Timewasters Anonymous

It's annoying when you are "lenient" with someone, empathetic towards their situation, and they take advantage of that.

Every week the receptionist sits during lunch for one of us, in rotation. Today, the receptionist was to do lunch-duty in my place. She asked me if I would sit for her for 5mins just for her to get “a bite to eat”. I agreed, but at 13:00, hbbm asked me to do some emails. That took about 5minutes, and I came back and the receptionist hadn’t even stopped working ready to go out. I asked her whether she’d gone out yet and she said she hadn’t, so I said I was ready to listen. That was at 13:10. She only LEFT at about 13:15, and came back not 5mins later, 15 minutes later. G had been waiting outside for 15mins already when I got out at 13:30.

She is really one for taking advantage. She came late yesterday. She didn’t phone anybody. First I hear of it was when the door buzzer went and I thought to myself ‘that’s strange someone buzzing the door before 8:30’. I looked at my watch – “SHIT it was 8:35! Where is this lady??!!” So I opened the switchboard, and phoned the typist to hear if she’d been notified by the receptionist that she was late. She said that the boss hadn’t mentioned anything, and that she’d spoken to her about it already. As I finished speaking to the typist, the switchboard rang, and it was this lady. She was stuck in traffic it town and would be late. She only phoned at 8:40. She phoned the SWITCHBOARD. I asked her if I could put her through to one of the bosses cos she’s supposed to inform one of them, but she hung up on me.

I was very annoyed at that stage. When she got in, I was busy typing emails for hbbm, and only afterwards was I able to have a word with her about LETTING A BOSS & 1 OTHER STAND-IN PERSON KNOW that she is late. Even if she is only POSSIBLY going to be late. As long as someone knows that, they can open the switchboard in time. She argued about that saying she couldn’t phone before 8:30 cos the switchboard was closed, so I “reminded” her that the message on the voicemail says ‘welcome, our office hours are... if you know the extension dial it now or leave a message...’ so she “could have spoken to anyone in the whole company”. “oh”. Hopefully THIS TIME it will have sunk in!!

Anyway, where was I... yes, lunch time today. G was patiently waiting outside for me and we took a stroll down to a coffee shop nearby. Sat down and someone from another table passed us menus ‘else you’ll wait ages’. After a while, a waitress came to take our order: 1 cappuccino, 1 hot chocolate. She disappeared somewhere. Another waitress came past and asked what we wanted. Repeated our order. After a while the first waitress came back and said “erm, you wanted a cappuccino and a....?”

After about 20minutes, we got our cappuccino and hot chocolate. Slurped it down in about 5 minutes (because I only had 15mins left once we’d got the drinks). Sat waiting for 5mins, then a waiter took away our cups. Waited another 2minutes before we saw “our” waitress again. She served someone, joked with him, and went back into the coffee shop, all the time with her back to us. We waited another 3 minutes until she came back to serve the same person, and once again she kept her back towards us. She was about to disappear back indoors when G proclaimed “scuse me... SCUSEME!!” and the other customer called her too. G gave her the money and we left. We weren’t going to wait for her to prepare a bill for us.

The coffee shop in question:

NEARLY done with Part I

Warpony - the first half, the right half, the face half is NEARLY done!

I'm a bit too tired now to carry on and finish it. It's just past 1am. G's up late, working on something for tomorrow. I was stitching while he worked but I'm sleepy now hehe.

Just a few last confetti-stitches left, as you can see in the pic.

Project: cross stitch - chart kitting [Status - awaiting quote]

I've emailed 123Stitch! asking about charts I'm interested in and whether they have a kitting service. A lady from the company replied to my email and is currently compiling a quote for the charts I want kitted.

These are the ones I'm going to do:


Heremia - Character Creations


Motion - Arabian and Swallow - Character Creations


Golden Ice - Kustom Krafts


Gentle Strength - Dimensions

I've chosen different fabrics for Heremia and Motion, which the lady is incorporating into the quote.

It really is so expensive to kit charts here, what with 8m of a single colour skein of thread costing R6 (that's US$0.78 - non-sale price of thread is apparently $0.30 each), bearing in mind that each chart uses anything from 30 colours to 89. Then you have to source fabric, which I would imagine is no easy task if you want a different colour/type fabric than the standard plain aida. The price of the thread alone is more than the price of the whole kit from overseas.

Saw in a crafts shop nearby a very crappy kit of (say for eg) a watering-can with flowers on a table. That was R700 (almost $100). It wasn't a BIG design either, not NEAR the standards of Warpony and the others I want to do. All 4 of the 'kits' I'm ordering shouldn't come to more than R1000, which works out to R250 each which *I*'d say is a FAR better deal than paying R700 for a kit I don't really like. A R250 kit here makes a tiny little design of about 15cm x 15cm.

I'm eagerly awaiting the quote on the cross-stitches!

I've also been working on Warpy, the right-hand half is SO nearly complete! Tonight G probably will have 'homework' to do (overtime) so I'll sit up late with him and STITCH!!!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAh I'm so impatient to go HOME!!

Tomorrow we're going to go see T, she's back in the land of R S of A (much to her depression and frustration!!).

Thursday is the carnival, so G and I, my sis and (her)G and M and J are going to go have FUN! Can't wait for that either!!

Then it's almost my birthday!

I have time!

Friday afternoon I phoned the (S)watch shop to find out about my watch that I'd sent away for them to check if they can fix it. They can't. Why? Because it's a 'sealed unit'. WTF? They offered me a 33.3% discount off any watch I buy from them up worth R799 (my watch's value). Like hell. I don't want to have ANOTHER dead watch 2 years later, thanks.

G and I went to the mall earlier, and after brunch we went straight to the (S)watch shop and I collected my watch. (Heard after we got home that it still TICKS fine, it just doesn't move. WTF?)

