29.7.11

Today there was a bake sale in work, I believe for the African Drought appeal. You can't beat a bake sale in work. Always tasty treats for much cheapness.

26.7.11

I am not generally a big reader, and the only books I generally will read quite obsessively are James Patterson ones. However a friend in work was reading this book and she let me borrow it. It has spawned a TV programme I quite enjoy which I didn't realise actually came from a book series. I am really rather enjoyingthis book, just need to wait for the girl in work to finish the next one and let me borrow that!

7.7.11

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!

I got cake from the people in work (and also a profanity generator flip book :-S )

And, among may other lovely presents, this vintage necklace from mum and dad. Mum also made amazing orange chicken for dinner and tomorrow I am going to have a DVD night with Eileen, Sarah and Kirsty. Yay for birthdays!!!

10.6.11

Today in work each team was to represent a country. I don't really know why, but my team decided to be France. We got lots of french food including French Fries crisps, grape juice in place of wine, croissants and French Fancies.

I had some 'wine' with brekkies

And periodically wore a moustache.

It was quite a good day.

9.9.11

Meet Fernando. He is a new addition to my desk in work. He will be replacing my stress ball that has an angry face tippexed on it and pins sticking out of its head. I don't think Fernando is going to have a long life span.....

3.6.11

The weather was cracking today. Beautiful, sunny and warm. Sadly I was stuck in work all day. However the canteen at work decided to cash in on the first decent weather we have had this year and had ice cream for sale. Mine had fruit compote, meringue, marshmallows and a chocolate stick! I must say, it brightened up my afternoon.

1.6.11

I have a wee pad of post its that sit on top of my computer in work. On one side there is a smiley face, and the other has a grumpy face. I turn it round depending on my mood and today was a grumpy face day.

I had a woman phone up, spend 10 minutes talking to me like I was stupid and then, when I tried to explain why we were needed what we asking for, proceeded to shout over me 'No, listen to me. No, listen to me. No, listen to me. No, listen to me. No, listen to me. No, listen to me. No, listen to me.' I quickly got sick of that and hung up on her with no warning. Really, when you call a call centre, think of the person on the other end of the phone as a human being and not a monkey you can abuse and treat like a piece of dirt on your shoe. If you do that they might just go out of their way to help you. If you speak to them like that woman did to me you get no help what so ever.

25.5.11

Whats this? Impromtu outdoor gig? Someone giving away free sausage rolls? Sadly not. We had a fire drill in work. It was chilly, and damp.
However I did pick a wee flower for my desk while we were out. Awww, isn't it pretty?

11.5.11

This morning tragedy struck! I forgot to pick up my MP3 player from its charger. That meant I had no tunes for driving to the station. No tunes means I am not a happy bunny.

It's cool though, I managed to get a really annoying song stuck in my head all day (which currently escapes me) so by the time I was heading home I was so sick of it circling my head that I was quite happy to drive home in silence.

9.5.11

Ended up with a migraine last night and had an early night. As a result I had to get up very early to get my clothes in the dryer and showered for work. I finally hit the land of the living at 6.35am.

Unfortunately my migraine made a return on my drive to the train station and I had to just turn round and come home again. Luckily that meant I got to go back to bed, unluckily it felt like a goblin was trying to smash its way out of my skull.

6.5.11

This picture is of a print out of an email that went back and forth between me and my younger sister Sarah today. It started with her sending an email saying 'TGIF!' - Thank goodness its Friday. I responded with 'TCIF!' - Thank Crunchie its Friday. After that point it descended into madness. The general gist of it all was one of us would send the first letter of each word in a sentence/song lyric/film quote and we would substitute one word for Friday. The other then had to guess what all the letters stood for. Most notable ones are:

SOOBATTTK,PMACOF - it stood for 'Stumble out of bed and tumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of Friday! Sarah's guess was 'Somewhere on our big plane the topical treatment kills, People may accumulate coins on Friday'

TEOTF - it stood for 'Total Eclipse of the Friday'. I guessed 'Triceritops eats only tragic Friday.'

It certainly brightened up my Friday.

3.5.11

Today was my first day back at work after a glorious 11 days off. As is always the way, it was a horrible day.

Its ok though because I cheered myself up with a caramel cup and custard. Cake always makes me happy, it could be why I have such a podgy tummy but I really don't care.

19.4.11

First Easter egg of the season! The bosses in work are trying to keep us sweet so we each got an Easter egg today. Me and Mum shared it and it was good :)

8.4.11

This was my desk at 5pm tonight. Normally I have everything tidyed away but today was pretty busy and shambolic. This is actually fairly tidy, because I had sorted and put some papers away at one point because I was just surrounded. Thank Crunchie it's Friday!

5.4.11

Candy Bracelet! One of the girls in work came in with a bunch of candy bracelets. I managed to hold off eating mine until after I finished work. I did wear it all day, even when I had big important people sitting with me to go through one of our processes. I may have tried to use my left hand to point things out, just so they could see my groovy piece of edible jewellery. I think they were jealous they didn't have one :)

24.3.11

One of the best types of cake is free cake. A guy in my team at work had his birthday today so, as is tradition, he got a card, beer and cake.

I am not a huge fan of chocolate cake, but I am not one to turn down a free piece of any flavour.

I better get my order in for July.....

23.3.11

This is the latest addition to my menagerie at work. She has been named Shaniquah and she is perched atop my computer screen.

18.3.11

Today was a haaaaard day in work. However the stress was eased when my holidays were confirmed for April. I have the 26th to the 28th off, however because of the way a couple of bank holidays fall (and thanks to the upcoming Royal wedding) I will have a whole 11 days off. WOOOOO HOOOOO!!!

15.3.11

It appears that I am starting a small menagerie on my desk in work. Meet Croc O'Doyle, my Irish crocodillian friend. And Miss Doe A. Deer, a cheery young lass who always looks like she is up to mischief.

23.2.11

Today I got a bit of paper in the post that cost me £23 and told me a whole lot of nothing.

Apparently my work didn't get any references when they hired me a year and a half ago, and since then my previous employers have ceased to exist so I had to pay to get a Disclosure done. Atleast I get the money back for it....