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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
5:23 pm	Nudged! Yeah, I'm still here, I just dont post much :-) Bought a playstation 3, and a big TV. Um... I have a remote control helicopter... and an iphone. I've been to South Africa, climbed a mountain, seen lions and zebras and stuff. Oh and a snake, which could well have killed me, as we climbed the mountain. Coolness :-) See you all soon, take care. -S- Current Mood: happy (Comment on this)
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
5:37 pm	Grr: Reviews I'm pretty pissed off tbh, it's lack of drive this time. You see I wouldn't mind if they were consistent, if with each review they had the same thing to say I could do something about it, but it's managing change, then dealing with resistance, now it's a lack of drive. Every review it's another complaint, a different complaint. :sigh: :-( Been long since life has held enough suck for me to write here. Hi folks. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, September 20th, 2008
10:32 pm	I think it's almost a full year, if not more... ...since I last posted. Yus, I am still here, a fully quallified Duty Manager, a Master of Arts, and pretty darn happy tbh. Was in Hemsworth last week, it was their grand opening, and their customer service team had only 2 weeks experience and Mags, the manager, had never run a customer service desk before so I was training. A great new store and an enthusiastic team was great to work with, and I met my first ever cute Store Manager, guess theres hope for me making Store Manager yet eh? ;-) Well that could be it for another year, hope your all happy and heathy. Be good. Current Mood: happy (Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
12:39 am	Drama on a checkout... This post has absolutly nothing to do with a checkout. Should be finding out soon if I made it onto the management course. Really hope I do, will set me for life if I choose to stay, and looks good on my CV if I choose to leave, win win. Still nothing concrete from Elaine. *sigh* I don't understand, and that always bugs me more than anything. If she ever does get her I must remember to never give her anything urgent to do... Last couple of days have been a hoot. Saturday went out with the gang from work, had a totally stella night in Rileys, a lot of drink, alot of snooker, a bit of pool. Kat kept her hands to herself, which is frankly remarkable. Played choons long into the night and got locked in with Sizzy and Dean who where on that night, a good thing really as they are getting to be the only origional staff who are still there, just Jess and Kelly, and tbh Sizzy is new... And works in heels... bizzare... Sunday my parents came up, and we watched The Prestige, an ok film about some magicians. Seemed a little limited, so many good ideas put to so little use. Then went around to Craig and Amy's for their birthday party; thier birthdays are day after one another so they have a joint party. House full of people, a well good night, I still have the bite marks to proove it ;-) Anyhoo, I'm turning in. Be good folks. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 14th, 2007
3:42 am	I can be so fucking stupid... Often I depair at the stupidity of others. Very rarely I despair at my own. Why turn down a good thing because of paranoia, because of principle? Lack of patience? Laziness? Fear? I don't know myself sometimes, which is kinda good, but doesn't stop me from wanting to slap myself around the head with heavy things. This is one of those post's that I either look back and laugh at, or look back and cry at. Because for beter, or more likly worse, its done. Sorry. (Comment on this)
Saturday, May 26th, 2007
4:05 am	Hey folks. Can't sleep post. Its not very often I can't sleep, it's more a not wanting to sleep despite the tiredness gnawing at the back of my eyeballs. Friday was an interesting day, chased and caught shoplifters across Scarborough, radios, police the whole shizzle. Took four police to get one of them, bound hand and foot, into the van. Me and Rob the security guy on duty that night cornered them at the top of a hill leading out of the vally, my manager who was following at a safe distance flagged down a passing police car before the unit assigned to us could arrive. Good thing too tbh. Ended up with two cars and a van, 6 constables, me and Rob. I learnt running up hill hurts like a motherfucker. We caught three of the four, one got away, which pissed Rob off a tad, got CCTV of all four tho. Last post? Oh not alot. Got told I was scary, I agreed. Maybe more on that later :-) The sun's coming up, I'm at work tomorrow and up at 9. I figure I'm already screwed for that plan. Supposed to be going out tomorrow night also, Kat is no longer sick, and has been on nights all week so she insists she will manage to see the night out, I'm frankly sceptical, no stamina on some people ;-) I'm kinda leaving myself open for a revenge attack, but you can't win them all. What else? Hmm... Second stage interview for the graduate training scheme on the 4th, I'd like to get through, I really would, the training pay is good, and the guarenteed position at the end of it would set me up for life, with prospects for a 50k a year job. End of the day tho, if it pays my bills, leaves time and money for me to enjoy myself, I don't really need anything more. Thought about it alot, decided I'd like a job without homework. Leave work at work. After 15 years of it, I've decided I don't want any more :-) This could be a really interesting summer, I can honestly say I am looking forward to it, Elaine wants to come stay, Izaak is coming over for some time in August, Paul wants to come up also when Elaine and Izaak are over, Russ Phil could simply hijack on the way. We could possibly have like 10 of us all in the same pub getting pissed at the same time, which is one of the funniest thoughts of the year. Probably won't happen due to people's time constraints, but small groups is a certainty. Ky has practcally ordered my brother to kidnap me if I refuse to come down, although I'm not so fond of Daz so... We'll see. I really have to go to bed. Four and a half hours sleep is probably sensible minimum of sleep. Don't really want to go tho. Sleep wastes so much time that I'll never get back. Ah well, mammoth update there. *stalls some more* Bah, ok, bed. Be good. You've been told ;-) (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
