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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.
