Here we can all be heard for a little while

System

jobbingmusician wrote: »

Gingerbread, ice cream (the lush sort!), fluffy pillows, marshmallows (don't confuse these 2), and a massive self-replenishing box of chocs.

(The chocs are satisfying but zero calories.)

Ooh those all sound good! Though i'm sneaking in some crisps

Pyxis wrote: »

You know that this ((((((person))))))) is a hug?

Well, this ~~~~person~~~~ is a squish!

And ~{WaSquish}~ is a special type of squish reserved for WaS!

Ooh thank you for explaining it, i shall try to remember ~~~~~everyone~~~~~~

elsien wrote: »

I think that's amazingly polite. With my low/no tolerance for noise I'd probably have stomped around in a somewhat passive aggressive fashion when it first happened.

Calley, my runs were always early morning as I like that time of day to be out, or after dark. Nothing to do with size, but everything to do with feeling like a pillock and not a "proper" runner.

Lol the kid did get a bit of glare as i went to the bathroom this morning but i shal try to remain polite as i don;t need yet another housemate who hates me! (that in itself is my own fault really, i was talking to female housemate about twatty housemate and we both said how we try to avoid him...we didn't think he was in..but he was and heard everything so now things are very frosty and yeah when he's around its somewhat awkward..)

whitewing

Glad you reported it, code. May save someone else from a nasty shock.

MU, the child will be back at school soon and presumably will pick up the language very well by the end of the first term. There must be some fairly sad circumstances going on if the chap is in with you when he has a child. It may be worth finding out, if you can. (Not that I can be ultra friendly when I get rudely awoken).

I'm off to google redtube as I've never heard of it. Even the silver surfers know more than me!

ETA: I must cure myself of the habit of googling everything straight away!

System

whitewing wrote: »

Glad you reported it, code. May save someone else from a nasty shock.

MU, the child will be back at school soon and presumably will pick up the language very well by the end of the first term. There must be some fairly sad circumstances going on if the chap is in with you when he has a child. It may be worth finding out, if you can. (Not that I can be ultra friendly when I get rudely awoken).

I'm off to google redtube as I've never heard of it. Even the silver surfers know more than me!

ETA: I must cure myself of the habit of googling everything straight away!

DON'T GOOGLE REDTUBE!!!!!

i can tell you know its a !!!!!! site!!

The kid is about 4 so don;t know when he may be back in school

Gingernutty

It's been an odd week.

My office has been relocated to a desk in the corner of someone else's work space.

I've met most of the people who've done a night shift on the other team, but there was one on Saturday night who I could have cheerfully strangled.

As part of our jobs, we both answer 'phones. She was loud, obnoxious, didn't stop yakking, swore, played their telly loudly and was a general PITA.

Last night, her supervisor was covering a shift and I spoke to her about it. She agreed.

It turns out the obnoxious one was redeployed after a department was outsourced. Everyone knows she's unsuitable, but as she meets the bare minimum requirements for the job and those "at risk" are preferentially appointed over external candidates, the department is stuck with her.

She rarely works a night shift so, for my team (of 3), it's a case of Russian Roulette - most of the time, someone else is on, but once in a while it's her.

I finished work this morning and waddled into town to find Poundland being boarded up and many shops not opening (this was 08:30 ish).

Turns out, there was an EDL march, a counter demonstration, a Willenhall is Wonderful 'festival' (one bouncy castle blocking a pedestrian route) and a Color Run on at the NEC. All on the same day.

There was an odd collection of people preparing to go to these events and some fat men in football shirts congregating and drinking in the main shopping area.

The atmosphere was weird and I was glad to get out of there. We passed numerous policemen on the way home on the bus.

I got home, bled the air out of the hot water system, repressurised it and after waiting for the water to heat up, got ready for bed.

I'm up and awake now.

I shall be ripping CDs for my Walkman, doing some laundry and shortening some jeans before going back to bed for an early start tomorrow.

I want to do more sewing, throw some more weedkiller around and go see a film.

Before preparing for another night shift on Monday.

Hugs and squishes. XXX

mellymoo74

I now have glossy deep grey with sparkles nails.
Mt blondie bits have been redone
Just need to not lose any more weight

System

sounds like you've had quite the eventful week gingernutty

melly your nails sound fab, i'm always jelous of people with awesome nails as cos of work i can;t have my painted at all (lol remembring the year on of my siblings bought me a nail varnish set.....shame it never got used!)

Flybaby

oppsie..........sorry..........didn't mean to send everyone to redtube by mentioning it!!! But you can imagine how uncomfortable it was explaining that one to my mother when she asked!


I am the resident squisher - always give squishes and hugs and pyx managed to coin it into a blanky fort speciality hug for us.


I've just finished doing a first aid box sort out - removing all out of date stuff, making a list of what is needed (and likely to be needed in winter so I can start looking out for offers now), cleaned the tubs out and re-organised them for better use. Also checked the vitamins stockpile and personal medications etc.

