Monthly Archives: December 2005

Merry Belated Christmas and Happy Early New Year

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Christmas was pretty quiet, we had horrible weather at the Island, but wonderful company, great food and some lovely gifts as well. We relaxed and spent the days playing Killer Bunnies which I bought Ash for Christmas and eating, eating, eating.

My brother gifted me with a $50 Myer voucher just prior to Christmas so I bought the first 4 Harry Potter books, and have finished them already. I bought the next 2 yesterday, with work’s voucher, but I haven’t started them yet. I am currently re-reading The Narnia Chronicles prior to probably seeing the movie this weekend (I bought the complete “all in one book” set for Ash for his birthday). In honour of my finally reading Harry Potter… this was pretty easy for me to predict :)


You scored as Ravenclaw. You have been sorted into Ravenclaw- you value intelligence, and love the chance to use your cleverness (and maybe even show it off- just a little). You’re keen and incisive, and you just love a challenging problem to solve.

Ravenclaw
85%

Hufflepuff
70%

Gryffindor
65%

Slytherin
30%

The Hogwarts Sorting Hat!
created with QuizFarm.com

My mum loved her calendar and address book, my brother loved his mousepad with titties, and we all LOVED LOVED LOVED Killer Bunnies! It was so nice to relax without stress, without TV, without computers…

For NYE we are going to see .hinge at Switch, I am not looking forward to hordes of drunk teenagers, but I felt like doing something and mum has rented the Island house out for a week, so that was out, and in all honesty after last year, I don’t think I could spent NYE there again anytime soon. So hopefully it will be a good night out. It is not something we do much of anymore, so I am semi-looking forward to it.

Ash and I both miss our friends, neither of us see anyone anymore. His friends are 4.5 hour drive away and mine are mostly overseas, and most of them aren’t coming back so far… Anne and her hubby will be back for 2 weeks in Feb, but then they are leaving again. Lana will just never come home I don’t think. Rose won’t be back for another year or so. 3 of bro’s friends are O/S now too, but he has made loads of new friends recently, so he is out partying up a storm, I am so glad he gets off the computer these days! He chuffed off to Carrum for a spontaneous party last night, Ash and I drove him to the city to catch a train out. Maybe I should start trying to meet people online again? I don’t know. I just know I need to find someone I can hang out with occasionally… I miss having friends.

Kitty and I will never be the same friends again as we used to be, she hurt me too much to really trust her again the way I used to. We still chat sometimes, and she came to visit a while back, but it’s not the same. Jess, Shae and Na are all moving in different circles to each other now, let alone to the ones we do, but I still see them occasionally which is nice. May and I are not really friends, we never were, we have mutual friends and we send Christmas cards…

Kath is in Brisbane, I think we would be great friends if we didn’t live 000′s of kilometres apart, but we do :) I would still love to live in Brisbane one day though…

This is not a complaint, just noticing my life is moving on and I need to work out a way to change some things. Moving out to the middle of nowhere probably wasn’t a good place to start in hindsight, but we love our house.

Oh year and month 1 is a strike out :) I knew it would be!

Christmas gifts…

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Well I have been stressing myself out ridiculously over the last couple of weeks. My boss gave me a list about 2 weeks ago, of everything I had to have completed by today, and I thought there was no way known it would happen! I contemplated asking him for extensions on some of the items, but in the end decided to just grit my teeth and put my head down and my bum up so to speak.

I just got out of my meeting with him and he is over the moon with the work I have produced, and the time I have produced it in.

One of the reps came in to see me a bit earlier and reminded me of the open door policy the company has, and to encourage me to stand up for myself and tell my boss that the demands being placed on me at the moment are unreasonable (he has noticed my sign in and out times on the books, I have been leaving at 7-7:30 most nights, and trying to get in early as well), I appreciate him looking out for me, he has been here for a long time. He also said he can promise me the support of higher management than my boss if I ever need it…

In addition to all these hours at work, I have also been putting in a few hours a night working for my old employers putting together pricing and doing market surveys on their competitors.

On top of all that, I can’t sleep because I am frantically worrying about what I have not yet completed for either one place or the other. Ash is worried I am doing too much, but I am coping, and it won’t be for too much longer, my replacement (ze Gerrrrman Girrrrl) at my old job is starting in 3 weeks. And, I need the money to try to fund the whole getting rid of the house thing. My credit card is near its limit and I owe my brother and my mum money for helping me pay out the homeloan… So I shall persevere for a while longer yet.

One a positive money side, my boss just told me my Christmas bonus is $150 Myer voucher which he will give me tomorrow, yay! I hate Myer, but I am sure I will find something lovely there.

Last night I plucked a gift tag from the K-Mart wishing tree and bought a gift to put under it for a disadvantaged family, it wasn’t much, but I hope it makes some little boy happy! I know how much fun I have had playing with nerf guns *grins*. I think I might go back and buy another gift tonight, I saw the most adorable toy kitten in K-mart that I would have loved when I was little (hell, I would love it NOW, but I have too many soft toys), so I am tempted to gift it to one of the little girls who need the “tree gifts” so much as a bit of sunshine in their lives.

