T.G.I.F ...

OH BOY WHAT A WEEK !!!!

I feel absolutely shattered this week !!!! We have had one heck of a strange week ... what with the usual office work, the crazy collections we have had coming in for our Family Fun Day, that we've had to sort out and find storage space for it and the running around in Hillcrest hanging from poles to put up promotional posters !!! The things I do for this new job ...

And the crazy strange weather ... from pissing down rain, to gale force winds and soaring temperatures in the upper 30's and even hitting close to 40'c .... I am absolutely cream crackered!!!

We've had 2 days this week with no electricity ... seems SA is running out of power again ... and SON-shine has also been hectically crazy busy ... with his school work, rugby training and he's also been involved in swimming gala's etc. etc. ... the 2 hours of homework !!! and he's collapsing in bed by 8pm ... TOTAL LIGHTS OUT...

Adele ... one of my croonies from the Thursday Ladies Club has been an absolute star these past 2 weeks ... she's keeping the ladies motivated which means I have to get my A. into G. and keep digging out new stock for her ... but that's not such a bad thing is it ... in fact because of her I'm feeling the desire to do some crafting ... mmmm me wonders what I should be doing ???

Maybe I'm feeling like this cos tomorrow should have been my craft day?? ... but I'm off to the 80's concert instead ... I'm really looking forward to it ... will keep you posted :-)

The shortest month of the year ...

yet why does it seem to be dragging by???

I was so sure that next week was the beginning of a new month already ... but then again I would have missed the 80's concert so ... no it is still only the 19th today !!!

Maybe it's cos I've had such a boring droll ...week that has made it go so slow ???

No desires to quit the job ...NO it doesn't mean I'm ecstatically happy !!! hell that is so not in my nature LOL

The only weird thing we had to do this week was drive into DBN central with 110 'corroboard' posters to have them 'stamped' by the municipality ... Dept. for external advertising LOL and then drive back up to Hillcrest ... my arms were aching by the time we'd hauled all the stupid things up to the office !!! I just had to laugh ... typical municipality/council workers !!! about 50 people in the office sitting on their computers ...doing ??? They all looked incredibly busy once there was work to be done ... now we know where all our taxes are going !!!

Oh and apparently Friday was 'half term' which means what ??? Oh we get to leave at 1pm ... hellooooo that's the time I'm supposed to leave anyway PMSL ... not like we get an extra day off or anything ... but the way everyone was going on you'd think we were going on holiday !!!! Or maybe it's the mile-stone to half way thru the 1st term... Sally says it means we half way closer to the holidays LOL

In fact peeps I have very little to tell you about .... my week has been incredibly boring and non -eventful ...

I'm at work, K is at school as well as doing lots of rugby training .... the weather has been ??? So not worth talking about ... rain, cold, wet, then hot, heat, mist ???

Exciting what ???

I guess there's always a 1st time for everything !!!

First time since I opened my own business 13 years ago that I have had to cancel a class/workshop due to poor response !!!! ... BUT 2 weeks away from my next workshop and only 2 people have booked and paid ... although about 15 people sent me their reasons for NOT being able to attend !!!

Maybe I chose the wrong date ... or maybe people are still struggling to get over the over-spend of Christmas ??? or MAYBE everybody is just sooo busy so early in the year ... but anyway I have CANCELLED my February Workshop ;( ... (sad face)

And there I was all ready for this class ... projects done & dusted ...
"BUT I WILL NOT GIVE UP" ... I've never quit on anything (except for a diet !!!) and I don't intend to quit on this ... well not after just 1 poor response ...

All I'll do is pick another date later in the year ... gonna have to be MUCH later, due to my hectic 'rugby' life from the 10th March ... and use these same projects and go from there !!!

BUT here I am today ... supposed to be sorting out my 'CRAP' in my room .... oops I mean stuff ... and instead I'm trolling the net ... doing anything but what I'm supposed to do (P.of P. woke this am again) ... and voila ... between 1 site and another ... I get me another epiphany ...and I find myself jotting down ideas,doing some drawings and sketches and I'm planning my next THANG !!!! SO I've still got IT ... whatever IT is !!! bwahahahaha

Sorry am I rambling here ??? I get like this when the 'creative' brain is at work !!!

Oooh ...ohhh ... oh ... but there is a good thing come from all of this ... because I've cancelled I'm now free on the weekend of 25th February .. so yesterday I booked tickets for myself, SON-shine and the twisted sisters to go to the 80's Revival Concert at Kings Park Stadium !!! How awesome is that ??? One of my 'school girl' crushes is going to be there ... Midge Ure from Ultravox !!!! I followed that band around the UK like a true Groupie !!!! (I was going to marry that man !!!) ... awesomeness or what ???

OK last week ... I nearly did QUIT on something ... the damned job !!! It nearly got to me ... yes ... I almost lost the plot !!! Between the 15 odd bosses I seem to have and the crappy attitude of some of the other folk in the building !!! Doesn't matter about the 600 odd muffins I baked for them this week, even without electricity ... and went and 'used' BFF June's oven to finish baking them, was up at 3am making fresh muffins for their damned function ... NO ... none of that matters ... when they want to drop a ton of crap on you, for doing something that no-body bothered to tell you, you shouldn't do !!! Apparently I was supposed to ASSUME it ... well all I know about ASSUME is it makes an ASS out of U and ME !!! (seems it is most definitely every MAN/WOMAN & CHILD for themselves!!!)

