13 posts tagged “things on tuesday”

Things I Loathe:

• Losing my supervisor. Again. I'm dreading going through this again. I can only hope that the anticipation is worse than the actual event, but that seems incredibly unlikely.
• Rental inspections. Today better go okay. I didn't get to mow the lawn - MotherHen and I went to her place to get the lawnmower only to realise that there was no fuel in it. Doh!
• Management who JUST DON'T GET IT.
• Being pissy at my BFF. When she isn't fighting with her stupid boyfriend, I don't hear from her all that much. I know that she is really really busy with her new job, but how can she not realise that things are really hard for me ATM? I'm isolated from my family and friends, work is kind of falling apart, and my grandfather is being treated for cancer. Where is she? Yeah, I could call her, but my very stubborn side says I shouldn't have to.
• Being exhausted but not being able to sleep because I'm stressed and can't stop thinking about work.

Things I Love:

• Eye drops.
• My knuckle duster esque ring. Makes me feel purty.
• Basil aioli. I made a batch on the weekend with soy mayo and it was soooo gooooood. Way too good. I can feel my stomach expanding just thinking about it. It is like ahhhh-mazing on toasted turkish bread with swiss cheese, salami and spinach. Oh yeah baby.
• The anticipation of receiving my subversive cross stitch packs in the mail. I got myself "Don't Make Me Cut You" and I bought "Homo Sweet Homo" for my little bro for Christmas. I want to give him something (a) funny and (b) which tells him how proud I am of him for being strong and brave and OUT and PROUD. 
• Having a vacuum cleaner that actually works! My room is sooo hair and dust free right now. Go me.  

Am heading off to my insane insane meetings in about 20 minutes, and am panicking about everything that still has to be done. Why aren't I doing it I hear you ask? Because everything on my computer but Internet Explorer has frozen. Predictably.

This week is going to be absolute hell, although more so for MotherHen who is coming to my meetings (2 days) then running her own (3 days). Yeesh. 5 days of being yelled at for trying to do your job. So. Not. Fun.

Anyhoo... Things on Tuesday:

Loathe:

• How much chocolate I ate on the weekend.
• How many hot chips I will end up eating this week. This is the problem with going to seaside towns whose main industry is fishing, and consequently everywhere serves AMAZING calamari, scallops, snapper and CHIPPIES.
• How little exercise I will do this week.
• How much food I will end up consuming as a result of stress.
• How little sleep I got last night.
• I'm pissed off at my best friend and she has no idea. Which is my fault because I haven't told her. But whatevs.

Love:

• Watching the West Wing all the way from season 1, for like the billionth time. It never gets boring!
• Green chicken curry made my way (ie very much not like curry).
• Diet red creaming soda. Yeah, I know. Grossssss.
• Day off on Friday! Woop woop! I plan on weeding. Although I have planned on doing this several weeks in a row now.

Mostly just a success because I remembered that it was Tuesday. Celebrate the victories because they are few etc etc.

Loathe:

• Work related incompetency - mine and other people's.
• My cardigan shrunk in the wash.
• My biceps are sore today because I "challenged" in the bicep curls at BodyPump (instructor's terminology, not mine). This would be okay except for the fact that I have BodyBalance tonight... ouchies.

Love:

• Watching OfficeMate show our far more competent legal intern how to do something. It is hilarous. This guy just cannot not be patronising or kind of wanky when talking about the law. It is almost like some sort of syndrome. Poor thing... maybe there is a support group?
• Getting somewhere at work! For the first time in about 3 months, I am going to do everything on my task list! Yee-haw! (Blogging may intefere with this, admittedly, but have allocated myself a 15 minute afternoon tea break in between computer freezes).
• My green chicken curry with mushies, zucchini and cabbage which I had for dinner last night and lunch today. Too much brown sugar to try and make up for the very watery coconut milk (I knew I shouldn't have bothered with the low fat variety) but overall... veeeery tasteeee.
• Got a whole 6 hours sleep last night. Normally this wouldn't be a love, but it is better than I've had any other night in the last week.
• MotherHen said she would be staying another 2 months... YES! I feel that a weight has been lifted and I am no longer very depressed!
• Our legal intern is insanely competent and is making us all very happy with how smart she is and how much she's getting done. Bless!
• Death at a Funeral... at first I was all, 'oh when will the funny kick in?' and then about 3 minutes later I was almost sobbing I was laughing so much. Fabulous fabulous film. I watched one of the commentaries on the DVD, which is something I rarely do, and it made me appreciate the film even more because of how much it turns out was improvised. Matthew McFadyen does a wonderful job of being the "straight man" of the film and it just further illustrates his genius (I still miss him and Keely on Spooks). Having watched half of the film again this morning, I've already picked up more subtle hilarious things going on in the background and have a new appreciate for how carefully shot it is. GO SEE IT PEEPS.

