I hate New Year

All the pointless celebration, all the hideous happy parties and silly positivity and snogging someone special as the New Year starts.

It's always depressed me because I've never had anyone to kiss as the bells chimed and it's even more depressing now because I do have someone special to kiss but I won't be kissing him because I am stuck here and he is elsewhere. And all I will be doing is sitting in my room on my own watching TV. I am contemplating just having a bath and going to bed early so when I wake up it will all be over.

Love is in the air....................

Back Again

Well here I am again. I meant to post just before I went away but didn't get round to it. I had a lovely time with Dean over Christmas. Sadly his grandad died a few days before Christmas so things were rather subdued. I got back on boxing night and a couple of hours after I got back, my mum's uncle died so things are subdued with my family at the moment. Deaths in the family are always very difficult but it makes it worse around christmastime when the emphasis is on happiness and families.

Mum's uncle's funeral is tomorrow morning and I'm reading a passage from the bible at the service. I've never done anything like that before. It made mum's aunt really happy when I offered to do it. She's very religious and it will give her some comfort.

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We're looking after my cousin's wee black kitten at the moment. He's called Jack. I call him Jack Black and mum calls him Blackjack hehe. He seems quite fond of Henry, he keeps hanging round his cage!! I'll have to post some photos of him.

I'm going over to Glasgow in a week or so to see my mate Kerryn. Not seen her for ages and I need to get away somewhere instead of sitting about the house pining for Dean!!! I wish I could go into hibernation until the next time I see him - eat lots of food, go to sleep and then wake up and he's here!!

I did some online shopping today. I bought:

Kath and Kim Series 1

Who Killed the Zutons?

Dean's birthday present (well in advance)

A wireless optical mouse for my laptop

A wireless 54Mbps ADSL router

A wireless 54Mbps USB adapter

A bit of retail therapy there without the stress of going into town!!

I got all that stuff from Amazon who seem to have the best prices at the moment from what I can see. I'm planning to have wireless broadband in my bedroom so I can use the phoneline for the phone I had in my room at uni and which has been stuck in a drawer in my bedroom for about 2 years. It will be nice to have a proper phone in my room again and my phone is a rather nice cordless DECT phone with a blue backlit display!!! hehe The sound quality is very good on it. I never use the house phones because I can never hear people properly on them and they have big annoying aerials.

Right I have to go for dinner now.

Bye Bye Rory

I was very sad to hear that my mate Jackie's lovely dog Rory was killed today after being hit by a car. This picture is a little tribute to him. It was taken a few years ago when I went to visit Jackie and we took Rory for a walk around the loch. I'm not much of a dog person, but I really liked Rory, he was very friendly and affectionate and he let me hug him!! I will miss not seeing him next time I go to Jackie's house.

Jackie has posted a lovely picture of him on her blog:

Farewell to Rory

Congratulations Jax!

Just wanted to say congratulations to my mate Jackie who is
"In love......and feeling great"

I'm really pleased for her. She's got a lovely bloke just in time for Christmas hehe like an early Christmas present.

And I'm also in love and feeling great because I've got a lovely bloke too!! And I'll be with him in 2 days time!!!!!

Me and Mummy

A pic of mummy when she was a few years younger than I am now and a pic of me when I was a few years younger than I am now, which means we were about the same age at the time of the photographs.

Space Cadets

I can't believe this I really don't believe these people think they are in space. It's all so very fake, they must know it's a load of rubbish and are just going along with it. I have to say I've only watched bits of it because, like Big Brother the majority of it is very boring. In fact Space Cadets has many more boring bits than Big Brother.

Anyway, I hope they don't really believe they are in space. It will cause me to lose faith in the human race. My rat Henry wouldn't fall for that. The bloke presenting (can't remember his name) really looks like someone from the 1950's.

Very much looking forward to flying over to my man on saturday. Have set things aside for packing but not actually started packing yet.

Had Excel test in ECDL class tonight and somehow got 96%. We have just 2 tests left now, Microsoft Access (which I'm dreading) and Basic Concepts of IT. We've got a good long break for Christmas though and don't start back until 3rd January.

I'm thinking of doing some courses after these ones finish. I was thinking of doing a German course and a sign language course.

I was selected for a training day for work which took place on monday. It's called Welcome All - info about it here: Welcome All

Basically it's training to learn how to give good customer service to people with disabilities and learning difficulties. I found it really interesting and certainly feel much more confident about serving customers with disabilites. When I was working at the airport, a deaf lady came up to the counter needing help and I felt so embarrassed that I didn't know how to communicate with her and I panicked a bit. Luckily she was really nice and very confident and gestured for a pen and paper so she could explain what she needed and then I felt more relaxed. After that training day I know I won't panic next time. I got a badge to wear with my uniform and will get a certificate as well :)

ME LOOKING FAT AND HENRY THE PIANIST

Yummy Yummy Currywurst!!!

