For the first time ever I have had a blog post dedicated to little ol' me!

Well I've never really been into halloween. But when I arrived home from work tonight, I found that nearly every house on my road was decorated with halloween type stuff, and I almost felt I had missed out: It must have taken a fair amount of co-ordination to put up all the fake grave stones and creepy spider's webs, (and without me knowing about it in advance!) However, when I just popped out to get a photo, my neighbours were hastily packing it all away.

Thats when it all clicked into place. The place were I now live is very famous for its ghosts, and when I went outside, there seemed to be a guided walk just leaving the street!

Anyway, while I have no inclination to take part in this stuff (i'm sitting in the back room with most of the lights switched off), I will however be hanging around my local cemetery at the weekend - putting poppies on the war graves.

I just realised, that even though I worked from home today, I wasn't disturbed by my neighbours dog barking all day like usual. (This might be why I seemed to get through much more stuff than usual)

I hope its ok. (but, also that it stays quiet)

I hope nothing horrid happened while I was away. Poor lonely dog.

I thought I would share the conclusion to my little shopping spree from the other week when I was buying clothes for work.

Whilst in M&S I spotted a suit that I quite liked that was on display. After hunting around the area I couldn't find any similar so I asked an assistant. She replied that they had been moved to another part of the store because they had a sale starting the next day and they would be in it. I don't like sales, there is never anything I want in my size, but she said, you should reserve the suit, and then pick it up tomorrow and you will get it for the sale price, even though its not marked down yet.

Anyway, I looked, but alas there were none in my size. "Don't worry!" said the assistant, "we can order it for you in your size!"

So, I managed to pick up the trousers before my holiday, and was quite chuffed to find that they were marked down from £25 to £12. However, today I picked up the jacket. It had been reduced from £39.95 to £5!!!!

A whole work suit for only £17.00!

Lets just say that I will be buying new (non-work) shoes with the money I have saved!

Just got that, "spent ages writting a post, but now its gone" feeling.

Again.

Well I'm back from my holiday. Have had a lovely relaxing week, where I finally seemed to shake off the horrid cold/flu/chest infection type bug that I seem to have had for weeks.

Have been back two days, and I already have a sore throat and a snotty nose.

Maybe I'm allergic to the UK?

But its just not working today.

Came home from work with a horrible headache. Probably just because I'm tired. Went to bed last and next doors dog woke me up early barking. They are so cruel, to have a dog and then leave it locked up barking all day everyday. Its not the dogs fault, its just lonely. They have a lovely garden but I never see it out.

I just barks and barks.

Well the weather seems crappy now I'm home. I don't really get to see the weather these days. My new office doesn't exactly have a view, and we have to have the lights on all day, so I don't even notice when its nice out. I had a few pangs for my old place today. I admit it, I had got really comfy there, and I still feel out of place here, like I'm on holiday without all my home comforts, living out of one suitcase. But I miss it all the same. The grass isn't always greener, I wish I had learned that before.

Oh well, off to have left-overs for tea! And put the washing on.

What a truely uninspiring day!

I don't usually mention work much but this has been brewing for a while and I need to let it out somewhere, otherwise I am likely to swear at the person concerned and end up with a disciplinary

I like to think that I can get around on a computer, but I'm no wizz. I can manage all the things I need to do for my job: Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc. However, it isn't my job to do anything more technicaland I have never really had any proper training in anything else.

Thats because in my office we have a "technical support" guy, and as far as I am aware, technical stuff is his job.

So when I can't do something, or I am a bit slow on the uptake of some new computer thing, why does he shout at me??? He gets paid to help, but every thing I've asked him about for several months now, he just shouts at me, and when I ask him not to shout, but to explain what I am doing wrong, he just walk off in a huff.

I can't help it if I didn't study computers, and don't have diplomas and things in IT. I get paid to help our customers, and I can't shout at them if they are a bit slow on the uptake.

This is starting to upset me now, and I must admit to having a little weep in ladies when he did this last week.

MEN!

(I would just like to point out that this is the same "technical support" guy who removed my old but working printer in June, and replaced in with a brand new one late July, but has so far made no effort of allocate it to my computer, so I always have to log off my own computer and print every document on someone else's)

When you get dressed and you find that the pair of shoes that just go with the outfit you're wearing, you sold for a pound at a car boot sale three days ago!

I can tell its Autumn for the following reasons:

My car is so covered in leaves it looks like a compost heap, even though I washed it on Sunday.

Slates have started falling off the roof of the outside loo.

I have had a shocking cold for over a week.

I have this uncontrollable urge to eat nothing but jam donuts and homemade soup.

I have had to have the lights on in my office all day.

In the last week I have started wearing my coat to go to work (first time since early May)

I have been home from work for an hour, but I still have my coat onbecause the house is so cold.

I have had to put my "winter" duvet on my bed.

However, I have only a week and a half before I go on holiday - to somewhere warm