LDU left the company yesterday - she will be leaving the country at the end of next week, off to Deutschland to be with her German 'hubby'. The guy that she met a couple of months ago when her, CMC and I were out socialising. Along with MRI, KCO and, I heard last night, JSO leaving, it's going to be a ghost town at work soon. But we aren't talking about the other leavings just yet, LDU and going out last night is what this one is about...
LDU actually wasn't in the office the last week - because of something petty, something he said she said kind of crap, I won't go into any details here, well, not that I put any details in with work stuff if I can help it, but suffice to say, LDU got suspended for whatever it was she did. On full pay, so a week off to end it all, but still, it may not have needed to happen - I wasn't in the office, or I wasn't privy to what was going on if I was there, when all this went down.
So last night was the first time I had seen LDU in a week - had an email from her on Tuesday, giving a brief description of what had happened, but apart from that nada. And it was good to go out yesterday, the day at work had been full of crazy people ringing up - I only got one of them, but the others in the team were getting nutters all day long. And yes, when I looked at up the sky last night, it was a full moon.
So, we all congregated at the Pig and Whistle on Eagle Street. I had a later shift, so I turned up about 6.30pm - already there were LDU, KSM, TDE, SPE, MGO, NDE and a few others from other areas of the company. Hard evening to describe really, just talking talking really, with various people at various times - RTO turned up, all bouncy and happy, apologised for not coming to my birthday drinks, but seemed really happy to see me. She is working at a gym now, close to home in the southern suburbs, and seems to be thriving on it. Free gym membership as well, woohoo.
The only others from off my floor at the company that I really got talking to were SCL and MNO, SCL I probably talk to on transfer maybe four or five times a week, and MNO is her fiance (I think?) who used to work with LDU as well. He has Robbie Fowler on his mobile as the background, big Liverpool supporter, big soccer supporter - good to see one around in this country.
I had the camera with me (of course), and, not constricted by the cost of film, I took quite a few pictures. Tried to do the fancy setting stuff, but that was either blurry or the flash went on too long, so just kept it at auto - I am sure my photo software has red eye removal, so will work with that later on. Everyone was amazed at how good my camera seemed to be, both in the pictures it took and the general slimline funky look of it, so that was nice, made me feel I had made a good buy. Someone actually asked whether it was a mobile phone - and everyone was asking me to email the pics into work or, in LDU's case, where ever in the world she will be :)
We had been drinking out in the beer garden - well, in my case it was a Becks, a XXXX Gold, a bourbon and coke, with a bourbon called Slate of all things, and the rest of the evening was Coke. Behaving myself on the alcohol front. Anyways, we were in the beer garden for most of the night, but everytime I went inside, I was tempted to go dancing, or suggest dancing to the others, when hearing Shoop by Salt n Pepa, or Too Funky by George Michael.
But I didn't get around to it until KSM heard, of all songs, California Dreaming - they have added a dance beat to it for some weird reason. So LDU, RTO, SCL and MNO were up there as well, and after California Dreaming, they had It's Like That, the Run DMC v Jason Nevins version, and also Pump Up The Jam by Technotronic. Blast from the past indeed. I think there was also that 'Can't Wait For The Weekend' song in there as well, but then the girls scarpered from the floor when Aqua's Doctor Jones came on.
So about ten minutes on the floor then, but it's always good to dance - everyone is happy, everyone is smiling. Would have wanted to take photos of all those shiny happy people and all, but that would have just been a situation too far to take photos I think :)
Not long after that, this being about 11pm, LDU, DFR, KSM and RTO headed off to the Valley, to either Rick's Cafe or the beat. NDE said her goodbyes, and SPE and MGO were also going home. Having a bit of an economically challenged weekend coming up, I decided to bail as well - was looking for KFC, but it was closed at Macarthur Central, so ended up at Hungry Jacks for a feed. Caught the 11.38 Caboolture train, and ended up home at about 12.15...
