BluAngel has left the building!

Yes, I most certainly have :-)

Today, I said farewell at last to my job. Coincidentally, I had worked there exactly 3 years. I started on 18 Aug 2004 and I ended on 17 Aug 2007.

How do I feel? Right now, I feel exhausted. I have not had a break in all the years I worked there. Not because I did not know how to manage my time or that I was so infatuated with the job that I could not leave. But because there were so many upheavals and changes in management, I did not have a chance to go on leave for a protracted period. The longest break I had was a week last November and I spent that running errands and helping my bro prepare for his wedding.

But there is sadness as well... you don't spend 3 years of your life working with such great people - well, SOME of them are the best, not all, but they are the ones who make the difference - and not feel sad about leaving them. It was such a great place to work at first and I do miss those days. It was what made me stay despite the many upheavals.

But what I will miss the MOST are the horses. I was so busy today cos people suddenly realised it was my last day and they all wanted something done before I left. I did dash out during lunch today to the nearest NTUC and bought a bag of carrots for my favourite Mimo. She is sooo sweet, but only when I had the carrots. When she was done with the carrots, she showed me her butt :-P

Yesterday was the best. Esther, Steff, Angie, Sunny, Fiona, Louis and Calvin bought me lunch at Fish n Co. We had such a fun time. Then I got everyone a pistachio choc cake from Cedele for tea. And when I got back to the office, there was a lovely box of Chocz on my desk from everyone in my department. AWWWWWW..... they really know what I like best! How do you not love a bunch of collegues like them?



And my boss got me a gift. It's an aromatherapy burner. She said she got it cos she thinks it would help with my rhinitis... isn't that thoughtful?

Time for me to take a break, then think about where I want my life to go from here. I am looking forward to a couple of weeks (at least!) of doing nothing but lazing around and beading :-)

7 days and counting...

...to the day I say bye-bye to my current job. Yes, I have quit. I have called it a day. I have thrown in the towel. In short, I have wised up that no matter what and how much I do, it's never going to be enough.

Next week this time, I shall be a free woman! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..... I can't wait. I already have my itinerary planned out (sort of). It consists at the moment mainly of taking the dogs out, going to the gym, keeping the house clean, some gardening, lots of beading and there's something in there about volunteering at the soup kitchen :-)

I have a sneaky suspicion though that I'll end up sleeping in, surfing the net, chatting on MSN and doing lots of beading. I haven't even given the soup kitchen my name as a volunteer yet...

Oh, my camera conked out. Really bad timing. I can't take any decent pics of my creations now... not that my previous pics were that great but at least you could see the actual colour on the beads. I'm using D's cam now. It's supposed to be higher definition or whatever but it's too fancy for me so I end up taking blurry pics with colours that don't look like they are... eg. green ends up looking black :-(

The girls are playing right now. Tinkerbell turned six 3 days ago, but she's still a puppy at heart. She's always initiating play with Russell or Gypsy. I never get tired of watching them at play.. they're so funny and I just laugh out loud at their antics... heehee...