Death at a funeral

You know, I appear to have some pathological inability to remember when Tuesday is. Yesterday I thought it was Monday. Today I thought was Thursday. Sigh.

Loathe:

• The fact that I've woken up sick. Have very sore throat and a very stuffy right nostril / sinus combination. Ick.
• People who have giant egos just because they are upper management.
• Having to manage and massage people with giant egos.
• Potentially losing a beloved and completely essential co-worker because our managers are idiots.
• Feeling fat, and consequently eating fatty food. Yeah, I know, it makes no sense, but there you go.
• Robitussin Honey Cough. They are really gross. What a waste of moola.
• Missing my mum and dad.

Love:

• Arrested Development on DVD.
• Cheese and tomato on a white sesame roll for breakfast (no bread at home, hello visit to the bakery).
• My $10 "gold" ring from Diva.
• That my BFF is almost definitely, finally, getting out of her suckhole of a job and taking a risk with her career. Go for it Goose!
• Having a win at work! We finally won a (very small) case about an exploration licence over the area of a massacre. It means that now the company have to come and negotiate with my clients before they go out there drilling. This is the first time we have won one of these in THREE years! There has been lots of whooping around the office, and I'm very proud because I did the research, drafted the legal arguments and assisted with collecting affidavit evidence. The decision is also brillo pads from a precedent point of view because it enunciated the argument I'd made in this really great way. We probably wouldn't have won if the mining dude hadn't been such a slack arse. I feel like saying 'this is what happens when you under-estimate me buddy!!!' Yeah, I'm a sore winner. I cannot wait to tell my group though - I never get to deliver good news, so I'm excited about this one!

Loathe:

• That I just saw a baby cockroach scuttle across my desk. Am trying to kill him subtly so as not to arouse the suspicions of co-workers. I suspect I may have invited him in by leaving my coffee cup unwashed on my desk for 3 days. Eating at my desk all the time can't be good either.
• I think I stuffed up renewing my practicing certificate. I anticipate receiving a threatening letter from the Legal Practice Board anyday now. Sigh.
• Feeling soooo tired despite sleeping most of the weekend.
• Having a weird stomach buggy thing for some of the weekend, meaning I couldn't leave the house. Hence no 'pilla killa. And no pruning implements so no pruning. Did pull the bindies out of the lawn tho.
• Having so much stuff at work which is urgent, and feeling so panicked about it I am now wasting a lot of time doing over things.
• Indecision about present buying for people's birthdays.

Love:

• Red nailpolish. On fingers and toes. I feel sexy and business all at the same time. If only this translated to efficiency.
• North & South. I watched it again over the weekend. There will never be anything in real life which lives up to the romance of that TV adaptation. Richard Armitage makes me gooey at the knees. I followed it up by watching the ending of Vicar of Dibley where she gets married to him. More goeey-ness ensued.
• Torchwood. Just finished watching Season 1 on DVD and now want to get my hands on Season 2. It is cheesy and terrific, although Capn Jack does grate at times.
• Alice in Wonderland cupcakes: cherry and coconut, with coconut ice and a cherry on top. Like eating a diabetic coma.
• That I live in the biggest single police jurisdiction in the world. Who knew?  

I haven't had internet while I've been away, so I'm late (as usual) but at least I have an excuse.

Loathe:

• Almost hitting a giant eagle today. I was a bad bad bad driver and swerved to miss it out of instinct. Clearly I am not as country as I thought I had become - a proper country driver never swerves for animals. Better they die than you roll the car and kill yourself / other travellers. I blame it on the pamphlet I had just read about what to do if you hit an eagle - it involves putting it in your car, while trying to make sure it doesn't gauge you with its talons. No thank you maam.
• That I was so tired and stressed the last few days I gave in to binge eating M&Ms and hot chips.
• When el cheapo earrings make your ears hurty.
• People who exploit their own people / family. And exploitation generally, obvy.
• Upper management.
• My housemate not watering my basil.

