Bits and bobs…

Nothing really major to report really other than what happened on my kind of relaxing weekend, i stayed away from the drink but it didn’t really matter because i might as well have with the amount of food that was consumed. Piggy, piggy, bum, bum yes.

Friday evening, i vegged and spent the whole evening on the net. I haven’t spent much time on the net at all lately and i just felt it necessary. Not doing anthing in particular, just fluting around. On Saturday, i googled my usual DIY shop for a radiator for my bathroom, a storage thingy for my garden to do us until the shed is built and called the shop to check stock on a chest of drawers to match my bedside lockers.

On arriving in the shop, i expected everything to be straight forward and the following is not going to be pleasant to read. We got to the heating section to find an assistant that couldn’t tell me if i bought a 600 width radiator, would my 640 measurements fit the radiator with whatever pieces that go either side. She couldn’t tell me and sent me in the direction of the cashiers, this didn’t bode well with me so i said i’d leave it. I walked towards the bedroom furniture section to find no staff in sight and when i asked for someone no-one arrived. I asked a person working in the bathroom section would they take an order from me for the chest of drawers, she proceeded to tell me that i should wait til the stock comes in. Then when i left that to go to the garden furniture section, an assistant told me none of the storage things i wanted were lockable only to find out after he left that it says on the packaging that they were.

At this stage neither me or my sister were in a very good mood and headed for the customer service desk which is cleverly called the “returns” desk. They of course fobbed me off when i told them the experience i was having so i headed back to the chest of drawers only to find a very nice girl that i dealt with before, she couldn’t believe what the bathrooms girl had told me and took my order. Not only that but she’s waiting for the stock to come in for me and reserving it and everything! I decided at this stage to leave the radiator til Dermot could come with me, we bought it the next day and we’re still deciding on the storage box. I think if we lock it and cover it in a tarp of some sort it would be safe enough in the garden. I told ya it wouldn’t be pleasant to read!!

My friends very nicely brought me to a famous chip shop in town on Sunday after i had mentioned hearing about it a few weeks before. We sat on a side street eating it would ya believe but it was good craic all in all, then we got ice cream in the pheonix park and we wandered around there for a while. There was a girl we named little red riding hood that we joked about on the walk, she was wandering around staring at the grass and all we could talk about was what she could possibly be doing. Of course drugs came into it and the fact that she lost something, a lot more rude and mean things came out of the lads mouths i have to say.

Lastly i am bored out of my tree in work, a lot of our responsabilities have gone to the agents in Bangalore at this stage which leave some work but not much. I’m catching up on one of my blogroll blogs that i have seriously let slip, 3 months to be exact sorry!! But it should keep me occupied for a while…

Oh and i just came from having a smoke out my back garden when i was greeted by a black cat in the dark, it frightened the bejaysis out of me i have to say and it was cheekily trying to get into the house. That would’ve caused quite a kerfuffle with himself ha! He hates them but it was a little sweetheart, purring like mad and running in and out of my legs in a figure of eight kinda thing. I think it was a she and going by her belly, i think she could be having little kitties soon. I am seriously gonna have to get a dog or something soon.

Ode to Arseface! Grrr…

This is something that’s been bothering me and just niggling away inside me. It kinda came to a head today and along with being glad that i did it, i also kinda am regretting and feeling a bit embarassed at who heard me and that…

On with the story says she. Arseface is someone who bothers myself and the two girls in work. I have spoken of him before but i could write a book on how much he bothers me. There are three annoyances really. First is the time he told me he picked the two girls over me to get our jobs. You see, the three of us applied and they got the jobs. I only got it because someone left, i did get offered a job on another part of the team dealing with invoice queries which was still as flattering (wandering off subject). Anyway, that f*cked me off because of course not only is it not nice to be told to your face that you weren’t chosen but by a half wit that is in no way senior and was probably only asked his opinion at the time.

