Monday 31st December 2012
Happy New Year everyone!
I hope that you all will attract AMAZING things into your lives in 2013! Don’t forget you always get exactly what you ask for so my wish to all of you out there is to know how to ask for the right things that will make you happy and content!
Loads of love x
G.
P.S. Instead of the usual NYE message I decided I’d share with you a message of a bigger importance. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did :
Sunday 30th December 2012
What do you call a morning that’s better than the best one? Is it “bettestest”? Yeah – that sound about right! So this morning was the bettestest of this week. Without doubt! I woke up to some amazing news – I was placed by the Airline to the exact building I wished for : The 21st Century building (I really ought to use the law of attraction on everything from now on!).
I was over the moon running up and down the stairs trying find somebody to share the big news with. But everybody was asleep! When I finally stumbled upon Huggie’s 11-year -old sister having her breakfast and told her she didn’t look too impressed. Probably because it went down a bit like this:
Me (red faced and sweaty from running):”OMGIjustgotmyaccommodationandimgointolive- rightontheSheikZayedroadrightinthecitycentreinthisamazingbuilding!!!”
Little sister (chewing her pancake totally unstirred) : “Sheik what?”
I gathered I wasn’t being very coherent and Googled some pictures instead. That seemed to have done more than any words could have.
Little sister (putting the half eaten pancake aside): “Is that where you are going to live in Dubai?”
Me (nodding vigorously): … !!
Little sister (looking quite impressed): “That’s pretty cool!… Is this the best job you’ve ever had?”
I didn’t have to think very hard to answer that. Any job that puts me up in here must be the best job I ever had :
I’m sharing this beauty with Tam and Claire from the January Joiners group on FB and countless other lucky people x
Today also marks another week of the six-pack challenge. More on that here.
x
G.
Saturday 29th December 2012
Today left me feeling pampered, spoilt and loved. Since I woke up to my last weekend in the UK I decided to make it a special one and treated myself to a beauty salon visit.
Last night was a long one ending with a fierce Just Dance 3 battle in early morning hours which resulted in me feeling rather under the weather when I woke up. However after hour and a half of being beautified and spa-ad I was back up to my usual standards. Instead of going back home and probably finding Huggie still asleep I opted for a coffee& kindle session in our local cafe which is quickly becoming my favourite indoor activity.
I was playing with the idea of a quick gym visit but when my bestie suggested a home cooked lunch and an afternoon of girly chitchat instead I gladly forgot about it. And I’m glad I did because I got to spend the rest of a very rainy day in a very lovely company of my girl-friends. It involved loads of amazing food, plenty of wedding talk and some nail varnishing. Also a good-bye present which totally kicks butt!!
I got a customised Teddy that has been decorated with good-bye messages and also A POEM! My friend and her husband turned out to be quite the poets, behold and see for yourself :
Dear Gabri,
You are off to Dubai
for a job in the sky.
Leaving the office,
coz you are flying high.
We will miss your face
and your crazy ways
as you jet set off with Emirates Airways.
But don’t be a stranger,
when you’re back in the UK.
Please bring back some sunshine,
coz our city is so grey !
x
G.
P.S. In case you are wondering – still no updates on the accommodation.
Friday 28th December 2012
First of all- no accommodation update yet. Second- as of today I officially LOVE SHERRY ! Sherry is even better than port which till now would always have been my drink of choice. Unlike port, sherry doesn’t give you that annoying red lip and teeth look that lets everyone immediately know you have had too much. It also tastes much sweeter which stop you from that second helping of an absolutely amazing apple crumble.
Yes – I admit. I may be a bit tipsy whilst writing this post. And by tipsy I mean drunk. You see I was going to write a really long post about my day today starting with surprising Huggie at the airport this morning when he got back from visiting his family in Germany and having my last jabs done and moving over to Huggie’s house tonight. But then Huggie was like “we should have a drink” and I was like “bring it on”. And now half a bottle of that sweet sweet sherry later I have remembered my resolution to write about every single of my last days in the UK.
I realise as I’m writing this that this one is not going to be my best post ever. But it had to be done. I can’t NOT write once I have promised I would. So …. in short today was pretty average almost on the edge of being pretty s**t until a bottle got open. And once again I realise saying this makes me sound like an alcoholic. Bite me. It’s Christmas time and I’ve just worked all week whilst my family and my boyfriend were miles away from me. And it didn’t matter until tonight when I got a bit drunk and started feeling sorry for myself.
I think I better stop now because this is not going quite the way I’d like it to. I promise everyone a very sober post tomorrow.
Happy Friday aka The-day-when-it’s-ok-to-get-drunk-before-8pm-day everyone
x
G.
