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So day one at my new job seems to have been a relative success! They are so super organised with new people, inductions, processes, IT, all that stuff that I am so not used to. I also now know a bit more about what I’m going to be working on, I can’t say too much, it’s never a good idea to - especially for me - but it should be really interesting. It’s really future/strategy focused, which is exactly what I was looking for, my old job was day-to-day reactive stuff.

Of course, being the time of year it is, there was a morning tea in the morning, then another team had afternoon tea and anyone was welcome to eat the mountain of leftovers. On Thursday they are having breakfast and there’s another morning tea before the end of the week too I think. My team seem ok so far, it’s a little hard to tell because I didn’t get to talk to them very much, I’m sure they’ll be great though. The only other lady in the team invited me out for coffee tomorrow, so that’s all good. One of the guys I did talk to was really interesting, we were talking about background and he just slipped in casually with ‘oh, well I was doctor for a couple of years…’ like it was ‘oh, well I worked as a bank teller for a couple of years’, you know, nothing that required years of school and a ton of cash for fees! I have to admire him though, clearly the medical profession wasn’t for him and so he moved onto something else, good on him I say. Life’s to short to have a stressful career that you don’t even enjoy!

Apart from that, it was the usual reading up on all the policies, filling in paperwork, I must have signed my name 12 times for HR. The good news is it looks like I will get paid next week, so I’m straight into the pay cycle, I was worried with christmas I might not see a paycheck till next year.

Then, even better, I got home to find a really cute Pooh christmas card from one friend, and a wedding invitation from another friend. The one who’s getting married is someone I consider a very close friend, but I have to say I was surprised to get a wedding invitation. I’ve barely met his fiance, and he’s been a bit weird about talking about her anytime I ask. I was prepared to be written off, then he asked for my address last week and I thought ‘hmm… he’s not the christmas card type, but isn’t it a little late for wedding invitations when it’s in February?’. Apparently not, cos I’m invited! And the best news? Out the 5 weddings I will have attended in just under a year by the time his rolls around, this is the only one that I don’t have to travel for, thank goodness there’s finally one where I live! They’ve chosen a gorgeous venue for the ceremony and the reception is at a swanky hotel, so should be a great day. This also means I have two totally separate weddings in February, no other common guests, I have no qualms about recycling my outfit! Plus I can spend a bit more on something really nice, or buy some new shoes or whatever, yay!! Now I just gotta lose 20lb so I fit into something really nice….