Holidays! Christmas! Woo!
At last the holidays have arrived. 17 whole days of ligging, chilling, eating, drinking, more ligging, sleeping, hanging out with friends and family and spending quality time with my beloved. Ahhhh, the joy. As far as I can tell we got all the artwork sorted for the milestone and I am free, free I tell you! (And even if it isn't all OK, I have appointed 3 understudies to take on my responsibilities for the 4 days I'm away. That should give you an idea of how hard they've been working me. Still, I care not, it's Christmas, for little-baby-Jesus' sake.)
My last few days at work have been really chilled though, despite milestone stress, and peppered with presents already. So far, I have received:
- A box of chocs from my secret santa.
- £15 of gift vouchers from the company as a birthday bonus
- A HUGE candle stick from my housemate/landlady (It's as tall as me, and made out of wrought iron, and will be hilarious getting it some on the train in January).
- A large gift bag from the company for Christmas including: A Blitz fleece top, 2 bottles of wine, some more chocolates and £25 worth of gift vouchers.
- Another box of chocs from my landlady's boyfriend
- A really nice birthday card signed by all the guys in my team
- a digital camera, that I technically bought for myself off one of the company directors, but was such a steal that it counts as a present.
I can't help feeling that Christmas has been and gone with all this loot I have amassed. Also, in hilarious news, the DTI government insolvency fund have told me they're going to cough up another £70 for lost earnings. Hahahaha! That has nicely paid for my 200Gb hard drive that djimm has just installed in my PC. And they've finally sent my P45 (only 3 months late then) so I can get my tax sorted out in the new year.
Tomorrow we're going to pick up the new sofa, and hopefully have time to stop off and buy a real Christmas tree.
My cup really doth runneth over, and I'm a bit overwhelmed actually. Seems like I've been saving up the good stuff all year, to have it all at once over Christmas.
Blessings = counted!
On a completely unrelated note, I came across this on the BBC news website: sad fuck of the year 2004. :)
My last few days at work have been really chilled though, despite milestone stress, and peppered with presents already. So far, I have received:
- A box of chocs from my secret santa.
- £15 of gift vouchers from the company as a birthday bonus
- A HUGE candle stick from my housemate/landlady (It's as tall as me, and made out of wrought iron, and will be hilarious getting it some on the train in January).
- A large gift bag from the company for Christmas including: A Blitz fleece top, 2 bottles of wine, some more chocolates and £25 worth of gift vouchers.
- Another box of chocs from my landlady's boyfriend
- A really nice birthday card signed by all the guys in my team
- a digital camera, that I technically bought for myself off one of the company directors, but was such a steal that it counts as a present.
I can't help feeling that Christmas has been and gone with all this loot I have amassed. Also, in hilarious news, the DTI government insolvency fund have told me they're going to cough up another £70 for lost earnings. Hahahaha! That has nicely paid for my 200Gb hard drive that djimm has just installed in my PC. And they've finally sent my P45 (only 3 months late then) so I can get my tax sorted out in the new year.
Tomorrow we're going to pick up the new sofa, and hopefully have time to stop off and buy a real Christmas tree.
My cup really doth runneth over, and I'm a bit overwhelmed actually. Seems like I've been saving up the good stuff all year, to have it all at once over Christmas.
Blessings = counted!
On a completely unrelated note, I came across this on the BBC news website: sad fuck of the year 2004. :)