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Well, theres a guy who lives in my street a few houses down, his name is Paul (apparently), and hes a great guy, a few years back I bought a push bike, then as I couldnt realistically use it much I let the tyres down.. only to now be in a position to use it and find I couldnt find a pump to pump them up again..
He pumped my tyres for me :) as he had the special fitting thingy to go on the end!
yay!
As a child I *loved* K9. He was the world to me. I was therefore rather, well for want of a better word, traumatised, when the spin off to Dr Who, K9 and company aired, Im not entirely sure how old I was, but, Im guessing 8 or 9, maybe. As I remember it, a kid came out of his sitting room to go to the kitchen, was abducted and taken for satanic sacrifice.
Despite all this, I still loved K9.. wasnt his fault!
This weeks Dr Who had Sarah Jane and K9 in it.. Without spoiling your viewing if you havent seen it, I cried I cried my heart out, what a glorious effort, K9 is STILL my hero.. and Im proud to be 34 this year..
Both hubby and I were verbally mean to our dog, Hubby told him that K9 was a better dog, and I confessed K9 was my first doggie love. Our poor dog, he looked so sad!!!
Bah, we hugged him after..
OK, heres the thing
Ive been told more than asked if I would work saturday, given I had done the easter weekend, I am far from keen, however, a) Im really the only one who could do it, b) Id probably be the only who would do it and c) I was kidna told that anyone whos not flexible wouldnt get a rise, so I dont feel I could say no, even if I needed or wanted to.
The work was due to be an hour or so. An hour midday, and then a couple of minutes later..
Now its get in at 8am.. and pretty much be there 12 hours, and if it goes wrong 5 hours sunday, despite me saying I really cant do sunday..
So my question to myself is am I being unreasonable?
My easter weekend I was asked to be there saturday 5am, was there till 7.30, then called 11.30, 12.30, got in1.30, stayed till 6.30.. and was so tired I dont remember sunday, or much of monday which was a free day off work.. for this, yes, I get paid, but, its like 7 hours.. for wrecking a whole weekend.. and when you're paid like 50p an hour.. the £3.50 aint going to make it any better.. (Ok its more than that but you know what I mean) to be honest, even 300 pounds wouldnt necessarily make up for the lost time. The company does offer time of in lieu, (TOIL) but, unless your friends/family etc can all take the time off, its not time you can spend with them, so its not the same. That and all the things put on over the weekend wont be on either.
Easter was only a couple of weeks ago, and yes, we have a 3 day weekend this weekend but if Im in work all of saturday.. How reasonable is that on me? or my husband?
Husband of course now is ill, so, despite me being grumpy he had expected me to go to the store food shopping on the easter saturday while I was working .. his own words were "cant you do it on your way home" (at 7.30am the damn shop is shut.. so no) Im sure the same will come again this weekend..
I made a new scarf yesterday, remember I made a scarf for a friend it was made of cotton and not very warm, but it was the first one I made. Well, I made him a fluffy usable one too. Only took me last night.. Im dead pleased!!
No, not bingo, House, the rather curious american program about House the consultant who takes drugs, accuses people of sleeping around to provoke them (or at least seems to), misses girlfriend, and applies a Sherlock Holmes style to medical diagnosis.. I love it.
Thats nicely followed by Grey's anatomy, where a bunch of interns spend their lives in yet another american drama.
I like thursday tv
Feeling better today, not so much when I got up, in fact, I think death would have been good first thing, or last thing last night, haven't had major shivers like that since chemo! This morning was more sweating like a hoar, but to the touch was cold and clammy, my skin felt like the merest touch would make me scream, I felt like Id break if I breathed too much.. so, was another day at home. I feel bad, Im not one for skiving off work.
The day passed thankfully quickly enough, I feel a lot better now, pretty much just a cough, paracetamol really is the thing for sweats..
The new crochet project is growing, its about 6" deep now, and of course 50" wide.. its certainly going to be an epic journey
This post is not for the squeemish!
At the moment I dont feel so bad, but, my lungs seem to be full of throthy snot, and my mouth is watering enough to fill a glass quicker than a dripping tap, to the point that talking is almost that reflux of drowning.
:(
I feel like CRAP
So, back to work tomorrow.. not much fun ahead this week, manager now wants meetings on monday to ask what we did, how we did it and what we're going to do, and then the same in paper on fridays ..
The grand prix sucked today, Jenson Buttons is terrible at pit stops, so the team decided he should do 3.. bad idea, and then to make it worse the fuel nosle got stuck and well he finished 7th.
The new crochet project is underway, its gonna take ages though... Ive managed like 1 1/4 inches... sigh.. its 403 stitches wide, and in like the tinyest thread ever.. Hope its gonna be worth it.
