Revolutionary Rants

I am getting a little bit freaked out. This is occurring whilst sat reading various blogs and planning what plonk to buy from Tesco, to be precise. I am at Chicken’s computer, Arcadia. One monitor is on, the left one off. I have The Weakest Link on the telly. There is a weird little noise from somewhere. Where? Every time I put the TV on mute I cannot make out where it is from. Is it the clock radio upstairs? No. Is it the telly? No.

Goodness knows. I shall report back if I ever find out what it is…

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Chicken and I, having decided to stay in Paris for our honeymoon, have also come to the conclusion that it would be easier to go by Eurostar. For one thing, I got extremely nervous (for the first time in a long while, having flown much more since meeting Mr C) on our flights to and from Warsaw. This was not helped by a great big wobble (soon after Mr C told me “if we were going to crash we’d wobble out of control, not like it is in Lost“, of course) on the way down to Gatwick. And also because we like the Eurostar, it is much more relaxing than flying somehow. Perhaps because you are not running round trying to find gates at the last minute or worried about checking-in three days prior to your flight. We can arrive at Waterloo, be inspected, keep our bags by our sides, enjoy a Costa coffee and know that our seat is booked and waiting on board.

To this end we have booked our stay in London on the night after our “wedding night” (does that make sense?) at the very grand price of £13 each for a stay in central London. Smashing and thanks Mum (she found it)! Now we only have the Eurostar and Parisian hotel to worry about.

The Christmas bedlam is in full swing in town. I worked solidly on the till from 11:00 to 13:30 yesterday almost without looking up. Still, only tomorrow afternoon to work and then it is a long weekend with Mr Chicken and we are off to Bristol. As I have been working the last two days nothing remotely of interest has happened, so I will close for now and wrap Chicken’s last present…

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I am just off to work, so this is just a quicky. I was just looking round the newspaper sites, as I do most mornings, and found this interesting article.

I think you need do nothing more than look at the two photos to understand - and agree with - the point Jen Hunter is making. Although she is hardly “fat” she was called ‘unattractive [because of her size]‘ by every male competitor and slated by the judges because of being a size 12. Imagine how that makes everyone else - of a normal size - feel. Oh well, the proof is - if the phrase is not inappropriate - in the pudding, with one woman looking gorgeous and the other like, well, ‘a walking skeleton’!

Off to work now…

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My Addaction training is complete! Although it has been very interesting and enjoyable I think we are all ready and excited about being placed and going in to “action” in the new year. I find out where I’ll be placed on December 7th, which I am really looking forward to!

Another for-shortened weekend, then. Next week, Chicken (my husband, non-husband-partner type thing) has got next Friday off, so we’re off to Bristol, so that should make up for the last three weekends being busy ones. Today we had our long bath, and the freshly brewed coffee and chatting that goes with it. We also went in to town to get an Orange sim card so that we can avail of Orange Wednesdays, as we have decided we like going to the cinema! Sadly, Your Starter For Ten is not showing on Scott cinema, as I really want to see it. We also tidied up our kitchen, which is pleasantly clean for what I imagine will be all of three seconds…

Ahh, well. Work the next two days, so now it is time for DVD night and bed. Night!

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After my husband’s jolly little post berating my deleting skills I thought I might as well do some writing mysen.

Well, I still have 20-20 vision, near perfect according to Boots’ optician. I have been getting headaches of late and thought they might be because of that, but no.

Today has been quiet, seeing as I do not have the extra hours at work I was told I have been off. It is pissing it down here, but I braved town to get Chicken some sausages this morning and find an eye test. I am sad to say that after “Santa” visiting yesterday evening Barnstaple is now in full Christmas mode. I escaped the rain in our covered shopping centre, Green Lanes, only to be  assaulted by Elton John and It’ll Be Lonely This Christmas (Without You to Hold). Awful.

Training finishes tomorrow, out in Bideford. Other than that it is a quiet weekend, hopefully.

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Tired, tired, tired. Eyelids puffy, nice. Such a sloooooooow evening at work, with only a mild pick-up in customers after Santa and his deer (not actual Reindeer, but live deer of some other type) had left Barnie town centre.

But. The computer is playing up, for an unknown reason.

Dilemma. 23:03: do I go to bed and sleep, risking being woken by Chicken “creeping” over the top of me to his side of the bed. Or, do I stay up and feel more tired for a while but don’t get rudely awakened?

Who’d love a computer geek?

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Against general predictions the booze cruise is not now defunct… Oh well! An occasional trip to the north of France is hardly that greater trial I suppose. I bet you couldn’t get proper French cheese or carrot rapee on the net!

Chicken and I went to see Casino Royale last night. It wasn’t your usual Brosnan Bond, that’s for sure. I thought Daniel Craig made a better Bond than Pierce (who I’ve always thought looks intensly American, despite being Irish) less greasy, more murderous. He was excellent on the action scenes and the bits with “M”, but with the one-dimensional and weakly acted love interest and the poker game he was less skillful. In general the action scenes were amazing and more “real” (if such a thing can ever be said seriously about James Bond) than the high tech crap of recent offerings, but what wasn’t action seemed very drawn out and boring, especially those involving Bond and the aforementioned love interest, Vesper. Anyway, all in all a good watch but nothing that breaks the mold.

It is the first night of late night shopping in Barnstaple tonight, so I will be working until 21:00, not my most extreme shift, however, as during the previous (2002) world cup I once worked from 7:00 when Ireland kicked off their tournament.

Training went well again yesterday, one last session on Saturday and then we’re on to on-going training, we are all nervous and excited! However, it will be after Christmas that we are ‘out in the field’ as it were. Only a month and two days until Christmas day, but at the moment that feels like ages away…

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It is not often that I rant about computers or software, as you know, but today I am fuming.

Following a nasty incident with a member of staff in Holland and Barrett the other day I spent over an hour penning an e-mail complaint to said health food company. This morning I went in to my Dspam filter to find not only their reply marked as spam, but wedding related e-mails also quarantined. I checked those mails that I required and - being dyslexic - clicked the button to the left of ‘Delete All’ which began with ‘Del’ and had an “e” near the end. Ooops, that’s ‘Delete Checked’, a button exactly the same size and shape and colour as ‘Deliver Checked’… In the same small sarif font on top of that…

Nevermind, Chicken will get it back.

No, “if you press delete it gets deleted”…

Now I have to hope H and B will re-deliver the mail. I am not happy. Especially as Dspam happily send me spam from T-Mobile on a daily basis. Piece of shit…

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It seemed a very short weekend again, with Chicken working until 23:45 on Saturday and both of us completely tired out yesterday, but it is in to another working week now. I am working this afternoon, looking after my niece/nephew tomorrow, training on Weds, late night shopping working on Thurs and back in all day Friday and then training once again all day Saturday. That probably seems like a short week to some people, but not for me and my student ways!!!

Oh well, just off to work, but want to keep posting more often and keeping you all up to date with all the exciting - heehee - stuff going on!

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Chicken is at work today, so it has been an odd Saturday. I went to Tesco and did our weekly shop and then it was over to Swimbridge to discuss Christmas preparations and lay-out the plans for our wedding. Needless to say, it will be less lavish than a certain wedding occurring today, thank f**k. How unbearable would a wedding like that be… Scary stuff, and that’s just the groom…

Oh well, time to read my Guardian and play on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire before Mr C gets back.

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