And I am actually going to assemble my Christmas tree tonight. I wasn’t going to bother, but I remembered my uncle and aunty bought me some Christmas baubles last year for Xmas, in purple and silver of course, so I really should use them!!!

I best get back to work, this has been my faux lunch break at 4pm :)

As the sun sets…

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Thought I would share some photos of the sunset as seen from my front yard… you can just see the city next to the setting sun, it is so pretty. I can’t wait to see what the REAL summer ones will look like!

So Christmas shopping is over and done with, I have done very well this year! I still have to get my mum’s presents bound at Officeworks, but I will go there tomorrow night after work. I made her a new address book and a calendar with photos from the last 26 years :) She should love them, I hope she will! It was drama after drama with my printer trying to get them ready, but they look great. I almost caved a few times, I contemplated going to the shops and buying her ready made ones, but in the end I persevered.

I have finally officially finished my graphic design course. I only got passes in most of the assignments, a credit or two in amongst them. I think it is a load of bullshit personally, the one I got a credit for was terrible and the really good ones were glossed over. Oh well, it is all over and done with now, I am grateful.

2.5 more days of work, then 4 days off, 3 days on then 9 WHOLE DAYS OFF IN A ROW!!!!

Not counting the days, MUCH!

Xmas Parties

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Tomorrow night is my work Xmas party, I don’t see it being very eventful, hopefully a ncie dinner a couple of drinks and an early night.

Saturday night is my old works Xmas party.

That should be interesting.

There is about a 70/30 mix of don’t know about me and ash vs do know about it. Everyone knows he is bringing me to the party, but those who don’t know we are a couple think it is just because I want to come to the party…

One of the older guys asked Ash the other day to confirm the rumour he had heard about Mark and I splitting up, he told him that it was correct.

So we are anticipating some amusing scenes…

Man I love iTunes… one of the reps just asked me to download some crap music to play at the conference tomorrow… Technotronic’s Pump Up The Jam and Salt-n-Pepa’s Push It. $1.69 each later, and I have them… he owes me money now, I refuse to buy them LOL.

Anyway, work beckons..

Big hair, big titties and big sound…

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Well last night was full of naked breasts, big hair, swearing, smoke machines and motorbikes, yes you guessed it, I went and saw Mötley Crüe last night! While the sound quality at the top of the Palais wasn’t great, the show was definitely worth it. I felt like I was 14 years old again as I screamed my lungs out along to Dr Feelgood, Kick Start My Heart, Live Wire and Same Ol’ Situation, waved my arms in the air during Don’t Go Away Mad (Just Go Away) and sang along with the crowds rendition of Home Sweet Home.

I oohed and ahhed over the fireworks and flame throwing, rolled my eyes at the simulated sex between skanky girls dressed as nurses using some cans of silly string *rolls eyes just thinking about it* and laughed my ass of for most of the night at the crowd, a healthy mix of the die hard 80′s mullets and tattoos in their faded Crüe, Iron Maiden (and even one Faster Pussycat) t-shirts and the new generation of girls in short vinyl skirts with red and black striped stockings with spiked and studded collars and wrist bands.

If I was in the front rows I would have even taken my top off for the home movies *grins* but I wasn’t.

Vince Neil seems to have forgotten a lot of the words to his own songs though which is both amusing and disappointing. The wrong verse was quickly melded into the right one, and sometimes it even seemed better that way *laughs*.

The only relatively new song played was Sick Love Song, everything else was a classic, and I am glad, it’s the era I loved, the memories I hold, that make me love shows like these.

(I even smiled fondly when the bartender charged me $2.50 to pour half a bottle of Mt Franklin water into a plastic cup at the end of the gig, it reminded me of the Gn’R show in 1993 at Calder Park! $5 to fill a paper cup with water from a hose!).

I am glad I found the money to go, I wish I had paid the extra to sit downstairs as the last couple of songs, which we watched from the back of the stalls, sounded much better. Overall, I loved the night. I am tired and my legs hurt from standing up trying to see over all the big hair in front me all night, but it is a good tired.

LONG LIVE 80′S GLAM METAL!

Yeah

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Sitting here procrastinating. I am so lost at the moment at work, so swamped and out of my depth. I have so much work due in the next few days and some of it I just have no idea where to start. I know I should go in to the bosses and tell them that I am struggling, but I hate admitting defeat.

I thought of the perfect birthday present for ash this morning on my way to work but by the time I got here I had completely forgotten what it was and now I am kicking myself as I cannot think of anything else either. I have til Friday to remember or come up with something else as his birthday is on Sunday and the weekend is out of the question for shopping.

Realised on Sunday it was a year since the whole upheaval with Mark began, can’t believe it. I went back and read my entry from that weekend yesterday, still made me want to cry.

Argh I have totally lost my mind today. It is 5:05 and I am going home, I have so much to do there too… *sigh*