The Angry Dieter

I’ve added an iPhone application to my iPhone so I can blog a bit. Problem is, it saves it to local drafts and doesn’t uploaded… I must do something about that at a later point. I do have to admit I am totally in like with this iPhone and can’t wait till the Version 3 of the firmware comes out. I won’t buy one of the new phones, don’t need it really.

On the home front, I had been worried about asking my housemate to move out. It certainly was stressful for me having her live here, but we have managed for a year, but now the time has come. She must move. I need my space. Should be an amicable split! So many things I could write about over the year but, I don’t want her to read it all and feel insulted.

I am sure I am no angel to live with either, I don’t talk much, kept myself to myself most of the time. I guess some of the things that have irked me.. would be drinking wine from a pint glass.. that really is the only thing I found rather odd, maybe the fact she’s a WoW player and going on her first raids etc.

The lease has been renewed for another 12 months. I expect Peter and I will settle for a while then look at purchasing something together. I hope so…  I can’t stand renting, I want to be able to do my own thing, make the place awesome and enjoy the moments.  Only issue with the lease is the fact they want to increase it. They’ve advised it’s still economical, my argument would be, no interest rates have gone up, minimal maintenance has been done, certainly not enough to justify an increase.. but I guess that’s the real-estate game.

Work is for the most part is great.

I am apparently one of the few managers who like it and don’t feel stressed, however, many of them I have found think I am my manager’s best friend.  It’s not the case, however I can’t stop people thinking what they will.  My team is doing really well, best team ever

June 14th, 2009 | Tags: Friends, gadgets, iphone, landlords suck, rent | Category: Friends, Tenancy Blues, Work | Leave a comment

I’ve realised that I’m going to be 36 this year. Not a startling revelation. I think normally I haven’t worried about age because it’s not really been important to me. Never a factor in my attitude to life, to work. I feel like I am living the life I should have had when I was in my 20s.

What prompted the revelation? Grey hair. I started going grey when I left my previous relationship through stress. However those were small bits.. nothing major. When I was brushing my hair, I noticed today that there was a hair, that had been grey for a little while.. at least a few months.. it started off brown, then half way through turned silvery white. At least I’ll have a stylish colour when I do go all grey.

It’s not great surprise that age happens. It’s triggered in me a series of what if’s and a reminder of a conversation I had with my sister when she once commented that she felt like she had life pass her by.

Wow, I thought, she’s 2 years younger than me and already feeling like she is past it. I remember commenting that choosing to focus on age then sure it would be easy to feel … lifeless.

i don’t feel like I am getting older, I guess somethings ache a bit more.. my childbearing years… something else I think about, are probably past me now.

My life to date is the sum of my experiences and decisions that I have made. It’s a sombre thought really.

Work rocks, but I was struck with the thought, what have I contributed to my fellow team members at work, and I don’t know - probably nothing? I focus more on how I can help my team more than on what I can do to help my fellow team members. Should really think about that and look at what I can do for them.

June 5th, 2009 | Tags: age, life, working | Category: Blogging | Leave a comment

Well.. a song pops into mind after one does a serious intake of alcohol on a boozy night out. The infamous Tubthumping song. Should be the theme of the company I work for.

Our shiftband was closed down, and last night (22/04) was the last of the late nights. 2 weeks ago, I was talking to a couple of other managers and we decided to send out the late night band with a party and a bit of a bang.

I sent out invites, invited random managers and execs and everyone on the shift band. A really good turnout for the night, about 2/3rds of the band turned up. So in keeping with the awesome people I work with, I post this Utube link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm4iU0yx9GY

Hats off chappies, thanks for all the fish.

April 24th, 2009 | Tags: drinking, drunk, tubthumping | Category: Blogging | Comments (2)

Work’s dropped back to something a little human in the way of work hours and as a result, I’m looking at going back to how I used to eat my food.

That would include loads of vegetables and cut down on the coffee. I’m trying to de-tox my body. What I don’t want to do is cause myself too much discomfort by hitting it too hard, but ease into de-toxing without too much fuss and fanfare.

Now I’m thinking this blog title is appropriate as I’ll be tracking my progress here, makes me feel better about it.

So today was day one of eating vegetables..

Had apple juice and an apple for breakfast

2 coffees [i did have a piece of carrot cake]

2 more apples [not enough time to get lunch today too many meetings]

Loads of veges, some mixed beans + almond butter and a sprinkling of balsamic vinegar

Tomorrow .. I have prepared lunch and dinner.

Veges (peas, carrots, onion, tomato, capsicum, cucumber, celery) more mixed beans + a teaspoon of almond butter

I also have bright yellow pee from the multivitamins.. Should glow in the dark soon!

April 22nd, 2009 | Category: Blogging | Leave a comment

Well I am blogging, just not on this blog at the moment.

