Theres such a thing...

as sunshine on a cloudy day!!!

I got the job!!! I start on Wednesday.

I know.. i know.. you have heard this all before... but... this time, ive pre-met the staff... ive had a tour of the surgery... the whole two clinic rooms... and... i think this round peg is gonna fit just nicely.
And just as a bonus... the pay is better.. We are going to nut out the hours tomorrow, though at this point (we all wanted to go home, as you do when the interview is at 7.30pm at night! ~L~) the hours seem to be way better... i dont want to get too excited but it appears that i can be a mum as well as a nurse!!!!

Anyway... off to celebrate with gelato...

mwah.
xxxx

The sky is no indication...

While it is a cool day here in Melbourne and misting with rain, the grey overcast skies above are no indication to the possible sunshine that is just over the horizon.

I just recieved a phone call... and while im not getting over excited, it is definately a step in the right direction... I have an interview at 9.30am tomorrow morning!!!

The practice is not in the city... and is only 30mins train trip from here, which is fantastic... means less time away from the children and hopefully...time for me of a day now that i wont be crammed onto over packed trains for almost an hour.

To those of you who pray... please send a few kind words to your person for me... i need all the prayers that i can get!

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Update: 12.23pm
Well... the day is getting might fine looking...
I just got my last payslip from my first employer and it is complete... CATH!!! You know what this means... i didnt have to pay anything back!!!
Yippppeeee....

ANYWAY.... and... it gets better....

It appears that the dental practice that called this morning about an interview seem really.. REALLY Keen... I have just had a phone call again from the manager, asking if there is any possible chance that i could come in tonight for an interview. (i told them that Matt had the car today).... can you believe that i am going for an interview at 7.15pm tonight!?

Keep the prayers coming... they seem to be working so far!!

Quote of the Day

While doin' a little R&R surfing this morning i stumbled upon the most gorgeous stuff on a blog. You have to go check it out... the stuff is just so cute...
Anyway... at the bottom of this page i found a quote that says it all...

"Sometimes you just have to take the leap...
and build your wings...
on the way down"

This blog has given me so much inspiration this morning... isnt the hanging just to die for!? Well.. i think it is.. and today... that is all that is important!
xxx

After the Rant.. .

While this is my blog and all.. and its a little insight into the life of the girl behind the keys.. i feel a little ummph about putting up such a misserable post this morning. Sundays are meant to be fun-days.. not sad and glum-days...

i know.. i know... good with the bad... pretty with the ugly... life is not complete with out the other..

With that said, i would like to turn the sunday coin over the the bright shiny side and call out a huge hi and welcome to my blog in the manner that im best accustom.. {with a huge smile and happiness} to Tiffany Lee and the one and only {oh my goodness i cant believe she posted on my humble lil blog} Emily Falconbridge!

Also... to all those that visit... and dont say g-day... a huge hello and welcome to you as well.. i hope that you stop by again... and dont let my morning of glum-day-ness put you off.

This week.. appart from the obvious {looking for a new and BETTER job} i pan on doing something quite out of the ordinary.. {can you guess!?}... Im going to scrap!!! {gasp}... and i may even post some piccies of the layouts that are sitting here... undocumented! :P

Anyway... happy Sun-days, not at all glum-days to you...
hope you are laughing hard.. having fun and making the most of the fun-day!!!

xxxx

Lifes plan...

Have you ever wondered what life has planned for you!? Where you fit into the big scheme of things and what is in store!?

I have often found myself wondering upon this exact thing... and... many times, i just shrug and hope that in the end, it just works out for the best. That is after all... all you can do.. right!?

For the past few days i have been trapped between light and dark... and at times feeling like im going to suffocate... and through this time, i have thought almost constantly... "what has life got instore for me NOW... " As if life has not already thrown me enough curve balls in my 34 years of existance.. it seems that its not yet done and ready to move onto someone else.