Second was when one of the girls the other day, tells me that after i was told that i was being kept on the team until christmas that Arseface comes up to her saying how surprised he was that they kept me and not her. I mean i do my job properly, probably come across more mistakes on the system that he does than he finds on me and i am quicker than him and have the ability to use copy and bloody buggering paste!!!

Thirdly, the fact that he’s in the dark ages. When a process is updated it is very important to the way we work. If something changes, then the process that the customer uses changes and we allow or don’t allow them to do certain things. If he is telling customers the wrong way to do something, then it’s going to blow up in our faces when we tell them that actually no you can’t.

Which is in fact what happened today. Sorry to bore you with the details but i have to for you to understand. He changed a company name to a completely different one, with a different address instead of going by the correct process and explaining to them that the contract the customer has will have to be cancelled and a new one set up for the new customer. A whole procedure has to go ahead so that the machine is in good working order for the new customer. So he f*cked a few things up there. When i went to him about it, he huffed and puffed saying he’d show me a mail showing how what he did was ok. Not the way it turned out at all and because of the attitude he gave me, i lost it with him in front of a few people on my team. I think i just had been bottling up all my frustration with him and i just exploded. My colleague was saying fair play, he was red in the face with anger and all i could think about was what an arse i looked! When i called my manager in the UK to explain, she said nothing which frustrated me more because they can’t see the error in his ways. Last year he got an award for hard work and dedication, we were the ones that started on the team and cleared shitloads of backlogs and he gets an award! He propped it up on top of all his files so that everyone could see. Files of which are filled with hard copies of every single thing he has on his effing computer!

All i can say is that I’m glad he got chosen to go to India, it means that i won’t have to put up with him for two months. Also if he had stayed, me or whoever was there with him would’ve had to put up with him. He makes one of the girls uncomfortable with comments he makes to her too, he thinks he’s being funny but all he’s being is inappropriate. I have to say i couldn’t give a flying fook who reads this, it’s not like he’d be on the internet and i’m sorry that this post is so ranty but it needed to be done. His face literally looks like a slapped arse the majority of the time, HA! I’m just realising that i didn’t give him that name on purpose relating to that hee hee!

I’ll get to the good bit in a minute…

I’ve a good bit to catch up on, i haven’t been online much at all lately so the blogs have been pushed to one side not for the first time.

The weekend before last was the trip to Galway and lovely trip it was. When we arrived it wasn’t the greatest start because the hotel didn’t have free parking. Now it’s not that big of a deal but you would normally expect it and the person that greeted us with this news wasn’t the politest person on the planet. You would want to see her face when we staggered into the hotel at the end of the night with cans and domino’s in hand ha! It was a great day all in all, we don’t go on the rip enough together and it so reminds me of when we started going out. The random drunken conversations are great and we did a pub crawl all over Eyre Square starting with good hearty pub grub. The Inis Mór was cool too, we got a boat over at 10.30 saturday morning and i had no hangover at all which was cool. I thought the day was ruined because it was bucketing down, i even had to find a shop to buy a raincoat beforehand but the weather picked up and it was gorgeous by the end of the day. We took a mini-bus tour because we only had until three o’clock to see the place. We saw Dún Aonghasa which is a fort on the cliffs and i think it was the highest point on the island, we had to climb this track up what seemed like a mountain. In was literally fooked by the time i got to the top but once i did it was amazing. Looking back on the view from up there over the island, seeing the track we had just walked up and then the drop over the cliff. I am literally cringing thinking of the cliff because i couldn’t go very close to the edge, i was screaming at him aswell because he was at the edge and stepping down a bit over the edge. The fort was in a semi circle shape around the cliff. Then onto the seven churches, i didn’t get to go around and read the information because the driver was beeping like there was no tomorrow to move on. We saw seals on the way back to the harbour, had a look around the town and heard the irish language which didn’t of course make one bit of sense because of the dialect me thinks.

