First off, Walmart versus the World moment - the largest company in the world is deciding to build a store a half mile away from Mexico's most important Aztec site - hmm, how far away are the big stores from the Colosseum in Rome, the Pyramids and similar. Ah well, they got planning approval and all, it must be alright then LOL. 'A small altar unearthed during the construction of the Wal-Mart store will be preserved in its parking lot.' - well, that's nice LOL, having visions of the Seinfeld lost in the carpark episode here, oh, Aztec altar LOL Jerry would have gotten more than just a talking to if he had done stuff on THAT lol.
So yeah, had a sausage sizzle to start fund raising for the work Xmas party yesterday - I volunteered to set up etc, and got half an hour out of real work to do it (volunteered my lunch break, but my boss said take the half hour as 'work' time), woohoo. But I thought that guys did the cooking in sausage sizzles, bbqs etc, it's the unwritten rule? Not at this one LOL - I was left buttering bread and cutting the sausage links LOL - and it was a GIRL doing the cooking, although I have to admit, a pretty one, so it wasn't as harsh seeing the fairer sex do men's work LOL - and yes, I AM joking :)
So hello to Naomi, from the ninth floor (we HAVE a ninth floor LOL?) and Annette and a couple of others whose names escape me at the moment. Was kind of glad I wasn't cooking though, when the stove blew up and all we could cook with was one medium size electric frypan LOL. Ah, funny story for future telling, and we could at least still cook it - had it in the boardroom on the ground floor (yes, another place new to me) instead of outside - apparently we had it outside last year but the council closed it down LOL, cos is a council park on the rest of the block, hmmph, permits LOL, it's just a sausage sizzle - can't bring out the we are doing it for the kids line, which could have won them over, alcohol for an office Xmas party doesn't quite have the same ring LOL.
And by opening my mouth at the wrong time, I also became the casual day fund raising money pixie (yes, I put pixie in the email out to workmates LOL), gold coin donation, thought about shower me with gold in the email, but thought better of it, and put shower me with coins instead LOL.
Coalition of the willing eh? I know that merely encouraging the French, Germans etc isn't going to bring up a miraculous couple of divisions to cover an American downsizing in Iraq, and not meaning to diss Bulgaria, but the way to allow more American troops home is NOT to continue to niggle at Old Europe - eg, accusing the French of being corruptable by Saddam's potential oil money LOL.
Just doing my daily check of the Iraqi situation - basically the third website I check every time I come online, after BBC News and Doonesbury LOL, something about the order of spelling LOL - when is it going to become more positive? If ever - was the coverage of Vietnam this constantly depressing?
Anyways, back to my day yesterday - went out after work for a few drinks, and damn honey voiced female customers, lol and to kill time waiting for the others, and wanting work down NOW NOW NOW LOL. Tried to do a nine segment order (we usually only do five, but I was on my own time) but the timing it gave wasn't NOW NOW NOW, had to ring her back and get the work reassigned, since I was WELL over shift LOL. Moving desks as well, getting an aisle seat now, yay, my preference over window seats, yes you get the view but you don't get the random social contact that an aisle seat gives :) and although I have only moved within my quad, the problem staff member of a couple weeks ago is moving way down the other end of the floor yay.
Anyways, to the pub, Mel and I wandered over together, and Jo turned up, and then it was Lisa and Trevor. Usual usual, Mel's flatmates had taken her car halfway to Sydney and back, she was not happy, Jo is annoyed with work, Lisa is actually on work probation LOL, she chucked a hissy fit last Friday in a meeting with her boss, and the temp agency was called in and everything.
Melanie G and her mate, whose name last night I finally figured out was Nathan, had come in shortly after Mel and I had gotten there, and were playing pool, with me trying to avoid looking at Melanie when she was bending over taking shots LOL, and eventually our two groups kind of merged, and were playing pool and everything - was good to have a chat to another attractive girl :) Not sure whether it's just the vagueness of a good evening out, or whether Melanie and I were actually having a few good conversations - teaching me the J outlay of correct pool ball placement in the rack, doing the two or one shot gesture to each other NOOOOOOO not those ones LOL.
She said to me that she likes seeing me do well at work, since she trained me for a couple of days with the initial ridealongs and stuff - oh mi goodness a specific to me conversation LOL, and she was out to get drunk (liked my use of the word inebriated LOL) last night since she had broken up with her boyfriend of eighteen months on Tuesday. Ouch. And got a hug from her which stuck in my mind cos it was unexpected, think I gave her one back when she left :) She had gone off smoking for three weeks before the breakup, was back on it last night, yeppers, been there done that with stress lol when I almost became a real smoker in Earlsfield.
Sharon and Justin turned up after her shift ended at 7pm, shortly after Lisa left for the night, and as he said later, Justin made sure I didn't buy any more beers last night, because I was generous the first time we went out. Trevor was getting well pissed and a bit obnoxious with the girls, or so it was reported to me, so we kind of said our goodbyes and then caught up a bit further down the footpath - by this stage of the night it was Mel, Justin, Sharon and myself, and we wandered up to Royal George in the Valley. By the time I had started feeling hungry, the Orient had shut their kitchen down and also no luck at the RG - so Sharon and myself went to dodgy kebab place and she had chips and I had a pizza slice. Should have had more to eat, but when I should have been getting some food in LOL, was having a good conversation with Melanie, lol good new contact to put on the work instant messaging methinks :)
Caught the quarter to midnight train home, after spending about an hour chatting to Sharon and Justin about who knows what, LOL yes that good a night, and with that little food - should have eaten more throughout the day, McMuffin, real muffin, sausage sizzle and pizza slice does not suffice.
Okies, thats the what happened during my day email out of the way, off to websurf and maybe the websurfing report for the week :)
Pauly
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