Its been a while ...

So busy, so tired and so far I'm loving it!

Well to a point I am, It's harder than I thought getting used to the hours, I was very accustomed to the early start of 0630 and early finish of 1600, but now I'm not even awake at that time let alone on the road.  I start work at around 0830 now and finish at 1700.  Even though I'm doing shorter hours, they seem longer because I'm finishing work when everyone else does.  Traffic isn't a problem as its only 10 minutes from home but it just seems wierd.  The big difference comes with the type of work I'm doing.  Its a full on mental drain which is really good.  I like being able to stretch my brain, the unfortunate thing is I need more work.  I am getting bored in the afternoons when my payroll job starts to wind down and keep getting little bitsy jobs to do before we finish. So aside from the payroll, I'm not picking anything else up ... yet.

We had our annual beach holiday this weekend just gone and even though it was good to be around family and have a 4 day weekend but the weather was shite!  I was quite content to put up with our non-existant summer as long as I got a minimum of 2 days of blaring hot sunshine for the beach, unfortunately I must have made a typo in my email to the weatherman as instead of 2 days I got 2 hours.  I was not impressed as by the time I got home I felt more washed out than before I had left (No pun intended).

I have already managed to accrue 2 days in lieu for working boxing day and the day after new years, so I have another day up my sleeve.  The beauty of this job is that my boss tells me that she insists that everyone takes one of the weeks off in between christmas and new year and at least another week block early in the year, so next year I will get to do more than just a 4 day weekend.

Everything at home is as it should be so there are no complaints there.

Christmas was interesting as we called in to see my old boss and bd to say hi.  Its strange how clingy they have become.  I was most impressed with the fact the they had not emailed or called me with any queries about my old job, I thought they had it all sorted.  It wasn't until I got a call about 2 weeks ago from bd asking if I could help her with the bank rec over the phone.  Being that they are a small company, the bank recs used to take me no longer than 5 minutes each week.  I thought, fantastic, this is her first tricky spot and after 6 weeks she must be doing well.  Until she started to explain it over the phone, she'd lost a deposit so I was getting her to check dates she had entered in etc it wasn't until a few minutes later when she couldnt find it that I realised we were talking December dates, and not just any december dates, it was the 8th of December statement and I left on the 8th of December.  I ended up going in to the office later that week after I'd finished work and what a mess, she had been doing partial statements but couldn't get the balances right (DUH) so I just deleted everything and started it back from scratch.  2 hours later I was shattered but they were done.

They want to come and see me at work for lunch but I don't quite know how to tell them that I can't really stop work just to entertain them, my new job is a real job not a mickey mouse op like my old one.  So I just keep putting them off saying I'm absolutely flat out.

So thats it so far ...  I have run out of brain capacity to go on about anything else so I will cut out here.

Toodles poodles

take care...