Juno Events is up and running!

I'm just so excited!

I've had rejection after rejection on the job front for the last 6 months or more, so I decided to hell with the corporate world, I'll quite simply hire myself.

So I did, and the result is the Juno family as follows:

JUNO EVENTS - event management services for everything from fundraiser balls to corporate golf tournaments, Gran's 80th birthday party to product launches and everything in between!!
Join the Juno Events Facebook page for chats, giggles, updates and tips


JUNO WEDDINGS - full or partial wedding planning service
Juno Weddings on Facebook


JUNO JUNIOR - children's parties and special occasions
Even Junior has his own Facebook page, so stop by and visit

I am self employed! I haz a job! I honestly can't express how that feels after applying for one job after another and getting nowhere.

I've been organising weddings and events for over 15 years now, so this is definitely my area of expertise, and it's also something I absolutely love and adore.

I hope you'll pop by the websites and let me know what you think - they're not all completed just yet, but they're getting there!

Oh, and of course we're on Twitter as well, so I hope you'll follow us HERE, too!

STxxx

"Spottism"

My beloved budding artist child produced the following piece with the rather startling title of "Two Rockstars on a Spotty Stage". She is still currently at the height of her "Spottism" phase, so I'm sure we can expect more in this exciting genre:

Jeans Weather

While I welcome the start of summer with open arms and bare legs, after a few months of heat and flies and more flies and heat I'm well and truly over it. That's when I start to look longingly at my jeans sitting on a dusty shelf in the closet and begin to count down the days until I can wear them without melting.

That day has come, and yet mingled with the excitement of Jeans Weather comes the despair of realising that Jeans Don't Fit No More After Wine-filled Summer.

Bugger.

Let's face it. Is there anything more depressing than jeans shopping when the reason for said jeans shopping is that your much-loved perfectly good existing jean collection has mysteriously shrunk over summer? Shopping for jeans because one suddenly inherited a zillion dollars and can now happily splash out on $800 denims is most exciting. Shopping for jeans because you woke up one morning a size 8 and simply swim in your size 10 - 12's is simply fabulous, darling,.

Shopping for jeans because your muffin top expanded and someone injected your thighs with fat while you were sleeping SUCKS.

I don't even want to buy nice jeans. These newly fatter bits of me don't deserve nice jeans. They don't even deserve KMart jeans. They are only worth ex 1980's High Pant acid wash numbers fresh from the nearest op shop.

Maybe it's time for a jeans-free winter.

Or not.

STxxx

Thinking out loud

I'm sitting here on my bed, too hot to continue with the housework that so desperately needs to be done, finding my mind wandering around like a wandering-around-thing so thought this a perfect time for a final blog post for the year.

I've neglected both blogging and Twitter for the last few months, and I'm not even really sure why. I do know that I was finding myself spending far too much on Twitter and getting even less done than usual, so I guess a big break was called for. Blogging seems to kind of go with Twitter, so it fell by the wayside as well.

Venturing hesitantly back to Twitter last week I was touched to see so many "Hi, wherethehelluvyoubin?"messages and therefore felt immediately guilty for disappearing without a trace and not letting my lovely tweeps know I was just having a break. So sorry. Again. I know I have also neglected to follow all your lovely bloggedyblogs, so am going to make a cuppa in a minute and play catch-up!


So, here we are at the tail end of 2009. Good year? Not so much. It's been a year of dithering and Really Bad Employment History. I've spent far more of this year unemployed than otherwise, and have gotten lazy and meh in the process.

On a good note, however, Tall D and I have made it through the year without deciding we hate each other, lol! In fact, we are on the verge of moving in together, assuming I can find a job before the kids start at their respective new schools! This blending of families will, I'm sure, be a big adjustment for all concerned, but I'm hopefull we can find some mishy-mashy way of squishing us all together in a reasonably acceptable fashion!

Another tick on the positive side is the fact that I've finally obtained my Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, so am now actually qualified to do vocational training and assessment. Now I just have to get past the rather massive obstacle of all job ads stating unequivocably that they REQUIRE all applicants to have 2+ years of experience. Hmmmmm...

Anyhoo, that's my end of 2009 rambling rambles. Time to get re-acquainted with the blogosphere. Wishing all of you lovely people all the best for the New Year and may 2010 bring you all that you desire!

STxxx