Weblog of LittleBeetle_82

Mood: Tired but reasonably happy!
Listening to: Boom Boom Boom Boom - Vengaboys (not my choice OK!!! It's on the radio!)

When you buy a gift voucher for someone, do you believe it's fair that the gift voucher is only valid for, say, 3 months?

I think it's wrong.  You pay your money for a gift voucher and expect the recipient to receive the goods or services as described on the gift voucher and not have a time limit placed on it. 

Betty has decided that she is going to be strict with the gift vouchers and if people haven't used their gift vouchers within a three month period, too bad, they get nothing.  I think that sucks.  It's daylight robbery really, "I will take your money but if you don't use the voucher when it suits ME, I'll keep your money & the services as described on the gift voucher". 

I certainly wouldn't be buying a gift voucher from anywhere that has such unreasonable conditions.

Mood: Thoughtful

Well howdy!

A big to Tink!!  I hope you had a wonderful day!!

Just some things that are on my mind:

Chain e-mails - do people actually believe that if they don't pass on junk e-mails, that they will have bad luck forever??  I received one today titled "The Keeper", which followed with 10 questions God will ask you on The Day, number 10 being "God won't have to ask how many people you forwarded this to; He already knows your decision."  ARE YOU KIDDING ME?  I believe chain e-mails have sunk to a new low by adding in a guilt trip about God.  I also received a rather ironic e-mail from Betty about "friendship".  Rather amusing considering she does not like me!!  The e-mail instructed me to forward it on to 15 people, "including the person that sent it to you, so they know you value their friendship".  Ooops, instead of proving the "friendship" I value with Betty, I deleted the stupid thing. 

Drink spiking - a big issue these days, you can never be too careful with your drinks when you're out.  Yet at a popular night spot here, I asked for a glass of water, which was poured from an open jug sitting just beneath the top counter and easily accessible to anyone who might have wanted to drop some unknown substance in it.  Not impressed.

Cheaters - my favourite show on TV, but I will never understand why people do it.  One of my favourite websites is grouphug.com, an anonymous confessions site.  You would not believe the amount of people that confess their infidelity on there.  WHY do people bother being in a relationship when all they want to do is sleep around??

Death - a 14 year old girl got hit by a train after she ran across the train tracks to the platform, and was trying to climb up when she got hit by a train and died instantly.  Her last words to her mother were "I can make it" after her mother yelled at her not to go.  Heartbreaking.  And also the poor lady whose 3 young sons were killed when the car they were in veered off the road and into a dam, drowning the little boys.  She is constantly in my thoughts.  Imagine one day having a family, and the next they're gone.  I really feel for her.  How can someone pick up and keep going on with life when they've lost so much?

Anyway, I think that's enough for now!

Until next time.

 

Mood: Happy as a lark
Listening to: The clock ticking

Ever noticed how hard it is to get out of bed on a Monday morning?  Especially when it's so cold outside - I thought it was meant to be spring!!!  It's freezing out, but in my office the heater's set at a delightful 28C - perfect!!! 

I was intending to take my 4 hours off this morning, lessen the blow of another hideous Monday, but then I remembered a lady that normally borrows one of the rooms would be in.  I arrived at work, waited and waited, then received a phonecall about 9:35am from her saying she wouldn't be in today!!!!  Isn't that typical!!!  Despite this, I'm in a really good mood!!

I'm hoping to win a Toyota Hilux, I want to win it so badly!!!  Mind you, I have no use for a Toyota Hilux, but I could sell it and buy a Mini Cooper, a VW Beetle or a VW Golf.  Fingers crossed I win...

I photocopied my "highly offensive" letter, just in case a situation should arise, and also to laugh about the pettiness of the cranky one from such a non-offensive letter!  I decided not to say anything to her, instead I will be as nice as necessary and nothing more.  No more trying to please her, it's a waste of my time and effort if it will get me nowhere!!  Although she did ask me to do a job for her today, I'll just see if I have time to get to it...very busy...I have to eat, read the paper, eat, check my emails and write back if there's any to reply to, eat, read a magazine, maybe eat some more, THEN I'll see if I can fit it in!!!!  He he he!!!

Anyway,I think I might head off, I'm up to the "eat" part of my "to do" list!!!

Mood: Strangely amused and delighted it's Friday!

Another weekend is upon us, yay!!!!

I discovered today that a colleague (the same one that ordered me to go & buy fish food right away, let's call her Betty) has been bitching about me to not one, but two colleagues.  Firstly because I left a note on her desk, asking if she could buy her own envelopes (she had intended to use 60 odd of the owner's envelopes, we'll call him George.  He wasn't happy for Betty to use them because he needs them), so basically I was passing on a message from George.  The note was not nastily written at all.  But, she took offence to it.  Betty calls up Judy (another colleague) to have a whinge about me, my note and the fact that I took 2 & 1/2 hours off yesterday morning, and 1 1/2 hours off today, due to the fact that there were no staff or clients in AT ALL, and also that my boss had suggested I take 4 hours off this week for all the times I stayed back late at work.  Betty was fine with this when I called up to let her know.  But this morning was a different story.  She had a whinge to Judy about this also, despite the fact it's none of her business AT ALL.  George comes in the afternoon and informs me that he too received a phonecall from Betty complaining about me.  I have never done anything to offend or upset this woman, yet she seems to have so many issues with me.  It's been like this since I started.  I'm over walking on eggshells so she doesn't crack it with me, George seems to think she's a "bit touchy", but I feel that isn't the right word for her behaviour.  Oh, and she's 20 years older than me.  So there you go, maturity doesn't come with age in some people.

