It is my purpose in the next few days to make my boss look good.

She has to go to MapleleafLand(on short notice) for a work conference. they get to meet the man behind the money, and share their vision about where the company should go and where it should be in the future. Of course, including where will support be in that future? Politics plays alot in this big picture, because in reality, she’s going over there not just to meet people, but to ensure at least the medium term future of 8 people’s jobs, including mine.

So I am putting together the documents I have spent months laboring over into one big document, doing up some fancy covers, and binding it all. I am looking forward to putting this all together. I like challenges, I want to impress people with it, and I want to make sure that X. looks good. Ten copies for all these nice people. The Team meeting we had yesterday was great We discussed a few small things to do with support, then got on to discussing things like Support’s team objectives. I think this group of people that we have working for us now are some of the best.

Customer Support Charter

To provide a professional, friendly and efficient service to all customers at all times continually exceeds the standard

1: Customer retention in order to sustain a viable and ongoing business

2: Resolve conflict

3: Be professional and helpful at all times and in all situations

Its nothing too fancy, as the KISS acronym states, keep it simple stupid. I’ll have a draft of everything tonight ready once I put the bits together in the right order.

During the couple of weeks off from doing the blog thing, I worked on my computer for work only. At the end of the day I walked away and read books. I read a few whilst I was in the “zone” - like the latest Harry Potter novel, which was suitably dark. Also found a book which would be useful to aid my weight loss. I have lost some weight.. or at least.. a dress size. Which amazes me, because I haven’t done alot recently in my mind to lose the weight. I have changed my eating habits over the last year to re-educate my body. After those blood tests which told me that I was Carbohydrate Sensitive, and then I was told I had to eat certain foods etc. Without knowing WHY I had to do these things. “to lose weight” is not good enough for me.

I went out with friends on saturday to discuss a business plan by my partner, and after lunch, we went browsing at a bookshop. Since we are all book worms, gamers and geeks, this is a natural place to go after lunch. I was looking for 2 things, a book for french classes (dictionary) and a book of recipes for High protein, Low Carbohydrate eating plans. I found something called Protein Power. I read it in less than a day and now I understand so much.

Protein = good ; carbohydrates = bad. Especially for people who have sluggish metabolisms (like me). You still get carbo’s from regular fruit and veges, but its the extra stuff that has to be cut out, like the rice, pasta and giant potatoes etc. I have to learn how to cook around meat and fish dishes. Its not so hard. I have slowly been making that transition. After tomorrow, there is no pasta in the house, No rice. I’ll allow bread because my partner really doesn’t have the same problem I do. He’s just a computer programmer that doesnt exercise… which i think reflects most of the population of computer people anyways.

I have work to complete, and this is just filling in time until I can sit on the floor with my bits of paper scattered around me and plan my master piece.

Man Logic.

What is Man Logic?

Man Logic, is used to justify the totally irrational decisions a male makes when he thinks he has a great idea, when he buys something that has no real use for, or sticks to an argument that he lost 3 sentences into an argument, but 4 hours later still insists he is right.

or Does it make sense?

No it doesn’t. But for women to deal with man logic, in the end so the man can save face, it is best to agree with the male so they can walk away with their head held high.

Yes please buy that blower vac, we have an extensive list of reasons to use it. Oh it doesnt Vac too well, and the blowing is great.. but .. no direct enough.. Sure, we will use it for lots of things, 120AUD and 6 months later, I think it’s been used once.

Of course, there is the hazard that if you agree too readily, and repeat what they are saying back to them, they begin to feel defensive as the slow realisation of their .. logic begins to penetrate their manlogic mania, and they begin to see sense.

Then you get caught humouring the man you care so much about, and he catches you dead to rights as he asks after the defensive mode has kicked in, if you still think its stupid. What to do? Deny Everything.

No no.. i never said it was a stupid idea.. not at all! [inserts innocent look] and please try and keep a straight face.

The apology.

Now he’s offended slightly, and now is the time to apologise and explain your questions, and the realisation that perhaps you were being too critical of the idea, and maybe had to tone it down.

Apologise and grovel ladies. Because the man is now offended. It’s official. *sigh*

But really are women any different?

I just wanted to note a few things down that have been happening for the last few weeks and i haven’t recorded them.

Last week I went out with my boss to the movies and we watched the Hulk. We thought it would be bad enough for us to laugh at, and with the opening scene featuring Lou Ferrigno (the original TV green man) whom I always thought was deaf.. maybe he still is, anyways.. He was umm.. a security guard walking down the steps of the research building as Eric Bana was walking up the stairs in his dorky helmet. Apart from that highlight well.. not much to say about the movie really.

