What's been happening

Alex, Jemma and Courtney at Alex's 21st.  The three sisters!!!

I'm back!!  June was an............... interesting........... month, to say the least.

A lot has been happening over the past month and a bit and I was feeling a bit overwhelmed. 

It was Alex's 21st Birthday and I was getting organised for this as it was at our place.  Food for about 30 people etc BUSY BUSY!!  It was a lovely day/night though.

Munchkin Michael in a grumpy tonight after daycare!!  Too tired....

The girl that took over my job was getting worse and worse.  I was trying to get daycare to come back full-time as it was not working for me at all (I take a LOT of pride in my work).  Anyway, she got another job and resigned (great), BUT she left me with about 100 emails to sort out which was very stressful for me to try and fix.  They were mostly important emails which had to be filed into our electronic system and each one probably took me at least 5 mins to do (by the time I checked it, checked if it had or hadn't been filed, then to file it and clear it out)!!!!  A very mean thing to do and even if you hated the job, leaving me with that was just mean and nasty.

So, I'm back to Full time work on 19 July.  Have worked 4 days this week and will next week too.  I'm loving that my job is my own again and I think our whole team is better for it. My boss ripped her name off my door and stomped on it when she went.  It was a great relief and it certainly made her (and us all) realise what a brilliant team we are -YAY us!!!

I am starting an introductory massage course this month too.  It is something that I have wanted to do for ages and I just bit the bullet and booked in.  It is running over a number of weekends, so I will see how I like it.  If I do, I can continue on to get my accreditation - this is the first part of the certificate.  Really looking forward to this a lot.

Alex has been living a life that stresses me!!  I think she may read the blog, but she knows how I feel as we have an open talk policy... well pretty much.  She has debt for an elective operation she had, she got a new boyfriend who didn't work and thus started not turning up to work with lots of crap excuses (it's hard to get out of bed in the morning when someone else is still in there eh).  I think she is smoking drugs - I guess with the BF - don't know how much but enough to get a bit agro with me when things don't go the way she wants, she decided to go to Darwin to live with her Dad (good) and resigns from her job (well she was about to be sacked I think anyway).  Then calls me up to say that the BF has been sentenced to 9 months jail for hitting someone with a bar (prior to their relationship). HMMMMM  Oh and they are apealing it and he is out on bail.  They hope to know more in July.  Not going to Darwin now until that is sorted. 

This info stressed me a lot.  I guess the not working stresses me the most.  She has bills and debt - how will they get paid?  I can't afford to pay it for her.  She will end up with a bad credit rating and this will affect her in later life - when she does give a shit.  I told her, she is setting herself up to have a hard life, which I worked so hard so she wouldn't ever have that.  Oh well - hopefully it will all work out in the end!

It was my birthday in all this - which was lovely.  Quiet but lovely.  Jemma and Michael are great too, and Greg!!!

I am now feeling a lot better after being quite down with all the pressure of work and the Alex situation.  Also with the 10th anniversary of Sean - it was a lot to take in June.  I can take a lot usually but this was just a bit too much for me, so I was really down......  The good news is, it was temporary and I am now back to my usual, albeit busy, self.  Trying to see the positive in everything again :-)
I think I need to have the Sufi  phrase as my mantra:

This too shall pass

And I'm sure it all will!

Rach

:-)