Why is yawning contagious? What a terrible way to start a blog… with a yawn. But it wasn’t mine it was his (the person sitting beside me wishing to remain anonymous). Well it has been some time since I last opined (opine= to rant, not really sure how to use it in a sentence but put it out there). I’ll try not to make you yawn…

So much has been happening, the peak of busy season is upon us and audit opinions are being cannoned out the level 12 window across the Wellington CBD daily. It’s pedal to the metal as they say, but it’s good times! I’ve done my first week long audit, in the words of Jason Derulo, flying solo. It was a great chance to see how the whole process fit together. If you’re a control freak it’s great to be on your own timeline, making the rules- lunch at 11am (& 3pm). 

Busy season has led to me developing some “organisational skills”, very green, but necessary to keep on top of life. (As life on top of me is not ideal.) Breakfast at the office has become a crucial part of the stay-in-bed-as-long-as-possible regime, as well as pre-planned outfits, pre-made lunch and wearing your outfit to bed… actually haven’t tried that one yet but could be an option? I lie, I once woke up at 4am, thought it was 6am (my watch battery had died), completely showered, got ready and had breakfast, only to realise that it was still the middle of the night, so I got back into bed fully clothed and went back to sleep for a few hours. Was easy to get ready second time round later that day!

Enjoying being back on a team this week though… on an awesome client, laughs all round, our audit discussions centre around the lolly jar sitting on swiss balls. My senior took it upon himself to show us all how to do “the superman”. If I hadn’t been crying tears of laughter from seeing a 6ft 2’ suited male “fly” on a swiss ball in the middle of someone else’s office, I would have taken a photo.  

Over the weekend, I had afternoon tea to catch up with the audit babes after a week of madness. Baking goodies and tea around a fire was the perfect setting for the fully fledged gossip session that followed, just to ensure no one was getting up to any mischief without us all being included. Safe to say Alice took the cake with her rocky road creation (once again, I guess we will just leave all the baking up to you going forward Alice?)

Half the office are away auditing a client in Chch at the moment - huge hours but free Les Mills memberships and they were staying in the same hotel as the All Blacks last week so not a bad trade-off… Safe to say a lot of auditing was performed in the lobby just in case Dan needed someone to talk to…

We have an audit ski trip planned for the weekend at the end of August - everything has been sorted, the only worry going forward is that there are going to be 30+ auditors on the ski fields on the same day. I’m hoping we return with substantially all of the team. How do you spot an auditor on the ski field? They are down the bottom reading the “how to get onto the chair lift safely” sign… Ok bad joke, I made it up, but it’s going to be a laugh. 

Cheers, Lucy