The Song in My Head in the Morning #12: Shower the People: James Taylor
The First Day of Anything
There are landmark days and in my mind they are usually the first of something … and so here is a meditation on the first day …
1. The first day of school – fear
2. The first day of work – independence
3. The first day of piano lessons – failure
4. The first day of your period (sorry boys) – womanhood
5. The first day of Lent – denial
6. The first day of January – discipline
7. The first day of summer – freedom
8. The first day of marriage – bliss
9. The first day of parenthood – joy
10. The first day of church – community
Today was the first day of my new job. It promises much that it has been a long time since I had …
Independent thought
Freedom from oppression
Responsibility without Fear
Respect for my time, my person, my skill & my talent
Appreciation for a job well done
Isn’t it incredible that you can go for 2.8 years without realising what you were missing?…
It’s a new day for me and I couldn’t be more thrilled.
The Old Red White and Blue
I continue to keep a close eye on all the statistics relevant to this blog etc. But I have noticed that for the last week or more there is a disturbing lack of colour on my flags page…
Nothing but red, white and blue!!
The countries have varied but there must only be appeal in my blog for people living under such flags.
Today the representatives are from Australia, UK, America, NZ and the Netherlands… the Dutch one being the first non OZ, Brit, Yank, Kiwi reader for a week…
Not sure what it all means but am getting very bored with red white and blue…
The Song in My Head in the Morning #11: You Lift Me Up: Josh Groban
Another Feminine Dilemma
D-Day – Departure Day.
A whole new start tomorrow – at 5pm with all my belongings into two file boxes off I went… Parking the boxes on my new desk ready to unpack 1st thing tomorrow!!
The hardest part is trying not to look deliriously happy when the girls in my office are all teary!
The crazy thing is I AM JUST MOVING ACROSS THE PARKING LOT!
Sigh – it is kind of the end of an era, I have been part of the Music Department for almost 3 years … So it strikes me as strange that I feel so ambivalent! It may have something to do with the fact that my previous boss was a head case, and since he left 5 months ago I have been in limbo – having some meaning and purpose in my work is definitely something to look forward to…
Anyway, tonight turned into an impromptu dinner party, which turned into an impromptu farewell party… Bliss, Surf, Kaffin, Tez, Skeet and I had a roast dinner, (may I add…brilliantly turned out by yours truly) and a couple of bottles of wine (hmmm…wine… lovely stuff) and more than enough laughs to keep us going into the middle of next weekend.
There is something priceless about such great company.
There is also the occasional dilemma.
Because we are such good friends and have worked together for so long, the girls (Kaffin and Skeet) and I are pretty much an open book with each other – so, they know about YGM2.
Bliss and I live together, she clearly knows about YGM2
Surf and I talk about all matters to do with relationships but, I hadn’t had an opportunity to tell him about YGM2 yet, i really didn’t need to as Kaff and Skeet told Surf about him… So Surf was dying for the inside track BUT…
Tez, is totally in the dark. Tez is a bit of a dilemma for me. He is my footy buddy, I have always been rather soft on him and for the longest time Surf and the gang have been hounding me about just grabbing him, giving him a good old pash and seeing what happens. I was not prepared to take that course of action… I always rather hoped he might do it instead…
So tonight, here I was with Surf dying to talk about YGM2 and me not wanting Tez to know until there really is something material to report!!! Right on the horns of a feminine dilemma – of course Tez was aware of a subtle undercurrent of news he wasn’t a party to. As usual, I was acutely aware of his attention being on me rather a lot (this is pretty normal and part of my massive frustration that he never made a move on me…) wondering how things would change once there was something to report and how to tell him!!!
Guess there is no point in saying anything until there is something to say! However, I would be lying if I hadn’t wondered if my being sought out by someone else would give him a kick in the pants…
Sigh
The Song in My Head in the Morning #10: Today: Iona (Bliss’ kickass song from last night)