3:18 am	Elaine OK so I'm venting what will be considered bullshyt, fine by me. This will probably make little empathetic sense to anyone, or maybe you are someone I didnt expect to be reading this, or simply know more than I expect, anyhoo... I'm pretty annoyed with myself, I scared the shyt out of Elaine tonight. We've known each other about two weeks and have been getting on really well, usually stay up late chatting. Tonight is the first night we haven't. We where talking about personal talents, I have none. Or at least sometimes that would be nice, for a short time. She pushed until I told her I was pretty intuetive about people... Cutting a long story short, I did something I've made myself promise over and over not to do: I basically gave her an overview of her life up till now, told her things I could not possibly have known about her: relationships with parents, how many jobs she'd had, school grades, all kinds of things which we had never spoken about. After a few minutes silence she didnt disagree with anything I'd said. Told me where I was right, clarified which parent she didn't get on with... She tried to laugh it off, but she was soon "tired". Just because I know doesn't mean I don't like to hear people tell me :( I make people feel vulnerable, and hence scared. Shit. Same old lesson taught the same harsh way. Maybe one day I'll learn it. I hate the hiding, the bullshit that is a nessisary part of benign coexistence, doesn't change their nessecity however *shrug* What will be, will be. A cliche, but eloquent none-the-less. Better to be and hide, than to never have known at all. I'll see tomorrow, although I already know things won't be the same. Once someone is aware they are transparent it doesnt go away, each word is second-guessed, every phrase considered for what other meaning it could give or give away. Its like a nagging pain however, once you are aware of it, it only hurts more. Shyt. Vented. And sounding weird even to me. Still doesn't change the facts, I was right on every count, and now someone who I didn't want jumpy around me will probably spend the next few days carefully scripting every word to carefully avoid giving away the exact thing that they are highlighting by doing so. Crap. Good points: she's going away on thursday, enough distraction then and no further slips on my behalf may allow self-defence/desire forgetfulness. Good night. Current Mood: annoyed (Comment on this)
Saturday, February 17th, 2007
10:57 pm	Bad news comes in threes? Pfft. Bad night. Good day at work, as far as that goes o'course. But I now feel shyt. No work tomorrow but its Jenny's leaving doo at 18:30. Now. Films in the hope of new cheer. Oh, and a piece of cake. Mmmm, cake. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, February 4th, 2007
4:58 pm	Scared of work? Well yeah, I'm terrified. Not like that tho. I've just been reading through the work I have done. And if I am honest with myself I can see reading through it it isnt what I could do at my best, and it scares me and annoys me that a) I havent done my best and b) the ammount of work it would take to correct that. I could correct it, go back, condense and improve there is alot there to work with, structure is where I fall down mainly, some tautology needs removing and a hellovalotta smartening up. I could keep striving untill it is perfect but where do I draw the line? If I draw it here will I fail because of it? I'm scared and out of time. I'd love to talk to Ann about all this but I get the distinct feeling she really doeant want to know. I dont even know when my work has to be in as that is finaly her decsision. So much uncertainty, thats something else which needs removing from my work. I'm going to take a break now, been at it 4 hours since my last break, hopefully I will return to it all optomistic and such, as that will help. Been invited out for a drink tonight, I dont have time to go, and if I do, for reading this, perhaps I need some time out, I'll probably be kinda miserable. So I'm in a bit of a state. I'll weather it stoically, I always do. Later folks. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
4:10 pm	Hey folks... Been a while since I checked in here, been busy with life, work and such. Also the kinda spammy comercialism thats slowly infecting LJ narcs me a little. This post is a test of my connection, which is being a little dodgy today, and a quick evasion of work, although I found a really nice essay to help me out with mine, it seems so much better than mine, makes me feel a little down, but its nice to have such excellent source materiel. OK, quick recent life flash: Last week Paul came up and we spent ages watching series, I bought Firefly so we watched that one night, and some Hex the next, also went down to Rileys and played some pool. Went out on Saturday after work, spent a few hours in Rosebury's, not my favorite place, but the company was good, and I didnt have to buy any drinks all night, which was better :-) After we went down to Casino, which made my night a little more expencive >.< We all staggered out as the place shut at 4am, heh was a good night, tho it would have been nice if the world wasnt so spinny... ;-) Been playing Baldurs Gate multiplayer, thats been slow, but fun, as you can go at whatever pace you want really, so anytime we want some action we can go do some more story. I want to have may masters finised by tomorrow night, at least in draft format, that gives me a month to brush and tidy, and hopefully see Ann. Looking hopeful too, 3rd chapter needs a preliminary brush and tidy before I will be happy with it, then just an overall conclusion to write and away it goes. Which is an encouraging thought. Hope everyones good. -Sy- (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, October 1st, 2006