So here it is. The final week. The last seven days before I fly to Dubai. I have a feeling the upcoming days are going to fly by and that’s why I decided to make a note of every each one of them. Just to make sure I remember them right. And to have something to look back to when if I ever feel sad and lonely in the lively sandpit. And to dedicated something to all of you out there, who have gone/ are going/ are going to go thru the same.
So here it is:
Thursday 27th December 2012
I woke up unnecessarily early as I usually do whenever I’m forced to spend a night at “mine”. Among others my landlady has a strange habit of sleeping with her TV on. On full blast. Nothing a pair of ear plugs can’t fix really, however I tend to subconsciously take them out while sleeping and then get woken up at 5am by BidTV. I spent couple of hours tossing and turning trying to go back to sleep then finally giving up and making my way to the gym. Having been shut for Christmas Eve and Boxing day everyone assumed it would have been closed for today too. That’s probably why I got to enjoy an unprecedented work out in a completely vacant studio. It got refurbished very recently and I’m in love with all the new equipment. I am going to miss this little gym of mine when I go. For sure.
After an hour or so my endorphin levels were running high and I wasted no time and used up all of that “fake” energy on packing. Tomorrow is my last day in the “Kingdom of smoke and loud TV’ and I can honestly tell you- never was I happier to pack my bags and go. Since I went thru the process of moving (out of my beloved smoke-free apartment) less than two months ago there was very little left to do. I was done in two hours. I got ready to work and set off.
And that’s when I got England-ed. What’s that I hear you ask? To get England-ed is what I call that moment when I look out of the window to check the weather. It’s not quite the winter wonderland but it’s bright and fairly dry. I zip up my jacket and get going. Just when I reach the point where it makes no sense to turn back and fetch an umbrella it’s start chucking it down. I don’t even get mad anymore because honestly I should know better by now and carry a small brolly everywhere I go. But I don’t and that’s why I get England-ed so often.
Work was pretty much awesome. Since I can count the office days I have left on one hand (and I don’t even need all the fingers) I dare to admit that for the first time in nearly three years I finally get away with pretending to work rather than actually working. I don’t feel too guilty about it tho because I’m sure the same company that’s letting me slack off a wee bit now will have me working my a** off in just a couple of weeks 🙂
Today and tomorrow is also my last “deadly combo”. It’s what we call a combination of a late shift followed by an early one. Meaning I finished at work at 8.30 pm tonight and start again tomorrow at 7.30 am. You only have to experience one of these to hate them from the very bottom of your heart.
I’m just about to go to sleep – half expecting that when I wake up tomorrow my Candidate portal would have been updated with the last piece of the jigsaw- the accommodation details. It’s indeed a big deal. You either get put up in one of the “good” buildings in the city centre and live happily ever after or get accommodated in the middle of the desert and have to wait for half a year to get relocated. Needless to say I am hoping for the city centre one. There is a flip side to everything tho – even if I do get the apartment in the desert I have heard it’s pretty much a cabin crew campus full of like-minded people doing the same thing as you are – trying to have the time of their lives- which means a very good chance of forming some strong friendships !
Goodnite everyone, let tomorrow be an amazing start to a long and well-deserved weekend!
x
G.
Gabri The Gadget Girl
When it comes to presents I’m not one of the Diamond Girls. Neither am I a Flower Girl or a Shower Gel& Face cream Girl. And I’m most definitely not a Clothes Girl. Nope. None of that.
When it comes to presents I am a total Gadget Girl. Give me a box of bath salts and there is a slight chance we won’t ever exchange gifts again. Give me a box that clicks and moves and we will probably become BFFs. Not only that. I will also be entertained for hours on end and totally lose myself to the World Of The Gadget. A world where you as The Giver are also the God. And I will chant:” This is the best Christmas/ birthday/ nameday/ anniversary ever!”.
If you want to be the Ultimate Creator and Destroyer of My World Of Gadgets then get me two. That will definitely mess me up. I will end up totally confused probably sat on the floor holding them both, rocking back and forth and frantically repeating:”OMG! This IS the BEST Christmas/ birthday/ nameday/ anniversary. E V E R!!”
That’s how much I love gadgets. There isn’t a gadget in the whole universe I don’t need. Regardless of whether or not I have any use for them I still need them. All of them preferably. On the scale of Gadget Awesomeness from Totally-Useless-But-Absolutely-Amazing to Will-Use-Every-Day-For-The-Rest-Of-My-Life-And-Love-You-For-It you can’t go wrong either way choosing one. Practicality is not necessary what counts. It’s the gadget-ness. It’s the element of surprise of giving me something I didn’t think I needed, but now can’t believe I have ever done without. Like an electric toothbrush. Or LED lit magnifying mirror. Or an iPod. Or a 360 camera. A coffee machine. Digital photo frame. Heated eyelash curler. Juicer. Blender. And a million others. I am most certainly a very spoilt Gadget Girl.
