6 Days...

... 'til Viki arrives (by which time I will hopefully be better, but more about that in a bit).

Woo-hoo!

Time for another thing I'm going to inflict on the poor girl... my somewhat "eclectic" musical taste, and the fact that if I'm sat here at the computer at home, then I'll have iTunes on "shuffle", and will probably be singing along (somewhat badly) to whatever's on at that given moment.

And if it's something that is just perfect for whatever mood I'm in, or I haven't heard it for a while, or it's the soundtrack to "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", then I might even have it on repeat a few times (tonight's repeated track was "Tongue-Tied" from "Red Dwarf")... *Ahem*

I've given up trying to convince anyone (or even myself) that my mp3 player is in any way, shape, or form, credible. There was a bit in a magazine I was reading last night that was going on about various members of the editorial staff and what cheese they had on their iPods... and the more I read, the more I realised that my musical taste is dodgy to say the least. They had:

"Atmosphere" by Russ Abbot (yes, it's there, but someone sent it to me as a joke, and I've just never taken it off)
"Snooker Loopy" by Chas 'n' Dave (thankfully, no)
"Saturday Night" by Whigfield (yes, but don't know why... I hate it)
"I Breathe Again" by Adam Rickitt (ditto Chas 'n' Dave)
Assorted showtunes and music from "Fame", "Flashdance", etc (guilty as charged)
Three Enrique Iglesias tracks (fuck)
"The Ballroom Of Romance" by Chris De Burgh (no, but I do have "Don't Pay The Ferryman")
"The Final Countdown" by Europe (ditto Enrique)
All the Eurovision entries since 2003 (some) and everything recorded by Dana International (no, but I do have "Diva")
"We've Only Just Begun" by The Carpenters (no... whew, maybe there's hope for me yet?)
"Rhinestone Cowboy" by Glen Campbell (er... yes)
"Never Ending Story" by Limahl (er... I plead the 5th - I don't care if I'm not American!)
"We Don't Have To..." by Jermaine Stewart (ditto Enrique again)
Selection of old TV themes (er... zip) and "Agadoo" (thankfully, no)

But I think it's fair to say the Music Police would have me banged up for life with no hope of parole.

So, I'm filling up on cheesy songs and obscure tracks in this week before Viki comes... and, if I can shake off this cold, I'll get the bad singing along out of my system too.

iPod Drama!

I had a lucky escape yesterday as well, all tied in with the home support people and the clearing up...

On Thursday last week, I had my iPod at work, and down to the shop at dinnertime. When I headed back up to the office, I remembered having it in a carrier bag. Then I went to a shop and bought a mop bucket, coz mine had a hole in the bottom, and they put the bucket in a black rubbish bag for me.

So, when I came to go home, I gathered up my carrier bags and shoved them in beside the bucket, and when I came home with the H.S. workers, we started working, and clearing up Dad's stack of old paperwork he had in his corner.

Anyway, Thursday night, I went to get some things ready to post to New Zealand (they ARE coming, Nev!), and needed an envelope I'd bought from the shop. So I went to get it out of the carrier bag - and couldn't find the bag! So, my natural assumption was that I'd left it at the office, and I'd get it the next day.

Friday morning, I came to the office - and the bag wasn't there! So, I thought I might have left it down the shop, so I checked there at dinner time - and it wasn't there! I texted the woman who'd taken me home with my mop & bucket and all to see if it was still in her car - but no answer.

Anyway, yesterday she said it wasn't in the car... and I really started to panic, coz if I'd left it in a shop or something, that had been 4 days previously! But she had another look through the bags of junk to go out to the rubbish... just in case... and after about 15 minutes she appeared from outside with one carrier bag, from the bottom of a rubbish bag!

All I can think of is that when I've taken the bucket out of the rubbish bag, they've just grabbed the bag and used it - never realising there was a carrier bag in it that sure as hell wasn't rubbish!

Amazingly, and in direct contradiction to my usual luck, it was bone dry... no mean thing considering that just yesterday morning there was thunder & lightning and torrential rain!

And if the women had only come back on Thursday (their usual day), then rubbish day would have been past, when the bags would have been put out for the binmen, and my iPod would have been landfill!

You can't imagine how relieved I was to get my £200+ 40gb iPod back!