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Oh my god (i would of written zomg but half the people who read this blog don’t know what that means so i wont) I drank WAY to much last night. By way to much I mean way to f#$king much!. I am not exactly sure how much it was. I do know I had a couple of beers at Jade Buddha, that was nice and slow and easy and then after that Once I got to vino’s for the xmas party.. well thats when the wine started getting consumed… quickly. I am not exactly sure how much I drank but I know that it was at least 4+ bottles of white wine, just to me.

It was definately a good night, I was happy, mucking around, had some fun and drank myself stupid. Took lots of photos (what else is new) and then somewhere around 11 (i think not quite sure) i somehow walked to a cab, jumped in and then next thing I know I was in my hotel, chatting with the porcelain king.. everywhere.. it was eww

But by 11am this morning I was fine. Its amazing what 2 panadol at 5am and lots of sleep can fix. But yeah. Lots of booze, nice people, my friends, a good time, what more can you want…. well being able to remember the night would be nice.

Today was good. Just hung out with Yena had a very late breakfast at Alibi room. I had the “Truckers Breakfast” and it was awesome! Although I did miss out on my eggs and my chips but hey, who cares I still had savoury mince, spinach, baked beans, hash browns, bacon, toast, coffee, steak, sausages, mushrooms and tomato. It was great, but I didnt finish it all.

Photos from last night are up in the usual spaces.

AOT Xmas Party 2007

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Ok its about time i released my plans from what has been happening the last few weeks. Since I returned back from the States I have wanted to go back, to work, to live, to travel, to explore and experience more of the country. So since returning once I was settled in groups (which I am now) I decided it was about time to start focusing on my next portion of my life. I had already contacted HR & the Inbound manager about this position and was getting it all ready, working on my NZ knowledge, planning to go over and visit NZ so i got some experience. actually in the country. But all of that changed on Wednesday. The Job ad came out earilier than expected. A LOT earlier. So its now all real.

I’ll explain a bit about the job. I would still be part of the AOT Group, working with Tourplan (damn) but working in San Diego in the office of one of inbound’s partners. This is something I have wanted for a while and although the short lead time seems daunting (2 months) I should be ok. The position would start in Feb and at present thats about as much of the info I can get. I will try and get more during the interview process and I will keep everyone up to date. I have had a look online at the company and where its located (its near Quallcomm stadium home of the San Diego Chargers and close to a couple of Airports) and also at the history of the company.

At times it all seems to good to be true but then also my brain does its usual self doubt as well and also the overthinking things that I always do to myself. I have to try and make sure that I clear my head often and not think about it to much. I don’t even have the job yet so I need to make sure I just take it as it comes. If i do get the job though…. Its gonna be one big ass going away party 😀

Anwyay its early and im bored already… i hate it when my body decides to wake up at 630am.

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Its good to finally be resting on my day off after an amazing weekend. Friday started the weekend of the AOT Holidays Conference. It was the first time anything like this has ever been done so it was a bit different. I have to say that it was enjoyable. I was a bit uncertain to begin with considering I had to come home early Sunday morning to work but it all turned out good. Friday night was something that will sit with me for a while. I headed down after work with Tanya and Dominique in tow for the Platinum dinner at a mystery location. Now I hate suprises but I sucked it up and didnt push it with this one after my efforts of finding stuff out for All Stars didnt go down to well… But luckily when Richard arrived at our shared room on Friday afternoon, he blabbed we were going to Big Brother. Now I went to Big Brother last year for the Reward famil (there are photos around somewhere of it), but I was really wanting to see how they had changed the house from last year. So Big Brother does his usual rules etc etc everyone tries joking around and he starts picking on certain people. It brought back plenty of memories of Stretch, Windy and Shezza. The diary room photos were flooded as usual but this time there was an Intruder to the house. Rebecca from this years Big Brother. I was shocked. She was so beautiful and fun and didn’t drink. I didn’t think such a woman existed. She was an amazing person to speak to and hear her stories of BB this year. Got a few photos with her and she spent just about the entire night with us. It was a great experience.

Saturday was the conference itself and it was mainly about the coming year ahead and how things are going to bee improved. We had a Product Race in the afternoon to help us learn some things and also do some team building. I had a pretty good team from a wide cross section of the business and we did pretty well we thought. I had a lot of compliments about my product knowledge that afternoon and I have never really thought of it as that good but everyone seems to think different. We spent the rest of the afternoon outside learning some basic samba music and rythym. I was learning to play the floor toms and it was good but had to concentrate a lot.

That night was the Innaugrul AOT Holidays Awards. I was roped into being photographer for the night but I didn’t mind as I had my new camera lens to test out and some new set ups if the card runs over. The only downside to the photographer side is I now have like several hundred photos to process, and most of the shots are in raw. The awards were fantastic, It was such an experience and I loved it. The entertainment for the night was Millsy from Australian Idol and all the girls were drooling like little school girls. It was such an amazing weekend. Although I didn’t party on with everyone till 3 or 4 or even 5 in the morning, I still had a good time.

Now I have photos to process 🙁

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AOT Holidays Conference

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Well my time working for Spotless Services is finally over.  Last night was my final night working for them at Suncorp Stadium.  At times the stadium was fun but it has just become so meaningless lately.  There is to many issues now at the stadium with being told that you cant do this and so many restrictions.  People think we have it tough at my main job.  You have it easy compared.

Couple of things about working at the stadium that broke the camels back.  The mobile phone rule where I had to confiscate everyones mobile phones and lock them away in the cash tin.  This was to ensure that people did not use their phones during a shift.  A bit extreme.  There was also the new rules in regards to using the multifills (beer pouring machine) where you have to sign away all of your liability to ensure the company does not wear a fine.  Plus add on a specific rule last night that we were not able to sell bottles of water with the lids they had to be confiscated by the staff because they were deemed a weapon by security.

All of that just cumulated on top of the ongoing staffing issues and stress of the year that last night was the last straw.  The concert was LOUD.  I don’t really like Robbie Williams so didn’t pay any attention but everyone was apparently loving it.  Mr Williams is a bit of a diva though.  To satisfy his needs they had to turn off all of the lights in the outlets along level 3 south so that the light did not shine in his eyes from over 100m away.  Cry baby.  This pretty much meant mine was the ONLY bar open on 3 south.  Fun that!  Ran out of wine so many times and Water twice, Soft drink was on and off for the whole time and i spent 20 minutes with no beer.  My area manager was shit even though i was the ONLY outlet she had open for most of the night i NEVER saw her anywhere.  SLACK!  They need a better system.

Anyway i have had enough ranting now for some of the good bits about the Stadium.  I have met so many people at that stadium from all different countries.  Some I still see every now and then outside of work and a lot I don’t.  But working in a Stadium is an experience.  With the end of this job it now end my time in Hospitality.  After working in bars since I was 17 i think it’s about time I gave it up.