If you have been a regular reader of my blog you would have known that i have been studying and working as a dental nurse for a little while now... and while i loved what i did, hated the management for who i did it. Anyway... i thought i did the right thing... actually, im positive that i did the right thing by leaving that environment... though, to what i moved onto.. i can only explain at this point as a living nightmare.

I have given up wondering why life does the things it does... and have just come to accepting it... what elses is there to do!? I have tried sticking my head in the sand... and it did nothing but got sand in my ears. Anyway....

I started this new and what i was hoping to be "exciting" position on Monday this week past, only to discover by lunch time, when my induction by management was over that i was being fed to the lions. I entered the steri room where they were all gathered.. and without exageration it was like feeding time at the zoo.

I am a fuller figured person... yes.. some would say fat.. though im trying to keep a little of my dignity in tact here and be tactful.. and all around the room were pictures of big chicks.. i mean... bigger than i ... bigger than i really have ever seen anyone... over weight dogs, cats... they were all on display on this huge cork board. Each of them with some vulgarity written beneath, associating to the image shown.
It didnt take long for actual comments to be made, not directly at me, though about anyone that was not a size 0. These girls spent too much time bitching and not enough time eating, for im sure between them (8 of them) they would not have together filled out my size 18 shirt. Comments like "surely they look in the mirror.. unless they have just given up turning sideways to get a good look... why dont they just stop eating. Dont they know that there are fammines happening!? They could feed a country by themselves!"..
That is just one of the inspirational things that i heard that day. And i say this with as much contempt as it was spoken.

I know... i could grow thicker skin and just ignore it... right!? Well... i guess i could, though that would make the 10.5 hour long shifts extremely long.. and well.. not a happy place to be anyway.
I tried... i have to say, i tried with every bit of energy that i had left to fight off the hurt that i was feeling.. and i think i could have suceeded until one of the girls come screaming into steri with threats, ofcourse, to them, made in jest ... to kill the patient and dentist for running late. Ofcourse, There it seems all about the nurses... goodness forbid if a proceedure took longer than expected. That is life.. that is reality in this profession after all.

Now.... again, i guess these are the things that normal people would shrug off, or even add a fake laugh to, to be part of the group.. though to me.. who is terrified of any sort of violence, from raising of voices onwards.. it was so much more. I was pysically sick all day. It took me all my time and effort not to throw up ..

Life throws things at us all the time... though not once did i say that i had to put up with all that it threw. There are times that i can choose to take myself out of the equation... and in this circumstance, that is exactly what i did.
I lost my father 15 years ago, and at the same time almost lost my own life and that of my 12 day old daughter, mother and husband to a maniac with a butchers knife. That situation, evidently, i could not remove myself from.. though this time... im not going to stand by and be a victim to someone elses insanity, weather it be in jest or not...

so after a lot of tears... feelings of guilt and failure, i decided that my sanity was worth so much more than what the contract at this new position was offering in way of salary..

Hopefully, my unemployment will only be a brief stay..

Lastly... Through all of this turmoil i have had someone listening (besides mum and Matt)... (even if it was by sms message)... thinking of me and offering their thoughts to try and help me out of the darkness i was feeling myself drawn too...
I dont know what i would do if i was not to know her... where I would be if she had not chosen a few years back to be part of my life... i could not imagine anyone else in your place..

You are truely the angel in my life. Thank you. xxxx

a day for recovering...

For someone that is on their feet so much through the day... man oh man do my feet kill!

I think that it is just gonna be the perfect day for more chatting... revelling in our own gloriousness and chillin'....

I dont know what the poor people are doing today... though... im sure that it wont be half as good as the rich day of nothing that we are going to enjoy!

xxx

Oh crap... forgot that we need groceries... soooooo..... i guess our rich day of nothing is going to have to be put on hold until we hunt n' gather..

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UPDATE: After a gorgeous brunch at a lovely little cafe in the town center.. and a little grocery and fruit shopping... shoes are off... feet are ready to be pearched... and nothing is about to be achieved.
Enjoy your sunday!!

we went.. we saw... we...... conquered!

