It's Kelly The Temp

Worried

2008-10-06T12:55:07Z

So the mummy cat got out of our granny flat tonight while I was rehearsals. All I can say is thank fuck Aaron was home.

He sensed something wasn't right so went out to check on the situation. The dogs were acting strange. He shrugged it off and went back inside for about two seconds but then decided something was definitely wrong and decided to check on Bikki (mummy cat). He went into the granny flat. All six kittens were there but no Bikki. He checked all the corners to make sure she wasn't hiding but she definitely wasn't there.

He then did the very wise thing and tied the dogs up and went to look for her. He found her cowering in the little tunnel behind the granny flat with a good chunk of fur ripped out of her leg (I checked when I got home, it's not too bad. Like she has had an over zealous waxing) and she was covered in slobber. Looks like mainly Angel got a hold of her before she managed to escape and hide behind the flat where it has been blocked off by chicken wire to stop the dogs getting round.

Needless to say, I am a bit shaken about this. Angel has shown little to no interest in our other cat Missy. Mind you, the only interaction they have is through the back door. They have never actually had a physical confrontation.

I realise Angel was probably just playing, but what if she had gotten a little too over enthusiastic. We would have six kittens which would have to be hand reared.

I am just a bit blue and worried. Bikki seems fine. I am sure the shock was worse than the actual injuries. But still......

Stye In My Eye

2008-10-02T06:56:45Z

I am a poet and I didn't even realise.

I have a big, ugly, ouchie stye. It is hurty. And it feels really huge. Hurts to blink and feels like I have been punched in my right eye.

Suggestions have been so far

(a) let me lance it for you when we get home.
Errr, no. I can't even stomach wearing contacts, let alone you, not a trained physician coming at me with a needle to poke in/near my eye.

(b) put a warn washcloth on your eye, that should make the swelling go down
This is the more desireable of my options. I hope it works.

I have been sitting here wondering this afternoon, is it a pissweak excuse to take a day off for a stye. I think so.

Reasons for not coming to work tomorrow:

(a) Manager in Cowra for the day. Not much point coming in.
(b) Monday is a public holiday. Extra long weekend.
(c) I can't be arsed.

The aren't the best reasons, are they. I suppose I better just bite the bullet and come in. I have already been chipped about the amount of sick leave I have taken from upper upper management, although upper management told them to cram it because he is the one who took my calls and he said he knew I was genuinely at death's door and I had Dr's certificates.

Mind you, it's not that hard to get a Dr's certificate these days.

Anyway, my excuses are pissweak and I don't think you can get a medical certificate for feeling sorry for yourself.

Kittens and Hypotension (but not intertwining. The kittens blood pressure is fine)

2008-10-01T05:12:29Z

We have six kittens in our granny flat now, due to a mercy rescue of the mummy cat who was dumped at a vet surgery and rescued by our 16 y/o neighbour who lives there.

It is all very exciting. I want to post pictures, but I am yet to see them uploaded by someone who continously forgets his cable.

Now, here is a question. Aaron has recently been diagnosed with uber low blood pressure. Like low to the point where he is getting headaches daily and gets dizzy a lot, as well as a lot of unpleasant stomach nonsense. Unfortunately, due to him being on anti depressants, he is unable to take medication.

So I was wondering, does anyone know any non medicationy, lifestyle changing, diet changing kind of ways to help with blood pressure. I would (and he would) really appreciate your input on this guys!

MIA

2008-09-24T02:27:33Z

Hai Guys!

It has been a while since I have posted, yes. I must apologise. Things being hectic like they are.

Since I last posted a few thing have happened. Aaron and I got a puppy, Zoe. She is a white husky and she is absolutely adorable. Unfortunately, our land lord (who previously said we could get a dog) backflipped, so we broke lease and moved out to St Marys in Western Sydney, not too far from the Blue Mountains where I am originally from. Here is Zoe for you!

Aaron and I hit a bit of a rough spot in our relationship so we took a break for a couple of weeks to sort out our head, but I am pleased to say that we are back and better than ever.

Aaron has changed jobs again to a position at a company called Funbox, where he received a nice pay hike, flexible hours and closer to home, and when things are stressful or there is not much on, the play the Playstation, lucky ducks.

I am still at JLT. It's ok, I guess. Has it's ups and downs.

On the weekend Aaron and I decided we needed to get a companion for our little Zoe, who pines for a playmate, so we rescued a 3 year old malamute from the RSPCA. Her name is Angel and she is adorable. She loves cuddles and belly rubs. She and Zoe are still working out the pecking order, but I think Zoe is figuring out that Angel is alpha dog, simply because she is bigger and older. it is so nice walking down the street with two dogs that turn heads. And here is Angel and her huge tongue!

