Entries tagged with squeee

Current Mood: jubilant
Current Music: I'm Not Down - Thea Gilmore

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I've been beat up, I've been thrown out, but I'm not down

( The Lantern Bearers - Rosemary Sutcliffe )

In summary, <3 <3 <3 this book, with a deep and abiding passion. Thank you Oxford University Press, for bringing the Sutcliffe books back into print. Now where's Warrior Scarlet?

( The List )

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Oh my God, you guys!

You MUST SEE THIS. Disney Princesses + Sin City = EPIC WIN!

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Jobliness

Hurray for me! For I have a new job, with official start date 1 Feb!

As suspected, I have been offered a new role at work!(I had to go through the interview process, but I was always in the picture for it.)

We have a new client who, rather than have us liaise with their training department, want us to BE their training department. It will be a 2-person team, the Director and the Co-ordinator (which would be me). This should be really interesting, as the client is relatively new to the UK market, and has not ever had a training department, so a lot of the work in the first year is going to be a case of getting the infra-structure in place (on-line learning management system to buy and then build the way we want it, etc) and getting the dealer network on-board. It's going to be a lot of work, but a really good challenge. (Not to mention the pay raise.)

Squeeeeee.....!

Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: Thea Gilmore - Saviours and All

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Wheee hee heeeeeeeee

I have just returned from ice skating for the first time ever. Naturally, I kind of suck, but it is still FUN! It was an outdoors rink and it had been raining, so it was pretty slippery, but I eventually managed two and a half laps without hanging on to the rail. I didn't even fall after until after it started to hail.

It was quite entertaining watching the front roll in towards us (when I was watching my feet, that is). Suddenly the wind picked up, and the hail came down. Everybody came off the rink, but then we realised it was just becuse they didn't want to get wet, rather than because they had to, so we went back out. Skating in hail and pouring rain is a tad more difficult, so at that point I went down on my arse a couple of times, but I was pretty much cackling gleefully all the way.

I wanna go again!

Current Mood: excited

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Destiny calling

So, I've been thinking for yonks about getting a new job. A job in Bath, with a normal (9am) start time would give me back an hour and a half EVERY DAY. Not to mention cutting out transport costs. And that's without even taking into account an increase in pay, which I would expect.

A couple of weeks ago I got told about a job that had opened up at a company I used to work for. But then it had been filled. Que sera. 2 weeks later I got a message from someone else at the same company saying, "Call me IMMEDIATELY". The new person had left, I should talk to the HR person. I sent my CV in, but the HR person was off sick so nothing happened for a bit.

This morning when I checked my emails I had an email from someone else I know (at a different company) had sent through a job description for a PA job that sh'ed quite like me to apply for.

This afternoon the first company asked me to go in for a job interview tomorrow.

Somebody is definitely trying to tell me something.

Current Mood: happy

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Go-karting is teh roxxor

Our company has off-site "state of the company" type meetings twice a year. Afterwards we do something entertaining. Last time it was a quiz competition to work out as many types of booze as you could based on small parts of the label. (It was a lot better than it sounds. Also? I was disturbingly good at it.)

This time (have you worked it out yet?) we went go-karting. Fantastic. I didn't do too badly - 6th of 11, but no one had a hope of beating the top 2 - they were much faster than anyone else. Of course, it would have been one lower if I hadn't accidentally spun Kirsty out early in the race, from which she never really recovered her position. (Yes, I said accidentally. I was quite surprised when I came back round and she gave me the finger - I didn't even realise I'd done it. And let's face it, if I was going to do it on purpose, it would have been to the boss.)

Anyway, masses of fun. Go do it some time. Even the girl who got lapped half a dozen times by everone had a great time. There's something really entertaining about sliding through corners, especially once you get the knack of doing it on purpose. And then there are the opportunities to take out the opposition...

Current Mood: enthralled

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A Travel Tale ın Sectıons and No Partıcular Order: Part the Thırd

Aya Sofıa defıes my vocabulary of adjectıves. Ones wıth a physıcal element lıke breath-takıng and jaw-droppıng come closest.

That ıs all for now.

Current Mood: Pretending to work
Current Location: Work
Current Music: Tapping keyboards from around the office

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Ah Friday, how I long for the end of you

I keep starting to compose posts in my head, but somehow it never seems to get further than that.

The Huggy-Buggys came to visit. They were very tired after their hard-core tourism, with more yet to come, so we had a quiet domestic evening, and a wee wander around town in the morning. If they haven’t already said, ask them about their hire car. Try to work the word “bus” into the conversation. *Is so mean*

Weekends have been alternating between complete vegetation, and being very social. Movies have been seen and mostly enjoyed. Transformers was fantastic. Thank you Zephfi for convincing me to go! I saw Hot Fuzz the other weekend, as well. Did that have a NZ release? Well worth seeing if you haven’t already. Hilarity ensues, with much playing on the intrinsic homo-eroticism of buddy movies.

We finally got some decent weather last weekend, so I went with a couple of friends out to Rhossili Beach in south Wales. Ahh the beach. It had real sand and everything! I took pictures!

I have also been shopping. The key thing of note are the Shoes of Awesome. I think they will be really comfortable walking shoes for my holidays. They are immensely practical. And also unbelievably cute! They are white canvas with little cherries printed all over them. They are a little bit strappy, and have a liitle bit of heel on them, and I love them lots. *shoe bliss*

Heroes has finally made it to terrestrial. At last! We’re only up to episode 3, but I’m gripped. Can I just say that I hate the politician guy? Leaving aside his somewhat skewed priorities, he still really bugs me. I think it’s his voice. I don’t know, but I don’t like him.

Holiday plans are progressing apace. Which is really just as well, considering it’s about 2 weeks away! I have also added in a weekend in Paris the week after Turkey. I worked out the other day that I will spend 5 consecutive weekends out of the UK. I cannot believe how broke I am going to be, but it’ll be so very worth it. :o)

I get to spend the afternoon with the Divine TP tomorrow. I will probably tell you about it in another month. *sucks at this whole communicating thing*

Oh look. Now it’s lunch time. Super!

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Things that are fun

Pirates 3. I really love Pirates 3. Really. There was bouncing and squeaking, I loved it that much. I was actually kind of impressed with the restraint they showed in not massively signposting some things which were significant, but not plot-crucial. I do not go into details as I try to avoid spoilage. After the Spiderman debacle I was a little cautious about Pirates, but my faith has been restored.

Ceilidh. This primarily involves Scottish country dances. You may have vague memories of Social Dancing. You remember. Skipping in big circles and trying to not actually hold hands with your partner in a school hall redolent with dust and socks. It turns out that once you have a proper band, and a bunch of people who are there voluntarily, it is immensely fun. Especially when most of the dancers are a bit pissed and easily confused. :o)

Birthdays. It turns out my workmates tend to go a bit overboard with cake. There has been untold quantities of food at work in the last week or so. Happy belly!

Tell me something fun you did in the last couple of weeks?