14th April 2012

Today was a little mental. Absolutely flew by!

I still have this horrible cold which doesn't seem to want to shift. I am, in fact, becoming a living germ!

Mum and Dad came over after going up to Blackburn, and they brought me an amazing gift back from my grandparents' house!

 I am in love with this teapot! I am collecting tea stuff for wedding decoration. And, before anyone starts: OUR THEME IS NOT FUCKING SHABBY CHIC. I hate that phrase. Yes, it would work with our venue. However, it is not our theme. Our theme is a secret and isn't really a theme at all to be fair - it's just something to work around!

So if any readers have some awesome old tea sets they'd like to donate - teapots, china cups, jugs etc, I'd gratefully receive them. However you'd probably need to be nearby as postage on fragile items would suck.

ANYWAY!

Mum and Dad also brought my another awesome gift from the house, but that really is a secret! I didn't want it at first, but I've changed my mind now...

So after Mum and Dad left, we watched some football, The Grand National was also on (what a weekend for sport in Merseyside!) and then we were at a bit of a loss for something to do.

Only one thing for it - we needed to leave the house, otherwise we would have gone to the off licence and bought lots of alcohol and got drunk in, on our own and I would end up passed out on the sofa, dribbling on which ever cat decided to make a bed of me!

So yeah, we went to the cinema. My second trip of the week - although I had to pay for this one!

We went to see The Hunger Games. We liked it! I read the books ages ago and Paul finished the first one yesterday. Casting was very good (although Peeta wasn't pretty enough. I'd pick Gale any day and not just because he's Thor's brother) and they got a lot of the book in there, which is rare for an adaptation! Haymitch isn't nearly drunk enough (but I heart Woody Harrelson, so it's ok!) and Lenny Kravitz was great too!

It was after 11 when we got back in, therefore perfectly acceptable to have a herbal tea and go to bed!

Wow - we really sound old, don't we?!

13th April 2012

It's Friday the 13th. Again. We live with a black cat. He crosses my path (and gets under my feet) on a daily basis. So I can't be superstitious as otherwise I'd be doomed!

It would make sense that I am doomed today, as so many things that irritate me have happened. Here are just a few of them:

People using the last of the kitchen roll and not replacing it with a new one. Same applies to loo roll by the way. Why can't you just put a new one on it?! It's not hard. It's just lazy, that's what it is.

People taking staples out of paperwork then leaving the removed staples lying around. These were just on MY desk. Wasn't me who put them there, so it begs the questions: Why was someone other than me working at my desk and why can't they just put the staples in the bin THAT WAS DIRECTLY UNDERNEATH THAT BIT OF WOOD THAT THE STAPLES ARE SITTING ON?!

 Dirty dishes left in the sink. I know who left these dishes in the sink, and I also know that this person had left for the day, nay, the weekend so were never even intending on doing them at a later time. I am not your maid and I am not your mother. Why should I be left to do your washing up? If I don't do it, no-one will and I'm sorry but that's not an acceptable option, as it's me who'll get the "why hasn't the washing up been done" by the powers that be.

People that leave dirty cutlery on the worktops in the kitchen. Now I moved that knife (still covered in butter, note) from the surface into the sink before I thought about taking a picture. The surface had a butter smear on it. The sink then got one as well. SERIOUSLY?! How hard is it to put it in the sink? Ok, clearly very hard as a) they didn't do that, and b) they left the rest of the washing up as well...

This irritation is two-fold. Part 1 - People who don't crush their empty containers. I bought this milk carton. It was heavy and full. It's a 4 pinter I think so it's not small. When it's empty, it's full of air therefore taking up quite a lot of space in our small bin. Take the lid off and stand on it. That way it won't take up as much room, meaning that you won't have to empty the bin.

Part 2 - People who fill the bin but don't empty it and put a new bag in. Right - doing the bins isn't nice. I am told it can be a smelly job. Which is why it probably gets left to me, what with my lack of sense of smell. IT'S A TINY BIN. IT'S NOT HEAVY. You know what, it's Friday - you don't even need to take it outside as I'd do it on my way out of an evening. Just do the polite thing and empty the damn thing.

Sorry. I needed to get those off my chest. Every person in my office is a grown up. I am the youngest at 28. Yet when they come to work I think they believe that a little fairy will come and do all their chores that they must do at home, and make the office all spic and span. Well, no. There isn't. There's me. The office manager. Why should I have to clean up after you all? You want me to wipe your backsides as well for you?

As I found out today that we have to provide our own refreshment in our office, which is another task and expense which will no doubt fall on me, I quit. I do not get paid anywhere near enough to perform maid service as well as run the f*cking office. I begrudge paying for the milk every week but I do because I am a tea fiend. And also because I have my breakfast in the office. So if the milk is there, people use it. Why should I provide everything else as well? Well I'm not any more. I refuse. People can help out or they can wonder why their mug is mouldy or the office stinks. Hey - the smelly office won't affect me.

Maybe I should stop showering too...that would teach them...






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I'd like to add for the record that I have nothing against some of my colleagues. I like them a lot. My rant at payment is directed at higher management, and my rant at the lack of cleanliness is directed at a few of them. Who may or may not be asshats.