We went we saw.. we touched... we bought... we walked out almost dead on our feet and totally exhausted!!!

Paperific would not be the same.. If i was not there shopping with my bestie.

All i can say at this point is.... I LOVE MY TAX MAN!!!!! I got the best surprise in my mail box yesterday.. and just in time for today..
We did the touchy feely thing... and... errrmmm... bought about 70% of what we actually touched... wandered... chatted some more {yep... after yesterday we STILL could find things to talk about!} did the only two make and takes that were worth doing.... and caught up with Miriam. {what a trooper... what a star... } She is so patient... instead of complaining that we were taking to long everywhere we stopped, she would go off on mini little expeditions by her self... source the bargains... spend a little of the national budget and then come back and share where she found her finds... and then show us... wait for us.. and help us spend even more of the budget. Talk about having a nose for the things i was looking for!!! She even found the perfect cardstock to use on my circle journal... im so excited and actually cant wait to get started on it! Im not going to give anything away at the moment... though i will say this... oooooooooooh.... totally divine!!!
{will take a piccie and share my new stash later}... new ribbons... - maya road, making memories, american crafts ... {like i need more.. but can i just say... YUMMI!}.... sasssafrass lass loot. {aka this purchase sees me now owning i think the majority of all their collections}... making memories papers....some of the new Making Memories clear stamps...{very delish}... some purdy coloured fine glitters to use when i get my SLICE {i cant wait.. only $23 left on the layby}....a cosmo cricket "blackboard" mini album, totally gorgeous maya road cupcake and owl coaster albums, maya road chippy letters, cardstock, KI lacey cardstock... tape... and im sure a zillion other things that i just cant remember at this point..

I think Cathy was a little put off, or.. atleast thrown though with the ammount of people that stopped her and said "I know you!" "Where do i know you from!?"... We discovered later that these people could have only known her through published work of mine, which has her face on it... Im sorry if you got embarrassed darlin... though i knew you would be famous one day!!!!

Now... though... if you dont mind... my glass is empty and i believe requires a refill and there is a glorious sunset that im going to go enjoy with my famous friend!

Rasberries.+ vodka + sunsets =

A hell of a good time and surely a sore head in the morning.

Yes, she arrived... in one piece even... though, i cant guarentee that she will return to Canberra the same way.
Sorry Tony!

hahahaha...

Let the games begin!!!

Well... today is the day.... the gorgeous girl from NSW is here!!!!! Im so excited!

I didnt know that two girls could really talk so much about nothing really at all... though between the airport... and seeing the same 3 mcDonalds while trying to get out of the airport (i knew i should have turned tomtom on - my sat nav for the pervy of you) and home, we talked about everything and anything i think.

I had to run a few errands before we got in the door.... {i so knew i shouldnt have written that list!} and still... the chatter continued.
Thankfully Matt knows us well enough now to know what to expect when we picked him up! ~L~


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CONGRATS TO SIMONE AND FAMILY ON THE BIRTH OF THEIR VERY ADORABLE TWIN BOY AND GIRL THIS MORNING!!! {born while Cathy was mid flight!}

Why do chicks make lists!?

What does one do when she has a Paid day off from the place she no longer works?

SHE GOES SHOPPING!!!!! :D

I have decided that after the crap that i have been going through with work over the last few weeks that today, i would make my rostered day off all about me. Soooooooo...
Im here to say hi... (not something i do enough these days so it seems)
then im going to jump in the shower, drop two of my three at school. B1 is feeling unwell.. then im going to go to:

1.) Go to the hair dressers and hide any signs of aging.
2.) Go and buy a nice spring weather shirt for tomorrow to wear tp Paperific.
3.) buy a pair of shoes
4.) buy some Ts for under my new uniform
5.) Pick my man up from work. (He is getting off early today. Always a great RDO treat)
6.) Go to the liquor store to purchase something for celebatory drinks
7.) try and grab some groceries
8.) pay some off on my SLICE layby...
9.) try and get into see the dentist (i know... on my day off from working at a dentist? Go figure. ~HAHAHA~
10.) Asside from picking up my man, the next best part of today will be....