And now I have a new addition to my precious collection – an absolutely fantastic KINDLE ! A perfect gift for a air-hostess-to-be ! Light, compact and holds as many books as my entire bedroom wall can meaning I don’t have to part with any of my favourite titles! I am so in love with my new toy and so in love with the ultimate God of My World of Gadgets- Huggie!
I hope all of you are having a wonderful Christmas wherever you are!
x
G.
Do you remember how in the first ever post about the 6-pack challenge I have mentioned that my dad is probably the most competitive person in the universe? Well – I have been proven right.
Having seen my weekly updates he felt challenged enough to join in. Yes- as of this week my father is officially taking part in the 6-week-6-pack-challenge. I even have the pictures to show for it.(Now- it looks to me like they could have very well been taken on the same day but he has sworn 24 hours have passed between those two shots. And who am I to doubt his word?)
So here we go- please welcome the 3rd member of the 6-pack team:
Meet my dad …
… and his six pack
If there is anybody else out there who feels like joining- oh please do so! You know how the saying goes: the more the merrier! Just let me know by commenting! Let’s make this 6-pack dare A THING!
Lots of love and wishing y’all very Merry Xmas
G.
The 6-pack challenge is back on and in full swing!
Liebe Gruesse from Germany everyone (The Gluhwein here is just the best!)
x
G.
So Gabs was a bit naughty today. She has decided to skip the waiting part and see for herself whether or not there is a ticket to Dubai with her name of it. And guess what?! THERE IS ONE!!! I FOUND MY TICKET!!!
I suppose one of the many perks of my current job is that I get to see what people are booked on what flights. I was just checking a flight my friend (a girl I met on my initial AD and who also got the job!) is taking tomorrow when it occurred to me I should do the same for myself. It was so exciting to see my name in the booking system! It would have been even more so if it said “business” instead of “economy” but I suppose it will have to do this time 🙂 Hahaha just kidding of course !
Bon Voyage Magdi- I’m a bit gutted I can’t join you tomorrow and start the training in the same batch but I can’t wait to take on all the Dubai shenanigans with such an amazing friend as yourself!
x
G.
Dear 2012,
Now that we are about to enter the time of your sweet and well-deserved retirement I would like to express my gratitude and thank you from the bottom of my heart. You have surely been one hell of a year. Full of ups and downs you will be the one I will most certainly never forget about.
I have to say I wasn’t too impressed to welcome you as a newborn baby in January. Following the amazing 2011 –the year of Gabri’s travels- I thought you were bound to be a bit of a disappointment. And as you slowly unfolded you seemed to only want to confirm that assumption as you saw me working my a** off and getting really sick (of it). Still we both know that no January can be too bad since it’s my birthday month. Spending two weeks in my lovely snowy country with Huggie and circled by friends& family- skiing, eating, chilling and celebrating our numerous birthdays and name days was simply perfect! Oh – and let’s not forget about my poor snowboarding attempts which shall never be repeated.
Snowtubbing
The February blues hit us pretty hard didn’t they? Not even that little break in the Lakes did much help. On the contrary –it made the whole month of working late weekends so much harder!
March, however, was the month of remedy. More skiing, more family time and the beautiful Austrian Alps. Life was good once again.
April was devoted to preparations for an epic Hen do party, then partying and then attending a wonderful wedding.
In May Geoffrey came into our lives. Good old Geoffrey. Geoffrey- the only serious competition I have in the contest for number one place in Huggie’s heart. It’s shameful to admit it but I think I may have lost in May. Even more so considering Geoffrey is a car. “He” even went on holiday with us. Rambling road trip to Cornwall, where I decided that camping on the beach might be a great idea -everywhere else but in cold Blighty.
Geoffrey The Golf
Now –let’s be honest. June/ July period was your all time low. Or shall I say mine? Let’s just leave those two months where they belong- in the past, buried under great memories of my mum’s visit in August. My mum! No words will ever be enough to describe her. Let the picture talk instead:
Here comes the trouble
August was also the official start to my Cabin Crew dream. September/ October – that’s just a blur in my memory filled with all things flying. November– auch- was the month of injections. And gymming. And shopping. November was gooooooooodl!!
And here we are now – me ready to jump head first into 2013 and you nearing the end or your service. You did me good 2012, you taught me that if life gives you lemons you make a lemonade and drink it chilled with friends. Shaken, not stirred.
I just hope you are not going to come to a premature end this Friday. Let’s suck it up till the very end. Till the 31st !
x
G.
