Hi everyone,
Just to let you know that I won't be blogging for a while. My parents arrived from Australia on Monday - you should have seen the scene at the airport, what a bunch of emotional ethnics !! It was great actually and we love having them here, especially when I get home and dinner is already made and they have cleaned my bedroom up HA Score !
No really it is fantastic to have them here, haven't seen them in such a long time.
Anyway from next Monday I will be on 3 weeks leave YEEEHAAAAAAA and not able to post, but I will blog like crazy when I get back from holidays.
So from the little Sakura it is ciao for now and I hope you are all well and take care - smooches!
Thursday 13 September 2007
Wednesday 5 September 2007
The sheep are staring at me
It has been a bit of a mental couple of weeks since last I posted and now I can take a deep breath, sit back and watch the black faced sheep that seem to be staring at me through my office window.
Let's do a recap shall we (cue wavey effect):
Wednesday 29th - On the way back from Glasgow after cracking my molar and getting it fixed the G-man and I had to assist at a car accident. Thankfully the driver wasn't injured, slid his van off the road and into a 4 meter ditch on the side of the road. He was shaken and obviously sore from the incident but other than that he was ok. We hung around in the drizzly rain until the police arrived and then carried on our journey home.
Friday 31st - Major fuck up at work, we had a major product recall big style. So I spent all day Friday following up customers who recieved our fresh food product on Thursday to advise them it was toxic and had to be disposed of. Obviously they were pissed off by this and saw it fit to take it out on me even though it was out of my control. It's a long story but basically the Government monitoring system fucked up and we were having to deal with it - just what you need on a Friday. However, we did have a bit of luck we managed to get all our furniture, couches, spare bed, dining room table and mattress Friday afternoon just in time for when my parents come over to visit from Australia (YAY!). My parents arrive next week and I haven't seen them for bloody years and as you may be able to tell I am ever so excited to see them again and the great bit is that I have managed to get uber long holidays to spend with them GO ME.
Saturday 1st - Went to a mates house and got absolutely shit faced. Oh it was great, drinking, eating take out and being surrounded by dope heads (meaning I didn't have to smoke anything to get a tiny bit stoned). Got home at 5am, it was obviously a good night because we had the crying, the laughing the political debate and the randy couple in the kitchen getting it off. A very well rounded evening I would say.
Monday 3rd - I had to follow up on the product recall and do an incident report for the company, again there was a lot of yelling at me by customers, but by this time I was numb with exhaustion. Although, had a funny incident with a government official - well actually his PA and looking back it wan't exactly funny but insulting, yes it was insultingly funny. Because of the whole broooo ha ha with the recall I had to call the Local Environmental Health Officer in the area where the toxins occured, got put through to his PA who is most obviously a very bright spark. She asked me who I was and where I was calling from and all the other shit they have to ask, however she forgot to put me on hold and I was on speaker phone. She yells out into the office "Got a phone call about the recall, some girl don't know what her name is but I think she's Australian" and then proceeds to make fun of my accent to the laughing crowd in the office. At this stage I am aghast and say into the phone "psssst I can actually hear you" - Phone line goes dead as she puts me on hold. Next thing the government official picks up the line, discusses my issue blah blah blah, at the end of the conversation I say "oh by the way tell the girl on the phone that she is a smart one because I am from Australia" to which the official replies "oh she is terribly embarrased and apologises for that". Yeah well it gave me a good story to tell when I got home and it did lighten up my day for a little bit amidst all the crap.
During all of this I had my good Ol' faithful - alcohol ahhhh bliss, is it wrong that I drink when I am stressed?
Let's do a recap shall we (cue wavey effect):Wednesday 29th - On the way back from Glasgow after cracking my molar and getting it fixed the G-man and I had to assist at a car accident. Thankfully the driver wasn't injured, slid his van off the road and into a 4 meter ditch on the side of the road. He was shaken and obviously sore from the incident but other than that he was ok. We hung around in the drizzly rain until the police arrived and then carried on our journey home.
Friday 31st - Major fuck up at work, we had a major product recall big style. So I spent all day Friday following up customers who recieved our fresh food product on Thursday to advise them it was toxic and had to be disposed of. Obviously they were pissed off by this and saw it fit to take it out on me even though it was out of my control. It's a long story but basically the Government monitoring system fucked up and we were having to deal with it - just what you need on a Friday. However, we did have a bit of luck we managed to get all our furniture, couches, spare bed, dining room table and mattress Friday afternoon just in time for when my parents come over to visit from Australia (YAY!). My parents arrive next week and I haven't seen them for bloody years and as you may be able to tell I am ever so excited to see them again and the great bit is that I have managed to get uber long holidays to spend with them GO ME.
Saturday 1st - Went to a mates house and got absolutely shit faced. Oh it was great, drinking, eating take out and being surrounded by dope heads (meaning I didn't have to smoke anything to get a tiny bit stoned). Got home at 5am, it was obviously a good night because we had the crying, the laughing the political debate and the randy couple in the kitchen getting it off. A very well rounded evening I would say.
Monday 3rd - I had to follow up on the product recall and do an incident report for the company, again there was a lot of yelling at me by customers, but by this time I was numb with exhaustion. Although, had a funny incident with a government official - well actually his PA and looking back it wan't exactly funny but insulting, yes it was insultingly funny. Because of the whole broooo ha ha with the recall I had to call the Local Environmental Health Officer in the area where the toxins occured, got put through to his PA who is most obviously a very bright spark. She asked me who I was and where I was calling from and all the other shit they have to ask, however she forgot to put me on hold and I was on speaker phone. She yells out into the office "Got a phone call about the recall, some girl don't know what her name is but I think she's Australian" and then proceeds to make fun of my accent to the laughing crowd in the office. At this stage I am aghast and say into the phone "psssst I can actually hear you" - Phone line goes dead as she puts me on hold. Next thing the government official picks up the line, discusses my issue blah blah blah, at the end of the conversation I say "oh by the way tell the girl on the phone that she is a smart one because I am from Australia" to which the official replies "oh she is terribly embarrased and apologises for that". Yeah well it gave me a good story to tell when I got home and it did lighten up my day for a little bit amidst all the crap.
During all of this I had my good Ol' faithful - alcohol ahhhh bliss, is it wrong that I drink when I am stressed?
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