~*Smiles Magical Land*~: February 2009

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Filming Day

The filming crew arrived at 10am and we didn't really start filming till around 10.30am. They started with filming me doing some laundry, washing dishes and making a couple sammys. In between I was answering some questions and talking about my Independence to C one of the Presenter's. They did more filming of me doing things on my own that I can still do without support from a carer and more talking to C. The filming took about 2 hours and 30mins before I had a break for lunch and head of to sports with Dad.

The filming crew went over the road for lunch and Dad and I had lunch at my place then took off to sports. It was our second practice of the year but the first practice for me as I wasn't able to go last fortnight.

We played hockey first, we had 7 players turn up so we had 4 vs 3 for awhile. Today's hockey game was really good, fun and the score was 5-5 which meant the teams were pretty even with me on the 3 player team. The filming crew arrived and C (who also plays wheelchair rugby in the Wheel Blacks) came and joined my team. They filmed me playing hockey. We then played balloon soccer with the same teams and that was fun. C joined in again and was helping out my team. I won't say what happened but something funny happened in soccer and it be added into my Story, so if your reading this you will have to watch the Story when it comes out on Attitude TV XD Once they got enough filming of me at sports they asked me if I could go to the next stop so I left sports earlier than normal.

We headed to foodtown where they did some filming of Dad and I doing my food shopping. I used to do food shopping on my own and enjoyed it and now I do it after sports with my Dad. I do most of it and still enjoy it so I'm still doing this Independently. Dad can put all my shopping in the van and take me home and put my shopping inside for me to put away. Years ago the taxi driver did this. We then went to my work and did some filming over there. We finished around 6.15pm so it was a long day but it was fun too.

I feel that I missed saying some stuff that I wanted to get across as it it's hard to remember everything when I've got a camera in front of me and random questions asked. I just go into a blank and forget what I'm trying to say hehe Sometimes I'd know what I was going to be asked so I had my answer prepared, sometimes I was just asked and I had to think up my answer on the spot which was tricky. I just hope I said enough and that they might use the details I emailed them before filming as some of that info wasn't even talked about.

My story should be on Attitude TV after 6 weeks or some sometime, should be good to see it all.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Job Work in Process - Correct Desk Arrived

Today at work the correct desk arrived, finally. I checked the desk top before they went ahead dismantling the temp desk and was happy to see it was the right one. It took the two guys about an hour to remove the temp desk and setup the new corner desk. They also moved the crack handle further to the right to give me more room to get under the desk, later my Co-Manager and I noticed that by doing this it pulled the whole desk 'top' torwards the right more, meaning we couldn't get the desk right up against the wall (the desk legs could, just not the desk top).

M my Co-Manager then put things back onto the desk including the computer. It's going to be trial n error on where things will sit for awhile.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Family DInner

My uncle came to pick me up this afternoon to take me back to Mum and Dad's for dinner. Dad was doing the lawn when he left. My uncle drove the van without too much of me being a backseat driver haha and strapped my chair down well too.

I helped make a fruit salad when I arrived with my auntie and my brother while we chatted away. Later we all had a very nice dinner, Mum had made a Lasagna which was so dam good. Laters I came home and watched some tv.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Out Shopping then Dinner

I went shopping with Dad and my Uncle and Auntie at Sylvia Park today. We had a coffee break first, well I had a cup of tea. I had a play with my uncles camera as it has 18 zoom and woah it's good. It was there first time at this mall (they are from England) and they were very impressed. We went from one end to the other browsing some shops as we go.

We had lunch at The Coffee Club and I had a ham and cheese toasted sammy, it was on turkish bread and it was very good. Had some orange and mango

We did some more shopping, went into DickSmith and they got some things then we had a look at the nice big TV's dreaming about what we would like hehe Later we had enough and came back to my place. My auntie did some weeding in my tiny garden then we went accross the road to post a letter. Dad and my uncle fell asleep for awhile then we had a cup of tea.

Later we all left to met the rest of the family at RIverhead resturant for dinner. Dinner was very very yummy. I had rack of lamb with potato mash mixed with peas and a nice sauce. Before that I had a small entrie.

Friday, February 20, 2009

A Pretty Busy Week

This week was pretty busy with lot's of things going on. On Monday, Kate one of the Directors from Attitude TV came out to see me and talk about my life and about the filming they are doing in a fortnight. That went well and it was good to met her before-hand.

I went to work on my usual days which went well, nothing really to report on there which is good.

I had a hair appt on Wednesday morning, had a cut and retouch of color. Housing NZ came over in the afternoon to do another House Inspection which takes 5 minutes if I'm lucky XD. I told her about my front two elements not working and said it's urgent as I use those all the time to cook my dinner. I also said that one of the locks on the doors needs replacing, the guttering needs cleaning and the front of the unit gutter needs fixing as it's not straight.

The electrican came out on Thursday morning before I went to work to measure up the elements as they are replacing it with a flat top one. The door man came out this afternoon to fix the lock, he actually replaced it.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Another Week Gone

Another week gone by, worked two days and was out at the mall on Monday. Thursday was a very hot day as we hit 34.2 degrees along with humidity of 100%. I felt like I was in a sauna all day. I did my food shopping on Wednesday with my brother as doing it on Saturday wasn't going to work.

Today is a much cooler day with rain on and off. I'm not going to sports today so will just be doing stuff around home.

Thursday, February 05, 2009

Second week at Work Update

This has been my second week at work and it's been pretty good, better than the first week. Tuesday went well and I did some new jobs, calling people to see if they were interested in going to the next activity classes.

Today's work was good and a little busy. I was left in the office on my own for the first time for 2 hours, where I took phone calls, helped anyone who came to the front desk and ringing people to see if they interested in coming to some classes. The Co-Managers were in the hall having ameeting but said if I really needed them to ring the bell they gave me. I managed pretty well too I thought and didn't need there help over the 2 hours. I got my first pay too and that felt good.

Job Work in Process - Wrong Freakin Desk Delivered AGAIN!

The corner desk was ready to be delivered so I arranged it to be delivered at 4pm today as I will be there at work. They will also move the small holder for the 'crank handle' to the other side as it gets in the way of my powerchair controller as I wheel under the desk.

The guys came with the new table top and I went and had a look at it and it was the wrong corner desk top AGAIN!! I told the guy that it's meant to be a corner top without the curve. They didn't bother putting the new top on and left, they totally understood what I was needing though. There seems to be some break down of communication somewhere, maybe OfficeMax as R told them what I needed and knows I need a non curve corner desk.

I've asked R to ring me so I can let her know what has happened and she can get onto OfficeMax

Monday, February 02, 2009

Job Found & Job Work in Process

Sunday, February 01, 2009

Nice Weekend

Another weekend gone already, actually it's the last weekend of January. On Saturday I wen down to the mall with my Dad and we had some lunch and then did my food shopping. We had a quick look around too.

Otherwise I didn't do much else this weekend, watched some tv but mainly on my iMac.

Job Update For Job Support

I emailed S (Support Person) a quick update on how my first week of work went. I also said that be better for my confidence if I settle in the job on my own and deal with any problems as they arise.