Despite having a short week this week with the public holiday monday, Im really happy the weekend is here. Hubby has been away 2 days this week which hasnt improved his mood or mine, and my mood due to work has gone from crap to seething. Our manager started off with weekly meetings where you had to give reports on what you did and what you will do.. now as well as that we have to do it in writing at the end of the week.. I had to ask him "Is it ok to write nothing on it?" as despite being one of the more experienced in our team, I have no work todo. Its not there isnt any, but the juniors of the teem are hogging and causing me greif and issue in messing things up, and taking ages..
sigh.. hence.. Im so happy its friday!
Revenge of jumper is complete. More to the point, this one actually fits :) Well it fits me and its for me! Once again I apologise for the background, but the jumper is here as best could be shown.. Not able to take photo of myself :)
OK, many of us are old enough to remember when "starburst" were called Opal Fruits.
They have recently bought out a new set of sweets, same idea, ususal yellow, green, red, purple sweets only these are sour chews.. and they are awsome.
Opal fruits always did make your mouth water, and most people I know struggled not to eat all available in like one sitting, but these, these make like a waterfall in your mouth.. but much like normal sweets the additional water arriving in your mouth disovles the sweet all too fast, so you find yourself smushing more than 1 together - usually the same flavor, as they are strangely hardish in your hands till you fold them a couple of times and after a little more turn to very soft and maliable.
They are yum !! (buy 1 get 1 free at tesco!)
Computers suck (A non real computer languaged based thought...)
while (My.Status = Alive) { My.UseComputer(); }
print My.Will2live;
end;
Event Will2LiveChanged;
{
if Will2live > 0 My.Status = Alive
else My.Status = Dead;
}
Procedure My.UseComputer();
{
Computer.Start();
if (Hour>8 and hour< 23)
{
Case Computer.Status:
Happy : inc(My.Will2Live);
OK : UseComputer();
UnHappy : dec(My.Will2Live);
Fucked : My.Will2Live=0;
}
}
/run
Will2live is 0
User is dead.
Program ended.
So.. who can guess the status of my PC?
My PC just ate itself. Not just like rebooted and lost stuff, or, blue screen hahahah, no.. this was more big rude gesture, granted, no smoke, no big bang, but, I think it could be terminal.. this will be the 4th PC in about 6 months.. Ive already lost 16 years worth of mails when a HD failed and of course after a backup where it backed up all the corruptness, and like so many I cant afford 300 tapes to cycle them.. so it overwrote any saved copies.. This one stands to lose just as much, so many passwords etc Ive saved and dont recall, or IDs I dont recall coz things auto logged in.. sites.. everything.
Why why why?????
If I see 1 more "Bratz" ad on tv, I will puke, I swear. Im not kidding, theres currently around 8 ads per break, at least 3 are for a Bratz product. Petz, Ponyz, Genies, Bubbles... theres more.. sigh.. its really really really irritating
Well, the back is complete, so is about 2/3 of the front!! This one is flying.. I just hope its big enough!!! Failing that, maybe hubby will have one he can actually wear!
So, I got up 5am on a saturday, and as I often do, I woke up annoyingly fairly quickly, so none of that "just 5 more minutes" feeling, no, wide awake..
So, I got to work for 5.25, was there a couple of hours..
Ive been up nearly 5 hours, so... Is it lunchtime yet?? Im hungry
Thankfully I dont have debt other than my mortgage, so, Im very lucky in that way. However, it really irritates me when you see the following on tv.. (not word for word but this is the story)
Person: Hi, I have 20k of credit card bills and I just cant afford to pay them
company: Why not take out our loan, spread the debt over the next 10 years or so so you pay say half what they're asking now, and then you can spend MORE money you dont have and be tied to this forever more!
All the ads say, get a loan : well if you have high interest like creditcards, yes, I can see a point, but, you really really dont want one over a long term you want it as short as you can, but, trying to pay off as quick as you can, so yes, you will need to push your limit to as close as you can.
All the ads then imply that once you have their loan the fact you still owe tons of money and will do for years that you should blow the cash on holidays and cars etc that no offense, if you havent got the money, you should do without! Yes a new car would be nice, yes 2 weeks in some sunny place would be great.. but if you dont have the money... DONT DO IT
So, I finally finished that thing that haunted me, so, what on earth has possessed me to do me a jumper too???
Started today, I am at least crocheting this! Even so...
(PS, its now 23.50.. and Ive done 15.5"!!!!)
The jumper is made.. It looks like a reject, but, its made..
As you can possibly make out the sleeves arent as lose a knit as the body, so it looks pretty awful.
Now to get hubby to wear it!!! and onto something for me.. lets hope I dont make such a hash of it.
There is something that should be illegal but it isn't. What's that? I hear you ask.
Easter is a free 4 day holiday for most workers, a few have to work, and I have every sympathy, but for example, where I work would pay me a rate of 3x for Friday, 2.5 for Monday and probably Sunday.. But, Saturday is just a Saturday, so, nothing really to help, so, this Easter Saturday I have been told to get to work before 6am!!! 6am on a day off isn't any fun, but halfway through a 4 day off? It should be a criminal act!
My friend has resurfaced. Im still worried for him but hes back at work, and I rest a little easier.
