by Jen on September 1, 2010
My job is kind of awful some days. I deal with some pretty terrible stuff, and by terrible I don’t mean I get whiny customers…I mean death….more specifically child death and that is only one part of the bad. Literally, my job would possibly kill anyone who wasn’t me. Despite the sad things though I manage to (mostly) maintain my happy and bright attitude (I’m not always positive, but can manage a smile for anyone).
Yesterday was one of the reasons that I don’t mind the bad things. Actually written into my job description are possibly the 2 best and most rewarding jobs in the world!
During the summer I get to arrange a trip for my team (the team I pretend I am in control of and make them do what I want by being wholey inappropriate and making them laugh – it works well!) and up to 200 families of disabled children to a (local) destination of my choice. This year….I chose the zoo!!
I adore the zoo! It’s the best place for bad jokes, to pretend you’re a child (I got a free ice cream!) and to get hit on by a 16 year old boy with downs syndrome. Apparently I was flirting with him. He groped me. I laughed. There’s clearly a lot more wrong with me than we first thought.
During the winter I get to arrange a Christmas party…much like the summer day but it includes the big guy with the white beard and red suit, face painting and presents!
Sometimes that’s all it takes to make up for the days where a child dies.
Listening to Tinie Tempah – Written in the Stars
by Jen on August 29, 2010
I’ve always been pretty useless at dressing for the weather. I wear flip flops for everything (although I draw the line when it snows…begrudgingly!), and my clothes are generally thinwith skimpy tops (again, drawing the line in the snow…although I have been known to forget that line before!) and I’m just highly inappropriate in every aspect of living. Have I mentioned before that I’m a little crazy? Thought so.
Anyway, the weather is really messing with me at the moment…and this time it’s not even because I get dressed without looking out of the windows to see if there’s a Tsunami or anything. We’ve had a pretty awful week, weatherwise, with what has felt like a hurricane going on around me and I don’t cope well with windy conditions at the best of time – this girl has looooong hair – but seriously…it’s meant to be summer!!!
So this morning when I got up, saw bright blue sky and not a cloud in the world, I put on some white linen trousers, a sleeveless top and my uniform flip flops (they’re generally beautiful and sparkle, which always improves my days!).
I was driving along the seafront with this view….
(Keep an eye on the crazy big balloon thing almost at the centre of the image – you can tell how far I managed to drive!)
So this weather made my outfit appropriate right?
Well no!
I sat at the lights for no less than 5 minutes, and the traffic getting accross was bad! By the time I got to that ridiculous balloon…
(Note the balloon on the left!)
How am I meant to learn to dress appropriately when someone keeps flicking the rain switch??
