the departures board has been telling me that my flight will be boarding in 5 minutes for nearly 40 minutes now.
today is going to be a very long day.
up at 2:30 for a flight to melbourne. application workshops all day today - finishing around 6pm melbourne time (thats 8pm NZST).
same again for thursday and friday and then last flight home friday.
big sleep saturday!
thought i might go and dance my feet off at the our house party on saturday night.
possibly a new tattoo on sunday?
any able to translate some english into maori for me?
Showing posts with label work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label work. Show all posts
June 20, 2007
December 14, 2006
i could stay here forever
teleworking - noun
employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem [syn: telecommuting]
so the company that i am working for at the moment actually encourages us to work from home around 3 days a week. no longer do i feel like i am on the clock. or that my boss wants to keep an eye on me and my screen and everything i look at on the internet.
and i dont have to explain to the guy next to me why i look at pictures of vin diesel all day. i dont - really. but i could. he is going to be my husband. well hes first on the list.
but anyway, thats not the point i was going to make.
so i'm sitting here in my office at home - working away. and i got a little bored. still in holiday mode i think. but i was wondering, if i dont have to go to work to go to work, how much of my life can i run from this little corner of the world.
well i know i can order pizza - so takeaways are sorted.
the supermarket will deliver my groceries.
i can do all of my banking online - which is good when the money comes in.
i can buy my clothes and shoes and handbags from all over the world (although if i dont leave home, do i really need to be fashionable? - ah yes! because people will still come and visit me. i hope).
the dvd movies i love to watch are sent to my letterbox.
ah huh - if i moved my letterbox to my door, then i wouldnt have to go up the drive!
is there anything else that i actually need?
well yes. of course there is. sunshine cant be delivered in a box and neither can fun and experience. so i'm going to quit thinking of ways to stay inside and get out there ... now
employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem [syn: telecommuting]
so the company that i am working for at the moment actually encourages us to work from home around 3 days a week. no longer do i feel like i am on the clock. or that my boss wants to keep an eye on me and my screen and everything i look at on the internet.
and i dont have to explain to the guy next to me why i look at pictures of vin diesel all day. i dont - really. but i could. he is going to be my husband. well hes first on the list.
but anyway, thats not the point i was going to make.
so i'm sitting here in my office at home - working away. and i got a little bored. still in holiday mode i think. but i was wondering, if i dont have to go to work to go to work, how much of my life can i run from this little corner of the world.
well i know i can order pizza - so takeaways are sorted.
the supermarket will deliver my groceries.
i can do all of my banking online - which is good when the money comes in.
i can buy my clothes and shoes and handbags from all over the world (although if i dont leave home, do i really need to be fashionable? - ah yes! because people will still come and visit me. i hope).
the dvd movies i love to watch are sent to my letterbox.
ah huh - if i moved my letterbox to my door, then i wouldnt have to go up the drive!
is there anything else that i actually need?
well yes. of course there is. sunshine cant be delivered in a box and neither can fun and experience. so i'm going to quit thinking of ways to stay inside and get out there ... now
November 21, 2006
staring out of windows
'i finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it'
-- rita mae brown
i have a new job.
well not a new new job.
i have been in my new job for about 6 months now. but i was in my old job 5 and a half years.
so you can see why this one is new.
not only is it new, but if my old job had a stress and responsibility level of 6 then this one is about a 0. a big fat round zero.
and its not for lack of trying. but hey - i am a contractor now. and its not really my responsibility to find the work - just to do it when it comes in.
the money is good, although some days i am really tempted to call in sick and race off all over the country spending my squillions on doing really cool things, and a lot of shopping!
speaking of doing really cool things .......
i learnt to dive. yes, me.
the original whale. oh yea.
at one stage (my near heaviest) i was 147kg. i say near heaviest as i stopped weighing myself after that. but i seem to remember buying another pair of trousers. a larger pair.
my friend nell. shes the greatest. shes been instrumental in getting me off the couch and out of the house this year. and guess what. now i weigh 95kgs. and i'm closer to my goal than my starting weight. go me!
so anyways, back to the cool stuff. we went to fiji. for a week. and it was warm and sunny.
i was petrified. actually of more than just the diving. but i did it. and it was amazing. we wanted to go back about a month later. but we were too scared to ask our bosses straight out for more time off (shes a contractor too - for the same company). and the bloody fijian military thought they might kick up a stink and it looked like they were going to have a coup.
so the moral of this story?
dont work for a huge corporate and get paid like a minion.
leave. become self employed. make loads of money.
and travel the world freaking yourself out and doing things you never thought you would.
believe me, its more fun than staring out a window.
-- rita mae brown
i have a new job.
well not a new new job.
i have been in my new job for about 6 months now. but i was in my old job 5 and a half years.
so you can see why this one is new.
not only is it new, but if my old job had a stress and responsibility level of 6 then this one is about a 0. a big fat round zero.
and its not for lack of trying. but hey - i am a contractor now. and its not really my responsibility to find the work - just to do it when it comes in.
the money is good, although some days i am really tempted to call in sick and race off all over the country spending my squillions on doing really cool things, and a lot of shopping!
speaking of doing really cool things .......
i learnt to dive. yes, me.
the original whale. oh yea.
at one stage (my near heaviest) i was 147kg. i say near heaviest as i stopped weighing myself after that. but i seem to remember buying another pair of trousers. a larger pair.
my friend nell. shes the greatest. shes been instrumental in getting me off the couch and out of the house this year. and guess what. now i weigh 95kgs. and i'm closer to my goal than my starting weight. go me!
so anyways, back to the cool stuff. we went to fiji. for a week. and it was warm and sunny.
i was petrified. actually of more than just the diving. but i did it. and it was amazing. we wanted to go back about a month later. but we were too scared to ask our bosses straight out for more time off (shes a contractor too - for the same company). and the bloody fijian military thought they might kick up a stink and it looked like they were going to have a coup.
so the moral of this story?
dont work for a huge corporate and get paid like a minion.
leave. become self employed. make loads of money.
and travel the world freaking yourself out and doing things you never thought you would.
believe me, its more fun than staring out a window.
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