Love:

• That I managed not to hit the giant eagle and not roll the car and kill myself.
• Cheese flavoured rice crackers.
• Cherry tomatoes.
• Living in a warm climate. Helloooo, still wearing summer skirts and thongs in late May.
• Wearing ridiculously girly outfits while driving a giant 4wd - I like to defy expectations and befuddle tourists and truckers alike.
• Coming home to season 7 of the Gilmore Girls.
• Finding the caterpiller that has been eating my basil. Die bastard die.   
• My job. It's shit, but it's my kind of shit.
• The Dixie Chicks. (I'm only very slightly ashamed).  

Things I loathe:

• Being a DVD addict... it has a negative affect on my sleep patterns.
• Generally lacking willpower.
• My indoor fern George appears to have picked up some sort of leaf fungus bug thing while being babysat by my parents.
• Needing to buy petrol, and how expensive it is. Also, the fact that LPG seems to be very difficult to put in my car, which means I use petrol because I am too embarrassed to ask for help at the petrol station, which defeats the purpose of getting LPG in the first place.
• Not being able to walk home after dark.
• Work colleagues thinking it is appropriate to meddle in my love life, or lack thereof.

Things I love:

• Putting together IKEA furniture. With my IKEA screwdriver. Seriously, I don't know why people find this so stressful, it is one of my new favourite things to do.
• New books new books new books! I can't seem to find a new bookstore in G-town, so on my trip to The City I purchased 3 and borrowed another 3. Huzzah.
• Not doing one bunny hop on the way to work this morning in the giant, manual transmission work 4wd. I RULE.
• My family all being SO bemused by the fact that I've been driving around said giant car.
• Spending time with my precious puppy!
• Mushrooms.

Things I Loathe:

• feeling unmotivated at work
• getting lamb stuck in my teeth
• not having an endless pit of money at my disposal

Things I Love:

• spearmint milk
• second-hand bookshops
• yellow tulips being able to revive themselves when someone forgets to give them water for 2 days
• coloured permanent markers
• that my co-worker had to shave his lower calves and ankles for footy... heh-larious
• the fact that it rained this morning so I could legitimately wear my shit hot cowgirl boots to work at last - yee ha!

Things I Loathe:

• The fact that I have to clean up the mess made by lawyers who left 4 years ago
• The BO of colleagues late in the afternoon
• Wanting to have a significant other - I'm meant to be an empowered, liberated single woman, dammit. A related problem is developing crushes on inappropriate people - either because they are attached or completely wrong for me.
• People finally deciding that yes, in fact, I was right in the first place. Normally this gives me a glorious sense "I told you so", but in this instance the delay in a certain person realising my rightness has been 2 months and caused a whole lot of headache. Hurumph.  
• Not having endless money to buy clothes and furniture for my house. I must stop reading design*sponge and Apartment Therapy... they only make me jealous that I am not as trendy.
• Not being able to make any progress on the fitness front, thanks to a stellar combination of time/motivation/willpower poverty.

Things I Love:

• My parents for sending me flowers. I've never had flowers delivered to work before - I blushed like anything.
• Yellow tulips (see above).
• The second hand book store across the road from work, which feeds my addiction in an affordable manner.
• Not being completely panicked at work. There is so much stuff I am not getting to, and not managing to complete, but I've sort of just given in.
• My filing coding stamp - it makes a little box, next to which it says "FILE No". It feeds my deep emotional need for order and my love for labelling and stationary. I blame it on my (very vague) German ancestry.
• Having good people around me.
• Sunny days = fresh basil. 
• Clear skies and red earth.  
  

  Nearish dead goat hill

Things I Loathe:

• Co-workers who whinge and complain when they don't know how good they've got it. There are many reasons to complain about my workplace. Many. But there are other complaints which are not legitimate, and come from other people's own shortcomings.
• Staff members who join our organisation for the adventure or the travel. I feel like saying: "You're no good to our clients if you are just on your own little joyride. I'm here to work, what the fuck are you doing?"  
• Being poor. Well, not actually poor, because I have a job and a house etc, but I am sick of not feeling finacially secure.
• Not being able to get my photos from my Melbourne trip because my computer is broken.
• That burning sensation you get on the soles of your feet from walking too far / long in thongs - why does it always stick around for like 2 days?

Things I Love:

• My mum: she's so cute.
• Electronic banking: how did people ever cope without it?
• My Paris snowglobe.
• Having an excuse to wear a giant floral skirt and thongs to work: it's my "roadtrip outfit" because it makes for comfy putting-feet-up-on-dashboard.
• Getting to take the Nissan Navaro ute instead of the Landcruiser for today's 5 hour drive. Using the ute we run the risk of our stuff getting rained on, but it has got so much more guts, and the Landy always sticks in first.
• Listening to Radio National while making dinner. Nerd alert!