Stoked!!!

It's been a busy but highly enjoyable last couple of weeks for me. I have finally gotten off my arse and things seem to be happening all at once. Which is good, I feel so much better about myself when things are busy.

So what has been happening? I am now properly employed. I have gone through training and have been working for a week now. I'm actually finding it quite fun. Basically the job is to go to Shopping Centres and Expos around Brisbane and try and promote the Mathemagic Computer Tutor and generate leads for their consultants and other people. We just hang around and talk to people, give kids balloons and just be friendly. It only sucks when it's not busy at all and its just 2 of us standing there talking to each other. Ah well who cares, it's good most of the time.

The folks have also got another dog to keep our current dog, Tipsy, entertained. Tipsy is a Border Collie and even though she gets taken to the off-leash area by my day every morning and taken for a walk by me every evening it's not enough stimulation in our small back yard. So we now have a new tiny little puppy, that is a Border Collie/Golden Retriever Cross. It's a very cute little thing but noone can decided on a name for it so I have started calling her Tito, after the leader of Communist Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito. It kinda sounds like a dog name, who knows if it will last.

With all of that happening at the moment, it's my mum's birthday on Friday and I have done nothing to prepare for it which sucks. Not to self, do something about it.

I am flat broke at the moment until Tuesday when I get paid for my new job which will be good and then hopefully I will be moving in with a bunch of good mates in Toowong. I've done the budget and it looks good, it's just a matter of me getting the money for bond and rent etc. early enough. Fingers are crossed at the moment. It will make transport etc so much less of a pain in the arse.

Also, I found out that my favourite band of all time, cheesy i know, but NoFX are coming to Australia in February and playing 2 shows in Brisbane. I have previously said that I will pawn all my possessions to see them in concert and this is the only time you will ever see me behave like a groupy but I'm going to try and get tickets to both of those shows. Yay!

All in all a successful little period and we can only build from here...

Goals...

Hmm. Well what's going on with me? A good question. A few things are changing and I really need to get my act together as soon as possible, however I am finding it increasingly more difficult to do.

I'm going to use this blog thingy as a way to write down my goals for the next week, as a form of personal accountability.

Ironically my first goal for the week is to do some personal goal setting and sort out all the basic things I want to achieve in my life and figure out where I want to go over the next few years. What I want to achieve etc.

Secondly, write a hospitality/retail resume and apply for some basic simple jobs around my area, as well as restart applying for admin jobs. This is very important as I haven't finished up my swimming coaching job, which was fun and I learnt that I really do enjoy teaching, however very young kids can certainly test your patience. I also discovered that finding the motivation is very difficult when I hd been working for the sole purpose of saving money to take time off uni and to travel. Now that I no longer have that goal I have struggled finding motivation.

The other thing I have to do this week is look into setting up an Indoor Soccer team in the Valley which would be sweet. I also have a game this afternoon which I am looking foward to. I haven't played football in ages. I also want to swim 3 times a week this week and for the next few weeks.

Finally this week I want to really look into projects for next year. I have some cool ideas for what would be an awesome project to run out of AIESEC UQ next year, bu I have a heap of knowledge gaps that I need to close first.


Not much is really going on. Life is good, I need a good kick up the arse. Everyone is in exams so it's a bit quite socially but it's good to get a bit of a break and realign myself. Plus there is heaps of stuff on post exams, to keep me busy and having fun. So much catching up to do, so many people I haven't seen in ages. Well, time to get to it...