Cat update: BC is well-ish, no longer throwing up and the Vet thinks we are now paranoid.. that cost us $75 to find out.

Work update: Still no ETA on if we are moving, however on the plus side, ADSL training and doing stuff with it, is back in the picture again, so my name along with a friend’s name has been put forward from our team, MtB and I will find out in the next couple of weeks. MtB did DUI coaching and listening to DUI calls and decided, like I have, that it was too boring and he wants to go to the networks department. I would too probably if I were him, he has a Master’s degree in Telecommunications and Marketing and he didn’t get the Marketing job. Makes you wonder, the chick who DID get the marketing job has a boyfriend in another dept who was friends with one of the managers and she got the job.. no surprise there really, but I read the feedback MtB got and it was kinda like a big slap in the face.

I got another award this month The Customer Care Quartely Teamwork award, from July - Sept. My team members thought I rocked lucky for me, I get another plastic coated piece of paper! Not sure what happens then.. *shrugs*

Work today was flat out. In a couple of words, FLAT OUT!! I totally was swamped with people bitching about their phone bills. Can anyone say “if you don’t like high phone bills then don’t use your phone!!??” Hello! if they followed their plan types they’d see they get decent times etc to make cheap calls! Everyphone saver is good value, but the trap is GPRS. Stupid customers. *fixes their problems* I also had a chat to one customer visiting WA and photographing wildflowers. I told him to go check out York, Toodyay and Northam and for something closer, Araluen would be a good place to start. Another told me that M was a lucky man to have me, as I helped solve his problems and never had a call consultant like me before! Apparently that call was being listened to, and the ATL said to me that she thought I was being chatted up.. *dies of embarrassment*

Book update: Anyone read Kafka? I never had touched any of his books, but I did last night. I belong to an online bookclub through IRC contacts, and I am a member of the web forum. (my only mention of the IRC medium tonight *singing ding dong the witch is dead*). I purchased it online, through www.ebooks.com I think.. for 3.95USD I got a small volume of his works on PDF and it was just amazing. I read The Metamophosis, and my initial impressions of it are pretty strong. I am a big fan of  Edvard Munch and Salvadore Dali - I have one of Dali’s print’s on my loungeroom wall, thanks to mum and my 30th birthday. It was like reading a painting. It was art. I feel the same way after reading Kafka as I do when gazing at a Munch or Dali painting. I don’t think I have ever felt like that before after reading a book.

Health and beauty update: I got my pink frilly bra and matching underwear from a girlfriend, after I attended a nice lingerie party, which for a change I wasn’t subjected pressure to BUYBUYBUY - even IF my CC is now overdrawn. I also went shopping with the $60 Myer vouchers I got from my first award for Good Character (thanks to my work). I purchased about 90 dollars with of cosmetic type stuff, new foundation, hand soaps, cleanser, moisturiser and a ton of freebeez - Very nice. I now walk every day back and forth from the car park that’s about 15 minutes from work and have discovered I don’t need change anymore because the meters take credit cards! I also got a Pilates CD!! and have converted them to VCD so I can watch Maree Winsor shape my body slim!

Dad’s birthday next week.. he’s 61. Far out, and still working full time as a workshop manager/mechanic. What a guy.

Enviro Update: YAY for Russia, if they sign the Kyoto Protocol it will go into effect! This from the website new scientist:

It has been a long wait since the Kyoto protocol was signed in the early hours of 11 December 1997. Next year, if Russia sticks to the commitment it made last week, the treaty will at last come into force. And that will allow the world to get on with what really matters: drawing up the successor to Kyoto.

For if ardent greens and out-and-out sceptics can agree on anything, it is that Kyoto will not even come close to solving the problem of climate change. It is, as the UN Environment Programme director Klaus Toepfer said in a statement last week, “only the first step in a long journey”.

The clock is ticking. Every year we are releasing almost 7 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere – carbon that had lain buried since the days of the dinosaurs. It will remain in the atmosphere for around a century, raising the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and trapping more of the sun’s heat.

Before the industrial age, the CO₂ level was steady at around 280 parts per million. When the Kyoto protocol was drawn up in 1997, the CO₂ level had reached at 368 ppm. Im 2004, it hit 379 ppm.

Whilst we’re a long way from achieving what we need to with this treaty, it’s the first positive step in a long time. IN YOUR FACE HOWARD!

Political update: Yay for my local member in the electorate of Swan, Kim Wilkie beat Andrew “dodgy-letter-writing-campaign” Murfin and won by a nose. I hope next time, Murfin doesn’t ask little old ladies to sign blank letters and send them into the local paper like he did this time.