Went around looking in shop windows at watches. Checked out Fossil, and any other brands in jewellery shops. OMG they are SO EXPENSIVE! A Fossil watch is CHEAP compared to most of them in the jewellery shops! Then after "liking" a Fossil watch (more like the best of not a WONDERFUL selection), we went to a shop which sells a LOT of brands. It is exclusively a watch shop. Checked out their stuff... There was one that appealed to me. It wasn't as expensive as most of the other watches in the whole mall, but it was more than the Fossil. So we went back to the Fossil shop where I took another look at the watch, and then (with not a lot of ease) got one of the assistants to take the watch out for me to take a closer look. It was alright. Didn't blow me away. I had become more impressed with the *other* watch in the *other* shop before leaving that shop to come look at the Fossil, so we went back to the watch shop where I could take a longer look.

The assistant came to me and asked if I needed help (which was far better treatment than in the Fossil shop - although the ladies in the Fossil shop had offered us assistance at first, but they hadn't actually come around their counter to talk TO us, they just called out across the HUGE 5m shopfloor, this lady had). So I got to take a closer look at the nice watch in the nice shop with the nice shop assistants. I liked the nice watch. It became nicer and nicer as I handled it. It became more mine too. So I decided to keep it. No, I didn't steal it!

I'm now sitting at the pc with MY new LOVELY watch... it's pretty and matte and shiny in tiny bits and it's metal and it is blue and patterned in the face and it has glow in the dark bits but it has no gold-colour and it has no faux-bling diamante crap on it ANYwhere ;) (that was one of the turn-offs of the Fossil watch)

It's so cool!!

Oh, and apparently the ppl from (S)watch decided that it was more of a virtue for their watches to be innovatively waterproof than for them to be repairable, so although my watch is broken, it will never ever be damaged by water!

Damn it!

Damn everything!

Damn everything ever! Damn it!

I hate work. I started enjoying it but it turns out it's shit. Bloody personal shit, like calling medical aid and getting stuff pre-authorised or finding out why they don't pay for something they did before. What the fuck does wifeykins do at home all day that SHE can't phone?! *I* have to phone MY medical aid when *I* have a query! It's MY medical aid MY problem. Damn it! Bosses' wives BLEH! Bloody lazy asses! Personal shit! Bugger it all!

I hate things damn it! I'm so FED UP with shit always. It's quiet at home. Routine and stable, the moment you have any interactions with anyone or anything, it turns shit. I'm tired from work shit. I can't deal with stuff like that now. I can't solve it. Problems I CAN'T SOLVE! Damn it, I'm not qualified to sort that out! There's nothing I can do to FIX things. I want to fix things. I can't fix anything. I can't do anything. She argues and goes off about things, I can't argue with her. She has a reason. I can't stop her having a reason. I can't FIX what she's angry about. I can't fix it.

I can't just BE, with you. Can't just, have a cup of coffee with you. We can't hang out together. It's always the same. I can't explain why, because it ends up that we argue the same way she and you argue. I can't talk to you because we would argue. I don't want to. But I can't just *be* with you, it exhausts me and drains me out completely. I want to. It's so simple. But it's too complicated, everything's too complicated that's why you can't ever just BE. I can't fix that. I can't. I can't be your self-esteem, I can't fix you.

I can't.

I want you to be fine. I can't fix it.

The LITTLE DUDE!!!

He isn't afraid of the camera which is EXCELLENT, but he was a bit shell-shocked after the flash went off.. poor little chap.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hate you, you inconsiderate fucks

Yes, you, you loud ASSHOLES. You who had the TV on so loud that I heard all the news headlines from YUGOSLAVIA! And then you watched a sitcom and laughed LOUDLY too. As if I wouldn't already know when the funny bits are, since I can hear the studio-audience's laughter loud enough for it to sound as if they're in our lounge. Then, obviously, your show ended at 23:30, because you became quiet.

May I now go sleep?

Fuck you.

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The Little Green Man

I read this blog post quite a while ago (around the time when we moved in together)and I still think it's very funny! Ok not so funny, but ... well... it struck a chord, cos we had to experience the same thing. Exactly the same thing. With G's flat, they wanted to redo the floors. They wanted to redo the bath. They wanted to do so many things but how on earth is a person supposed to just take time off work to go supervise? ANYway... nuff said.

Valentine's was a strange day. We were actually going to celebrate the 13 Feb rather, that being our 6 months anniversary, so we met up for lunch during the day, but in the evening we ended up doing laundry. Gave G goodies though.

For Valentine's, we didn't meet up for lunch or anything. I went out and got some extra goodies for G for the evening, some yummy chocolates for us to share. We didn't get much time to hang out after work, G had a short band practice to get to, so I caught a lift home with the intention to hang out with my mom and sis. But they were out *hmph!* hehe. So I went online and checked my mail and stuff.

G came and fetched me and we came home again, and we were so hungry that we scoffed some chips almost before putting his band stuff down! Then I went into the bedroom to put something down, and on the bed was a cute little green budgie in a little blue cage! A sleepy little chap, all fluffed up and ready for bed! It was the cutest thing!!! There was a ribbon on the cage and a lovely card G'd made. It was so ... AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The little green man doesn't have a name yet, I have a feeling that "chappie" is going to turn into "Chappie" and become his name though! He's got a good place on my shelf in the lounge so he's able to watch TV with us and enjoy music and even watch the fishtank. He's too cute!

And the long story behind the surprise! Wow! So crafty!!!!!!!! When we went to G's parents' place to do laundry, he was apparently upstairs! Both times! And there was no short band practice, and G's parents weren't out (we were going to go fetch laundry that evening but couldn't because they 'were out'). Nor was S (W's S - all these initials are getting confusing HAHA) which was why I wouldn't have had fun at band. W played along with G's story of there being a short band practice that evening! G rushed around "during band" fetching the little chappie from his parents' place and taking him to our place and setting everything up and then rushing back to fetch me and driving back! HEEEHEHEHEHEHEH :D awww it's so wow!!!! :D Phew! Ingewikkelde tale!

This evening G and I are going toy-shopping! The little dude's cage is rather bare, so we're gonna see what all toys there are, and pick up a seed-bell and a cuttlefishbone or so. HE'S SO CUTE! He chirped this morning, as we were going out the door :D Awwww!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll take a pic later and post it asap.

