Hello everyone. I’ve been up for a couple of hours- my body clock hasn’t adjusted from returning from Japan yet. Went for a walk to see the sunrise, bought some chocolate hobnobs from the shop.
Got to sort out loads of photos today and call my phone company to find out why I suddenly have a two hundred pound bill for using my phone abroad when it was supposed to be covered by a travel bundle. Apart from that I’m kind of in limbo. Staying with my mum, and all my stuff is in boxes. Applied for some temp jobs yesterday, and feeling like today I’m going to have a massive purge of my stuff seeing as I can’t actually remember what is in half those boxes.
It was great, although spending nearly three weeks on an incredibly low budget needed a lot of careful adding up all the time. Basically I couldn’t really afford to go, but I won the plane tickets and 5 nights in a hotel and had to use the prize within a certain time, and then with working out the train pass and logistics of seeing loads of places, 17 days was the best length of time.
Eating in restaurants as a vegetarian there is very easy, but supermarkets are very difficult if you aren’t totally literate in japanese. Even knowing the basic letters won’t help you, there’s a list of 1,000 kanji people have to learn to count as being able to read, and most stuff is labelled with those. Google translate have a new photo app for reading text, but it’s hopeless.
I got incredibly sick of these instant kitsune noodles:
Feels like the universe is smiling on me this week. Managed to blag an appraisal goal that I’d completely forgotten about twenty minutes before the actual appraisal. And I’ve just found a good deal on a second hand bass cab that I was struggling to find in stock anywhere in the UK.
Going to be late for work but it doesn’t matter because my boss is on holiday.
Hi DiS. Welcome back @_Em
Still oop north. Working at my dad’s flat while I await news from the estate agent. He’s working from home as well for like the only time in his life - got a load of calls I need to take over the course of the day, so I’m feeling unreasonably put out by him being in his own flat!
After yesterday’s trip to Cardiff ended in becoming a trip to Bristol, it’s back in MK this morning to see what havoc has been wreaked in my absence yesterday. Thankfully avoided having to go to Derby today. That would have crushed my soul beyond repair.
Have been spending most of the week sorting out a colossal mess that a colleague left before going on a week and a half’s annual leave. With any luck, today should be a little less intense.
I’ve got my daughter’s school production this evening. She plays a monkey and a ship’s rat, and according to Mrs CCB (who went to see the play last night) she puts her full enthusiasm into both roles (including nearly pushing other members of the cast off the stage when she’s chasing them). I’m slightly terrified of what might happen tonight.
Got a new neighbour who apparently works nights, he’s turned up at 5.30am the last couple of mornings in a car that sounds like a tank and it takes him like 10 shunts to park it - waking everyone in the process. Sort yourself out, mate.
My colleague’s last day today so she’s bringing in samosas and etc
(Still gonna get treat myself to a bacon and black pudding sarnie from the canteen on the way through though)
I’ve literally got no work that needs to be done today so I can enjoy the last day of having a full-time colleague (for a while at least), although the boss is coming for his fortnightly visitation later so I might need to look busy for a while.
Decided to quit drinking and smoking for a bit a few weeks ago and realised this morning that I’m feeling the happiest/healthiest I’ve felt in years. Funny what a small lifestyle change’ll do for your mood.
Will probably be back on the Carlings at the weekend, though.