2:43 am	So much to say... ...so little motivation to say it. So I'm in after a night out, and pretty annoyed really. I get out after work, go to meet Craig, Amy and Sarah, the a couple of hours and a couple of drinks later they want to go home. So that was it, the night was just starting and off they pop. So, good night? Not really, what there was of it was ok. Jess has done her hair nice. Craig and Amy really need some time apart to stop bickering. And I need to go to bed, prolly D&D tomorrow, but I have no idea of the details. I have two bars of chocolate and no good reason to eat them, so some D&D would be good. I prefare the mince which I have to cook tomorrow, not sure what I am gonna do with it yet, I have tomatoes and peppers so prolly gonna pan fry it with them and see what I get. Throw in some mushrooms add some pasta and some sort of spaggy bolly production should occur. Work was ok this week, Julie is on holiday and we all wish she could have more of them. The harem is wierd atm, too many sixteen year olds. They are just young and freeky, I cant help but think "just f**king grow up" every time I look at them, so not really enjoying that. Jane is still pissed at me after I had to tell her what to to do whilst running, but thats my job so I can't really do much about that. Katie also did her hair nice, perhaps I should go get mine done, everyone else seems to be. Paul is procrastinating about coming up again, used to bother me, but doesnt really any more. When I counted on him as reliable, it did, but since he has proved that certain items of chocolate furnature are more reliable, its stopped bothering me, its just the change that causes me problems. Never do too well with change. Shame really, I am really quite adventurous at heart. Well enough for now, I should to bed. Shame about this evening, shame about alot of things. hence the lack of updates, far, far too depressing :-) Good night folks. Current Mood: contemplative (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, August 25th, 2006
9:52 pm	:( One of my friends just earned themselves a frist strike. That hasn't happend in a while :/ And hello neglected Journal people :-) All is as it should be. -Sy- (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, June 23rd, 2006
11:06 pm	Evening all... I want to waffle semi-drunkenly at length about things. You know those fufilling conversations that really mean nothing but have you enjoying your night out. I havent done that for a while, and I miss it. Happy summertime everyone :-) (in the northern hemisphere) -Sy- (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
10:38 pm	Flibble. Some people have expressed concern at my abscence from WoW. Well I am playing a bit more casually now, gives me more time for uni work, which I am enjoying if once again running out of time. The next few days will include: -Trollies, all day. -Checkouts (FFS) -Pool! Hurrah! -Burgers. Mmmm. -The Alchemist essaying! :-D -An Email to Ann. -Getting an extension form. -Getting my wig slashed. *cheer!* Laters. (Comment on this)
Friday, June 2nd, 2006
12:04 am	Another day... I dont seem to have done much but beat myself up today. I've had a poor day, all work days are poor days now, or worse, shame. So I'm low, first time in a few weeks at least, ouside of work hours. Lack of focus I suppose and the aformentioned beating myself up, not physically obviously, that would be pretty silly. Dont have alot of news. Coffee is nice. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, May 6th, 2006
3:21 pm	Disaster. I was just starting to get back into a routine that was productive, today I kinda ruined it, slept in rediculously late, in fact woken by my parents coming to visit, which wasted a notehr coupld of hours and I'm feeling all depressed and grumpy about it which simply wont help at all. I'm writing here because I am annoyed. Grr. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, April 14th, 2006
7:10 pm	I could... ...certainly get used to all this lovely weather, makes everything seem brighter. Hope you're having a good day :-) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, April 10th, 2006
1:50 pm	Simple pleasures. I love Scarborough. The seafront is bathed in sunlight, all the shops and houses are lit up with it, the sea looks calm and blue, and the fields of daffodils are coming into flower in the vally. There's still a cold snap to the breeze, an almost forgotten hint of winter, but the flags wipping above the castle say that they, at their hight, still recall. Got some jobs done today, some bills paid, books taken back. I still feel bad that I am not doing all I can to succeed, and stay here, long may this feeling continue and grow, for it spurrs me out of my lethargy. My kettle is broken. :( (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
1:30 am	Well... I feel a little better, a nice big cup of tea later I didnt feel so bad, but I have a pile of tissues a mile high, a sore throat and now a sore nose :( Ah well, I will leave the injustices of the world behind for another night, and pop off to bed. On the good news side, my door bell is fixed! :-D Good night all. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
10:51 am	I feel terrible :( Started saturday night, and has been getting wose since. Talk about aches and pains it feels like I ahve been attacked by a guy with a lump hammer, and head feels like a lead brick. I just thought I'd share some of my misery. Later people. (Comment on this)