So what's up with you guys? Tell me all your goss.

Woo Hoo

2008-03-21T02:35:50Z

Continuing on from previous post, I spoke to my manager, explained everything.

First of all he said he completely understood my situation and then asked if there was anything he could do to make me reconsider. Then he let me go with pay and no drama. Was better than anything I could have hoped for.

i have offered to help train new members of staff after work and on weekends to do them a favour. I do love the team I worked with and want to help them. It's the upper management, the actual role and the feeling of being constantly dishonest I couldn't stand.

My manager then said he would be more than happy to give me a reference if I leave my new job.

AWESOMENESS.

Stress!

2008-03-18T21:25:27Z

Ok, I am slightly stressing out here.

I got a new job, but the proviso of said new job was that I must start Tuesday (they actually wanted me to start Monday just gone but I hadn't actually given notice as yet). I have handed in my notice (Friday). Problem is this. I was required to give 4 weeks notice. Not usually a problem as I have seen many people here not see out their full 4 weeks. However, I have been wanting to speak to my department manager about releasing me from my 4 weeks and he has been in bloody meetings all week! As in - NOT HERE! I have emailed him repeatedly stressing that I need to speak to him urgently but to no avail. Now, the rational side of me says he is a busy man and these are important clients he has to meet with. The irrational crazy side of me thinks he is dogging me.

I would be happy to walk anyway but I am one of those silly people who doesn't want to leave with bad blood. My whole team (excluding Line Managers) told me to just walk. They know this new role is an awesome opportunity and they can also see how much my current role is killing me slowly through a stress induced aneurism. However, upon handing in my resignation on Friday, my Line Manager said he expected me to see out my full 4 weeks. I'm pretty sure that he only said that though as we are severely understaffed. It's the companys own stupid fault for making redundancies in the call centre in the first place. We needed more staff before they went sacking people willy nilly. Not a problem, though. If my new job hadn't said I need to start next week or they couldn't offer me the role.

Aaron and I have been investigating what courses of action the Leap Frog Group might take if I didn't stay for my full four weeks.

1) Nothing. They let me leave peacefully and we all have tea and crumpets on Fridays.
2) They let me leave but they peanlise me for not seeing out my full four weeks (not that I have any sick leave left and only one day holidays)
3) They let me leave but they do not pay me this calendar month as penalisation for not seeing out my full four weeks
4) They sue me for breach of contract
5) They tie me to a chair and make me work out my full four weeks anyway.

I can only realistically see options 1-3 really. It's not worth their time or money to sue me, and I'm sure if they try to tie me to a chair I will put up one hell of a fight.

Aaron makes enough money to support the both of us in the event that they do do option 3, but I just spoke to the lovely lady at my new job and found out my pay cycle is fortnightly, which means I don't have too much to worry about.

So I guess my major fear is confrontation. Part of me just wants to leave my pass in my desk drawer, leave this afternoon and just not come back. Part of me wants to go to the Dr and get "signed off" for the rest of the remaining time.

Here is an interesting tidbit that my dad told me last night. I may not have this 100% accurate though. Confused early shift brain. I only am required to give the amount of notice according to my award. That overrides the contract. And the amount of notice I am required to give according to the award (Aaron looked this up last night) is - 1 WEEK. Which I have done. I gave notice last Friday. I have a day in leiu tomorrow as I worked on Saturday and Friday is a public holiday.

Take that Leap Frog you bunch of schizters!

But I would still really appreciate any opinion that you guys can provide me with.

In response to

2008-03-14T10:24:04Z

this post

I GOT THE JOB!

Interview tomorrow

2008-03-13T07:13:19Z

So I have a job interview tomorrow at 7:300 AM. It is a very similar role to the one I had before I went overseas. It is an admin support role for an insurance brokers and I would really like to get this job. Far less stress than my current role and much better pay.

Aaron and I are also planning to move to Cronulla in the very near future so it will also be a better location as I won't have to change trains.

So please, happy thoughts would be most appreciate. It would be nice for me to get a role that doesn't make me want to jump out of the window after the first six months.

ZOMG

2008-03-12T21:03:42Z

I am going to have to watch this on principal!

LOST BOYS SEQUEL

Girly weekend away!

2008-03-09T09:54:43Z

Yes. As per subject heading states, I had a girly weekend away. Got back a couple of hours ago.

It was tops. Of course I missed Aaron like crazy but it was nice to get away and have a chilled out, beachy weekend with quality food and quality company.

