We're all going on a summer holiday...!

Yikes!

In less than 14 hours, I shall be in a taxi on the way to the airport!

That is not the cause of the 'Yikes', the 'Yikes' is caused by the fact that we have yet to pack! When I say we, I mean me as Hubby does not pack....

Well I say does not pack, he waits till I have packed, then opens, rummages and ruminates. Followed by removes, re-chooses and repacks!

So far I have managed to print the tickets off AND locate the passport. I have put the camera battery on to charge, and inserted the memory card in lappy to be saved and wiped. (Which probably means that I leave the battery and memory card at home!)

All I-pods loaded, charged, cats located, plants watered & instructions to Mother on their safe up-keep! (Cats & plants not Ipods)

I also need to locate where I hid the euros I obtained on the weekend - methinks might come in useful. As well as the sun cream and other odds - (Peashooters in case of Zombie attacks)

I have also decided to be rather prudent with packing - no hair straightners, 3 pairs of shoes and only a small proportion of the make up I own - this is mainly due to the weight of the case as well as the fact that most of it, returns home, un-used.

So.. all looking good - but is now a good time to point out my utter dislike for sand, and heat... especially as it is a beach holiday in Greece!

See you in a week!

xx

PS has to sneak in a random fittie for Odd Bob!

Don't Pot The Black!!!!

I recently had a spur of the moment night out with Odd Bob! We decided that a fright night and eating at our faveourite restuarant. (We are trying to eat at every branch - Oh and try and find one with raspberries!!)

So, duly packed up, headed down the M1 located cinema, restuarant and eventually Odd Bob!

'Where are you?'
'At the train station!'
'Where, so are we?'
'Which station'
etc etc

We eat, try everybody elses's munchies, have a few cocktails and head to the cinema for the 900th remake or 'Nightmare on Elm Street'. We get there slightly earlier, and decide to visit the bowling lane next door, un-fortunatley all lanes are full - but we find a pool table...!

Now for the fun!

Odd Bob & I team up to play Hubby, we quickly agree on (make up) the rules, and proceed to play 'chase the balls round the table'.

After an hour, Bob & I have pretty much scared the balls in to submission, and we start the next game. The tension mounts, I break, there is a lot of balls congregating around the hole, which I think we have a good chance of potting.

Odd Bob looks at me, and offers one piece of advice - 'Whatever you do - don't pot the black!'.

Well, you can imagine what happened next, I did not become the pool shark magnificent that the shot in my mind was - yup, I potted the black!

What I did not expect was the reaction of Odd Bob!


You would have thought that I had killed her snails! So after the hysterics where over, and I stood well back, we started another game. We were doing well, we were down to the last few, Bob had the cue, Hubby was well and truly snookered. It was looking good! We had 2 balls left to pot, the black was no where in site!

Odd Bob potted the black!

THE Exciting News!

You may or may not have heard.....but!

I have some exciting news!

Whoo!

This exciting news relates to a blog I posted earlier which you may or may not have read - (Too Much Work Makes Millie A Dull Girl)! Well- it seems the powers that be have seen my plight..(and quite possibly heard / witnessed) and have decided that something needs to be done!

Of course the answer was to give Millie more work! Then pick the shocked girl up, dusted her down, provided her with caffine & chocolate and then give the good news!

I get a FTE / Minion / Pleb / Data Monkey!

Apparently I have been doing such a good job on my current project managing role that I am getting more of teh same and a person to help me!

I am now a people manager of one people! Whoo whoo! This does fill me with the most excitedness of excitement as I did not have any aspiration towards people management due to my direct and oft foot in mouth approach, in fact the response from my ever lovin hubby was 'Gawd 'elp 'em!' yup so bad that he became yokel!

The fun part now is the Job Description & thinking of things my person can do! (Work is a must - OBVIOUSLY) but...

Must speak Klingon
Lightsabre as special skills?
Abilty to fly?
Must have read all the Harry Potter books - there will be a test?

Any further suggestions?

On a not so fun note this means:

More admin :(
More HR policy type things to learn and do (ZzzzZzzz)
More responsibility (!)
Acting more serious and growned up!
Less Zombies!

Whoops A Daisy!

I actually had something really, really exciting to share with ya'll... I mean really exciting and I will, I promise get round to sharing with you. I want the anticipation to be sublime!

Anyhoo -

To the title of this blog!

As you may, or may not know I am slightly, (okay - very) accident prone. I demonstrated my complete lack of motor skills again last night.

Who would have thought that taking the washing in off the line was such an extreme sport?

