Life’s been full on since I started my new job. So I’ll go from top down…

Social life: went to a wedding, there were light sabres involved - very cool. The most difficult thing for me, was realising I still had some issues to work through regarding cross dressing males. I sat next to a really lovely man. His girlfriend was there at the same table, she was pregnant, glowing, gorgeous! and you could see they loved eachother. My only problem, was when I saw him standing, and he was wearing a skirt, with high heels, waxed legs, and painted toenails - that caused me some issues. However, I focussed on the man, and not my memories of when I walked in on X, and he was wearing less than this bloke.

I’ve been invited out to a few social events through my new job already. New geek friends have been made, and I’m happy, got a ball to go to, dinners, movie nights.. it’s all happening!

Personal life: Things are happy in that department. I miss him though. Does anyone know a good immigration lawyer?
Family life: love my parents, I have been showing them the photo’s that I have taken over time with MM. They are pretty impressed with those too! The URL for that is: http://wingbitch.com/gallery/

Work: I’m still learning new stuff, I think my idea of a lot of work, and others ideas of a lot of work are vastly different. The new team I have are great. Very intelligent bunch of people that I am happy to look after.

I have taken on 4 new staff from my old team at my old work. They all got jobs now!! On the sad story side, the rest of the department I worked in was made redundant this week, about 60 call centre staff all gone, including team leaders. There’s only skeleton staff there now, and they are all expecting the Axe to fall soon. The assholes, I hope the shareholders rot in hell. They deserved to be treated better than that.

Health: I’ve started changing a few aspects of my life to push me into being a more rounded person. I have been investigating the Raw food lifestyle and downloading podcasts on the subject. It seems like it would be ideal. Essentially, it’s eating all food the way nature intended - uncooked. I am talking about vegetables only, not meats or dairy. Going 100% raw is a bit extreme I think at this stage as I am still investigating, but I think if I can do 50/50 that would be good. I’m also cutting out coffee, to one per day. No more, no less. I have also got a latin dancing DVD that I am picking up at the post office tomorrow, that’s exciting! I like latin dancing and I’m waiting for my food chopper thingy to arrive!

Tenancy Blues: Alas, Alack, my landlord has mentioned the word - rent increase. Yet another, less than 3 months after the previous ones. He wants to redo the flat, and bump up the rent to $300 per week. I know someone will pay that much for it, but it’s not going to be me. I will have to find another place to live, and I may have something sussed in Subiaco, I hope.

That about it, nothing pithy. I feel angsty about my old work, but we have to move on from that. I am excited about my new job, and my new life that’s starting. I am on the way to something great.

Who in their right mind would buy a pet groomer for their pet.. and subject it to such torture. Eventually the advert will disappear into the Internet ether, so I’ll repost the content from the website - dealsdirect.com.au

Show your pet how much you love them with this amazing groomer. The built-in ionic deoderiser works like a magnet to draw dirt and dust away from your pet’s hair, leaving fur soft, shiny and fresh. The adjustable groom allows you to set the comb length for all types of pet hair, be it your husky’s long fur or the sleek, short fur of your Siamese cat.
For the perfect groom without piles of fur on the floor or countertop you can even attach the Pet Vac Fur Master to your standard vacuum cleaner hose via the included rubberised hose connector. The result? A clean, allergy free home and a happy, healthy pet that shines!

FEATURES:

• Pet Vac Fur Master Pet Deshedding System.
• A well groomed pet is a healthier and happier pet!
• Instantly remove dust, dirt and dead hair.
• Adjustable comb to suit all types and lengths of hair from short to long.
• Unique stream of positive ions cleanse fur, leaving it soft and restored of shine.
• Attaches to your standard vacuum hose via flexible rubberised connection (3.5″ diameter connection).
• Anti-shedding design.
• Ionic technology.
• LED indicator.
• Slide brush for easy hair removal.
• Requires 1 x 9v battery (not included).

It attaches to a VACUUM HOSE?

Hands up pet owners who believe a cat or dog, would willingly hang around a loud noisy vacuum cleaner that’s switched on and sucking away at the dirty and fur on the carpet?

That’s rather torturous!! Imagine the scene now..

“here kitty kitty, it’s time for your ionic pet vac fur master”

*mwraawr?*

“trust me it won’t hurt a bit”

[clicking noise attaching the Per Vac Fur Master attachment to the hose]

*mwrrraaawr?* [cat rubs itself on your leg, and stares at you lovingly]

[flicks switch]

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE [cat fluffs up and hides under the couch, slashing at your ankles on the way past]

“here kitty - wait? where are you going? Don’t you want your fur sucked clean by the latest in Pet grooming technology?”

The things some people will do. I think it’s a creation made by those who hate pets.

Let it be known, that on 08 April 2008, I the owner of this blog - discovered that my next door neighbour’s dlink router was unsecured, and broadcasting so I could seemlessly connect to her internet without thinking twice..

However, it was more of a pain in the ass, since my laptop kept logging into her router before it would log into mine. So really, I had no choice if I didn’t want to keep screwing around with the network settings so I could connect using my own wireless  connection.

So.. I did the basic check, which dlink was it, did it want 192.168.1.1 or.. 10.1.1.1 - ended up being 10.1.1.1; nice time to have a wander inside the router, damn.. she has a better ATT than I do! Beeyotch! I noticed last night she was using dodo, so I wanted to see what her isp username was - and there it was - it was my nextdoor neighbour, and she had 3 other people using her connection. bwahaha.

So being the good neighbour I was, I knocked on her door. She answered it, it was late, and I’m like ‘hiiiii do you have adsl? did you get it connected recently?’ and she replied that she did, and she’d had it for ages. So I went in for the kill. ‘do you use a wireless router?’ Yes she does.. ‘Your router has no password, and I keep connecting to it accidently, and whilst I was connected, I logged in and you have 3 other people using your internet if you don’t own more than 1 computer’

Her face.. a sight to behold. “thank’s so much!!” she uttered as she basically slammed the door and you could hear her starting to have a go at her boyfriend.

I didn’t have the heart to tell her it’s been unsecured for more than a couple of weeks.  Who knows who else has been using it. I did also tell her there were about 20 other wireless networks in the building, and hers was the only unsecured one.

That’s my good deed for the day..

I’ve been at work for a few weeks now - starting to get settled in and enjoying it. I’ve been doing my own induction, finding out all the info I need to find out, I still don’t know enough. It’s great though, I still think I am the luckiest person in the world, working in the industry I still have passion for.

I went ice-skating tonight with one of my besties. I was terrified I was going to fall over and hurt my knee again like I did all those years ago. I think I’ll go back again, if only because I remembered how much I enjoyed it. just wandering around in a circle, around and around.  I think I might take my ipod because I think it’s about the only thing I can think of where you can be alone in a crowd, and not look out of place.  Brought back a lot of memories, some good and some bad.