It was me and 5 other girls who I have all known since my childhood. We all went to high school together and 4 of us also went to the same primary school, so obviously we have known each other for quite a while.

So anyway, I thought I would link the photos so you can have a look. They are on my friends Elissa and Sam's facebooks. Show you the good food and good times and of course, the great beaches! Look upon them and weep! And these beaches are a max hour from where I live.

Of course when I came home and smelled like beach it has made Aaron want to move to a beach town, what with growing up a "coastie" and everything. I confess, I would not complain with moving to the beach. Being the first time in YEARS I have gone to the beach, I forgot how much I love it!

Oh and some surprise news! Aaron and I will be coming to England. This year. In October. How do you like them apples?

OMG! Westboro is at it again!!! Check this out!

2008-02-02T23:52:11Z

My boyfriend, Aaron just showed this to me. It was posted on the forums he regularly visits (ZGeek).

As it was pointed out before, Australia doesn't and didn't take kindly to when nutjobs from the US took it upon themselves to judge Heath Ledger.

Now this bunch of zealots are up in arms against the whole country of Australia. Was it because they were called up by Australian radio stations and repeatedly pwned? Cause that was pretty fucking funny when I heard it.

I was unaware that we banned public preaching of the Gospel. There are an awful lot of lawbreakers in Australia, then. Which is really amusing, considering the Prime Minister is a Christian.

I was also unaware we were a hotbed of sodomy and child sex tours. Wow.

Too bad for the raving loonies that they advertised before they actually took action and created the domain names. To quote directly from Pirate (owner) from ZGeek "

LOL! Proof how how FUCKING stupid these people are. They release the press release before purchasing the domain. I now own www.godhatesaustralia.net and www.godhatesaustralia.com is worth checking out (not mine)".

Click and have a good ROFL.

Source

EDIT: godhatesaustralia.net is not yet active. But keep visiting to check when it is. The results are bound to be hilarious. And Aaron has just informed me that ZGeek are also creating a site called www.godhateswesborochurch.com. That will bee PRICELESS!

BOREDEDED

2008-01-30T10:23:30Z

Having fun.... playing my horde toon on WoW. First time I had played in ages.

Land lord comes over. He and Aaron have taken it upon themselves to become electricians and play with our sub for the 5.1 which got cooked in a power surge last night.

Subsequently, I am bored.

How are we all? Are we well?

I am tired and overworked and overmyjob.

Any suggestions for someone who might be considering a career change? And suggesting a university degree will not be scoffed at. I am seriously considering doing education so I can be a kindy teacher. Or doing something degree-y! But this is in the future when Aaron gets a new job and is well paid enough that I will not need to work full time (so hoefully within 6 months to a year, tops)

So, tell Kel what to do with her life. Starting............ NOW!

PS - turns out it may not be the sub after all but the power box. Doesn't fix the problem though. Looks like we will have to get a new system. That pisses me off somewhat considering we got this one less than 4 months ago.

Bonus to Working on a Public Holiday

2008-01-28T00:09:20Z

I can post on LJ as much as I want and not cop flak
I have just ordered pizza for myself and my cellmate which is to be delivered in half an hour. And I am starving.
I am going to eat it at my desk, something which is normally frowned upon on a normal work day
Because of this I am not going to take "lunch" and proceed to take lots of breaks.

Today is good. And I get to finish at 3:30. Added bonus.

If anyone can direct me to some good links that would be appreciated. I am a bit bored.

Please bear in mind my computer doesn't have sound and some sites may be restricted. But I am usually good to go. So recommenedations...... NOW!

Happy Australia Day!

2008-01-24T21:21:15Z

Don't forget - Saturday is Australia Day.

So drink your fosters, use your upward inflections at the end of a sentence and wear thongs (flip flops), singlets (vests) and stubbies (shorts).

Oh wait - it's winter over there. Maybe you should dress warm. I keep forgetting your winter is our summer.

Mind you, with the weather over here, you wouldn't be able to tell.

so HAPPY COLONIAL DAY! And remember a "prison" has turned out some pretty decent sorts.

My Two Cents

2008-01-24T20:36:07Z

Well a can of worms has certainly been opened over the past week. I have already posted this on

emmelinemay 's thread, but I thought I would post it as well. I think it's a point worth raising....

Whilst people on here know I do believe in God and have faith, I especially get incensed when people take it upon themselves to speak on his behalf. It does say that God disapproves of the act of homosexuality in the bible, it never says, hate them, persecute them and go protest at someone's funeral who once portrayed a homosexual man in a movie. Quite the contrary. God tells us to love people, forgive them, no matter how much they may have done wrong to you personally. And being gay is definitely not something I count amongst them!

