Snapshot of my life at the minute
Hi. I'm off for another week and a bit (I had to take my holidays or I'd lose them) so I thought it'd be the ideal time to get some blogging done. I just had to get that bee post out, but now that I've calmed down lets review the various aspects of my life:
Work: It seemed like I was there all the time, but not necessarily in a bad way. Work has become...something other than work. I enjoy it. I enjoy the people. There was a time there when it was all up in the air and everything seemed like it was changing, but we muddled through.
The reason I never take holidays when I've got a good little job going at work is because more often than not, I've seen people come back to find that they're put way back on the bottom rung of the company again. I really don't want that (again), so I made sure my concerns were know ;)
I had the feeling that I was going to miss the people too. And for some of them I do. Surprisingly, others have kept in contact while I've been lazing around the flat so it's much much better than expected :D
Get this, on the last full day I was tricked into thinking we were just getting a present for Dave. So, we sit down for a team meeting and my manager starts his speech about how much the person in question means to the team and for all their hard work, and that it's their birthday soon.....at this point I freeze. I don't think it's Dave's birthday soon is it? Holy crap! They bring out this chocolate cake and some cards and give them to me! I'm gobsmacked. Totally humbled. While I'm reading the cards they pull out another package, this time with a big transformer in it (a mighty well chosen gift). By this point I'm ridiculously bowled over.....then I got scrubbed with cake, but it's all good. How sweet is that? I told them that I hadn't expected anything. A couple of the guys gave me the most shocked look and said "Why wouldn't you expect anything? You're the Godfather of the campaign!" Needless to say I'm still a little smug and a lot taken aback by the whole thing :)
The Flat (Home): What can I say about the flat? It's not as big a shithole as it used to be, but a tidyup can't hide the fact that it's still a shitty place. We're determined to move out (for real this time) so I'm busily trying to amass the deposit for a new place together. We can't really look properly until everyone has the money, but we all seem to be making positive moves in the right direction. I'm gonna refuse to move in anywhere if my room ends up as small as this one. I fear I'll knock something over if I so much as sneeze.....cozy though :P
Other than the living conditions, things are running smoothly at home....other than I had a shit load of DVD's stolen. I've spent an untold amount of time trying to remember everything that's gone. I've got 10 so far. Some were presents. I am not amused.
Other: I can't go into specifics about anything else can I really? If it's not for people complaining that they don't want to be mentioned in the infamous blog, it's the sensitive situations that the blog always ends up destroying. Lets just generalise and say everythings fine. The family is fine. Everythings fine.
Oh, it almost slipped my mind. The Council has lost all of my payments for the last year and a half, and everytime I go round to sort something out they create a new problem. It's a nightmare and I don't see why I have to do all the leg work, but I guess there's no way out of that.
Oh, and it's my birthday on Sunday. Age maths has been running through my head yet again. Make it stop! But, what can you do?
Work: It seemed like I was there all the time, but not necessarily in a bad way. Work has become...something other than work. I enjoy it. I enjoy the people. There was a time there when it was all up in the air and everything seemed like it was changing, but we muddled through.
The reason I never take holidays when I've got a good little job going at work is because more often than not, I've seen people come back to find that they're put way back on the bottom rung of the company again. I really don't want that (again), so I made sure my concerns were know ;)
I had the feeling that I was going to miss the people too. And for some of them I do. Surprisingly, others have kept in contact while I've been lazing around the flat so it's much much better than expected :D
Get this, on the last full day I was tricked into thinking we were just getting a present for Dave. So, we sit down for a team meeting and my manager starts his speech about how much the person in question means to the team and for all their hard work, and that it's their birthday soon.....at this point I freeze. I don't think it's Dave's birthday soon is it? Holy crap! They bring out this chocolate cake and some cards and give them to me! I'm gobsmacked. Totally humbled. While I'm reading the cards they pull out another package, this time with a big transformer in it (a mighty well chosen gift). By this point I'm ridiculously bowled over.....then I got scrubbed with cake, but it's all good. How sweet is that? I told them that I hadn't expected anything. A couple of the guys gave me the most shocked look and said "Why wouldn't you expect anything? You're the Godfather of the campaign!" Needless to say I'm still a little smug and a lot taken aback by the whole thing :)
The Flat (Home): What can I say about the flat? It's not as big a shithole as it used to be, but a tidyup can't hide the fact that it's still a shitty place. We're determined to move out (for real this time) so I'm busily trying to amass the deposit for a new place together. We can't really look properly until everyone has the money, but we all seem to be making positive moves in the right direction. I'm gonna refuse to move in anywhere if my room ends up as small as this one. I fear I'll knock something over if I so much as sneeze.....cozy though :P
Other than the living conditions, things are running smoothly at home....other than I had a shit load of DVD's stolen. I've spent an untold amount of time trying to remember everything that's gone. I've got 10 so far. Some were presents. I am not amused.
Other: I can't go into specifics about anything else can I really? If it's not for people complaining that they don't want to be mentioned in the infamous blog, it's the sensitive situations that the blog always ends up destroying. Lets just generalise and say everythings fine. The family is fine. Everythings fine.
Oh, it almost slipped my mind. The Council has lost all of my payments for the last year and a half, and everytime I go round to sort something out they create a new problem. It's a nightmare and I don't see why I have to do all the leg work, but I guess there's no way out of that.
Oh, and it's my birthday on Sunday. Age maths has been running through my head yet again. Make it stop! But, what can you do?
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