Pyxis

Yes, Flybaby........you have the B.A. (Hons) in Squishing! With a Masters in the History of the Squish, and a Ph.D in The Social and Psychological Benefits of the Squish.
(With references, of course, to the Physiology of the Squish, and Comparative Squish studies across multi-cultural boundaries).

In short, Flybaby is an expert on the Squish in all its glorious forms! :T

Waves_and_Smiles

Good morning all! I win the prize for least productive yesterday! I was awake for a whole 6 hours! Beat that! My sleep was full of strange, nested dreams about starting the day because I know I should be getting up but I can't! Plus waking up for brief periods and feeling freezing cold doesn't help. It's really annoying me now, actually.

NCIS, I had mastitis throughout my 20's, painful isn't it? I really feel for you. One day it just stopped happening and I have never had it since so there is hope. It is worth getting it checked out by your doctor though in case it is related to a hormone imbalance.

Oh, and I meant to say Calley, you are another Deacon Blue fan! Those lyrics you quoted are from my favourite song of theirs! I used to relate to it very much when I was dating a guy who kept going back to his previous girlfriend, he used to buy me chocolates and I only wore silver jewellery. All my friends knew that it was 'my song'.

Talking of Red Tube and the like on second thoughts I am going to penguin a couple of amusing stories about !!!!!! watching in case it triggers anyone. Don't worry, there is nothing graphic. It's just related things that made me laugh.

WaSp gets incredibly embarrassed about the fact that I know he watches !!!!!!. I tried to help once by saying lets watch it together! He lasted 2 minutes before declaring he can't watch with me and blushing furiously. I think it's very sweet but totally unnecessary, it doesn't bother me in the slightest. I see it as totally natural although I don't watch it myself because I just find all the fake huffing and puffing amusing for the most part. If other people enjoy it more power to them!

I also had another male friend who asked me to download a very straight and boring !!!!!! film for him because it starred his favourite actress who went on into mainstream films. He lived at home with his mum and couldn't bear to download it on the computer that they both used. Well, there was a choice of 3 so I picked the middle one, a plumber visited and she jumped on him complete with cheesy music. I found it hilarious, it was so bad it was like a comedy film. The next time I saw my friend I told him to check it through on my computer to make sure that I had the right one. Just like WaSp, he was horrified and said he couldn't watch it with me! Now, he obviously knew that I knew he watched it but still couldn't in front of me. I offered to sit in the bedroom while he checked it and he told me that I was still in the house so no! I seem to be surrounded by cute guys that get embarrassed over it and I end up as the one confused as to what the problem is!

I also had a female friend who put herself through university without needing loans by making sexual phone calls. This was before it became so commonplace with chat lines and when it was still quite undercover. She had a very well paying client who would send her a cheque for £90 every week for 2 calls of about 45 minutes each. I stayed with her overnight once when one of these calls was due. She started a long conversation about getting in the shower, etc. In actual fact she was sitting at the table opposite me in her old dressing gown and pj's, eating a bowl of cornflakes and watching tv with the sound off. There were pauses where he would talk and she would have a spoonful of cornflakes while she had the chance and throw something at me who was laughing so hard that I could hardly breathe. I nearly completely ruined it by constantly giggling at the difference between what she was describing and the reality of the situation, it couldn't have been any less sexual from her point of view and due to me she could hardly keep a straight face herself. Then we both felt guilty afterwards that the guy had called for what was to him, a very important reason and we were in hysterical giggles.

She found the whole thing rather boring but it paid her bills comfortably and the clients were willing to pay for it. The only downside for her was having to come up with new scenario's suited to each client and would fire them if they asked for anything that she was uncomfortable with. In that way it was a very personal service.

She had an interesting view on the situation that these could be married men who might otherwise break up a family by having an affair, better they do this for an average of 30 minutes a week than destroy others lives. Very few guys ever wanted to take it further, they were just happy with a phone call. Is it cheating if they were with someone else? I could never decide. In a lot of ways it was anonymous, personalised !!!!!! although if they did have a partner it would have been better, more respectful and cheaper to talk to them and try to spice things up at home instead. She used a mobile phone number for that only, never gave them her address, she had cheques sent to a PO Box and didn't even send them a photo, just described herself (which was NOTHING like she looked liked). She filled in her own name on the cheques, she didn't even pay for the phone calls. She did that for 3 years until she got a full time job.

End penguin

Indie_Kid

xXMessedUpXx wrote: »

I think i shall try and strike up a conversation next time i see him and perhaps mention i'd been woken up, that i understand kids can be full of energy but please could he not run about outside my door as i work late shifts? Or is that a bit preachy?

It's fair enough.

When I moved in, the woman above me, warned me that she sometimes has her grandchildren to stay, including a baby. Thankfully, it's not that early. (for me at least. Baby sometimes cries about 7am - I'm up at 6am usually)