I developed a severe case of the burning rage when I saw that people were even contemplating the idea to the point of broadcasting it on the internet of protesting at a mans funeral. The callousness and the insensitivity of it. A man has lost his life, his family will be suffering grief beyond words, but wait, here's a large pile of salt! Lets go rub it on the gaping wounds.

God loves people. He hates the act of "sin", but he loves the sinner to the point of sending his son to a literal and very painful death. He wants us to love people as well, regardless of how much you might disagree with a lifestyle choice. I mean, here's an example. People hate my smoking. They wished I wouldn't do it, and it makes them sad when I do. That doesn't mean they love me as a person any less.

We have no right to judge other people. As the saying goes "don't pull out the speck in someone's eye unless you pull the plank out of your eye first". Or my other favourite, said by the man himself "let he who is without sin cast the first stone". Said - in defence of a prostitute. A woman who Jesus is supposed to hate, judge and want dead because of her "immoral" profession. Yet he showed, love, compassion and saved her life. This is the God that people need to know about. Not some dude with a beard in a frock sitting on a cloud throwing lightning bolts at someone for sneezing on a Tuesday.

People who do things like what these plonkers are in "God's name" make me sick, angry and they make the Christian faith look like a bunch of freaks and the idealism of a loving God a joke. I shouldn't have to defend myself
for having beliefs, and people already think I'm enough of a weirdo, but these people make me appear just plain crazy!

There is my two cents. I just wanted you to know I completely agree with people. The WBC, ABE or LMNOP or whatever those zealots are calling themselves are portraying the exact opposite of God's love They are preaching a message of hate, and they are not helping see God's love by doing this. They are just making themselves, and the rest of the people in the world who do love God, look like complete and utter loonies.

I think my point was, don't hate God because people are running around doing things "in His name". Truth is, God may well be saying "Stop doing
that! You're making me look bad!".

Heath Ledger Died!

2008-01-22T22:05:38Z

Wow!

RARGH!

2008-01-22T21:31:52Z

Stupid bitch of a customer just rang up and yelled at me continously for 20 minutes. Made me so angry!

BURNING RAGE. HAD TO VENT.

And I'm spent.

aussie_kel @ 2008-01-22T08:39:00

2008-01-21T21:41:53Z

Apologies for the two cuts below. Read only one. I believe they will both say the same thing. I am a noob. That's why I go out with an IT genius.

Blue

2008-01-21T21:12:58Z

So of late I have been in a deep blue funk that I can't seem to shake. I feel like I need a holiday, but I just had a holiday so that would be a bit silly.

It's lots of little things, I think, that make it feel like a big thing. I am pretty sure things will start to look up soon but at the moment.......... sigh! For those who can stomach a rant

click

Firstly, I have the hayfever from hell (I am sure those of you who are also my friends on facebook see my constant status moaning about being forever sneezing), stuffed up with itchy eyes and ears and throat, none of which you can really scratch without doing yourself some kind of injury. I'm pretty sure I need my eyes to see, my ears to hear and my throat to, well, swallow stuff for starters, and scratching them would be perilous to their functions.

So I have flu like symptomns constantly, but I don't have the flu. I don't get any sleep from constant sneezing, wheezing and itchiness and when I do get to sleep, Aaron doesn't get any sleep because I snore due to being congested. He assures me this is cute, but the only thing I have ever known to be cute when it snores is my cat, Mischief, but that's when I am not trying to get to sleep. When I am trying to sleep, she soon gets booted off the bed for sounding like a lear jet attempting to make a landing at the foot of my bed. So my vanity is also at stake.

Secondly, Aaron is on the job hunt. He did what I did spectacularly 6 months ago and told his job to sod off, he would rather be unemployed than put up with their garbage. I don't mind him being unemployed. The house stays clean and he isn't sitting on his arse in any way, shape or form. I have never seen someone be so proactive looking for work, and I used to work in an employment agency. If he's not on Seek, he's on the phone to Recruiters or prospective employers. If he's not on the phone he is out to interviews (he had 6 last week). He is going a bit stir crazy playing the waiting game though, to the point where he might come in to work here and do some data entry just to have some work to do. He hates being unemployed and it does get him down somewhat.

He is starting to feel a a bit useless when people come back to him with bullshit excuses for not employing him. "Someone with a hacker mentality", WTF? "Someone who thinks outside the box", hmph. You never gave him an example of a situation where you needed him to think outside the box. Unless not bringing up thinking outside the box was a test to get him to think outside the box? Bollocks. I think they didn't employ him because they tested him in his PHP coding, he absolutely blitzed the test, beat everybody employed there, including the interviewer and now they are scared to employ him because he will make the rest of them look bad.

