Posted in Blogging, Random, work on 29 April, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There’s one hell of a racket going on outside.
Truckers are driving in convoy across Vauxhall Bridge, horns blaring. The convoy is on its way to Park Lane to protest about the soaring price of diesel - up 30% over the past year.
None of us are getting very far with our paper scanning this morning because [...]
Posted in Blogging on 28 April, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Or so I hope.
After the top news on Saturday, I have booked myself a treat in. I am doing my CBT Richard said that there is a good chance I can get it done on this coming weekend, but if not, I am in his diary for Saturday 17 May.
Hurrah. Then I can save [...]
Posted in good stuff, health on 26 April, 2008 | 16 Comments »
I saw my consultant this morning at 9am. The Mechanic sat out in the waiting area, worry etched on his face. The lady consultant said “your boyfriend can come in too if you like?”
“No!” I said somewhat loudly for the quiet hospital. “No, it’s ok. He doesn’t need to see this undignified event.”
The lady consultant [...]
Posted in Blogging on 25 April, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s 5.02pm.
I am at my desk at work.
With a glass of red wine.
My Account Manager has a beer.
There’s a trolley full of bottles of red and white wine at the other end of the office.
Some of our team did a pitch today and they came back buzzing. Let’s hope we get it - it looks [...]
Posted in health, rants on 25 April, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Niggle 1
I had a call yesterday from the Colposcopy sister at my hospital. My 6 month follow up has long been scheduled for next Friday, and for the past couple of weeks, I have felt increasingly anxious about it. I suppose that this is only natural, it’s a fear of the unknown. I have only [...]
Posted in Random on 25 April, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This has gone around the office this morning, and left us all a little perplexed.
Taken from here.
Egg Piracy in China
During a recent raid on a wholesale centre in Guangzhou city, the capital of China’s Guangdong province, a large quantity of fake eggs was seized.
Their wholesale price is 0.15 yuan (S$0.03) each - half the [...]
Posted in Celebs, rants on 24 April, 2008 | 7 Comments »
There is definitely something wrong with the youth of today. Amy Winehouse has been voted the “ultimate heroine” by young people in the UK.
What
The
Fuck?
Insanity is clearly gripping the nation’s kids.
Just LOOK at the woman! What a mess. Young people aspire to be like her? Where the hell is society going wrong?
I rest my case.
I am [...]
Posted in Blogging on 23 April, 2008 | 15 Comments »
Maybe I will explain tomorrow - but right now it feels like too daunting a task - but I am in the process of ending things with The Mechanic.
What?
I know.
I can’t quite word it yet, but it’s just not for me. He’s lovely and we have a good time together, he makes me happy… but [...]
Posted in Blogging on 23 April, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s been a hard day. Felt low from the moment I woke up this morning, so I have struggled with everything. Yesterday ended so well that I was in the office by 8.20am but I just couldn’t get the same vibe. Another day of self doubt.
Plus I had to go to see the doctor again [...]
Posted in Mechanic, Relationships, boys, good stuff, health on 22 April, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I had a call last night from The Mechanic’s mum letting me know that he had been taken down to theatre and that the consultant advised he would probably be out of the ward for a few hours. She decided to wait with hospital patientline for entertainment (along with Zoo and a magazine about motorbikes [...]
Posted in Friends, rants on 21 April, 2008 | 4 Comments »
As part of my geography course at Little City university, I took a unit on cultural geography. It was quite possibly the most interesting degree unit of my entire time there, blending together social geographic theory, psychology, philosophy, history and media. A component of this unit centred around identity, and what it means to have [...]
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Posted in Friends, Love, Mechanic, Relationships, boys, health, rants on 20 April, 2008 | 14 Comments »
At last.
So, I was in the Middle of Nowhere this weekend as The Mechanic’s best mate, Collett, had arranged to celebrate his 21st birthday in Bournemouth and I had been invited along as The Mechanic’s better half. I headed down there on Friday after work and we spent Saturday milling about the place, fixing his [...]
Posted in Commuting, London, London Commute, Transport, rants, work on 18 April, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Oh it feels like the good old days with another rant about transport!!
The trains were absolutely bollocksed this morning. No idea what was going on, but when I got to Little Place, people couldn’t even get up the stairs to the platform and there was a huge mass of commuters waiting in the vestibule area, [...]
Posted in Blogging on 17 April, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Just £20 off my fundraising £2,500 target for Jo’s!!
I have also discovered that PR Agency will match £ for £ the amount I raise (to a maximum of £500) if I pass my probationary period (3 months).
The run is at the end of May. My 3 month probationary ends on 7 July. My fundraising page [...]
Posted in Commuting, London, London Commute, Transport, commuter cretins, rants, work on 17 April, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Perhaps I have something wrong with my face? Now, woah there people! Before the onslaught begins, I’m simply saying so because there must have been something seriously offensive about me this morning. Did I smell? Was there a big snot bogey hanging from one of my nostrils - could I have done with having the [...]
Posted in Blogging on 16 April, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Polly loves Stella.
Or do I mean Artois?
Because nobody’s going to be able to tell it’s the same product of course…
(I am not feeding alcohol to my pet rat. I just busted her on the worktop sitting on top of a little lamp and licking the rim of a bottle I drank last night).
Posted in work on 16 April, 2008 | 4 Comments »
They say that it always comes before a fall.