A LITTLE GREEN MAN :D

The day Google became Googe

Pulled Google up this morning and it being Valentine's day, they have prettied up their logo. Except it seems they made a spelling mistake:

My Name According To Spam

I can choose between the following:

"Delicata Andrew" and "Satish Sehgal".

I think I like Delicata, it feels right plus it's a female-sounding name.

Had a nice relaxed weekend. Friday night G and I caught up on the sleep we'd missed out on the previous night (see previous post), then Saturday morning we went to the mall. G got two CDs and we had brunch there. We went to the ATMs before having brunch and there was a queue for the two of my bank's ATMs but one guy left the one ATM and said something to the guy in front of me, who when I asked what was wrong (because he wasn't going to that ATM and he was next in the queue) said that the ATM had swallowed the other chap's card. "no big deal, if it's swallowed it, it's in the machine now and shouldn't cause trouble with my card" I reckoned, so I went to use the ATM. Tried to put my card in, it didn't go in, instead it spat the other chap's card out! Credit card too, so I took it and looked around for the guy but he was gone. G and I had a nice trek to find the nearest BRANCH of that bank, cos strangely they don't have one in the mall (silly, really). Felt really strange to be walking around with someone else's credit card in my pocket!!

Went to G's parents for a bit while he did washing, then went out with sis and "her" G and my G for supper to celebrate her birthday. Had a lekker supper and stayed over. Came home Sunday morning and just relaxed. Not often do we get a chance to just BLOB. Sit lazily on the couch, or lie in bed and blob. So we did that. Went to the shop first, got the vital groceries, but then had a nap afterwards - LOVELY! Read and blobbed, G tried to fix his record player but the elastic has broken. We were going to "copy" LPs onto the computer to put on CDs in case the LPs get scratched or the record player (mom's) breaks. We'll have to kidnap mom's record player for a bit.

Back at work now. Still haven't had a chance to try out the DMC cross stitch program that I got from W/S :D Can't wait! Gotta do a waterchange too, and iron some clothes. Eish gotta go to the laundry today. This is a very boring part of this blogpost :P

Back work. It's cold and I have allergies and the state of being cold and sneezy is exacerbated by the fact that the painters have hbbm's windows open and are painting with varnish - cold and stinky. LOL. Today is still "new" so it's gonna be a loooooonnnnnnnnnnnnng day.

Thoughtful...

Seems I'm most likely to blog when I am thinking a lot. I guess that is what blogs are about hey?

Was going through my cellphone phonebook, and saw someone's name in it. It's strange how a person can embody the concept of 'could have been'. We could have been great friends, we seemed to get on very well, or at least that's what I thought. She was just 'biding her time', "letting" me keep her company because it (to her) must have seemed to make me happy, regardless of whether she actually enjoyed it. That knowledge somehow completely nulls any enjoyment I actually got from her company.

Ok the stuff above I typed a while ago, but saved it as a draft.

Last night the asshole neighbours were playing music very loudly. I couldn't sleep. At 1:30am I logged onto the computer, downloaded antivirus and antispyware updates and ran those. I went to the lounge and tried to sleep on the couch at about 3am. I managed to doze off til about 4am. The lounge is the only place where their music doesn't penetrate as much, cos their front door/lounge is right by our bedroom window, and the kitchen/computer room gets the noise coming through their rooms through our kitchen. Earlier I'd gone outside enraged and went around to see where the noise was coming from and the fuckers had their lights off and their door WIDE OPEN so that the whole fucking city could enjoy their music. After sleeping on the couch for a while, I went back to bed but they were still playing music and talking very loudly. I fell asleep (passed out) at 4:30, and here I am at work now half-dead at 11am after getting up at 7. Thank you, FUCKERS, for 2,5 hours of sleep!!!!!!!!!!

I just phoned the rental agency, spoke to the woman there. She said she'd get hold of them. I also told her about the lovely couple upstairs who get drunk and then argue and fight and throw things around.

FUCK YOU ALL! BASTARDS!!! 4:30 in the morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel like I'm an undead. I'm so irritated already this week, this just TOPS IT OFF!!

Hbbm's gone out for meetings and hopefully to enjoy some golf, if the weather holds. Hold thumbs that the weather holds, I don't feel up for much work today. This morning I was having my breakfast oats and coffee at my desk, so he calls me to type up an email for him, IN THE MIDDLE of my eating. He KNOWS I was eating, he even commented on the fact that it looked like kid's/baby's cereal (mush). But it doesn't matter, the email can't WAIT 3minutes!

I'm so tired of this place. Just when I thought things were going to be good and I'd have something worthwhile to do, it gets snatched away from me. I thought I was hbbm's PA, and I asked the accountant to confirm it (cos the job title is printed on my payslip), and she informed me that the bosses decided my job title is 'admin assistant'. What the fuck is an admin assistant???? Dogsbody? That's like even less of a job title than receptionist!!! How the hell will that look on my CV? "I have 4.5 years experience as a receptionist and x years as a ... well... um... I did PA duties but officially I was admin assistant..." Gosh, it's not allowed that someone actually feels proud and motivated in their job? "Heavens no! I mean, imagine, her actually liking her work? No, that's not on, by jove, she'll get a big head and think she's important and meaningful and appreciated *gasp*. Only us head honchos can get job satisfaction, you know. Along with our fat pay! Hehehe, go us!!!"

So anyway, I'm admin assistant, doing PA duties. It's so petty. I hate it. Just let me do work, and acknowledge it and allow me headroom to ENJOY IT and grow into it and feel motivated. To quote a graffiti: *fuckshitup!*

What is news. I miss my budgie. My fish (the congo tetras) are randy and lay eggs all the time.

I feel like a zombie. I want to curl up in bed and just sleep. It's cold and rainy too, so that is making me want to cuddle up too.

*yaaaaaaaaaaawnnnnnnnnnnnnns*

FINALLY ...

Pics of our place!!

I just stuck all of them here, so you can see the entire place. As well as G, unlocking the front door.

Love the place, but the neighbours are annoying. But love the place!!

When's payday?

Tomorrow. But as soon as my pay comes in, it goes straight out. I still owe my sis so much anyway, that whatever's left accumulates to be transferred to her = nothing left.

