Random Ramblings of a bemused puppy

What a horrible week

2006-10-18T14:27:23Z

It's not been the best fortnight, last week we got the terrible news that a work colleague had been killed in a car crash, she was only 22, the funeral is tomorrow. It was heartbreaking news and the entire building, all 250 of us have been walking around dumbstruck, and more recently a closer work mate had a stroke. She kept going to her doctors complaining of a migraine that hadn't disipated they kept sending her away telling her to take some asprine and it would go. Sunday she was admitted to hospital and they confirmed she had a stroke. It's as if someone has cursed us, and it's heartbreaking.

In news more closer to home I am fed up of being poor, I am so envious of work colleague who can swan around and not worry about cash, i feel as if all i do each month is scrape closer and closer to the barrel. I wish i was better with money but after working my finances out this morning i cannot work out where all my cash goes, I don't go out all the time drinking, yes i smoke but i don't blow £300 on fags, I don't have thousands of clothes or shoes so where the hell does it all go?

Busy drunken weekend over back to reality

2006-10-02T07:28:10Z

had an eventful weekend, started off with the Company trip to Newmarket on friday drank very bad wine, tried to prevent some younger members of staff attaching themselves to the Company Directors and bragging about how much wne they had drunk already, at the last count we had guessed that little sean had had at least 15 glasses of wine, at the end of the day he had been seen floating around with two bottles under his arm!!! I won no money surprise surprise. Managed to get back on the coach, Kim rang me to say she was lost and to hold the coach, i wonder down to very grumpy driver and say can you please wait ten mins cos my mate is lost. He was not a fluffy bunny. We finally got home at about eight and headed straight to the pub.

Nest day was Chris the pub land lords birthday party so at about eight we headed over there i drank far tooo much spiced rum, they had put a new bottle on for me, i left a little wobbly and noticed the bottle had about three shots left in it *hic*, however i suffered for it all the next day!!!

Next thing i must apologise to Sadistic Kitten your letter is written and will be posted tomorrow i've only just been paid so couldn't get a stamp, plus a little anniversary gift , glad to hear you grandmother is better *hugs for you*

grrr horrible little children, grr horrible chavs, grrr horrible knuckledraggers

2006-09-06T08:14:17Z

It's a question i often ask myself, and i've been contemplating it after a restless nights sleep.

I arrived home yesterday after a hard days work (ha) out the oven on and sat down in front of the tv and put neighbours on, I get taken out of the mindless televison blaring because of a little tap tap tap at the door, which then turned into a boom boom boom as i was getting to the door, the boom turned to banging, i opened the front door to find a small child in his PJ's holding a radio control and hoping on my door step "Have you seen my helicopter?" he asks still bouncing around like a loon. "i fink it is your garden?" I went to close the door and the little sod put his foot in, i told him to wait and slammed the door, i bashed around for the french door keys found them went into the garden tried to avoid the frogs on the patio and looked for the helicopter, nothing.

I go back into the house and open the front door "no helicopter i said try next door" He goes away, i sit back down to my television, 15 minutes later the frontdoor starts coming of the hinges again i open it to find he has sent his knuckle dragger father this time "has my son dropped his helicopter in your garden!" Again i tell him no look him up and down and decide that perhaps i should get my 6ft 4" boyfriend to hurry up home and deal with the rather large bloke. I apologised said no it wasn't in my garden and that he should perhaps look elsewhere. I shut/slamed the door. I go upstairs desiding that i wasn't going to be able to watch any televison was in the middle of getting dressed looked out the window to find the entire lot of them hanging of my garden wall (my garden is about 6ft by 4ft it is tiny! I have two apple trees, a pear tree and a damson tree) anyway i'm fuming by this point he has been told twice i don't have the helicopter. i grab my phone and ring corin who is about two minutes away and tell him to put his foot down, he screaches into the drive, this point they have decided there is actually nothing in my garden gee wizz guys i think i told you that! , and is looking elsewhere. Corin comes over and again goes into the garden and has a look, opens the gate sees mr nosey approaching, who then tells the whole silly sob story to him, corin again tells him there is no helicopter and that maybe he should leave us alone. Mr nosey then says his son saw it fly into the garden, to which corin replies not likely and if it had landed in the drive the other children who live there whould have stolen it, Mr Nosey decides at this point his tiny 5ft 4" frame isn't a match for corin and goes away. I wasn't overly annoyed at the knocking on the door but i am so cross he didn't believe me and was going to begin trespassing!

and then there was one....

