Where I’d Rather be Right Now II 29, April, 2009

Mexico - Pyramids

 

 

OK i would like to be in mexico MINUS THE SWINE FLU!

 

 

Costa Rican Beach... ahhhh so soothing...

 

 

Costa Rican natural beauty

 

Sunset on a Costa Rican beach

 

 

The Main Centre of my mum's Town... ahhh good memories...

 

 

Church service held al-fresco in my mum's Town of Ilobasco

 

 

Typical street in Ilobasco town... i miss it

 

 

Termos del Rio, Ahuachapan in El Salvador..that was one of the longest drive..not in distance but as in time it took to get there... took forever it seemed! but good day good day

 

Lago (Lake) Ilopango, San Salvador, El Salvador

 

 

El Bosque Inposible, El Salvador (The Impossible Forrest)

Part 1 – I dated a Coyote 29, April, 2009

Well it was summer of 2006 in El Salvador. I arrived and met my entire army of family including cousins to 5^th generation (how people can keep track of family trees in their head is beyond me) never the less they are family as we were related through my great grandmother’s sister who had a second marriage to some man and produced 4 kids from that marriage and one of those grand aunties had 5 kids and one of those kids had 6 of my aunties and uncles and… ok well point is..is that I met a cousin of mine.

 

She was awesome as she was down from the USA we went and partied together and had a ball. We had heaps of fun. She introduced me to a friend of hers. I forget his name, but I dated him for about 6 weeks. We will call him.. Pablo. Pablo was quite well off, he strolled around like he owned the place and well yes he will be classified as a typical latin player. He would drive past my mum’s (mom) house everyday for 2 weeks after my cousin introduced me to him and kept asking me out until I finally said yes.

 

Why did I say yes to this player? Well I figured he had a car, knew the place and would take me to all different places I was yet to visit, he was kinda cute, he was into me and I was on holiday I really didn’t have any excuse not date him. Moreover, the other guy I was dating (who was also the best friend of another of my cousins) lived a bit far away so I didn’t get to see him much (this is another story to come)

 

One night his father invited me out for an afternoon trip to this town about an hour and half drive away. My mum encouraged me to go as she had visited that town years ago and she had found it quite charming and pretty. I accepted the offer. His father brought his driver, a friend, Pablo and Pablo’s uncle. We all took off, his father said that he was happy that Pablo was dating me as he had known my grandparents and knew that I came from good stock, as he put it. We spent the day in this quaint village. It was quite small, stone coble streets, nothing fancy but had awesome nature surrounding it.

 

 

I was tired and just looking forward to getting home and resting. Pablo’s father had been drinking and kept trying to talk to me.

“Susi Spice, you are a beautiful girl, I like you for my son. He is lucky to have you. And you are lucky to have him.”

(me thinking) *whatever, i don’t care, im leaving anyway im just having fun* but of course, i replied

“oh thank you, very nice of you to say”

And in his near drunken stupor continued;

“See we are quite well off, actually, we are very well off, I own cattle hacienda’s, I own a very successful travel business and many cars… you are one lucky girl, my son seems to have really taken to you… this could all be yours if you play your cards right”

*oh you are one of those people who feel they need to flaunt their money, whatever*

“oh ok, well you must be proud of your success”

Here i was thinking, well I guess he will just shut up and let me rest back. But noooooooooo he had to open his big trap!

 

“Susi Spice, you see, our travel business takes me to Mexico and the USA very often to name a few places. I have many good, great friends. I love my friends there. Have you been?”

“yes i have i loved mexico and well the USA I haven’t travelled extensively but its alright, have you?”

Pablo’s dad gave a big jolly, mischievous laugh and said

“how well can I trust you?”

*not much you’ve known me for like 2 seconds, whatever you wanna tell me you should probably not tell me about it*

“of course you can, otherwise your son wouldn’t have such great judgement to have kept dating me right?”

Pablo’s dad gave a hardy laugh out loud

“I like you Susi Spice, you will do well with us, my most successful business is my travel business… you like travelling don’t you? Well… my travel business is more like transportation…”

*hmmmmmmm this is sounding a little weird…but ok..*

“transportation, that is always a good business…”

“ha ha.. yes it is, it has done us very well. I have gotten my cars, my houses, my villa, my childrens education, everything, my secured retirement, everything I am a wealthy man my girl” at this point he turned to look at me with a grin…

That was kinda freaky…

“Do you know what my family business is Susi Spice?”