I was on the go all last weekend too, Friday night was in Sarah’s house for drinkees and the Big Brother final. I got a little bit too drunk and i think her boyfriend thought i was probably a giggly drunken fool. Haha! It was a good night all in all, catching up is good. Saturday was spent in a friends house, they have two dogs and two cats. Now, they just bought a St Bernard puppy! And oh my god he is a cutey, a big ball of fluff and he is big for a pup. If anyone’s see Beethoven, they will understand how bloody cute they are. I love being down there anyway, it gives me a taste of the country every so often and i couldn’t deal with that constantly no way.

Now for the big news. As you know we’ve been waiting 2 years for this to happen. The news broke September 2006 that changes were coming within the company, which led to another company taking over and then our jobs being in danger. Well today was our turn. One by one, we had to go into the office to see was ouur names on the list to go. The atmosphere was so unreal, everybody was huddling around and watching the person coming out to see by their facial expressions were they happy or not. Well i can tell ya now, i am damn well happy! I’m being kept for another while, either the week before Christmas or the middle of January. I wouldn’t mind either, all i care about is that i don’t have to look for a job now thank god! We were expecting a half day today when the letters were being given out to the people leaving but no, the stingy feckers wouldn’t let us go. I even had a drink last night expecting a half day, so as you can imagine i wasn’t full of life today.

Anyway, relief is what i’m feeling now. The waiting is over for now and i cn relax for a while. We have a night out on Friday to mark the occasion, and i have a night out with my friends that a long time coming as we haven’t seen each other in a while. Busy again this weekend!!

Few things…

I just feel the need to write this now, i’ve been pondering it for the last few hours on whether i wanted to or not. I’m off today because it’s a bank holiday in the UK. Today is a day filled with organising and errand running, i’m finished with two little bits left to do that i’m gonna try get done tomorrow.

So i had my morning planned with getting Dermot’s car taxed for when we need it at the weekend, boldy bum has been driving around without for three months and i handed him the form ages ago that i printed off the internet. So i decided that i’d do it, because i like taking his car for a spin every so often and i would be so freaked about getting caught. It was more than a task because we figured out that his car was registered as a taxi before he owned it and i had to get the class changed on his logbook before filling out the form again. It’s done anyway and arrears have been paid to his disgust but if he had gotten up off his arse in the first place to get the guards to say it was off the road, he wouldn’t have had to ha!

Second task was to lodge money for himself and get some dollars for NY, this is purely for my own sanity because i’m sure i’ll spend it if i don’t. I took money from my locked away savings to pay for the hotel and instead of replacing it in my savings, i thought it would be better to get the dollars. How i love new notes, let alone dollar bills and i was thinking for a while there of throwing them up in the air saying i’m rich! Something ya do when you’re five and you had a few pound notes in your hand.

Then i got my avon books handed out, the last two things on my list was buying a TV licence and looking at hotels in Galway. The licence can be gotten tomorrow, i have to have it bought by Friday because i’ve been handed a ten days notice after a guy from An Post caught me here on my sick week there a while ago. The hotel search is over, i’m gonna speak to Dermot tonight but i don’t think he’ll mind. I think it’s gonna be The Harbour Hotel in Galway City, it’s near Eyre Square in the city and i know my way to it too. It looks really nice on the website and we treated my parents to it for their anniversary last year. We’ll be going on Friday morning, going on the tear for the day and then off to the Aran Islands on Saturday. Himself suggested we do it seeing as he had his little solo hollier and i’ll have mine, and i haven’t been to the Aran Islands! It’s probably one of the few places i haven’t been in Ireland.

I love days like today when ya get things done, things just seem to just gather together so i can get them done on weekdays off. I’m really looking forward to the weekend coming, i hopefully only have a three day week. One of the girls from work has had a death in the family, she’s not going to be in until Friday and i’m just hoping that she does so i can be off on Friday. Kinda selfish maybe…

Ok off to make shephards pie, nammers!!

