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Rhona out.

Ooh I've just found a packet of Hula Hoops in my bag! Score!!

I've not blogged in a wee while, so thought I'd open blogger this morning and gradually add to it throughout the day. The world has not been all hugs and puppies the past few weeks. Mainly due to stress at work. Gradually I'm beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel, which is great.

I was at a Christian Festival called Frenzy last weekend. It's an annual festival and the biggest Christian Rock Festival of its kind in the UK. It's held in Edinburgh (so right at my doorstep) and is completely awesome. There were 3 stages this year so bigger and better. My favourite Christian band, Starfield, were playing too so all in all an exciting day. To make things even more exciting, whilst I was standing listening to Jeremy Camp, I looked to my right and the WHOLE of Starfield were standing right next to me. So close I could smell Tim's (the lead singer) aftershave! Lush! I couldn't believe they were standing right next to me! Such friendly guys too. What I love about Christian events like that is that there are so many different types of people all under the same roof, all there for the one purpose. You have to wonder what the police and security were thinking to themselves at a festival like that. It's the only festival I can think of where there is no alcohol, no drugs, no fighting, no judging, where you get free hugs as you are leaving and it takes 10 hours to get out of the parking lot as everyone is being so passive and not able to decide which car should leave first! Completely awesome. I have to say that you could feel the Holy Spirit moving amongst us and was amazing to hear the different testimonies and seeing so many young people completely buzzing! God rocks!

I had to go to the nurse this morning to get some blood taken and she couldn't find my vein so was digging around in my arm for about 2 minutes trying to find it. Ugh the bruise is already starting to show and it's really sore to bend and extend. Not fun!

I'm meeting up with an old friend on Thursday night for a few drinks and i'm really looking forward to it! I've not had a proper catch up with him in so long (apart from seeing him in the street every so often) so will be good to finally get to sit down and banter a bit! Him, me and the guy I was staying with in Australia were best of friends through High School. Good times!

Ok, it's lunch time. What I thought was going to be a "throughout the day" blog has turned out to be "no work this morning" blog. I'm working late tonight, tomorrow and Thursday though, so I feel an hour of blogging is acceptable! Oooh I got a pay rise yesterday! Yay!

I have a photo for you all! I meet an old work colleague every week for lunch and we generally sit in the local graveyard (it's quiet and you get a seat). We have our own tomb that we sit by. it's a nice little sun trap. Here's a picture of the view that we get. See...you all thought we were being morbid...check this puppy out! Wish you all had that view for lunch times now, don't ya!?




Rhona out.

Today we have a film crew shacked up outside our work. I know what you are all thinking....finally the amazing talent that is Rhona has been noticed! I'm sad to say meine schöne Freunde, it had nothing to do with me!

It started with the lovely City of Edinburgh Council showing up and moving the cars that were parked on the street (apparently they can do that as there was a sign on the lamp posts about the imminent road closure since last week), then after they had gotten their jollies from ruining someone's day all these rental vans turned up. Most of them were German rental vans with an A4 piece of paper stuck to their windshields which says "Whiteout"...I took a long shot and IMDB'd "whiteout" to see if anything came up and it came up with a film with Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht (yummy) and Alex O'Laughlin (double yummy!). After getting all overexcited one of us actually went out to confirm with the crew. As all the vans were german and there's one guy rocking around in a tweed jacket and barking orders in German - which, incidentally, could actually be shouting that he loves someone from the top of his lungs as everyone knows how vicious the german accent can sound - we were curious to know if we were right or not. After a quick chat with a friendly looking German crew member we found out that it is indeed a film called Whiteout, well Eisfieber to be more exact.

It is a film based on the book Whiteout by Ken Follett (a famous British author). It's a German production based for german TV. The actors that are in it are apparently really famous in Germany, but i've never heard of them!

Have to say that it is quite distracting though!

First band practice tonight for Father Jack since I came back from Australia. Really looking forward to it! Will update you all tomorrow!


Catch you on the flipside. Rhona out.

Yesterday was my 26th birthday. I have to admit that it wasn't the best of birthday's that I've had. Although I had a mini party, and my friends were all around me at some point of the weekend, I wasn't completely happy. Actually, you could say that I had a wee bout of depression. I needed one person to contact me, who I knew could pull me out of it, but they didn't until Monday morning and by then it was too late!

Leaving for work this morning I was told by my far-too-chipper mother that it was a Saturday service on the buses and so instead of getting my normal fast bus, I had to get the bus that stops at every single stop along the way. Fun. Then I got to work to find out that the cleaners hadn't done the dishes over the weekend, so had to spend the first 15 minutes of my Monday morning washing and drying the dishes.

