Jill

Sounds like the cold I've just had. Started off as a sore throat, progressed to sneezing and coughing, fever, and left me deaf as a final departing present. That's the one. Started with a sore throat last Monday, had a horrible cough for most of the week then got the sneezy/fever bit over the weekend, now my ears are playing up. I'm not normally one for calling in sick - hate it when other people do it for a cold - but would've been very tempted last week had we not been short staffed at work anyway. But still, Ted Maul's post above has reminded me it could be (a lot) worse.

Hurt - Falls Apart (acoustic)

I hate Mondays. My team leader is back tomorrow after a week off so I'm desperately trying to hide things in cabinets etc, only more stuff keeps coming in so I'm going to have to start actually doing some work. Plus I've been full of cold all weekend and now I've lost the hearing in my right ear. Grr.

Well pleased with that result, I fucking hate Spurs.

time for the awkward question was somebody giving him a run down of the game as it happened? He had the radio in one ear and listened to the crowd with the other.

I went to the Chelsea (cup) game with a blind lad, was quite an eye opener (haha). His banter was frighteningly quick at times considering the rest of us were taking the piss out of people/things around us which he couldn't see. Also right outside the turnstile I thought he'd had a right laugh (seen me coming a mile off?) as he'd promised he could get cheap tickets for being blind and I looked down and saw "Juvenile" on my ticket.. still I got in so all was good.

Nice one, Rik. I'm saving up to buy a place but it's an absolute fortune and as I work in property I've got a constant (annoying) reminder of how the market is going. Probably just give up and start renting in a bit - unless that lottery win appears.

Well impressed with my achievements today. Loads of shite cleared up at work, few pints of cider, home for my tea, now got a couple of beers for a quiet night in. Champion.

Cube and Cube 2 Both canny.

I would be if the database had been built yet. Cheered up slightly as I've managed to negotiate 4 study days for the 2 exams I've got this month - both are open book so won't really involve much studying.

January is shaping up to be a nightmare... My team leader is on holiday next week which leaves me in the firing line, got exams in a few weeks which I'm entirely unprepared for, and we've got (yet another) audit on the 30th - before which I have over 400 files to input onto a database. AND overtime has been cut - so I can't even work the weekend for it. Waa.

I only like the orange and chocolate ones so I never eat them, wouldn't risk getting a rank coffee one. Urgh.

Sometimes it does, sometimes people live for minutes. Depends on the length of the rope I think. Sure I read something like that a while ago.

Stuart Macbride - Dying Light It's alright, will probably read it to the end but not as gripping as some. Recently read Karin Slaughter - Indelible, Ian Rankin - The Black Book, Lynda La Plante - Red Dahlia, all very good.

In Her Shoes. Load of shite, couldn't get into it at all and it dragged on for ages.

Hmm.. today has been worryingly fine.. high spirits all round, just a nice level of busy and nothing has gone wrong yet on the new procedure which I've brought in. Plus no college this week so I can do 9-5 rather than something like 8-6.

I quite like my job.. it's just not a pleasant thought to think that I have to go back to *earning* money rather than just sitting around watching the telly and getting paid for it.

I'm not looking forward to going back to work.. I'm having flashbacks to the afternoon of Friday 22nd when I shoved a load of files in a drawer, saying I'd "worry about them next year". It's come around far too quickly for my liking.

I don't think I've ever used a Gmail invite. Though tbf I only use it for signing up to thinks I know will generate spam.

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Both dahling, both.

What you done to bring the eviction on? We've not been getting on for a while. I was intending to move out in 2007 anyway but looks like I'll have to speed myself up as we're having the same argument every day and we're both piss sick of it. So now just got to find the cheapest shithole possible.

Had a lie in then went into town for an hour or so (nightmare, I hate sales) and off out for a drink later to drown my sorrows as my mam has just told me I have to move out asap. Could've been worse like as I almost had to go into work today.

I'm making microwave lasagne... Yum.

I don't normally bother going out on NYE but a couple of mates who I haven't seen in a while are going to Bulletproof so I'm getting dragged along too. Hopefully we're just having a skinful in the house before heading out as it'll be stupidly packed.