I swore to myself I wasn’t going to let work get to me but I’m so freaking tired of it all. We never seem to have enough staff which means we are spread so thin these days and there’s only so much one person can do. I do my best to cover my own work and also take over a lot of other chores than I’m not supposed to be doing anymore. I know the score and I understand the work has to be done. If I see someone struggling or something being left undone - I just go and do it. It doesn’t matter to me if I’m actually being paid to do the job in question. We are all on the same team at the end of the day and the customer’s needs are always more important. The majority of our staff have the same mentality but then you have The Others…
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I’m watching Judging Amy right now and I absolutely love Tyne Daly. I loved her in Cagney and Lacey and wept buckets during the whole breast cancer storyline. She is an incredible actress - a real treasure. I’d love her as a best friend! In fact, I think she should be president.

I finally bought one on Thursday with some of the holiday money I never spent. I thought the games were region coded which is why I didn’t bother buying one in the US but as it turns out I was wrong about that. I’ve been thinking about buying one of these babies for months but kept coming up with excuses because I’m not much for playing games and decided it would be a waste of money. However, I really liked the look of the Brain Training stuff because those types of games I do like. I’m much more of “work it out” type rather than “shoot ‘em all up” type. When I started the game, my brain age was 63 which was not good but by the end I had it down to 44 which is better. The ideal brain age is 20 apparently. I also did my very first Sudoku puzzle which always looked complicated to me because it was numbers. I’m not a number person - never have been.

It was also a present I promised myself for having the guts to actually apply for promotion when the very idea of it made me want to be sick. I went for my interview on Thursday and I was so anxious before it I was literally shaking. I don’t do interviews well because nerves always get the better of me and everything I say sounds naff. I really don’t know how I did and the more I analyse it - the worse I feel. I just hope I did enough and my work reports will be taken into consideration too because I’m being put forward for a bonus. Something that very rarely happens at my work. I’m trying not to think about it too much because I feel like I’m torturing myself but I’m not looking forward to the humiliation if I failed. I’ve had a lot of positive feedback from people at work who know I had an interview and a few have said they will be very angry if I don’t get it.

I also got my Born Free welcome pack this morning which is way cool. I’m a gold member which means I had to select which type of animals I wanted to support. It was difficult choice because I love big cats and wolves, but I ultimately went for marine life because I just feel drawn to whales and dolphins more than any others. I suppose the money is used for everything but it just means I get sent more marine newsletters.

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I started back at work on Monday after my 3 week holiday and I actually found it quite hard getting back into working mode. Of course, everyone wanted to know how my holiday went and it got a bit monotonous answering the same questions all the time but they meant well. I’m kinda tired of the whole Florida thing right now so I’m probably done with the updates on it.

The big news this week is my promotion interview on Thursday. There are 4 candidates in total and I’m kinda pissed since I’m the only one genuinely interested in the job. The others are just hoping to pass the board for future vacancies. The reason why I resent it so much is the job would’ve simply been given to me on my own merit if there had been no more applicants. Nothing is ever easy for me and now I have to prepare for the damn interview. And, of course, everyone knows I have an interview and it’s going to be damn embarrassing if I screw it up since I’m considered the hot, favourite to win.

I actually think the interview is a piece of nonsense because I shouldn’t have to prove I can do a job I’ve already been doing since January but it is necessary since I’ll be going up a grade. The fact that they can overlook the interview when they want also makes it annoying.