... in which I feel the burn

So to my complete shock (and delight) I woke up last Friday to discover that despite my horrific lurgy, I passed my interview, and I also have a date for Part II. Good times :)

The last days of the summer holidays weren't as packed and hectic as the weeks mentioned in my last post, and sadly, work soon followed. It's been lovely seeing everyone again (children included) but being short-staffed also means being over-worked and very tired, which hasn't been fun.

However there's been some fun inbetween the tiredness, zumba and dinner with Cat, Manju and Lisa, and a fun night in when Kerry and Paul came to visit us and came bearing pizza :)

NaNoWriMo is coming up... I really want to have another crack at it this year. It's damn procrastination that keeps getting in my way. I think coffee might be a helpful addition this year though.

Ttfn bbs xxxxx

... in which I heeeeal

Oh God, I feel like I'm going back in time. When I figure out exactly what this means I'll let you know.

My surgery wound (blerg) has almost healed up in the two weeks since my op. My nurse said she thought it would be more like 6 weeks of healing, so I'm pretty chuffed with that! And slightly baffled too, since I take much longer than most to heal after piercings. So yay :)

I was back to work properly today which was nice, but I'm getting itchy feet. I miss having a job that allows random time off, and I miss being able to go "oh I need some more cash this month, better do some more hours!"

I've also been dreaming about working at Costa quite a disturbing amount recently. I think it ties in with my job concern. I'll just have to settle for playing with my own coffee machine :)

TTFN

... in which I look on the bright side

I went back to work yesterday, having not been at work since April the 8th. Most of my time off was Easter holidays, but some was also surgery recovery.

It was really nice, if a little uncomfortable to drive again, was lovely to see everybody again, and just nice to be back into a routine. I got told off by a few people for being in work when I should be resting. The worst telling off came from our school librarian whose son has the same thing as me, and took 4 years to heal up! Talk about putting the fear up me.

I popped out for my doctors appointment, and then had a lovely afternoon in some of my favourite lessons. However, being in a practical DT lesson with hyper year 8 kids took it's toll on me and I got bumped about a bit.So my lovely (but horrified) boss ordered me to take the rest of the week off.

The plus points of this are that my work peeps are lovely and understanding, which is very important to me, and that I get to hang out with Sierra and Oscar for a few more days. They seem to grow in size and q2qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq0000----------iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuu

As if on cue, Oscar just appeared to give his opinion :) he likes my laptop coz it's warm. But like I was saying, they seem to get more personality each day.

I better go, Sierra just joined us! More nonsense may follow if he decides warm himself on my laptop.

TTFN

... in which I am excited

Oh gosh, the 30 day song challenge turned into an epic fail on my part. I might start it up again in the next few days and make a valiant attempt at actually finishing it!

Easter Holidays are here :) Friday was the sot of working day that I love. Everyone was buzzing and in a great mood, the kids were fantastic, the sun was out and team spirit was in abundance.

And now 2 glorious weeks off!

Today, John and I are taking a trip to Isleworth and hoping to return with two kitties. Very exciting! Watch this space for overly-cute pictures :)

...in which I rush

Bullet points today people.

- I love my work people. I'm part of a really nice, close-knit team.

- Having said that, this half term is a hard one, work-wise. I think it's the time of year. And the weather. Which has been filthy for the past two days.

- I'm looking forward to playing badminton tomorrow, I haven't played for ages because of this dumb chest infection.

- My shoe fell apart today #devastated

- I know I'm not on Twitter :-/

- Johnboy and I have been watching An Idiot Abroad, it's much better than I thought it would be.

- It makes me want to go travelling.

- Especially to Egypt. But that's not all Karl Pilkington's fault, I can also lay blame at the door of Pharaoh and The Mummy.

- Going mummy hunting at the British Museum this weekend! Fun times.

- Goodnight x

... in which I moan

I'm still sick. My doctor said this might take 10 days to pass, I was hoping to send it on it's way in 2 days with the magic of green tea.

But here I am, 4 days later, still sick. The appetite comes back intermittently but my voice has gone. I need it back by Monday otherwise I'll be useless at work. Unless I make cue cards such as;

Sit up!
Stop talking!
Don't rock on your chair!
Where's *your* pen? (in response to "Miiiiss, can I borrow a pen?")