I’ve started up a wedding blog for the Swede and myself. Those of you who are interested, if you want you can email me (leave a comment) for the URL and I’ll flick it to you in email

Work is good - put myself up for some kind of award thing to see if I am good enough to be a TL of the year.

I’m thinking about getting a personal trainer. My finances are starting to look good and I need someone to bully me into fitness

I’ve been a facebook addict recently, playing bejewelled a lot, tiny adventures AD&D..

I’m walking home from a particular bus stop at night to de-stress too. It seems to be working. More randomness will continue later

March 29th, 2009 | Tags: chaos, lost?, planning, weddings | Category: Blogging | Comments (1)

I’ve been to a couple of movies at the Burswood park. You know.. a place where you go take your chairs, beds, big lounging beanbags, picnic rugs, baskets, pots, pans, fillet steak, olive oil, small mini camp burner.. and then slow cook your fillet steak whilst opening up a bottle of champagne with your loved one to celebrate whatever the hell it is, snuggle, snog, grope whilst you think you are in the dark, but not realise that the screen is bright enough to illuminate you especially if you are sitting IN FRONT OF ME.

GET A ROOM, or at least go camping and burn your steak and make out where we can’t see you. Bad enough that the movie was Twilight. Teen angst at it’s best. It’s lost boys meeting 2009 emo. Jebus.

What I did was agree to a midnight screening with one of my best friends J and a friend of hers. Twilight is about a teenage girl meeting and falling in love with a Vampire. Just click on this link if you want to find out what happens.  So the scene is set, my friend J and I are surrounded by Gen Y’s and Gen X’s. We all love a good vampire or zombie movie thanks to Braindead, evildead and Vampire LeStat - so was it any wonder that we were anticipating something. I was expecting to be highly entertained, not by the book, but by the people at the movie itself.

When Edward the hot young Vamp walks in.. people in the audience screamed.. not quite the Beatles type screaming, but definitely screaming for a hot pale dark young bloke with a permanent scowl. So I started laughing.. loud. I could hear a few others laughing too, and some teens glared at me whilst I buried my face in my hands. It was a suitably dreary night, there was light drizzle, enough to get me damp, not wet. However it added to the intensity of the showing. Well it would have if I wasn’t laughing too much at the dramatic entrances and screams of teenage girls every time a new hot paleskinned bloke turned up on the scream.

I think the highlight for me was when they were up a mountain, and Edward looking tortured stepped out into the light. “look at me!,” he dramatically paused, opening his shirt “I am a monster” Cue the sun hitting his chest.. now apparently he was twinkling like diamonds, but either the screen was bad, my glasses were fogged up in excitement, but I just did not see the … spectacular display. Bella breathes appreciatively and murmurs “You’re… beautiful!” making it sound like small richly wrapped gems dropping from her ruby lips, surrounded by her pale alabaster complexion with fetching blush and dark hair curling around her face.

My friend J and I just lost it laughing, both of us recalling the moment in StarWars Episode 3 (according to lucas) when the newly minted Darth Vader comes out of his coma, asks about Padme, evil emperor says “You killed her” and Darth starts screaming, robots pop and crush and he breaks free, arms akimbo and screams.. “Noooooooooooooooooooo” We got told to shush in that movie cinema too. So..

Moral of the story, if you make me go to a cheesy teen film or something so bad by George Lucas, prepare to deal with me laughing my ass off through the whole thing.

February 26th, 2009 | Tags: burswood, cheesy, emo, snogging, star wars, twilight | Category: Blogging | Comments (1)

I’ve been inactive for so long… but that’s ok. I don’t know where to begin.

Work has been through ups and downs. Very busy, challenging and rewarding. Each person I manage is unique as you’d expect, but in a call centre there’s usually a mold of some kind that people fit in to. Not in this case.

The guys I work with are just some of the best people I have managed. All are motivated in their own way - either by their own need to drive improvement in others to deliver something better - or because they want to go somewhere and be someone. Granted there are some challenges - but I can’t say that any of them are unpleasant to work with.

For the first time I feel challenged intellectually by many of my staff. I feel like I have to meet their expectations - it’s demanding! Fun, and in a way intimidating. Who wants to be managed by a boss who could be as thick as two short planks?!

I did some personality testing stuff the other day for a course and I got a result which was 1 off what I believe I am and have tested for previously.

I like the idea of being out there, a little structured, but I’m not really ISFP - I really think I am an INFP -

Either way.. this suits who I feel I am.

So I’m personality tested up, I have one - and now I start doing this course. I’ll learn how to be a better coach and leader. In the mean time I plan a wedding.

Wedding preps kind of suck - I’ve started a different blog so my family and my Swede’s family can access it. If you want the URL, let me know and I’ll flick it to you by email.

I need sleep.

February 19th, 2009 | Category: Blogging | Leave a comment