*me thinking oh shit what the hell are you people into????*

“um.. do you transport cattle?”

Pablo’s dad threw the biggest laugh I had heard all day, so did all the other men in the car.

“In a way… people like travelling Susi Spice. People like to travel fast and get to where they want.. fast. That is what we provide. Do you know what a Coyote is?”

“um… a desert animal?”

“we are Coyote’s. Our business is the transportation of people to a better life.”

*holy shit, the guy is a people smuggler. There I am dating the heir to a people smuggling business and thereby involvement with the Mexican mafia… Fuck*

 

To be continued…

so what? so what? so what!? 23, April, 2009

I dont think i got that temporary higher duty assignment I applied for at work L

Im so sad…

 

So I hadn’t done that type of work before… so what!?

So I wrote in 6 font to try and fit everything i wanted to say into two page… so what!?

So you couldnt read it unless you wore magnifying glasses… so what!?

So I really didn’t know what the job was actually about.. So what!?

So I have never managed a project of that size… so what!?

So I would probably spend half the time learning about what I need to do… so what!?

 

I wrote a damn good application! Just because I didn’t have all the experience and skills you reject me!? (I think) So what!?

Im still a rock star

I got my rock moves

And I don’t need you..and ur stinking job!

 

My pick for AWESOMENESS OF THE DAY! 17, April, 2009

I don’t have the best relationship with my dad, I try to though. I don’t fight with him or anything but I never have been able to rely on him or trust him 100%. One of the earlier incidents I remember of not been able to trust him or rely on him was when i really really really reallyyyy wanted to go the Royal Show. The Royal Show is a once a year event where people from the country come into the city, there are horse dancing shows, varying farm animals to look and touch, rides to experience until you throw up and boundless show bags full of lollies, candy and toys for you to make your little heart race and your little stomach sick on.. its great! When you are 5-15 years old.

 

I was 7 years old and my best friends mum had spoken to my mum and offered to take my best friend at the time and me to the royal show, I immediately said yes of course and my mum said “ok that is good, thank you she love it”. We asked my dad if that was ok for me to go and he said “yes you can go!” very enthusiastically. I was so excited that my best friend and I were jumping around and literally dancing in the street ‘yeh yeh yeh we going to the show, yeh yeh yeh we gonna get lots of show bags yeh yeh yeh” was our little song. For 2 weeks I was looking through the show bag catalogue; “i want the barbie bag, i want the spider man bag, i want the big giant show bag, i want the red skins bag..” and so forth. I would tell my mum i wanted to wear my hair this way and that, i want to wear my shorts, no my skirt, no my jeans, no pants! Couldn’t make up my mind from the excitement… alas the day came i woke up at 5am. I had a shower, got dressed and went to watch my favourite 6am kids show called Agro’s Cartoon Connection waiting for that moment when my best friend and her mum would come and pick me up. My mum woke up first “aww sweety are you excited about going??” “yup! Cant wait mummy!” she made me breakfast and gave me $50 to spend at the show. 9.30am finally after such a long ardous wait came along. My best friend’s mum’s car pulled into the drive way and my best friend came to the door “susi! Lets go! Lets go!” I went to say good bye to my mum , she gave me a big hug and i went to say goodbye to my dad and he responded with “and where do you think you are going?” I was a little shocked but thought oh you must be joking again “daddy, to the royal show remember? Today is the day i cant wait, Tennielle and her mum are waiting for me” and my dad said “no you are not going” … my little heart started to palpitate “yes I am I asked you 2 weeks ago and you said i could go..i can still go dad? Cant i?” my dad decided at that very second that he just didn’t feel like it anymore.. “No, you are not going, besides you don’t have any money” and i replied happily “yes! Yes i do! Mummy gave me $50, see you don’t have to worry about the money mummy gave it to me” my dad decided on a whim that he didn’t want me going “no you are not going, go tell your friend that you were joking and you actually not allowed to go” ….