John has been looking after me really well. He took me out for lunch and a coffee since I hadn't left the house for days, and also bought me a magazine, a big Milky Bar and lemon Fanta for entertaining myself at home. Nice :)

And then we got home and carved pumpkins (mine was best but we're letting our Facebook friends judge it for us). We then finished off with Chinese food and watching X Factor.

And that's it.

Hope you're all well, and have a Happy Hallowe'en!

... in which I blah blah blah

So, when you last saw me I was about to embark on an adventure to Westfield with John, Leigh and Alice to watch Scott Pilgrim vs The World.

We embarked. We enjoyed. We had a lovely dinner afterwards. And then we joined some more of John's friends in Moons. Leigh and Alice didn't stay long, so I became the only girl very quickly. But I do enjoy those nights a lot.

Anyway, it was hilarious fun and I got shamefully drunk on a glass and a half of wine. Shocking :/

The night ended with me and John getting into the lovely BMW that Rob is car-sitting and playing with the convertible roof for a little while whilst revving the very powerful engine.

After my reaction to a small amount of wine at the weekend, I decided that joining John and his friends for wine-tasting on Tuesday night was bound to be a good idea :)

Turns out it was!

Which brings me to this point (kinda). The point that I am at is that this week has gone quite fast, but not fast enough obviously otherwise the weekend would be here now.

I had a meeting with the Headmaster at work today to talk about... well, about how awesome I am really. He called me "brilliant" which made me feel like I was back in school and trying to please him, haha. But it was a good meeting and I have a couple of balls rolling which will hopefully lead to naught but more awesomeness.

TTFN readers x

...in which I am a bit behind on the updates

Ugh, it's almost a week since my last entry. I blame the fact that I've been at work, rather than sitting on my botty watching Jeremy Kyle.

But anyway; I got my car back :) :) :)

It was so nice to drive her again! Now I can zip about and fit through small spaces and know exactly when I need to brake, aaaaah. My car is awesome, I'm so lucky.

Work has been hard but rewarding in it's usual way. We've been really short staffed, so everyone has had to pull together and work things out. But we're getting there. I get my timetable soon and I'll feel more settled when I do.

Also.... good stuff is happening at work. I can't say much because I don't know much, but I have a meeting next week to figure stuff out. Citing!

... in which I am over-excited

Hello. Nice to see you again :) and a very happy Friday to all you lovely peoploids out there.

Bullet point form today. I may change my mind halfway through.

1. I LOVE MY COURTESY CAR!! I've noticed that I feel a little carsick while driving him sometimes, but I think that's because I feel like I'm cheating on my own car. Poor Baby will hopefully be back with me next Tuesday.


2. WEEKEND!! (I'm very excited today, hello capslockkatie). This week has felt so long, but it's been enjoyable and I secretly quite like being back at work.


3. I have a lot to do this weekend.


4. I am loving this weather. Ignore what I said in my 2nd bullet point, I wish I was off work to enjoy this nice sunshine.


5. INBETWEENERS SEPTEMBER 13TH!


6. I have lots of Darren Hayes DVDs to get through this weekends thanks to my friend Sally.


7. That is all. Have a good weekend!

...in which I long for good health

So the last couple of weeks have been eventful.

There was mine and John's year anniversary which was overall completely lovely :)I'm very very lucky.

And then came Glastonbury which was massive amounts of fun.

The 8 hour journey back from Glasto which involved hours of queueing, smoke pouring out of the car engine, rain, a flat tyre, hunger and tiredness was not so fun.

Nor were the health problems that followed. I managed to grow myself a lovely abscess on the bottom of my spine which turned out to be the most painful thing ever. So I've been in and out of the doctors and on mega-antibiotics. Then I got an epic cold and a sexy chesty cough. And finally my wisdom tooth began to feel left out so decided to push through my gums a little more and make my face swell up. Joy.

So I've been pretty much housebound for the last week except for doctors trip and an attempt to go to work which resulted in being sent home. But John has given me temporary custody of his iPod touch which allowed me to complete Myst, beat his score on Flight Control and generally become a Peggle Queen.

Fun.

It's about 2 weeks until I get to go to Sweden which is very cool. Yay!

...in which I has optimism

Oh hai! ^.^

I'm on an epic break from work at the moment, no classes til 1.15. So I'm being a little bit productive.

Things are good at the moment. On Wednesday is mine and John's year anniversary which is very exciting. I'm not in the know yet about how we're spending the day but I'm really looking forward to it :)

And the day after that I'm off to Glastonbury festival which is also falling into the FUN category. Have got most things ready for that now. Still need a camera though.

