well i just finished reading one of my 'library' books - the drowning people by richard mason and it was fantastic! i cannot believe this amazing book was written by a 21 year old and that it was his first novel - amazing...sublime...couldn't put it down! and not that some aspects of the book weren't expected, but still it was beautifully written and a delight to read...
so now i'm onto another of his books - let's hope it lives up to expectations!
Monday, November 30, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
things are just never as bad as i think they
are going to be...it would serve me well to remember that on occasion!
see in many ways i was dreading this week - i enrolled (sometime ago) in an MBTI Accreditation course as the work i will be doing next year with a particular company requires me to be certified - and whilst that was the driving force behind me doing it, i also have a personal and professional interest in it...what i'm saying was, i may have done it anyway, the need just simply gave me a push!
sooo the pre-reading and workshop materials arrived some time ago - perhaps a month and until friday (ie 3 days before it was to start) i hadn't even opened it so as the days went by i became more and more trepidatious about opening it...when i finally did it said that it would take somewhere between 10 and 20 hours to get thru - aarrgghh...
so i spent a lot of friday and saturday going through it - reading every reference possible and doing all the self-assessment tests (which i did ok on) but i still arrived monday morning feeling a little nervous...
turns out my anxiety was completely unfounded and i passed each 'end of day quiz' with flying colours getting 69/70 overall for the course!
not only that it was fantastic - i learned a stack - about myself, about others, about leadership, about teams, about the impact of environment on our personality type development etc etc...
sooo i'm a convert! can't wait to be able to use it and perhaps this is a very good and concrete example of why i should not get myself into a tizz...
wonder if i'll remember that next time i am in a similar situation???
see in many ways i was dreading this week - i enrolled (sometime ago) in an MBTI Accreditation course as the work i will be doing next year with a particular company requires me to be certified - and whilst that was the driving force behind me doing it, i also have a personal and professional interest in it...what i'm saying was, i may have done it anyway, the need just simply gave me a push!
sooo the pre-reading and workshop materials arrived some time ago - perhaps a month and until friday (ie 3 days before it was to start) i hadn't even opened it so as the days went by i became more and more trepidatious about opening it...when i finally did it said that it would take somewhere between 10 and 20 hours to get thru - aarrgghh...
so i spent a lot of friday and saturday going through it - reading every reference possible and doing all the self-assessment tests (which i did ok on) but i still arrived monday morning feeling a little nervous...
turns out my anxiety was completely unfounded and i passed each 'end of day quiz' with flying colours getting 69/70 overall for the course!
not only that it was fantastic - i learned a stack - about myself, about others, about leadership, about teams, about the impact of environment on our personality type development etc etc...
sooo i'm a convert! can't wait to be able to use it and perhaps this is a very good and concrete example of why i should not get myself into a tizz...
wonder if i'll remember that next time i am in a similar situation???
Sunday, November 22, 2009
i discovered the joy of libraries...
yeah yeah i know, can't believe it took me so long but last week when i was at my meditation class, which is held at nth sydney library, i decided to join and came home with not just 1 but 5 books! yep you read it correctly...
turns out that i can borrow up to something like 30 items at one time - can you believe this? my god, i'm sure when i was a child it was 1 or 2 things...just shows how old i am!
anyway, i borrowed 5 and am starting on the first one tonight...i can't believe that it's taken me so long to embrace the idea of a library, but of course, those of you that know me well, will know how much i LOVE books, and as such, find it hard to resist buying them...
but i'm gonna use this library thing in an interesting way - so it's not likely to curb my book buying overall, but it might reduce expenditure on authors i don't like...and how will i know i don't like them? well i'll borrow 'new authors' from the library before i invest in them for my own shelves?
what do you think? good idea?
anyway, i'm starting on a new author tonight so i'll let you know how it pans out
nite :-)
turns out that i can borrow up to something like 30 items at one time - can you believe this? my god, i'm sure when i was a child it was 1 or 2 things...just shows how old i am!
anyway, i borrowed 5 and am starting on the first one tonight...i can't believe that it's taken me so long to embrace the idea of a library, but of course, those of you that know me well, will know how much i LOVE books, and as such, find it hard to resist buying them...
