Mood: Confused
Not too much to report really.
Still temping at the huge office, I have met some really nice, interesting people.
The guys that sit at my group of desks are a crack up.
I’ve been having lunch with a nice group of ladies (two guys joined us the other day!), and I’m really starting to settle in.
I can see what will happen.
I won’t want to leave.
Things get complicated now.
Well here I am, once again! I’ve been rather busy, doing some temp work at a HUGE office, doing data entry – very tedious and tiring but it’s ok for nineteen dollars an hour! Great money, plus we have booked our holiday to Surfers Paradise for next month so the money will really help. I’ve got enough to go, but a little more can’t hurt!!! I can’t wait!!
Also this week I’ve had 3 job interviews, one at a chiropractic clinic (receptionist), one at a department store (doing cash up and payroll) and another at a motel. They would all be great jobs but there’s just one problem with all of them…the chiro one is only 3 days a week, the department store one is 28.4hrs per week, and the motel one is 20hrs per week & casual.
But…
I went back to see the chiro a second time (as they requested it). He and his wife are very, very keen for me to work there. I said I wouldn’t like to take the job, then have a full time job come up and leave them in the lurch. They realize it’s because of the money and said (unbelievably!) that they would match what I was earning in my last full time job for those 3 days per week!!! And they are 100% ok with the fact I have 2 weeks holidays booked. I’m stoked!! I feel like this is my year, the year where good things will happen for me.
The place where I’m temping is a huge office, all open plan. Everybody seems to be very busy/stressed all the time. Apparently a lot of the time this company will offer employment to temps. But I don’t like it much there. Having worked on a front desk situation and dealing with customers, I don’t find this work rewarding. I don’t know what the end result is of the work I’m doing. There is no satisfaction in that for me. You don’t get to see satisfied customers and that’s what I really miss. I was only meant to be working there for 2 weeks, and now the guy giving me the work has given me work to do for the next 2 weeks while he’s on holiday. So that adds up to 3 weeks…I hate the unpredictability of it all though. I need to give the chiro a date that I can start with them. I might just call the agency I’m going through and say I can only be there for another 2 weeks so I can start training at this other job. It’s too good an opportunity to miss out on.
Tonight I went to my boyfriend’s for a BBQ tea. It was a really good night because he had some friends over. Among them was the fiancée of one of the friends who I have a lot of time for, she’s great. Then boyfriend decided he was going to bed, I said fine, but I’m happy to sit here and chat to the friends until I’m ready to leave. To cut a long story short, he is angry at me because he thinks I like hanging out with them better than him, even though he was the one being anti-social and going to bed while he still had visitors!!!! GOSH!!!! I would look like a snob if I just wouldn’t associate with these people just because he’s tired and going to bed!!!!
So after I was ready to leave, I headed to the club to meet Mum and Dad, where Dad and I spent a lot of money (I dread to think how much exactly!!) on the chocolate machine once again…but we came home with 4 bags of chocolate and it’s fun anyway!!!!
Anyway, I might head off now as it’s 1:50am!!
I’m feeling kinda hyperactive, a lot happier than I was the other day that’s for sure!
It’s nearly midnight and I’m wide awake, just spent a little while doing up some “special lunch” for my younger sister who goes back to work tomorrow. There’s some chocolate coins, Squirms and Unbearables in there for her, and some kind of chocolate nerd lolly. Ohh, and a Yowie!!! I hope she likes it!!!
How was everyone’s New Years?
Mine was really good, went around to my boyfriend’s place for a BBQ, a couple of his other friends were there too. It was quiet and I wasn’t drinking (didn’t want to feel crappy on the first day of the year!) but it was really good to just sit around and chat to everyone! One of my boyfriend’s friends decided it would be a good idea to ride a mini bike (49cc, a kids bike, it’s tiny!!) up and down the street (my bf tried to talk him out of it fearing he might get caught!). Then my bf decided to have a go, in his superman boxer shorts!! And guess who should come around the corner? Mr Policeman!!!! He told my bf he should really be wearing a helmet on the little bike, and also that he knew he had been drinking but let him off with a warning!!!! What a nice policeman!! Came home around 2am and couldn’t sleep!! Last night I couldn’t sleep, and now I’m wide awake and probably still won’t be able to sleep. I hate that. And I know I’ll wake up with a headache tomorrow, courtesy of too much sugar. I tell you, sugar OD headaches are the worst, followed closely by Coke (the drink) withdrawal headaches!
Have spent a few of the warm afternoons down at the river, floating around on an inflatable chair thingy. The water was so cold the first day that I couldn’t breathe properly for about 5 mins!!! At least it provides some relief from the heat, the thermometer in town yesterday said it was 44˚C!!
I went out last Thursday night with a friend. I really am a bum. Out on a Thursday night. Till 2:45am. We ended up at the seediest pub in town because everywhere else was closing! On the plus side, at least the other places were fairly quiet instead of the usual overcrowding you get on the weekends! Even though I wasn’t tired I decided we should head home, seeing as though it was almost 3am, and this seedy pub and all the dodgy looking patrons were starting to freak me out!!! I did have a guy trying to pick me up, that doesn’t happen often at all!!! And I saw this guy out I worked with that used to have a huge thing for (he liked me too), the main reason why we never got together (apart from the fact I started dating someone else!!) was because he was so moody!! When I saw him out, he looked great but he had this whole “I’m better than you” attitude which I hate, he wasn’t even all that friendly!! He said his girlfriend had kicked him out “for a few days”, I asked “What did you do?” (because come on, he would have had to have done something to upset her enough to kick him out. And knowing him he can be a real jerk sometimes) and he said “Nothing, she’s just a moody b***h”. Charming. I’m glad I never went out with him.
Anyway, it’s now 12:30am, I guess I should head off and try to get some sleep!
