Frosty Friday

Oh my goodness, I can’t believe I am not frozen solid this morning. -0.6 degrees. I had to scrape ice off my car so I could see out of the windows to go to work. Only now, it’s just started to warm up, 4 or 5 degrees now.

Anyway, it’s a rather fresh start to what is my last day of work. Louise is taking me out for lunch today and Bridget made me a cake I’m not looking forward to the actual work side of things. I know my boss is going to hammer me with things to do just because it’s my last day. I was almost out of the door yesterday afternoon to go home when she got me to come back inside, turn my computer on just to look for an email that I didn’t even have. Thanks for making me late for dinner with Cameron (who’s been away for 2 weeks and only just got home last night). So glad I’m leaving.

Time for a coffee. I feel like I’m going to fall asleep at my desk and I can’t stop yawning. Then I’m going to spread paper all over my desk, open up some things on my screen and make it look like I’m busy. If only slacking off were a profession, I’d be a millionaire.

Terrible Tuesday

I think the heading says it all. Today was Sh*t! I’m possibly just being petty about the things that have pissed me off today but I don’t care. I am a woman influenced by PMS and have the right to be angry about anything I want.

So this morning I was woken up at roughly 6:00am due to people being niosy in the house. I was annoyed because my alarm hadn’t gone off even though it was set. Then I rocked into work at about 8:00 am to find a txt message from my boss telling me how to do the tasks that I already do every bloody morning. Yesterday I was thinking about how sad I was to be leaving this place but after my boss’s passive aggressive txt this morning I’m glad to be leaving. I’ll be happy to be working somewhere that they have a constant set way to do things in an office. The procedure won’t vary each day depending on how my boss feels.
I’m just so sick of being treated like an idiot.

Now this may all seem very silly and petty to you (especially the getting woken up bit), but when the same crap is happening at work everyday I tend to get a bit fed up. 12 months I’ve been dealing with this. Now I can completely understand why the previous accountant and receptionist left. There’s always one person in every workplace who makes life miserable. Even worse when that person is your boss.

 

Lets rant together. Have you got a terrible boss or just someone really annoying in your workplace who drives you insane?

Just decided to fall off the face of the Earth for a while

That pretty much sums up how I felt for the past month. I’ve barely had time to touch my computer at all. I got so wrapped up with everything going on at home. We had the carpets re-done, Cameron got a new job, I was going to the gym everyday, people moved in, people moved out then moved back in again, the bathroom, toilet and laundry are all getting renovated, Softball season started for Cameron, I got a new job then it was Mother’s Day. It’s been hectic.

I hate it when that happens. When life just starts going too fast for you and next thing you know, you’re swept up in the crazy current of things and there’s no life raft coming to save you and nothing to reach out for, you’ve kind of just got to go with it and wait for the current to lose moment and stop.

Yesterday was my first chance to stop and take a breather and have a few quiet minutes to myself. No-one was there bashing away in the bathroom, everyone had gone out for the day, it was just me and pickles our dog. I cooked myself breakfast and cleaned up my room so it was spotless again. Then I lit my oil burner and did some yoga to fully relax and recover from all the stress.

I’m getting back into my zone and I’m finally one step ahead of things again.

I love friday’s at my work

Happy Friday everyone

I have only 45 minutes left of my work day so I though it would be a great idea to babble to you all about how great the office is.

So, the reasons this workplace is so great:
#1. I’m currently sitting at my desk drinking a bourbon and coke. Yes, you did read that correctly, No body’s finished yet for the day and we’re all sitting here, chatting (pretending to work when the boss walks in) with our assortment of beer, vodka and bourbon.
#2. This place is stuck in a time warp. When Monday rolls around it feels like forever before the weekend will arrive, but before you know it, it’s Friday and you’re thinking “Where the fuck did the week just go?” or “WTF? It’s the weekend already? WOOHOO!” And my weekends always seem to go on forever, I love it.
#3. My bosses are so understanding of this stupid medical issue I have at the moment. They pretty much let me have whatever day off I need to go and have scans done. They even let me use my annual leave for it, because I have no sick days left.
#4. I get along with everyone. Nobody dislikes anyone and everyone seems to have the same twisted sense of humour. I have never found a work environment that is so relaxed. You really feel like you’re at home here.
#5. It may take me an hour each way to get to and from work every day, but because of where it’s located, I don’t get caught in traffic. It’s just one smooth ride to work everyday listening to my favourite radio station that crack me up every morning.
#6. The pay isn’t too bad and I’ll be getting a pay rise this year.