All we can talk about…

Is whether or not we’re gonna be let go in October or not. They’re keeping 25% of the team longer and i’m praying it’s me, i thought months ago that i was dying to go and just get it over with and still a little bit of me feels that way. But then I’m just not ready to go yet. I have my CV ready just incase but i just don’t want the whole looking for a job quite yet. There was a petition sent around today that i don’t think will do much, it was set up to get to know who’s going and who’s staying. The procedure normally is that 30 days before the 75% get let go, they get two piles of envelopes. One for the people going and one for the people staying, they literally don’t know until then according to my team leader. It’s just a waiting game really. We’ll be getting a half day on the Wednesday in question which is the 10th of September and there’s a night out being organised for that weekend.

I haven’t been doing much lately, myself and himself have been having many a Mario evening. Taking it in turns when we die or get through a level. It’s been cool but we have to take a break for a while because not only do we be killing each other but we’d be practically having palpitations seriously! We found a website that gives ya all the cheats and we needed little reminders on bits about the game too.

I paid for the hotel for New York during the week last week and it’s a relief to get it paid. I didn’t originally think that i would be able to afford it all but it just shows ya that ya can work around it or whatever. I can focus on getting my spending money sorted now, i’ve had a standing order set up since Christmas for it and i’m so glad i did that because if i had to do it myself it wouldn’t be done at all. I’m so crap at saving! It’s so exciting to think that i’m actually going there again, it’s such a cool place and i’d say this won’t be my last time either. Getting to do all the stuff i didn’t get to do will be great but this time, i’ll get to see them properly without Dermot rushing me hehe! I’ll miss him but i’d say i’ll be occupied enough not to too much.

I can’t wait to get to the end of this week, i have a bank holiday next Monday so that’ll be nice…

Can’t blog really…

Just to say that I’m actually alive, i just haven’t really been wanting to blog so I’m not. Maybe another day….

I would like to post a pic of my kitchen but i can’t for the life of me find the charger for my cam. It will happen so watch this space…

The waiting game…

Dermot’s flight was supposed to be in at 16.55 and the website says it’s delayed and is arriving at 18.30. Ho hum at least i know he’s on the way. The week hasn’t been half as bad as i thought it was going to be, the first few days were a bit shitty and the texts were coming every day so i can’t complain about that. The fact that the texts were coming only means that he was thinking about me, one of the nights was the cutest when i got one that said that his phone was dead and he had to text from his mates phone. I was thinking that he wouldn’t bother his arse charging on holidays but lo and behold, a few hours later i had word that it was all charged up. Sappy i know, but little things like that matter. I only really had one or two nights to mope, i filled the week up with nintendo playing, painting, visits from my parents (bless), going to the cinema (Batman rawks!!) and of course my little get together on Saturday. Last night and today is really just the waiting that’s getting to me.

Saturday night actually rocked, i had the medium dude over and the people that were doing it changed so much, i eventually had five on the night. Then last minute, my big sister decided that she wanted to do it too and when i asked him would he see one more person, he said that her loved ones were already there for her. The mad thing about it was that my younger sister had been an hour before. Mixed feedback came from people, the majority was good and craic was had. I was the hostess for the night for the first time ever i think, i kept the food flowing and so much so that i didn’t even get to eat myself. Luckily i had gotten the chance to have one of those ready made meals before people started arriving. I hadn’t a stitch of food left at the end at all! The only hitch i can think of is that i bought all the food with dips, went to the bother of getting a dips dish from my mams and then totally forgot to serve them with the food! Ha!

The weekend was a blast in general and myself and Ess were keeping each other company. Her fella jetted off on Friday and while she was at the beginning of her stint, i was coming to the end of mine but i think both the beginning and the start are the hard parts. Right my sis is calling over with the Colonels chicken so laters!

Somewhat Satisfied…

I just stood back and looked at the house today. I’m so happy with the way it’s looking and i’m glad i have this little get together on Saturday too. Finally i feel ok showing people the place ya know… A few little tweaks will have to be made now just to clear some stuff from the room where i’ll have the medium for people to go into him, but other than that i should be fine.

