I’m not well today … It’s been building up on me since this morning ..My first weekend of ‘no work’ relaxation … No being on-call .. no worries about next week … It’s been a rough two weeks. Two full weeks of stressing and stress building up to Friday and then starting again after the weekend …

I’ve got a sore throat :o/ I’m starting to feel headachy…And body-achy as well.. but maybe that’s cause of the garden work .. Hope so ..I’ll know soon as if I’m ill my kidneys start aching …


I have to show this ... Now they're training attack squirrels !! When will it stop ... To quote the officer, a victim of this heinouis crime ...."The claws are very sharp" !!!!! Stay away from these Pointy eared, pointy nosed, shap clawed devils people .... Be very afraid ...

http://www.local6.com/news/4872001/detail.html?GetStory


Anyway - As I was saying .....I hate being Ill… McDs already saying ‘oh no’ as I grumble or make my ‘I’m not well’ sounds ….She hates me being ill as well......

Just typical that the first time I relax and I’m not well ..
The week before last I applied for a Client Delivery Manager Role with a NZ outsourcer … Within a day or so I’m summonsed for an interview. That was a week last Friday I didn’t want to go – The role is a good step up on what I’m doing now and knowing the Director there I didn’t want to choke in the interview or have a bad interview that might spoil my other chances with jobs more suitable for me ….If that makes sense …..But after a week of stressing Friday came and I attended the interview …I did alright .. Did some bullsh*t talking as well :O) But the importance they place on the role and the expectations of the role are just too much … No chance of a follow up on that one ………

Except they rang me the following Monday (last Monday) and asked to me attend a 2nd interview as part of their short list for the role ….. I’d not answered the cell phone when they rang ..I was driving and thought it was my work ringing … Picked it up about 10 minutes later, heard the message and passed it over to McD to hear …”Told you so” or something to that effect came from her lips … She’s pushy about me applying for jobs is McD …. I wasn’t really listening … Already in a mindless panic over the next interview and how the hell I will get through it … It wasn’t till the next day when I listened again that I found it was to be a “Panel” interview …The worst kind of interview.. 2 directors and a general manager firing questions at me ….. The gut wrenching, sweaty palm, just how can you still need to pee when you just been kind of interview. The Interview from Hell........

My only thought after that was to run screaming for the hills never to be seen again ……

4 days of researching what the role was and preparing for the questions I figured they’d ask and telling McD how it'll be a complete circus when i'm in there and that I might as well go in with a clown suit on and at least give them a laugh for their all too impotant wasted time ... Next day McD presented me with a present ! Clown face paint and a red nose !!! I was ready and equipped for a Panel Interview :O) All too soon last Friday was here and then 2pm and into the Directors office I was ushered and it was all on …

First thing they told me was how good the chap who held the role prior to his leaving was…The client loved him and regarded him as the best in his field full-stop….. I wanted to ask how come they lost him then …. It Wasn’t the time …..and then off they started rapid fire questions like what are the three most important attributes of a leader … How would your staff describe you.. What would they say you needed to improve on.. how do you keep current with the advances in technology ….What would you do in the first 3 months of getting the role….what would you achieve .. How do you intend to build the business wth the client … Question after question all needing a rounded, knowledgeable, answer backed up by experience ….

Lets face it – I did ok – but I won’t get the job …I don’t know even if I could really do the job ….But at least I didn’t embarrass myself …Well I don’t think so anyway ….

And then it was all over and it was time to relax …

And now I’m ill… and my throat is really sore ….

I spent today with McD pulling down a brick BBQ.. I can’t believe the effort they went into building it whoever it was. We’ve had to get sledge hammers and masonry chisels and put in a lot of sweat and tears to dismantle the damned thing … By all accounts its never been used ..no burn or heat marks on the brick ….Scariest thing was watching 5 foot nothing McD wielding a sledge hammer like a true destruction worker :O)

I must show some before after pics of what we’ve been doing ….

When I feel better …..

Meanwhile here’s some pictures of Ozz again …. But first here's a website dedicated to Cats in Sinks ....Don't ask me cause I don't know

http://catsinsinks.com/

If You know - Please tell me :O)


Ah Ozz ........................