Current Mood: Tired

Well, that ring I was talking about in the last post, we don’t need to worry about it anymore. Rachel and dad have broken up. Long story but basically a huge row errupted over something dad said he lied about, only for him to tell me later that it was the truth in the first place, and the only reason why he said he lied to Rachel is because of the backlash we would get from the nieghbours. It’s a long story… thought there may be a tiny chance of them getting back together if dad told her the truth but last night Rachel came by to claim back a photo (and give back the ring…) and yet another row errupted. If last nights actions are anything to go by the chances of them getting together is absolute zero. It’s funny how I found it hard to adjust to the relationship but now… I’d to anything for them to get back together. It’ll make my dad happy.

Anyway I am very tired today… been getting overtime at work which is great. Past few days I’ve been working morning shifts again and it was like a breath of fresh air. I much prefer the morning shifts to afternoons as there is more to do and more structure in the mornings. Afternoons basically consist of walking around the flats talking to tenants for about 3 hours, a small break then opening the bar for 3 hours. That’s unless anything else pops up like tenants ill etc, but that’s the general outline.

I’m on a Red Cross course tomorrow, to do with my emergency response and how to deal with major incidents. No chance to lay in this weekend.

Current Mood: Loopy

*SIGH*

OMG. v_v That flaming, pigging, ring has been driving me absolutely mental the past few weeks.  My dad went to buy his girlfriend an engagement ring and she loved it but didn’t want anyone knowing by looking at her hand she was engaged at the moment and she didn’t want to wear it on another finger… so we (as in dad and I) took the ring back and exchanged it for another ring with a pearl on it as a ‘friendship’ sorta thing but it was the wrong size… so we take it back but it didn’t have THAT ring in the right size in stock and for some reason was unable to resize it… so we picked another ring and the size we took was one size too big but thought “maybe it’ll fit her”, but it didn’t… so we took it back and it was resized but it came back the wrong size… again… error on our part… so we had enough and got our money back and went to another shop…

We picked a ring in another shop and it was lovely, it was one size too big (i think, or too small..) so they resized it… my dads girlfriend was convinced it was second hand (it wasn’t..) and didn’t want it so we took it back, seeing as it was resized they wouldn’t give us a refund or anything but we saw a ring in the window that was nice and we had to come home and go back because dads girlfriend still had the ring… we came home and she popped by and dropped the ring in and we went straight back into town… the new ring in the shop costs a bit less than the other one so we bought a pair of earrings to match… the ring is a size too small and is being resized and we gotta go pick it up on Wednesday…

PLEASE OH PLEASE SAY THIS RING WILL DO!!!!
PLLLLLLEASE!!!!

Current Mood: Tired

*sighs*

My brain is in such a frazzle I can’t even think about how to get my future started. Knowing me it won’t work out anyway, or I end up causing more pain and suffering in the ambulance service than actually helping. My biggest fear is if I ever get to that stage, a patient of mine dying on my first shift. Whether it be a fault of mine or due to their significant health problems, I just really don’t want that to happen but I guess it would be a reality check. No doubt there will be plenty of times where a patient is critically ill on arrival to hospital.

I am genuinely caring and I find the human body facinating, I also love driving and it would be an exciting and rewarding job. I’ve thought about nursing but I wouldn’t like to work in a hospital all the time. I’ve thought about medicine and becoming a doctor but it’s a very long route and I certainly don’t have the brains for that.

Oh, I don’t know. Whatever happens, happens.

That’s the latest episode of Gerbil Life over and done with… now it’s time for my life…

Well… I’ll tell you one thing that’s on my mind a lot, first. My job!! *sighs* I am on a 3 month job share and it started earlier this month. The other day I got my payslip and OMG I had such a shock, I’m getting a lot less than I thought I would be… my basic pay is something stupid and all the overtime I did last month I don’t get until next month. Due to direct debits I have a good few hundred going out of my account each month, a day after I get paid, now I’m left with very little of it. I have been thinking a lot about it and am considering going for another job. The one I’m in now, sure I enjoy it and I love my colleagues, but it’s dead-end. The pay isn’t all that grand either, to be honest.

My dad has been talking a lot about his girlfriend and I’m pretty much tired of it. I haven’t said, I keep my mouth zipped but she’s all he talks about, he’s worse than a love struck teenager. Hehe It’s nice and all that that they love each other like they do but gee…

I tidied my room too! Shock, horror. The thing is, it’s nice when it’s done but how long does it last?? We have a decent sized house but have so much stuff here, many of which we don’t use. Dad and I were talking about holding a bootsale yesterday and it’s a good idea. He said he’ll talk to his girlfriend about it, because she goes to a lot of bootsales.

Anyway I’m doing washing at the moment… when my step-mum died a few years ago I had to learn everything from scratch. How to do washing, cooking etc… because her good nature meant she wouldn’t let us. I have been using tablets in the washing but today I put washing powder in the machine and I’m getting visions now of the whole kitchen floor being flooded with soap. I washed it once this morning, but I guess another wash wouldn’t do it any harm…

Heylo, no I haven’t disappeared from the land of Earth, I’m still here.