Im not the hugest tv watcher, I watch a few things each week. CSI, House, Charmed and more recently (like last week) Greys Anatomy started which looks like something I could get into.
Today I share with you this thought.
You're asked to search a house, its like 40C outside, sun blazing down almost burning the asfelt off the road.. Do you
a) keep all the curtains drawn (as they always are) and walk round with a pin sized torch
or
b) open the curtains or at least turn the darn lights on....
Aparrently all of us who would use option b... we're wrong. .you *need* to use the pin size torch..
My friend has gone awol again.
It looks like the decision he made has potentially become unmade. Im worried however, as well, I havent been able to get hold of him since wednesday. The decision made doesnt effect me either way, I just want him to be happy. If hes changed his mind, I can be happy for him still, I just want to know hes safe, and that I care for him no matter what he decides. I just wish I knew he was safe.
Before
AfterWell, Im past the base of the arm pits of the jumper from hell. In fact, Im probably 2/3 the way up the arm pits, so, tomorrow should see end of the front, and with any luck, the sleeves will be short lived!!
You have no idea how much Im looking forward to the end!!
Ever had those feelings that days come and go, weeks come and go, months come and go and you just don't have time to make what you want of it?
TV suckers us into believing that you can get up at about 7, run 15 miles, shower, have breakfast, travel to work and still be there for 9.. Have an trip to a restaurant and eat it, without indigestion in a 1 hour lunchbreak, and, go home, have the sun still shine that you can do what would seem to most to be a whole days worth of activities.
Sadly the reality is you get up, you barely have time to get clean and throw some food in your face if you got up more like 6.30, you get to work before 9 coz no one seems to start at 9 now.. Also of course we work till 5.30 often too and it seems companies would much rather we had a 30 minute lunch break.. Oh and of course the reality is a lot of us don't even end up with lunch breaks.. Home time comes, and time ebbs away as you head home, you get home in time to change, eat, and sit down yet somehow now its nearer 8/8.30 and its often far from "light" outside, by the time you've relaxed enough to forget anything that bugged you at work its time to get to bed coz unlike people on TV, it takes more than 3 seconds to clean and get ready for bed, and we need to sleep unlike TV people who can either be at it like rabbits all night and still somehow be awake the next day, or, wake up looking perfect.. Some of us have to work hours to look the messes that we do!
On Saturdays and Sundays of course, rather than relaxing and doing hobbies, we spend a lot of it, cleaning, washing and shopping to stop us starving the next week. A few hours are grabbed late afternoon evening to do things we maybe want to or visit people we potentially have to to keep family feelings alive and well, and friendships in existence.. Sunday night comes all too fast and its Monday and the cycle begins again
PS 15+" through the front of the jumper from hell now.
Well, the walk home from work today was marvelous, the sun shining, cool wind, not too much traffic. If it had been marginally warmer it would have been perfect.
Got home and the trimmers for my dog had arrived, so had to collect them. They work a treat! I love them. I did his head, some chest and a shoulder over the weekend, took ages, did his back, bum, tops of his hind legs, bit of tum in about 15 minutes.. he looks so much happer, he always is with less fur.. but, hes flat asleep.. awww
Work on the jumper continues, Im about 7" up the front now.. I might actually finish it.. just a shame its looking like it would be a great hammoc... its HUGE.. not the 40" expected.
PS my friend has returned, but is quiet. I am worried. Hes special to me, its harsh he lives so far and I cant help him.
Today was a long day.. A server I support at work, died, died good.. The software on it threw a hissy fit, which the guys hadnt heard before, and in trying to fix it between them and me, it died. So, ended up working 2 hours over time.. Got home and Im fixing a server.. not a work one though.. today is a tough server day obviously.
Im worried for a friend who is AWOL. While I dont think he'll read this, my thoughts and hugs are with him.
Well, the back of the jumper is finished.. it looks a little thin and weedy like I have the tension totally wrong.. but, work is now starting on the front. I guess as long as the tension stays the same, it cant be too bad..
So, Ive mentioned it enough, heres a picture. Its hard for you to get an idea of size from that, well its about 18" long from top to bottom. (Under neath is the "small" ball of wool that Im knitting from!)
PS anyone else think I need to clear my desk?
Last night on tv was said one of the dumbest things I think Ive ever heard. To the point Id share it with you. For this you have to understand that much as squirrels are the cutested little things, they are technically vermin. So..
A squirrel is caught in a carwash, theres a chain that opperates one of the bits of machinery and hes got his foot into the chain of it and its stuck.. So, the nice animal man rescues the poor thing, its lost 1 toe, but its covered in oil, and very much in shock from the whole thing.
So, a few days later after lots of anti biotics the squirrel is healthy, the man says "Now the squirrel is healthy, we can put it down" OH MY GOD, they made it better just to kill it?? thankfully, he continues "or give it to a shelter" .. but I ask you, vermin or not, if you were only going to put it down surely just killing it at the time would have been far more sensible.. Im really happy they sent it to the shelter, but, what a dumb thing to say!