PICKING UP CATH FROM THE AIRPORT!!!!!!!

(ive been awake since 4am this morning... toooooo excited to sleep... if only the stores were open at that time, i may have had a chance to get all of my list accomplished. I know that it probably wont happen today, though... a girl has to have a list.. right!?)

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CATH! You should know Melbourne by now.... we can have 4 seasons in one day... though, today, the weather seems to be going all out for you... it appears to be planning a GLORIOUS day in your honour... though dont forget a cardi. xxxx

Tour of Duty..

Well... as it was well put yesterday by one of the Dentists, to another, who tendered her resignation a few weeks before i did, "The tour of Duty and slumming it in the trenches is over... well done for getting out the door alive"
Today.. i wreaked havok on the unsuspecting ... those who didnt really know what the "real" me was like... you know.. right cath!? I was just short of having a desk chair race down the corridors, though one of the darling ladies that i worked with, and i had our own, mini "steri olympics."
Made the unbearably long day go a hell of a lot quicker.. though.... not something that i really think, while fun, will make me regret my descision to leave.
So... as it was said to the dentist yesterday...

My own tour of duty is over... i survived.... though i dont think the front door will ever be the same from the force that was dealt to it as 5.45pm came and i flew out!

On that note... ZOOM ZOOM A ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM!!!!!!
See you tomorrow arvo gorgeous!!!!!!!

Happy..(early) fridays to y'all.

4 Days..... 4 Days.....

Im so excited.... 4 days!!!.

That is how many days it is until i walk out the front door of that surgery and never EVER look back! Man i can't wait.

Cath.... you my sweet best friend... you will be the light of glimmering hope at the end of what i am expecting to be a very misserable week. Do you think they would let me go without giving me a hard time!?
I think not... if its anything less than miserable, i will be surprised...

5 sleeps... 5 sleeps!!!! Im so excited... its 5 sleeps until my glimmering beacon zoom zoom a zoom zoom zooms into Melbourne!!!

What a lovely way to end my week!!

where ever y'all are this coming week... stay strong, safe and happy... if you can't, just think... its only 5 days until the weekend!!! ;)

Thanks Rue...

After a really shocking day the other day, i came home to check my mail to find an email saying that i had a visitor to my blog... how cool i thought... so i popped by to read the message left from me... and to follow the link.... only to find that it was not just a message... but an award that i had won... It is for inspiration... which, at the time, i laughed about, since i dont think that i can even inspire myself these days, let alone think i could inspire anyone else.. though... someone out there apparently thinks i can...
Thank you Rue.. not only for the award... but for reminding me that inspiration is everywhere.... Anyway... as part of accepting this award, i have to agree to the rules set... so here they are...

1. The winner can put the logo on their blog.
2. Link the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate at least 5 other blogs.
4. Before listing the nominees give a brief reason why you chose them.
5. Put links of those blogs on yours.
6. Leave a message on the blogs you have nominated.

So... the blogs that i think are totally deserving for this award are..

Estivalia... This girl drips talent... the love and dedication that she has for her art is not hard to see in everything she produces... and she can DRAW!!!! oh my.. can she draw... check her out!! :D
Emily F need i say more!? This lady is amazing... while i dont get a lot of time to scrap at the moment, i love to keep up with the happenings of this beautiful family and read about her life... which, she lives... 100% in colour!
Cathy Without her, i would never have known what it was like to "fly"... love you girl.

Okay.. i know i was meant to put up 6 .. though i have run out of time for now.. though i will pop back later and add a few more... until then...

Long overdue plug

I met an extremely gorgeous lady a few months back at the local sunday markets and was astounded by her creativity. When i saw her goodies all displayed in little bowls and beautiful stands i just knew that i had to tell you all about it. I love supporting little local businesses.... and sharing the love around. This was way back when i was travelling interstate... so as you can imagine... life sort of swept me along and the plans i had been making to tell you about Katie went by the wayside.

