The World Of Jadeey

Today I had lunch with a bunch of people I used to work with. The cinema I started in - Regent on Manners - is closing down so a group of us got together to have lunch and talk about old times. It was really fun.

It's going to be sad to see the cinema go. I haven't been to a movie there since I left the company, but I still hold very fond memories of the place. I made a lot of good friends there and grew up a lot while I was working there. It was because of that job that I moved out of home, it was there that I got held up and gunpoint and it was there that I learned just how much I am capable of.

So long Regent.

Labels: theatre, work

It's been a while since I did a list so I thought I might as well do one today.

Things Holly thinks about when she's not receiving calls at work:

- Whether anyone has written on her Facebook wall
- Whether anyone has put an interesting status update on Facebook
- What her next Facebook status update should be
- Whether anyone interesting is on Facebook chat to talk to
- What Kat will say in her next email
- What she should write in her next email to Kat
- What Corrina will say in her next email
- What she should write in her next email to Corrina
- What she should have for lunch (or if it's after lunch then what she should have for dinner)
- Whether she's going to have the will-power to go to the gym
- The time Stephen Fleming got 274 not out
- The time she saw Stephen Fleming in the Nike shop
- The time she saw Stephen Fleming walking down the street with his wife
- The numerous times she saw Stephen Fleming at the Basin

I think that's a pretty comprehensive list. So what have we learned today? We have learned that the main things I think about at work are Facebook, emailing Kat and Corrina, food and Stephen Fleming.

Labels: lists, Stephen Fleming, work

My team won at quiz night last night! Woo!!

There is a bit of a war going on at work at the moment. On Friday evening a few of the staff got a bit drunk and super-glued people's stuff to their desks. It wasn't very well thought through and when we were un-super-gluing our stuff on Monday some of the desk went with them. So now it's all on - the ideas of how to get them back are coming thick and fast.

My workplace is pretty damn fun. :)

Labels: lame blogs, quiz night, work

Today at work was mind-numbingly, bone-crunchingly boring. I think I was the most bored I've ever been at work.

When I first got this job the HR person was worried that I'd be bored. I assured her I wouldn't, of course I did - I wanted the job. At that stage I'd been looking for a job for about 6 weeks, was looking at a job market where people were losing jobs rather than gaining them and the company happened to be one that would offer lots of career advancement in the future. So I spent a lot of time assuring her that I would find ways to entertain myself.

3 months in i'm almost out of things to do. Don't get me wrong - I love the company I work for and I love the people I work with. I just don't particularly love the boredom or repetitiveness of my day. The company offers courses to help its staff upskill and get promotions. I will be starting one of these courses soon so I can get the heck of the service desk.

Labels: work

Weekends are far too short. I've had a really good weekend this weekend, but I really wish it was a few days longer.

I'm on early shift for another few days. I'm having such a love/hate relationship with the early shift. I love it cos I absolutely love finishing for the day at 3.30pm. I also love being at work for the first hour and a half without anyone else really around. I hate having to get up at 5.30am. It sucks, more than sucks.

Anyway dishes time and then bedtime.

Labels: lame blogs, work

Another weekend gone. It's disappointing how quickly they pass.

I got a few of my wishes yesterday.
- Stephen Fleming did heaps of the commentary.
- We won!
- Our innings was a brilliant display of batting even though India's wasn't.

I'm on early shifts this week. Tomorrow I'll be starting at the normal time, but after that I'll be getting up ridiculously early to get to work. I'm not yet sure whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. I guess i'll let you know in a few days.

Labels: cricket, work

This job is the first job where I've ever been truly excited and happy when it's the weekend. When I was working at Hoyts I was a shift worker so weekends meant nothing to me. Even when I was working 9-5 as manager of Lower Hutt/Manners Mall I often ended up having to work on weekends for one reason or another so weekends weren't necessarily that great.

But now I never have to take work home with me. I never have to stay late and I never have to work weekends. It's awesome.

No matter how much I love my job (and I really do love it), being at work is nowhere near as good as being at home.

Particularly great about this weekend is that it's payday! (I get paid monthly so it's a big deal.)

Labels: work

Next week I'm going to be on early shift which means starting at 7am every morning. I have a feeling I'm going to be very, very tired! It'll be nice to be finished early each day though.

John Key has decided to bring back Knighthoods. I don't particularly know how I feel about this. I don't really think it's a bad idea, I more think it's a nothing idea. I just don't particularly see the need for it and I don't know why he bothered. It's not like they provide any use that the current honour system ignores. Ah well.

Time to go do the dishes and then I'm going to see The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

Labels: politics, work

Often over the years, when trying to put my life in perspective, I've thought about what my 8 year old self would think about me now. I like to think that my 8 year old self would be pretty proud of where I am.

