So, since I'd had to actually register with TradeMe in order to e-mail a couple of agents about various places we wanted to check out, I decided I'd try to list a few of my fitness and PT books (plus one on counselling, and a double of "Goddess in the Office" that I'd managed to pick up from somewhere.

Then I decided it was a good place to list the spare iPod Shuffle I bought for Trailwalker, and the PCTV Nano stick (basically allows you to watch TV on your PC, assuming you don't live in an area of no TV reception the way I do, anyway).

All of which was... time consuming, but not necessarily a bad thing.

Then, I discovered the jewellery section... and isshhhhhh. Suddenly there were all these pretties, with $1 reserves on them that I just HAD to bid on. Luckily, someone else has almost always overbid me. I am, however, the proud new owner of a pair of Tibetan brass diamond shaped earrings...

And *THEN* I discovered the DVDs... so now I have bids on a set of three SVU box sets, and a couple more CSI Miami ones. Neither one has hit the reserve, but it'll be interesting seeing what happens to them from here. And I finally decided to list a few of mine too... so I put up all my Highlander ones earlier today, and I'm wiffling back and forth about the NCIS ones now...

TradeMe has pretty much EATEN this weekend (except for the househunty bits, anyway - but more about THAT side of things later)

Righty, gotta head off to bed now.

Catch y'all later - hugs and blessings


STARFIRE

Tags: trademe has eaten my weekend
Current Mood: resigned

So today I met our GM of Sales for Australia.

He introduced himself to me, and I told him my name and that I was the company Copywriter.

"Oh yeah", he said, enthusiastically. "I've seen some of the stuff you've been producing. You've done some *bloody* good writing - keep up the good work - you're a definite asset to the team."

I think I can be forgiven for preening... just a little bit.

2 months in and really, I still absolutely LOVE my job. I know I'm still in the honeymoon window, but I'm constantly grateful I made the change. Even the commute hassle barely makes a dent in balancing out the good stuff (well, so far, anyway)

Hugs and grateful blessings



Starfire

Tags: appreciation, gratitude, work
Current Mood: grateful

( oh so that's why I feel like crap! )

Tags: cycles, cynicsm, health
Current Mood: bitchy

( Back to the drawing board )

Tags: balance, house
Current Mood: tired

( 99% sure at this point )

Tags: house
Current Mood: contemplative

Today was made of awesome at work on two fronts:

- I had another ad fully approved by the Aussie regulatory authority (go me!), and

- I had an e-mail back from the PR agency for whom I prepared the 4-page brief last week stating that they thought it was extremely well-written, and that they found it a "pleasure working with my material"

I shall take this, then, as a successful week overall as work-weeks go.

(Also? I tried out one of my wee free samples of one of the Avon shampoos today and I find myself seriously impressed. I'm loving how it's left my scalp feeling - normally I have to pay salon shampoo prices for something that works this well, and generally *they're* not cruelty-free products. So yay... will definitely be buying a bottle of that when my current one runs out)

Tags: achievement, avon, work
Current Mood: accomplished

( It seems that my time in the gym IS actually creating some kind of results )

Tags: achievement, fitness, weight, weights
Current Mood: accomplished

( Calling all NZ home-owning flist - your knowledge is requested! )

Tags: flat, grown up decisions
Current Mood: excited

Lest there be any confusion about that title, this is the noise a Starfire makes when she discovers that there is a show described as "seriously dark", starring the aforementioned Jeff Donovan, written by Bruno Heller (of "Rome" and "The Mentalist").

AND that the pilot of said show guest stars Peter Wingfield (thus the Methos icon)

AND that the entire pilot of said show, while not being available on DVD yet (and WTF is that about?), IS available, in instalments, on YouTube.

So, ummmm... excuse me while I check this out. It looks like it has some definite possibility (if only the possibility to be added to my growing list of "Shows the bastard TV execs should NEVER have cancelled" - although if they hadn't, we might well not have ever ended up with Burn Notice. Just sayin' is all...)

*wembles off happily to watch the pilot*

Tags: fangirling, touching evil

( Musings of a crazed fangirl who really should be doing something better with her time )

Tags: burn notice, fangirly musings, scars
Current Mood: curious