Lift Me On Top Of The World
May 27, 2009
If I was a super star I’d appear in the middle of the stage on platform lifts. I’d rise up out of the ground in a super cool fashion and all my fans would scream, then suddenly I’d fly in the air (no one noticing the wires attached to my back) and I’d fly gracefully across the arena…
She then awakes from the dream, was that a concert or the circus?! The country’s going through a recession/depression whatever you want to call it. Apparently we are all 35 percent more likely to become depressed than we were a year ago. I wouldn’t say I was depressed, but I can certainly feel something bringing me down.
I’ve always been really motivated and driven at work but at the moment it seems like I’m trying to swim upstream. I’m putting in more and more hours, trying harder and harder and still ending up two paces further back than I started.
I’m sure I’m not the only one feeling the squeeze. My finances aren’t any worse than they’ve been before; in fact they’re probably better. I’m not as cavalier as I was in my youth. But still you can feel it all the time.
I think that the media industry is making it much worse. I don’t think it would be too much to ask for them to lift the mood a little. They could all have a happiness full on assault for a couple of weeks to see if it had a positive impact. Obviously it would! It was Boris Johnson who sought out the pursuit of happiness. I think that we should be looking to this more and more as we’re here for a good time, not a long time. We should all remember that and do something every day to make us happy.
Window Stickers Say It All
May 27, 2009
Fair enough I’m not a mother yet and maybe one day I will turn into one of those women who insistently talk about their child but for now I certainly am not. Driving along the road, one of my biggest bug bears was those people with window stickers in their cars. You know the ones, ‘little devil on board’ or ‘little miss present’. Is there any need? Do these window stickers have any impact on how people drive along a road?
Then there are those girls with ‘princess on board’ or ‘hot stuff on board’. Get a grip on yourself, no need what so ever!
One of my friends has recently had a baby and only now have I realised the utter despise caused when you park in the mother and child spots at the supermarket when you don’t have a child. I thought my friend was going to spit on someone when they did it and she had to struggle in the normal parking.
Maybe they should have window stickers saying ‘knobber on board’, ‘watch out selfish monkey navigating’?! I for one will never have window stickers don my car windows. I will let people make their own mind up about me and my driving skills on the road…?!
Being Green, Politics and Economics
May 22, 2009
It seems like a lot of people are at least trying to go green these days. Whole companies make their living through pushing the green scene, selling services such as energy performance certificates, auditing homes and reducing people’s carbon foot print.
I try not to think about it too much; I recycle glass and cans, plus I always give my old clothes to charity. I do think that our generation need to sort out poverty as well as the whole green issue. The country seems to be in such a mess at the moment though. Recently it seems like a case of, where do we start?!
I’m 26 years old and I can state for my generation that we are completely detached from our countries economic and political agenda. We have not got the UK into the situation it is in now and yet don’t seem to have much of a say about sorting it out. I personally think that in a couple of decades we’ll be left to pick up the pieces of a broken Britain.
I think that there should be a complete cull of politicians; the expense row gives the perfect excuse. The majority of them have taken the complete piss and should go. The government needs a wider variation of people in terms of age and wealth, not just race. It may then be possible to say that the government is making decisions for the whole of the UK, rather than just a small percentage of the public who like in a) London and b) are old.
Security System Situations
May 22, 2009
Oh my god, this morning I had a mare getting into work. The access control security systems seemed to completely give up. I stood in the pouring rain, desperately swiping and swiping my ID card to no avail.
My day has pretty much gone from bad to worse after that. Now however, it’s Friday afternoon and all is not that bad in the world. There’s just over two hours left of work and a 3 day weekend ahead of us. No clients, work or access control security systems to contend with. Though, my door key has gotten very stiff in its old age, so I’ll probably have to wrestle that to get into the house.
Never mind that though, the weather outlook is good and for three days the world is my oyster. I’m going to do some shopping, drinking and sleeping, and then try to stay out of trouble.
Then when Tuesday morning hits us like a tonne of bricks, it’s going to be business as usual. Slipping back into the lifeless lull of the rate face shouldn’t be too much trouble. I think it’s fair to say that the rate race is getting me down. Down, down to China Town!
Lists and Commercials
May 19, 2009
Gaah, how does my number get on business telemarketing lists?! I can’t sit in the sanctuary of my own home without some random company calling up to see if I want to buy something. Obviously I don’t want to buy anything as I’m sat in the comfort of my own home, watching television and making the most of the little time I get on my own. I do not want my program to be interrupted by a complete stranger blagging my head!!!
