3 kittens, health issues, change sked and such

My cat gave birth to three new kitties last July 23. Here they are one day after being born.
Currently, their eyes are already open and are starting to walk unsteadily. They don't have names yet. The white one is the youngest. The other two we consider as twins as they came out almost at the same time. The twins are most probably female while the white would be male.
Their mom has been annoying since she has been prone to leaving them for hours and a day just to answer several mating calls this past week. At least this has stopped lately because of the weather. (I have seen her together with 6 different Toms at different times of the day. How slutty can a cat get? o_0)

I recently got the results of our Annual Physical Exam. Nothing really serious in the findings except that I'm overweight (nothing new with that), have hormonal imbalance and I'm currently regularly monitored for possible hypertension. All in all, just the usual stuff you might encounter with working in this industry.
Of course, I haven't ignored any of these warning signs. I have been initiating some changes but it's been a bit difficult with regards to food as there are limited healthy food options when at work.

A change of schedule is approaching for me! Actually, the original schedule assigned to me wasn't much of a difference--same day off, shift starts 30 minutes earlier, but a friend has requested that we swap schedules so she could be with her loved one who is on the same team/time as I am. We just need to have this processed first so we'll know when we can swap. She has the morning shift so if this goes through, it will be something new for me.

August 14 would be the first year death anniversary of my Dad. As such, I will be in Davao City from August 13 to 18 to spend time with the family.

slacker's 1 year

This July 15 will find me working in a call center for one year. This was the date of hiring, not when I started taking calls which would be almost a month after (can't remember the exact date).

Still, a year is a year.

The first few months went quite fast and I hardly felt it. These days it just seems to be such a burden largely because of things at work which I don't want to elaborate on in a public post.

So, I got nothing special planned. I acknowledge my one year at work by working on that day. (or I think I will be.)

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career undergrowth

Last night some teammates and moi were discussing some career movements within the company. (Additional space has been leased from the mall to add more seats and clients of course and rumor has it will be functional/operational by June.)
The new client is a PC manufacturer and there are more (higher!) positions currently available than in our own account. And rumors of higher base pay also abound. But it will be no picnic troubleshooting computers itself especially compared to troubleshooting dsl internet connection. What I'm really aiming for is a position where I don't have to take in calls, but I don't know if I'm already qualified for that in the eyes of the company. And what's annoying is that though several flyers and ads are circulating in the office, not one details the qualifications.

And a week ago there was news that the ISP we support is opening/has opened its own call center here in manila w/higher pay--as much as twice of what we're getting right now supposedly. (I guess higher pay will always part of any rumor like this.)

So I guess I try out the available options.

I haven't posted anything for almost a month and here I am talking about work. But the 3rd decade is coming up and only that can make you take a step back and look at yourself, eh?

My next post will be titled 'birthday greens' because I don't think there's still enough rationale to keep having the blues after spending this much time breathing. Now I only have to write it.

And to keep things in perspective, here's something "fun" to read on dell tech support.

schedule

New work schedule starting April 09, 2007.
Work time is from 8:30pm to 5:30am (2000H to 0530H).
Day offs are on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Funny CAT pictures

This site has 3 pages of cats in compromising situations! ^.^

Happy Birthday, Dad.

dad
Originally uploaded by gem.cfg.

(again I have no words...)

boxedcat

boxedcat
Originally uploaded by gem.cfg.

I love this cat.
I don't get to spend much time with her, but she sleeps with me everyday .
She stinks an awful lot, but when I rub her soft fur and hug her, I don't mind it except when there's poop on her butt.

She can be pretty naughty. Marc has given her two nasty beatings for eating fish left on the table. No, she doesn't go hungry; she has her own food and all. Just being a typical kitty when it comes to fish, I guess.

On another note, I've officially survived 6 months of call center work. Woohoo! Can't wait to take my first vacation leave. Ü Then maybe I can take time out to see people I've missed. Yeah.