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Mid October Blues

I can’t believe it’s just after the middle of October already. Matt told me today that he got an e-mail saying that it’s 67 days till Christmas! *insert OMG emoticon*

 

Where has the year gone?! In just over a month, I would’ve been at my current workplace for a year. It has been a year of ups and downs, lots of changes and lots of lessons learnt. This time last year, I was lamenting on how I needed a new job as my job was paying pretty crap pay & I couldn’t survive on that for very much longer. Today, I’m so thankful I get an automatic salary increase on my anniversary date and another increment in the middle of the year due to the bargaining agreement.

 

Been a bit up and down lately at work, my mood has been pretty stable since I cut out the coffee. I worked out through trial and error that it was giving me anxiety and made my mood quite low. Been a bit stressed but am taking it day by day and hoping to achieve small goals every day to keep me on track. I’m also keeping my side project dream alive by working on little things each day & thinking about the ideas I have for it and documenting it.

 

You might say I’m a bit selfish for having exit plans from work, but to be honest I’m just forward planning. When we start having a family, I don’t want to be driving almost 3 hours a day to get to and from work, I much rather spend the time with my children and husband. I might not make as much money, but it would be doing something I love and will give me flexibility to grow and adapt with my family. I feel that’s important for me at this point in my life.

 

Anyway, a really funny thing happened at work today. I had worked pretty hard on a piece of work, ready for my manager to speak to his manager about. The negotiation for this had been going on for about 2 months with this. I provided my manager a hard copy of the document for the discussion. Fast forward 2 hours later, my manager comes out to me with his hand out. I was procrastinating work and had just finished playing a game on my phone when I turned to look. I was very puzzled to what was going on, I took it as an indication to smack his hand.

 

I asked my manager what was going on. He sheepishly told me that in the rush of him wanting to print a previous version of the document to take to his manager along with the current version, he accidentally hit the copy to draft button, which meant that my current document now looked like my previous document. Those damn buttons are located next to each other in the database, and usually there is a warning before it copies it over completely, but not this time. I was a bit shocked but oh well, accidents happen. I then spent about an hour redoing the document and sending off for quotes to an organisation again, I’ll have to redo the rest of the document tomorrow. Haha if I didn’t laugh at it, I would’ve cried.

The rest of the week looks to be pretty busy, but I end the week with a morning tea with our director general. I’m pretty happy with that to be honest. Now to focus on finishing the week on a high note!

October 2016

In looking at my blog, I think I’ve learnt one thing, the older I get, the less inclined I am to publicly put things on the internet for one and all to see. Especially when it has details of my life. My Facebook memories have come up with all sorts of status updates which are pretty embarrassing and enlightening at the same time.

 

Quite a bit has been happening lately, one of the main things is the damn clown sightings in Perth. I’m not particularly afraid or clowns, but if someone stuck their head with a scary clown mask on, in my window, I would be shitting my pants big time. I’m not sure why the whole thing has taken off, but am hoping it’ll die down pretty soon like the planking thing.

 

Work has been pretty hectic, caught a cold and recovered from it in about 2 weeks & things are back to it’s semblance of normal. Been slowly working on my project and cleaning up my room in anticipation for Matt to move in. Date is tentatively February now, we were really hoping it would’ve been December/January as the sooner that’s done, the better. That will at least give me a bit of time to declutter and cull my clothes collection I guess 😛

 

It is our 5 year anniversary next month. We haven’t really gotten our act together yet in planning anything, apart from throwing around the idea of having dinner at the Atrium to celebrate as it is our special place. We’ve got the wedding to save for & trying to put away as much money as possible for that and overpaying the mortgage to maximise our investment. I’m sure we will come up with something to celebrate, just that being in transition stage of things just throws us around a bit. Anxiously counting down the days of the move so that we can settle in!

 

It is also my one year work anniversary soon, am quite excited about it. Salary increase on the day automatically, which is awesome! Plus I have the day off, so am pretty stoked about it 😛

 

Speaking about work, it might be time to go to bed to try to get enough shut eye!