12th April 2012

So it was Easter at the weekend. The true meaning of which seems to be celebrated by few people these day.

Easter is all about Easter eggs to most. We don't do Easter Eggs. It's not a conscious decision we made - we just don't give each other eggs and we don't get them for anyone else. This might be different when we have kids but at the minute, I have no problem with the situation being as it is.

This is the first Easter Egg I have had in years. It was given to me by my colleague Natalie's 10 year old son, Thomas. Because between him and his two younger brothers they had over 30 Easter Eggs (yes, you read correct. Three Zero eggs) he decided to give his Caramel one to me.

He wasn't prompted in any way. I mentioned to him on the phone that I hadn't had one, and he decided to give me one of his.

Sometimes there is hope in the future of mankind. I just hope he doesn't lose that kind side to his nature.

I haven't opened it yet. As soon as I do it will be gone. Safer in the office!

However, these reduced to clear Thorntons Chocolate Fudge brownie bites were devoured in less than 5 minutes between Paul and I while watching an episode of Person of Interest, after a delicious meal of Lobscouse which Paul made while I was at the cinema last night.

In another unrelated topic - how cute is this jug?! I love it!

11th April 2012

Work sucks.

Work sucks more when you get asked to do a massive task and you don't have access to a short cut so have to go the exceptionally long way round and your computers are so slow you worry you might not finish til waaay after 5pm and then BAM! Your line manager decides to let you know he asked Dave from accounts to do it. Dave who is lovely but crazy mad busy. Dave who has access to the short cut and can do it in seconds.

WHY NOT TELL ME YOU ASKED DAVE INSTEAD OF LETTING ME WORK THROUGH MY LUNCH TO TRY AND GET IT FINISHED?! WHY?!

Because he is in fact an AssHat.

ANYWAY. Worked sucked. But that just made the rest of the evening even more awesome!

Tonight we went to a free Cabin in the Woods screening! Created by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard, who are fabulous. It's Whedonsday and we get to see a Whedon movie! Perfect!

No spoilers. But go see it. Don't go in expecting to be scares shitless. Go with an open mind and a happy heart. Yes, you will jump. Yes, it is scary. It's also fantastic!

Chris and I also found a giant ad for another Whedon movie coming out soon...

We felt the need to join in...

 
 Me: "So...team Whedon, yeah?...what do you mean, you're called The Avengers?! Anyway, doesn't really matter what you're called; what's your policy on kicking some AssHat butt?! Yes, I know one...he lives over there. You're in? EXCELLENT..."

I think The Hulk likes me.

10th April 2012

Back to work. Great, huh?! Why is it that 4 day weeks always feel longer than 5 day weeks? This leads me to suspect that Monday isn't actually the 'longest' day in the week at all: Tuesday is. Boss was in and in a good mood. I had loads of work to do. All good!
 
Paul paid the deposit on our wedding today! Very happy! It's all official and everything! But now it gets real! Luckily for me I have plenty of time to make decisions and save to afford everything...

Speaking of saving, I got an official looking brown envelope through the post when I got home...why is the tax man writing to me?! Turns out, he wanted to give me some money back! Quite a nice little amount of money back! Yay! Thank you Mr. Tax man!

Always nice to get a surprise like this. Means that I can contribute more to the wedding than I already am...which isn't a lot...and can make the day even prettier, I hope! Yay!

9th April 2012

Easter Monday. Tis good. Another lazy day due to the extremely painful aches I have from Saturday's exercise! I now can barely walk!

My laziness was put to good use though. I read through our wedding information and we made the decision that we need more music at the wedding. I thought I'd make some enquiries as to how much string quartets would charge. Answer being not crazy amounts but not ridiculously cheap either. So it's an option. They have to be awesome though. Not just classical music for us...no. Give us Guns and Roses or Oasis on the cello and you're hired!

Today's photo is of our lunchtime treat. Something amazing that you can't eat often but when you do you're happy about it...

Fish finger sandwiches. GET IN! :-)

8th April 2012

Warning - this entry may have an image not suitable for public viewing.

Yes. There is pain. There as a whole world of pain. If you don't know why - read yesterday's entry. I can't walk down stairs without pain. I can't sit down and stand up without pain. Oddly I can iron without pain though. Which I did for a few hours while Paul was at the football. Yes, hours. I iron really slowly.

We have started watching Firefly again. If you haven't  watched it, do it. There are only 14 episodes. It stars the wonderful Nathan Fillion and is another creation by the genius that is Joss Whedon.



This is a trailer for the series. I don't know if it's official, and I doubt it is, but it will give you a taste for it's awesomeness. It's gorram shiny, that's what it is!

It also has a very catchy theme tune. You may not like it at first but you grow to love it. Promise. Anyone who doesn't is no friend of mine!




"I don't care, I'm still free- you can't take the sky from me!"

One of the episodes we watched tonight needed pausing while Paul sorted dinner. I paused here. Naked Fillion. It's a dirty rotten job to look at this while waiting for dinner...yep...tough luck...