All in all not a very good start to my 26th year.

Whilst talking to a colleague this morning I've decided that birthdays are not as much fun as they used to be, so for my 30th, i'm taking it back to basics. I'm going to have a fun birthday party. With Jelly and Ice cream, bouncy castle, musical chairs and pass the parcel, etc. I'm thinking most of my friends would be up for it (well, it is in 4 years time so that might change).

Just found out that yet another task has been bestowed upon me at my work...organising our work night out for Christmas. Fun. I hated doing it in my other jobs, so it stands to reason that I will hate doing it here. I might have to delegate it all to Rosie. She's excited about it - hmmmm yep, she can do it.

Grrrr busy day today and I can't get motivated.

Rhona out.

Right, so now that i've spent at least 10 seconds thinking up a title for this blog, I had better actually put something in the big white box underneath it.

So i'm back from Adelaide. Been back in the country for exactly one week. How am I feeling about it? Happy? Hmmm well yes and no. I am happy to be seeing my best buds again (missed my twinny and scabbers) and I missed my nephews and neice. What didn't I miss? Hmmm....work...the bad weather...big fat amount of uninteresting, boring days filled with a huge amount of nothingness. Ok, can you tell i'm a bit fed up?!?

In summary, Australia was Awesome (with a capital A). Seeing Jason again after a good few years apart was just magic and we had a friggin' fantastic time. Just when I was getting settled I had to come back, which I was not happy about. I think i've finally found where i'm supposed to be. Everyone was so laid back, friendly, welcoming...i'm sure you get the picture. Unfortunately I now have some debt to pay off, but i'm thinking that once that's out of the way I may have to return there. I have a wee circle of friends now and I miss them terribly. I've not had such a laugh in ages (not taking any thunder away from my friends here).

I would like to send a big shout out to Janey. She is awesome. She is Jason's friend in Adelaide. She and her family accepted me as one of them straight away and made me feel so welcome. I've got a good few pictures of drunken nights with her and her family. She's also an awesome singer and I had the pleasure of listening to her a couple times when I was there. Even more importantly, she offered to marry me to keep me in the country, which is just outstanding. I do believe that she is now my BFF in Australia! This, of course, is not taking anything away from Kara - another of Jason's friends who saved me from having to shop on my own, was able to throw out my frustrations over some things, and even shares a certain condition that we were able to talk to each other about. I owe alot to this woman and I hope that I'll get to see her again soon.

Both lovely ladies, both gorgeous inside and out and I'm grateful to be able to call them my friends! (hehe, i'm hoping that this "sucking up" will either help with somewhere for me to crash for a few nights when I go back over, or help me find somewhere to live/work!)

I started back at work this week. Still jetlagged a bit which is not helpful, but i'm doing ok. Work has been interesting and not nearly as bad as what I thought it was going to be. I think my brain is enjoying the fact that it has something to stimulate it and make it work instead of feeding it alcohol and pretty much nothing challenging for the past couple months!

It's also my birthday this week. I'm going to be turning 26. Eek. My friends and colleagues have all said that they notice a difference in me since I've returned. Apparently i'm chilled, not as vivacious as I once was. Not letting things stress me out that did before. Perhaps I've let the laid-back attitude of the ozzie's wash over me. Or, as one of my friends pointed out, maybe i've just grown up. As I said to her, my eyes have been opened to a whole other way of living. I realise now that not everything has to be fast paced, I don't have to stress about the little things - they will usually take care of themselves. I don't have to be so insecure about myself as I am beautiful in my own way and I don't have to look or act like anyone else as perhaps who I am right now is doing alright as she is. You know what I mean?

Ok, so moving onto other news...My twin officially "came out" and told everyone she was preggers today! I'm so proud of her! Erm, i'm not going to start a speech about it, because if you are a regular follower, I've already dedicated a blog entry to her! Enough of the girl-loving already!! Jules phoned me when I was away in Oz and told me and i've been bursting to tell someone else, but of course, I kept it quiet until she had her first scan and everything was a-ok. I've seen the pictures and something beautiful is most certainly gonna be popping out in a few months. Dead proud of you hun xx

A lot has happened since I left in March. My grandad had a heart attack, 2 of my friends' grandad's died, another friend got engaged, Jules got pregnant and I fell in love.............with Australia! Just shows that alot can happen in two months!

I'm technically supposed to be working right now, I have to copy type 101 pages, but Janey's on FB and distracting me...oh look, it's lunch time now! Perfect.

Catch you on the flipside....Rhona out.

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