Oct 26, 2008 | Life at Home, Work
I have NO idea why I’m up this early on a Sunday!
Anyway, I guess it’s not a bad thing – I have quite a mission on my hands today, what with sorting out some new office space for Chris and Sir G to work with me here in the dining room. I’ve run out of space outside in the office now WAH!
So this morning, I have to somehow convert this part of my house into a working area:
I’ve already had new plug points installed and I’m waiting for Telkom to come and put in a new jack for one of my spare phone lines – that “should” be done next week.
Desk-wise, after hunting around for something simple and reasonably priced, I learned that there is No Such Thing so I’m going with white board on tressels. Sir G is going to help me put the laminated trim on the board today. I’ve also ordered some AWESOME chairs from Ergotherapy Solutions, but they are only being delivered at the end of November so we’re going to make do with a couple of budget secretary chairs till then.
It’s going to be REALLY strange for me to have other people working in such close proximity – I’m so used to working alone! I wonder what they’ll think of my rather animated work-style? I tend to talk to “the voices in my machine” (!), laugh out loud a bit and headbang to the tunes in my ear thumps hahaha!!
But this is all temporary … I have plans to renovate and extend the existing office area next year. That is going to be FANTASTIC! At the moment it’s a real dive way too small for the 8 of us. I’ve always wanted a swanky office space so I’m really looking forward to that 🙂
Anyhoo … I guess I’d better get my butt into gear. It’s another GORGEOUS day in Cape Town and I want to get all this done and dusted so I can chill outside by the pool this afternoon. Son#1 is away at an NA camp and Son#2 is off to a skate park, so I’ll have some very welcome (and unexpected) peace and quiet … and privacy for some *cough* private tanning …
Hope you’re all having a groovy weekend 😀
Jul 19, 2008 | Mumblings, Personal
Hmmm … tagged again. Twice.
This time it’s the “7 Interesting Things About Me” game and I got hit by both Chris Mills and Wogan May!
Does this mean I now have to come up with 14 things??
Hoo Boy … this ain’t gonna be easy – between my About Me page and being Tagged for the Very First Time by SheBee, I’ve just about exhausted the topic of Me! But then again, being an Aries means I love to talk about me, so I’m sure I can manage … wahaha!!
Alrighty then, before I begin, let’s take a look at that word … INTERESTING.
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A quick check on Dictionary.com reveals the following definitions:
- engaging or exciting and holding the attention or curiosity: an interesting book.
- arousing a feeling of interest: an interesting face.
– Synonyms
absorbing, entertaining. Interesting, pleasing, gratifying mean satisfying to the mind.
Something that is interesting occupies the mind with no connotation of pleasure or displeasure: an interesting account of a battle.
Something that is pleasing engages the mind favorably: a pleasing account of the wedding.
Something that is gratifying fulfills expectations, requirements, etc.: a gratifying account of his whereabouts; a book gratifying in its detail.
– Antonyms
dull
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Tough one … I’m supposed to come up with Interesting Things that are NOT dull, will please and gratify you, occupy your mind and fulfill your expectations … YIKES!!
Oh well, I can only do me best hey? Can’t please all of the people all of the time and all that =)
- I learned how to fly on a trapeze when I was in high school.
- I have no formal tertiary education … I always have to choose the “some other college” option when completing questionnaires. Although I matriculated with an exemption, I just didn’t feel the urge to waste my time on some arb degree or diploma that I would probably never actually use. So I landed up doing a secretarial course straight after school in ’89 – figured it was something that would always come in handy. I sucked! I still can’t type =) The only thing I did (ridiculously) well in was Word Processing. After that, in 1994 I did a 3-month DTP course.
- Everything I need to know, I teach myself.
- I have taught others though – I used to be a lecturer, if you can believe that. Yes, me. The Shyest Person On Earth used to make her living by standing up in front of a class full of students and teaching them how to use Macs, FreeHand, Quark and PhotoShop (waaay back in the day, before PS even had layers LOL) … and get this: I was pretty damn good at it!
- I designed and developed the first accredited Web Authoring course in the country.
- This is my the first website I ever built, the result of my very first dabble with the www … on good old Notepad =) http://www.pbdphoto.co.za
- I am good on a stage, I actually love performing =) (or I WAS good, should I say – haven’t done that for goodness knows how long!)
- I have double jointed fingers and I can move my eyes independently of each other – cool party trick haha
- I was well on my way to becoming a ballet dancer until sometime in high school, when Art kinda took over … I still miss dancing.
- I can’t remember the last time I went to the hairdresser.
- I don’t have any tattoos – I’ve thought about it many times and still do … and then I rapidly change my mind when the rather revolting image of a wrinkly old hag with body ink pops into my head.
- I absolutely ADORE dried mango and raw almond nuts (together) as a snack. I buy mine from Gabi’s in Access Park – Lekkerbek rules!
- I forget absolutely everything about a movie right about 5 minutes after I’ve watched it – damn frustrating!
- I am fascinated by people who are “different” – people who look different or think differently. I welcome the opportunities to see the world from another perspective, although I’m really stubborn so “different” also has to be “smart” to get my attention.
*whew* I did it!
There are no rules, so I’m not going to pass this one on to a whole bunch of folks … if you want to do it, be my guest. Pop your link into a comment on this post when you’re done.
I’m only tagging one person – Sir G! Welcome to the blogosphere Dude =)