I'm irritated and I don't know why.

It's hot. I'm tired.

I hate weekends which don't let you relax. I hate ironing.

The fishtank is clean. The dishes are done, the flat is vacuumed. I'm not hungry, it's hot.

I'm tired of not earning money enough to HAVE any left. Medical aid "helps" but I have to submit things that I've already paid for and they sometimes don't cover those things and then it's paid for by me only.

I don't like shitty doctors. I don't like stupid people who don't give a shit about other people. Correction: I hate people like that.

I would like a budgie here but don't have the energy to even decide because there's always stuff to be done. I wish Warpony's first half was finished. I wish those damn cross-stitch company people hadn't fucked up and that I'd received the kits ages ago.

I want to sleep late and not go anywhere. For a month at least. I'm annoyed because my Indian truck t-shirt was messed up in the wash. Mom must have washed it with the rest of the clothes (in a hot wash) and the rubbery print on it melted and smudged in some places, and all over the front collar and stuff. It should have been handwashed, which is what I always do but it must have somehow crept into the wash with the other clothes. I can't go back to India to buy another one.

Friday was a write-off at work. The ITs and people helping them were there the entire day, sorting our machines out and working on the server/network. We now have domain profiles which is SO DAMN SLOW when you have to restart. There wasn't any way for the receptionist to get to the faxes that came in to the faxserver box, and hbbm was flitting around frazzled because the emails didn't work either. He tends to get in a tizzy very quickly about things like that. It's tiring because you have to placate him because there is NOTHING that you can do to FIX what is wrong because they're busy with it. Agh!

It's Monday tomorrow. Yuck.

Our adsl line is being subsidised, which is EXCELLENT! Saves us a bit of $ but that gets absorbed into other costs like electricity, groceries.

I'm still irritated. It's annoying when things just HAVE to be difficult. Like... agh I dunno, can't think of anything. When things HOOK on other things and prevent you getting them loose while you're busy doing something. Urrrrhhh!!

*sigh*

I hate that retard in the block of flats next door to us, he played LOUD bloody music this morning at 9:15. A SUNDAY MORNING, you SHIT! Fuck you!

I can't think of anything to write. I know this is a complainy whiny post but so what. I felt like saying it and I have so that's that. At least I don't phone you (reader) and rant on and on at you about it :P

Things we want to buy one day: stove/oven. Combo washmachine/tumbledryer. Couches. Those are the big things. Not fun things, necessary things. Can't think about "fun" things to buy now. Or spending money on things that aren't necessary.

I hate cockroaches and wish they'd all die now. I'm tired of spraying the hell out of them and them still running and hiding somewhere. I hate the way they peek out from under the drying rack and I can't spray them cos then I'd be poisoning us. Then they run around under the edge of the sink and I can't get them there either cos they disappear. And I may be hard-hearted but I don't like it when cats try to be cutesy and pushy and try to rub against you when you obviously don't feel like it. I don't want to encourage them, because any moment that we might slip up and leave the door/window open they'd get in and maybe eat stuff in the kitchen or kill my fish (or bird, when we get one).

It's 21:00 already. Time for bed to wake up early tomorrow. Oh and Tuesday morning I'm playing receptionist-dumbass again for the morning because the new lady is going to see someone at the college about studies etc etc blabla. At least hbbm is away but I have plenty of work to do before he comes back.

I wish my hair would grow quickly so that I don't have to fuss with these clips.

That's all for now, I think.

It's 1-FUCKING-AM!

I am at my computer.

You are playing your FUCKING music so FUCKING loud that I am FULLY awake! You're also all talking SO FUCKING LOUDLY I feel as though I'm at the party MYSELF, despite having been IN BED!

FUCK YOU!!

Don't know if it'll help even a tiny fucking bit but, come Monday morning, I will be phoning the landlords and complaining. About YOU, and about the pointless FUCKS upstairs.

al..... RIGHTY then!!!

Japanese potty training video

all one can say: al...RIGHTY then!!

It... is... HOT

Today the temperature outside was 41C. I didn't go outside at all, not only because I was on switchboard duty.

And it's still hot now. Apparently today's discomfort index was 45C!!

S (in USA) tried phoning the cross-stitch company I'd ordered GI and GS from... couldn't get through, he tried to email them, phoned them again and their mailbox is full. J his wife checked with people on her stitching forums and apparently the people who own that online shop are old and might be sickly. Anyway, the gist of it: we have to get the credit card company to refund us and follow it up with the site. Damn! I just want my kits :(

So now I'm looking online for them again.

I'm having a good time (so far) at work, I now have my own (hand-me-down) pc which although only a 256mb ram, 40gb hd, 751MHz processor, old one, is decent enough. The front USB ports aren't connected and there's a not-working floppy drive (also not connected). Problem with the back USB ports is they're on the same "block" as the keyboard and mouse plugs, and it's loose. So if I fiddle with a USB thing, the keyboard stops working and I have to restart. Bummer. Anyway, not often I'd need a flashstick I reckon.

According to secret sources we are probably getting a new TV. Source: G. CAN'T WAIT! Ok nothing much is on TV, but still! According to a friend of ours, the Simpsons is on EVERY DAY on Mnet open-time...!!!!! WE'RE MISSING THE SIMPSONS!??!?!

Oh and: the Simpsons movie? Definitely wanna see that! Saw Night at the Museum last week, it was EXCELLENT! Very sweet, funny, exciting movie hehe!

Still sad about Honey being put down. I so vividly remember the day we got her. Her breeders came from a long way away, and we met them at our Gran's place. Chose her from 2 they'd brought (they'd delivered all the others on the way). She was restless in the car on the way home, and finally found a spot and settled down in the footwell by my feet! Aww so cute! I remember it all hehe. That was over 16 years ago.

After this payday, my finances should be back on track... I'll be broke straight away after being paid cos it's paying things, but once that's done and I've got through the lean month to the following payday, I should be back to normal. YEAH!!!!!!!!! Ok still paying off to Sis, but that's ok. I should be a few hundred R wealthier after we get the money back from the credit card co.