Nah? Me neither!

However, I managed to end up skating across the concrete on a pebble that came from no-where and ending up in a not so graceful mess face down, with knees skinned, hands grazed and covered in mud / grass and general composy heap debris!

As I lay there, contemplating the chances that someone (a nosey neighbour or such like) may have seen this display, of a grown (sober) woman going ass over tit, and the chances of Hubby coming out to pick me up, but definitly sure that things could not get any worse!!!

Or could they?

Yes, yes they could, my cats decide that they will go from being spectators to participants and walk up and down my back! Loving little creatures! They did purr as if that made any difference!

So today, I feel like a five year old again with skinned knees and covered in bruises - gonna look great in a bikini on the beach next week!

Oh - and exciting news to follow...

A Wee Suprise

Its always nice how the small things in life can make one smile -

Like a cute scene in a field yuo pass on the way to work, or finding hidden amongst the receipts a stray £10!

Today, it was the simple joy of 7 Chicken McNuggets in my box of six.

Having decided to go swimming on a health kick...(I know Maccy D's and health do not go! - In my defence I had the salad rather then the fries!)

So, leaving the changing room's C asks her young boy (9) what shall we have for tea - YB (Young Boy) suggests Chinese - (Yumm) However the look of pain that shot across C's face - we are both on a health kick! So the middle ground was reached with McDonalds - after I pointed out they do, do salads!

After the drive home (starting to feel sore), driving through the drive thru (Convinced I just swam the channel), dropping people off (thinking may not have the energy to leave the car - Ever), I stagger / stumble in - gasping for the chair, make it, excitedly open my box (Nope not £250,000, & no banker) to find 7 nuggets - I feel like I have got one over the great corporation!

Like I said the simple things..... :)

Sometimes....

Sometimes I think that I only open my mouth to change feet.

I am one of those people, who say what they think, but sometimes before they think it! I also tend to find that what sounds really good in my head, can come out and not sound quite as good - that is judging by the look of horror on the faces of the people around me.



I can call a spade a spade, then use the damn thing to dig myself a nice deep hole with it. And yet will still keep on digging!

I also tend to find in certain social situations that my mind goes totally blank, and that searching for the right platitude to utter can often leave me looking rather like a goldfish... and yet when that gem of genius arrives..yup I put my feet firmly in it -

For example...

Friend: "I found out I was expecting last week..."
Millie: "And you had just lost all that weight!"

Whoops - I think what I was looking for was...

Millie: "Congratulations!"

The 'Congratulations' came to me much later in the day, as do most of the correct retorts.

Perhaps I should just keep my mouth shut...Period!

Why oh, why oh, why!

I have one question!

1) Why is it I have the best ideas when I am either fast asleep or just about to sleep?

And everytime I say to myself, thats a good idea - I'll remember that in the morning! Except I don't. And the very next time it comes to me...

Yup - you guessed it - when I am about to embark towards the land of nod! I also keep reminding myself to perhaps bring my note pad up, and a pen / pencil so that I can jot down my eureka moment - I have yet to do that!

Somewhere deep inside my head is a fantastic idea - I just need it to come out! I mean it could be that best selling novel I have been known to witter about...or a cure for something important... or maybe something interesting to blog about!

We may never know!

May the fourth not be with me!

I am sure that I am in some kind of nightmare!

Please pinch me to ensure I am awake!!!!

The day kinda starts off ok - the big yellow thing in the sky is out- I believe some refer to this as 'sun', drive to work all good, traffic very light (think tiny evil people off school or sumsuch), I pass 3 single magpies (single as in on their own, not single as in their dating status - I did not ask), I salute them, wish them well and enquire about the 'missus' which going back to earlier statement they may or may not have.

Make it in to the office, no further a do. Mood lifts as realise collegue who has been off on paternity leave is back - (whoop whoop) saneness returns! Sit at desk, open laptop bag, proceed to fit the various wires etc and turn it on.

Which seemed not what the laptop wanted to do. Eventually after ensuring all power cables all present and correct, it powers up - and that's it!  After watching it cycle through the boot up sequence 3 times, trying all the options (safe mode, last working config etc) realise need to get the IT bods on the case.

So, I ambush a desktop and the log in process - which will take an age as first time looged on etc, and decide before facing the IT bods, need a strong cup of tea. Go the tea caddy, and alas empty - bar one lonely ripped tea bag.

FECK!

