Oooooh I'm cross.....

I mentioned in my last post that I've had quite a bit of work over the past couple of weeks. Amongst that was a lot of preparative work for a collaboration with someone else for ongoing seminars. Meetings have been held, websites have been created, rooms booked and p.r. companies have been hired. Hours of creative mind-melding work (challenging at the moment) have been wrung out of my exhausted brain.

And today we had a meeting.

I've been a little bit protective of my "product" as I have no way of legally protecting the content that makes me "stand out above the crowd". But today's meeting was about discussing specific content and examples. And I gave those freely.

And at the end of the meeting, I was told that an ex-co-worker of his had recently returned from London and would possibly therefore be presenting the first couple of seminars with him. I could still, of course, pass on to my clients the marketing information as the seminar will be so incredibly useful to them.

I was speechless.

No amount of "of course we may still use you for other ones in the future" could bring my chin up off the floor.

I feel violated. And SO pissed off because I had allowed myself to count on the income to get me out of the mess I'm in.

And I have no one to blame but myself.

Bris-Vegas and Adelaide....

BRISBANE

This was a whirlwind visit... I literally saw nothing more than the view from the cab (who ripped me off HUGELY) and this view from my hotel room....



ADELAIDE

I have a very soft spot for Adelaide. It was the very first city that I ever worked in outside my own city of Sydney. And I adore wines from the nearby Clare and Eden Valleys.






If it wasn't for NaBloPoMo I would not be blogging today at all.

I have the mother of ALL hangovers. My crazy-wealthy friends celebrated one of their fiftieth birthdays last night. Spectacular! Firedancers and eaters, court jesters, tarot readers, karoake, Cosmopolitans and an endless supply of Moet Chandon. I think I was one of the last to leave. And I certainly had a short but meaningful conversation with God on the big white porcelein telephone this morning.

And then had to go to a Baby Shower. *shudder*

So... I'm going to blame all my shonky posts on NaBloPoMo for the month of November.

Yes I am.

NaBloPoMo.... Oh Yes....

Call me nuts, but I'm going to do it.  I'm going to commit to writing a post a day throughout the month of November.  Go here to find out more about it. 

I'm HOME!  Finally!  I practically FELL off the plane last night and don't quite know how I managed to drive home from the airport.

And I woke up in a panic this morning.  I had no idea which city I was in and just knew that I was running late.  It took me ages to realise that I was finally safe and snug in my own soft bed with my own divine boys within shouting distance ** evil mummy grin **

I've been keeping in touch with "her" while I was away, and I'm hopeful that there has been a slight improvement in her condition.  Keep everything crossed, please!

There will be couple of photos of Brisbane and Adelaide, when I've unpacked and sorted everything.  In the meantime.... IT'S GOOD TO BE HOME!

So far....

So here I am in Bris-Vegas, although I won't have time to see anything more than airport, taxi, hotel, conference, taxi, airport.

I thought I'd give you a visual update of the trip so far.....

MELBOURNE

That was another FLYING visit, so I thought I'd snap a typical Melbourne tram ....


PERTH

I actually had two nights in Perth, which included an afternoon and an evening off. So I got to see a little more than in the other cities.

This is the view from my hotel room. The grass is being used as an air strip for the Red Bull Air Race which is on this weekend. I'm so annoyed that I'm missing out on that!


The event organiser and a speaker who had flown over from Sweden and I went walking in the rain.....










And then, the highlight.

Guera, Lani and I met up and had dinner at Freo (that's Fremantle for everyone not from Perth!)..


God I love this blogging thing. And the incredible women that I am fortunate enough to meet through this medium.

A NEW town!

It's been a LONG time since I've been to a new place.  (Eindhoven in Holland was new to me, but I'd been to all our other trip destinations before.)

But here I am in the wild wild West!!  In beautiful Perth!!  For the very first time!!

Honestly I feel like a kid....

But it was a long LONG day.  The job went really well..... and then it was 4 hours on a plane...... and I've just had a bubble bath, am about to order room service, and will sleep (I am too tired to write anything more than a travelogue tonight).

Lovely Lovely Melbourne....

My full-on week has started.  I flew down here this afternoon and had 5 minutes in my room before having to race off to dinner with the client.  

And the seminar begins at 8am tomorrow.

I made friends with oh-so-gay-Trevor the doorman of this posh hotel, and the darling man gave me a bottle of red wine as I was coming in after dinner.  Bodes well for a good week!

I wish I was going to be able to catch up with blogging friends around Australia this week, but my hectic schedule means I'll be lucky to find time for a decent sleep.

I'm the emcee.  Wish me luck.

Next stop, Perth.