sunday foodie block
Sunday’s the only day of the week where I can cook up a storm - I work weekdays and get home late and starving (which means dinner on the table ASAP, often resulting in a take-out run or plain ol’ jar sauce stuff), and James works Friday and Saturdays until 10pm so I crack out the trusty frozen foods or canned soup. On Sundays, he finishes work at 6pm, which usually (or at least, ideally) means I’ve spent the day in the kitchen making up a special dinner for us to share over a glass of wine or beer (or two or three or six), and sometimes if I’m feeling especially domestic I’ll even bake up a treat for dessert.
Today I’m making his favourite, baked potato skins and corn on the cob - except I’m completely stumped for the “main” part, a slab of meat of some kind. I absolutely cannot think of a thing to make! Any ideas? P.S. I’m not a steak kinda person!
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So I mentioned in my last post that I’m getting to that end-of-probation period where the job don’t seem so great anymore. I find the work mundane, if not a little annoying - dealing with building maintenance and having people bitch at me when all I can do is ask someone to fix it… if they can’t, then it’s not my fault! Also, the HR stuff which was the reason I took the job doesn’t excite me, and I don’t know if this is the field I want to be in. It might just be the environment - I have NEVER wanted to work in mining - but even with the bits and pieces of training I’ve picked up, I’m not invigorated by the work and come home cranky and tired most days. I think the real turn (besides having to completely cut out my “green” intake, if you know what I mean) was when we went to Kalgoorlie a few weeks ago for a day-long HR meeting, getting stranded there, and having to hear my colleagues bitch and moan for over 6 hours. After that, I’ve noticed HOW much they bitch and moan, and they’re no longer a team I really find I mesh well with.
I don’t think I mesh well with other people around the office either. We’re all friendly, but when a bunch of them go out to lunch and I’m just left there to pick up their jobs, that’s when you kind of know you haven’t really been invited into the circle…
I’ve gotten to the stage where I don’t want to go to work in the morning (that’s when I know that this job isn’t right for me). I’m grumpy when I’m there, I count down the hours until I get to go home, and then I’m cranky when I get home because I’m so tired - mostly from boredom and grumpiness at work. I don’t know what to do. I can’t leave unless I have a job secured somewhere else at the same pay. I’m thinking of going into a different field, perhaps, but I just don’t know what anymore. I thought it was HR that I wanted to do, but if it’s going to be like this, then I don’t want to. I’m not cut out for Psych as a career. What to do???
Ideally I’d love to have a home business, or be a consultant, or be able to use my creativity (whatever that may be). I think that’s what I’d want to do more than anything - work from home, watch over the hypothetical kids (that’s for a whole other post - pregnancy scares, but getting clucky with James, and starting to look for engagement rings though neither kids nor rings are feasible right now), meet with clients, and run the home. Maybe I’m just not creative enough. It just seems like a long, empty life if I have to be stuck in jobs which will never be what I want to do with myself.
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So, how I said it’d “all be over in a week”? Of course, I’m always speaking too soon. The saga still carries on with our old housemate still demanding money for bits and pieces, and of course James not getting back his bond for this or that reason. At least we’re out of that place now.
We love our new place! Still need some more furniture, such as a new sofa, TV unit, coffee table and things for the bedroom, but it can all wait for now (especially as I’m paying back my uni debts now… ouch! There goes my pay!). The new TV is amazing and we spend most nights crashed out in front of it. We only JUST got the internet, after weeks of drama with another ISP… ended up going with Virgin Broadband which is ok, but not very fast. We’ll see how long we can take it.
Work is ok, too, but I’m getting to that “end-of-probation-I’m-not-sure-about-this-job” phase… will have a few issues to raise in my performance review. But maybe I should keep my mouth shut until I get a promotion (if I ever get there!). Not liking the threat of having to work on site, especially after being stranded in Kalgoorlie a couple of weeks ago after a day-long HR meeting. Not fun!!
I also seem to have caught a virus that’s been floating around and am sick at home today with body aches. I was supposed to be on a clear soup & jelly diet, but I gave up after 2 “light” meals, because I’m starving and that doesn’t seem right if you’re sick. Hope I don’t get the irritating cough which the doctor says comes next…!
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