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Posted by Lindsay on 19th July 2010
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Sleeping in someone else’s bed

One thing I still am not used to when away from home is sleeping on hotel beds or sofa beds. It is something about not completely being in control of your surroundings. For example, I’m now staying in an awfully cold room but the heater is out in the living area. I can’t control where the heater is placed. I should have packed some socks. I think I’ll buy some tomorrow.

I don’t completely miss home because I’m with my brother most evenings just hanging out after work. I just miss my bed and “unlimited” supply of clothes. At the moment I have almost worn out my black stockings and ruined one pair of shoes thanks to the wonderful wet weather we had over the weekend.

Less than 2 weeks left then back home and hopefully back to the office with some new work. I just hope my flight has inflight entertainment otherwise I’m not going to be happy.

Posted by Lindsay on 30th December 2009
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It’s almost the end of the year…

Holy cow, 2009 is about to end! I can’t believe it. I’m out of town at the moment and will be celebrating new years in a different city for a change! Wooo… Visiting family is tiring and I think it doesn’t help that the rest of the country is on holiday too! Been planning my next whirlwind trip and basically have figured out only some of the things we’re going to do. I guess we’ll do most of the tourist things.

So a year to reflect on and really, I don’t have much to say. It has been a busy year for me with transitions at work and trying to accomplish my goals outside of that. Clearly a lifestyle change has happened there. Said goodbye to some friends who departed the fair golden shores to head back to their old home countries, thank god for Facebook! :) I have to say I have made even more lovely friends this year and re-connected with old ones too! (Thank Facebook again for that)

Proud to say I completed 4 run events all within reasonable times and all PBs! Yay! Next years list of goals will probably mirror them and will all be to get a better personal time. Work wise I hope things all go well down the path I have chosen and I get to the level that I want (although that will never be enough). Anyway, I hope next year will not be as labourous as it was this year – it has been a real test of character this year with a lot of stress and new challenges being undertaken – glad I made it through semi-unscathed!

So list time it is:

  1. Finish Gold Coast Half Marathon with a better time than 2009
  2. Finish Mother’s Day classic with a better time than 2009
  3. Finish Brisbane Half Marathon
  4. Get closer to the goal of a size 8!! (it’s been a goal for almost 2 years now!)
  5. Be more financially secure
  6. Hope my plants survive till 2011! :)

Till I blog again, happy new year!

Posted by Lindsay on 26th June 2008
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Is it the weekend yet?

Oh boy oh boy, what a long week this has been. On the work front, the project I had been working on went live on Wednesday and glad to say it was a great success with great feedback coming to us from the business. I am overjoyed it is finally over. It was a pretty mundane task but I am pleased with what I achieved with the project in terms of further developing my AJAX skills. High fives all round to my team mates. We are awesome! Haha…

I have a few gatherings lined up this weekend which will provide me with no rest and next weekend I fly down to Melbourne to meet mum and my brother while mum is in town. Looking forward to the trip outside Brisbane and possibly suss things out down there. I’ve gotten very pessimistic about the prospects of continuing my time in Brisbane. A small city that is finally outgrowing its size which is great but sucks at the same time.

Anyway, major redesign will be in place once I knuckle down and get serious. I will try out some AJAX and some other fancy things on here. It will be a great piece to show off my skills, hopefully.