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Mar 13, 2014 08:18PM
Yay just got my security clearance! Officially start 24th. I've spent the last 10 years in jeans, work shirts, blundstones, no nails and dirty hands! The email states attire: business clothes!! Oh dear, gotta be a girl again, AND. no more wharfie swearing!!! Damn it! Lol happy to be gainfully employed!!
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Lisa wrote: "Yay just got my security clearance! Officially start 24th. I've spent the last 10 years in jeans, work shirts, blundstones, no nails and dirty hands! The email states attire: business clothes!! Oh ..."Yay!! Congrats!! I hate the suit wearing but if it brings home the bacon...
Bahahahaha. Then that's a yes for me! Cool looks like I'm up for that. Thanks
Thanks Alicja, you know it's probably the swearing I will have the biggest problem with. I will eventually wear my own style, but still be " business like". But really, in the motorcycle industry, it's mainly blokes, and most of us are pretty good swearers. and I've had a lot of practice. Somehow I don't think a call centre will be quite as receptive, lol.
Congrats Lisa. The more you all talk about dressing up the more I love that I get to wear jeans!! :)
Grrrr! Thanks Dawn. But still grrr. I did mention in the interview the idea that I thought Fridays should be pyjama day. Maybe I could pursue that! I'm not sure wearing your Jim jams on Sydney's rail system would be that out of place, hehe.
I have missed out on over 160 posts. I have decided I can't catch up with them all.If I have missed anything that I should know about, or anything super interesting, please let me know. :)
I hope this covers everything that has been discussed in those 160 posts: hope you are all feeling well, enjoying holidays, new jobs or whatever else good that has been going on in your lives that I have missed.
Hope if there were any fights that you kissed and made up.
Hope your reads have been good ones.
I am doing very well (as evidenced by my increased activity on GR today).
We have moved most of our livestock off our farm (the one we own, where we live) to the other farm (that we have signed a lease on). We found out the day before moving our cattle there, that the lease was only for 30 days, which pitched hubby and I into the fits of despair as we had been led to believe the lease would be 2 to 3 months (although we had wanted more than that..we need more than 3 months).
Rumour has it that we may be allowed to have it for another month once our 30 days are up. Fingers crossed.
I think that is it. All caught up I hope. :)
Thanks everyone for all the thoughts and kind words over the last month and a half. You have all been wonderful during my crisis and I don't know how I would have gotten through emotionally without the support I was given from some members of this great group.
Now, back to the business of random thoughts...:D
Has this been posted yet?Which literary couple are you?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/juliapugachev...
Hubby and I are Éowyn and Faramir from “The Lord of the Rings” Which is fine, but the description that went with it was not a perfect match to us.
Terri wrote: "Has this been posted yet?Which literary couple are you?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/juliapugachev...
Hubby and I are Éowyn and Faramir from “..."
I got the same response and it doesn't seem to fit us...
Okay, for me and my phantom significant other......You got: Daenerys Targaryen and Khal Drogo from “Game of Thrones”
You are both incredibly driven and outspoken individuals, yet you get along and help each other rather than butt heads, making you a force to be reckoned with. That being said, you aren’t all business, and can totally dole out the cutesy nicknames and cuddles.
Me and my imaginary partner got:You got: Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters from “The Fault in Our Stars”
You live for the moment and your compassion for each other is unrivaled. You each always think of the other person’s feelings and your unbridled kindness toward each other inspires even your most cynical friends to give love a chance.
Got Jane Eyre and Mr, Rochester. Hmmm. Good thing our house doesn't have a real attic!!!!
Hhhmm, I got Catherine and Heathcliff:You love to tease — in fact, sometimes you can be — but deep down you love each other to madness. Literally.
Lol
Don't mean to sound cheesy...but I'm so stoked that Terri is back! We tried to hold down the fort, but it just wasn't the same without you, Terri. Yee haw!
Derek wrote: "Don't mean to sound cheesy...but I'm so stoked that Terri is back! We tried to hold down the fort, but it just wasn't the same without you, Terri. Yee haw!"Aw mate! I'll accept cheesy any day! :) I am stoked to be back too! It is such a relief to have the stress lifted enough that I can rejoin my bookie friends day to day again.
Getting things back to normal. Phew. Such a relief.
Pity I couldn't slip straight into a group read with the group. Maybe in April.
Damn. Being waylaid by life's dramas, it appears I am really running behind on my Goodreads Challenge. 6 books behind to be precise. Better get my butt in gear.How is everybody else doing with their GR Challenge?
I'm one book ahead of schedule, but I have some bricks coming up. No worries, though. Challenges...Smallenges
hahaha!!! I don't see that one, Bobby.
