OK I realise it has been exactly 12 days since I last posted (bloody hell, didn’t that go quickly!), so, if any of you are still visiting in the vain hope that I am NOT dead, well I’m not… and I’m sorry for the vacuum that was this site for that period.

So, you’ll be wanting an update then? Okay.

The project I was working on is finished, finito, done. That’s good news, because that means I’m on holidays! (The bad news is that all the extra cash I was earning as a result of working on the project is also finito unfortunately). So, I am officially sans having to get up for work for the next 2 weeks (plus the week I’ve already done), time which I have put to good use immersing myself in two of my favourite pastimes, reading and shopping.

I have discovered the joy of audio books, books recorded onto cd which, in my case, I’ve converted to mp3 format and am listening to thru my ipod (or computer, or dvd player). Nothing is as sweet as sitting back on the couch (or lying down) having good books read to you by a professional narrator. I’ve rediscovered the Harry Potter series of books (and omg I wish she would hurry up and write the last book already!) as well as re-reading the Jean Auel Earth’s Children series (and that bitch goes 10 years between books, dammit…)

My problem with reading is that I just can’t stop. If I start a book, nothing and I mean NOTHING (such as TV, or even blogging!) can drag me away. Seriously, it was 3.30am one morning before I forced myself to bed, only because I was so shocked that I was still up reading, not because I was tired. I clearly have no self-control.

I DID drag myself out of the house to go shopping at a somewhat distant shopping centre (we all like a change of scenery don’t we?) but found that the highlight of the trip was actually the rest room. Now, I don’t know about you, but one of the most distasteful things in life is visiting public rest rooms. It starts with the toilet seat and the female “hover”, where you don’t want to actually “sit” where unfamiliar bottoms have rested. Now Australia has finally come into the new millennium, with some bathrooms providing paper seat covers, but not all, so it was a nice surprise that they were available.

The next issue I have is the washing of the hands. Seriously, is it WORTH washing your hands in a public rest room? You have to turn on the tap with your dirty hands (not to mention the dirty hands that have gone before yours), but, unfortunately, when you have washed your hands, you need to turn off the SAME tap with your clean hands. What’s the point? Then, if you’ve managed to turn off the tap with the use of a paper towel, you still need to exit the rest rooms by opening the door to the outside world. Again, an issue, as we KNOW some filthy people don’t wash their hands, so have smeared god knows what on the door handle.

Well these restrooms were like a gift from heaven. Firstly, there is no door to the outside world, but instead, a small maze-like corridor (so you can’t see in to the bathroom area). There were paper toilet seat covers, and taps that turned on when you put your hands under them, and off when you took them away. No touching! The hand dryers were automated also. Hygiene heaven!

I swear it was worth the trip just to pee.

So now I am just catching up on the list of about 80 thousand blogs I read (okay, well maybe I’m exaggerating a little), catching up on all the tv series’ I watch, and thinking about which book to read next.

Oh, I did find out that I won’t have to go back to generalist HR when I go back to work. I’ve been given an opportunity to work in corporate communications for three months. I’m beside myself with joy about this. Communications is an area that definitely interests me (cuz I DO like a chat…) and, of course, I do like to write. I’ll be getting to play with all kinds of groovy software, might be able to do some sorting out of the corporate Intranet (the design is good, but some of the content is all over the place) learn some new skills, PLUS, the woman in charge is really cool. She helped me out quite a bit on project related stuff, and appears to really know what she’s doing, so I’ll be hoping to learn a lot from her.

So, life is sweet :thumbup_tb:

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