My new job is with Optus as a Customer Service/Telemarketing Rep. (I think I
have to learn to say Yes! a lot!)
Galaxy had a large head office set up at Pooraka (28 kms from home) and
when
they went belly up the State govn't and Optus got together to start up a big
call centre (over 800 staff capacity currently running at 200) and thats
where I'll be. The call centre covers all of SA, NT, Tas & WA so it is a
fairly big place and I'm really looking forward to getting back into the
workforce.
Be well, Love Karyne
-----Original Message-----
From: Errol White <eamjwhite(AT)bigpond.com>
To: MTripimcca(AT)aol.com <MTripimcca(AT)aol.com>
Cc: tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com <tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com>
Date: Sunday, 20 June 1999 8:18:pm
Subject: Re: [TMIC] FATHERS DAY
>Hello Maria,
>What a consequence that you should mention finding your genetic father this
>week. It is ten years on the 25 June (incidentally my birthday) that I
>first spoke with my biological mother. It was a phone call after I had
>written her a letter less than one week earlier. I was driving an
>airport-city shuttle bus those days, and I had arrived home to find many
>messages and this one from a lady who was my natural mother. We spoke for
>over four hours that night, gee I remember it well, 25 June 1989. We met
>at her house a week later and I met my two half sisters and a week later my
>half brother. You see, my natural mother married about a year after I was
>born and lived only 15 miles from where I lived and she had lived at that
>address for about 45 years at that time.
>My natural father was no longer alive, as was Joyce's (Natural Mother)
>husband. So I found and was welcomed into this extended family.
>But my Mother and Father, my adoptive parents are still and always will be
>Mum and Dad to me and on a scale of 1 to 10 they are definitely a 15+.
>However I still contact Joyce when ever I can, that is when she is home and
>not gallivanting around the country, and for a lady who is now around 77
>years of age with a minor heart problem, she does real well.
>
>So Maria, I can really appreciate what joy you must have at setting your
>goal and achieving it, I hope the remainder of your family see the light
and
>appreciate what you have achieved for you and respect you for doing so.
>
>I have often felt that God has a path for all of us to tread, whether it be
>hilly, mountainous or on nice even level ground, it does not really matter.
>We should seek to walk that path (so to speak) and in walking it, stop
>occasionally to smell the roses, thank those who assist and elate us along
>the way and forgive those who hinder and upset us.
>
>Kind Regards from Errol, Narangba, Queensland, Australia. ( Who hopes that
>Australia can beat Pakistan in the World Cup Cricket match being played at
>Lords, England tonight, Sunday 20 June 1999)
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MTripimcca(AT)aol.com <MTripimcca(AT)aol.com>
>To: BenniefromGA(AT)webtv.net <BenniefromGA(AT)webtv.net>; tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com
><tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com>
>Date: Saturday, 19 June, 1999 9:20 AM
>Subject: Re: [TMIC] FATHERS DAY
>
>