So now I am a boss of some others.. I have crawled up the corporate ladder another step and trying frantically to get the team sorted. The new manager will be coming in, and rather have no answers for him, since I am new, I will be able to show that for some of the people I have inherited, things are in place. To my way of thinking, being new is not really an excuse I would be able to use and look professional.

It certainly is going to be very interesting at work for the next few weeks when the new manager is around and probably establishing who is worth keeping in the CSM group. Hopefully, he won’t reverse any decisions made over the last few weeks with regards to staffing. I do know he is checking everyone’s stats, which I am a little concerned about. That being said, if I put my best foot forward, nothing untoward should happen.

it’s been a crap week with two national icons beng snatched off the face of the earth.

There has been some debate if we should include Colin Thiele or Don Chipp.

I don’t know. it’s really sad we lost them aswell, but those two men died of old age, not horrific accidents.

Good news … I have none. i wanted to clean my this weekend, my sister wouldn’t answer her phone so I wasnt able to arrange a time.

So.. Steve Irwin died.

The world grieves, Australia grieves. I first heard of him in 2001, from MM. Had no idea who he was, and had to go searching on the interweb.  Found out and was like.. who the hell is this guy? A few months later, we started seeing him on TV, then the movie came out and I and many of my friends were like .. who the hell is he? It was over-the-top cheesiness, and cringe worthy, but there was a small part in every person who I knew, who had a little bit of that cringe factor. It’s sad that he had a huge following for 10 yrs overseas before he became popular in AU. I think we missed out on something wonderful. He quickly became the symbol for austalia, and when I travelled was asked often if i WAS an aussie, because my mild aussie private school educate perth accent, was not ocker enough. My reply was, not everyone is from North Queensland!

So now I have joined a vast majority of bloggers from the blogiverse who wrote about Steve. I’ve done my bit. Crikey! Travel well, and you left a better world than you found it.

this could be an emo post.

I might list the things I have completed over the last 12 months. it might make me feel that little bit better.

Sept05
got a payrise
wrote about procrastination and laughed when i read this post http://freakychick.net/?p=48 and found that i still have some of those habits including the laundry still in my washing machine.

also noted an angry post which is marked private, and realise I have come along way since that post. What I wrote in it scares me.

Oct05
Did the walk for juvenile diabetes
Mum became an Australian Citizen

Nov05
I got some of my teeth issues fixed
finally made up with my sister after 13 years of being angry

Dec05
Got drunk at the work ball
found out all my friends were fighting
realised my X was a bigger liar than i originally thought and selfish
Met David for DVDs, dinner and moves! was fun

Jan06
told the X where to shove it
Started working 6 days a week

Feb06
purchased my ticket to europe
took mum to the ballet
purchased my ticket for roskilde

Mar06
started doing relief TL work.
lodged passport applications
girly purchasing times with JJ

Apr06
My uncle passed away
Went to a tarot night with friends.
Had a mini holiday, got my passports delivered.

May06
Stressing majorly before my trip
confirmed booking details
purchased a new phone
Finishing doing relief TL work, and work with newbies

June06
Went to an engagement party
Travelled successfully
Met MM

July06
Returned to AU with a spring in my step
Job interview for TL
Job rejection

Aug06
Another payrise
Offer for a secondment, success at last.
MM coming to AU!

Is this a successful 12 months? Possibly, I am alot further along. I have met someone I am contemplating having a relationship with, work is good, friends well.. they might need a bit more work. Just still sitting alone on my birthday, that is the suckiest thing to happen today.

does not fill itself when there is not much to comment about.

last night i saw probably the lowest form that humanity can take. A man beating his girlfriend who was lying on the ground under my balcony.

i avoid trouble, i would cross the street to ensure that no one would pay attention to me, if it meant that i would attract someone´s eye. Last night, it was time to be counted.

I called the cops, and then i went downstairs and waited with the poor woman till they arrived. the boyfriend came back up a few times to tell her to get back inside, and that he was leaving. he also labelled me and the other people who had stopped him from beating her more as nosy cunts, but i think aswell, i saw some of the good things last night. not much, but enough.

however today, i have felt a little despondent and sat on the balcony staring at the blood on the bitumen. i dont know if she will stay with him, or go, but it would be nice if she gets a new life.

It´s my birthday tomorrow. 33.