Last Aussie Post (for now???)

Well, after a 2-day non-blog, a quick update.

I was REALLY sick yesterday, and after a final quick shop I hit the bed, lights-out! Dosed to the ears with Berocca C, Viral-Choice supplement and water. Hotted up the electric blanket and slept for hours. Last night I took pain pills to help with the extremely sore throat and managed to sleep well, but by this morning was still rather weak and such.

Unfortunately there was no laying about for me - interviews awaited! So I dragged myself across the valley (dad had the car golfing) and up the other side, only to find I'd been forgotten about and double-booked! After an hour's wait I got in a 5-minute session with the head of HR, but also managed to catch the assistant I saw last time going past and got some info re my next appointment from him. So it wasn't a total loss.

Back home I collapsed into a sitting position for a while, passed on lunch, then it was off to Cooranbong an hour's drive away for the next appointment. On the way we hit a "traffic accident ahead" warning, and were stuck for 20 minutes behind a very serious one - complete with rescue helicopter and 2 dramatically munched cars. We managed to phone ahead that we might be late, but were only 5 minutes off the time on arrival.

And THAT interview went REALLY WELL! It's potentially for a job yet to be created, only awaiting budget constraints. It involves keeping track of all required processes from product idea to launch & review, making sure each thing in each job stream happens. I love organizing, and with my food tech and admin backgrounds this is quite literally the ideal job for me! But now we wait and hear if the budget will go through....

On our way back home we stopped at the hospital, took a lift to the top floor and saw the city at sunset, an awesome sight.

And tomorrow we leave! It feels like we've been here for months, but it's only just over 2 weeks. (Jan, sorry we never got to meet up - time just got out of hand here)

I checked in on our flight, and we're OK to go - other than having to book in an hour earlier than I thought, so tonight we pack. I'm armed with Up&Go for the kid to eat, along with some fruit and yoghurt snacks, and a big thick Steven King novel to keep me awake at KL until we fly out at 1:00 the next morning. (Malaysian vegetarian airline food is awful...) We saw things out the window all the way here, we're going to rest on our way back. The day after we arrive it's right into school and work.

Will have no time to blog tomorrow, so the next post will be on Thursday, SA time. When normal, mindless drivel will resume on this webspace... :)