Remember...
Easy to bend the body...
Not the will.
Master Chen Hai Yang
I guess this is a personal post, because I'm not so normally talkative. I've written a couple of other posts tonight that I'm blown out about. I'm very verbose, and for me, this is not a common event! Especially about my personal life.!!! Tonight I tended to get deep and meaningful and that's not my norm. Read what I had to say on family relationships. I was even impressed with myself!!
Carly has gone to sleep at her father's house tonight. It was quite a surprise that she even wanted to! I used to love that man and I'm not sure where those feelings have gone. I look at him now and feel contempt, hatred and animosity. But we surely did have a love affair. Perhaps it was all the lies and disappointment that killed the love. Obviously love can die. No new relationship keeps the intensity of the initial feelings. And yes, I know, you have to work at a marriage to help it to grow and enrich. I always wonder about marriages that last more than 50 years. Did those women just put up with the shit because that was expected of them? Or were they truly happy to stay in that relationship? Or was it more of a "what will the neighbours think" thing? People who carry on a pretence of a happy life are not good and true people in my book.
Real people are the ones who have had hardship and suffering. How else can you experience life?
That's my philosophy. I laughed aloud when I found out you could get a degree in Philosophy. What a joke. Isn't life experience how you get the foundations for a qualification? Any wonder philosophers don't have a high standing in today's world!
Work has been great this week. I know I said on Monday that the days are long and it's been busy, but hey, being busy makes the days go even faster. There's nothing worse than making up work for yourself and asking other people if there's anything you can do for them. That's when you know you should have an RDO.
Working for Local Government is great. Good Super. RDO's. A $250 a year uniform rebate. I love it. We can even have our pool and gym memberships paid through Council with a nominated salary sacrifice. It's just too easy to be a member of the pool. I'm thinking I need to join the gym so I can lose some of the "middle aged thickening" that seems to be happening to me. The kids have a 3-month membership at the pool that I could probably extend and not really notice. And besides the monetary value, I'm making friends that I normally wouldn't know. Michelle, Narelle, Michael, Leanne, Lisa, James, Rob, Neil, Will, Liz, Jo, Michele, Peter, John, Adam, Leesa, Col, Nikki, Maria, Greg, Graeme, Marie, Mick, and anyone I've forgotten I'm sorry.
I love working in the Spatial Unit office. Michael is younger than me but the head of his department and I feel kind of like a mother, though he's not much younger than me. Initially I was pissed off with him that I didn't get the GIS job, but I've gotten over that. Leanne is more qualified, having done a couple of years at UNI, and when Michael is in a good mood it's a great office to be in. We have a newly air-conditioned office that makes the choice for me. Personally, I think I'd prefer to be at the back of the building with all the people I work for. That would make more sense.
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