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December 26 Merry Christmas!!A big ho, ho, ho to all of you my
pretties!
I hope that you all had a wonderful time
celebrating, regardless of your religion, and that you spent in the best way
possible. I hope that Santa brought you many presents, and that you, your family
and friends are all happy and healthy too.
I had a beautiful day, celebrating for the first
time at my own little house - with everyone over. We cleaned and cooked and my
Mum, Dad, brother and his girlfriend joined us for a fabulous lunch (if I do say
so myself). Turkey, ham, peas with cashews (my personal fave), salads,
pudding... wine... But it's only one day of the year, and personally, if you
can't let go a little once a year, them more's the pity to you. You can't put
3kg on in one day, so I figure if 500g is the penalty I'm paying for relaxing
and enjoying my family, then so be it.
But, according to my brother, I look fabulous. Now
THAT was a great Christmas present. :)
For those who might be separated from their
families this Christmas holiday time, I hope that you can still enjoy a little
bit, and know that they're thinking of you. For those going through tough times,
or who have been through them this year (a big shout out to Susan and Elden from
Fat Cyclist), know that you were in my Christmas prayers, and that I hope 2008
will be filled with as much beauty, health and happiness as you truly
deserve.
I'm going on holidays on Friday for 5 days, so
writing might be a bit MORE sporadic than usual, but I'm going to try in the new
year to write more often, especially with all the work things that might be
going on. It's a long story, but basically involves me MAYBE leaving where I am
now in January OR leaving where I am now in March. Much to work on, but will let
you all know.
Take care of yourselves, and if you're driving or
travelling anywhere - take care on the roads, the skies and the
seas.
Til next time,
Katie
December 16 Christmas PartiesOK, so on the 1st December we had our work
Christmas party. Starting at the studio where we all met to get cabs, and then
the Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel (if I can spell the suburb...). The "newbies" as we
are known - anyone having started since last Christmas party - had to go through
"initiation".
Arrive at studio, we're all looking pretty fab, and
our manager pulls out a package of Cowboy shots, some UDLs and a bottle of
Jagermeister. I don't drink Jager, but even I know 5pm in the evening is FAR too
early for it. But, we get about 6 shots all up EACH of varying combinations as
our hazing. Not feeling too bad.
Cab into city.
Arrive at pub - one of the head office guys gives
us voucher for a free beer, and franchise owner gives all his staff $25 drinking
money. Being Woolloomooloo that's going to last about 3 drinks. But we start in
on beer, and chatting to everyone - about 100 staff from various studios around
Sydney.
Shouts are done. More beer is had. By the time dinner arrives, I am 6 shots and 3 beers to the
wind. Dinner is very tasty, but does little to
offset the alcohol content of what I've just had - big plate, little dinner. I
hate inner city pubs / restaurants that do that. FILL MY PLATE DARN
YOU!
After dinner there is a magician floating around
doing really cool tricks. I watched a little of his show, but wandered around
and chatted to some of the people I did induction with weeks ago, who work at
other studios. They proceed to buy me drinks - cause I'm a girl, I'm cute, and
well, I'm a girl. I don't know what they were - clear with a lime in it - but
they were tasty. Strong, but tasty.
This is where my problem occurs.
I remember being AT said pub, and chatting away. I
remember being IN a cab going home (very unwell). However, I don't recall
actually GETTING said cab, or leaving said pub. Apparently I was sober enough to
ask one of the others if they wanted to share a cab, but I don't remember that
bit either.
I remember getting home and paying for the cab via
eftpos (yes, you can remember your pin # whilst drunk) and then the evening in
my head stops.
I woke up the next morning / afternoon / evening
feeling VERY unwell, with The Boyfriend VERY upset at me. Apparently I was quite
unwell when I got home (I'm trying to not make everyone ill here with my
language) and he had to look after me. To put it slightly more bluntly - there
was a bowl beside my bed. Boyfriend VERY unhappy, and I don't blame him. In
fact, he's a super-dooper wonderful man, because he looked after me so well, and
didn't leave me on the floor of the bathroom (where I probably should have been
left).
