24.05.06
P.S.
If you guys are really serious about a zoo trip – I am totally up for it. Let me know and maybe we can do something in spring (in time for baby animals!!).
Work Personality
Don’t you think that we show the worst side of ourselves at work?
I mean, over the last 2 1/2 months I’ve been working here I find myself identifying certain annoying personality traits in the people who work around me..
Whether it is a tendancy to blame someone else for their own mistake, complaining, using bad language, looking at my chest rather than my face… I know them all. I observe them all from my little corner, recognise the re-occuring behaviours and record them in my mind. It’s almost better than people watching.
But then, I realised recently, the opposite is true. The people around me are also weighing me up. My tendancy to get frustrated and angry at unreasonable people is emerging. I have started to turn to the first person I see and rant and rave till it’s out of my system. And the people around me cannot possibly have missed it.
And although I am tempted to worry about this superficially (whether they will give me a full time job).. I should be worrying about it spiritually. And although some of my work-mates might not know it yet – I am representing Christ. My behaviour should reflect that.
Gonna work on it.
17.05.06
Hippos Rule
I have a strange obsession with African animals. This may have something to do with the fact that I visited Africa when I was 16… but still I think they are really very cool.
I have numerous little animal ornaments collected from all over the place. Souveniers from my own visit, and hand-me-downs from my Mum and Grandfather (given to them as gifts from my Mum’s Godmother who happened to be a missionary in Kenya). There are hippos in soap stone, little rhinos and elephants in green stone and wooden giraffes. There are also a few little carved black people and a stone bust.
 To add to this I have a little stool in the shape of a giraffe and a recently acquired huge elephant made of straw.
 And the crowning piece: a battery-operated toy hippo which walks around and opens and closes its mouth when you flick its little switch. Not very authentic – but it makes me laugh.. 
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I am so hanging out for a visit to the zoo right now… anyone up for it?
12.05.06
A Bit Deaded
Just emerged from a couple of very crazy days at work. It got to the point where I was so stressed that I spent one night going through lists of orders and numbers in my dreams. Half the management are still in Auckland… and will be back just in time to avoid most of the craziness.
And so, I’ve finally caught up and have time to breathe (and blog).
Last night I had a ‘baby dream’. I’m not sure if many guys really know how often most girls have baby dreams. That is, every girl I’ve ever talked to on the subject. I’ve had them since I was 12 or something.
Usually my baby dreams consist of me suddenly ‘realising’ I have a baby and am supposed to be looking after it – followed by me feeling incredibly guilty because I haven’t been looking after it properly – and what kind of mother am I to forget that I have a baby?
Last night was different because now it was OUR baby. And before people jump to large conclusions…. no, we’re not. It was interesting to note though. Â
 Looking forward to a semi-relaxing weekend. And perhaps a nice chinese massage to fix my concrete-hard shoulders and back… :/
08.05.06
mnnnaahhh!!
Well… had an interesting week of sorts..
Work is crazy-like at the moment. The campaign is started and half the company keeps going to stoopid conferences and leaving me to fend for myself. The good news is that they are really happy with my work and hopefully-maybe-sort-of-might want me to stay on permanently!! They have a few more months before they need to make a decision so we’ll see how it goes.
 We went to a wedding on Saturday. It was interesting to be at a wedding now that we’re on the other side of the fence – and it was hard not to make comparisons. It was very pretty though. Haoran knew the couple from his days in the eastern suburbs and I didn’t know them at all.
The obvious low point was when – after some nice food at Cockle Bay – Haoran spent the rest of the reception in the bathroom expelling the contents of his stomach. I had to keep sending boys in to look after him because of course I couldn’t go into the boys bathroom!
 After a few worried comments about oysters, we eventually figured out it was the rice milk he’d had that morning. Can you believe it? We are so dating our rice milk in texta from now on.
*suddenly switches into survey mode*
Recipe achievement of the week: home-made gnocchi!Â
Latest winter clothes unearthed from wardrobe: all my scarves and my daggy grey trakkydacks
Most overplayed CD in car: Death Cab for Cutie – we have the facts
Goal for the week: take up new brown pants and maybe even clean out the study…
My fingers are cold, goodnight.
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02.05.06
Since when do I blog from home?
When work is mega-busy, that’s when!!
I’ve had to ‘make decisions’ and ‘be responsible’ this week.. freaky.. and all mainly the result of one girl in my department being on holidays – and the other resigning as of the end of this week. I don’t mind it so much and prefer it to the dullness of last week. Although it has been challenging..
Life is just nice right about now. Routines are forming, we’re reverting from ‘but I always do it that way!’ to ‘this is the way we do it.’, and I get to try a new recipe at least once a week.
One thing has been bothering me. The question asked most often of us at the moment is ‘How’s married life?’. I never know how to answer it. It’s difficult to answer in one sentence in the first place. But does the person asking really want to know all the details? How do married people answer this question? And does it ever stop? I want to know.