My Place

Can't wait!!!!!!!!!

I'm in work to do the weekly wages and then that's me off, going up to Mummy-in-law's to leave my car, Hubbie is picking me up, we're leaving his car at Brother-in-law's, and then we're walking round to the Europa train/bus station to wait for the airbus to take us to the airport (it's every 10 mins so not long to wait).

The one bad thing about today is that I've got a stinking sore throat, a bunged up nose, and I've still to put my flight socks on something which I'm going to leave until the last minute I think just to make sure.

Have my phrase book in my bag, along with Fellowship of the Rings (have to have a bit of Tolkien on a flight), and plenty of tissues because my eyes always water when I'm on a plane for some strange reason, mints, my tablets and inhalers, and that should be me I think.

Nope not long to go at all.

and I'm still awake.

Not a good thing. Going to be blootered tomorrow but I can't help it, just not sleepy yet.

Hubbie and I are watching The Ascension III: The Legacy for some strange reason, not my usual type of film but I quite like Jason Scott Lee and I'm hoping he'll take his shirt off in this movie like he did in the other movie.

So far he hasn't but I live in hope.

...and then we'll be on a plane to Bulgaria getting ready for a week of relaxing and fun.

Ahh bliss!

According to Wikipedia liquorice can cause high blood pressure.

Liquorice
Consumption of liquorice (which can be of potent strength in liquorice candy) can lead to a surge in blood pressure. People with hypertension or history of cardio-vascular disease should avoid liquorice raising their blood pressure to risky levels. Frequently, if liquorice is the cause of the high blood pressure, a low blood level of potassium will also be present.

Liquorice extracts are present in many medicines (for example cough syrups, throat lozenges and peptic ulcer treatments).

first I've heard of that.

I don't eat much liquorice, actually it's rare that I'll eat liquorice so I can't blame high blood pressure on that.

Oh well, I'd better keep reading I suppose.

I've done a lot of stuff in work today and since I don't really need to be in here I could skip off quite easily without feeling guilty.

Maybe another hour then go.

There are a couple of sites us girls frequent during the day and we've come into work this morning to find that they've been blocked.

It's not as if we go onto these sites when we shouldn't, we get our work done no matter whether we've been on that site of not, but we don't have any other avenue of escape in this place other than the internet so now what do we do?

For the guys it's easy as they are hardly in the office, but for us girls we don't get out of here, we're stuck in all day.

Another example of the big boss sucking the life out of us bit by bit.

How dear are they?!?!

A tenner for some tight socks, how scary is that!

I know that I need them and they will be of benefit to me so I bought them regardless of the price but I still can't believe how dear they are.

You'd think something like that would be a bit cheaper seeing as how many are sold and how they'll always be needed.

and I'm lost as to what I'm going to take, just haven't a clue.

Who said holidays are easy?

Guess that means we're definately going then!

Really can't wait to be going away for a bit, been looking online for some info on Sunny Beach because no matter what everyone tells me I'd rather find out for myself what there is.

Roll on the holiday!

...for torturing and killing a dog. Six measly months. If he behaves he'll be out in a couple.

Wtf?!

So what kind of message does that give? Oh don't worry if you abuse, torture, hurt, and kill a defensive animal you'll get off quite lightly? Six months in Northern Ireland is nothing anymore.

Ridiculous!!!!

I don't normally swear but the amount of swear words I came off with today when I heard that on the news this afternoon was bad.

My best friend reminded me of that last night when we were texting each other and I had to tell her I had to stop because hubbie's car had broken down and I had to go rescue him, she told me that I was rescuing him because I married him.

Ta for the reminder. Ta for the reminder that I can't do a runner and that I'm stuck with him. Ta for the reminder that I have a mother-in-law.

Are you my best friend or just a big meanie?!

I do love him but boy does everyone need to remind me that I'm stuck with him?!

...wonder how much I'll get done?

I'm intending to get all the clothes washed and dried, bed clothes changed and washed, new quilt cover put on (by myself so this will be interesting), kitchen cleared, cupboards raided, freezer emptied and cleaned out, fridge washed, maybe try and get some ironing done.

Feeling brave aren't I?!

Might even fit in some baking, got a notion to try and bake bread, I have the yeast, flour and oil needed just haven't had the patience to do it yet, maybe today is the day.

