4 posts tagged “things on tuesday”

[this is not good]

• Smokers.  Oh, not all smokers - I'm not that much of a hypocrite.  Specifically, people who walk along the street, smoking and flicking their ash behind them.  When I smoked, people used to take the piss out of me because I couldn't smoke and walk at the same time and this is why.  I don't smoke any more (more or less) and I don't want to turn up to work in the morning covered in someone else's ash.
  
• My wool still hasn't arrived.  Boo.

[this is wierd]

• My dad is talking about getting married.  He's not seeing anyone, he hasn't even gone out with anyone but his friends are trying to fix him up with ladies and he doesn't seem to realise that he could just go out with someone without having to make any kind of a commitment.  We asked what the one of the ladies was like and he replied with a damning 'she was quite presentable'.  When questioned further he said 'when you get to my age, you don't expect a babe'.  Apparently, if you do get a babe she's probably after something and he'd regret it for the rest of his life.  I don't know how I feel about this; he's lonely and I don't want him to be but after you've been with someone for 50 years, how do you get to have that same level of companionship and understanding with someone new?

[this is a vague musing]

• I'm considering cutting my hair.  Ideally, I'd like to have it shorter during the week, then big and exciting at the weekends.  Also, I'm wierdly fascinated with how long I can get it before I lose patience/the split ends take over.

[this is good]

• Snog, Marry, Avoid.  I'm obsessed with this.  It's brilliant!  Terrifying orange girls wearing gaffer tape and badly applied eyeshadow are plucked off the street and made to wash their faces, before the general public confirms how much nicer they think they look.  It's a little unfair because they only seem to show the responses from frightfully well-spoken public school boys.  I wonder if they showed pictures of girls who are styling themselves on Jodie Marsh (why?  WHY?) round the streets of Croydon if they'd get a different response.
  
• I'm going to the real estate property fair in November with work.  It might not sound that exciting but did I mention it was in Cannes?  It's in Cannes!  Ha!   
  
• In the absence of my knitting wool, I'm entertaining myself by doing some Nick Cave cross stitch.
  
• My tomato plants (generously donated by a certain CQM) have baby tomatoes.  This is enormously exciting and you'd think they were actual babies by the amount of attention they are getting (including being photographed on an almost daily basis) except that they will be eaten at some point.

Going down

• Everyone who gets in my way on my commute to work.  Yes you!  Man walking slowly, whilst reading the paper.  And you!  Girl with backpack and whiny boyfriend.  Get out of my way!  Where's Babs to bring back Death Tube?
• Any advert concerning 'delicate underarm skin'.  I'm sorry, since when was 'delicate underarm skin' a problem?  What are the alleged symptoms?  Genius work on the marketing people, for managing to sell yet another non-product and I'll keep an eye out for the forearm lotion, or earlobe gel.  Please: send me something useful, like shin cream, where I actually do have dry skin.  (Although, on second thoughts, I reckon I could make a fortune on earlobe gel, flogging it off to old ladies who spent too long wearing too-heavy earrings).
• Jimmy Carr

Going up

• Blogging at work!  Yeah!
• Remember that essay I was struggling over a few months back?  I got a first!  A first!! 

Normally I try to have more positive than negative points, and I'm sure there are more positive, happy things in my life, I just can't remember what they are (not in a bad way, I'm currently absorbed with lunch, to be followed by more chocolate from the snack box, so I can't concentrate) but the fact that I got a FIRST is filling me with more than enough delight.

Minor things vexing me today:

1. Cold.  My windows are rattling and it's quite chilly in here.  I hate being cold.
2. Losing my MP3 player on Sunday.  Ok, it was free from nectar points and I had just noticed that the wire was hanging on the headphones, but still.  Bah.
3. The evil witch on the train today, who not only used the phrase (whilst bellowing into her blackberry) 'have you taken it offline to the client' then dropped her banana skin on the floor of the train. 

That's it.  Everything else is ace.

Special mention goes to:

1. My new job is marvellous.  I spent today at one of the outlet stores, with instructions to shop 'to see how it all works'.  I also get sent out for lunch, go home on time and they all got me cake for my birthday.
2. The glitter theme of my presents
3. Continuing over-excitement in general.
4. Steph for helping me clear up on Sunday, especially for that hour or so when I could barely raise my head.

February is like the Tuesday of the year, is it not?  Too long till the next weekend/holiday/my birthday and the good intentions of January/Monday have long since been abandoned.  Having said that, this year has been supreme fun, so maybe it's a new precedent.

Things I loathe today:

1. Postmen who ring the bell and run away before you have a chance to answer the door, forcing you to run up the high street in your jimmers, waving the red 'While you were out' card, to claim your package.
2. Stupid reviews of stupid Spanish radio shows.  (It's stupid because I wrote it.  Trust me)
3. Tiscali, who replied to my weary email of 'please don't make me ring your customer service line as they hung up on me after making me crawl behind all my furniture for 40 minutes to look at sockets' with 'given the nature of your enquiry have you tried calling customer service?'

Things boiling my kettle today:

1. BBC Radio 6
2. Knitting in public
3. Getting way, way, way too excited about the weekend.  Already!
4. Wearing hand made socks
5. Finding old photos, thought to have been stolen by an ex.  Very flattering photographs at that, so a Good Find.