Again, I sit here musing over how time flies, and how I seem barely able to keep updates up to... ahem... date. Anyway, i've had two long weekends in a row, which has been a wonderful thing. And, with that, two completely different types of long weekend.
Easter weekend could easily be described as spending most of it wandering around dark clubs mostly trashed. In amongst all that was visiting the family for breakfast one Sunday morning (Ant was ill at home), and sleeping, recovering from the previously stated trashiness. In all, the dance parties (Rawhide, Recovery and Market) were fun, although the little get together back at friends Matt & Simon's place was possibly the highlight of the two days for me.
Not wanting to sound like a broken record, the reality is that I just can't do big weekends much anymore. They tend to make me feel drained for the rest of the week, and I get the feeling that work is the place you go inbetween clubs. I don't want that no more.
Last weekend was more in line with what I consider an ideal weekend. On Saturday, Ant and I got up and went to gym, followed by a little bit of shopping at Chadstone. That night, we went out to Pink to see the drag show based on The Sound Of Music which, while the venue was somewhat dodgy, the show was great, and all of us had a fantastic night.
Woke up on Sunday and went to gym again, and spent the day pottering around the house. With Ant off to work on Monday, I had the day to spend to myself, and spent it doing little things like cleaning up my home inbox (it was out of control), converting more of my old music VHS to DVD, and getting myself organized, satisfying the Capricorn side of me. I went and had lunch with old workmate Sharon, who has just recently started working with Destra, and then went to pick up Ant from work. I was contemplating gym but had been so sore from the previous two days that it went out the window.
We went out to the POW $1 pots night to catch up with some friends, and although it took some time to get in, had a great night camping it up to old retro tunes and generally enjoying the company. Afterwards, the group splintered, with Simon, myself and a few of their friends deciding it was time to call it a night, and Ant, Matt, Jimmy and Travis carrying on to The Market to see Inaya Day. Ant finally resurfaced home at 9.30am (despite me asking him not to be too late), and slept while I got up, went to gym and enjoyed the outside sunshine.
Work this week has been SLOW. I mean, really SLOW. I wish I had known how slow and I would've put in for the entire week off! However, there is still enough to keep things interesting and not have the day feel like it is dragging. Let's face it - there is always something to do, whether it be client calls, interviews, reference checking, whatever... so I can't complain there. I was approached over the weekend regarding a new role, and when I said that I wasn't really interested was asked what it would take to get me to consider it. But the reality is that I am enjoying what I am doing right now, and feel like i'm still learning a lot of new skills, so I can't really see the point of throwing myself into a new situation right now. I'm also keen to continue this counseling interest I have, but would rather that be more organic too, taking a few years to finally reach the destination I hope to achieve.
Have a backlog of emails and friends to get back to. If you're reading this, i'm so sorry i've taken so long to reply to any of your messages. This week has been the first week i've actually been able to collect my thoughts and spend some time reflecting on the past few weeks. It's hard to believe we're fast approaching May already, but here we are on the cusp of the new month, and before long, new financial year (Yay for tax returns!)
Make sure you stay happy, healthy and well... and watch the new Doctor Who series, now showing in the UK! :)
I recently thought I should return to trying to complete a book that I started a few years back, tentatively titled 'On Being'. At the time, life was perhaps a little more idealistic than it is now, and it occured to me whilst reading the document that David Knox had been absolutely spot on in stating it was a dogs dinner of concepts that didn't seem to flow, and worst of all, lacked any point. At the time, I felt it was some great soul searching, and perhaps it was for the level I was at then. But reading it recently just made me realise that the concepts were there, just not really that well thought out, and pretty much most of the text was an entertaining read if you were interested in me, but little more than that. With that in mind, I started rewriting the text from scratch, aiming more at what I was trying to achieve first time around. However, instead of just throwing away what I wrote all together, thought it might make some interested blog fodder, as long as people keep in mind that it is around three to four years old now and, oh my, how things can change.
Had such a busy weekend... getting up early on Saturday to go and do breakfast/lunch with mum and dad, and then heading home in time to fit in a quick haircut and shopping. We then went to see Paul Van Dyk with Jimmy, Michael, Dale and Travis, although I have to admit that it was what I was expecting and I didn't really get into it too much. To be honest, I found the environment perhaps a little too intimidating with the energy... trance/hard house music, which had moments of greatness and then other moments where I thought it sounded like what a dance party in someone's stomach would sound like... very crowded, and very loud... no real chill out space... and lots of straight boys who you wouldn't want to get caught looking too intensely at for fear that they would come over and deck you... in fact, the atmosphere at the whole place was all rather aggressive and I found myself looking at the floor a lot of the time (especially the men's loo's) to ensure I didn't upset anyone. I realised that it was mostly in my own mind, but at the same time, the atmosphere was so foreign to me that I didn't entirely feel comfortable or allowed to be myself. Having said that, most of my friends had a great time (especially Michael, who worships Paul Van Dyk) and to see him spending the entire night on the dancefloor was worth it.
Afterwards, we trailed across town to our usual Market haunt, although horrified to see them charge $15 to get in at such a late hour. Upon leaving, Ant and I went and had a spa to relax a bit, before heading home to bed for most of Sunday. Remarkably, i'm feeling pretty good today, getting up early this morning to do washing and to write my usual Bnews/Melbourne Star music reviews since I hadn't had a chance to do either yesterday. The cats were rather surprised to see me surface so early; Caspar looking at me through squinted eyes as I had clearly woken him earlier than usual from his slumber.
It's been a bit of a slow day at work, which is somewhat appreciated, giving me an opportunity to get across some housecleaning, especially since I suspect a client review is on the horizon. It has been so frantically busy lately that these little breather days are appreciated when they come along, giving me a chance to call clients, check through CV's and get across things I promised people up to several weeks ago.
Ant and I are both wanting a quiet weekend this coming weekend. Ant has been out for the past four weekends in a row, where as i've been out for the last two - which is more than enough for me for the time being. Sounding like a broken record, while i'm not that old, it does seem to take longer for me to recover from a big night out nowadays than what it ever used to, and I hate feeling like crap for most of the week because of a big Saturday night. I've been telling Ant that I would really like us to spend a bit more time at home, saving money and going to gym. We're both really keen to go on a break soon - perhaps to Sydney for a weekend - and this will help achieve that.
Anyway, time to wrap up lunch and get back into it all. Today is just flying by with all of the tasks that I have at hand, but at least my lunch today has given me the opportunity to focus on something other than work for a bit.