1. Go to work - done
2. Order flowers for the big boss - done
3. Sort out holiday pay for one of my guys - done (finally!!)
4. Do a bit more round the office - done, but not as much as I would've hoped for
5. Read some more of my book - definately done
6. Eat!!!! - done
7. Housework - dishes but that's about it so far
8. Have a nap - no didn't get a chance but wish I had because not feeling too good
9. Mailshots and hello letters - nope
10. Tidy the office - hell no!!!

Again not a bad day but will make up for it by reading loads more tonight before I go to sleep fingers crossed.

1. Go to work
2. Order flowers for the big boss
3. Sort out holiday pay for one of my guys
4. Do a bit more round the office
5. Read some more of my book
6. Eat!!!!
7. Housework
8. Have a nap
9. Mailshots and hello letters
10. Tidy the office

That should be enough to keep going with I think.

1. Go to work - done
2. Sort out my desk - never going to happen no matter how hard I try!!!
3. Order flowers for the big boss who became a daddy before the holidays - can't do until tomorrow
4. Change the other company's answering machine message - done
5. Post out - done
6. Read my Jilly Cooper (not something I would've read normally but am quite enjoying the change) - done
7. Eat!!!!! - done
8. Consider doing the exercise dvd I have to please the nurse - looked at but completely ignored
9. Take handbags out of suitcase and put into box so I can start sorting holiday clothes for the pair of us - yep, done, but I own loads more than I realised
10. General housework - a bit but not as much as I probably should've done
11. Take clothes to the charity shop - nope forgot to take the bag with me
12. Print more photos - nope

Not sure what kind of day I've had but at least I got something done.

1. Go to work
2. Sort out my desk
3. Order flowers for the big boss who became a daddy before the holidays
4. Change the other company's answering machine message
5. Post out
6. Read my Jilly Cooper (not something I would've read normally but am quite enjoying the change)
7. Eat!!!!!
8. Consider doing the exercise dvd I have to please the nurse
9. Take handbags out of suitcase and put into box so I can start sorting holiday clothes for the pair of us
10. General housework
11. Take clothes to the charity shop
12. Print more photos

Think that's enough to keep me going for a bit!

hubbie and I will be sitting in our hotel in Bulgaria enjoying our 1st night on holiday!

Our family (hubbie's family) will already be in Bulgaria and they might be waiting for us reaching our hotel and with a welcome on one side and a drink waiting on the other. Good way to start our holiday!

Can't wait for hubbie and I to get away from it all and enjoy some 'us' time, it's been a while since we've spent any time together.

...with another gurny girl crying over the fact she has to wear something she wouldn't normally wear, umm you want to be a model, thongs and skimpy clothing are part of the job, get over yourself already!!!!

Really really bad! Just as well I don't depend on television to keep me occupied during my time off from work or I'd be going crazy!

Went for a visit this afternoon and I'm not long home and almost the whole time I was there I felt like a spare and completely out of place, hubbie wasn't with me as he was working so I can't tell him how I'm feeling especially as it was his family I was with. They did their best to include me but they always manage to start talking about something which excludes me completely and I end up just sitting their listening to them and keeping quiet and then someone makes a remark about how quiet I am but what am I meant to say to that? Sorry for keeping quiet but you are all ignoring me and not making any effort to talk about something in which I can join in instead you are all talking about stuff that happened years before I became part of the family.

I knew that there would be times when they'd talk amongst themselves and I'd be the odd one out but I would've thought that by now I've been part of the family long enough for them to realise that they're doing it, and I'm not the kind of person to say anything to them and they all know this.

I like spending time with them altogether but I'm beginning to feel like it's a chore going over rather than a pleasure.

If I did grow a backbone and said to any of them it would just start a fight and then it would be me that's the worst in the world, that's the way it works in the family.

I think I might have one on each shoulder; I know which one I want to listen to but I'm unsure which one I should listen to!

I have one to attend tomorrow afternoon at 2pm for a relative, well he's a distant relative of my Nana but he was always there, he never had a family and he treated us as his own. He was a retired math teacher, one of those old-fashioned teachers that demanded respect without actually having to raise his voice or exact any discipline. He was also a real gentleman, never had a cross word to say about anyone but always made everyone feel as if they had to do their best for him though he never asked for it.

He's going to be missed.

Sunday is going to be a rough day.