Go to machine & purchase some radioactive tea sludge subsitute, grab broken laptop go to IT bods domain. No one in. After the second failed attempt - realise things getting desparate and phone 'the IS helpdesk' or what is locally referred to as (un)Helpdesk. Spend several minutes explaining problem to bod on phone (who actually seemed more interested in eating his whatever than the problem at hand), informed that yes, I had turned it off and on again. He then asks what the error message I get at log in says - Grrr - There is no error message as it never reaches the log on screen.

Thirty minutes later, I have a reference number, have been advised to speed things up to go to my local IS office (fume) and the SLA is 7 days... So what do I do in the meantime? The bloomin desktop is missing half the programmes I have on the laptop and is 3gig slower as laptop was upgraded!

Set off processes on the desktop - which then locks up! Takes 4 hours to run a 20 min job, decide to try using the spare laptop (spare as in we managed to keep hold of when we got a new one!) Leave that to try and boot up (it was abandoned as randomly ignores the powercable, decides out of battery and powers down - save button is your friend!) While that is booting up, think I will have a browse on Twitter....No service on phone!!!

DAGNAMMIT!

Reboot Iphone, switch to coffee - finally get into my e mails! Outlook decides to sent me the e-mails I should have had on Friday, and periodically sends me the ones from today - in batches of about 10! Eventaully find a human (ish) in the IT bods office, discover the usual helpful chappie is on holiday, look round the people(ish) and enquire as to whom is the current laptop fixer, some poor sod gets pointed at. I pounce and scare him(ish) into looking at sad laptop with immeadiate effect, mumbling words such as 'Do you know who I am...' feel slightly guilty as he looks scared and gets straight on to it - to the extent I get hourly updates in person.

Also had the cleversods making the comments like 'Oooh another broken laptop- does somebody want one of the new ones?'

The answer is a NO NO NO  - as we changed supplier and I is not keen - so asked them to move - heaven, earth and all inbetween to ensure the survival of said laptop.

Light at the end of the tunnel???

Latest update is that it needs rebuilding, but will be left overnight to do so!

I won't even go into the crappy e mails & issues I had to deal with today! 

Rant over :-)

Unexpected Bliss!

Today I was granted with an unexpected gift - some ME time!

The 'hubby' was invited last minute to a golf game, which for a change started at a normal hour of the day - bonus!

The question I was left with - how to spend those few priceless hours -

    1) A bout of spring cleaning?

    2) Catch up on the washing and/or ironing?

    3) Untangle the shoes & bags & shoes hiding under the bed, behind the sofa and in the wardrobes?

The above options really struck me as things that can be done anytime -which one normally partakes in when football is on the tellybox  -apart from the shoes & bags -which I feel for my safety must stay hidden - in this case safety is not in numbers!

So, I continued pondering - 

    4) Write the next best selling novel

    5) Catch up on some reading

    6) Discover a cure for something really, really important!

    7) Potter about in the garden

These options seemed a much better way to while away my time - however the lack of sun put pot to the gardening idea, after the last hectic scriptfrenzy month needed a wee break from writing. The lack of science lab and test tubes, lab coats and all things sciencey (SP?) kinda puts the kybosh on that plan - which meant the reading -whoo - that then lead to:

    a) Which book to start with

    b) SCI Fi / Romance / Thriller etc

    c) Where the hell are all the books (Spare room, living room, bathroom & piled up with the gas meters!)

At this rate - was going to spend all the time debating with myself (whilst a good debate, but getting nowhere) instead of doing something - so I:

    i) Made a big cup of tea

    ii) Went back to bed

   iii) Watch a film I had recorded - (Officer & a Gentleman - MmmmMmmm)

   iiii) Sneaked the cats into the room and curled up with them (!)

   iv) Discovered that cats snore

   v) Had a nice long soak in the bath

   vi) Painted nails

   vii) Caught up on some downloaded programmes

Also managed to jot down some ideas for the best selling novel (watch this space!), and is currently having another cup of tea whilst pondering on what to cook for dinner...

Do I...

Tee hee

I'm Back!

Bon Jour!

Just in case you were wondering where I had gone, or even if you noticed - which would be rather suprising due to the regular postings, or not!

Well anyway - am back!

For the last month, with good friend Elenelathuin we have been manically typing away for Scriptfrenzy.org - where you have to write 100 pages screenplay by 23:59 30th April. The good news on this, rather than Nanowrimo is that you can work together! Whoop!

So we have finally suceeded, killed off countless Zombies, Meerkats & various other bad guys. Rescued fair maidens and joked with the Cheerleaders or Barbies,  and made our hero look rather good.

And can now relax, and start the countdown to next year!

Millie x