Weeeeeell… I after thinking about it I decided to call the gerbils Snap, Crackle and Pop. Snap being the white albino who bit the first (the little bugger). Crackle being the grey one and Pop being the ginger one. They are so cute, but I am yet to conquer their trust and have them to actually crawl on my hand instead of biting it. It bloody hurts when they bite! The other day I held a piece of wood in my hands (they chew wood), but Crackle decided to bite my finger instead! His brother is a bad influence…

I put a wheel in their home the other day, bought it on Ebay and they love it, but Snap and Crackle fight over it, or should I say, in it. Crackle spends quite a bit of time in there and when Snap comes along to have a go they have a bit of a tiff and usually Snap admits defeat and climbs out until Crackle is gone. Pop on the other hand is a little bugger because when one of his brothers is in there, he goes in there and has his say and the other one gets out, but all Pop does is look around for about 5 seconds then he’s out of there himself! I bet Snap and Crackle got mad at him for that.

It’s hard to say who the dominant one is, but I see Crackle doing a lot of the grooming, especially to Pop.

They’re so cute!

I bought 3 gerbils this morning and went to buy the cage but they didn’t have the right one in stock so I was sent to another store in Cwmbran. Note to self - never drive to Cwmbran again!

It has a huge shopping complex consisting of 200 shops and it spans out quite a large area. Car spaces shouldn’t be a problem with 4,000 of them available but it’s always jam packed, even today, a Sunday. I parked the car and tried to find the pet store but couldn’t. In the process got lost and couldn’t find my ca. Finally found the car and found the pet store then struggled to take the cage, food plus bedding etc back to my car and my left arm was *really* hurting afterwards, still feels weird.

Anyway, long story short - I have three gerbils. Male gerbils. So cute!! Now it’s a matter of names…

• Dot, Spot and Scott (slip of the tongue could very well happen here…)
• Peanut, Butter and Jelly
• Thunder, Lightning and Bolt
• Fish, Chips and Peas
• Sun, Sky and Star
• Snap, Crackle and Pop

Hmm.

Gawd my head is spinning. I’ve been so busy today, started off my day by going to ASDA and it was packed, I was in there for over an hour and the queues were stupid. Note to self, avoid going there on Saturday morning!! Out of everything, I forgot to get money from cash point so I drove back to ASDA and a kid at the bottom of the road jumped out of the tree right infront of my car. Thank goodness I was going slow. I then spent the day cleaning and our living room looks great. Even if I do say so myself. =P

I went on a Food hygiene course the other day and it was an eye opener and quite interesting. Even though my eyes were going at 3pm but in my defense it was a long day.

Speaking of work that woman is back and driving me crazy already. I mean, seriously. She said straight out she may leave at the end of the 3 months. I’ve got one full week of work left then after that I’m on the afternoon shifts. I am hoping to stick to it until Christmas but at this rate… I really don’t know.

Anyhoo, there hasn’t been any Red Cross meeting this month but I was put on emergency response standby last night because of the floods in this area of Wales. I did sleep last night but set my alarm every 1hour30mins incase I missed the call. I’m always paranoid about that! Anyway, no call last night or today. I have a meeting late September, a two day training course in October. Another meeting in October, and a training exercise, and another meeting in November.

We’re trying to set up a support helpline at our local base and they’re asking for volunteers to help out and become support line operators but I don’t know. =/

Anyway I have a headache.

This morning we got a community alarm set up in our house. It’s there for my dad seeing as I’m out every day due to work etc. Even though people keep an eye on him when I am working and out and about I still think this alarm is a good idea, peace of mind, also. Basically a small unit is set up in your home and you’re given a pendant to wear. If you have a fall or don’t feel well or need any emergency help you press the button on this pendant and you’re connected to an operator who you can talk to and then they can arrange appropriate help for you.

Haven’t heard anything on the job front yet, either. It’s getting ridiculous but my colleagues have told me to hang on in there, even if she does come back they don’t think she’ll stay.

My printer is driving me simple. I mean seriously. When I bought a Kodak ESP 5 a few weeks ago for £80, I thought I was getting a good bargain but it has turned into a huge disappointment and looks like it was a waste of money. First impressions were great. I managed to calibrate the printer. All ok. But then I try to print and the printer decides to throw a huge hissy fit. Everything is installed ok but it keeps saying the paper edge cannot be recognised and spits the paper back out. It’s the right paper, I’ve tried both photo paper and ‘regular’ normal paper but the printer is having none of it. If it’s not saying the paper edge cannot be recognised then it moans that the paper is jammed when it isn’t. Then it goes into a frenzy of ’sucking up’ the paper from the tray and destroying it as it flies back out.

It has successfully printed a few sheets of paper but 99% of the time I get bloody error messages and yesterday it drove me so crazy I switched it off, ran to my room and cried. I can’t say I was in a good emotional state yesterday anyway but this really did press all my wrong buttons.

I have contacted Kodak support but they have been as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the same rope. Useless! I have made sure the paper is in the tray correctly. I have taken out the printerhead, all the ink etc and tried again. I replied to say I was still having trouble and they send me a message back saying “you claim that there is nothing wrong in the functionality of the All In One Printer and that is seen as a positive”. *sigh*

I haven’t touched the printer today. It just makes me so mad just thinking about it.