Karen's Journey

1/2 way through June already! Where on earth have the last 6 mths gone???

Am at home today with a grumpy, clingy, miserable, tired girl... well ok she is currently sleeping so hopefully won't be tired when she wakes up! Got a call from Daycare to collect her early yesterday (at lunchtime) as she was very miserable and coughing lots... but by the time I got there she had had a sleep and was her normal cheeky self and started showing off etc! Brought her home and we had a quiet afternoon, she had a reasonable night but woke at 5am extremely chatty and talked to herself for an hour before I got her up. I had made a Dr appt for her for this morning when we had gotten home yesterday so was tossing up whether to go ahead with it or not but after watching her for a wee while and she was crying at everything and kept say "sore"... went to the Drs and am glad we did as she has one badly infected ear with the other one on the borderline of infected... and her chest is quite rattly so Dr told me what to look out for in regards to asthma as Dr thinks Rachel could be developing that but time will tell. So after getting home, she had some lunch and a little play but then we had a HUGE battle to get her to have a sleep - think she cried (read screamed) for about 5 mins before going to sleep and an hour later she is still asleep.... yay!!!

We are going to do the groceries once she wakes up so that should fill in some time for us :)

I have a bit of cold as well so am quite pleased to be having a quiet day...

Ummmm what else is new... not a lot really. Got a family lunch on Sunday at Mum's as Mum heads overseas for 8 weeks on 3rd July and this was the only day that suited Mum! Boy she has a better social life than we do! LOL Guess that's what happens when you are on so many committees etc :) At least it keeps her busy and occupied. :)

Oh I have got a few jobs on the go at the moment, I had an interview for one on Wednesday which I felt went really well and was told that I should know by the end of the week (i.e. today) whether I have made it to stage 2 which includes physicometric testing and another interview with the big boss so am anxiously waiting for my cellphone to ring. I guess I would say I am 75% confident of making it through to stage 2 but time will tell... this job is still doing payroll but also includes some finance work (i.e. helping with FBT, accruals etc) so that will be great. The other great thing is that it is closer to home which is always a bonus! And the best thing is that a great friend of mine already works there and if I am lucky enough to get the role, I would be sitting approx 10 metres away from this friend! YAY! She also put in a good word for me to the HR manager so fingers crossed.

There was one other role in Upper Hutt that I applied for - it was not payroll but needed a lot of the attributes that I had from doing payroll work. Didn't even get an interview for that one! The other 3 are still in town and doing payroll but paying more... so thought there was no harm in going forward for them.

I have joined another challenge to help me lose some weight as well... this one is an 8 week challenge on the parenting forum that I belong to so fingers crossed that this motivates me as I DO need to do something as I am only 18 kilos away from the weight I was when I started my journey in Feb 2003. I have got so many bad habits that I have gotten into so I need to work on them one at a time as I am sure if I tried stopping them all at once, I would go berserk and overboard!

Anyway, time I got moving as this is hurting my back sitting typing this (hurt myself yesterday in a fall at daycare when dropping Rachel off).

Catch ya later :)