Went to the Christmas markets at the city hall again. I managed to resist buying fudge this time and me and daddy got Currywurst. It's very scrumptious. We are going to go down again some night soon and have german larger and Bratwurst!! I think I'll be having some more mulled cider as well.

I haven't bought any Christmas pressies yet, eek!!! I'm still not sure who I'm needing to buy for though. I think I better get my cousins something cause one of them showed me what she was getting me for Christmas today. I know what I'm getting my mum and my granny and I have an idea what to get my granda. Not sure about my dad though, a bottle of whisky and some socks or something hehe I suppose I ought to be more original than that. It's mum's job to get him socks anyway.

My piano comes in the morning, I'm so excited, it's like Christmas coming early except I paid for the piano myself. It's as if I've bought myself a really great Christmas present. I shall take a photo of it and post it on my blog tomorrow. Stay tuned!!

It's my work Christmas dinner tomorrow, Deb is coming up here at about 6ish so I can show her my piano. There are pre-dinner drinks in town at 5.30 but we're not going to bother with that. We'll have a wee glass of something here first I'm sure. I'm not planning on drinking much because I have work on saturday morning. Of course I might end up getting totally wasted who knows!!!

Just listening to John Lennon tribute thing on Radio 2. It's weird to think I was only three months old when he was murdered yet he still became an inspiration for me and I grew up on his music and the Beatles music.

John Lennon RIP

Eeek!! Only one audio typing class left before the exam. I thought there was one next week because I have ECDL next week but apparently there isn't. I got a distinction in the last paper I did. You are allowed 3 mistakes for a distinction and 7 for a pass so even if I mess up a bit in the exam, I should still get a pass which is all I need really. My exam is on the 11th January.

Gave Henry a Christmas card today. He sniffed at it, nudged it with his nose a bit and then went back to sleep. I think he liked it though.

Only 10 days until I'm with my beloved!!!

Hellooooooo!!!

Piano coming on friday morning now. So excited!!!

Was supposed to be doing a modular exam on Excel tonight but the woman who was supposed to be setting up our class for the test set us up to do the Access test instead, which we haven't covered yet. Our tutor should really have checked everything was set up for us before the class, she's rather incompetent.

The woman who should have set up the test is even worse though!! This is the third mistake she has made. On two other occasions, some people were unable to do the test because she missed them out and hadn't registered them for it. We were already a week behind in the course and now this has set us two weeks behind.

I don't know how people get these jobs. When the tutor told us that the woman had set us up for the wrong test, I muttered "sack her" and the girl beside me heard and burst out laughing hehe. I do have a good laugh with the girls I sit with though. We are always whispering away to each other and the tutor is always giving us dirty looks. It's a bit like being at school except you can leave when you want and go and get some mulled cider and fudge which is just what I did.

Feeling happy

Had a good day at work today. It went quickly as well which is always nice. I'm in a good mood. I only have 2 and a half days left of work before Christmas and one of those is a training day so I get paid for sitting about and listening to people talking and I get a free lunch and lots of tea. My piano is coming on thursday and I'm looking forward to spending Christmas with the man I love :) I feel all nice and floaty.

Day One

Hurrah!! I got to open the first window of my advent calendar today and consume a tiny snowman shaped piece of chocolate. And that same joy awaits me for the next 23 days!

Piano probably coming middle to end of next week as soon as this bloody carpet gets fitted.

I read the most amusing and ridiculous news story here I think it would make a very good comedy sketch. In fact, I think my mate Jax should draw some cartoons illustrating the horrors of cat sized rats. If anyone has any amusing ideas for headlines for this story, please add them in the comments. My brain isn't functioning fully at the moment.

Hmm....perhaps one day rats will take over from cats and then we'll have to go round changing words and things..........

• Catalogue = Ratalogue
• Catnip = Ratnip
• Cat Burglar = Rat Burglar
• Catastrophe = Ratastrophe
• "cat got your tongue?" = "rat got your tongue?"
• "let the cat out of the bag" = "let the rat out of the dustbin"
• "raining cats and dogs" = "raining rats and more rats"
• "no room to swing a cat in" = "no room to hurl a giant rat around in"

More suggestions welcome....................

I'll have to change my name to Ratpee as well.