*yawn* this week has been quite long. The days go quicker now cos I'm busier but it's more fun! I'm actually going to enjoy getting hbbm's office into ORDER!!!!! Untidiness! Pff!!!!! He's quite enjoying how it's working: he dictates an email, I type it, send it, print it, stick it in a file. Done! Hehe I like that too. So quite an up in the job-satisfaction level!

I hate cockroaches - we have quite a lot in the kitchen. Less than when we just moved in, but still. Only medium, small and tiny ones. The MASSIVE mofos probably can't get into the place and besides: they have a LOVELY portuguese restaurant to patronise!

Ooh, it's been a while since I did something on my blog... ok will do it tomorrow >;)

Erm

I'm back in the land of the living... this has been one WONKY mutha week hehe!

Ok went back on Thursday after being off sick on Tues and Wed, felt GHASTLY but survived, and Friday I had a very very sore tummy. Still felt a bit weak. Phoned "my" doc that morning (he'd said I should phone him if it wasn't right by Friday), left a msg. Phoned again in the afternoon, still no reply. So I phoned G's doctor's office, made an appointment with a doctor there. Had to arrange with the ppl at work for someone to take my place at the switchboard (!) because the receptionist had gone to register for part-time studies. Honestly I've done so much switchboard duty this 3-day week! Anyway, JUST as I'm like leaving, she comes back. Thank heavens... but anyway so I got to leave late because she has to like nag/ask me questions about "how do I" which is like DUH because surely she's had SOME computer training/anything. ANYWAY.

So we drive in a hurry but slowly cos of the shitty traffic to the doctor. I missed the appointment (the doctor'd left already!) but got to see another doctor after a wait. It was very strange cos the doctor had the window wide open and the electric fan on FULL power. It was rather windy in his office. Weird. Anyway, after going hmm and hmm a bit, he guessed it was probably constipation ("want to take a bet?") so I had an x-ray and saw him again and it was. Sigmoid colon. So damn sore, such a simple thing hehe. Anyway got some sachets of stuff to drink and the following morning my tummy wasn't sore anymore!

Oh yay, Monday morning I'm doing switchboard duty for however long because the receptionist is going to register because she didn't get to Friday. YAY!!

Tuesday the ITs are supposed to come and sort my computer setup out. I'm using the company's laptop and I don't want to do ANYthing on it like surft/msn.

This blog post is a little "deurmekaar" but that's how my mind is at the moment. It's like catching up after being away for a week hehe!

I've been tidying my stuff, going through my stuff, I have a whole STACK of things to sort through right next to me. I'm going to have to bring another bookshelf from home, and possibly buy some "inbox trays" hehe. I need to make shelves for this stuff: cords, manuals, chargers, etc etc LOL!

ANYWAY... bleh don't feel like sorting it all out now hehe. It's weekend.

Oh AND ABOUT WEEKEND!

These retard dumbass mofos in this block of flats (and the next door one) don't understand NIGHT TIME. They slam doors, talk/shout loudly (specially when walking past our bedroom window), at all hours of the night (morning). The people upstairs from us, omg! Domestic fights! And the previous night, it sounded like one of them was stuck trying to get out of an Oros-man suit... making squeaking thudding sounds all around the room above us! SERIOUSLY WEIRD! And then at like 9:30 this morning (sunday) someone next door to us decides to hammer a nail into the wall. WEIRD PEOPLE!

Ok anyway, I'm gonna try get stuck into at least SOME things here, so that when I'm back at work tomorrow I have at least achieved something.. OH DAMN, I have to do a waterchange!!!! Ok ciao Romano!!

what element am i?

Your Element is Wood

Your power colors: green and brown Your energy: generative Your season: spring Like a tree, you are always growing and changing. And while your life is dynamic, you are firmly grounded. You have high morals and great confidence in yourself and others. You have a wide set of interests, and you make for intersting company.

What Element Are You?

Day 3 of being unwell

My tummy has stayed sore, and I have had headaches on and off... had eyeball pain most of the time. Haven't slept well, feeling very restless.

Phoned in to work today, got through to the accountant doing switchboard duty - that meant the receptionist was - dare I say it - LATE?! Omg that's... UNACCEPTABLE?!?! Whatever! She was late the first day I got there, she came about 15 mins late... reason? Taxis. Pfff!! That'll never hold anything for the bosses *sniggers* I've done my time being LATE because of METROFUCKINGFAIL and being crapped on for something that was beyond my bloody control............

Ok I'm breathing...........................

*breathes*

spent most of the day in bed, dozing fitfully as the maintenance guys sawed through burglar bars and drilled through stone etc. Ok they probably weren't doing that, but they were making a helluva lot of noise working on the vacant flat next door. I've been enjoying paint smell as they've taken off the burglar bars and repainted them.

Went to the doc, the doc says it might be a VERY mild case of tummy flu (which would be so mild I wouldn't puke), or IBS or something. So I have tabs to make me better :) Back to work tomorrow if I'm up for it. If not, it's back to the doc to get a doctor's certificate. I guess.

Mom and sis took our oldie dog to the vet today, to be put to sleep. Poor old stinky. Apparently she was having a good day and was all alert and bright. It's good that way, cos then her last day wasn't an uncomfortable, unhappy one. They had a 15:30 appointment but had to wait cos the vet was out with a horse with colic. They had a good wait though, a peaceful one cos Honey was alert and interested in her surroundings and when sis went around the corner to buy some cooldrink, she wanted to follow her. Sis waited in the waiting room, mom went in but came out before the vet did his thing. I agree with mom: I couldn't stand to see a dead Honey.

RIP doggiedog...

today

Today i started my new job. It's not fun really explaining your old job to someone new.

And I feel sick. Really sick. I'm going to bed with some Disprins to see if it helps. I feel a bit nauseous now... ugh.

bye ppls (for now)

yum!!!

Your Guy Is Not Pretty!

Your boyfriend is more hetero than John Wayne. End of story. While it may be hard to get him to go dancing or shopping... You know that he can always stand up for and take care of you. Which is waaaay more attractive than a few well placed highlights.

Is He Prettier Than You?

HAHAHAHA! It's a one-question quiz... HAHA weird result!!