1. Get into work - done
2. Sort out the post - done and sorted the other company's also
3. Tidy up what I didn't get done at the start of the week - partly
4. Sort through what will need doing in the next fortnight and see if any of it an come home with me - nope
5. Consider going to the chippy across the road for a curry chip because that sounds really yummy! - definately did this!
6. Go home and have a nap because you've got a headache and you're meant to be going out tonight and you don't want to be the wet blanket - yep

Not bad got a lot of the above done.

Also got my clothes sorted so just need to bag them up and take to the charity shop on Tuesday so pleased with that if nothing else.

1. Get into work
2. Sort out the post
3. Tidy up what I didn't get done at the start of the week
4. Sort through what will need doing in the next fortnight and see if any of it an come home with me
5. Consider going to the chippy across the road for a curry chip because that sounds really yummy!
6. Go home and have a nap because you've got a headache and you're meant to be going out tonight and you don't want to be the wet blanket

Think that's enough to keep going with for now.

Well I got stuck into the sock drawer and got it slighly tidied up but I'm missing a lot of socks so couldn't quite finish that job, will be tackling that some stage next week once all the washing has been caught up on incase there's a few socks still hiding at the bottom of the laundry basket.

Started dividing my clothes into piles that I'm keeping and clothes that I'll have to try on to see how they fit, once I've had a bath and feel all fresh I shall be trying them on, no point trying clothes on when you're feeling grubby because nothing will feel right regardless of whether they fit or not.

Didn't get much done but it was a start so I'm pleased with that.

Got a lot of reading done though so that's good!

Hubbie is home early and he's brought home with him a chicken kebab for me, yucky donor kebab for him, popcorn chicken for the cats, and he's got me to turn the tv over to wwe raw wrestling, it's a good night.

...when I haven't done anything today?

The headaches I get I associate with work or with me being out and about concentrating on what I'm doing and keeping myself and others organised and in control, I don't associate them with being in the house doing sweet fanny adams all day!!!

Wonder if hubbie would believe me now when I say doing nothing is hazardous to my health?!

My plan of attack for my 1st day off work for the July holidays:

Clear out my wardrobe!!!

I've a lot of clothes that are now too big for me but I haven't got rid of yet because I'm too fond of them for one reason or another so that's what I'm going to do this afternoon after lunch, I'm going to be ruthless with my clothes but also be pratical as well because I'm not able to replace what I throw out just yet, am too skint!

After that I think i deserve a couple of hours reading definately.

and I'm going stir crazy already!!!!

I don't deal well with being off work and being away from my daily routine. I need routine!

Plenty of books to read so might get stuck into them once I put the laptop down.

...but am I away home?

Nope!

I'm nowhere near ready to go home and shall be in nearly everyday of the holidays trying to get myself gathered and so organised that the girl from the other office won't have to do anything more than my post each morning and nothing else.

Why I do this to myself each year I'm not sure, am I a masochist (can't spell it!) I dunno but I do know that I promise each year that I won't go through this the following but I always do.

Will definately deserve a drink when I get home tonight!

I've been told many times that I have road rage, of course I have denied this each time it has been suggested but I've noticed that anyone who now says this hides my car keys as if I'm going to chase them down.

To me road rage is someone who starts a fight in the middle of the road just because someone cut them up or gets too close to their car or pushes infront of them in the traffic - I have never started a fight. I may shout, yell, and swear quite loudly but I have never started any physical altercation with another driver.

I just have a low tolerance of drivers who seem to think their indicators are painted on, who seem to think it's ok to drive up your exhaust trying to push you out of the way even when there's nowhere for you to go, who speed when they shouldn't, who talk on their mobiles whilst driving, who drive through red lights when my lights are green. In general I hate bad drivers which on the way to work every morning seems to double each day.

Now I'm not saying I'm a brilliant driver but I don't use my mobile when I'm driving, I always use my indicators, and I don't speed through red lights.

Oh and the worst thing I truly and utterly hate is the drivers in the big flashy cars who seem to think it's ok to wait until the last minute to move out of the way of the speeding, lights flashing, siren blaring ambulance on the motorway when the rest of us have moved as soon as we heard the sirens. I really hate that!!! If it was someone they loved in the ambulance they'd be kicking off if a driver did that to them so what right do they have to do it to someone elses loved one?!?!?!?! (This was an example of what happened on the motorway Monday morning about 10.30am as I was driving back from the Doctor's on the way to work, stupid Audi driver).

