the toes knows

Friday night was a work social event that involved baring my feet. I decided on Friday morning that my feet were really not worthy enough to be paraded around and needed a pedicure. So i quickly and easily convinced Cat-man-do to come with me. We ditched the gym! but our feet definitely looked fab

home again home again

jiggity - jig..

have made it home in one piece, semi recovered from jet lag and the terrible sinus problem I had. Have returned to work, the gym, and the day in day out routines of everyday life. I am pretty sure that at some stage over the coming months I will bore you to death with holiday photos - I can sense your anticipation already.

Don't forget to check out my list on the right hand side - of things I would like to achieve this year. I think I can cross some of them off already...

observations

so my work in the city has finished and I have observed several tings over the course of the 2 weeks...things like
* I think it is rude not to put your phone on silent...in the office..on the train etc. I also think it is not good to talk on your phone on the train. I really don't care what you are doing tonight, what you did last night, what the problems are at work. I don't KNOW YOU
*If I can hear the song you are listening to on your ipod - it is TOO loud
*What is with every single place selling coffee. People buying coffe add a lot of time to the procedure If it is a sandwich shop - it makes sandwiches not coffees
* lavender chocolates are yummy
*having one of those security keys neck things are a pain in the BUTT
* I am very appreciative of the fact that I live 5 mins from work...very glad. I was leaving home at 5.30 in the morning and not getting home until after 6. That is a long time to be away from home. I felt like all I did was go to work come hoem and then get ready to go to the gym again
*this is my last week at work - and I am seriously behind - but Oh well. It will all be fine.

I really did like my time in the city and would do it again if I was asked.

43 Things

Ok so I have finally finalised my list of things. I am going to focus on these things next year. Hopefully I will be able to update the list and cross things off as I achieve them. Have a look at the side bar >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

This week I have continued working in the city. I am enjoying but am missing my regular place of work. It is also super expensive by the time you buy lunch coffee etc.

Yesterday my friend Leesy J and her daughter Ivy came and met me for lunch. We had a super time- I even took my camera so I could take a photo but I forgot :( I have continued getting ready at the gym - and can I just say that I really don't like it when people make out the locker / shower room is theirs - because quite obviously it is MINE! Someone was using my shower this morning, then I had to change lockers because someone put their stuff near mine and well a girl needs space to spread out her stuff. By the end of the week I will have this getting ready at the gym thing down to a fine art, and then it will be time to stop. Perhaps I should just get ready at the gym forever and ever. Although showering in thongs is not the funnest thing ever. Would you wear thongs in the shower in a public shower? I notice a lot of people don't. Hello TINEA!

SITC...

not - but i have been doing plenty of other stuff in the city.

I have been working in the city since Wednesday and what an adventure it has been. Some highlights
* catching public transport. I had to get a go card - how grown up.
* catching the train at an ungodly hour - see the watch. Already I had been to the gym - I have been getting ready at the gym which does take some organisation I must say. I was literally sitting in the train waiting for it to moooooooooooooooove. Also can I say here that I love the concept of an express train however I don't think just missing 3 stations out of 20 is enough. I think it should be more.
* On the first day when I was being all city girl - I was getting off the train - gocard at the ready to swipe- and guess what happened. Can you even guess? My shoe - the black ones picture got caught in the little tiny space that exists for the door to slide open on. Completely stuck. I kept moving my shoe did not!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course this is rush hour and there are literally a bazillion people. I don't want to put my foot down because lord knows where that platform has been - and so I am hopping around - people are getting cranky - and my shoe is still stuck. A kind young fellow finally got it our for me - and off I hobbled. I also totally got caught up in the wave of people and ended up in a part of central station I have never ever been before - quite literally. It was weird!
* Wednesday night I had to wait around and then catch a bus to meet up with the family for dinner. I am not a bus person but managed this ok.
*You can see my desk - I have a nice view - and at times there are men working literally right outside my window - for some reason. I am on the 8th floor.
*have managed to have a starbucks every day - nice
* Oh and the work - is good - but at the end of three days I am totally and utterly shagged - and not in the good way. Can you say that?????

this made me laugh

I have to retell this story because I just remembered it and again I chuckled... If you know what my profession is - there are a lot of opportunities in the day for funny things to happen. As a classroom teacher lots of funny things happen and mostly you forget them - but this is a good one. In one of my classes (with seniors) we are completing a unit on 'the world of work' - exciting stuff in itself. To jazz things we up we have been playing celebrity head style games - with the difference being that you have to try and 'guess' what job you are by asking a series of questions and getting responses. ( there are some guide questions that they can refer to) They have all been loving it. One job guessing game went something like this.

Student : Do I work in the daytime?

Class : Yes

Student : Is my job glamorous?