BUT STOP ! NO ... this is the year of POSITIVITY and I WILL NOT LET THEM GET TO ME ... however I have now realised WHY a lot of the people at work are soooo cynical:

cyn·i·cal  /ˈsɪnɪkəl/ Show Spelled[sin-i-kuhl] Adjective
1. like or characteristic of a cynic; distrusting or disparaging the motives of others.
2. showing contempt for accepted standards of honesty or morality by one's actions, especially by actions that exploit the scruples of others.
3. bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, or pessimistic.
Synonyms. Cynical, pessimistic, sarcastic, satirical - imply holding a low opinion of humanity. Cynical suggests a disbelief in the sincerity of human motives: cynical about honesty.
Antonyms . optimistic.

And that is all I'm going to say on the matter ... well for this week anyway ....bwahahahaha ...

I actually ... for the first time in a long time (oooh there's another 1st !!!) said TGIF ... on Friday ... and I'm happy to have the weekend to pull myself towards myself !!!

It was MUM's birthday on Friday so the twisted sisters came and joined us for Pizza's and we had a really great evening ... then we've had Penny & Lawrence join us for a Birthday breakfast for mum ... so all in all the weekend has been a good one !!!!

All be it the weather has turned crappy ... it was jeans, t-shirt, jacket AND closed in shoes yesterday ... last night the winter slippers were on and today it's warm clothes SUNDAY !!!!

And on a SAD note ... R.I.P Whitney Houston ... another huge loss to the music industry ... all because of damned drugs and substance abuse !!!

Just an observation ...

I've noticed ... strange as it may seem .... but the mornings have suddenly got darker at 5.30am ... or maybe I should be saying they are getting lighter later ... it feels like its been a sudden thing ... last week when the alarm was going off at 5.30am it was very light and therefore I was keen to get up ... so far the 2 mornings of this week !!! it has been darker and so harder to get up .... oh whoa ... please don't tell me that summer is over already and here we are into autumn already ???

Mind you according to the forecast our temperatures are still supposed to be in the upper 20's ... but first thing on a morning we do have dew on the grass .... the weather patterns are very strange !!!

And then this leads me to my next observation ... those damned weavers in my big tree have either become very noisy or there are so many more of them ??? AND they're making MORE nests ... so you see not just us humans are confused ... it would appear nature is confused too !!!

I'm sneaking this post in while at work .... oooh you naughty girl ... but every one's in meetings and doing their thang !!! The work that I was left with (bwahahaha) I've done and hey ... what the hell thought I'd take the opportunity to blog while I can .... at least I'm not social networking hahahaha !!!

Yesterday was a really great day ... thoroughly enjoyed doing the whole catering thing for the NPO ... the performance was also fantastic ... I'm going to a free sundowner performance again tomorrow evening and sally & i have been told we don't have to work so that's an added bonus ... well it's been designated as a fund raiser for the REM unit !!! and there seems to be 'them' and 'us' policy hahahahaha !!!!

Ooops they're coming out of meetings ... gotta go !!!

Another weekend in Paradise !!!

Yup so here we are at the weekend again ... and what a week we've had ...

Crazy hectic and even a little scary !!! Teachers loosing the plot & their minds ... kids accident prone ... working in a place with way tooooo many Chiefs and just not enough Indians !!! Being over qualified and INVISIBLE too ... wow ... what a week !!!

Haven't yet received my job description ... but was told verbally that I was a 'dogsbody' so
Noun
1. dogsbody - a worker who has to do all the unpleasant or boring jobs that no one else wants to do....

Yup that just about sums up my job !!! This week I have probably administered about 120 tablets ... cleaned about 50 wounds, applied about 30 ice packs... that's job1. Then copied about 5000 pages of STUFF ... phoned and begged oops I mean asked in a nice manner, companies to support our fundraising drive ... typed about 50 letters of some description or other ... been told HOW to set up cocktail tables (this was the funniest ... cos as you all know I've never done any form of catering, never worked in the hotel industry for the past 20 odd years )... don't know how to dress a table, add overlays, make it pretty !!!! In fact based on my current job... I'm pretty much not able to do anything PMSL !!!!

And all of that was just for work... then it 's been SON-shine and his requirements ... school ... finding out he's not had a maths teacher for the past 2 weeks !!! Grrrrr... his sports life ... and on Wednesday night we attended the 2010 Prize giving ... sadly SON-shine didn't receive any awards for last year ... seems 1st in your class for the year doesn't count for much ... only the top 3 kids of the GRADE (out of 200 kids) get recognised !!! But who needs a crappy piece of paper... I'm still so very proud of him for being top of his class for 2010 !!!

Friday night we had a Supporters Club Braai .. not sure if I should say much about that ... all I am going to say is ... next year when I'm in charge there will way more people there !!!And on Thursday night it was HVJR club first committee meeting ... OMG is it really that time of the year already ... I know I said roll on rugby season ... and when I said that I was thinking KB .... now I'm going oh crap that also means my time gets stretched a helluv a lot too ... Oh well no peace for the wicked !!!

Shew the weather has played very nicely this week too ... have had a chance to wear just about ALL my summer stuff ... can't decide if I like the 'dressing up' part of going to work though ???Mmmm gonna have to be making me some more matching jewels ... can't be letting the side down now !!!

And so that pretty much sums up this last week ... BORING MUCH ???

But next week sounds like it's going to be a bit more exciting ... we have the Natal Philharmonic Orchestra coming to the school to perform in a mini concert for the school on Monday, and offering a free evening concert on Wednesday ... I have to put on my catering hat for that ... Monday we have to organise the NPO's lunch and on Wednesday it's serving coffee and muffins to the guests ... so gonna get a bit of culture in my week next week ... and on Friday we have a Teachers Conference at our school ... gotta serve about 600 hungry teachers tea/coffee & snacks on Friday ... mmmm looks like maybe my catering background will help with all this ??? Or not if no-one bothers to ask me hahahaha !!!