... To Nataruma's final blog attempt, this time I'm going with a more natural blog that I can edit as I like, have as many avatars as I like, and as many moodicons as I want YAY! This is my new hub page as well, and where I will be posting all the sorts of neat stuff I find links to and all. Anyways, hope you enjoy my rants and info and please pay a visit to some of the other sites listed in the navigation.
Monday, March 19th, 2007
[6:55 AM]
So I'm working now. OH MY GOD! Yeah I can hardly believe it myself. It's my first week at an architecture firm near where I live. I'm not an architect, I don't know about the stuff they do, but I'm supposed to be the office manager. It's a fancy label for someone who does correspondences and takes care of the odd jobs that have nothing to do with architecturing. We have a secretary, so it's sort of like a super duper secretary with laser eye powers! PEW PEW!
We went to Ikea on saturday to buy stuff for my desk. We pretty much cleaned out the whole of the office section of store. Paper trays, pen holders, and potpourri (we have smokers). Needless to say it was sort of a chore getting things out of the car and into the office, but it was done in the end. Oh and I got myself a cute miniature potted plant with yellow and green variegated leaves, whom I decided to call Lancelot, because he's a cheerful soul in the office. Let's hope Lancelot does better than my miniature cacti... Then again I never named them so perhaps they died feeling unloved.
Lots of stuff happened since my last post. To summarize: I LIVE! I'm losing weight with Atkins. I always thought it was a bunch of baloney, but so far I've probably lost about 17 kilos in a month and a quarter. I'm telling you, my old pants sagged on me. I looked like an elephant with extra loose skin when I put them on and would have needed a monk's chord keep them from falling to my ankles. It's all good, but I'm in sort of a small dilemma. A positive dilemma (oxymoron?). My newest stuff and things I bought last year are far too big. Some of the older stuff I have is now beginning to fit quite well, with a few tight exceptions, and then I have things from before then that are almost brand new but still tight. My problem is I have a LOT of big stuff, and a LOT of tight stuff, and then the medium stuff I'm on now is sort of like... One pair of jeans and a crapload of shirts.
I don't want to go shopping yet. A) I hate shopping with an incomparable passion, and B) I'm continuing to lose weight each week (at least I bloody well hope so). I never thought I would be feeling so positive about losing half of me! Well I'm joking really, it's excellent and I feel really bright and cheerful everyday even when I have to wake up at 7:30. It's scary. I hope I'm not turning into a morning person... That would just be the icing on the cake.
I like what little of my job I've been doing. Intern nerves, though I imagine that's to be expected. New workplace, new people, new duties. I'm lucky though. I have an awesome and understanding boss, and of course I'm getting paid to screw up other people's paperwork! Win/win!
Finally managed to update Yaoi Streamers with a new layout and just a few updated manga to get people requesting. The truth is I hadn't had time to do much updating at all for the past six or seven months. Hopefully with starting work I'll have more time. It sounds absolutely crazy, but really I think work will help me get stuff done more promptly. Maybe these are the words of a foolish optimist, but they say optimists live longer.
Mood: 
Happy
Background noise: My stomach growling
Age: 24. Handle/Name: Nataruma, Nata, Nat. Sex: Lots of it! No, seriously I'm female. Location: Kuwait, yeah that dusty and hot place just under the other place where they didn't find any weapons of mass destruction. Interests: Anime, art (all sorts except guro and certain tasteless genres), yaoi fiction (original mostly), slashy fiction and homosexual erotica, roleplaying (free-style, real-time, non-dice, imagination's the limit), gaming MMORPGs and RPGs, writing, collecting yaoi manga/anime/stuff. Favourite food: Cottage pie, au gratin potatoes, good steak. Least favourite food: Anything that came out of the ocean.