Long time, no blog

What is the point of having a blog without blogging? It has been ages since my last post. Since then, I have changed jobs (been at my new job for 4 months now), summer has been and gone and we have been to 3 weddings. Even more unbelievably, tomorrow is April and in 3 weeks we will be celebrating our 1st wedding anniversary.

In late October, Steph and I went to Vanuatu, which was something different. It was humid and showery every day, but it was good to get away. In about 5 weeks, we are off to Japan and Hong Kong, which will be my first trip to Asia (not counting visiting airports in transit).

Meanwhile, it is pouring with rain outside. Now I know it is good to have rain now and then, but why do we have to have such torrential downpours for days on end?

3 weeks on...

I've just finished my third week at Brother International and so far so good. It's been hectic but the days go faster. I'm getting to know a lot more people now and I don't feel like a fish out of water.

New girl on the block

I started my new job today at Brother International and it was a good day. The people are very nice and I started on the right day because they had their monthly bbq. I'll be doing similar tasks to what I was doing at Laser. There are a lot of people so it's going to take a while to remember names.

Birthday Girl

What a wonderful start to the day! This morning at the breakfast table there were presents at my spot. Tim gave me book 2 & 3 of the Soldier Son trilogy by Robin Hobbs. There was also a case for my bible in my favourite colour. Tonight we had dinner with my family at King Crab (Chinese) in Carlingford Village and there was so much food!

Let the celebrations begin!

It's my birthday in a couple of days and the celebrations have already begun. Last night Tim took me out to dinner at Il Vicolo which is the restaurant where we had dinner the night he proposed to me last year. The food was excellent! I had scampi with mango & asparagus risotto covered with a butter sauce. Tim also gave me my first present - a beautiful metallic purple beaded necklace to match the bracelet that Belinda gave me last Christmas. After dinner we went to Thornton Park in Balmain, where Tim proposed last year.

What a week!!

I received some bad news on the 2nd September - my position was being made redundant and I finish up with LASER Corporation on the 18th. I just couldn't stop crying that night. There's been a downturn in the business so they've had to cut staff. It was such a shock! A collegue was also made redundant the day before and no one knew until an email was sent out and he came around to say goodbye.

The last few days I really saw God's grace and blessings at work. On Monday I looked on http://www.seek.com.au/ and found a sales administrator position which is similar to what I'm doing now so I called up the advertising recruitment agency and had an interview with the recruitment consultant Tuesday morning and later that day received a phone call saying the company was keen to see me. So the next morning I had the interview which went well and I had no sooner arrived back at work (I hadn't even finished parking yet) when I received a phone call offering me the job!! God is sooo amazing!! In just over a week I've been made redundant, found a job that is similar & close to home and offered the job on the same day I went for the interview.