12th of April 2013

One month till my birthday! I don't know why I get all excited about it, maybe because one of these days I'll actually have the ice cream cake I've been asking for so long! :-p

Anyways, just having that thought made me jump out of bed or it could have simply be because it was Friday and the end of the week. Rocio and I had also decided that after work we were going to play some aqua golf as well. It's been such a long time that I've played aqua golf, and I was looking forward to it.

When I got into work this morning, I hadn't really anything planned as I am very much up to date. So I decided that I would spend the day helping Gloria with all the invoices that she had (which was just under 500). So I doubled check with the manager to make sure that there wasn't any other emergencies that she'd rather that I help in. Apparently there were some emails which were piling up for other areas, which they may want me to help out in but would let me know later in the day.

When I started to help out with the invoices, I was told we were going to have our morning meeting outside. So once everyone was in, we headed off to a coffee shop to have our meeting. Only problem was that we were looking for a coffee shop in particular and no one knew where it was. So we ended up going to the one that was closest to us. I decided to order a toasted sandwich, but thought it was funny that they had the option of either: Toast with cheese, Toast with cheese and tomato, and Toast with cheese, tomato and avocado. There was no Toast with ham and cheese at all! Gloria pointed out that it may be a vegetarian cafe which was probably why there wasn't any ham. After we had our meeting and headed back into the office, we found out that the cafe we had original wanted to go to was just around the corner from the one we had just been in. Oh well.  

Once we arrived back in the office I had my headphones on and just focused on clearing a lot of the invoices out. Before I knew it an hour went passed and we suddenly had an emergency meeting. Which was basically to tell us that there was going to be another big meeting as there was some confusion about what was going on, so the meeting was going to clear a lot of things up. Which was in a few moments anyway, so there was no point in turning around to get the invoices done as everyone went into the meeting room.

Throughout the meeting, I thought it was a little funny that the only people raising questions about what was going on was the people who made redundant. Well, all but one anyways. So technically there wasn't any real point in asking any questions. Which then made me think if this was one of the reasons why we were made redundant as we like to question things, instead of nodding out heads and carrying on. But I shook my head of it and try not to think in that way of thinking.

Once back at my desk I tried to get back in the grove of processing again, but was finding it a little difficult with all the distractions which we've had so far. So I put my headphones on and did the best that I could. Before I knew it lunch time had arrived and went and had some pasta within Darling Park. I was explaining that I find the whole looking for work a bit daunting. Mostly because of all the effort and hoops that you have to put though, and I wondered if people actually do read the cover letters that you spending hours writing and amending in hopes that it'll get you work. Only to be employed by a company who will then most likely make you redundant for cheap labour with people who most likely have no experience at all. I knew this kind of thinking was making me feel a little low again, and was thankful for Gloria in changing the subject and getting my mind off things.

Once we got back into the office I got stuck into the invoice once again, and by the time 4pm had rolled on by I managed to get the invoices down to about 250. There was only about 30 left as the rest were all errors which were logged in and there was nothing anyone could do until they were cleared from the system.

We were told after the Friday catch up in the kitchen that we all could go home early, and was thankful to leave early so I could catch another early train and wouldn't be arriving home in the dark. Once home I quickly got changed and had a small bite to eat before Rocio came over. I noticed that the football was about to start about half an hour before Rocio arrived, and they where showing a Sonny Bill Williams special before the game. Not only did they play a Muse song, but the SBW special was in the style of the Muse song, with news clippings here and there about everything he has done in his career.

About 8pm Rocio arrived with her daughter and we quickly went to get a bite to eat, which is when we so that they were playing soccer on the TV which was showing the Wanderers. They already already scored one goal by this stage. Afterwards we then headed towards Penrith the play aqua golfing. It had been such a long time that I've been here that they've changed the place a lot. We were only there for about and hour or so before we took off again. I thought I hit the ball well a few times, but nothing that actually hit any targets.

We then went to crispy cremes where I caught myself a fruit smoothie and a couple of donuts. We kept making weird faces and talking about the oddest thing. Which is when Rocio suddenly mentioned she had a bunch of old school songs, one of them being Sexy Eyes. So we headed off into the car and she played the song very loudly, and us singing along to the song, with her daughter covering her eyes feeling very embarrassed!

Once I arrived home and bid farewell, I was still in a high music mood and decided to browse my MP3 player for some awesome songs before I went to bed. Ended up coming across a song by the Living End called 'Short Notice'. Thought it was a pretty great song. Was still feeling a little wired and didn't think I could get some sleep. So I had decided to play the movie Mutant again and put the TV on sleep.