Painful Week Post..!
After such a good weekend, this week has been a massive ballache, long tough shifts in work, normally I don't whinge about this, particularly as my job is explaining this to people:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21991953
Particularly the bits where I tell people that they are now paying FULL Council Tax on Empty Homes they own or that unemployed people now have to pay 8.5% of their Council Tax bill. Lots of unhappy and confused people race in, we've been taking 2,200 calls a day, only 50 work in the call centre, it's been ridiculous!
Couple that with a pair of relationship arguments (both now resolved), the resultant lack of sleep, a groin injury I can't seem to fucking shift and trying to decide where to get Neil's stag do going to, it's been a stressful week!
Then... the new cats got ill! Angel was bleeding out of the mouth over the flat on Thursday night and we had to take her to an emergency vet, who discovered a tumour in the mouth we didn't know about but let us take the cat home.
She went to a vet on Friday and stayed overnight into Saturday, where she was given blood tests and we were threatened with bills of us to £1200, which having just paid for a wedding, and paying to go to/stag weekends for others, is not ideal.
Fortunately, she's safely back at home with us and Blue and the Cats Home promised help with ALL medical bills. We are insured so hopefully, it won't be too troublesome... For a while though, it was very worrying.
Although it has had good parts, spontaneously townsley_89 decided to check out The Gaslight Anthem in Manchester on Wednesday, so despite him being based in Leeds and neither of us having any tickets to a sold out gig, he secured some on Seatwave and...
I'll try not to make thelma_viaduct or 27needles too jealous but we were rewarded with the best performance I've seen them give! They even played every not-completely-obvious song we wanted them to play - 'I'da Called You Woody Joe', 'We Came To Dance', 'The Patient Ferris Wheel' plus 'Too Much Blood' (in the encore), tremendous!
That and a whistlestop trip down to London, to hang out with Ed and his housemate and see the amazing Found Footage Festival:
http://www.foundfootagefest.com/
With further hilarious and mental videos like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_TGMO0WHZ8
before going back and drinking in his new place was a great Saturday night that we both intend to repeat. Sad times that Toni had to stay at home though...
Oh and finally, a hello to a newbie, how do dr_brainwild ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21991953
Particularly the bits where I tell people that they are now paying FULL Council Tax on Empty Homes they own or that unemployed people now have to pay 8.5% of their Council Tax bill. Lots of unhappy and confused people race in, we've been taking 2,200 calls a day, only 50 work in the call centre, it's been ridiculous!
Couple that with a pair of relationship arguments (both now resolved), the resultant lack of sleep, a groin injury I can't seem to fucking shift and trying to decide where to get Neil's stag do going to, it's been a stressful week!
Then... the new cats got ill! Angel was bleeding out of the mouth over the flat on Thursday night and we had to take her to an emergency vet, who discovered a tumour in the mouth we didn't know about but let us take the cat home.
She went to a vet on Friday and stayed overnight into Saturday, where she was given blood tests and we were threatened with bills of us to £1200, which having just paid for a wedding, and paying to go to/stag weekends for others, is not ideal.
Fortunately, she's safely back at home with us and Blue and the Cats Home promised help with ALL medical bills. We are insured so hopefully, it won't be too troublesome... For a while though, it was very worrying.
Although it has had good parts, spontaneously townsley_89 decided to check out The Gaslight Anthem in Manchester on Wednesday, so despite him being based in Leeds and neither of us having any tickets to a sold out gig, he secured some on Seatwave and...
I'll try not to make thelma_viaduct or 27needles too jealous but we were rewarded with the best performance I've seen them give! They even played every not-completely-obvious song we wanted them to play - 'I'da Called You Woody Joe', 'We Came To Dance', 'The Patient Ferris Wheel' plus 'Too Much Blood' (in the encore), tremendous!
That and a whistlestop trip down to London, to hang out with Ed and his housemate and see the amazing Found Footage Festival:
http://www.foundfootagefest.com/
With further hilarious and mental videos like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_TGMO0WHZ8
before going back and drinking in his new place was a great Saturday night that we both intend to repeat. Sad times that Toni had to stay at home though...
Oh and finally, a hello to a newbie, how do dr_brainwild ?