Birthday Plans, gone awry

Well I had an idea for my birthday.

I don't as a general rule, have massive plans for my birthday but I thought since it was the big 25 I'd put my back into it and PARTY.

Two options for my birthday came up, I made the call and finessed the idea.

Made and sent out invitations.

And then it all went to hell in a hand cart.

I found out that I had invited some people who I hadn't really mean't to invite and although I feel confident they would decline, I wouldn't know what to do with if they did attend.

So I recalled the invite (lol Indian giving, is especially amusing because the original place was Indian for a bollywood night) to later recreate it and correct this mistake.

Only to find that the venue had double booked my request!

So back to the second option!

Yahoo? We lost $458m but its ok

So what Yahoo! have reported a US $303 million dollar lost, in the last three months alone of 2008? CEO Carol Batrz still has a peppy optimism about 2009 saying ‘We have work to do, but I am excited by Yahoo’s! Opportunities.’

I guess she’d want to be or the share holders will lynch her. What a frightening thought that companies that that much to lose!Like the German billionaire, Adolf Merckle, who committed suicide after his empire ‘ran into trouble’ with this recent financial crisis. It was been reported he ran up losses of about 400m euros - $535m!! After a loss on Volkswagon shares.

Even haute couture is suffering, with people becoming self proclaimed ‘rescissionistas’ and glossy mags publishing ‘Recessionista Fabulous’ articles!!

It seems everyone is getting wise to the ‘belt tightening’ except our fat friend, Ronald. McDonalds that is reporting an 80 per cent profit rise!
How would you like the $US 4.3 billion dollars that they made in 2008?

I must confess, working in the confectioney industry, we haven't felt any slow down. If nothing else we are going very well, as is evident, people get depressed and eat junk food!

Better late than never

Happy New Year to those of you out in blogger land.

In natural self-styling, I get the urge to revamp my blog at quarter to ten! So just a quick post to apologise for being a bad blogger with promise of more to come soon.
Lovin this template, thank goodness for those with patience out there!

How to lose friends and alienate me

I was excited to see that they had converted Toby Young’s memoir of his failed attempt to ‘make it’ in the US.

I was even more excited to see Simon Pegg, who I think is HILARIOUS, starring. Have you seen Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Run Fat Boy Run? The man is a genius, especially along side Nick Frost.
Also starring Megan Fox (who?), Gillian Anderson and Jeff Bridges. I have mixed feeling about this casting, but it’s really Kirsten ‘Kiki’ Dunst that leaves me cold.
I still feel the pain of paying money to see ‘Mona Lisa Smile’ *shudder* and can’t say that I have seen a movie with her in it I have truly enjoyed.
The Virgin Suicides was weird, maybe I’m not arty enough but I thought it was lame. Nor am I an MJ fan, perhaps Kiki’s portrayal of Spiderman’s flame is only as good as the script she’d given? Of course I’ve seen ‘Bring It On’ which is inoffensive enough, I guess.
I am morbidly curious about Marie Antoinette, but I have had little luck with Sofia Coppola movies. Lost in Translation, for me, was carried off by Bill Murray and to a lesser degree Scarlet Johansson and strange mesh panties.

I get worried, when there is a movie out that I have a desire to see. At, what is it now, $16.50 a pop? If my movie experience isn’t a sure thing I don’t want to jeopardise spending that much for a luke warm experience. Or is that just me?

Beating 'The Man'

WOOT!!!

I got a letter from the State Debt Recovery Office yesterday (that was scary initally let me tell you) - I beat the man!!

No fine - YAY!!!

Now repeat my mantra 'Take your ticket with you, you idiot'

E for Effort

Friendships take effort, there is no doubt about it.

Some friends who you seem to have a real bond with though, seem to take less effort that others, you WANT to see them.

You may WANT to see them so badly that when they move away you take a three hour train ride to visit them. How then does something happen that to damage this?

This seems to have happened with a very good friend of mine, and I couldn’t be more stumped.

Several weeks ago now, I invited said friend to a Hen’s night of an ex-colleague we had both worked with, thinking she would like to go and celebrate this occasion.
We organised everything, and I even managed to get another girl on board to share the accommodation expenses – winner!
Strange thing was, when she found out that the other girl was coming she pulled out. Not because she didn’t like her but because she could keep me company instead. At this juncture I was pissed off.

I hadn’t seen or gone out partying with her for a while and was looking forward to it. So I let myself cool down for a week before speaking again. A week turned into two weeks, and I then I sooked and though she should call.I got over it and made contact to call, no call. Again, and again. Still no call. Then once again, I arranged to call her and once again texted me to say she was going out.

What’s the go here... are we going through a break up?

From budget to bad

Recently we had an employee leave, and as it happens her odd jobs were distributed through the remaining workers.
I managed to pick up the task of ensuring the already booked corporate functions went off without a hitch.The venues, entertainment and accommodation were already secured all that was left was food and decoration duties... or so I thought.

Basically it all started going wrong when I found out that the 40 something rooms we needed booked over two days had not actually been confirmed.
I also found in addition to no accommodation actually booked:-

- The venue for dinner had NO booking and had since secured another booking, a gold wedding anniversary, an issue since we needed the whole restaurant.
- The four piece band booked for the dinner (in the unconfirmed restaurant) does not fit into a restaurant only big enough to seat 80 people comfortably.
- The guests, including board members and share holders, require another two night’s accommodation on top of the previous night, and the transfers that were organised for them was going to send them to the wrong hotel.

So basically my budget is doomed. Our la-de-dah event is NOW booked for dinner at Bilson’s restaurant (since we booted out the gold wedding anniversary), with an after-party at the Marble room in the Radisson Plaza (since we can’t fit a band or dance floor into Bilson’s) and stumbling-distance accommodation at the Radisson.All in all, problems aside I have rather enjoyed booking it all and thinking about how lovely it will all look when MY hard work pays off. Maybe a career change coming on? hehe
Bilson's;