Training To Be Better

Today has been a knowledge rich day. Many hours of endless learning and doing group assignments. These training days are extremely valuable, even though sometimes it feels like it's repeating itself. Every time we learn something new because we talk to new people and people you've already met before, have new experiences to share. And it's always good to remind ourselves of the things we are supposed to use or say but don't because we might have forgotten. A very good day indeed.

It's also been a very long day. We wouldn't even had finished work by the time we finished this training, but for some reason just sitting down listening and sometimes talking, makes the time slow down. The food we had - awful. I am officially starving at this point and there is still this 2, 5 hour drive to get through before the possibility of food. I don't really know what I'm craving for.. Yesterday we ate chips and I woke up with the most horrible stomach ache. I don't know if it's the chips or not, but that's a strong possibility..

I have some kind of viral infection in my throat. There is something swollen and pain when I swallow. It's quite annoying, but not bad enough to skip work. Hopefully it doesn't spread because at the moment it's only on my right side and I definitely don't want it on my left side. There is some kind of virus going around and it seems everyone is down with it. There were no available doctors appointments the day before yesterday so I had to wait. The doctors office is fully booked.

Yesterday was a quiet day in work, which was fine because we have a complete new system to work with - new everything - and we are all still learning to use the new system. It's a lot easier and faster than the old one but learning how to sell the new stuff is proving to be a bit of a challenge. I should really study it before going to work tomorrow. Also, I wasn't supposed to work this Monday or Saturday but now I am and that's great! More money for me :)

I finally decided on my summer holidays. I'm gonna be enjoying some time off next month for two weeks at the end of the month, one week at the end of July - beginning of August and one week in September. I told my boss I don't care when I have them if I have to take them - he said I have to take them so I decided on spreading it a little here there and everywhere. And yes, I see how someone might read more into that last part.

Anyway, B and I might go on a holiday in September and now we just need to decided where...

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New PC

It's here! We got it a few days ago and put it together straight away. It's fucking awesome! We had super nice people doing all the ordering and putting shit together and all we had to do was take some stuff out of our old PC and put it in the new one. Thankfully we had everything backed up and didn't lose any of our photos or what ever. I am super happy with this PC and thankful for all the help we got getting it!

There was this thing that popped up every time we started the PC up and we didn't really know what it was for so with a little (A LOT) help from Google, I found out what to do and get this - I fixed the problem! I was pretending to be a computer geek and it actually worked! I did a few other things with the help of Youtube videos and got everything working the way we wanted it. I am so proud of B for dealing with everything - I didn't have to do anything other than pick it up. Amazing.

It's been work, work, work every day this week but I'm off tomorrow and will do some major relaxing today! I finally get to go to the country again! It's been ages it feels like.. But now we can spend the night there and holy shit - there is running water again! The pipes must have defrosted or what ever and now we can do things like get a drink of water from the tap and flush the toilet! Amazing! Too bad B is working until like 7 tonight, and we'll only get to the country house for 8ish but at least we are going today and that's what matters.

Something else happened today.. I took B to work this morning before coming to work myself, you know so I can just pick him up after work without having to swing by home to drop his bike off and the police stopped me. I mean, they were stopping everyone to give them the breathalyzer test! I've never been stopped for that and I have to admit - it was exciting! I told the nice policeman that it was my first one and he gave me the pipe thing as a souvenir :) Obviously there was no problem, since I didn't drink last night and it was the perfect moment to have this experience :)

It's been really quiet in work for the past few days and it doesn't look like today will be any different. But it's only a couple of hours until finish, and then it's off to home we go. I really need to put some new music on my iPod so that is on my to do - list today. Not much else.

Have an amazing weekend everyone! Let's hope for some sunshine! :)

Ran Out Of Pages

And I didn't bring another book with me. I had something like 30 pages left of the book I hadn't yet finished and realized early on that they wouldn't last me long. There have been like zero people in today. Ok, that is a lie. There has been at least 10 people. Ok, maybe like 15 people. My point is - it's not been very busy today and I really should've brought another book with me. Oh well, nothing I can do about it now. At least it's forcing me to do other stuff like finances or blogging.

So B has become an uncle. Again. His sister gave birth to a healthy baby girl yesterday. Healthy size and all, even though it came 2 weeks early, so good job L! Can't wait to meet that rugrat. We also sent some lego hero (?) to England for J-P's BDay. He should be getting it Thursday or something like that. Hopefully he'll like it! :)

We had a meeting in work this morning but thats ok because it wasn't until 9 so didn't have to get up that early. I actually put my face on and everything and in record time. I don't actually mean that I did it super fast but like why do I get up at 8 when I'm in at 10 if I can do everything waking up at 7.45 and be at work for 9.. I guess it's to make sure I'm awake and ready for the day.

I caught up with all my programs but some new ones started and now I've fallen behind again. B only finishes at 10 tonight so I'll have some time for programs when I get home. I've been reading more and when I have time to watch programs, I've done something else. How lazy am I, if I can't sit down and watch a frickin' program?

It's still 30 minutes until hoovering and 1 hour until mopping so perfect time for checking everything's good and all the clothes are in order. Some customer bought the skirt that was on our doll and I had to put an outfit together for it to wear. It was a lot harder than I originally thought! But the new clothes already got one customer to buy the scarf and another to try the dress on, so I guess the outfit works :)

Now I'll go do something useful. Have a nice day!

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Easter

A definite sign of spring! It still gets cold at night but during the day it's warm and the sun stays out for longer every day. It's nice to know we're coming up to sunnier times - not just the weather.

It's been gloomy and it doesn't seem to be getting any better but when there is nothing you can do about, is it better just to leave it alone and move on? It's always hard when there are problems in the family but it's even harder to know how to fix something you didn't realize was broken. Maybe it'll get better with time.

One Book A Month is going great! I've now read 4 books this month and halfway through my fifth - actually halfway through two books but I decided to leave the original book on the back burner until I've read these other ones. I'm loving them and don't feel like continuing the original choice - but I will, as soon as I've read some of these good ones.

So I had my week off work and I spent most of it doing nothing - nothing but things I enjoy. There was a twilight marathon with I, shopping trip out of town, shopping in town, reading, sleeping and eating whatever I wanted. It caused a huge set back on my diet but it's the beginning of a new month and anything can happen. Don't really think I'll reach my goal if I don't seriously step up though but I'm really thinking about taking on exercising - that'll do the trick.

Now I'm back in work and life goes on as normal. Hopefully with the spring everything else will get easier.

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