People - shots are bad.
Last weekend (8th December) was our CLIENT
Christmas party, where we invite all or clients to a restaurant / pub and
provide some food and some awards for people who did awesome in the Fat Loss
Challenge and also people who've done great work in the events they've been in,
or challenges in the studio.
We started at midday and the other trainers were
all set for a massive evening. It turns out two of them were "removed" from
Northies (nightclub across the road that we all went to after function place
closed at 6) and one of those actually went home naked. Don't know why / how (he
doesn't know either) but he did. Others ended up at AKA Nightclub (previously
known as Hunters) which is where you go when you have nowhere else, and no
drinks at home. Most of them got home about 2-3am.
I had two drinks all night and got home at about
7:30pm.
Lesson learnt.
December 15 Slack Arse.Sorry, sorry. Windows spaces was chewing my blogs
all the time, and I was trying to blog in between sessions, and so it kept
logging me out, so I lost about 15 posts. But, I'm not living below the line,
and I will accept that I've been utterly slack.
So, I'm writing this in an email, and posting it
that way - easier, faster, and it HOPEFULLY won't get chewed in the spaces
system.
What's been going on I hear you ask? (Well, a
couple of you...)
Weight: 95.6kg is the
lowest - today is 96, but it will be back into the 95's tomorrow. Need a few
more goals and things, rather than, "writing food diary" and taking it to my
trainer. I hate that - so I'm trying to set other goals for myself and see how I
go. It's really hard at the moment, because Christmas is here, and that means
PAR-TAYs!!! But, we're all under those stresses, so I can't
complain.
Work: Going well, although
I'm feeling pretty controlled at this point, and I kinda hate that. Also, I've
only got about 8-10 hours a week of sessions, and before you go "wow, she's got
it great", realise that I only get paid $18.35 an hour BEFORE tax PLUS I have to
be at the studio for a lot of time that isn't about training clients, which I
don't get paid for.
Example of a Work
Day:
6:30am:
Client for 1/2 hour
8:00am:
Client for 1/2 hour
8:30am: Being
trained by my trainer for 1/2 hour
Midday: Team
Meeting (1hr)
4:30pm:
Individual Meeting (1hr)
7:30pm:
Client for 1/2 hour
I get paid for 1 1/2 hours work for that day. Yet
I'm at the studio most of it, especially cause it takes 15min to drive home and
another 15 to drive back and if I've only got 2hrs free, there's little point in
driving home and back again. And do you know how hard it is to realise when you
buy a bottle of Coke Zero and a protein bar that you just spent 1/2 hr's
wages??
At this point I have two options: a) get another
job and try to fit it around my work at the studio, or b) leave and go and work
for another training company whereby I get paid more money for
sessions.
With Option A, it's going to be slightly difficult
to fit around my sessions, cause they keep friggin' changing. I get clients
changing their times, or meetings added, or tasks around the studio added (e.g.
spending an hour filing... I thought I gave that crap up??!!). So it might be
hard to work somewhere else, where I'd have to go "oops, sorry, can't make it
cause I've just got a session." How long would that job last?
So, Option B. Seriously considering. In fact, I
have my trainer (Darren the PT) is speaking to me about something at the moment.
My brother is VERY hesitant for me to go in that direction, but he's going to
speak to Darren about it and suss it out from his angle, and I have a meeting
today with a lovely gentleman about something too.
I'm a greedy woman people. I want to have kids at
some point soon, and in order for me to do that and not work whilst they're
young, we need $100K in the bank. At the moment, we're going
backwards.
But, enough blabbering on about that. We'll see how
it goes and I'll let you know.
Socialising: I will post a
story later about my work Christmas parties (staff & client) which I hope
serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers of copious amounts of drinking,
and what it does to your brain cells... nothing REALLY bad, but involves being
very sick and missing several portions of the evening.
Sorry again for the lack of posts, but I promise to
write more often from now on - I'll make it my weekly goal on my goal card!!
:)
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