts in the other direction.
Speaking of which, I'm finally being officially assessed by the head of the PT franchise I'm working for on Thursday. Yes, I have an assessment on my birthday. Oh well, bring it on! It shouldn't be difficult, but I really don't like being critiqued like that. It's bad enough the nights I co-teach with the other trainer, but having them both watch will be kinda annoying. Still, I'm looking forward to it, because it means more opportunities and more money and those are both good things.
Strangely, and thankfully, my current boss is really supportive of my desire to do PT full time. So much so that he's keen for me to take the staff for morning group classes if there are enough interested people. He's also given me permission to do whatever research and planning I need to while I'm at work (in the minimal free time I have!), so that I can try to have enough clients by the time I leave this job (mid Sept) that I won't need very many office hours at all.
I've been without much internet access for a while now and I no longer have a land line at home, because trying to get that connected was a ridiculous debacle of extreme proportions. My new intenet access is intermittent, because we're in an area that's very hilly and has lots of trees. We're coming to realise technology does not like our house, but that's ok. I have all those books to read!
Ah, what else has happened? Oh, my niece is now out of hospital, but has been wearing a heart monitor to see what's going on. She had a bad kidney problem and the antibiotics she had to take for that have made her heart issues worse. Hopefully, we'll know in a few days what the full story is. She's said she hopes she and her girls can come here for my brother's wedding in November, but I'm not getting excited about that till I know it's definite. There are a lot of things that could go wrong between now and then. I would love to see her!
I'm sure there's plenty more I've forgotten, oh, including my crazy ex housemate, but that will have to wait. Sleep beckons.
I'm in my new place and I only have two boxes left of 'stuff' to unpack. It's things that don't really have a place, or I can't find room for. I've also realised I have far more books than I had noticed previously. I'm not sure why that is, but it means I have to invest, at some stage soon, in a rather large, additional bookcase. At least now I have the space for one.
Living with my bro-in-law has been good so far. My sister thinks all his military stuff that he's received and/or collected over the years is just stuff to collect dust. I think it's all very cool, including a framed collection of knots that now has prime position in our place when previously it was banned from being shown. Yes, go on, laugh if you will, but I love the thinking and skill involved in making them. The combination of my very large tv, my collection of military books/dvds and other guy interest stuff, as well as the fact that I'll sit down and watch football apparently makes me prime girlfriend material. All I have to do now is find a guy. :p
The flip side of all that is that I get to spend every second weekend home alone, while he goes to visit my sister interstate. And those are/will be my girl weekends.
I'm no longer working in the place they keep people in cold storage and I miss it already. The CEO of the organisation and the State C.o.r0n3r want me to go back at some stage, which is really nice to know. The guy who can make that decision knows what terms I'll go back there on, so I'm hoping to hear from him soon. In the meantime, I'm working for an IT r3cruit1ng company. Corporate is sooo different from government! I'm working my butt off for the first time in 8 months. As much as I enjoy it and the people are nice, it's so not what I want to do and I can't wait till the balance of office hours vs personal training hours shifts in the other direction.
Speaking of which, I'm finally being officially assessed by the head of the PT franchise I'm working for on Thursday. Yes, I have an assessment on my birthday. Oh well, bring it on! It shouldn't be difficult, but I really don't like being critiqued like that. It's bad enough the nights I co-teach with the other trainer, but having them both watch will be kinda annoying. Still, I'm looking forward to it, because it means more opportunities and more money and those are both good things.
Strangely, and thankfully, my current boss is really supportive of my desire to do PT full time. So much so that he's keen for me to take the staff for morning group classes if there are enough interested people. He's also given me permission to do whatever research and planning I need to while I'm at work (in the minimal free time I have!), so that I can try to have enough clients by the time I leave this job (mid Sept) that I won't need very many office hours at all.
I've been without much internet access for a while now and I no longer have a land line at home, because trying to get that connected was a ridiculous debacle of extreme proportions. My new intenet access is intermittent, because we're in an area that's very hilly and has lots of trees. We're coming to realise technology does not like our house, but that's ok. I have all those books to read!
Ah, what else has happened? Oh, my niece is now out of hospital, but has been wearing a heart monitor to see what's going on. She had a bad kidney problem and the antibiotics she had to take for that have made her heart issues worse. Hopefully, we'll know in a few days what the full story is. She's said she hopes she and her girls can come here for my brother's wedding in November, but I'm not getting excited about that till I know it's definite. There are a lot of things that could go wrong between now and then. I would love to see her!
I'm sure there's plenty more I've forgotten, oh, including my crazy ex housemate, but that will have to wait. Sleep beckons.
posted by E in Oz at 10:29 pm
these thoughts escaped my brain at 10:29 pm
8 Comments:
Okay.
It's official.
I've decided I need to not pay the internet bill, let 'em turn it off and get goin' on that stack of books that's just sitting there!
Wanna talk about military 'stuff' that's all over--come to our house!
;-)
Alone at the weekend and a liking for rope... let that be known and you won't be single for long :)
Holy cow, what a crazy month or so, huh?
Finding a guy... well, I'd give you pointers except that if not for the internet, I wouldn't have had any dates in the past 3-4 years. :P
No sleeping until we hear about your crazy ex-housemate!
Gheesh girl, don't keep me waiting. I love stories about crazy people.
..maybe because it takes attention away from my craziness.
xoxo
So last night I had a dream about you. You were in the newspaper and everything, and they spelt your name wrong
Hey Mel, I found the best model train shop right under the train station in the city. The Brit would love it!
LOL Jones, oh for it to be so easy. :p Hey I almost met M last weekend, but we fell asleep while planning it. That's old age for ya! :D
M, you and me both!
RG, as soon as I get some decent time, I'll post. The guy lost his marbles, I'm sure.
Happy birthday... and how'd the assessment go?
:)
Happy (belated) Birthday!!
I don't suppose we can have some cake??
Like RG, I'll wait for your stories! When you have time.
xo
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