but i'm gonna use this library thing in an interesting way - so it's not likely to curb my book buying overall, but it might reduce expenditure on authors i don't like...and how will i know i don't like them? well i'll borrow 'new authors' from the library before i invest in them for my own shelves?
what do you think? good idea?
anyway, i'm starting on a new author tonight so i'll let you know how it pans out
nite :-)
Monday, November 16, 2009
i feel robbed...
that is how i started to describe it to ben this afternoon...see i woke up feeling really really sad and despite having a good day, felt tired and sad when i got home so had a bit of a lie down, which turned into a bit of a cry...
see about this time last year my doctor told me that she was pretty sure i was entering into 'early perimenopause'...which at the time i seemed not too phased about - don't get me wrong: i wasn't happy and of course it raised some questions/fears that i have had to confront, but i wasn't devastated...and truth be told, i'm still not devastated but i'm feeling a little jipped, hence the title 'i feel robbed'...
so now, a year on, i actually really do feel robbed! i feel as though a good 10 years or more has been taken from me and i'm not handling it too well :-(
it'll pass no doubt, as all things eventually do, but i'm trying to just 'be' with stuff rather than deny it, so this is my attempt at being authentic about this issue!
nitey nite
xx
see about this time last year my doctor told me that she was pretty sure i was entering into 'early perimenopause'...which at the time i seemed not too phased about - don't get me wrong: i wasn't happy and of course it raised some questions/fears that i have had to confront, but i wasn't devastated...and truth be told, i'm still not devastated but i'm feeling a little jipped, hence the title 'i feel robbed'...
so now, a year on, i actually really do feel robbed! i feel as though a good 10 years or more has been taken from me and i'm not handling it too well :-(
it'll pass no doubt, as all things eventually do, but i'm trying to just 'be' with stuff rather than deny it, so this is my attempt at being authentic about this issue!
nitey nite
xx
Friday, November 13, 2009
i'm exhausted after my course...
but i get to go to sleep in our new bed tonight...it's soooooooooo comfy!
will be interesting to see if i sleep better and wake up with less of a sore neck! also i'm contemplating a massage tomorrow - there's a great little thai massage place just up the road from us and i could really use some loosening up in my neck...
course was fantastic, bar one complete and utter idiot who has the self awareness of a gnat! otherwise learned heaps, met some cool people and might have generated a business opportunity or two!
ok, bed for me...nitey nite!
will be interesting to see if i sleep better and wake up with less of a sore neck! also i'm contemplating a massage tomorrow - there's a great little thai massage place just up the road from us and i could really use some loosening up in my neck...
course was fantastic, bar one complete and utter idiot who has the self awareness of a gnat! otherwise learned heaps, met some cool people and might have generated a business opportunity or two!
ok, bed for me...nitey nite!
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
started a new course today....
and so far, so good...i'm doing a cert iv in workplace & business coaching to give my cv a much needed boost in the coaching qualification space! my experience is backed up by the testimonials, but i think that having a qualification will give me kudos with bigger potential clients...
other than one annoying person in this course, it was good - interesting mix of people, great educator and interesting materials, combined with opportunity to practice...
got my intern membership of CAPA today - bit of a milestone and i'm pretty chuffed!
otherwise not too much to report - am loving the work i'm doing - want there to be more of it - trying to get some structure around business development and how i go about it....
ok, bed is calling...
nite
other than one annoying person in this course, it was good - interesting mix of people, great educator and interesting materials, combined with opportunity to practice...
got my intern membership of CAPA today - bit of a milestone and i'm pretty chuffed!
otherwise not too much to report - am loving the work i'm doing - want there to be more of it - trying to get some structure around business development and how i go about it....
ok, bed is calling...
nite
Thursday, November 5, 2009
go yankees...
woo hoo! the yankees won their 27th MLB world series today - how cool! didn't get to see it though as i thought (due to the foxtel guide!) that it was on tomorrow...never mind! important thing is they won and their 2 newest fans (that would be Ben and I) are very chuffed....
yankees online shop here we come!
yankees online shop here we come!