Well that’s all I can think of at the moment. But doesn’t it sound great Sometimes it’s good to just reflect on the good things we have. I may get annoyed at my job every now and then but it’s pretty bloody excellent.

Happy Friday all and I hope you have a fantastic weekend.

A fear I can’t quite comprehend

I like to think I was a tough child. I would laugh in the face of a doctor with a giant needle in his hand but as I’ve grown up I find myself quite nauseated at the thought of them. It hit me today that I now have this slight fear of them. You see I have a CT scan today and need to be injected with this crazy dye so all my insides show up for everyone to see. I don’t know what to do with myself. I’m actually nervous, shaking, going hot and cold just thinking about them jabbing that tiny little needle into my arm and taping it down.

I remember when I used to get blood tests done, I’d sit there and watch my blood ooze into the viles thinking how fascinating it looked. Now, I pretty much want to crawl up into a hole at the thought of. I watch them right up to the point they swab my arm with the alcohol wipe to clean it then it’s eyes shut, head in the opposite direction trying to find a happy place.

I tell you what though, everyone in the office is loving my nervousness because I’ve cleaned everything about 10 frickin’ times.

I’m off to clean the coffee machine.

 

Has anyone else ever developed fears later on in life about things that never used to bother you? I’d love to hear it, so I’m not the only one lol

The Opposite of a Thief

This morning was like every other work day. I got up, dressed and drove to work. The traffic was shocking (like usual), my stomach was grumbling half way to work (like usual) but there was something different about my desk when I got to work. Now I’m not sure who did it, was it the cleaners when they came in over the weekend, was it Cory who’s going away for 6 weeks to Hawaii? hmmm either way, this is what I found taped to the front of my computer…. and stuck to it was a little greeting card that say “Have A Great Day. In case of a not so great day, eat Freddo.”

So we still have the dilemma of not knowing who left the Freddos for everyone in the office but hey, just say thanks and eat freddo

Giant Queensland spider devours snake

I understand why people freak out about Australia because of our spiders and snakes. This just tops everything. Hope this doesn’t give you nightmares like it will me.

Golden Orb spider (Cairns, QLD, Aust)

Coolum QLD, Aust

Spider devouring brown tree snake

Spider eating a baby bird (Sydney, Aust)

Spider eating a Finch.

That wets stuff’s called rain …

Hey you! Yes you, crazy driver in front of me who feels the need to drop to 20kms under the speed limit because a little bit of rain fell from the sky! Would you speed up please?

I don’t understand why people do it. I know that the roads are more dangerous when they’re wet but seriously, your car is not going to crash going down a straight road with no oncoming traffic, no corners, no side streets, no traffic lights, no round-a-bouts, no slow ponts, no speed humps, no pedestrians, no animals, NOTHING. Just please move your ass.

I am a P plater but I’m the type of driver who will give way to pedestrians when turning, give way to other drivers on side streets while banked up in traffic so they don’t sit there for 20 minutes waiting to join the flow. I watch out for motorcycles and scooters. I don’t cut in front of trucks either. I move my ass out of the way when there’s an ambulance or police car doing their siren thing and I sit in the left lane so people going faster than me don’t get shitty. I like to sit ON the speed limit. I don’t go any faster and I certainly dislike going any slower. Honestly, our speed limits are ridiculous enough in some areas without you dropping down to 40km/h in a 60km zone. I’m a good driver. I’ve never had an accident (touch wood). You’ll find that the people who drop down so far below the speed limit trying to be “safe” actually cause more accidents than those staying on the speed limit.

I don’t mean to offend anyone. Not at all. I just want to be able to get home in 1 hour by doing the speed limit, not 2 hours because I had to sit behind someone being over cautious.
That’s my rant for the day.

A different trip to work

It Couldn’t Be Done

Somebody said that it couldn’t be done,
But, he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t” but he wouldn’t be the one
Who wouldn’t say so till he tried

So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, as he did it.

Somebody scoffed, “Oh, you’ll never do that;
At least no-one we know has done it”
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,
And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.

With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure,
There are thousands to point out to you, one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.

But just buckle right in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That cannot be done, and you’ll do it.

Edgar Guest