Well... here i am.... and by the wayside this beautiful girl is no longer going to be.

Her stall is all about girl accessories... bobbles, pins, clips, bands....even purdy lil colourful necklaces... and my oh my... the colours are glorious! There is something for everyone... even my skull loving 15 year old!!!
I have to say though, my favourites would have to be the polka dots and cupcakes! Yep.. you heard me right.... youd think she was a scrapper with the designs and beautiful ribbons she uses.... the cupcake ribbon clips are to die for!!!!
Some of her ribbons look like they are straight from the depths of the sassafrass lass mind... there are cupcakes and skulls and fluffy clouds and rainbows...icecreams.. you name it... she has it!!

Anyway... Katies company is Pink Theordore. She has a website, though its in its infancy stages at the moment, though her contact details are there... do yourself a favour... if you like funky and fun... drop her a note, grab a catalogue and have a look for yourself. You wont be dissapointed.

She has a few ways that you can actually look at her yummy stuff... she supplies a few childrens boutiques in Melbourne, has the said stall at the local Point Cook Community Market on the first sunday of every month and has just started to do parties and kinder fundraisers. I am sitting here looking at a few of the ggeous little flyers that she has on her table, one of them reads...

"Pink Theodore is offering a unique opportunity to raise funds for your kindergarten.
Pink Theodore will donate 40% of all orders placed through your fundraising drive to your kindergarten. A different way to fundraise - great for presents, christmas or just because all girls love to accessorise!"

I have to say, she forgot to mention one thing as well.... they are super in expensive as well!!!!

Have you got girlfriends who have a girl child or two!? Why not get together and pre plan your stocking fillers for christmas?
The benifits from hosting a party are endless! The hostess will recieve 30% of the party takings and in addition, will recieve 50% off any purchases made on the day. Imagine the extra fillers that you could have with those kinds of savings!!!
These kinds of pretties sell themselves, so all the hostess has to do is sit back, enjoy spending time with her friends and plan what she is going to do with her little stash of goodness!!

Check out the link i have added... and drop her a line if you wanna know more!

How Excitement

Well anyone that has been a regular blog reader here would have figured that Cath means the world to me... she is... without a doubt the best friend that i have ever ever had... well... again... the count down is on... its 13 sleeps until we have our next girls weekend... start the count down and bring on the Zoom Zoom Zooming through Tullamarine Airport i say!!!!
Not long now darlin' ... and i know for one that i cant wait....

AND then there was more excitement!!!

i have 7 days left of working where i am at the moment before i move closer to my career goals and start working for another dental practice here in Melbourne... i know, i have not been with the practice that i am at long though honestly... they have really made me question weather this industry is the one that i wish to be part of ... the management has no clue... there is no order or structure... and definitely no discipline for those that just don't pull their weight. There are only about 3 of us that do what is need to.. and then, are constantly picking up after the others and doing their job for them while they sit back and claim their pay check... so... Ive decided not to be a victim and be walked over...
im almost 35 and to be starting a new career at this point in my life is a huge move... i don't have time.. nor really honestly, the patients to sit back and be treated like i have been... and wait for the assistance with training that i was promised when i signed my contract...
sooooooooo... for once in my life, im looking after myself first....

new company... here i come... yet another count down is on... 15 sleeps.... and i cant wait!

They say that everything makes a complete circle... and i believe this whole heartedly... it is the case this time... the place that i will be working for, was the initial company that i applied for and was interviewed for a position at, when i first entered into dentistry... i didnt have the experience... well.. i had NONE, literally... but now... i have what they are after.. and hunted high and low to get in contact with me to offer me the position i only last week applied for.
How is that for a complete circle!?

I was called a disappointment at my current work place the other day when i tended my resignation... though... i think that what would have been more a dissapointment would have been my rejecting a position that offers me everything that im looking for, better money and... everything that i seem to have been looking for all along.

Anyway... happy Saturdays....and lots of love.