In this instance, I hope not. I was up late last night doing some background research for a new campaign. I didn’t really have to do this last night, mind you - and certainly not until midnight - I could have gotten away with not doing this [...]
Posted in food and drink, fruit and vegetables, work on 15 April, 2008 | 7 Comments »
And I’m scanning the Daily Express this morning. Joy.
But I have already had two portions of fruit today, so I’m giving myself a treat and settling down with a filter coffee.
The day ahead is going to be horrible in places - but ok in others. Keep your fingers crossed for me for the shit parts.
Posted in Blogging, Friends, Relationships, boys on 14 April, 2008 | 3 Comments »
If you read anything here that you don’t like - anything that hurts you - I’m sorry.
But it is your own fault. If you will continue to spy on me, you will read some things that I may not be forthcoming about otherwise. Perhaps I am a bad person for not wanting to have particular [...]
Posted in Friends, Love, Relationships on 14 April, 2008 | No Comments »
I just watched the wedding ceremony of a woman who I have never met, but who has supported me tremendously since November last year, and it was just beautiful.
Posted in Blogging, Celebs, Love, Relationships, TV, health, news, sad, thoughtful on 14 April, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Missing children’s TV star Mark Speight has been found dead at Paddington Station. He had not been seen since last Monday, when he disappeared following an inquest into the death of his fiancee Natasha Collins. Natasha, as you have probably read in the news, died in January after a drink and drugs binge at the [...]
Posted in Blogging, Love, Mechanic, Relationships, boys on 13 April, 2008 | 11 Comments »
And so another weekend is drawing to a close. I never wanted to be someone who lives for the weekend; Sadly at the moment I am very much that.
Beardy and I were talking on the phone on Friday night. I was drunk having gone out for one glass of wine (that turned into several) with [...]
Posted in London, Love, Mechanic, Weather, food and drink, work on 11 April, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Well, not really. But working in a high rise building is different from the little office jobby that I was previously at. Plus it is also a great opportunity for me to talk about the weather again, and being British, I just love that.
What a glorious morning! I am on sleeping tablets at the moment [...]
Posted in Blogging, work on 10 April, 2008 | 11 Comments »
I wonder how many people have been taken back to their childhoods with this post title?
Anyway, it’s not really related to anything, other than that the Bog of Eternal Stench was a swamp in Labyrinth, a top ’80s film featuring the wonderfully bizarre David Bowie.
And I am absolutely swamped at work.
Plus, I was running a [...]
Posted in Blogging on 8 April, 2008 | 6 Comments »
SHUT THE FUCK UP AND GO TO BED!!
(*message that I won’t send… 
Posted in Blogging on 8 April, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Aside from the fact that I am now having a serious crisis of confidence (this is since my earlier post!) - can I really do this? My course is going to shit and I am so flunking it. Have I bitten off more than I can chew right now? Why do they seem to think [...]
Posted in London, London Commute, food and drink, fruit and vegetables, get fit, good stuff, health, work on 8 April, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Right well today has been exhausting already but I am feeling good, if still terribly confused. It became clear just how dynamic and fluid this job is really going to be this morning. Yesterday was mostly meetings, trying to take in a lot of information and get as up-to-speed as reasonably imaginable in a seven-hour [...]
Posted in work on 7 April, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Bugger me, was that Monday that just whizzed past?
Monday has always been one of those days that I detest because it just drags due to lack of direction from The Boss, with my working week not really picking up until Tuesday when all the tasks for Monday used to come and bash me around the [...]
Posted in Pets on 6 April, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I think most readers know that I adore the website I can haz cheezburger? So do my rat babies. See Polly in lolcat mode.
Posted in Weather on 6 April, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Those of us that live in the overcrowded isle we call Britain have been in high spirits since Friday just gone. Seriously high spirits.
Now, do let me explain.
On Friday I went into central London (from comfortable suburbia with its gangs, sink estates and battered out Rovers) to meet up with the guys and girls from [...]
Posted in Blogging on 3 April, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have just heard from The Mechanic. Saily got the job so I am in a really good mood and pleased that our weekend of sailing and photography helped her put together a fantastic presentation. She starts her training on Monday, but the actual job doesn’t begin until summer. Still, it’s great news for her.
I [...]
Posted in TV, good stuff on 3 April, 2008 | 13 Comments »
I’d like to take a moment to point out that it is 10.45am. I am in bed with Polly, eating crackers with dips, drinking diet Pepsi (from the obligatory drunken stop off at the chicken shop at gone midnight last night) and watching Judge Judy on ITV2. I watched Jeremy Kyle earlier too.
I hate myself [...]
Posted in work on 2 April, 2008 | 11 Comments »
So, this post is time stamped to load at 12.30, the moment I am no longer contractually obliged to do anything for my current company.
My working environment last week…
And the desk I leave behind today…
And so a new era is about to begin…
Posted in BS is a loser, food and drink, just silly, work on 2 April, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Today is my last day at work. It’s not even a full day! At half 12, I walk through that door over there and never have to return to this place. I feel really odd. The Boss can’t seem decide whether he’s talking to me or ignoring me. Tomorrow I have to knuckle down and [...]
Posted in Pets on 1 April, 2008 | 12 Comments »
We had bathtime last night.
Not happy bunnies (or rat babies), I can assure you. Well, for twenty minutes of sulking anyway… then it was back to cuddles.
Sybil hides at the end of the bed and dries on the duvet:
Polly adopts the “fight or flight??” posture:
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