Class : Not really

Student : DO I get payed well

Class : No

Student. I know I know,Miss I know....am I a........

SCARECROW??????

( this was said with all seriousness, as the student has some 'special needs')

Teacher : No, you are NOT a scarecrow, because it is not a job!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not a fan

of what I call the Seinfeld look. I don't like jeans and 'joggers' however in this shot I was off for a walk with my "Wednesday Walking Group". We head off straight after work on ...a....wednesday!!! Although work keeps interfering at the moment so we may just have to change that. I think it is a great idea generally speaking because you sort of unwind from the day, talk 'shop' etc, and exercise at the same time. What more could a girl ask for?

PS Well I'm sure this girl could ask for a lot more - and quite often does. LOL

temptation

Do you think it was even possible to work with this box of fundraising chocolates on my desk? Let me tell you it was not. It also proved to be impossible for my workmates. I was only 'looking after' the box for someone because they couldn't carry them all home one day. I think they realised that they box of 48 chocolates was disappearing quickly. It all came to head a few days ago when one of my workmates very sternly delivered them to the person who was meant to take them home and said "NO MORE _ GET RID OF THESE OUT OF OUR STAFFROOM". i don;t know if I have discussed this before - but I have absolutely no self control when it comes to yummy things - NONE

7 Days

without beef makes one WEAK. I have always loved that saying - and saw it just recently on a bumper sticker. I think it is very clever.

On the other hand - 7 days without email - makes me...

• feel like I am totally out of the loop
• think I rely on technology too much - to do everything
• realise I don't understand IT people and their machinations
• question why I am being tortured and punished
• so blah that I can't be bothered uploading a photo today...

truly truly delicious

I have been madly busy for the last few days - and also extremely tired. By Friday of last week I so did not want to participate in any of the plans I had for the weekend. Which involved - lunch, several parties and a concert. I did make myself go to every planned event though - because well sometimes you just have to.

In my last post I mentioned that we were going our for dinner with my dad - and having one of my mum's favourite desserts. Inters tingly the restaurant burned down the next day so we probably had one of the last meals they will be serving for a little while. The caramel tart did not disappoint - it was absolutely delicious. The yummiest dessert I have had in along time.

phew...

I'm happy to be starting a new week so I can have a breather. Last week was hectic.

In summary

• Physio for bad back Wednesday - She hasn't even started on my shoulder injury that I have have had for ummmmmmmmm about a decade - I did see her eyes turn into dollar signs though. People were curious as to whether I had booked in for a swedish massge with a happy ending, and were predicting that the physio was going to be young, male, hot. Alas my prediction was true - mousy brown hair, beige pants and very sensible shoes!!



• Thursday / Friday - conference in the big city which involved me being very urbane walking to the train station etc - it was all about reducing my carbon footprint. I also spent 2 days wiggling in my seat because of back and wishing I could lay out on the floor and do my back exercises - do you think that would have been ok?



• Friday night was all about a birthday dinner for Renita - there was no use in traveling back to my house only to get in the car and travel back to the city so I had a few hours to spend until our dinner booking - let me say when you are not spending money because you are saving for a holiday it gets a bit boring so I decided on a city cat adventure - what a civilised way to get to and from work - along the river.



• I did have to sit on a street corner for about an hour though - I let my sister know the exact location in case the police needed it for their report

and that's only up to Friday...

and of course there has been way to much eating- so this week - and all future weeks leading up to June - is all bout detoxing and staying on track.

sorry if I have used today's photo already - I've lost track.

another weekender

has been and gone. They seem to fly by so quickly. I had quite an action packed weekend. I had the hairdresser followed by dinner and drinks on Friday night, on Saturday we had my cousin's wedding and yesterday I went to the travel expo with my dad. So lots happening and lots of photo opportunities really. All of this meant that of course I did not sleep properly last night, woke up at 2am couldn't go back to sleep which then meant that I was late-ish for work, which then has meant that I don't want to go to the gym tonight - and well any excuse I say.

Layers were my friend at the hairdresser although obviously I didn't go with a fringe. I am loving how glossy my hair looks in this photo - and obviously this bee hive do isn't something I would wear everyday (I felt I had a little of the Sarah Palins about me ) - but I did love it all the same - I also loved it when I woke up on Saturday morning and could with a few small tweaks wear it as my wedding hair...yeah. My sister's hair also looked fab I thought ( but hers usually does) no hair envy on my part - well maybe just a little.

nothing much

happening in my world today at all. Nothing witty to report. Nothing made me cranky ( that is actually a bit of a fib - but since it happened at 8.30 this morning I will let it slide) I did mix things up today by taking my daily photo his morning before I left for work - and well there is a noticeable difference in that I don;t look all disheveled and fuzzy like I do right now. I am in desperate need of a haircut and am going to do something about on Friday afternoon. DO you really want to know that I feel like my hair is in a phase of HUMPH...I have been discussing this with my sister just this afternoon and I'm thinking I'm going to go for a lot of layers to give it some shape and a nice rich chocolatey brown colour. Did you want to know all of that? Did you???

