As if it's not bad enough that today is Friday the 12+1th, because we're in February, and it's not a Leap Year, March is exactly the same... meaning we get TWO Friday the 12+1ths in a bloody row.
And there's another one in, I think, November... Great(!)
Actually *whispers just in case Fate's clock is slow* this Friday 13th hasn't been too bad.
Work was okay... For some reason there was a kind of last-day-before-the-school-holidays vibe going on - which included boss & Flunky having an ongoing elastic band battle, and both of them locking me out of the office and store (combination locks on both doors because it's a shared building) when I went to the loo, and then hiding from me once I got back in. Honestly, sometimes it's like working with The Chuckle Brothers' more annoying little brothers! *rolls eyes*
Shopping tonight.
Oh... yesterday I sold my old mobile phone for £20, so I treated myself to a new album. The Fratellis second album, "Here We Stand" - and I really can't recommend it highly enough! I was a bit worried what it would be like... you know, "second album syndrome" and all that? But it doesn't disappoint! The current single, "Mistress Mabel" is really good, but at the moment my favourite track is "Lupe Brown" - although that might change.
And I had a blast from the past today on our tin-pot local radio station... There's a feature called "The Time Tunnel" (basically a rip-off of Radio 1's "Golden Years" as lovingly presented by Simon Mayo) and they played this, which I've not heard for years...
That was Joshua Kadison and "Jessie"... and I loved that song when it was released.
Well, I guess I'll bugger off now and get ready for bed, because I've already been getting very strong hints from Harriet that it's time for sleep!
Unfortunately, this Friday (er... tomorrow) is *gulp*...
Let's start my woes with the weather and my washing... I hung out some washing about tea-time on Sunday, and the weather was fine for drying it. Left it out all night, and didn't have time to take it in before work on Monday morning... and it rained before I got home! So, not having anywhere in the house to hang wet clothes, and no tumble drier, I left it out. It dried Tuesday because the weather was fine - until just before I got out from my counsellor's appointment... and it rained! Left out washing, dried Wednesday... rain comes not long before 5o'clock (are you detecting a theme here?), so washing gets left out... Today was cold, but mostly dry until... do I really need to go on? Suffice to say, the bloody washing is dripping away out the back and can stay there until Hell freezes over for all I care!
Then there's the cat... who I can't stop from pissing behind the front door. I've fixed a carrier bag over the letter box, so at least my mail doesn't land in it any more. But I've had boss and flunky berating me for not "rubbing her nose in it" - so I tried that last night. Result? She was terrified of me for a while, then sulky, then eventually forgave me - and there was a puddle behind the door again tonight! Picked her up, got to within 2 feet of the door... whereupon she obviously sussed what I was going to do, and she struggled out of my grip and away behind the chair... where she stayed until I'd got it all cleaned up, eventually coming out for a cuddle once it was too late for me to punish her. Please... there must be SOME way to curb this behaviour? It's only started since I moved...
Then there's the fact that work is so quiet now that we've sold the shop... and I'm so up-to-date that I've got nothing to do most of the time. Business should pick up as the nights start to lengthen again, but that's a long way off.
Well, that's about all for me, I reckon. Off for a quick scoot about and then down to visit my brother to see "Heroes" a bit later.
