Its that time of year again to renew my train ticket...
My ticket expires on Monday but I thought that I may as well go this morning (when the station is at its quietest) so that I dont have to queue with the hoi polloi on Tuesday morning. You just know that there will be a long queue what with it being the beginning of the month and all.
There was one person in front of me (so that was ok) when he finished I handed over my current ticket, the cheque (issued by work - I have to pay the money back with an interest free season ticket loan), the lady behind the counter told me that I would need a new photo card, my first thought was wtf? Have I changed that much in 11 years? She then asked if I was ok to use the same photo because the new photo card has to now have a bar code on it. I said that I was ok to use the same photo (I dont exactly want to go through the drama of getting a new photo done) LOL I would have had to make sure that I looked miserable enough to look like I was going to work ;o).
Apparently the system nxea will be using will all be barcoded including the compensation delay vouchers.
LOL James asked me if the person in front of me was being a pain in the ass? I said not but I was sure that the people in the queue formed behind me thought that I was ;o)
Sunday, 30 January 2011
Friday, 28 January 2011
the lights stayed on
I went to the toilet yesterday for what can only be described as a "longer visit" and the lights stayed on ;o) I dont remember hearing anyone else come in so hopefully my request to the maintenance guys was carried out ;o).
I went to the toilet yesterday afternoon and the light came on as I opened the door, then I went into one of the toilets and noticed that the middle one was occupied and you could tell that she was having a "longer visit" too and by the stench it was a "much longer visit"!
We flushed the toilets at more or less the same time and I could only have walked out of my toilet three seconds before she did but she was out of there faster than you could say "I need some toilet paper", she didnt even wash her hands!
I wanted to ask her if the lights stayed on for longer before they went off again.
I can only deduce that it was the Italian girl that I see around sometimes as she is the only European that I see around, us English girls would have washed our hands after.
I went to the toilet yesterday afternoon and the light came on as I opened the door, then I went into one of the toilets and noticed that the middle one was occupied and you could tell that she was having a "longer visit" too and by the stench it was a "much longer visit"!
We flushed the toilets at more or less the same time and I could only have walked out of my toilet three seconds before she did but she was out of there faster than you could say "I need some toilet paper", she didnt even wash her hands!
I wanted to ask her if the lights stayed on for longer before they went off again.
I can only deduce that it was the Italian girl that I see around sometimes as she is the only European that I see around, us English girls would have washed our hands after.
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
I have a horrible accent
Ok I can hear my Mum saying "how come the sudden realisation, I have been telling you this for years..." ;o)
We have a broker in our office yesterday today and tomorrow (she is from Brazil) and is in London for a month learning how the London market works - why they have to send her here in January when its cold I dont know!
I was chatting to her yesterday and she mentioned that she department she works in covers fine arts - so I asked if she had been to any art galleries (on a fact finding mission type thing), she said no she hadnt yet...
...so I said that she should go to the Tate to which she said (mimicking the way I pronounced it really well) where is the T-a-a-a-a-yyyyyyyyt I shuddered a little inside as to just how horrible I sound ;o).
LOL I now have a complex about the way that I am speaking ;o)
We have a broker in our office yesterday today and tomorrow (she is from Brazil) and is in London for a month learning how the London market works - why they have to send her here in January when its cold I dont know!
I was chatting to her yesterday and she mentioned that she department she works in covers fine arts - so I asked if she had been to any art galleries (on a fact finding mission type thing), she said no she hadnt yet...
...so I said that she should go to the Tate to which she said (mimicking the way I pronounced it really well) where is the T-a-a-a-a-yyyyyyyyt I shuddered a little inside as to just how horrible I sound ;o).
LOL I now have a complex about the way that I am speaking ;o)
Monday, 24 January 2011
a frozen chip on her shoulder
I was watching Dancing on Ice last night on television.
From this series the judging panel has gone down from five to three...
...one of the ex judges Karen Barber (who was always one of the coaches), has gone from being a judge to being the head coach. A sideways move but she is still in on the game so to speak.
And she sits at the side with the celebrity contestants and when the judges have criticed they then ask her what she thinks...
...you can tell by her answers that she isnt happy no longer being a judge..
...she will just have to suck it up!
I was watching the skate off last night and I thought that Dominic Cork had a bit of a stumble but yet the judges voted off Steven Arnold LOL I guess it was where he missed a choreography session because he slept through his alarm!
Timekeeping is obviously more important to the judges than the skating ability!
From this series the judging panel has gone down from five to three...
...one of the ex judges Karen Barber (who was always one of the coaches), has gone from being a judge to being the head coach. A sideways move but she is still in on the game so to speak.
And she sits at the side with the celebrity contestants and when the judges have criticed they then ask her what she thinks...
...you can tell by her answers that she isnt happy no longer being a judge..
...she will just have to suck it up!
I was watching the skate off last night and I thought that Dominic Cork had a bit of a stumble but yet the judges voted off Steven Arnold LOL I guess it was where he missed a choreography session because he slept through his alarm!
Timekeeping is obviously more important to the judges than the skating ability!