2006-09-01T14:33:24Z

I am currently sitting in a very quiet portacabin, sorry Modular Office, all of the other staff have run of to play at the Weatherbys Summer Fun Day, in the It's a Knockout game. There are only six of us left in her and all you can hear is the tap of keyboards and Graham teling awful jokes, usually rude. and apart fro the odd naming enquiry it's not been too bad, aprt from the chap who just called who didn't understand english too well and either my local accent isn't too clear (peple can understand me out there can't you) or he wasn't sure about the number three, i can assure people that i wasn't say fwee!

I have tons of filing to do but it just doesn't interest me, i can't even have a party because everyone else left her is far tooo boring, on the plus side my Sherman Alexie books arrived today so i can start reading them. Resevation Blue and Ten Little Indians

You can see who makes all the noise in here.......

I left rather stupidly all my new coursework materials at home so i can't even get started on that though i may have a go at writing another short story so i can at least keep my mind occupied....

I can breathe a sigh of relief

2006-08-29T08:05:33Z

Toby is back, hooray!!!!!!!!!

The madness will no longer precide over the office for the deputy manager has returned from his hols!!! Who am i kidding he won't even get a chance to look up from his desk i left him loads of faxes in his tray (giggle giggle tee hee)!!!

On the plus side i manged to get some letters written to people, and i have gotten a little further with the story that i am writing as well, it's amazing what you can do when there is little to do here.

I'm so bored!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The lunatics have taken over the asylum

2006-08-24T10:52:56Z

I could not be anymore bored, the boss is away on a camping holiday with his two daughters (minus his mistress) and my other colleague is enjoying herself in Florida with husband and two kids! Sob

Everyone else is the office is bickering or complaining about someone or something. The two people, supposedly adults, are still bickering about an arguement they had yesterday about some stupid word document, it's amazing how interesting the lines on the woodwood of my desk can become when they tried to drag me into it.

Another colleague is sitting in the office smelling a horse passport claiming that is smells so therefore the horse must have wee'd on it!

I really want Hunts council to get back to me with that job i applied for last week, i can't wait to get out of this place.

To improve staff morale, the managers and directors have organised a Summer Funday!! An It's a Knockout Competition, admittedly the idea of seeing my line manager dressed up as a penguin and failing flat on his face appeals to me!!

anyway i'm going to see if they will let me into the first aid room so i can crawl through the portal behind the bed to the happy place, where i don't have to put up with idiots shouting at each other!!!!

Berkeley

2006-08-02T07:20:25Z

Had a fantastic event again at Joust, spent far too much money on stuff a lovely new throwing axe, it was nice to see people that we just hadn't seen for whatever reason in months/years.

Sorry we dashed away so quickly but after we had seen the rather fabulous cossacks ( mmm guido see him in all his glory below, i know not a cossack picture but he certainly looks very nice) we decided that we didn't want to get caught in the traffic so we headed home very tired and worn out.

Dilemma and advice needed

2006-05-24T08:19:07Z

Sorry to still go on about this stuff but i am Still getting e-mail's from people assuming i am still part of the re-enactment group is used to be in for ease we shall now call them "crapheads", i have been invited to once again attend and event and as organiser or "the crapheads" could i please fill in the form on line to confirm that you wish to take part in this years event....

Do i ignore the letter??
Do i write back to the organisers (again) and tell them i am not longer part of the group and ask them not to write to me anymore??
Do i be honest and call a member to whom we still speak and get him to sort it out?? which isn't likely to happen as he is about as usful as a chocolate fire guard!

I just need advise, i want to write back and inform them i am no longer part of the group and not to contact me. But would worry this would cause more problems because then i would be accused of sabotaging their re-enactment plans?!

any ideas would be greatly appreciated

Bounce Bounce Bounce

2006-04-20T07:26:21Z

The Season of smashy clunky clunky is almost upon us!!

We can tell this by the goblin getting much happier as time goes on, really looking forwar to Morwhellam and Tatton now, i have a lovely new set of arrows that have been made for me.

I will also hopefully be attending templecoombe but we may only be there for sat, but i will let people know before hand.

i wasn't aware i worked at Fuckwit Central

2006-03-07T14:43:36Z

Is it just me or is everyone i work with a complete fuckwit!!!

We appear to be having a slight problem with members of staff, the alphabet being one of the first things we are taught as children but it is causing major difficulty for some of the numpties that work here.

Certain procedures have to be followed no matter where you work and inevitably you always find someone who a) doesn't see the need to follow them b) think they are so important they don't have to follow them c) are screwing the boss so they can do what they like when they like and how they like.