The amount of adverts is getting worse too, I remember when watching a film didn’t take up five hours. Now there are so many adverts breaks; advert, after advert, them telling us that we want things that we don’t need. It’s ridiculous!
Ha, I have found a way round all this advert business. It costs me more but I now subscribe to Sky Plus, record everything and fast forward through the commercials. I no longer loose cumulatively, days of my life to media companies and adverts.
I need to get myself on an exempt business telemarketing list to get them to sod off. I will find away to get round this business! Let’s face it; it’s just another invasion of our privacy which we need to deal with.
Towel Warmers and Other Exciting House Wife Things?!
May 19, 2009
We have just moved into our new house which is bigger and better than our old house, I am most impressed (as daft as it seems) with the towel warmers in both the family and guest bathrooms. It seems like such an obvious invention, but it warms the whole of the bathroom brilliantly, as the towel warmers surface area is far greater than the cast iron radiators of the past. Plus you can neatly fold a number of towels that will be toasty and warm for the whole family for after their showers and baths.
The garden is massive and our Siberian Husky loves it. I don’t think he likes it because it’s aesthetically pleasing like the rest of the family, but that he can dig it up and completely ruin it for me! Luckily, we are yet to buy our new carpets, so that fact that he keeps treading mud all over the place, though is annoying is not the end of the world.
Since when did I turn into such a house wife?! It wasn’t that long ago that I had so many things going on in my life that a towel warmer would have been the last thing in the world to get me excited!
Oh well, to middle age and onwards.
The State Of Things In The Office
May 18, 2009
I know that we are in the middle of a recession and everyone’s purse strings are tighter but I am sure that we are running out of office furniture. We have had so many new people start that there is a massive shortage of office chairs and I am sure that people are sneakily steeling them at night so that they don’t end up with the nasty, tatty ones.
I know it sounds odd that we are increasing the number of staff on chairs, when everyone else seems to be making redundancies. It’s baffling me too and I still think that we are understaffed; I know that I am being worked like a small mule!
It seems that everyone is between a rock and a hard place at the moment, under so much pressure and so stressed. You only have to turn on the news to see how black things are at the moment. Please don’t get me started on the politician’s fiasco!!! They sit there on their chair of authority, making decisions for us hard working, taxpaying, no expense receiving idiots.
I for one am sick of the state of things at the moment. I want to move somewhere hot and live off the land, or at least by simple means. The rat race is just too much to handle at the moment.
Katie and Peter To Divorce?
May 15, 2009
In the news this week Katie Price and Peter Andre have announced they intend to divorce. Both parties blame the separation on each other, with Katie in the Daily Mail insisting that Peter had made the decision to split.
Peter has been in the news saying that he could no longer cope with his ‘out of control’ wife. Reports say that Peter can no longer cope with Katie when she’s drunk as he can’t trust her. Peter told the Sun ‘I’m not jealous of anybody until Katie’s drunk. But if she’s been drinking, I know she’s capable of anything. The devil gets inside her and she’s a nightmare’.
Katie has fled the country with her two sons, getting away to an undisclosed location.
Katie said:
‘Pete is the love of my life and my life. We have children together and I am devastated and disappointed by his decision to separate and divorce me, as I married him for life,’ she said, before adding: I will always love my Pete’.
One wonders how messy the divorce will be, with a two children caught up in the mess and a small fortune up for dispute.
Document Scanning and ID Cards
May 7, 2009
In the news again this week, the Labour party pushing UK ID cards onto us. Apparently people can take ID cards out from pharmacies and shops if they wish. I think that it seems ridiculous!!! Why would I want to go get an ID card if there is no reason to do so?
It’s not like the government can ensure the security of the information they already have on me, why would I freely give them more. It won’t be long now until document scanning facilities allow people to make carbon copies of all our ID documents. Either that or a friendly, yet incompetent government official will leave it on a train, tube or bus for any travelling criminal to find.
Not only have the majority of the British public dismissed the ID card idea, only the Labour Party are pushing it through and even then, they don’t have support from the whole of their party! I have enough documents to carry without adding to them!
The government should wait until there is such a technological advance to require a new country wide ID scheme. Retina or finger print scanning perhaps with a UK wide central database to cut out the document scanning and card carrying that goes on every day.