What People Think of Your Mouth

People see you as both seductive and intimidating. Other women are especially put off by your womanly powers. And men either fear you or obsess over you - sometimes both. No way to fight it - you're a natural vamp.

What Does Your Mouth Say About You?

okay.... I rather LIKE green eyes....

Your Inner Eye Color Is Blue

You've got the personality of a blue eyed women You're intense and expressive - and always on the go You've also got a sweet, playful side - which draws men in

What's Your Inner Eye Color?

what flower am I... I'm a heather-lily!!

You Are A Lily

You are a nurturer and all around natural therapist. People see you as their rock. And they are able to depend on you. You are a soothing influence. You can make people feel better with a few words. Your caring has more of an impact than even you realize.

What Flower Are You?

movie kiss time!!

Your Famous Movie Kiss is from Spiderman

"I have always been standing in your doorway. Isn't it about time somebody saved your life?"

What Famous Movie Kiss Are You?

hmmmmm

Your Celebrity Boob Twin:

Claire Danes

Who's Your Celebrity Boob Twin?

alrighty then............

Your Celebrity Boob Twin:

Claire Danes

Who's Your Celebrity Boob Twin?

very odd quiz - surely it should ask him??

You Have Him Totally Hooked

Your guy is all yours - and happily so. He loves being around you, and he totally sees you as a couple. It looks like you two have a great future together - if you want it!

Do You Have Him Hooked?

I wouldn't *have* to choose a 2nd time.... :P

You Would Pick Your Boyfriend Again!

While the initial new couple spark has faded for you two, You've built upon your attraction - and formed a deep love. And although things are never perfect, they're usually pretty great. So don't let your eye wander. You've got the best catch for you, at home.

Would You Pick Him Again?

AWWWW

What You Know About Your Guy: Practically Everything

You have gotten to know your man really well From his hopes and dreams to favorite things... You definitely have enough info to figure out if he's *the* guy In fact, you may know him a little better than you know yourself

How Well Do You Know Your Man?

UHOH!!

Your PMS Disaster Level: Medium

You definitely are a bit of a wreck once a month. But as long as remember to take it easy, your PMS isn't a major crisis.

Are You a PMS Disaster?

AHAHAHAHHA!! Ar e you ready to move in together?

Start Hunting For That New Apartment

You two are ready to live together - and probably have been for a while You're a perfect match, even if you don't agree on everything What's important is compromise... a skill you and your guy have mastered So head out to Bed, Bath, and Beyond. It's time for your new life together!

Should You Live Together?

Are you a good girlfriend?

You are a Great Girlfriend

When it comes to your guy, you're very thoughtful But you also haven't stopped thinking of yourself You're the perfect blend of independent and caring You're a total catch - make sure your guy knows it too!

Are You a Good Girlfriend?

What kind of sexy are you?

You Are Girly Sexy

You're a youthful spirit, and your energy is infectious. Men love your innocence and lack of emotional baggage. You make every kiss seem like the first and every moment magical. How could any guy in his right mind resist that?

What Kind of Sexy Are You?

How bitchy am I? O_o

You Are 26% Bitchy

You're a pretty sweet person, and you're definitely not prone to bitchy outbursts. Sometimes, though, you can't help thinking mean thoughts about people. But at least you don't act on them!

How Bitchy Are You?

AWWWWWWWWWWW!!!

He's a Great Boyfriend

You guy definitely loves you and knows how to treat you right. You have a five star boyfriend - so make sure you treat him right too!

Is He a Good Boyfriend?

Ok FINALLY I can upload pics!!!!

We have finallly got the internet up and running.

The Telkon guy came on Friday to install the phone line and the adsl stuff... and I tried to set it all up and it DIDN'T work. When G came home from work, he tried to sort it out - still didn't work. Tried dial up, and it worked but terribly slowly.

Went this morning and bought a phone, it's now charged and ready hehe.

Went to Synd and got sis to switch the router there off (it's got my username and password set up) so that we could try the net when we got home, and VOILA!! It's worked! Strangest bloody thing ever... but anway. Bloody glad that we don't have to phone Telkon and get someone to come out and sort it out blablabla.

Anyway, I got a lot of stitching done the past few days, and TA-DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, here's the most up-to-date pic of Warpy!!! (and sample pic, specially for W)

I have work Monday - not looking forward to that AT ALL. Bleh!

Anyway, cheers for now, my software is updating and I'm tired and I want to google for info on canaries cos I want a pet bird but think a budgie would get bored but dunno if a canary is "exciting" enough LOLLLLLLLLLL!!!!

Cheers for now!

YAWNNNN

Ok...

I'm a bit moeg to post more. I wanted to post more stuff but have been catching up on all my regular reads and stuff...

*yawns*

Heading home in a bit, just gotta log off and stuff.

OOH wait! Yes! Quick thing to blog about: our internet (and phone line) are going to be installed on Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!! So most likely Friday afternoon I'll be online!

Ok, night everyone!

A long post... catching up

Ok it's 10th Jan now, I've been posting everything into a wordpad document which I'm going to copy and paste now. I'll add stuff in another post if I feel like it LOL

Ok, what all has been going on since I last posted properly...

After flat-sitting for about 2 months, finally someone took G's flat. In those flat-sitting hours which were from 17:30 to 19:30 every weekday and from 9:00 to 11:00 every Saturday (almost like detention but at home), I got a lot done on Warpy. I'm nearly finished the first half, his face, which seems the more time-consuming half because it's all blending and different colours. The other half, his neck, is mostly shades of white. With hand-prints. And a feather. I'm so amped to get the face-half done! Wanted to finish it before the end of 2006 (that's LAST YEAR already!), but that was *rather* optimistic.

With 2 weeks til the end of the year and no place to go, G heard of a place through his previous/at-the-time rental agency, and we went to see it. I have blogged about it already, and am going to post pics too. We decided to take the place with (for now) a 6 months lease, in case it turned out to be dreadful and we wanted to move asap. So in the 2nd last week of the year, we got the keys (it'd been vacant) and moved G's stuff to the new flat. Was a mission carrying boxes and boxes down 3 flights of stairs; my legs felt so rubbery after that! Luckily there wasn't much that we ourselves couldn't move, all that was left was the bed, cupboard, drawers, 2 bookshelves, a desk, 3 couches, a tv-cabinet, a kitchen countertable and a bar fridge.

