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Sounds like the wedding was the wedding of the year if people are still worse for wear today. I must admit that I have never understood the need to get so drunk you can't remember what you did ethos..I like to know and being the relatively sober one is more fun because you can spin yarns about what your friends were doing:rotfl:
I have been chained to my desk all day - the blogs are now written except for the final one because I am stuck on the 10th tip and I need to SEO the page too. It is a blessed relief that these are finished. I have a busy week next week because a chap that does wine tasting has got in touch to see how we can work together - oooh..wine...:cool:
Spent some time out watching the tv and saw Supernanny US - the kids were brats and the parents a bit pathetic to be honest but then they were feeding the horrors on burgers, chips, fizzypop and biscuits instead of feeding them with fruit, veg, meat, fish and drinking water or milk.0 -
:rotfl: Wordsmith, you are priceless. Please either write a book, or publish your DFW diary.Chap from pub has just been in to buy sandwich-making stuff so he can feed wedding guest people to try to help sober them up before he lets them out.2018 AFD 23/240
2018 CCC #11 £38.40/£250
Mortgage-free since 2013
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Sometimes parents bring children into the shop and tell them to pick choc or sweets and if the child says they don't want anything the parent keeps on at them to pick something and in the end sometimes picks up something for them. Presumably that is because the child is likely to go home and whinge about not having any sweets, but I would say that is a good learning experience, and I don't understand the force-feeding of them.
Today is a public holiday in Ireland. It's a Monday so normally I would be at the restaurant, and I could have been today, but I have decided to take a few hours off! I have to do the wages for the restaurant, but they are going to phone through the hours and I will prepare the wage slips and drive up to their second premises with them. This is about a 60-mile round trip, which I don't mind at all except for the cost of the petrol, but seeing as normally I would be doing that to their other premises on a Monday I suppose it doesn't make much difference ... except if it was a normal day I would be paid for more hours. And with that they phoned through the hours, so I'll do that in a minute and so should be free from 2 o'clock. I had promised myself an outing after that, but in typical Irish bank holiday form it is now raining (last three days have been beautiful). So, shall I write, shall I research, shall I do accounts (noooooo), shall I tidy house, shall I read? The possibilities are endless - I just hope I don't waste the time by pottering.
The day was supposed to start gently, with no alarm. Mutt woke me at 3 by throwing up, then at 4.30 by throwing up, I got up to clean up, just got back to bed and Brian decided he wanted to go out - rather than have him pacing about the place I got up again to open the door; at 5.30 I decided it was going to be too hot for the central heating to come on, so I got up and turned off the timer and put on the immersion heater, I went to the loo and the kitten-still-with-no-name woke up and tried climbing up my leg, I wrestled him at the door so he didn't escape, opened the front door to see if Brian was about, at which point mama cat made good her escape, I went back to bed with dark mutterings about four-legged beasties, decided I was never going to get to sleep again and then woke up at 8.30. I hate waking up this late. Got up, washed my hair, evicted kitten from the bath, shut kitten in the naughty box as he tried to climb up my leg just once too often, thought just closing the gate rather than turning the clips was enough, found kitten had managed to escape when he tried climbing up my leg again as I dried my hair, left the house with the mutt for our walk (in the rain), Brian slipped back in, I returned to the house to do a bit of reshuffling of cats so they weren't in the same room unsupervised, went for a walk, a young deer appeared in the lane in front of us, I watched deer hotly (but not very closely) pursued by deluded hound until they became a blur in the distance, whereupon I stood in the lane in the rain waiting for dog to admit defeat and return, went back to house, mama cat slipped in and demanded food, I wrestled kitten back into his box, came into the office and the dog threw up on the carpet in the Post Office (rather than on the laminate floor of the office), and the kitten escaped into the shop while I cleaned up the mess. Now everyone is in their rightful place and all is calm.
And I have to get on with the wages.