scissor sisters

This morning I was dressed and ready for work and then I thought " mmmmmm this top I'm wearing feels very hot", so with barely 2 minutes til departure time I decided to cut the lining out of the top - which seemed easy at first but then really wasn't something that should be rushed. My housemate and I were in fits of giggles at the absolute ridiculousness of the whole thing. But let me just say that I was a lot cooler today sans polyester lining ( what is with that anyway) Of course I used 'the good green scissors" which have been in our family for a gazillion years - we actually stole them from mum and dads a few years ago and I don't think we have been forgiven as every time dad sees them he says something along the lines of " oh the good green scissors I've been wandering where they are".

mojitos

so my current love of mojito's continues into the home furnishing department. (Once again sorry for the angle) but this is a candle I recently bought - the super special thing about it is that it has a wooden wick so that when it burns it makes a crackling fire sound - cool hey. I discovered a new candle shop at teneriffe and well it is fab.

In other news I have for some reason had an extremely busy week - with an appointment after work every single day this week , and a couple of back to work events- hence the slackness in blogging. This weekend I am away - again - up to Noosa - and my sister and I are going to be doing a Thai cooking course - so no doubt on Monday I will have some stories. Also finally today dad is getting his car that he is buying from the BMW sale...maybe this weekend I will also get that pair of shoes he owes me! I will remind him

puffing billy

when in Melbourne we went on ye olde steam train ride through the Dandenongs - which was nice. We also went to a little town called Sassafras - can't remember if I have mentioned it before - but it was a nice little country town that had lots of cute shops ( something I am always interested in :)

Today I went on an excursion, to the local library which involved walking to the library and then back to school - and well let me say it was HOT. I used my umbrella - because well HAT HAIR - but still it was HOT. Also while I was at the library I finally gave in and paid my overdue fines. Which I have been ignoring for the last 4 years - wouldn't you think they would have disappeared. At the time I was extremely, extremely incensed by the stupid system they have in place ( whereby they said to me you can't rely on their reminder letter) = I obviously still have some residual issues. But let me just say I have shown them my displeasure - by absolutely refusing to step foot in the door for the last 4 years! They'll never mess me with me again!

RUSH HOUR

I have literally rushed home from work, to put my feet up for an hour, then I am rushing back to work. WHo said teachers are 9 - 3???????

who invented

the 2 day weekend? Surely IT was someone who didn't have to work for the rest of the week because they were enjoying the profits made by those who did have to work the other 5 days. It just doesn't seem sometimes that 2 days is enough? Wouldn't the split be better if it was 4 days on 3 days off? I think it definitely would be. As you can guess I had a busy weekend that wasn't really filled up with any special, thing but just filled up. I hardly ever ever ever bring work home and I did and well did I touch it ? NO I did not. So I will have to traipse it back into work at some stage this week, hopefully completed- although just between you and me I doubt I will get it done.



I did get to use the thing on the inside of this box plenty though...

i'm gonna be in trouble...

for putting this photo on - but oh well what do you do when you have no back up plan. SHEESH! so the last few days have been hectic - and i don't really know why. Returning to work today, PD yesterday in the big city, and a really really messy desk. How is that stuff gathers and seems to land on my desk. DO you think that old adage about tidy desks, tidy minds is true? I know my mum believed it - as she was a stickler for neat and tidy, and would say things like "You can't think properly if your room is a mess" let me just say I seem to be ok , and my room and desk are currently a mess...although perhaps that is why the last few days have been hectic...MMMM it is one big cycle...

my day...

so like why is it some days are like totally "sheesh"...that was my day today. Morning started being too lazy to get up and go to the gym, followed by hitting the snooze button repeatedly until I am running late, which then means the following things happen

1. have to quickly decide what to wear


2. have to quickly look on end of bed and ironing basket to see what is available


3. decide neither items i select need ironing , say to myself that I'll be wearing a jacket all day, so wrinkles won;t be noticed and surely any wrinkles that are there I can 'steam iron" by hanging them in the bathroom when I\m having my super hot shower.


4. makeup is a mess


5. hair is a definite mess


6. rush out the door


7. forget to put earrings in


8. forget to get phone off charger


9. starving because I haven't had breakfast, unless you class the 2 weight watchers lamingtons I shoved in ( for those counting, that is only 2 points)


10. and that my friends all occurred between 7.15 and 7.50 when i walked up the steps at work, to find the staffroom locked...as i said at the outset.SHEESH