Row Row Row Your Boat Day 18
Hang on, I forgot to post day 17...
Day 17
Well I've done pretty well with the challenges so far but I don't think I can do today's challenge. There were a choice of two, one was to try something new and do it every day for a week. I already have my list of 101 things in 1001 days so don't want to be faffing about with anything else new, but also I don't have the time and can't be bothered. The other choice is to write about 'the one that got away' either friend, lover, family member. I don't have any of those! I guess I'm lucky. The only boyfriend I've had apart from Pete was Graham, and it was me who let him go, and we're still friends now so he hasn't got away. Family member? I'm still in contact with all the family members I want to be. Friends? Ditto! With the internet and especially Facebook, it's ever so easy to stay in contact with anyone you want to these days. So, although I still technically have done NoJoMo so far, I have failed with completing all the challenges. Damn..
Work isn't fun at all at the moment. Our boss went to her boss with some issues she had with a colleague. Colleague wasn't happy about this as she thinks that Boss should have gone to her to discuss it first, which is fair enough. But then Colleague turned into a massive hypocrite and did exactly the same thing to Boss! She said she was representing us all as a group with all the concerns we have. But when she came out of the meeting, she started telling us how she'd told Boss' Boss all about Boss' affair with the electrician, naming him and everything. OK, so I hate people who cheat on their partners and I think it's despicable, but at the same time, what's that got to do with anything? It's none of her business and certainly not within her remit to bring it into the workplace. She could have said something like "She has some personal issues which are affecting her work." which would have had the same effect, but no need to go into gory detail, especially when she said she was representing us all, we had no idea she was going to do this! So we said to our Boss today "Look, she's said some things about you, we're not going to tell you what she's said as we're sure you'll find out soon enough, but we feel we have to let you know that she said she was representing the group as a whole, but we certainly had no idea she was saying these things." as we didn't want her to think we were all in it together!
This same Colleague has a reputation that proceeds her, she is infamous, no one wants to talk to her as she's so volatile, she blows up at the tiniest little thing, everyone's scared of asking her the simplest question. She's her own worst enemy, if anyone mentions this to her, she blows up again and says she doesn't understand where she's got this reputation from. Well love, you've just shown us all where it came from...
So now Colleague and Boss have fallen out about everything and we're just stuck in the middle, trying to keep our heads down but inevitably getting sucked into it just because we're all part of the same team. ARGH! Office politics! Why can't I just to go to work, do my job and come home again? Gah. At least I'm not the only one, though, there are four of us who are all in the same position, safety in numbers!
The fish are still alive :o) But I don't know how much to feed them! I know that goldfish can die if you overfeed them, but I drop in the amount of food that Rich showed me, and they gobble it up really quickly like they're starving! Do I give them more? Or will they keep gobbling it up until they kill themselves? Having fish is too worrying, why can't they be like normal animals and only eat as much as they need?
Day 18
Today's challenge is The Dinner Party, which I've never actually done before. You can invite up to 11 people, living or dead, to a dinner party, who would they be? I asked Pete and he got a dreamy look across on his face so I knew he was just thinking of his massive list of blonde women (Hannah Spearritt, Laura Harris, Clare Danes, Nicole Kidman, Claudia Schiffer und so weiter...) so that means that I'm allowed to write the first person on my list and I don't even need to name a name because I'm so predictable. I would then bring Charley Boorman as well because they are hilarious when they get together, like a pair of kids. I would also invite Tim Burton and Baz Luhrmann. Maybe Will Shakespeare just to ask him how he feels that his plays are still making a huge effect on the world of literature, in schools and theatres, 400 years after he died, and to see what he thinks of theatre and literature in the modern world. Martin Luther King so he can see the new American president, I reckon he'd be so proud after all he fought he for, to see that he didn't die in vain. I would like to invite my Mam's Uncle Michael, who I'm named after, as I've heard so much about him, he sounds like a wonderful person and I'd love to see him and my Granda together, so I'd have to invite my Granda as well. They're all men, why do I have no women? I'm running out of ideas now so I'll invite Sonja (my sister) and Johnny Depp so she can meet him. One more person? Erm. Pete I suppose, seeing as though he lives here.
The second part of today's challenge is to write about a weird or scary dream we've had. I remember years ago when we were on holiday in Germany, so that would have been, what, 1999? Anyway, I had a really vivid dream that I'd found my Mam dead in the bath, she was all cold and blue and floppy and it was so real, I woke up in a panic and I had to go and look at her in her bed and make sure she was breathing, that was pretty terrifying. Apart from that, I always dream that I'm falling and I hate it when that happens as I always wake up with a big jolt and lay there, my heart beating really fast and my breathing really show and quick, not pleasant.
I have a lot of recurring themes as well. One is that I can fly, just by jumping up and then 'swimming' through the air. Another is that I own a house or I'm staying in a house with lots and lots of rooms and lots of beds in them and I'm obsessed with having people coming over to stay and making sure they all have a bed and they're all comfortable. More often than not, there are hidden rooms in the house that I discover and it's always really exciting. The third recurring theme is that I'm pregnant, always heavily pregnant about to give birth and always disappointed that I didn't enjoy the pregnancy properly. So go on, analyse me!
Pole dancing tonight was great! I haven't been for three weeks so I was expecting to be rubbish, but not only could I still do all the moves I could do before, but I tried a lot of new moves as well, I was really pleased with myself! *boogie*
I did these:
Superman
Anchor
Cross Knee Hold is one that I've been able to do for a long time...
But tonight she made us to sit ups from this position! Bloody hard! But very pleased with myself *smug mode on*