August 17, 2008 at 11:40 pm (life, work)
It’s 0033 hours and I should be in bed. Thing is, I can’t sleep because of work. Well, not necessarily work but the course I am doing at work. I am extremely far behind on my studies. I am meant to get time at work to do it, but there is no time. I would try to do it at home but it is summer hols and my girl needs to see me at some point. I have three workbooks and one and a half units to finish by October! I think I need to take the whole lot into work and sort things out. If I can get it done by October then I shall be half way though the whole course and I will get a pay rise sooner rather than later. My boss wanted me to sell the course to another girl in another shop and I could only say that it is a great course as long as you have no kids or social life!
I need organising!!
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May 6, 2008 at 6:16 pm (work)
It’s funny. I started my job almost exactly 3 years ago. I started there working just Friday and Saturday and covering holidays. Then I got taken on to work at the ‘other’ shop on Mondays. Last year the ‘full timer’ went on long term sick and then finally handed in her notice so I had to work 7 days a week. In the mean time I did two work related courses that gave me quite good pay rises. We then found a really great lady who worked the first half of the week and I went back to working the second half. In January she very, very sadly died so I was back to doing 7 days a week. In Feb I started on my NVQ3 and it now seems that everyone (including the manager) thinks that I am in charge! They all tell me when they’ve done something out of the ordinary and they ask me if it’s ok for certain things to be done! Even the owner asks me if things should be done, bought or removed for the sake of the shops profits. It’s nice to know that I am respected by my colleagues, but I find it a bit weird when people say, ‘I’ve done this Annie, is that ok?’
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October 11, 2007 at 7:14 pm (jobs, learning, life, work)
Hello!
I am still excessively busy at the moment. Still working six days a week, but there is a week off on the horizon. When my boss said he wanted me to know everything he really did mean it. I am now responsible for the wages, ordering, writing up the blue (addicts) scripts and training the locum pharmacists how to use our computer system! No extra pennies for this yet, I am sensing an increase in respect coming from him though which I like.
I am still studying, had my first tutorial on Tuesday. Generally the people were ‘normal’ but there was the one very pompous man which I suppose is to be expected seeing as we were discussing ‘the definition of art’. I’ll get him back when we get to The French Revolution!! It’s very nice having my sister doing the course too as we have had our own little study sessions and I think we are both getting more out if it because of this.
Wedding-wise I have decided that Maisie will give me away, we were practising how we would walk down the aisle on the way to school this morning. I have also chosen the dress I want to wear. I have to say that it is black but it also has turquoise in it so it will match my hair. Amazingly I have found it on ebay and they will make to measure for only £185! Still haven’t set the date yet though haha!
I have just come out of the bath and feel very relaxed and cosy listening to New Model Army, I will possibly study for a while or I may just veg. For the moment I am looking forward to England beating France in the rugby on Saturday 
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September 12, 2007 at 4:21 pm (children, drudgery, family, jobs, life, moaning, work)
I am dead on my feet at the moment. Working six days a week, looking after a child and trying to run a house is a bloody knackering thing to do. Because of the lack of staff at work I am also being shown how to do many more things, this is leaving me mentally drained too and of course in a few weeks I start on my OU course, yay! To top it all off my social calendar has never been so full! This weekend is the only weekend where I have nothing to do, well it was until I found out that mum is going into hospital to have her knee replaced on Sunday so I shall be spending some time with her. Billy isn’t round tonight (as he normally is) so I am going to attempt to do washing up, tidying and washing of clothes, oh and then I’ve got to make dinner at some point, go through Maisie’s spellings and listen to her read.
Something is going to go pop soon, I’m betting on my feet and my brain.
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August 9, 2007 at 3:29 pm (emergencies, jobs, weird, work)
My pharmacy needs an award.
I’ve been there for just over 2 years and in that time we’ve been open through fire, flood and drought. Today we had no electricity thanks to the butchers down the road, and we were still open. My poor boss had to write all the labels for the prescriptions by hand like it was in the old days! The man who lives in the flat above the shop next door lent us a camping stove to make coffee on and I had to go to the loo in the pitch black darkness.
At about 3.15 there was a mass of beeping as the power surged through the cables again. Lights were switched on and we blinked in the brightness of it all. If the owner of the pharmacy was ever worried about the place he really shouldn’t be. Us girls can cope and work through anything
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July 31, 2007 at 8:08 pm (emergencies, life, people, water, work)
I JUST HAD A BATH!!
It was pure bliss. Stand up scrub downs are good when needed, but they don’t beat a bath. We still don’t have the luxury of being able to drink, clean our teeth or do washing up in the water coming out of our taps though, that will come soon hopefully. I think we have all learnt something about ourselves and others from this crisis.
1) You can wee in a toilet quite a few times before it becomes absolutely disgusting.
2) You can boil veggies, use the water to do washing up and then use it again to flush the toilet.
3) Hair still needs to be washed once every 3 days (at least) or I go nuts!
4) Moist toilet paper is ace, I will still use it after this crisis has finished.
5) In a crisis such as this 99% of people will work together and it will make you feel great about the human race.
