Office politics/gossip get involved or stay well clear??!!!

I guess every single working environment will suffer from the much dreaded gossip/ politics.. What to do in a situation where one ends up getting involved???
Well... I'm at the best of times quite an outspoken person so against best judgement in occasions I end up being quite honest and giving people my opinion on the matter in hand. I have to say that not always goes down well, but hey, doesn't really bother me most times.

However, due to a few changes happening round here, the office politics/gossip reached an all time high where common sense just tells me "stay well clear or you'll end up getting into shit over your big gob!!"

It's proving to be really difficult for me to keep my mouth shut, I have had to bite my tongue in occasions(quite a few occasions in fact), especially as a recently promoted person is getting a head so big, I don't think it'll actually fit up you know where any longer, also considering that I have known this person for most of the time I have worked here and we actually had a good working relationship, I'm finding really difficult to handle his self-importance when its not really justified ( major power trip )- and just to make this clear, everyone in this office is having a problem with it - so much so, that I don't think most of us can actually hold a conversation with this person without being sarcastic ( but he wont even notice- self important and dumb, talk about great combinations).

Apologies for rambling a bit..

So.. office gossip. Yes??!!!! Lets see how I manage....

Speak soon,

Isabel

Back at work today from a weeks leave that was spent in Portugal.
It was good to be home as it always is…

After 6 hours travelling on the way there,as TAP decided to cancel the flight and book every passenger on a different flight that was going to stop over in Dublin, what was suppose to be a 2.5 hours flight turned into 6 hours. Needless to say that none of the passengers were pleased about it, specially with the attitude of the cabin crew which seem to think that it was fine not to give us any info whatsoever about what was going on.

Anyway, finally landed made my way to my friend’s house completely knackered and wishing my life away.

The reason for this trip was to actually sort a few things out – which seems to be the main reason y I spend so much time in Portugal these days - I was getting up around 7.30 am every day and rushing around between trying to see David and sort all the stuff out and having a few annoyed moments with the different bureaucratic bullsh8t that they kept throwing at me…
To sum it up, I’m actually happy to be back at work, don’t get me wrong, I loved seeing David, but I was sooo tired by Friday, I was welcoming Monday to come back to work. - CANT BELIEVE I'M ACTUALLY SAYING THIS!!!

Planning my next holiday now - NOT Portugal - wanna go somewhere nice to chill out but not get bored ( beach, but also enough nature or city life to keep me occupied ) ... So, if anyone has any suggestions, feel free..

Speak soon,

Isabel

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More about me... A-Z version..

A - Available/Single or Taken?...
.... taken
B - Best Friend?...
.... my cousin Rosinda.
C - Cake or pie?...
......cake, anyday..
D - Drink Of Choice?...
.....def coffee, get so grumpy when I dont have my coffee in the morning!!!
E – Essential Item You Use Everyday?...
....toothpaste...
F - Favourite Color?...
... Blue
G - Gummy Bears or Worms?...
....well........given the choice I'll have to say gummy bears.
H - Hometown?...
... My childhood was pretty much divided between Lisbon and a small village in the portuguese region of Alentejo, although I always feel a real sense of coming home when going to Alentejo.
I - Indulgence?...
.... Books, spend way too much money on books.
J - January or February?...
.......February - this is a short month,when I get over the long month of January and six weeks without pay and I really start looking forward to Spring and warmer weather.
K - Kids & Their Names?...
..... Don't have kids, don't foresee having kids in the near future. And in all honesty I havent really stopped to think of names.
L - Life is Incomplete Without?...
...Books, and of course B...
M - Marriage date?...
... not married
N - Number of Siblings?...
......1 younger brother.
O - Oranges or Apples?...
.... Oranges
P - Phobias/Fears?...
.... This one is hardly original, but I'm scared shitless of snakes, something about snakes just creeps me out. I can't even stand to watch them on TV.
Q - Favourite (movie) Quote?...
...... no one puts baby in the corner... HAHAHAHA... how cheesy...
R - Reason to Smile?...
....its friday!!!!
S - Season? Spring or Fall?...
...... Spring, I love spring.The expectation of warmer weather. The birds singing... I just love Spring.
T - Tag 3 people?...
... Del, Deb - will tag only these two for the time being.
U - Unknown Fact About Me?...
....I cant really think of anything...
V - Vegetable you don’t like?...
.... I seriously don't like carrots, well..boiled carrots especially, its a childhood thing, never ever liked boiled carrots.
W - Worst Habit?...
....reading whilst B is trying to sleep, it really annoys him... And of course, smoking which also really annoys B.
.... Along with the above comes the fact that I'm really stubborn and will not stop regardless how much it annoys B. And yes, he has the patiente of an angel.
X - X-rays You’ve Had?...
... Teeth.
Y - Your Favorite Food?...
... Well, I loved seafood I won't even go into specifics, just seafood in general - give it to me and I'll have a smile plastered all over my face. : )
Z – Zodiac sign?
.... Aries

How I feel right this minute.......

Bored

Babel

When to watch "Babel" on sunday, has to be said that this was actually a second option, we actually wanted to go and see "Blood Diamonds", so we didn't really know anything about Babel besides the fact that it got really good reviews and that Brad Pitt was on it.

Anyway, on our way out - my first reaction was a bit :" wot a pile of sh8t", then we started discussing it and slowly I actually started being more and more positive about this movie.

And now I'd actually love to go watch it again, there's with a few little things left unexplained, but nothing extreme that will actually ruin the movie for you.

I guess I was a bit close minded for this movie as I was set on watching Blood Diamonds.

I definitely reccomend it, and will watch it again at some point.

Hope you enjoy it!!!

Bye for now,

Isabel

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Money,money....

Another week closer to pay day, it does feel like pay day wont arrive until I've spent all my overdraft money...
Funny thing is I got a call from my bank whilst I was on holiday in December - and had not checked my bank account in a little while and was a bit worried about it as well -and all they had to tell me was how great it was that I hadn't used my o/d in about 7 months and that I seemed to be managing my money quite well- the whole time I'm thinking:"are u sure u are looking at MY bank account?" and " Wot the fuck????" And then January came and the whole being good with money went truly and seriously down the drain.. Damn... guess I wont have any annoying bank people calling me anytime time soon...

Time to go back to my boring job now...

Bye for now,
Isabel
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Travelling...

Reading other blogs and websites of people that have made a life choice to spend years travelling around the world, just makes me really jealous..

Since I can remember I have always had the desire to travel, to meet new places, different people and used to struggle quite a lot with people that didn't share this passion with me, to the point that I had arguments with people that use to tell me that they have not the slightest wish to see the world. - The idea of this really confused me - how can one NOT want to see the world.
I still struggle to understand these people but at the same time I have come to realise that some people are like me and some people will quite happily live in one place all their lives and will never feel like they have missed out on anything.

Since those days, I have moved to London and have managed to see a little bit of the world but only for short periods of time, not for a six months or a year, and this is what I would really LOVE to do. This idea is in my mind all the time, but it never seems to be the right time to take so much time off work or things happen that pretty much make it impossible to hand in resignation. Maybe one day I'll just stop caring whether its the right time or not and just do it, for now, I'll just keep waking up in the morning coming to work and plan my next holiday.

Well done to all the people that found their right time or just stopped caring.

Bye for now,

Isabel

xxx