PS Forgot to mention ... kitten is still with me, but you may already have gathered that. I have asked a few people if they'd like him and they all start off saying, "I'd love to have him, but ..." He has sneezed only once today, so hopefully he is well on the mend."Green pastures are before me,
Which yet I have not seen;"
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Wordsmith is this a holiday???? This is more than i do in an entire day!!! Off to work at last!Aiming for a minimal spend 20220
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you do make me smile with you way with words. thanks.
glad to hear that you house sale is still ticking along. would you say that houses are starting to move again? And what about price, picking up?
cheers
chevI want a job that is less than an hour driving away from my house! Are you listening universe?
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Wordsmith, your animal newsflash was brilliant and made me giggle lots.
you don't need Davina if you are fit enough to cope with all that going on! :eek:
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Has my day gone according to plan? Of course not. Have I had a restful afternoon? That would be a no. Have I had a no-spend day? Not a chance.
Had nearly finished the wages when the dog threw up again. I was beginning to get a bit worried that she would become dehydrated. Then she vomited again and this time there was blood in it. This made me very fearful, so I finished the wages in double-quick time and went off to the emergency vet in the nearest town, twelve miles away in the opposite direction from the one I was supposed to be taking the work to. The vet did all sorts of unspeakable things to her. Even though she is quite placid, he decided to put a muzzle on her because he thought she might not like it when he stuck his finger up her bum. It nearly undid for me when even with the muzzle on she tried to lick me as I was talking to her. Anyway, he doesn't know what is causing the problem - it may be the start of an ulcer (a result of the stress she is under with those interloping cats most probably), although he doesn't think so, or it may be a bug, but I don't think it is. So I have to starve her today (oh dear, tht isn't going to go down too well) and dose her with liquid paraffin (oh dear, oh dear, oh dear) and give her tablets. She is as lively as usual - quite willing and able to bark at dogs walking down the road, running after deer, etc - so it is all a bit of a mystery. Poor lamb. Anyway, after the vet visit we had to trundle over to the restaurant, where I had about 45 minutes of work to do. I did combine it with a bit of research, though - which involved mooching around the gift shop and buying books. Then we came home via a supermarket to buy a fillet of chicken, or a chicken breast, or something to help ease the hound's delicate tummy back into service tomorrow. I haven't a clue how to cook it though (I am a vegetarian, not just incompetent) so I will have to give one of the domestic goddesses a quick ring. Then I had to come back into the office to try to clean the carpet (not looking too great yet, but I hope it will be better when it dries), and then I remembered that I have to sort out the paperwork for the post office so lovely boss man can pick up money tomorrow. So I am just about to do that. And then I am going to go home and not give a rat's aarse about doing anything remotely sensible or improving. And that just might involve having a glass of wine.
Vet cost €45, chicken piece cost €1.49, and there was an additional 30 miles' worth of petrol I hadn't planned for. Research is work and so I put that through the business account and so it doesn't really exist.:whistle:
That's four times I've taken some beastie or other to the vet in about the last month. One of the beasties isn't even mine."Green pastures are before me,
Which yet I have not seen;"
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Oh poor Brian and poor you. I do hope you are both feeling better.Aiming for a minimal spend 20220
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It's not Brian, SW; it's the mutt. Brian is a cat. But thanks for your concern.
Have I gone home yet? No I haven't. Done the PO stuff, then foolishly checked my emails and realised I had forgotten to update two client websites. They are done now - except I just checked email again and have been sent some more updating. I will pretend I haven't seen it and I will do it in the morning.
NOW I am going home, to cuddle my dog and drink wine. It is pouring with rain so I don't think we will make much of a walk. I have to disturb the kitten, who is asleep by the side of my computer. That's going to make him grumpy. Ah well, never mind, ay? Hee, hee.
I have to pay the month's rent today."Green pastures are before me,
Which yet I have not seen;"
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I do apologise. I am from Birmingham!!!! I hope dear doggie will be better tomorrow, what a long day you have had today.Aiming for a minimal spend 20220
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