As I said, just a chatting, watching footy (rugby union Super 14), chatting, dancing, drinking, eating a late night feed and heading home kind of night. Hard to describe, but the photos look okay :)
Pauly
LDU actually wasn't in the office the last week - because of something petty, something he said she said kind of crap, I won't go into any details here, well, not that I put any details in with work stuff if I can help it, but suffice to say, LDU got suspended for whatever it was she did. On full pay, so a week off to end it all, but still, it may not have needed to happen - I wasn't in the office, or I wasn't privy to what was going on if I was there, when all this went down.
So last night was the first time I had seen LDU in a week - had an email from her on Tuesday, giving a brief description of what had happened, but apart from that nada. And it was good to go out yesterday, the day at work had been full of crazy people ringing up - I only got one of them, but the others in the team were getting nutters all day long. And yes, when I looked at up the sky last night, it was a full moon.
So, we all congregated at the Pig and Whistle on Eagle Street. I had a later shift, so I turned up about 6.30pm - already there were LDU, KSM, TDE, SPE, MGO, NDE and a few others from other areas of the company. Hard evening to describe really, just talking talking really, with various people at various times - RTO turned up, all bouncy and happy, apologised for not coming to my birthday drinks, but seemed really happy to see me. She is working at a gym now, close to home in the southern suburbs, and seems to be thriving on it. Free gym membership as well, woohoo.
The only others from off my floor at the company that I really got talking to were SCL and MNO, SCL I probably talk to on transfer maybe four or five times a week, and MNO is her fiance (I think?) who used to work with LDU as well. He has Robbie Fowler on his mobile as the background, big Liverpool supporter, big soccer supporter - good to see one around in this country.
I had the camera with me (of course), and, not constricted by the cost of film, I took quite a few pictures. Tried to do the fancy setting stuff, but that was either blurry or the flash went on too long, so just kept it at auto - I am sure my photo software has red eye removal, so will work with that later on. Everyone was amazed at how good my camera seemed to be, both in the pictures it took and the general slimline funky look of it, so that was nice, made me feel I had made a good buy. Someone actually asked whether it was a mobile phone - and everyone was asking me to email the pics into work or, in LDU's case, where ever in the world she will be :)
We had been drinking out in the beer garden - well, in my case it was a Becks, a XXXX Gold, a bourbon and coke, with a bourbon called Slate of all things, and the rest of the evening was Coke. Behaving myself on the alcohol front. Anyways, we were in the beer garden for most of the night, but everytime I went inside, I was tempted to go dancing, or suggest dancing to the others, when hearing Shoop by Salt n Pepa, or Too Funky by George Michael.
But I didn't get around to it until KSM heard, of all songs, California Dreaming - they have added a dance beat to it for some weird reason. So LDU, RTO, SCL and MNO were up there as well, and after California Dreaming, they had It's Like That, the Run DMC v Jason Nevins version, and also Pump Up The Jam by Technotronic. Blast from the past indeed. I think there was also that 'Can't Wait For The Weekend' song in there as well, but then the girls scarpered from the floor when Aqua's Doctor Jones came on.
So about ten minutes on the floor then, but it's always good to dance - everyone is happy, everyone is smiling. Would have wanted to take photos of all those shiny happy people and all, but that would have just been a situation too far to take photos I think :)
Not long after that, this being about 11pm, LDU, DFR, KSM and RTO headed off to the Valley, to either Rick's Cafe or the beat. NDE said her goodbyes, and SPE and MGO were also going home. Having a bit of an economically challenged weekend coming up, I decided to bail as well - was looking for KFC, but it was closed at Macarthur Central, so ended up at Hungry Jacks for a feed. Caught the 11.38 Caboolture train, and ended up home at about 12.15...
As I said, just a chatting, watching footy (rugby union Super 14), chatting, dancing, drinking, eating a late night feed and heading home kind of night. Hard to describe, but the photos look okay :)
Pauly
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