 

At this point my little heart was breaking, i was soooooo disillusioned, he lied to me? I asked with my voice quivering and with my big brown eyes filling up with water… i swallowed the big lump in my throat “daddy, you said i could go, you said yes, why cant i go? Was i naughty? What did i do bad?” My dad just looked at me not angry “i said no” and i continued with tears starting to stream down my cute little chubby 7 year old face “but..daddy, you promised, you said I could go… they are outside, you don’t have worry about taking me, i have money, please, please daddy i promise i will be good”. My dad got angry and snapped at me “If i say No i means NO! You are not going!”  that is when my mum heard him and she came into the room and came to my defence “you told her she could go, she is all ready, you have kept her hopes up going for 2 weeks, you cant now turn around decide not to, the lady is outside, she made an effort to pick her up we had said yes, she is going”

 

My mum had barely finished saying that when another of their big fights started to happen… I was crying and yelled at them “don’t fight, im sorry, i wont go, im sorry please don’t yell I wont go ill go tell them right now im sorry!” and I ran crying to my friend’s mum and said “i cant go, im not allowed im sorry” i felt so humiliated and i ran back into the house crying… my parents were still fighting i watched from my bedroom window as my friend drove away with her mum to the Royal Show without me… I cried all morning till I fell asleep in my mum’s arms. At the time my mum was strong but not strong enough to go head on with my dad (that’s another story of its own). She held me and told me it would be ok.

 

So with that little story it always led me love observing and watching good father-daughter or father-child relationships. I loved the way Fred Flintsone and his daughter pebbles would interact. I loved how Homer, despite his many faults, would usually come to the aide of Lisa and make things all right again. And throughout time there have been other live examples…

 

So to cheer up this rather sad little story of mine haha i apologise, i know i usually like to make people laugh and not feel down, I have included what has recently become one little example of what a fun Father-Son relationship can culiminate to. Below is a YouTube clip of the recent hot act from Britain’s talent quest show “Britain’s Got Talent”. I was laughing so hard and loved this act so much that I wanted to stand up and cheer right there and then as I watched it unravel. It just demonstrates what a fun, cooperative and trusting relationship this father and son have its beautiful.

 

Please enjoy my AWESOMENESS OF THE DAY…. Starvos Fatley!

 

FOR SOME REASON YOUTUBE HAVE “EMBEDDING DISABLED BY REQUEST” WHICH I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT MEANS BUT IF YOU GET THAT MESSAGE JUST CLICK ON THE BLACK SCREEN AND THE YOUTUBE PAGE WILL OPEN UP SO YOU CAN WATCH IT. PLEASE WATCH IT, I PROMISE YOU THAT IT’S WORTH IT

Meeting the Parents 14, April, 2009

Well I have a confession, another confession to make …

 

I didn’t tell you.. but I have been seeing Aaron all this time. I first described him as a little clingy and emotional and baggage ridden. Well, he seems to have gotten over it all. He has proven himself to be a really really nice awesome guy who actually seems to fulfil 90% of what I always hoped a guy for me would be. He did bombard me with his baggage from before BUT in the last 2 months has blossomed into someone really fun and whom I can really hang out with who doesn’t talk about his past so much in fact he is so positive about the future. He loves it when I sing, albeit a little badly, in the car and he will sometimes join in with me so i don’t feel so left out if he doesn’t join in he will laugh and tell me im cute (we will see how long that lasts hehe). He likes to take care of me and when I was sick last week with the flu I felt very pampered and loved. He is attentive, kind and sweet and for some God-only-knows reason he loves to be around me even if I am snotty, sneezy and cough-flem riddled with flu-disease and that has to be special…right…

 

So this past weekend was Easter. We had a long 4 day weekend woohooo wish i had more time off from work though. On the Friday I had arranged for him to meet my mum and sister. Aaron came over for lunch on Friday, I made a yummy lunch of pupusas which turned out fabulous. On the Sunday Aaron was over in the afternoon. We planned to just hang out at my house and watch movies have lunch and then go out at night. I made an awesome warm lamb salad that he loved and we settled on watching Lord of the Rings – Fellowship of the Ring. After a while of Aaron hugging me tightly, sweetly kissing me every now and then I decided to go put some socks on because i felt a little cold. I started having a coughing fit and closed my bedroom door. Then suddenly I hear this huge noise, it wasn’t the telephone ringing, it wasn’t a bunch of plates breaking on mountain of sharp rocks, it wasn’t the sound of a hippopotamus roaring in the savana… it wasn’t even the sound of an airplane flying really low above my house… the door trembling, airplane-thundering sound that i heard was that of my mothers backside…..