I realised after getting stressed when playing the SNES, that i was playing under the wrong setting. I dunno how it works but the levels i was playing wasn’t the original ones, so now it’s not so hard hehe! My sister called over with her friend tonight and i couldn’t get her off the thing, it just reminded me of the old days so it did. She was always much better than me but it’s some craic playing together. Her friends son is gas altogether, he cracks me up. He had an Indiana Jones outfit on that had a whip n all and every-time he came out with something, he’d crack the whip. Gas craic! I played Mario for hours and i really need to go to bed now. The staying awake to tire myself out is catching up with me and i was late for work n all this morning. Uh oh!

Dada-da-dada-DA!

I got the SNES working! I dunno if i posted before that i was having some problems tuning it in but finally, after not having time and then emailing the seller that i was sending it back. He decides to tell me that the voltage on the power adaptor can be changed, the switch is on the back and i honestly didn’t notice. I literally jumped up and down screaming, then realising i had no-one to tell so i called Esther and proceeded to scream down the phone at her ha! Brilliant stuff altogether and it couldn’t come together at a better time, good stuff. I’m seeing now though how rusty i am, god i couldn’t even get through one level of Mario.

I’ve had a productive evening all in all, i started painting the minute i got in the door because i figured if i sat down i wouldn’t get up. I painted the skirting boards in the bathroom, the job i’ve been putting off for ages because the room is so narrow it’s just plain awkward. But it’s done now and it makes a huge difference, slowly but surely things are coming together. The only big job left in the house is the hall, stairs and landing which i don’t think i’ll do myself because it will be hard. A few finnicky little things left now in the house and if we push ourselves, we’ll get everything done.

Today in work was utter shite on a stick, i hated every minute of it. I was just on bad form and anyone that was in the slightest bit annoying just made my blood boil. I was just super sensitive and i only really let rip a couple of times, i think if i was busier i wouldn’t have been as bad. The guy in work that i think i’ve mentioned before, has really been grating on me lately. He just has no manners whatsoever, is so condescending and blatantly doesn’t like me one bit. He was one of the times i got peeved and there will be many more because i’m finding him really hard to bear.

Sleepytime, i’ve been leaving it really late to go to bed so that i just conk out.

Hunny-bunny-less

I am regretting a little bit that i got up this morning at 6am after Dermot left, yep he’s off on his lads holiday for a week and i’m fine with it now after he’s actually gone. The last couple of days were a bit weird knowing he was going though. It’s stupid that we’ve never been apart before for this length of time, it really is. He said something really sweet last night and i literally had to grit my teeth to stop tears, that this was his first and last lads holiday, that it wasn’t the same going away without me. Ah well  sure isn’t it only a week, i have loadsa plans for the week and i like plans. One good thing is that he crossed an item off my list last night, he painted the newly plastered chimney breast and it looks amazing! The firepalce really shines now and you can actually see how good a job the plasterer did. What was i thinking planning on papering that part of the room???

Posts have been few and far between the last week, just tiredness from work probably was the reason for that. We have only a week left with the Indian peeps now and we have a lot to get done along with our regular day to day stuff. And at the end of every day i wasn’t in the mood of much. I had a wedding the Saturday before last which was really nice beside the sea, my cousin who i always thought was very shy shocked me with his speech because it was that good. It’s these little all-eyes-on-me times in weddings that make me think of my own. Mine will be nowhere near as typical as a wedding here these days, i plan on a wedding away and a party when i get home. A lot of the things that go on at weddings these days wouldn’t appeal to the awkward person that is me, i think heh. All in all, it was a lovely day and it was unusual to have a wedding at the sea but brilliant at the same time.

I’m off to work now and apologies if this post isn’t really at all organised. I can tell it’s a bit scattered but in fairness, my eyes aren’t fully open typing here and my heads not with it at all… More tomorrow maybe…