Aaaaand it's also a month before me and Johnboy go to Sweden, about which I'm twitching with excitement. A whole week somewhere that's not here is gonna be amazing. Double amazing coz I'll be with my favourite person.

After today I only have 2 more days working at the college before the students break up for summer. Am a little bit sad about that, but mostly relieved.

Tomorrow I havea job interview. It's my back-up plan for when I don't get into uni and I'm pretty sure that I won't. C'est la vie.

This summer will be full of epic win hopefully.

...in which it's really you and really me

Morning.

Am up early to go on a tent-shopping trip thats not happening now so am being productive, starting with updating my blog and then going onto painting my nails.

I have Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture on in the background. A loverly way to blog I think.

Work is still poo but I'm a mere 10 days away from some time off to do awesome things like have an anniversary and go to Glastonbury. And then only a few more weeks until I'm off to Sweden with John.

I got a bar put through my belly button. My first non-ear piercing. I really like it, it looks nicer than I though it would. Hurts a little bit coz I keep sleeping on it but it mostly feels good.

I think I need breakfast, I feel a bit woozy from hunger :]

...in which I dream

Considering the fact that I was waking up at 5.30am today to go to work (a vile time of morning to get up for a job you don't want to do), I was in quite a good mood when I got out of bed. Couldn't really figure out why though.

Then I remembered that John had been in my dream, which is always nice.

Went to work, almost became the first person ever to die from hayfever, had a bit of a giggle, but mostly worked my botty off.

And on my break I was reading a book on David Bowie and one of the paragraphs was all "blah blah blah Bowie concert tickets" and suddenly my whole dream came flooding back to me. Me and John were buying Bowie tickets because he decided to make my entire life and tour again.

I'm now unbelievably gutted that it's just a dream.

Why oh why is he not touring? It really gives me the hump.

I am so tired :]

...in which I appreciate people

It's Pan's last day at work today, this is well sad. She was the one who interviewed me for my job and looked after me on my first day.

We all went out for her leaving do last night and it's her last shift today so me and Suzy paid her a visit and gave her loads of presents. My work is a great place to be when you're not actually working.

Me and Suzy stole sandwiches and then sat down to reminisce and put together a lil photo album for Pan.

Then I walked home from Ruislip in the sun. I hope I have some sort of tan now, that would be lovely.

*le sigh*

Last night made me love my colleagues even more than I did before. They're such an awesome bunch of people.

...in which I write a blog about blogs

I've been better at updating my LiveJournal recently and in the four days off that I just enjoyed I got to flicking back through my past entries.

It was all a little bit fascinating until we hit some angst. Oh my God. But one of my entries cracked me up a little... you must bear in mind I was going through the most hideous break up in history, my dad was on my case about "not doing enough uni work" and I was not getting along with mon petite frere at all.

"Ugh, I gotta go to work now. Sucks. But I get to work with Jack which is cool coz we have a lot of stupid fun. It's a shame he's leaving soon coz at the moment he's the only male I spend time with who doesn't make me want to smash things."

And even though he left work and I left work twice we're still working together o.O and the fun just gets continually more stupid. I wish he was my cool older brother.. even though he's younger than me. I've already adopted myself a couple of sisters from that place... why not a brother too?

I'm the only person I know who doesn't have a sister. Except my mum. But she might have a step-sister. I should check this out. I'd really like a sister.

Oooh, dare I say it. Work is ok right now. I'm really enjoying not working at the college right now. Many many things about working at Costa get on my nerves but my team are so much love.

BUT OH EM GEE. More importantly, lent end tomorrow, what with it being Easter and all, and I can finally eat meat again. I'm gonna have a burger :]

And I get to spend two days with John, my favourite of all hooman beings.

...in which I decide which Friends character is my favourite

Also known as "The One Where I Decide Who My Favourite Friends Character Is".

Chandler.

As an English peoploid I wonder whether to pronounce it "Charndler" or "Chahndler". Not important.

I'm hilariously tired, maybe a bit delirious.

All pets are present and correct right now, and I've even been blessed with the presence of my cat this week. Is nice. I really want my own cat plz. For belly rubbing and ear scratching.

Was at work today, being made tired and having my soul destroyed. But I was paid a nice visit by Suzy Stardust and we had what I think was our first meeting ever that didn't involve a conversation about King David Bowie (since we discovered we share the love). An epic first. But then my feelings were hurt a bit when she was unceremoniously ushered out of the store. Lame.