I don't have everything I want, but I have a lot. I love my job, it's leading somewhere good, I have wonderful friends and an awesome family. There are a lot of things I had hoped I would have done by now, but I'm happy with the direction my life is taking. I've got so much more to do, but I've got time.

Life is good.

Labels: I'm great, the future, the past, work

The week is passing incredibly quickly. The last few days at work have been crazy busy. For some reason everyone's routers, switches, phones etc are breaking. This means lots of work for Holly. It's good when it's busy cos the days pass quickly. But it's kinda stressful at the same time.

I'm still really liking my job though so that's a very good sign. I'm guessing if I was going to hate it, I would have started to by now. It really helps that the people I work with are awesome.

I've also adjusted to the hours. I'm easily waking up early and i'm getting sleepy early in the evenings.

And for now I better go and do the dishes so I don't have too late a night.

Labels: lame blogs, work

I've spent most of the weekend updating this stupid website and I'm veeeery sick of it. I really wish I'd never agreed to it in the first place.

I got most of the stuff so late that I've had to do the majority of the work this weekend - my birthday weekend! Also, I have a whole lot of questions about the information and no-one to ask because it was all delivered so late and the woman is only available during the week.

So I'm handing it in tomorrow not fully completed. If they want the rest then they'll have to work around me because I have plans most of this week.

So there.

Labels: grumpy, overworked, work

Tomorrow is my first day at my new job. Scary stuff. I wonder if my work will be anything like The IT Crowd. Heh I doubt it somehow. Although it would be funny if it was.

I feel like I've been very organised. I've got everything I can think of ready to go for tomorrow. And yet I'm certain there will end up being something that I've forgotten. I haven't made my lunch yet, but other than that I'm good to go.

I spent today trying hard to relax. Trying so hard, in fact, that I actually got kind of stressed with the effort!

Well, hopefully tomorrow I'll be writing a long, happy post about how wonderful my first day was. Fingers crossed!

Labels: lame blogs, work

Today it is two of my friends' birthdays. Sam and Shukul. Neither live in New Zealand at the moment though, so both only get Facebook messages. Ah well.

Today was another round of applying for jobs. And I've got another couple to apply for tomorrow. Rather sick of job-hunting. But excited at the thought of actually getting one soon. Starting new jobs is pretty cool. It's nerve-wracking of course, but it's also exciting cos everything and everyone is new. Change is a good thing. (Or so I keep telling myself.)

Labels: friends, lame blogs, work

As i've said before, my job is mind-numbing and the strangest things keep us occupied and amused. Today it was reciting the Beached Whale youtube video. We found that we could remember most of it off by heart since both of us have watched it a million times. (Sad I know.) I've heard heaps of people say it's not really a good mockery of the New Zealand accent (it's made by an Aussie), but I disagree. I am AWFUL at accents. I mean really, really awful. Yet I can spot on do the Beached Whale bit (or so I think). Therefore the accent must be a pretty close one. Sure, I don't actually speak like that in everyday life. But I reckon there are some Kiwis out there who do.

I'm sure most of you have seen it. But just in case, or just because everyone should see it again... Here is Beached Whale.

Labels: humorous, work, youtube

I'm off to the stadium soon to start work. I possibly won't be home until after midnight so i'm blogging now.

It just hit me this morning that i've only got 3 weeks left of class. I mean, I knew it already, but I realised exactly how short 3 weeks actually is. I can still remember the first day of class so clearly. And now it's almost all over. Wow.

Labels: school, work

A little background, for those of you who don't always read this blog and who don't know me in real-life, before I begin my story. As a casual job to top up my student allowance I work at the stadium on event days. Our stadium is right by a railway station so the first half of my shift is spent out at various railway stations selling stadium-day tickets into the city. The second half of my shift is spent at the stadium itself checking train tickets as people leave. It is the easiest job in the world, but also very mind-numbing.

Now, as you all know, I am awesome. I'm very popular at work - apparently I'm funny and interesting. (Well, of course!) I get on well with the supervisor and am usually one of the rowdy bunch. I do my job well, but I have fun at the same time. One of the on-going jokes between me and a couple of other is about librarians. Somewhere along the way we came up with the idea that librarians are all straight-laced at work, but in the bedroom they are the epitome of kinky. Me and Mel (until she left, when I quickly got Alana and then Emma on-board) would tease Andrew and Alex and tell them they needed to hook up with a librarian for us to prove whether or not our theory was correct.