My job is not difficult it's glorified data input, i love my job, love dealing with the nice people who call us, ask sensible questions are generally polite and a pleasure to deal with.

Anyway apart from my latest moan congrats to the Pink one on her new job, though how the goblin and the mekon will survive without you i do not know!!

Thanks to wyte_phantom for the loan of Hildalgo, though the goblin forgot about it and i only got the DVD yesterday, he left it is his bag so i couldn't drool over the lovely Mr Mortensen.

On a good note i managed to pick up a cheap copy of Dances with Wolves which was amazing though it has given me some ideas for clothing which are bad, i was told off for drooling at the rather tasty men though!!!

We won!!!!

2006-03-01T08:20:55Z

We won the quiz we won the quiz

Should say a big thatnks to my darling goblin and wyte phantom, who were drafted in at the last min when we couldn't answer a couple of questions!!!!

We'll i'm on my own for the next couple of days the goblin is training, miss pink could you see if next time he could go on a training course on how to deal with people being nice etc!!!!! but without the goblin about i should be able to get on with some more beading i want to finish my loom piece asap, not sure what i will do with it though, am considering attaching it to a belt but am unsure of how to do the fittings etc.

Orkamedies the goblin comes bearing gifts for you, two books that i thought you would appreciate more than i!!

Okay hopefully we will see you guys on the weekend of 24 - 26!!!

What a dull night that was!!

2006-02-23T08:39:34Z

Please remind me next time when work plan a "team building" exercise, why i don't actually like many of my colleagues.
It was decided that we should all go bowling (oh joy) last night to "team build", it ended up with me, listening to them eiher going on about their children, their sex lives or how sodding wonderful they are!!

Throughly boring evening, and they have now suggested going out on the driving range next, i can't wait....
My suggestion of going either clay pigeon shooting or archery was met with bored looks, i'm not sure colleague shooting is classed as a sport.......and to top it all off we walked past one of the few decent pubs in kettering, to only hear from one collegue "ooh weird people go in their, goths and stuff" this is the same colleague who paid £35 for a 6x4 photograph of her horse that she has a share in, though she looked slightly nervous when i mentioned that "some of my best friends are goths, and i can guarantee there are no fights in that pub, only in the ones frequented by townies/hoodies/knobs" So i ended the night on a good note dropped another colleague off at home and smoked myself silly, to calm down.

col_ironhorse @ 2006-02-13T14:18:00

2006-02-13T14:21:37Z

Just found this rather cool sit on the net thought it may interest you guys

http://www.tomahawks.info

The bloke's collection is simply amazing!!!

All work and no play

2006-02-09T15:43:15Z

Once again i am on my own in the office.

So i thought i would do a little updating on here, it was good to see everyone at the weekend, many thanks to debs for the improptu horse riding lesson which i found to be very good fun!!! Ta muchly for letting us stay over the weekend John.

Got home on monday after doing some shopping round town, trying to avoid the townies and chavs littering the street, sat and watched ginger snaps the beginning, much better than the first two mainly because there was a nice young native actor in it, it's always a good point when watching a movie that i have good weapons to look at and there is a least one good looking male in it!!!!!! thankie muchly Orkamedies for the vid will keep me amused for hours.

Hi

2006-01-31T08:48:06Z

Hello all, haven't updated this is in a while, probably because i haven't had an awful lot to write about, northamptonshire is very dull you know.

Have finally discoved what an evil place tandy's is, they had a huge beading loom which means i can do extremly large pieces on it, the nice man in the shop made sure he put it where i would happen to walk, and hour later i'm £55 down and the shop keeper in mr benn style fashion is dancing around the shop!!!!!!! Couldn't wait to get started on it, had to wait for rhys to leave, after he'd told me a rather vile piece of gossip, if anyone is reading this and is from that vile group, please do not continue to tar us with your brushes, though we corin and i are extremely flattered that you have nothing else to talk about other than us!!!!!

We shall see orkamedies, gobin_king, wyte_phantom and many more this weekend, John can you let us know the best time to arrive on saturday and if you would like us to bring anything with us???

Anyway thats the hellos, and moans over with for now!!

Happy New Year All

2005-12-31T13:24:14Z

As i will be unable to get to the internet again until tuesday yay i'm not gonna be at work for days whoopie no more slave driving tyrants barking orders....

oops went of on one there hope everyone has a fun safe drunkern new year!!!

Take care see yall soon!!

Training Weekend

2005-11-30T08:31:15Z

Hey

It was really great to see you guys, i was having such a good time i didn't want to come home, wyte_phantom it was really nice to meet Al, lovely bloke.

orkamedies can you send the Goblin your address so he can post you the tretise's he has for you, nice and clear now he is only a slow little goblin and is just getting used to being able to read unaided.