Despite this (which I found to be more amusing than anything else), I had a great day, chatting to my other great colleagues, Judy and Simone.  I get along really well with both of them and it's a pleasure to work with them.  Same with George and my boss, Mark.  Betty seems to be the only one who has "issues" with me.  I love my job and I'm good at it.  I don't plan on letting one catty person ruin it for me.

So what's everyone up to for the weekend?  I'm off to the movies tonight, then tomorrow I may go up the street to find a present for a friend, and most importantly, SLEEP IN!!!

Anyway, I'm going to go and get something for tea!!!

Have a great weekend all!!

Mood: Cranky

Well, it's Thursday again.  I'm sitting at work with very little to do.  I'm in an unexplanable cranky mood.  Maybe bashing my nose on the towel rail this morning didn't help my cause.  My eye feels puffy and I hope I won't get a black eye.  My empty inbox also makes me slightly irritable.

So, what have I achieved so far today?  Well, I've written a letter to the paper,  under an alias of course.  I have many.  I've also eaten 5 Rainbow Crunch Freddos in under an hour.  That's about it for today.

On the upside, I'm allowed to have half the day off when I want, for all the times I've been stuck here after 5pm.  I may use that on Monday morning, I think I could handle starting work at 1pm.  It might make Monday that little less painful.

Ohh my poor head hurts.  One side of my face feels heavy.  My inbox is STILL empty.  I'm cranky.

A friend sent this to me, does anyone find some of the things apply to them!??

25 Signs YOU HAVE GROWN UP

1. Your houseplants are alive, and you can't smoke any of them.
2. Having sex in a single bed is out of the question.
3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
4. 6:00 am is when you get up, not when you go to bed.
5. You hear your favourite song in an elevator.
6. You watch the Weather Channel.
7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of "hook up" and "break  up."
8. You go from 130 days of holidays to 20.
9. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as "dressed up."
10. You're the one calling the police because those %&@# kids next door won't turn down the stereo.
11. Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.
13. Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.
14. You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonald's leftovers.
15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.
16. You take naps from noon to 6 pm.
17. Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.
18. Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 am would severely upset, rather than settle, your stomach.
19. If you're a gal, you go to the drug store for ibuprofen and antacid, not condoms and pregnancy tests.
20. A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer "pretty good stuff."
21. You actually eat breakfast food at breakfast time.
22. "I just can't drink the way I used to" replaces "I'm never going to drink that much again."
23. 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
24. You drink at home to save money before going to a bar.
25. You read this entire list looking desperately for one sign that doesn't apply to you and can't find one to save your sorry old butt.  

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My rebuttal?  I only very occasisionally look at the Weather Channel.  This is because when you are flicking through the channels, it gets stuck there.  I’m not making it up!!!

The lack of holidays suck, and I can honestly say holidays is the ONLY thing I miss about school.

 

Of course sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.  So does a mattress that’s too soft/springs are broken etc. 

 

I happen to enjoy my naps, thank you very much!!!

 

I can’t honestly say I always eat breakfast food at breakfast time, if I’m really hungry I may eat 2 Minute Noodles, otherwise it’s generally Corn Flakes.  I have found though, that you can eat Froot Loops at any time of the day or night.

 

Damn right I can’t drink the way I used to!!!  A night of every shot you can think of and no hangover the next day, has been replaced by; one mixed drink and suffering from headaches/palpitations/nausea the next day, what’s up with that!??

 

No no no, 90% of my time spent in front of the computer is not for real work, I don’t even have enough work to keep me going for 90% of the day, and I wouldn’t have it any other way!!!

 

*sigh*

 

So, anyway...I noticed we're running out of fish food here at work.  Soon after we got the fish, a colleague called me up and asked me to take time off work to go & buy some fish food because she was going up the street and would probably forget.  Thanks for the consideration that I actually occupy the office for 5 days a week, whereas she works 3 days a week at the most.  I didn't take time off work to go and buy fish food.  I confess that I actually fed the fish burger rings, on the advice of my boss that there's probably nothing too toxic in burger rings that would kill the fish.  I found some fish food at home to bring in because I didn't think it was my responsibility to go and buy some.  I came to work after the weekend and found a couple of the fish dying.  But we had the yard sprayed by the spiderman that weekend so I'm sure they got poisoned by that and not the burger rings.  That's the story I'm sticking with anyway.

 

Don't you hate when you go somewhere for a meal, and you're faced with a punk looking waitress with a damn bad attitude?  Then you peruse the menu to find it has a whole heap of posh food on it that doesn't sound fit to feed to a dog?  I don't want to eat duck, or quail, or goat's cheese for that matter.  I also didn't want to pay $23 for a piece of fish sitting on a pattie with green specks in it.  GOSH!!  Get some real food.

 

I also hate how the radio plays the same songs, day in and day out.  I actually hate listening to the radio.  It's just all crap.

 

Geez, I don't know what to do to get out of this foul mood I'm in.

 

I may go & simmer for a while, and hopefully come back in a better mood.