 

My coughing fit seemed to suddenly have stopped dead in its track, i felt the rush of my blood from my head to my toes as it went from hot to cold and my body take a deep breath as it prepared for the humiliation I would feel on her behalf as i opened the door to my bedroom and walked back into the lounge where Aaron was waiting..the lounge that adjoins the kitchen… that has no door… I then made a 180° turn and tried to run out of my bedroom that I almost tripped over my own shoe… and arrived at the kitchen with baited breath “ MUM!!!” and she calmly turns to me and whispers “shhhhh don’t make a scene, he didn’t hear it” in amazement I said to her “I was in my bedroom at the end of the house with my bedroom door closed and I heard you and now is the time that you choose to whisper!???”

 

She didn’t much after that, she giggled and said, ‘it wasn’t that bad’. I as the trooper I am walked back into that lounge room to find Aaron startled, with a tiny little grin on his face not knowing what to say… all i could do was apologise… over and over and over again..

 

The man then kissed me and said, “i still want to be with you, no matter what” and that has to say something special about him.. right…

Susi Spice is on Twitter! 9, April, 2009

Yo peeps, you know I hate following fads. I still refuse to read one line of the Twilight series or see the movie but I have, ala, given in to Twitter. Susispice on Twitter!!!!

now all i have to do is figure out how to use the dam thing

I Wanna Do the Blu-Tack Challenge!!!! 9, April, 2009

Well as ive mentioned before I do not like to really talk about my work place but really I just couldn’t go past this email that went around just 2 minute ago that I felt it my duty to share it with you all.. I just had to blog about it.

 

Ok so the girls that work in corporate ie the admin staff that deal with the running of the place, all work part time as they are all mothers of primary school children (elementary school for you yanks). So whenever they wish ask something of the staff that work there they try to engaged you and motivate you to do it by offering you little treats…. Blu Tack for those of you who don’t know is a gum like sticky substance used to stick things on walls, glass windows you name it, without actually using glue. I have included a picture of it below.. and i have included the email which circulated just a few mintues ago..

 

 

 

Do you want a FREE coffee voucher?

 

Then read on………

 

The WA Registry Blu Tack Challenge is on for today only.

 

The staff member who can collect the biggest ‘blob’ of blu-tack will win an E’Sense voucher to the value of $4.00 – the price of a medium cappuccino!

 

Entries close strictly at 3.30pm today and must be handed in to anyone in the Corporate team (Thursday 9 April 2009)

 

Rules:

 

1.      Blu-Tack must be taken off walls, doors etc – its previous job must have been holding posters etc up. (ie Blu tack taken from your drawers or the stationery cabinet will not be accepted)

2.      Any out-dated posters can be removed from the walls in order to obtain the tack – But you must check with Corporate/Communication to ensure that the posters can be removed.

3.      Blu-Tack includes, but is not limited to the colour blue. Green is accepted!

4.      Please remove all blu-tack carefully and ensure that surfaces are not damaged.

5.      Every WA Registry or Geospatial employee  working on levels 10 or 11 of EPP is eligible to enter.

 

So get going….Who wants coffee????????????

 

 

I have a couple of theories on why corporate did this:

1)     They don’t want to get off their asses and go clean up the place themselves

2)     There has been a request from staff to buy more Blu-Tack (god knows WHY) and they are trying to save money by just re-collecting old Blu-Tack and re-using it! It will make them look oh so efficient and smart to their bosses

 

I tell ya man… I gotta set up my own business so I can impose on MY staff stupid little tasks to do..

 

By the way I am unable to partake in this special challenge because I do not drink coffee… what a shame.. there is no incentive in it for me…

And im going to KEEP my little pile of Blu-Tack all to myself!

i actually found it a little insulting that they think that this type of motivational tool would work on me!…. it might have it had been a hot chocolate but noooo they had to use coffee… amatures..

Madonna and her tax breaks 9, April, 2009

Ah my cute lil mum (mom) is at it again with her conspiracy theories. They can be funny and sound ludicrous but when you think about it, it could totally be a possibility. Her attention has turned to the Madonna adoption saga.

 

 

“did you hear about Madonna wanting to adopt another African baby??”

 

“oh yeh i did, i think she..”

 

“she was refused and im glad they refused her. That woman couldn’t possibly love those adopted kids, i think she is just using them to make herself more popular and i bet any money she wants to adopt these children because they are tax write-off! She can hire nannies and more servants etc and she writes it off on tax. Always thinking about money that one”.

 

“good point mum, but i don’t know, what about Angelina jolie and Brad Pitt who adopted like 6 kids from around the world and are wanting to adopt more?”

 

“who? I don’t know these people, but Madonna she only after the tax break!”.

 

Hehe she knows about some things…