I could rant all day on this.

It's unfair that the drivers out there that do abide the laws and try to be considerate of others are having to put up with the rest of the idiots on the road.

Hubbie is going to go spare but I'm still in work and it'll take me at least 30 mins before I get home, oh well he'll just have to go hungry until I'm there or else feed himself!

Not only am I being held back for not filling a form in (though I was never sent the form in the 1st place therefore wasn't aware there was a form to fill in) but there might also be a problem with comunication with the people I'm dealing with with regards to one of my employees who has returned to work many months ago after a prolonged absence. They were notified of his return to work but on the form sent to me it looks like it hasn't gotten through to the relevant department.

Not amused.

Two days before the office breaks up for the 12th fortnight holidays and I decide to give my office a complete overhaul and to re-organise my folders and books etc. Now this might seem like a good idea until you realise that I don't have half the stuff needed to do this 'overhaul'. I have neither the bigger folders required nor the room in which to do it in!

These things always seem like a good idea until they're started and after that everything goes downhill pretty quickly.

when I must sort the weekly wages out but this time more than most I'm not looking forward to it as I have to sort out the holiday pay as well. Too much thinking and too much can go wrong that I always panic incase I've done something or not done something!

Wish me luck!!

Quite possibly yes!

I know we might not even like this house and will have to find somewhere else to live but I really really want out of this area. The kids playing football next door are driving us crazy, my plants are getting broken and you can't say anything to them no matter how nicely without wondering what's going to happen to the car next or worse what's going to happen to the cats next.

I'm hoping I'll love this house or if not love then at least can see me living in it for a bit but if I don't then I'll probably want to move anyway just to get out of here.

and I must say I'm very pleased with how it looks. It really is as big as I was told and it looks in very good condition from the outside. Our landlady takes possession of it at the start of August and if we like it we will be moving in a fortnight later. The house belonged to an older lady, I'm not sure what has happened to her but her house has been sold to our landlady and I suppose that's all we should be concerned about.

Hubbie was talking to our landlady yesterday and she says that she'll be replacing the kitchen if we would like them too because it's a bit dated and if we wanted she'd replace the windows to make them double glazing but I don't mind about the glazing because it's a quiet enough area.

Not long to go before we get out of this area!

As always I'm sad at the series ending but I'm sad at the way it's ended.

It's not fair that the Doctor must end up alone, again! When is he ever going to catch a break?!?!

If he's reading this I'll give you a hug anytime you're lonely, just give me a warning you're coming round and I'll kick my Hubbie out for a bit!

Spag bol both comfort food and it's something that Hubbie will eat without complaining about it.

Might have to make stew sometime over the weekend as well just for the ultimate in comfort food - corn beef stew, brilliant! Hubbie won't touch it I know but he'll be at work Saturday and Sunday night anway so I'll be able to enjoy it myself in peace and quiet and without having to make two different meals.

Looking forward to that now!

What's the chances I'll get a long lie-in tomorrow morning?

Hubbie is off work so won't be disturbed with him getting up and getting ready so maybe my chances are very good.

Just incase though I'll be making sure the alarms are off, the telephone isn't plugged in so his Mummy can't call like she sometimes does on a Saturday morning, and I'll just hide under the duvet until I'm ready!

I know I shouldn't expect manners working with the lot I do but how un-gentleman-like is it when one of the subbies points out the bags below my eyes!?

I can laugh about it because you get nothing but brutal honesty from this subbie, he's old enough to be my father and he treats me just like one of his kids but a girl could use a compliment or two now and again regardless of the truth!

I get these sometimes during the day when my body won't do what I want it too, my head feels so heavy and I get really really sleepy that I could sleep where I'm sitting.

Not sure what to do about them but curl up for a min or two but I'm always scared of falling asleep in work and then the boss finding me and trying to explain how I'm feeling is really awkward.

Doc doesn't know what to do about it, they just put it down to pressures of work and blood pressure etc whatever happens to be happening at the time when I walk to them about it.

Need to go curl up.

Where has the time gone?!

I'll be married a year in two months and it feels like it's just gone past so quickly I've missed something, ever get that feeling?

Another couple of weeks and we'll be away on holiday, that's something else that's sneaked up on us and can't believe that not that long ago it felt like ages away.

Is it just that we've no time for anything that time seems to be slipping away from us?