Today I feel something akin to dislike towards Starbucks.

Oy.

Um... what else?

I broke lent on Thursday when I went to Gordon Ramsay at Claridges with some rather delicious veal. As someone with a (self-diagnosed, k?) oral fixation I was pretty much in heaven all night. The food was absolutely the best I've ever tasted. Kudos to the man. It was my first time eating lobster too, and I liked it. It tastes like big!prawn.

I'm veering towards being skint again. This means being stingy for the next couple of weeks. It night mean walking to places instead of driving *sob*.

Speaking of money... sort of. I want to buy a poncho. Not a rain-type one, but a soft wooly one for the purpose of feeling snuggly. I can't find one on ASOS, sad times.

Ok, that's ya lot. I'm in bed and there is rubbish TV to be watched. G'night x

...in which I want a chicken burger

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Not even a chicken burger. JUST WANNA BURGER!

Today is three weeks since I had my last meat. I well fancy a burger today, oh my God. Burger. With bacon and cheese and pickles. I need a burger.

I think I have over two weeks left. Please let here be burgers at the end of it.

My fish is still alive :) go Ruby.

Budgies are still cheeky cheeky. Gotta love 'em. But when I next find myself sans budgie (which will be sad) and find myself wanting to be ... avec budgies I think I'll go with having just the one.

Oooh. Weather :)
It's been nice and sunny for the past few days which has made me *squee* occassionally. Summer is coming. I've loved driving home from work with my windows down. Today there was even sunglasses, boo yea.

And there has also been lots of World of Warcraft in my life. This is cool.

And so ends my bloggle.

...in which the angst ebbs away :)

'lo.

This multi-blogging. I have Myspace open in the window behind me and I'll be writing a blog on there immediatey after I'm finished here.

So... it's been a strange couple of weeks since I last blogged over here. University applications got up my nose to the point where I quite fancied not educating myself any further and being a kept woman instead. The angst that was created was phenomenal, but it wasn't really helped by crap day after crap day at work (both jobs were being a bit poo) and coming home each day to find another fishy was dead.

BUT. Now I'm on top if it (I hope). I have my forms laid out all nicely, they just need one more bit filled in before I can stamp up the envelopes and send them off. Plus I sorted out my references (again, hopefully) and filled in some forms for the student loan company who've been on my case a lot.

Tomorrow is the day for sending it all off and being relieved of the stress.

My parentals went away, leaving me and my brother a free house for the first time EVER. I loved it. John stayed over almost all weekend and we lolled out in the living room eating crap and playing Warcraft all the livelong day. Yummy. I need to move out very soon.

Oh yeah, I love Warcraft.

I hate being vegetarian, I'm so bored of no meat.

I'm going to Italy with John :)

...in which I become a bit attached to my laptop

Hello February (spelt that wrong 3 times before getting it right...).

Today should have been day 4 of 9 working days in a row (urgh) but instead it's the second snow day in a row I'm enjoying. So here I am inbetween games of Theme Hospital, World of Goo and Crayon Physics, listening to Lady Gaga's album and enjoying it a lot, planning a nice sandwich for lunch and looking forward to a night out with my Costa Ruislip buddies later for Suzy's leaving do.

I'm a little bit bored, and a little bit ARGH at missing out on two days of pay. But thats how it goes.

I downloaded a trial of World of Warcraft to try playing later and I'm also relying on my brother to either find me our copy of Myst or download me a new copy. Not really holding my breath for either though since he's just left the house.

In fish news... I have four of them now. Sheldon, Jareth, Ruby and Shacklebolt (named by John). They're far more entertaining that I expected, which is nice. I now have 6 pets in my room when you include my two gobby budgies. Tis nice.

Lady Gaga's album has finished and now MGMT are playing. I also like them a lot.

Do I want to do a Masters or a PhD? Answers on a postcard please :)

...in which I think about food (for a change)

Hello. I'm blogging in bullet point form today.

1. I'm hungry

2. I'm currently drinking a cup of boiling water with a wine gum in it. No seriously. This is my mums advice on beating the lurgy I've aqcuired

3. It's not nice

4. Today I wrote some more of my novel in one of many breaks that I took

5. On that break I drank tea and ate a well nice cookie :)

6. A week tomorrow I'm going to Portugal with John, which is hundreds of different kinds of awesome

7. I might be changing my opinion in this silly wine gum concoction. It's not bad

8. I might set up my fishtank in a while. For my new fishys