Feburary in Review

Hello World,

There has been a lapse in happenings of note in my little sphere which explains the gap between blog posts. But as I have a couple of hours spare and don't want to spend it drifting through job websites, I decided that it was time to bring you up to date on my latest non-adventures.

Life has settled into a semi-regular pattern and I can't escape the subtle feeling that I have been benched. I'm stuck marking time and life is just running away leaving me behind. The family junk mail business (which has more sucking power than a black hole) and painting the 5-year-old house renovations continue to be my primary sources of income. There is a large degree of frustration in doing all that training to get a ballet body and now all I'm using it for is brainless manual labour, I'm grateful that the work is covering the bills, but I can't say that I'm passionate about it. The painting I don't mind, but the family business grows somewhat dull after a while. Working monotonous hot hours sorting tons (literally) of advertising material, and then spending hours in a car checking that the walkers have delivered it correctly. All just so some housewife can look at the stuff for 30 seconds between the mailbox and the bin!

I've been taking classes most days at my pre-New Zealand School of Dance studio, Desley Donaldson Ballet Academy. This is often the highlight of a dull day. Jane Devine and Paul Boyd are regular guest teachers there which makes it really beneficial.
The most exciting event of this month has to be Jane's teaching. She is teaching me how to dance without holding excess tension in my body. I've had this problem ever since I started ballet and have never know how to fix it. But Jane knows how to approach the problem and to communicate what needs to change. The results are revolutionising the way I approach my work. Instead of adding effort and energy to make a movement happen, I'm simply allowing the movement to happen. Often I don't know how, but it just happens.

So what's the escape plan out of this black hole? Despite my continual carpet bombing of my resume to every major retail outlet within 30 minutes drive, I've only had one interview....
Well speak of the devil! The phone just rang and I now have a job! Hoorah! Escape from the black hole! FREEDOM from this house!!! My next great career move will be working at Officeworks at Aspley. It's obviously not going to be an amazing job working on the floor of a department store. However, the pay is above average, I'll be able to see some different faces and the store appears tidy and the people there all seem to be friendly and human enough. The extra cash flow which is needed to start some serious saving will also be much appreciated. I'm actually looking forward to my first day which is on Wednesday.

So though Feburary has been a rather dull month it hasn't been without its benefits and has shown a late rise. The foundations are now laid and it will be all upward from here, I hope.

Thanks for reading and feel free to leave a question or comment.

Dream On!

DreamChaser