Sunday, 23 January 2011
QI has just ruined "who built the ark"
James is watching QI and Stephen Fry just asked how many sheep were on the ark? I shouted out two (as in from the song "who built the ark?")...
...apparently the clean animals were on there in sevens! Sevens and not twos!
So ok...
...what other things have been lied to me through lyrics?
Did Ma Baker even have four sons? Was she really not able to cry and did she really teach her sons how to die?
And what about Billy? I have shed so many tears for him!
When I first heard the song as a four year old (my Mum will remember me crying when I first heard his fiancée throwing the letter away over hearing of his death), in actual fact I have a lump in my throat now!
...apparently the clean animals were on there in sevens! Sevens and not twos!
So ok...
...what other things have been lied to me through lyrics?
Did Ma Baker even have four sons? Was she really not able to cry and did she really teach her sons how to die?
And what about Billy? I have shed so many tears for him!
When I first heard the song as a four year old (my Mum will remember me crying when I first heard his fiancée throwing the letter away over hearing of his death), in actual fact I have a lump in my throat now!
different scales
This morning I decided to weigh myself to see how my diet is going...
I walked into Boots to use their sales and shock horror it had a hand written sign on it saying "out of order" I pulled up the sign and saw that the scales were switched on, so I guess they must have run out of paper for the receipt that says how much you weigh and stuff.
I didnt want to risk being given the wrong weight so I used another set of scales that was near by...
...so I walked to the other scales (got James to hold my coat as it doesnt have a coat hook on it), stepped on the scales put my 50 pence in stood dead still so it can weigh and measure my height (LOL I seem to differ from 5 foot 3.7 to five foot 4.1 ;o)). looked at the scale and for a moment I thought that I had put on two pounds (for that split second I felt completely and utterly gutted) then I realised that I had actually lost two pounds and went back to feeling happy...
...yes by using my full ass I managed to lose two pounds (just over two pounds as it was a kilogram) - and I have still had chocolate every day - so when James gingerly (and at great cost to his wellbeing I may add) pointed out that I should try cutting out the chocolate, I say "see I can do it" ;o).
Yesterday while I was in M&S I saw these gorgeous looking desserts ;o)
The only pitfalls I have this week is a colleagues birthday which means booze and sandwiches (LOL it would be rude not to go and participate ;o)). But to counteract it I have bought a low calories snackpot to have for my dinner that night ;o)
I walked into Boots to use their sales and shock horror it had a hand written sign on it saying "out of order" I pulled up the sign and saw that the scales were switched on, so I guess they must have run out of paper for the receipt that says how much you weigh and stuff.
I didnt want to risk being given the wrong weight so I used another set of scales that was near by...
...so I walked to the other scales (got James to hold my coat as it doesnt have a coat hook on it), stepped on the scales put my 50 pence in stood dead still so it can weigh and measure my height (LOL I seem to differ from 5 foot 3.7 to five foot 4.1 ;o)). looked at the scale and for a moment I thought that I had put on two pounds (for that split second I felt completely and utterly gutted) then I realised that I had actually lost two pounds and went back to feeling happy...
...yes by using my full ass I managed to lose two pounds (just over two pounds as it was a kilogram) - and I have still had chocolate every day - so when James gingerly (and at great cost to his wellbeing I may add) pointed out that I should try cutting out the chocolate, I say "see I can do it" ;o).
Yesterday while I was in M&S I saw these gorgeous looking desserts ;o)
The only pitfalls I have this week is a colleagues birthday which means booze and sandwiches (LOL it would be rude not to go and participate ;o)). But to counteract it I have bought a low calories snackpot to have for my dinner that night ;o)
Friday, 21 January 2011
the early bird catches the maintenance man
As you know from previous posts, I work on the third floor...
In our toilets we have intelligent lighting, and there is a motion senser in the floor by the door. There are ladies toliets on the second and fourth floors.
On my way in in the morning I use the toilets on the second floor - the senser in there must be set for a fairly long time as the lights have never gone off while Im attending to my "business".
During the day I use the toilets on the fourth floor (for some reason I prefer walking upto the toilets rather than down), and if you are in there for a while then the lights will go off, I am not the only person that this has happened to as I have walked in there on countless occasions to see someone brushing there hair in the dark!
This morning I was walking up the stairs and saw two maintenance guys and explained to them about the intelligent lighting in the ladies, and trying to explain to them the problems without being VERY explicit.
They said that they would have a look at them for me - so fingers crossed ;o)
In our toilets we have intelligent lighting, and there is a motion senser in the floor by the door. There are ladies toliets on the second and fourth floors.
On my way in in the morning I use the toilets on the second floor - the senser in there must be set for a fairly long time as the lights have never gone off while Im attending to my "business".
During the day I use the toilets on the fourth floor (for some reason I prefer walking upto the toilets rather than down), and if you are in there for a while then the lights will go off, I am not the only person that this has happened to as I have walked in there on countless occasions to see someone brushing there hair in the dark!
This morning I was walking up the stairs and saw two maintenance guys and explained to them about the intelligent lighting in the ladies, and trying to explain to them the problems without being VERY explicit.
They said that they would have a look at them for me - so fingers crossed ;o)
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