http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/ Tracy's Journal en-us Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:58:58 +0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss journals.jevon.org widget support@jevon.org http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/19772 Another 100% Accuracy for last week. If only I could keep it up lol. This week has been quite hard so far. It's been affecting the amount of work I'm able to complete in a day (not nearly enough lol) I keep finding out interesting things that are important to note while doing our work. These things I pass on to Sarah so she can tell everyone in the morning updates lol. It saves us having to ask the same questions over and over.Had a really difficult day today, and have to sort out something first thing tomorrow morning. Strangely enough the "hard" work that I've been doing is actually easier for me than the "easy" work. Mind you I've had some tricky work around stuff to do, so it's all relative.We're all getting extra training this week in how to process the online apps (rather than the paper ones we have been doing) but our system is having problems and we can't do it yet, although it sounds hard and more complicated and I don't think anyone really wants to do it. Oh well, such is li... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:10:07 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/?showid=19772#19772 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/19772 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/19771 Work has been really hard this past week (even though it's only been a short week). My trainer, the lovely Sarah has been giving me hard work as I'm good at it and it is interesting, but it does become too much after awhile and I crave different work just for a change. I've also found that I've been helping out other people as they are finding the work difficult and it's stuff I understand. Especially for some who haven't been fully trained in all the systems and I have a good memory of what we did last year. Even one of the people that answers all our questions had to ask me for my opinion because I know more than her about a particular product. I don't mind helping, just wonder if there's a place in productivity for it lol. Don't wanna get below 100% because of it. Sarah might also get me to train to do some other hard work to go with the hard work that I've already been doing because she thinks I would be good at that too. I feel special lol. As long as I get at least one day a week where I get the easy st... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:24:17 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/?showid=19771#19771 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/19771 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/19766 and I just had spaghetti and cheese toasties. I had a craving and satisfied it lol. First day out of our training room went really well. Sarah thought it was awesome that my checks came back with no errors so I'm off to a good start. I had a really difficult application to deal with and I did it goodly. Mostly cos we were missing so much info that I couldn't really do much lol. I had to write a billion notes and had to work out how to use the photocopier and copy the ENTIRE like 40 page document so I could send the lovely person the original to SIGN it! Fun fun lol. Was not impressed with a couple of people in my training group as they laughed at my hair. Good thing I was able to laugh with them. By the way, I went in to the hairdressers to get my money back and I have to go back on Wednesday when the manager is there. I might have a word or two with them to explain the uselessness of the staff. Not to mention the girl who talked to me today couldn't remember me from YESTERDAY people! My hair is too damn s... Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:18:49 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/?showid=19766#19766 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/19766 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/19736 On Friday morning Miss Krissi asked me if I wanted to go visit her over the weekend. By Friday afternoon I had booked bus tickets and in the evening, got on a bus to Welly. I got to Krissi's place about 8pm. Saturday: I slept in til 9ish, and had a lazy morning while Krissi got stuff done. We headed into Wellington city to go shopping (mostly window shopping and wishful thinking). I did buy a pair of shoes for work. I half feel like I shouldn't really have been spending money but then again, for me to find shoes that actually fit is like a miracle (just ask ANYONE who has had the misfortune to spend a day shoe shopping with me), and they are appropriate for work and on sale. So yeah. Then we got icecream and walked around the waterfront. That night we just watched dvds. I was so tired I can't really remember what we watched, although I think I may have had a dream about watching movies as I woke up and saw credits rolling and thought I'd been asleep for ages but went back to sleep. I woke up again and saw b... Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:07:31 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/?showid=19736#19736 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/19736 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/19674 Thursday - Bus trip. Left Palmy at 9:20am and got to Papakura at 6:45pm. Were 20 mins late due to someone being left behind at one point and we turned around to pick them up. Both me and Alex were annoyed cos they really should have left them behind as they knew what time the bus was leaving after our break. We had dinner with Ian, Becky and James at Mum's place. Dinner was chicken casserole and we had apple pie and cheesecake for desset. Once they left the three of us watched a movie. Friday - Alex and I headed into Auckland Central for some time to ourselves. We took the bus and immediately headed for somewhere to eat as it was lunchtime. We ended up at Coffee Club. The food was good, but they forgot to bring our drinks out to us and had to ask us again what we wanted. After all that, the drinks weren't even that great. After lunch we headed down to the wharf, then made our way to the sky tower to catch the shuttle to Kelly Tarlton's. By the time Alex had used up the battery on my camera, we were ready to... Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:27:48 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/?showid=19674#19674 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/19674 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/19575 Yesterday I got a message to state whether I wanted to go back or not. I have said that I'm interested and will probably end up there again. Because we have been trained in the basics, we will get trained in other components, so it won't be boring for us. I also told a friend of mine because she is also looking for work still (yay I'm not the only one lol). The earliest intake is 7th September, so it's not too far away. This hasn't stopped me from job hunting though. From there I'm contemplating further study of some description. There's a Post-graduate Diploma in Forensic Science which I can apply to do. They only accept 10 applicants per year so it may not actually happen. I'm going to research this and apply in July once I get back from Auckland. Right now I'm planning and organising things for our trip to Auckland for my brother Brett's wedding. I know we're not going for long but it still requires time and effort, plus I have my ongoing job search. If I do get into this programme, I will be heading up ... Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:07:23 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/?showid=19575#19575 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/19575 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/19530 Alex's lovely mother stopped by for an impromptu visit last night. She was driving home after dropping Alex's sister home and realised it was getting dark really early (you would have thought she would have realised this earlier in the year lol) and decided to stay here the night as she hates driving in the dark. So as you can imagine last night was full of listening to her natter on and on and on... Luckily she left just after 10am this morning. But not before making a few snide remarks about a few things. I'm glad she's gone again. Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:45:31 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/?showid=19530#19530 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/19530 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/19514 I had a nice day yesterday. Alex woke me up early so he could make me a cuppa and give me his present before he went to work. I got lots of kisses and cuddles and he even made his own breakfast! I wasn't hungry or I'm sure he would have made me something too. I went out for a meeting in the morning then spent the rest of the day at home. We went out to dinner at 7pm. Dinner was good, I had morroccan chicken pasta and Alex had venison with veges. The service was really good until the end when we paid and they didn't even say "goodbye" or anything. When we got home, I had a chat with my stepmum, dad and sister, then Alex and I watched a movie. So far I've only received presents from Alex and my stepmum. My mum sent my card late so I'll probably be getting that in the next day or so. Oh and my brother Brett REMEMBERED my birthday this year. OMG!!!!! He hasn't remembered since I was maybe 15? It was a nice surprise. Wed, 27 May 2009 04:38:22 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/?showid=19514#19514 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/19514 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/19512 I apologise for the long saga that ensues. This is just a brief outline of how my weekend has been. Alex's mum and sister FINALLY left today at 11:30am. They make me feel so tired. I'm exhausted from being around them even though we didn't do much. They just whinge and complain at each other and to me about each other. Argh! Thursday evening at 8pm - Alex's mum arrived. She was ok and reasonably pleasant. Alex got home at 9pm. Everything was all good even then. Friday at about 11am - We find out Alex's sister is arriving at 11:30, 12ish. Yes the SAME day. Alex gets upset cos he's just worked all week and hasn't really relaxed yet (aside from the sex) hence his comment about wasting time sleeping. Blah blah blah. I don't think he really meant the sex in particular, just the fact that his mum had made up plans and not told us til they were happening. And he wanted to go shopping with his mum, which of course, had to be Friday NOT Saturday. Noon - Alex's sister arrives, and the commotion begins. So far nei... Mon, 25 May 2009 12:54:37 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/?showid=19512#19512 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/19512 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/19449 I have been busy today and I'm going to try and keep it up. So far today I have: done the dishesput on and hung up a load of washing and put away yesterday's washingresearch on possible further study and companies that want biochemists and geneticistsapplied for two jobs - one admin and one retail (both only part-time)cleaned bathroom sink and mirrorsgeneral tidy up of the trash ready for wednesday morning (yes I'm aware I'm a day early)And I have also managed to spend a bit of time relaxing between tasks. The research took me most of the morning, but at least now I have some more ideas of places to send my CV to. I'm probably going to make a start on dinner soon. I also want to sew buttons back on my pjs. One downside of being poor