Over the last few months this librarian conversation gets repeated, almost word for word, every single time we work together. You see, as I've said, the job is mind-numbing. After a while delirium sets in and we don't seem to notice at the time that we are having the EXACT same conversation every week. The girls always tease the boys and ask them if they've found a librarian yet. The boys always say no and that we should find them one since they don't want to have to do the hard work of finding one when they are already going to have to do the scary part of risking whips and chains. Then we all laugh a lot. Delirium. Cos clearly that isn't actually a very funny conversation. Especially not when it's had every single week.

Anyway, Andrew sent me a text message today asking how the job-hunting is going. I said it was pretty boring and I was in the middle of deciding between applying for a management position with the city council or applying for a librarian position. Can't apply for both since it'll require sending my CV to the same place - and it would be weird to be applying for both and probably result in me getting neither. I seriously didn't even think about the whole librarian thing. Of course I didn't - I'm not at work so no delirium. But instantly I get back a text message commenting on how he didn't realise I was into that. It took me a while to figure out what on earth he was talking about. I just kept thinking, 'Into what? Book? He knows I like books, why else would I be studying publishing?' Eventually I figured it out and felt very silly. Especially because now I know how the conversation is going to go tomorrow night - it's definitely not going to be word-for-word like our other ones. I'm pretty certain I'm going to end up being the butt of all the jokes.

A further story to illustrate the delirium that sets in at my work... At one station there is a sign that used to say, 'Ticket Office'. Some clever person has scratched off the second F in Office so it now says, 'Ticket Of ice'. When me and my partner arrived at the station last week I noticed it immediately and laughed a little bit. When she asked me what I was laughing at I pointed it out and she looked at me as though I was crazy. About 3 hours later she started laughing. Like seriously laughing. I asked her what she was laughing at and she gasped between laughs, 'Ticket Of ice!' When she stopped laughing I reminded her that she'd thought I was crazy when I laughed at it back at the beginning. She looked confused for a minute and then we both started laughing uncontrollably about the fact that she hadn't found it funny initially, but now did. Delirium.

I should also point out that I'm not just funny at work because everyone is delirious from boredom. I'm funny even at the beginning of shifts. I'm just a funny person. Live with it.

Labels: I'm silly, work

Kat reminded me today that I still haven't put up my posts from when I was in Hamilton. So I'll do that in the next couple of days.

We bought a new phone for the flat yesterday and today I got confused when it started ringing. It's got polyphonic ring tones so I thought it was someones cellphone. I spent the whole time it was ringing wandering past the phone and instead looking for a cellphone. By the time I realised it was our home phone the person had hung up. I felt silly.

It's Wednesday night. I'm sure i've mentioned multiple times that I feel like it's always Wednesday night. The night before my crappiest day of the week. Bugger.

In happy cricket news, we did not lose to Bangladesh. Dan Vettori saved the day, like he so often does. Phew! Losing would have been awful. In even happier news, Australia lost to India by 320 runs! Slaughtered! Woo! It made my day hearing that.

Labels: Australia sux, cricket, I'm silly, school, work

Ugh.

Trying to fit job-hunting around school and assignments is proving to be quite difficult. It doesn't help that I really have no clue exactly what I want to do. I know there's a job out there that is perfect for me, I just can't figure out what it is.

And so I apply for jobs and hope that I serendipitously get the one that is made for me.

Happily, tomorrow is the launch of the website I've been working on all year. It's very close to being completely ready. All the authors with stories and poems on there are having one last look over it tonight so I can make minor changes tomorrow. I'm confident there won't be too many.

Tomorrow is really all about preparing for the launch itself. Food and wine have been bought. Sandwiches will be made tomorrow (that's one of my jobs - but I've got help). The laptop has been checked with the data projector and everything seems to work as it should.

I'm sure there will be many stresses tomorrow. But as of right now I'm feeling pretty confident about it.

Labels: school, work

It's the weekend!!! Woo!!

I worked this evening. It wasn't bad. I discovered that The Voice I thought was a recording at the Petone train station is actually a real person announcing each train as it arrives. Weird. I was sure it was a recording. Until some kids started drinking while they were waiting for the train and The Voice suddenly said 'It is illegal to drink alcohol on the platform'. I tell you, I got a hell of a fright. They probably did too. A couple of hours later The Voice came out of a little room and prepared to go home. I heard him talking to someone on his cellphone and thought his voice sounded familiar. Then I suddenly realised I'd been hearing it making announcements all evening. Crazy.

Labels: lame blogs, work

Assignment got handed in. One assignment and finishing up my group projects to go and then i'm done. This means it is time to start job hunting. Ugh I hate job hunting. It's so stressful and often so frought with disappointment. Grrr.

Job hunting also means updating CV and cover letter time. This is one of my least favourite things to do. It's not hard, it's just boring. I hate boring things. And CVs are very, very boring.

My cat, Felix, is looking very cute right now. He's peeping through the curtain. It makes me laugh.

Labels: school, work