Oh and i have a few ideas for your sheaf but will need you to send me the measurements of the blade, or draw round it whatever is easier i will send you some ideas i have via post or via e-mail if you can forward your e-mail onto us.

Other News.......

2005-11-14T14:22:57Z

Okie dokie I'm bored the boss has gone to have a root canal done and i'm stuck here all by myself, i only have several very boring people to keep me company in the office as mel is away for a few days.

Looking forward to catching up with people at the training weekend though if we do get bored at all i hear there is nice new johnny depp movie out soon so we can always go and drool over him, the kit etc then drool over him again............

r u a redneck??????? thought this might cheer people up

2005-11-14T14:08:00Z

You might be an extreme redneck if:
1. You let your 14-year-old daughter smoke at the dinner table in front of her kids.

2. The Yellow Pages value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas is in it.

3. You've been married three times and still have the same in-laws.

4. You think a woman who is "out of your league" bowls on a different night.

5. You wonder how service stations keep their rest-rooms so clean.

6. Someone in your family died right after saying, "Hey, guys, watch this."

7. You think Dom Perignon is a Mafia leader.

8. Your wife's hairdo was once ruined by a ceiling fan.

9. Your junior high prom offered day care.

10. You think the last words of the "Star-Spangled Banner" are "Gentlemen, start your engines."

11. You lit a match in the bathroom and your house exploded right off it's wheels.

12. The Halloween pumpkin on your porch has more teeth than you're spouse.

13. You have to go outside to get something from the fridge.

14. One of your kids was born on a pool table.

15. You need one more hole punched in your card to get a freebie at the House of Tattoos.

16. You can't get married to your sweetheart because there's a law against it.

17. You think loading the dishwasher means getting your wife drunk

Patience is a virtue or all good things to those who wait!!!!!!

2005-10-24T11:01:22Z

though I am never one to gloat, it is rather funny that the group who no longer "needed us" are now desperatly searching for someone to train them..... I pity the poor SoB who gets that job............ Though it has been very funny to hear of the escapades and the tale of the whingers bawling cos Psycho Bitch 2 from Hells daughter didn't want to be with him................ I agree in the saying all good things to those who wait and roses only smell like poo poo anyway

Bored

2005-10-17T12:01:33Z

Okie dokie

I'm soooo bored...............

Everyone is in Malta the you are all going to Whitby boo hiss............

I now have the added stress of trying to get myself something to wear for the Xmas party, work here are doing a big posh do, suit n' tie, dinner jacket etc, posh dresses for the ladies!!! I have nothing to wear and yes i am aware that it is only a few months off but i'll never get anything on time, i've now treble booked myself for the last weekend in November.

1st i promised jen and co i would come up to cheshire and do a training weekend then i said yes to my mate mel and i going out for a big weekend to celebrate our 25th birthdays now i've gone and said i can do a craft fair sigh..........

Weasel Free Zone

2005-10-10T07:20:09Z

Yay he's gone to another department!!!!

Also it seems to be very silent here over the past few days may hae some thing to do with the Gobin_king, orkamedies and wyte_phantom suning themselves in Malta...... boo hiss i couldn't go sob sob.....

Toripink hope the gig went okay on saturday and that yo are alright give me a buzz and we'll go out for a drinkie

col_ironhorse @ 2005-09-27T08:41:00

2005-09-27T08:00:35Z

Weasel Boy decided it would be fun to put a sign on ashley’s desk

“Ashers “the urn” Howes”

Ashley a) hates being called Ash, Ashers or anything to do with name shortning b) buried her grandfather on Thursday so wouldn’t have appreciated the sign anyway

We hid the sign and Weasel Boy came running in after it wondering where it had gone, (after two of the girls I work with gave him a bollocking), he then made the mistake of asking where the sign was to me, several sharp words later and he slid back to his desk like the weasel he is with his tail in between his legs and he sulked at me for the rest of the day and here was me under the impression the kindergarten antics had finished here!!!!!

Sigh I give up he leaves in a fortnight

GOBLIN FREE ZONE

2005-09-27T07:08:45Z

My house is going to be a goblin free zone for the next three days, he's away in reading which leaves my house nice and empty!!!!!! Yay I can watch War of the Worlds to my hearts content and horror movies which he only complains about anyway!!!!

BOING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! said zebedee!!!!!!!!!!

2005-09-08T13:33:14Z

hooray i found some very friendly groups up near leeds who do native stuff

BOING BOING BOING