6) In a crisis such as this 1% of people will need to be shot for being utter pricks.
Many thanks go to:
The Army.
For getting water to us in bowsers and bottles.
The Army and Navy
For keeping my electricity on.
Severn Trent Water
For getting the water supply back on.
The Gloucestershire Echo
For keeping us well and truly informed.
For me it is the beginning of the end, for others it is the start of trying to get their lives back together. Going to their homes to see what devastation has occurred, insurance claims, cleaning and throwing ruined things away. For a few people there will be funerals to go to. This is a story that will be told for generations to come.
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July 30, 2007 at 6:37 pm (drudgery, emergencies, family, fillums, fun, interest, life, t.v., water, work)
Tired of not having water, but thankfully it should be back on tomorrow for flushing and bathing use. Billy just told me that he is having a bath in a min, but I have to wait. When tomorrow comes and I hear that sound of cisterns filling up I shall be in the bath like a shot and stay in it for some time… although not too long as the water will still be a bit dodgy.
In other news I got the preparatory material for my OU course. I am really looking forward to this as my sister is doing it too. This means competition which in turn means that we will be doing good work (hopefully). At work my boss is on holiday and I feel like I’m running the place, which I suppose is good training for when I do actually run the place. Having just one day off a week is very draining though, I wanted a lie in yesterday but also didn’t want to waste the day. What is a young girl to do? Well, I stayed in bed till 9.30, that’s what I did!
I have to go shopping on Wednesday as I have a pirate party to go to on Saturday. It’s meant to be on a boat but there still may be a chance that the water is too high so it may be moved to a pub nearby. I have decided to use the dresses I made for re-enactment as the costume as they are wenchy/pirate type dresses. I need to add stripy tights, bandanna, big earrings, eye patch and cutlass to this equation.
Last night I watched Hairspray and I have to say I loved it and smiled all the way through. Gonna watch the last episode of Jekyll in a minute, I am sure there will be less smiling whilst watching that.
*Edit* I watched the last episode of Jekyll and I did actually smile. It was very good, a tad OTT at times but overall a very enjoyable series. I’m glad I watched the whole thing.
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June 18, 2007 at 9:27 am (Music, concerts, friends, life, people, relationships, t.v., work, wow)
On Saturday I turned 35 and I thought that I would just be having a normal birthday, going to the pub with my friends and having a jolly good laugh. Well the craziness of this week started on Wednesday when I was out for another friend’s birthday. My boyfriend decided to propose to me and I very gladly accepted. We were both incredibly drunk so in the morning I thought I should check that he did actually mean it, which he did. Thursday was a day of excited texting. In the evening I had to go to a work’s do which included ‘entertainment and education’. It was at the Queen’s Hotel, a very swish affair with yummy food and really nice wine. After this my boss thought she should buy me a proper drink (a pint of ale for me please) to celebrate my birthday and engagement. We were all having a very pleasant time when my colleague falls over in a very spectacular fashion. It was so funny. Another late night home.
Friday was the anniversary of myself and Billy meeting and yet again we were out with friends. They all got very excited about the engagement. We didn’t get too drunk this time as we had a long journey the next day which was my birthday. I was going to see Muse at Wembley Stadium.
I got up feeling very bouncy and made fried egg sandwiches for breakfast, oh they were so nice. We caught the bus into town but were rather a bit too early for the coach so we went to a jewellery shop just to have a look at rings. I saw one I loved so Billy said I should try it on. I tried it on, it was a little bit too small but it has been paid for and it’s being altered as we speak. Then we got on the coach and we were on our way to Wembley. My head was buzzing, too many things to think about! But then we were at Wembley Stadium, the journey was so quick and hassle free. I was quite excited to see the new Wembley arch and have decided that I really quite like the new Stadium. They have thought it through really well, and everything just seems to run very smoothly. We never had to wait in queues for anything as they have loads of bars and food halls. The prices were good too, £3.50 for a pint and £8.00 for fish, chips and a coke. We were in and out watching the bands, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Dirty Pretty Things and The Streets. I bought a t-shirt, hat and badges and was quite calm until The Streets finished.
Then we sat as we watched the roadies sort out the stage, it seemed like hours. It seemed to get darker just as Muse were to come on and then bang! The music started and Muse came up through the stage with dry ice and small foil pieces surrounding them. They walked onto the stage and went right into Knights Of Cydonia. The crowd exploded and I cried. They carried on being amazing, exciting, explosive, colourful and totally Muse for the next 1 1/2 hours and I sang my little heart out. Words really can’t describe it. Then it was home time.
Sunday I spent with my family as Billy went to his dad’s for fathers’ day. We had a really nice lunch and my mum actually came too which is something that has never happened, she doesn’t like to eat out for some reason. Then I came home and relaxed with Dr Who. Wow, how fantastic was that? I so can’t wait for next week. And Jekyll, I liked it but found the climbing up the wall thing a bit daft.
So now I have the day off to recharge my batteries, thank god! I’m still finding it all a bit weird but in a very good way. I shall be wanting very little excitement for the next few weeks I think.
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