Hmmm, ok so it's been a little while since I last wrote. This might be a big one. Things were still kind of quiet (though I managed to fill my time quite well with I don't know what), but then I got a job and fitting that in with everything else meant life became rather hectic!
So yes, I am employed! I'm a Contracts Administrator for an electrical power supply company, and essentially I do the paperwork behind the various connection projects. It's not something that particularly interests me, but it's a job and it's good to be getting some money in. It's an agency job, with a view to go permanent, but as soon as I started I realised it wasn't for me and let them know. I've been filling the gap while they get someone else in, but now they have someone, they've told me they really want me to stay and asked what could be done to keep me. It's great to know I've made an impact so early on, but if my heart's not in it I can't see a future. I've voiced this to my boss, and he's very understanding, and has suggested I commit to 3-6months, then if some fabulous job opportunity comes up that I can't refuse, then he'll give his blessing to go for it. The company has only been operating in the area for a couple of years, there's been a lot of change with Site Managers coming and going, so there's a lot of discontentment within the company which unfortunately is resulting in a rather unpleasant atmosphere. The thing is, I see various challenges here, and being someone who can not walk away from challenges, I'm slightly inclined to stay to sort a few things out. I know I can't work magic, but I can really see room for improvement in many areas. Anyway, I need to have a good think about it. I have to say though, still not digging the early mornings too much - my hours are 7am-3pm. It's good to finish early but I don't know where the afternoons go, so I'd much rather have an extra hour in bed!
Otherwise, one recent activity was a women's only triathlon which I completed a couple of week ago. I could have done more training for it, but I cycled to work and back (6km each way) for a week (which meant getting up at 0530 each morning, ugh), and I was quite good at cycling to the pool a few times, doing some laps then cycling back. A few days before the event I did this workout and forced myself to finish off with a 20min run. I was still alive afterwards so I figured I might have a chance of completing it. The distances weren't major at all (200m swim, 10km cycle, 2km run), but I certainly had to work up towards it. I managed to do the whole thing without pausing, and my time was decent enough. I'm not in any rush to do another though! There are a couple of photos floating about somewhere, I'll have to find them..
Last weekend I went to Melbourne where I attended a friend's wedding reception. I met Alisi on a little island in Fiji during my round-the-world/working in Australia trip, we swapped email addresses and kept in periodic contact, then a couple of months later she happened to mention she got a job on the Gold Coast which is where I was living at the time. We became good friends and I met up with her again in LA at the end of my trip earlier this year. So she got married to her man in Fiji in October in a small, private ceremony on the beach. The photos looked amazing! So this was the after-party, and it was a great time :) Matty (guy in the hat) is a friend I met through Alisi when living on the Gold Coast, and he very kindly put up with me for the weekend. He's very much the joker and provided much of the entertainment for the night! Especially for Alisi's mum and various aunts who were subjected to his dancing. Not only was it a great party, but it was sooo sooooo good to get out of Bunbury. It was my first trip away since I got here, and it was just brilliant to get away. I'm also still volunteering at the Dolphin Centre, though now only once a week at the weekend. I do miss that place, but it's good to be getting money in! I've put my name down to get involved with the dolphin research project that's in progress, which will entail going out on a boat taking photos of and identifying dolphins, taking samples, observing other marine life and probably other things too! I'm limited to the weekend now, so I'm certainly filling up my time! I have 10days off work over Christmas, so hopefully Ill get out a couple of times then too.
A few of us went to the Crush Food and (predominantly) Wine festival, and we had a merry old time! One of the great advantages of living next to a top wine region!
So Wednesday was my birthday, and I came home to find Tilly with a bottle of champers and a box of chocs, then out came the blueberry muffin cake. Ingenious! I've developed a slight addiciton to blueberry muffins recently, which evidently hasn't gone unnoticed! A friend took me out to dinner at the Lighthouse Hotel which has a lovely view over the ocean, then last night (Friday) was the Dolphin Centre Christmas party, which was a lot of fun. Afterwards a few of us got dressed up and went out to continue the birthday celebrations. Tomorrow is my work's Christmas do at a local cidery....could be interesting!
I'm better at putting a few photos up on Facebook every now and again, so I'm going to put up a link to my FB photo album where there are some additional pics - I hope it works! (See 'About Me' top right of this page).
I'll try and be better at updating my blog :)
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