is that my last hearing aid battery went dead last night and I don't have enough money for more til Wednesday (no biggie). I also have to go to the doctor and get a repeat prescription of the pill. Tomorrow I have these things I want/need to get done: 10:30 meetingclean the in... Mon, 11 May 2009 11:58:03 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/?showid=19449#19449 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/19449 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/19447 Thanks to Miss Krissi for all her hard work, I have finally taken the courage to change my hair colour. It's not much of a radical change but if I compare it to my natural hair colour, it is quite different. And yes, I'm aware I am contradicting myself. It's only been a couple of hours but I'm already thinking of working my way up the colour scale. I would LOVE to go a light medium brown colour and just not be blonde for awhile. I know natural blonde is really pretty and so on but a change can really uplift one's outlook on life. My current hair colour is called Epic Blonde lol. Strangely enough, it's the same colour as my eyebrows. I've spent my entire life waiting for my hair colour to darken to match my eyebrows. I think the darker eyebrows run in my family, as my nana told me one time. In other news, I'm still hunting down a job. I'm also formulating a plan for if I can't get into the field of work for my degree. I like knowing I will have something to do. I still need to do some research into where e... Sat, 09 May 2009 13:11:19 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/?showid=19447#19447 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/19447 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/18965 Alex is home sick from work today. I'm looking after him and making sure that he's not getting up to mischief. I had a long boring meeting this morning, then got a few other chores done. Have trawled through the job listings and found nothing worth applying for so no job applications to do today. I have to go out again later and make sure we're stocked up with painkillers for Alex but feel like I could use a nap right now. Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:18:31 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/?showid=18965#18965 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/18965 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/18929 By simply doing crosswords online, I won their monthly competition for February. The prize pack consists of four crossword magazines, a set of three dvds, a reading light, a calculator, notepad, and a few other things that I can't remember right now. I received the prize pack this afternoon. It's super exciting to get free stuff! In other news, I was a good girl this afternoon and made the first step towards applying for the benefit again. This is just a fail safe until I get a job. I may get a new job before I need the benefit but I want to be prepared. On Thursday night while Alex is working late, I'll be borrowing his computer to update my CV and apply for a few jobs. Well that's about it for now, gotta do those crosswords in order to be in to win lol. Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:07:38 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/?showid=18929#18929 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/18929 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/18875 1. I couldn't sleep last night, so by the time I got up at 6:30 this morning, I'd only got a couple of hours sleep all up. Hence I am subsisting on caffeine today. 2. My shoes broke just as I got to work this morning. I've been walking around in crappy broken shoes all day. 3. Found out most of the temps (including me) are finishing work next friday. We get paperwork and stuff tomorrow.at's 4. The work I had to do today was evil, took me most of the day rather than the half that it SHOULD have taken. 5. I had to do emergency shoe shopping this afternoon. I know tomorrow is Friday and mufti but I didn't want to have to do something as evil as shoe shopping on my days off. And for the good news! 1. I am glad to know what's happening with work. 2. My brother Brett rang me last night just to double check we were going to the wedding and to remind me about the free alcohol and food. 3. We had a shared morning tea at work (I baked blueberry muffins last night - with Alex's help) so got extra time off ... Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:47:55 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/?showid=18875#18875 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/18875 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/18861 Looks like I still have my job til at least the end of next week. The longer I have it, the better. We are saying goodbye to the first lot of temps on Friday by having morning tea. Someone with a good memory, remind me to bake something on Thursday afternoon. I had a haircut on Saturday but when it's tied up it looks practically the same lol. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. I'm seriously contemplating changing my hair colour temporarily *is sick of people looking astonished and sceptical when I've finished stuff at work*. I'm not working that hard, really! I also bought new jeans and now have the arduous task of shortening them. I'll get that done one day this week, hopefully before Friday so I can wear them on mufti day. The book I'm reading at the moment is really weird but intriguing. I can't decide if I really want to read it or not. I probably will just so I can tell Alex that I read all his books he bought me for Christmas. I'm a good girl! Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:56:14 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/?showid=18861#18861 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/18861 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/18815 I had sent  mum a text last week and then again sometime this week. I hadn't heard back from her so I gave her a call last night, and as I'd thought she been super busy with work. She'd probably forgotten she even had a cellphone lol. It does sound like she's keeping well though. In other news my brother Brett is getting married in July. I had received an invitation in the mail a couple of weeks ago, but needed to check the details with mum. Apparently it's going to be completely different to my brother Steven's wedding but then that's just their different personalities showing. Brett's always been one for flashy stuff lol. So much so that he used to think he could always start at the top in a job. Apparently he's doing really well now, he's currently working in spa pool sales. My brother could sell anything so it suits him. Mum reckons it's the longest he's ever held down a job. It makes me feel really proud. Anyway Mum's told me that everything at Brett's wedding will be paid for, the food AND the dr... Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:24:02 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/?showid=18815#18815 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/18815 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/17333 Yay! I finished the work that was allocated to me today for the first time this week. I've been playing catch-up ever since the day I finished all my work and asked for more, which I didn't get finished and completed the next day. By then I'd already been given more work but it rolled over to the next day and so on. I was speeding through it today. Me happy! I'm so grateful for the weekend. I have worked so hard this week. Or at least I've tried my best. Hopefully I won't have too many errors from this week to deal with. I'm still hyped up from the adrenalin rush at finishing my work on time lol. Time to let my brain wind down me thinks. Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:48:16 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/?showid=17333#17333 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/17333 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/17226 The current weather is causing me to have horrible headaches. Gah I hate humidity. I didn't have any panadol at work so had to wait all day til I got home to take some and then it was too late, I had a migraine. I slept for a couple of hours on and off, and now I have a dull headache. Hopefully I can sleep and feel better tomorrow cos I need to work. With the migraine comes nausea and just a general feeling of sickness. It didn't help that it's been pouring with rain and I got soaked walking home from work despite having an umbrella. Go figure. I'm half tempted to just take tomorrow off. I don't want to push my luck too much, and I'm running out of shoes to wear to work as all of them are getting soaked through. I'll most likely end up going anyway. Things are getting really busy and they're pushing us to do more and more work in a day. But I would rather take one day off now than having to take several days off later. We'll see how it goes. There's more I have to say but this is all I can handle as my eye... Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:28:14 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/?showid=17226#17226 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/17226 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/17077 Nothing much happening around here lately. Just working lots. My time at Studylink is coming to an end soon. I did find out last week that they are hiring this year so I'll get an application in. Also time to start looking for other jobs. I can't really afford to be out of work at all. It kinda sucks. I'm still thinking about doing a post-graduate diploma in forensic science, but that won't be til next year at least. But I would be smarts and get me a student allowance. And it wouldn't affect my loan. Hehe. It's great knowing the things I do about the studying scheme. As it stands it's going to be difficult to get into the line of work I'm wanting with just my bachelors degree. It's amazing isn't it, you study, get a degree, and yet it's still not enough, especially in the field I'm wanting to get into. Yesterday I bought myself a skipping rope. I wanted to up my exercise without having to go to the gym or walking (I do that ALL the time). Thanks to the girls at work who mentioned it. Although I did forget... Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:30:09 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/?showid=17077#17077 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/17077 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/17001 This whole week has been really crappy. By the time I got home from work on Monday, I was developing a migraine. Still had the wretched thing in the morning so had to take the day off work. I took not one but TWO naps on Tuesday, just illustrating how ill I was feeling cos I NEVER nap! Then I felt okay to go to work on Wednesday but my migraine came back to bite me in the ass in the afternoon, to the point where I wanted to scream in pain so I asked to go home an hour early as I'd finished all my work for the day. Came home and took two ibuprofen and slept for two hours. Since then I've had a headache ever since but hey it beats the intense pain of a migraine. I spent all day on the phone yesterday, ringing students with incomplete allowance applications and reminding them we still require the missing bits. They really appreciated my calling them at 8am lol, so much so that I rung 10 people and not a single answer. Then our entire team decided to do a swap around the office, as we're trying to create more r... Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:31:03 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/?showid=17001#17001 http://journals.jevon.org/users/tracy/entry/17001