The dinner we had at Han’s was delicious, and the drive home eventful with the lil cling-on teddybear on the bar above the passenger door dropping off onto C. She got ready to scream and flick the bear, which at the time I thought was a spider on to me, and i was preparing to scream and slam the brakes on the car in the middle of Morley Drive, however at the last minute, disaster was averted, and hysterical giggling ensued and continued till we got back to her place, where we had coffee and talked till 2am.

Driving home was great, I was in my own headspace, no one else around me - free open road (as open as it gets with traffic lights every 3 or 4 kms with nice stretches of doing 100ks in between, no street lights, so the clouds coming from over the hills were darker than the night sky. I felt like pointing the car to the left of the star, and driving on until dawn.

On Monday, I was feeling under the weather, have been for most of the week, and I woke up feeling like I was spaced out, so I was sitting at the desk working through documents for work, and decided to check my mail, and read the end of shift report, which said, see you at the meeting. My stomach dropped and I thought “oh my god, I have missed the team meeting [insert scream here]” - frantically I check through my diary and find thank god, that it was the following day. I think this has been a week for lolly to be a space cadet. Today, I have tried to sleep and failed, and felt miserable. I spent some great time with a close friend talking on netmeeting for a while, but sleeping.. well I guess I’ll be right to work late tonight. ;/

Oh and I bought my laptop.. I hope.

I watched the morning news and discovered that if men don’t masturbate regularly, then their chances of getting prostate cancer in later life increase.. Well isn’t that the best news that men have heard all year?

Her: “Honey?? You’ve been in that bathroom for 30 minutes, what are you doing in there.. are you doing it again?”
Him: “I am preventing getting cancer honey!”
Her: “But that’s the fourth time today!!”
Him: “I plan on living till I am 95!”

If you want to know more about how to be a 95 year old wanker, read here

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I have my second morning in a row of working from 6am. I know I can bitch about these alot at times, but the good thing is, it gets me in a better sleeping pattern and to be honest I hate sleeping the day away, but I also dislike sleeping at night, go figure. I think I just enjoy night time for its relatively peaceful qualities. I can get alot of thinking done. I spend time with friends. I don’t enjoy sleeping that much at all.

I’ll continue this later if i feel like it. Just talking on netmeeting now.. blahblah..

I should comment about something.. the Friendship week.

I have found most of my friends have responded favourably to my friendship concept and i have established good communications again, some have been slow to reply, and I guess that is understandable considering how long I have left it between “drinks” so to speak. I only hope that they will eventually.

I have found tho, that like a relationship (uses hers as an example) a good friendship needs some kind of maintenance. I do have committment phobia when it comes to friendships, having been best friends with an emotional leech for so long and being hurt in the end tends to make one tend not to invest too much in these relationships. But friendships to need something.

Every day should be a friend appreciation day.

ARGH

stupid blogger *bitchslaps blogger*

some things just don’t work, and the blogthis! function seems to be one of them.

ON the other hand, I have had a good week. I am trying to purchase a Toshiba notebook, Satellite 1135 - Ebay seem to have new ones cheaper than what I can get them here in Perth for.

Work has been ok. Had to train someone for Customer Support that is an Ex of one of my friends.. that’s fine I guess but i’ve heard alot of stories about her, so my experience of her is very different to the staff member who recommended her to us. New girl seems ok tho, so hopefully there won’t be too many issues. For a while I was wondering if I should feel, intimidated. But I got over that. So she might have set up the department I work for on IRC - but she’s not there now, and I am. I also got a bad sleep last night.

My partner and I will be discussing money soon. I feel sick about it. When he brought it up a few weeks ago, I thought this was like, us breaking up or something. I know its not, but that’s how it felt - another nail in the relationship coffin. I just wanted to curl up for a while and die. In a funny way I also feel like I am being penalised for earning money. It was OK for him when He lived off me for all that time, but now when he is earning all that money, and finally I have my income, it’s like He’s still wanting money from me. I resent that. I don’t know how to tell him that tho. I don’t always write about my relationship problems in here, alot of people read it. Weirdly enough, its not my close friends who live in perth who read it. So it feels like it’s ok.

Our relationship isn’t based in money, we got together when we were both unemployed and had no money at all. Problem is, I used to want money to feel secure, but the result was my partner working 80 hour weeks and us not having time together. Ultimately, we can’t survive as a couple if we sacrifice everything, always waiting for more money or something else, “this year is it” then “next year is it”. We’re both getting older. I would like to have children, and a house, and travel the world. I don’t want to wait anymore. We’ve been together 10 years almost, and we haven’t done anything fun together, like travelled to another country for a holiday like most other couples we know have. I feel like life is passing by whilst I am in this relationship. I’d like us to work.