Monday, November 2, 2009
the yankees...
oh dear, i need to come clean! i am now addicted with the yankees...this won't surprise too many of my good friends who already know me to be something of a sports freak! but a couple of days ago ben and i could find nothing on tv and came across a MLB (major league baseball) game on Foxtel....sooo because it was the yankees and i have worn their cap for years (of course i can hear you saying, they wear blue!), i figured i should support them...
so today i find myself rushing in just after 2pm when i'd finished my errands, turn the tv on and am stressed out when i see that it's 4 all in the bottom of the 8th (yep, i now actually know what this means) - so in an amazing 9th innings the yankees, courtesy of johnny damon and alex rodriguez (a-rod) get the yankees to a 7-4 lead and a 3-1 lead in the 7 game series - so game 5 is on tuesday night US time and if they win, they win the pennant!
it's bizarre - baseball is never a game i've really shown any interest in, mainly coz i didn't understand it and i thought it took too long (and this from a test match cricket lover!) but now i actually understand it - of course i don't understand all of the american commentary (who would?) but i understand the structure of the game and think that i now even have a favourite player!
yep, johnny damon is i think my fave as of today...
the question is this: do i really need yet another sport to follow???
so today i find myself rushing in just after 2pm when i'd finished my errands, turn the tv on and am stressed out when i see that it's 4 all in the bottom of the 8th (yep, i now actually know what this means) - so in an amazing 9th innings the yankees, courtesy of johnny damon and alex rodriguez (a-rod) get the yankees to a 7-4 lead and a 3-1 lead in the 7 game series - so game 5 is on tuesday night US time and if they win, they win the pennant!
it's bizarre - baseball is never a game i've really shown any interest in, mainly coz i didn't understand it and i thought it took too long (and this from a test match cricket lover!) but now i actually understand it - of course i don't understand all of the american commentary (who would?) but i understand the structure of the game and think that i now even have a favourite player!
yep, johnny damon is i think my fave as of today...
the question is this: do i really need yet another sport to follow???
they say you should invest
in a new bed every 10 years or so, but i think we are ready for a new one right now, and today after about an hour lying on a LOT of beds (having armed myself with some research prior to the testing) in 3 different stores, i think i have found the one i like the most...
sooo tomorrow i'll take benny there so he can lie on it too, coz me liking it won't be enough - we both have to like it - but the one i've found is AMAZING...
it's latex with a gel substance on the top - no more spring stuff - and honestly it feels like a cushion for the whole body - i have always favoured 'firm' mattresses, coz that's what my parents had (both of them having had back problems for years), but they now say that there is such a thing (go figure) as a 'too firm' mattress, one where you can actually become uncomfortable from lying on it as it's like lying on concrete...
soooo, tomorrow is the test drive! the one i like is significantly cheaper than the prices i was quoted at one of my favourite retailers! and if we sign up tomorrow it'll be $500 cheaper than usual and it can be delivered within 10 days...
so, i'm considering the outlay of funds as an investment! an investment in my mental health, and an investment into our health coz let's face it if you can't be comfy when you're sleeping, what hope have you got of having a refreshing nights sleep?
sooo tomorrow i'll take benny there so he can lie on it too, coz me liking it won't be enough - we both have to like it - but the one i've found is AMAZING...
it's latex with a gel substance on the top - no more spring stuff - and honestly it feels like a cushion for the whole body - i have always favoured 'firm' mattresses, coz that's what my parents had (both of them having had back problems for years), but they now say that there is such a thing (go figure) as a 'too firm' mattress, one where you can actually become uncomfortable from lying on it as it's like lying on concrete...
soooo, tomorrow is the test drive! the one i like is significantly cheaper than the prices i was quoted at one of my favourite retailers! and if we sign up tomorrow it'll be $500 cheaper than usual and it can be delivered within 10 days...
so, i'm considering the outlay of funds as an investment! an investment in my mental health, and an investment into our health coz let's face it if you can't be comfy when you're sleeping, what hope have you got of having a refreshing nights sleep?
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