New Job and Carrie Underwood - St Kilda

So last week I got offered a job working for the city of Port Phillip doing city permits. I started Monday, and am slowly starting to do more things and learn what's going on.

The drive to St Kilda is not quick, but at least I don't have to leave before 8am really. Traffic varies because of all the schools around there. The shops are okay. I've got Safeway and Coles for groceries if I need them. Priceline and Chemist warehouse for makeup and other stuff. No clothing stores, but that's ok - I can sit on amazon if the prices are right. 

I'm exhausted and have had a long hard week. Mostly cause I'm not used to getting up early and I am not getting to bed early. Monday night cause I was waiting for The Newsroom - the new Aaron Sorkin show to finish downloading, and tuesday night cause I was out at the Carrie Underwood concert at the Palais. Since the concert was so close to work, I decided not to go home and come back, and instead hang out for 2 and a half hours. I got food, changed, got petrol and found The Palais -which I had never been to. It's next to Luna Park - which looks even scarier when closed! I lined up for ages in the freezing cold to get my parking ticket, with tons of people - I never realized that there were so many Aussie fans of Carrie out there! I was genuinely surprised by the number of couples, kids, and young straight guys. I had decent seats. The support act Damien Leith was really good. Carrie was really good, sang plenty of my fave songs, and when you have four albums of great songs, you are bound to miss out on a few faves, but that was okay. I had a great view, even though it was further back than I would have liked...except for when the three people infront of me - a husband, wife and their adult daughter kept putting up their phones or cameras to take video and pictures...which they did a lot! I kept having to not only look around the guys big tall head, but around his arms and phone. It started getting ridiculous and I probably should have said something, but I didn't want to lose my focus on Carrie by wasting time telling off people who probably would have ignored me anyways.

My only real complaint with the Palais was the whole no water thing...I understand the no alcohol thing, but I can take water into plenty of shows elsewhere, is it really necessary to throw out bottles of water? I think if they are going to do that they should at least offer you a free bottle of water (even if it was small), because having to buy water is annoying and I don't like to spend.

Last night I finally got some decent relaxation and was in bed at a reasonable time. Today and work I started doing stuff on my own, so its starting to all sink in. They are nice people, but I don't know, they are a bit weird. But time will tell. I'm still new and quiet.
I seem to get home around 6:45pm...ish. Its not that bad, at least I don't have to spend hours on a train.

Looking forward to some quiet time over the weekend, and sleep ins!

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Carlie

Bye Bye Monash

So my 10 month run working for Monash Council ended yesterday. In some ways it was a good thing, and it some a bad. I'll miss the money, the fact that I had an easy drive against traffic, and late starts. I will miss the people, especially those I was working with before I changed departments because worked so closely together, and for so long.

But I'm looking forward to a change, with new challenges. I need a chance to grow and develop my skills, which I haven't been able to do lately. So that will be good.
It does suck to have to start looking again, and to have to interview again. I hate interviewing. Guess I better get a kick ass interview outfit.

As for my last day, I thought it would be really hard to leave, but I was okay in the end. I think I was more upset when I finished up in my original job, because I really liked it there and wasn't ready to leave. But I think I got all I could out of this 2nd job, which was longer than it was going to be originally...so I guess that's a plus.
The girls put on a party for me (and the other girl that was leaving as well) and even gave me a box of chocolates.

I thought it would be hard to say goodbye to the girls at my old department, but it wasn't too bad. I had a nice to chat to the girls I used to work with, and said goodbye to the others.

We'll see how I feel at the end of next week, when I haven't had any early mornings. I know I'll miss working after a little while, but for now I'm going to enjoy having a break.



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Carlie