Sleeping on sunshine

Well busy week for myself and everyone else this week. I myself put in better than 60 hours between my regular hours, covering the other night shifters holiday and putting in extra shifts at the other store. I am well tired but the check will look nice. 6 days in a row working 10 hour shifts until midnight and the 6th day from 830am until midnight so...

The girls were busy, daughter had her usual busy wednesday and had a play date on friday. It started with just one of her school mates but upon her friends mum coming to collect her, along with the friends siblings, and partner and the other mum talked while the four kids played. Then on Saturday daughter had a x-mas fair that she attended for a few hours.

Last Saturday we had our new mattresses delivered, the first night was a bit rough getting used to the far firmer mattress but since that first night we have been sleeping worlds better, it probably helped a lot during this past week. We also got a new, to us, sofa from one of the charity shops, it is quite nice too.

peace... one love

watch those pennies float on by

Well got paid today, it was a nice payslip. Then the partner and I had to go blow half of it. 200GBP to pay the monthly bills, 250GBP to get new mattresses for the daughter and us and then 90 on a 3 seater sofa from the charity shop. Quite a bit of money, I am not enthused about the amount spent but obviously bills have to be paid and the mattresses will make the rest of our lives easier and we may even get a decent night sleep for once. The sofa was the only bit that was a bit of luxury but, lets be honest, the price includes delivery and it was from a charity shop so... We also got a bit more stuff we needed from the department store, finishing off most of the X-mas shopping and such, but that was put on the partners card for now.

This does mean however that the rest is going to have to be watched METICULOUSLY. I cannot stress that enough. While I still have about half the payslip left that half has to cover phones, travel and groceries.

Despite the vast amount of monies spent we are excited about having comfortable seating and nice mattresses for once.

Peace.

Up Up and Away

So my birthday has come and gone, partner made a great supper and we had a really good but simple swirly cake. We all really found it tasty, the cake. On Sunday I got to use the birthday money my mom gave me to take my partner and daughter to the movies to see Up, which we have all been looking forward to.

Up is a really good movie, not as epically good as Wall-E was as far as Pixar movies go but really good and a captivating foray into the dramatic for Pixar. Pixar has always had drama in its movies but Up takes it to a whole new level. This is a much more grown up movie than I was expecting but, it was a much more grown up movie that kids could still enjoy. I recommend seeing this movie to anyone and I hope to have a review up soon.

Peace

clean break

so... the clean break I thought I might get from my secondary store was shot down today... someone decided to break the news to the boss there before I had a chance. He was not happy. Not so sure what to do. I am getting more hours from my main job but he feels I promised to keep on with him until he found someone else. I did say i'd try but... he is also looking for someone. I am going to have to try and figure some way to work them both or something or work something out.

Peace... One Love

weekends over

Well the weekends over and I worked the whole thing. Trying to build up money since the in-laws are coming. Yep from the 21st of December to the 3rd of January we will be hosting my partners parents. The good thing is that both partner and daughter are really excited. I am looking forward to it as well. I am going to try and get a few more days off for the time they are here just so I can do some hanging out to. Unfortunately company policy does not allow time off during December so it means I will have to lose pay :(.

well

daughter made it through the day ok so I am happy about that.

partner got a small work desk for me to use when writing or daughter to use for homework.

I however had a wonderfully interesting day. Had coffee with the partner and went to work. It was a good bit chilly. Not interesting enough? well read on. I left my town and got to the connecting station in the next town.

I hopped on my second bus and waited for it to go. The driver arrived on time and left having had to stay on a bit to explain a change to the route to potential passengers. We started to move, about ten feet and while in motion a woman missed the bus. Well to leave the station there is a light and the bus got caught at the light. Next thing you know a young man is running up along side the bus and is informing the driver that he left a lady at the stop. The driver explained that once in motion law and regulation states that he is not allowed to stop and pick people up unless it is at a stop, makes sense that is the point to a bus stop. Well the young and well intentioned man said that if the driver did not allow the lady on the bus, he really could have if he wanted I suppose but I digress, he would stand in front of the bus until she got on. And he did. Well, well intentioned or not I cannot be late for work, so among clamorings of people to call the police and whatnot I informed the gentleman that it was kind of ironic that he was holding up a bus full of people, and potentially making them late for work, to help out someone else. He could see my point but "didn't care." Oh well. So in the end I told the driver to just let her on so we could go, she had already made it over and gotten on anyway, and in response to the passengers telling the driver to call the police said "well even if he was being an idiot, at least it was for a somewhat good reason," something you cannot say of a lot of idiots.

After leaving my first shift at one store and heading to the next store, about halfway there on the bus, which came just as I got to the stop, I realized I still had keys for the previous store!!! So I called the store and they of course said I would have to come back, called the next store and relayed that I might be late. I then hopped off the bus and heading for the nearest stop going in the opposite direction. The bus had allegedly just passed according to the time table, musta been one of those invisible Harry Potter jobs, so I had to wait another 20 minutes, that I really did not have. Well, not being one hundred percent sure where I was I decided to wait for the bus, did I mention how it was chilly in the morning? Well it was now late afternoon (about 5pm) and well into getting dark and I was quite cold. So I waited some more, the bus I was awaiting never showed, crap, next bus wasn't for another 15 minutes, well... waiting. I was then the almost victim of an egging by a pair of losers with bad aim. They missed me but hit the bus sign next to me so I did take some yolkey collateral. Finally a bus, not the one I was awaiting but it would work, plus it was warm. Got to the shop dropped the keys and returned to the outbound bustop I had been to nearly an hour before. According to the schedule the bus should be in about 5-7 minutes. So I wait... in the cold. The scheduled bus never arrives, another does though, 15 minutes later. It for whatever reason thought is stopping halfway to my next stop, we have to switch buses for a bus I have never ridden and I am already 20 minutes late for my second shift. Oh yeah the bus switch, went by the next intersection as we (the passengers) were getting off the bus. The next bus was not scheduled for guess... 20 minutes. Except halfway through another in the line of bus we were on comes around the corner (not the same bus) and picks us up and takes us to the next bus station. I catch a bus and make it to work 45 minutes late, it took me two and a quarter hours to make a journey that normally takes about 45 minutes. And it only cost me double my usual fare plus a nice chill to the bone. I bought a cup of noodles before going in to work and have never been so happy with one.

Wheee....

Peace... One Love

Happy Birthday Patrick

soooo..

Well... I told my other boss that I could not continue with the hours. He is currently trying to hire a replacement. My main boss has confirmed that she will be able to supplement the hours, we just have not settled on the specifics.

Have spent a bit of the day looking at web hosting for the partner, man it is hard to sift through all that. I looked at dozens of sites and figured out nothing. uggghhh. She wants a small cheapish professional website for her 'model' nation she is setting up. Like I said though digging through the gosh knows how many different hosting sites/offers.

Daughter has been sick the last week or so... a bit of flu mixed with a throat infection, poor thing. We ended up skipping our plans for her half term and just stayed in. She has had her first and second violin lesson and starts guitar lessons on wednesday. She is a busy girl as that is on top of judo wednesday morning. So daughter has choir on mondays, violin on tues, judo, guitar and cookery on wed and art on thurs.

until the next time

peace... one love

Happy Birthday Patrick