Oh, he is a PHP programmer as his specialty. He also does graphic design and he is awesome at it. He has experience in helpdesk and that seems to be what is shooting him in the foot. He is getting so frustrated, wondering if he should go back to helpdesk, but I don't want him to settle. I want him to be in a role that will challenge him, not another job where he sits on the phone all day and telling panel beaters how to switch their computer on.

Unfortunately, I haven't been paid since December 21. Being paid monthly sucks. Being paid early just before Christmas and not getting paid until 31 January sucks harder. So money is especially tight at the moment. Which makes Aaron feel even more useless and it is so hard for me to get across to him that I would rather he hold out for that job and money be tight then go back to doing something he hates.

Oh, and my job. I love the people I work with. It is awesome. And some days I even like the work that I do. But arguing over and over with people who just want to argue and cry unfair even though I have laid it out perfectly clearly what they have done wrong and the reasons they don't receive the promotional flight make me want to throw my computer through the window and then jump out after it.

Seriously! If I had a dollar for everytime someone threatened to go to the Fair Trade comission, A Current Affair, I wouldn't need to work. If we dont' receive your claim, we don't receive it! It's a promotional offer. With Terms and Conditions. My new theory is this. They send you a notice for jury duty. It gets lost in the mail. You don't know you've been called up for jury duty and they don't know you never received it. The days comes, you're sitting at home watching Trisha because you don't know you're supposed to be somewhere. They whack you with a great big fine for not turning up. What's your argument? "I never got the summons". You can't take action on something you don't know about and you sure as hell aren't going to fork over money because you didn't know you were supposed to turn up.

This is my theory about us not receiving claims. We have to receive them in a certain time frame from date of purchase. They get lost in the post. We don't know they have been lost in the post. Months later the claimant calls up asking about their free flight. We don't have the claim. It is now outside the promotional period and they can't send in another one. Foul! Foul! We want our free flight! Fair Trade! "We can't give you a flight when we never received a claim for one!" "But I sent it!" "You could have also sent me a million dollars cash. I didn't receive it. Would you mind sending it again?" And on and on it goes.

So you see, I am in a bit of a funk at the moment and this has turned into a long rambling post, so I will shut up now. If you got this far, I congratulate you.

Gah!

2007-06-18T07:05:53Z

Why!

Why are they trying to get blood out of a stone!?!?! Why are they trying to steal my very soul?!?! Shouldn't they be making my last week a nice one so I don't raise hell before I leave?

I should have walked.

But I'm a wuss.

An example of why I am glad I have quit.....

2007-06-14T07:19:36Z

I had an argument with a dickhead who came in and swore blind he had an appointment

Which he didn't as we made no appointments today.

He claimed to have sent through his resume, which he didn't as I see all the resumes sent in because I process them and we hadn't received his (and believe me I would have remembered it, it was such a piece of shit).

And on and on and on until he said "Someone called me to come in, here is the number in my phone". I looked and said "that is not a Hudson number" (besides, all our calls come up as private numbers).

He called it to prove it was us and someone picked it up and I am standing there going "Yeah, that's not me". Turns out he came to the wrong agency.

Fuckwit.

I did it!

2007-06-13T01:38:12Z

Did what? I resigned. No more working in recruitment for me!

And good riddance.

No job to go to as yet. But we will see what the future holds.

Wasn't I Cute?

2007-05-29T02:22:07Z

Whatever happened?

And there is another reason I posted that here. But my reasons are my own.

Look!

2007-05-23T07:30:55Z

Go here for musical goodness. Look at production photos! http://jcs.bmms.org.au/?page_id=10

DYING

2007-05-16T01:46:06Z

Ok, maybe I am being a little melodramatic, but anyone who has been in a production knows how crazy it can get in the weeks leading to performances.

I am so tired, running on very little sleep. I have picked the wrong week to give up coke.

I have misplaced my lepers costume. It can only be in 1 of three places, and since it is not in two of them it must be in the third, but misplacing it has made me want to burst into hysterical over nothing tears and call in/go home sick. Because if it is not in the 3rd place, the director will yell at me and in my state I will burst into those weepy I got in trouble tears like any child under 10 would do. The problem with the lepers costume is that majority of the cast have it and they are all the same. So apat from the bit of tape down the bottom with my name on it (which is easily removed) it is bloody impossible to tell who's is which.

STRESS!

Eagerly awainting 4th June.