A Week In Review
I don't think I'm ever going to be truly happy on anything but Eastern Standard Time. Sad, but true. I can about pretend I can go to bed at a reasonable hour in my own time zone, but for the most part ... my body clock is set to the place I was born and I'll just have to learn to live with it.
There hasn't been a terrible lot to say this week, mostly on the grounds of it being one of the weirdest work weeks ever. There was almost nothing to do, and I never had a damn office (and when I did, I seldom had a transcription machine so I couldn't type anyway), so I wound up going home early a lot and really ... blech. Still, the next couple of weeks are guaranteed stuff-filled because one of the girls is away for two weeks and I'm doing all her admin work as well as the bog-standard typing. I could actually have squeezed an hour or so more out of Thursday, probably, but I'd already filled out my timesheet and Tipp-Exing it into oblivion didn't sound like a great idea, on the whole. So the admin duties fortnight will have to make up for it. Four and five days of actual work (though how I'm going to manage without access to various office computer systems I have no damn idea, but I'll work something out - maybe Tina will leave me her login codes) and there'll be more cash and all will be good. Yay!
This is predominantly of the win because we seriously need a new DVD player. My five-year-old one with the awesome 5.1 sound system has started making some downright evil noises and I'm thinking that maybe we shouldn't be using it for awile. I know these things are relatively inexpensive nowadays but all the same, there's whether we ought to be future-proofing or the possibility of something region-free (so I can watch my Haibane Renmei burns) and anyway, cash is still a little tight at home for buying electronic equipment. Plus dodgyhoodoo's birthday does come first. But I'll be pricing things over the next couple of weeks because seriously - *clunk* is not a noise a DVD player should make. Ever.
We had snow today! Okay, it was only a couple of flurries and none of it stuck but I got to see snowfall, so will have to content myself with that for another year. Seems odd to be having snow on Easter, but there you go. Never look a gift-flurry in the mouth.
I'm home on my own tonight, and not sure what to do with myself. I suppose first thing is to pick up some dinner fixings, take the boneless pork shoulder out of the freezer for tomorrow's Easter dinner and stick on some laundry. After that ... I dunno. Probably Sims 2, as that is always fun. I'm really amused at the upcoming Sims 3, though (though I sense that there will be need for some kind of computer upgrade before I use that one, somehow - still, it's next year). The Sims look yet more human, there's a variety of body shapes (rather than just Fit, Fat and Normal - they've been paying attention to the fan content again) and customisation is easier. Of course, after blowing ... *counts* about £200, give or take the bits I got as gifts, on Sims 2 EPs and Stuff Packs, I don't believe I'm going to have to upgrade again. However, I suppose as it is a year away, Sims 3, this won't stop me from buying Kitchen and Bathroom stuff when it comes out.
Right. First thing's first - dinner-food shopping. Ooh, look, it's snowing again!
There hasn't been a terrible lot to say this week, mostly on the grounds of it being one of the weirdest work weeks ever. There was almost nothing to do, and I never had a damn office (and when I did, I seldom had a transcription machine so I couldn't type anyway), so I wound up going home early a lot and really ... blech. Still, the next couple of weeks are guaranteed stuff-filled because one of the girls is away for two weeks and I'm doing all her admin work as well as the bog-standard typing. I could actually have squeezed an hour or so more out of Thursday, probably, but I'd already filled out my timesheet and Tipp-Exing it into oblivion didn't sound like a great idea, on the whole. So the admin duties fortnight will have to make up for it. Four and five days of actual work (though how I'm going to manage without access to various office computer systems I have no damn idea, but I'll work something out - maybe Tina will leave me her login codes) and there'll be more cash and all will be good. Yay!
This is predominantly of the win because we seriously need a new DVD player. My five-year-old one with the awesome 5.1 sound system has started making some downright evil noises and I'm thinking that maybe we shouldn't be using it for awile. I know these things are relatively inexpensive nowadays but all the same, there's whether we ought to be future-proofing or the possibility of something region-free (so I can watch my Haibane Renmei burns) and anyway, cash is still a little tight at home for buying electronic equipment. Plus dodgyhoodoo's birthday does come first. But I'll be pricing things over the next couple of weeks because seriously - *clunk* is not a noise a DVD player should make. Ever.
We had snow today! Okay, it was only a couple of flurries and none of it stuck but I got to see snowfall, so will have to content myself with that for another year. Seems odd to be having snow on Easter, but there you go. Never look a gift-flurry in the mouth.
I'm home on my own tonight, and not sure what to do with myself. I suppose first thing is to pick up some dinner fixings, take the boneless pork shoulder out of the freezer for tomorrow's Easter dinner and stick on some laundry. After that ... I dunno. Probably Sims 2, as that is always fun. I'm really amused at the upcoming Sims 3, though (though I sense that there will be need for some kind of computer upgrade before I use that one, somehow - still, it's next year). The Sims look yet more human, there's a variety of body shapes (rather than just Fit, Fat and Normal - they've been paying attention to the fan content again) and customisation is easier. Of course, after blowing ... *counts* about £200, give or take the bits I got as gifts, on Sims 2 EPs and Stuff Packs, I don't believe I'm going to have to upgrade again. However, I suppose as it is a year away, Sims 3, this won't stop me from buying Kitchen and Bathroom stuff when it comes out.
Right. First thing's first - dinner-food shopping. Ooh, look, it's snowing again!