G's gran was down from Jhb for Xmas, and we had Xmas lunch at his parents' place. Was lovely - a delicious lunch and all smiles. Got cool gifts too! G's gran also told us she was going to pay for a removal van to transport our stuff, rather than us battle with it. Ah, grandparents! Organised that and got them to take G's furniture, and my wardrobe, bookshelf, desk and drawers. The rest of the stuff was small stuff or full of non-vital stuff and not particularly useful to us in the new place (stuff I'd need to sort through at some stage - procrastination!!).

We'd had Xmas eve celebrations at my place, basically gift-opening and stuff, and then we'd had a 2nd Xmas lunch on 26th Dec. M and J came too. More DELICIOUS food and fun!

Ok so then we'd finally moved everything in to the new place but we were sans bed and, since the fridge is a bar fridge and we were going to get a bigger (proper) one soon, we didn't plug the fridge in. So we were all but moved in.

Went between my place and the flat to move stuff and basically everything is here now.

Went shopping a few days later, and bought a big bed and a big fridge. It was to be delivered the Friday. We stayed over at my place the Thurs night, and left home quite early to be there when the stuff was delivered. We waited the whole day. G phoned at about 16:30, and heard that the Town deliveries only go out at 16:00. Nice, after waiting the entire day! We waited some more. He phoned a few more times. We sat outside in the warm evening air as it approached 19:00. "They'll be here at about 20:15", according to the person on the phone. We waited some more. And more. It was going on for 22:00. We were staying over at my place again that night, and decided to leave then. I was basically packing my bag when G announced "guess who's arrived". At 22:05, our fridge and bed were delivered. If they'd come 5 mins later, we'd have left already. The "excuse" for coming so late? "there were roadblocks". Sure, *that's* credible… but only if the delivery note didn't say that the items were checked out at 17:48 for delivery! So basically, when G phoned the first time, they hadn't even bloodywell sent it off yet. Nice one.

Thinking now, about what else to blog about. The neighbours... or now (thankfully) EX-neighbours. Lovely people. The days that we'd been delivering things and packing stuff in the flat, we had heard kids shrieking and going on like mad. All day long. Not a WHISPER of a "shhh" from either of their parents. They would bounce a massive (about the size of a basketball) inflatable tennis ball ALL AROUND THE ENTIRE BLOCK OF FLATS! Around and around and around! For hours on end. If they weren't doing that, they were running around the entire building, running past/under our bedroom window which is on the same side of the building as their porch/balcony-thing. Oh yes, and G's car is parked just across from our bedroom window, and it's on a raised level so it's about 1.5m higher than the ground by the building. The kids would bounce their ball against the little wall/edge of the raised bit G's car is parked on, and it'd inevitably bounce up, and it bashed his car's grille and I heard it bounce off the bonnet at least once! That's just the kids. They'd also throw a toy helicopter or something up in the air and watch it crash down onto the bricks. Over and over again. Mesmerising entertainment. And that'd go on ALL DAY. Well past 8pm, which was MY bedtime when I was a kid. Or at least Mom would come and tell my sis and me to quieten down, "it's late and time to settle down now". Nope, these people had no concept of "other people".

That was clearly visible when they were packing. It seemed, WONDERFULLY, that they were moving out. They had a little bakkie parked in one of the bays and were loading stuff on it when someone in one of the other flats arrived with stuff to be delivered. A wash machine and a couch. The man of this lovely neighbour-animals group STORMED across and started shouting at the driver of the little truck to "use your fucking brains a little! how the fuck am I supposed to get out here? What the fuck are you thinking? Fucksakes man! How the fuck are we to get out? What the fuck!!". Totally unreasonable. For one thing, he was still busy PACKING, so no URGENT need to get past, for another thing, the truck wouldn't have been there longer than about 5-10 mins, and another... HE COULD HAVE MOVED SO ASSHOLE COULDA GOT PAST!!! Hardly as if he was stuck... but assholes like that just overreact completely.

A bit later, when we were sitting outside enjoying the evening air and warmth, he walked past us after going out to buy something and muttered to us "enjoy your stay here, you're going to have fun staying here!". Almost seemed like a threat. BUT...

THEY'VE MOVED OUT!!!!

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's peaceful now, no screaming shrieking banging shit! YAYYYYYYYY! It's awesome now. I think if they hadn't moved out I would have gone nuts very soon. It's hard to live with inconsiderate bastards like that. Imagine: this man stands outside and shouts into the house to his wife... charming. Swears at his kids. Lovely. But anyway, not our concern anymore - YAYYYYYYY!!!

Yesterday, G's parents came to my place to fetch the fishtank and bring it carefully to the flat. It was a MISSION to catch all the fish, one of the black neons somehow went UNDER the undergravel filter plate and hid in the muck with 2 of the kuhli loaches. Little sods! I had to dig up all the gravel that was on top of the filterplate and lift it up, dislodging all fish poo and muck in the process, and try to catch them despite not being able to see much in the murk. Lucky I got them quite easily. Easier, in fact, than catching all the others ABOVE the gravel! For being such a little bugger, that black neon got to enjoy the ride to town in the kuhli loach bag *see previous post about kuhli loaches* All the other fish were separated according to species, except for him! I also had to separate the male and female congos cos they're just too big and skittish to fit into one bag.

Drove to town, offloaded the tank & equipment & brats, and G's parents had a look around the flat while they were here. They also love the place. We're having a flat warming tomorrow evening so they'll see the tank now that it's set up. Everyone will see the place! So exciting.

Ooh I haven't blogged about NY's yet! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Ok after saving that post yesterday and coming back to it today (6th Jan 2007), we’re waiting for 19:00. The flat-warming is tonight! So exciting! It’s gonna be great to see everyone together.

