The grass is always greener

Well helloooooo

I don’t live here anymore. I’m not Optamisstik any longer either.

I do tumblr though… if you’d like a link, message me.

If not, don’t. It’s cool x

ugh.. I tried to post a link to the wikileaks petition, but couldn’t (its actually a video)… anyway… go here: http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/WikiLeaksNews

I feel that after a major hiatus that my first post back should be ground breaking but the truth is, Life is… pretty much the same as it always is, just minus the pressure of the past few months.

Without giving you a blow-by-blow account of things (as it is too boring for you, and too time-consuming for me) lets just say that over the past few months I’ve had the trifecta – financial, emotional, and family stresses all tugging at me and finally I’m happy to say that I can put some of it behind me and move on – which is, the whole point right?

It’s a strange feeling though, when you’re at a place of stress/turmoil and you know that in a matter of weeks/months you’ll be back to normal, but right then and there you can’t hold on to that to keep you going. All you do is react and work and stress and worry and somehow manage to get through the day and do it all again the next day.

But there you go. Back to normal… well, as normal as I can get anyway…

I’m just here so wordpress doesn’t completely close down my account through lack of activity…

Things are happening. Not on here, but in “real” life – which has become decidedly more stressful of late.

I’ll update you soon. I’m thinking of getting my act together and learning how to use Tumblr – mainly because XWH’s tumblrs are coollllll

Until then my little ex-voxers, I love you long time, and am on twitter (yes, the shame, I never thought it would come to that) if you so desire to follow my super exciting goings on.

xx

I feel like I haven’t been on here in ages. Whenever I have a long gap from posting I find it awkward to get back into the swing of things, so rather than write all about what I’ve been doing, I thought I’d pop some photos up.

Last week was international Park(ing) Day – the event started in the US with people turning a car parking bay into a ‘park’ for the day. Our event was held with some uni students (my company ‘mentored’ the students), and here is our team’s effort:

It’s supposed to show that these days we all use too much space, and we could quite happily live in smaller spaces, like a car parking bay. Yeah, I know, lame. They had a zero budget – hence the milkcrate table. Still, it was fun, and a good chance to have lunch at the Belgium Beer Cafe, which happened to be right next door.

I’ve been learning how to play beach volleyball. It’s bloody difficult. I bruise really easily too… check out my arm:

I have them on both arms, they hurt. I’m getting better though – slowly…

The Pilot was born in South Africa and moved to NZ when he was 12. Apparently in South Africa these things (called Koeksisters) are quite the treat – found at family gatherings and kids birthdays everywhere:

They were kind of like donnuts, but a bit sickly sweet for my liking.

So yeah, that’s what I’ve been up to – having long lunches in the name of ‘work’, showing off my incredibly bad circulation/bruising ability, and stuffing my face with sweets.

Not bad.

I just tried to email support, but apparently they’re all in a meeting until the 19th (I am not kidding). They’re brainstorming ways to make wordpress better. Um, here’s a thought for one idea: have some kind of option to email support for issues…

It seems wordpress hasn’t imported all of my blog from vox… I’ve got August this year onwards as ‘private’, but everything else beyond that isn’t here… I’m toying with deleting this site and starting fresh as Op2misstik… hmmnnn, what to do, what to do.

It would help if I understood technology, at all.