All The Small Things

Mood: Proud

So I really don't know if I have already told you this or not... I had a quick read back over some of the previous entries and I can't find it. But talking to Mrs Macca over the weekend, and she knew about it. I don't know. So I'm just gonna start from the start and see how we go.

Late in April, I put in an application for this incredible job. 82K, with a car, doing something that I would a)love to do, and b) really rock at.

I decided that my application needed to be a bit spectacular, so I put together this absolutely intriguing and interesting flip chart type presentation, with a spunky photo on the front, and it was witty and clever and cheeky and fantastic. I bound it in a leather folder, and then I wrapped it in brown paper and made it look all pretty with raffia gift wrap and a gift tag that read "To the CEO, From Sass" so it looked like a present.

It was designed to stand out from the crowd, and make the people reading the applications remember me and hopefully want to meet me. It worked!

I had an interview on Thursday for the position, with a panel of 3 people, plus a lady on the telephone, who I guess made 4.

I really wanted to ace the interview - not because I want the job - but because I want them to want me.

I think that the interview went really well, and I'm hoping to hear back during the week. I really enjoyed the interview process really, which was a bit surprising, because it's usually such an unsettling process.

I did a mock interview on the Wednesday though, over the phone with a lady who works in a similar role and who I knew through my leadership program. She asked me questions that I wouldn't have thought of, and they were almost exactly what were asked during the actual interview. I felt really in control and well prepared.

I do hope that they offer it to me, though I am intending to turn it down. It was advertised as being between Melbourne and Sydney, so I figured I could keep a base somewhere in between. During the interview, they clarified that they had decided that the position was going to be based in Sydney, and that the person who took the position would need to live in Sydney full time.

I'm just not prepared to do that - It would mean too much time away from Nicky, and I'm really hoping to be able to have her live with me here in Sassville and go to school here next year... but thats for the next installment.

The fact that I got an interview really boosted me, I realise that I am really very competent, and able to takle projects that are quite complex, interesting and well paid. That people in postions of authority would consider me as a serious applicant makes me feel so much better about my decision to stay here. It's a validation I guess.

I feel like I could do a fantastic job of the position I applied for, but I can also continue to do a fantastic job here, and the choice is mine. I'm so lucky that I can choose to live here, and not lose the amazing lifestyle that I have. If I can convince Mr. D. to let Nicky go to school here, then it will be perfect.

Mood: Happy

Ok - I've been horribly slack in updating lately.

Not because I haven't had anything happening, quite the opposite actually. I've been flat out, flat stick. So here is the update on everything, conveniently written in chapter format for your edification.

So this long weekend, I went away with my most beautiful girlfriends to Bright. We have a house over there that we stay in, and we leave as early as we can manage on a Friday, then come home slowly on a Sunday.

All we do all weekend is eat, drink, laugh, and relax. And we make cards too - or whatever other craft takes our fancy.

This weekend I actually made three cards (up-ing my productivity by 300%!!) one for the lovely Mrs. Macca and the Guitar Guy's wedding, one for my hunky cousin and his beautiful fiancees wedding, and one for my lovely mentor who is in hospital next week having an operation.

Seems like all of Sassville is in hospital at the moment. But onwards.

Our girls weekends away are always the best fun. And its not that we do anything particularly exciting, its more that the company is so excellent.

You know when you have people around you, and you trust them implicitly, and they know you, and you know them, and you can just be completely relaxed and yourself around them? Its like that.

And the food. Jebus. Everything is delicious. A sample menu for your perusal:

Dinner Night One:

Dried fruit cheeses, tomato and chilli pesto and dippity bix.

Home made zucchini quiche, with fresh salad and avocado.

Home made lime tart with fresh cream.

Breakfast:

Cinnamon and apple swirl toast, English Muffins, Cinnamon / Caramel Lattes.

Snack:

Homemade spiced apple cake. Heaven Strawberry white chocolate.

Lunch:

Warm Chicken, Cesaer salad, fresh bread rolls, coleslaw, potato salad, sundried tomatos and olives.

Snack:

Warm fetta with green pesto, sundried tomatos and olives, served with a garlic and cheese pizza bread.

Dinner:

Chicken and sweet potato casserole in a white wine sauce, with rice.

Lemon Delicious pudding with cream.

 

Everything was made on location by my lovely girlfriends, except for the Lemon Delicious, which was made by ME! Yes folks, you read it here first - I actually cooked something, and not only was it edible, it was bloody beautiful.

I feel so full! We seriously ate every three hours, minimum. And we snacked in between. We even snacked between snacks. Or drank. I dread to think how many bottles of wine we went through! It was lovely. I feel so beautifully relaxed and so very blessed to have so many incredible people in my life.

And while I was away, it was lovely to hear from both the lovely Mrs Macca - who called to fill in her car journey home, and Stace, who called (slightly maggotted) to fill me in on how her new life away way away is going.

He he he. Mrs Macca - I loved that you called because we hadn't "caught up" via this blog. I had completely forgotten that you guys even read it!! (This is what happens when you lurkers don't comment...) It actually made me think that I should have a little hiatus a little more often, if it means you will call up and catch me up on whats going on with you guys too!!

And I almost forgot...

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