Derek wrote: "I'm one book ahead of schedule, but I have some bricks coming up. No worries, though. Challenges...Smallenges"I usually hate getting even one behind. This year, I am going to have to be less obsessive. :]
Bobby wrote: "WTF.....Katniss and Peeta!"
Katniss and Peeta? What's that?
Katniss and Peeta? What's that?
That series/and movie where they glorify the brutal killing of children (sorry folks, I have a low opinion of those books and the movie).The Hunger Games.
Oh..Okay. No wonder I didn't know. Sounded like some kind of exotic food. No Hunger Games for me, except when I'm hungry.
It took me a week to sit through the movie. I was horrified that those are the kinds of books that are popular these days amoung young and old. Pretty shocking to me. Children hunting children. Killing each other is brutal, bloody ways for entertainment.Confronting stuff for me.
They are very popular. I've had many people recommend them to me, but the YA tag scared me off. Didn't have any idea about the content. Are those books really YA? If so, that is kinda horrifying.
Yep. They are YA all the way.
I was shocked that my 12 year old goddaughter was reading them. I'm open to a lot of books as my library will state, and I hadn't read them as YA is a turn off for me, but I thought they were too old for her. I randomly send her books that I think she'd like, maybe I'm getting too old, lol, but that wasn't on my list.
And Derek, cheesy, smeesy. I agree, it's great to have Terri back, hehe.
It is that! I caught our absentee landlord late last night on the Ben kane thread, jus popped in to collect the rent thought I :) so grand to see yer back Terri.... Now about that leaky roof...?
Hahaha Andy, not to mention the bathroom blockage!!
Terri wrote: "Has this been posted yet?Which literary couple are you?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/juliapugachev...
Hubby and I are Éowyn and Faramir from “..."
Uhhh..Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky from Anna Karenina? Never read the book, so I have no idea how to feel about it...the quiz makes it seem like a good thing, though.
I guess hunger games didn't really shock me, I read Battle Royale in high school. Hunger games is a watered down version of that gore fest.
And speaking about gore and killing, the new 300 movie may be rated R but there were definitely younger kids there. I think violence is one thing kids, at least American kids, are exposed to on a regular basis. Am not saying that's a good thing but violence seems commonly accepted here.
Terri wrote: "Damn. Being waylaid by life's dramas, it appears I am really running behind on my Goodreads Challenge. 6 books behind to be precise. Better get my butt in gear.How is everybody else doing with th..."
14 books ahead here, but then I usually like to finish my challenge 3 ot 4 months early and that makes me 5 weeks ahead so far.......so about on target I think. :)
Nate wrote: "Uhhh..Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky from Anna Karenina? Never read the book, so I have no idea how to feel about it...the quiz makes it seem like a good thing, though..."Umm, passionate but doomed love if I recall....it is Russian after all. :)
Hey Derek, try some cheese on your Peeta (pita). :-)
I'm 2 books ahead but should pull further ahead here in the coming weeks with a little more time and the next 3 being smaller than my usual fare.
Surprisingly I am only one book behind on the challenge but I didn't really set a very high goal. If I were counting children's books, however, I would have smashed my goal in January. My five year old is in a program called 1,000 books before Kindergarten. We just cracked 500!
In about an hour I'll be about 6 books ahead for now, but not convinced I'll keep that pace up.
As of now, 19 ahead. Hope I can keep this up.
The horror! New securities at work prevent me from downloading audiobooks. I'm going to have to remember to do that at home. Meh...
Mark wrote: "5 behind I am afraid."I've heard somewhere that were are all put here with a certain number of things to do in our lives. At this point, I am so far behind I may never die!!!!
Dawn wrote: "Bloody securites... :)"Allie wrote: "How dare they! An outrage! ;)"
I know right! I'm stocking up now that I'm home :D
Andy wrote: "It is that! I caught our absentee landlord late last night on the Ben kane thread, jus popped in to collect the rent thought I :) so grand to see yer back Terri.... Now about that leaky roof...?"haha!!! :D
Not absent anymore, so turn down the bloody music and kick out the strippers. I'm back jack. :)
Mark wrote: "5 behind I am afraid."yay!!! A fellow under achiever. Reading through the posts I was starting to worry that I was the only one.
Terri wrote: "Mark wrote: "5 behind I am afraid."yay!!! A fellow under achiever. Reading through the posts I was starting to worry that I was the only one."
I am just not reading much, got lots of free time with not working, but when I start in a couple weeks so will be reading more.
the above statement sure dosent make sense at all does it. Lols.
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