The fish are completely at home, no problems whatsoever. I’m dying to get a bird, maybe a canary or something like that, but it’d be quite lonely during the day. And birds’ sounds carry. Although (pleasantly) surprising in this place, neighbours’ sounds don’t carry so much. There are a few people who have little dogs here but you NEVER hear them, except when they’re going through the stairwell area on their way (excitedly) for a walk. Good, that, not having much noise (specially after those un-neighbours!). Sometimes we hear junky music coming from the flats opposite, which are above a restaurant, but that’s for about an hour hehe, so it’s tolerable. Just means that we close the windows/door when we’re playing music here, cos their music just clashes with ours. Yes, it IS that loud to interfere, but not if the windows/door are closed!!

It’s 18:10, I’m hungry. Mustn’t get tempted to start on the cheese puffs………………….

I’m starting to get anxious about the GI&GS order… I haven’t had any email replies (emailed twice) and still haven’t had an email confirming that they’ve been shipped. The transaction has gone through… but it’s a month later and still nothing. The moment we get our internet connection (after posting this LOL), I’m going to yahoo-phone them, to try to find out what’s going on.

My hifi is very frustrating. Its CD player lens keeps going off focus/blind/cannot read the CD. So you put a CD in it, and sometimes it plays, other times it reads how many songs there are and the playing time, but doesn’t manage to find the start of track one nor any other tracks. Sometimes it cannot even read the tracklisting or running time and spins the CD superfast and then throws it down again into the tray still spinning – CHARMING!! Time to get it serviced, AGAIN! It’s been a problem with this hifi since I got it, basically. I dunno, maybe a temperamental hifi, generally LOL.

Ok I think I’ll save this now, see if there’s anything that still needs preparation for nownow. Don’t think there’s anything. Would be nice if Fe and Te were coming, but sadly they’re all a plane-trip away now!! Miss you guys, see you soon!

Ok signing off for now, will add more to this later... Oh wait! I didn’t blog about NY’s! It was at W&S’s place, a bring ‘n braai. Basically the whole Anti-Social Society was there, as well as (obviously) W&S, and also X and L. Had a lekker time, chilling and chatting and joking and talking shit and having a ball, and having nice nice drinks. Mmmm nachtmusik and cinzano and something else. OMG did that have a sting in the tail! All the “power” sank to the bottom so you had a super-whammy when you got to the end of the drink! I felt RATHER wonky!! Got to witness the eye-toy, wasn’t up to playing with it though cos I think I might have wobbled a bit too much! Saw in the new year watching the countdowns on TV and well, each channel we tuned into had theirs when we tuned to them, so they were almost staggered hehe! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!..... ummm… HAPPY NEW YEAR PEOPLE!!..... oh ey, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!! ….. YAY HAPPY NEW YEAR…. Ermm…….

Ok signing off for real now, to be continued….

And I’m back. It’s now Monday 8th January 2007. The party was WONDERFUL! Thanks everyone for coming and making it such a special evening!! Caught up with everyone, at first we were all in the lounge and then the guys all basically ended up outside and the girls indoors still, then more people went outside, then I kinda rounded everyone up and everyone was outside. It was actually quite warm in the lounge and it was refreshingly cool outside. As the night settled in, it got colder and it was nice and warm indoors again, but by then people were starting to leave... time is abstract hehe, it was already later than it seemed!

Friday was B & N’s flatwarming/farewell/birthday party/get-together. Went to their place for snacks and chatting. N is leaving for UAE to work there. 2 months there, 1 month back... or something to that effect. I’m sure that’s going to be very trying at times, but they’re staying positive about it. Luckily “in this day and age” there are so many ways to communicate hehe!

Yesterday (Sunday), we went to my place and took Sis out for lunch with us to a lovely little restaurant/art gallery, Tibetan Teahouse. I had Thukpa Soup, VERY yum! Then G and I went to his parents’ place, to fetch *the curtains*! Friday we’d bought one curtain, to divide in half and put in the lounge cos those two windows are a bit small to warrant a curtain each. So on Saturday, G’s mom took the curtain and divided it and made it into two curtains for us! It was already ready very early on Sunday, hehe! Sounds like she’d worked overnight or something but apparently this curtain had a very simple construction which made it quick to do. We had supper at their place, and as soon as we got home we put the curtains up. They look STUNNING!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today was a rather mellow day for me. G went to work and I stayed at home, being still on leave. I washed up, vacuumed, washed my hair, read about [theories about the universe] and dozed a bit in the little sunny spot in the bedroom. Ended up going to nap properly in bed, it was so nice!

My list of things to do is something like this:

Study for my learners, and do the test, and go about doing driving lessons to get my drivers license

Stitch

Read

Ok it doesn’t sound like very much to do, like un-goallike, but that’s all that I feel like setting for myself at this point because on Monday, my new job starts, and I want to see how that affects my life first. Hopefully not too much. I think it will cut out my blogging/surfing/MSNing though, because at the ‘meeting’ the bosses and I had, they mentioned they were getting an IT co to assess our computers and needs, and they’re going to restrict which computers have access to the internet, most of them only being able to email. Basically I think they’re going to replace all the computer stuff. Which is a bloody godsend! First up I hope (although it will no longer be my problem) the (to quote many previous posts) FUCKING FAX PROGRAM!!!!!! OMG that HAS TO GO!! But I think I’ll be getting a decent PC, if not a new one. And hopefully I’ll get internet, being a secretary to HBBM and maybe needing to do online bookings/etc for him. Etc. I’ll see what happens. Anyway, yeah, I might not be able to MSN anymore during working hours, which is crappy but I reckon I’ll be busy enough with work hehe!

I’m getting amped for our internet connection to be installed here now, to post this stuff, and to catch up on my usual surfing! Dying to know what’s been happening on the pond, and I want to check my emails properly too... and also (of course) chat!!!

Ok I’ll save this for now... nothing much to post, I’ll start blabla’ing about nonsense in a min if I don’t stop!

Cheers for now, peeps!
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Lots of blog stuff to come...

This is just to keep the blog active, I haven't been at the pc much lately and the new inet connection will be up and running in about 2 weeks' time. So there is a lot of stuff I will want to post: pics, details, etc.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! :-D