Twitching is not a good look for me

It feels like this has been the busiest week ever. I even have a tired/nervous twitch to show for it. Under my left eye I can feel my eyelid moving. It's been doing it for the last couple of days and I can only hope that with some extra sleep this weekend, it might go away. Anyways, it all started with a friend's birthday bash in SF. Chris and I had such and good time, but I think Chris had a better time with some of the guys. Tim (my friend's Annette's fiance) and Chris were all over each other the entire night. But Annette and I can forgive them since they took the cutest picture ever! Saturday I had the a friend from Utah visiting so we had a bunch of our friends over to visit with her, her husband, and her daughter. It was great having everyone over, but I was so exhausted from a wonderful night out in SF, that I don't think I enjoyed our evening catching up much as I wanted to. Nevertheless, it was great to see her and her little family. I have to say that it did give me baby urges, but they went away as soon as the little one started to cry. She's so cute, but way tired after being in the car for so long. She's a trooper! I worked on all day Sunday and Monday. Tuesday I had uni. It seemed to be the week to be sick because I had two classes cancelled as the professors had the flu. The one person that wasn't sick was my Tax professor who decided it was a great idea to have a midterm 4 weeks into the semester. I didn't really get a chance to study for it because of my busy social schedule on Friday and Saturday nights. Plus I wasn't going to study for Tax after I was doing taxes all day Sunday and Monday.

Every Wednesday, Chris and I try to have a "date" because that's the one day we don't get to see much of each other. He leaves for work early and I have an evening class and don't get home until 11pm. So, each Wednesday we try to meet in SF in the afternoon. Normally we just have a coffee date, but this week we decided to make it a lunch date. I spoiled myself by having clam chowder in a bread bowl - my favorite! Chris had a steak sandwich which he kept trying to get me to eat, but I told him to get it away from me and that I didn't want crappy steak in mouth because it would take away the wonderful clam chowder taste. After lunch it was off to class....WHICH WAS CANCELLED!!!! Why can't professors email when they aren't going to class? I had to sit around SFSU from 4-7pm because I had a test in my 7pm class so I couldn't go home. My 7pm class is Internal Audit which I thought would be interested, but I can't decide if I like it. Some days it interests me, others I find really boring. Anyways, got home around 11pm and went straight to sleep.

I woke up this morning with a dull pain on my tailbone. Not sure what happened in the middle of the night for it to hurt. I have no recollection of anything happening, but I don't doubt that Pikey probably kicked me in the middle of the night. He tends to sleep with his knee out. I try to counter act that by sleeping with my elbows out. Today was college once again. I got back my Tax exam and actually did a lot better then I thought. When I got it back I noticed it was a 85% which I was totally happy with since I didn't get to study much. Then the professor said that a 85% is an A. THANK GOD! I was totally happy with that, but then realized that I could actually pass the class with a 50%! That's just wrong.

Has anyone seen American Idol? Every year and try not to get into it, but it just grips me. Love it!

I'M ALIVE!

Hello ladies, I must admit, I all but forgot about this blog until I was just clearing out my old emails and realised I had never really written a proper post so thought I'd enlighten you on what I've been up to.

Firstly my day has been shit as I was awake all last night with what felt like swords attacking my throat, I grumpily dragged myself into work today at 10am only to leave at 3:30pm as I was very tired. I managed to get a cancellation at the docs who told me that I have a severe throat infection again and this is not down to me being run down but due to my shit anaemic blood being to crap to fight any virus that goes around! Anyway since I have been starving all day, I have now decided to take the hit and cook a load of oven chips to see if they help - clearly not! I am also pissed off I'm now on antibiotics which 'technically' means that I can't drink this weekend. Although I never really listen to 'technically'.

Life in general - I'm extremely busy planning the wedding, and I fear I'm turning into bridezilla as I do not communicate with Tej any longer - I simply bark orders at him over the phone to chase things up. He has kindly responded to these barks by buying me a new mini which has made me joyous - seems being a bitch really does pay off! Anyway I went for my first drive in it on saturday and it feels a bit like a go-kart to me since it's an automatic - not a good thing really since I wrote off the last one and that was manual. I am scared for my life.

What else is news? Um I seem to have been drunk every weekend for the past 8 weeks and I kindly abandon Tej every weekend in favour of the girls, which I think he's getting slightly annoyed about but as I tell him - I need time to relax - planning a wedding is stressful.

I'm also house hunting at the moment in Richmond, however I cannot seem to find anything I like - my only criteria is that there has to be enough bedrooms for Tej to build me a walk in wardrobe - easy!

Wedding plans are actually coming along nicely and my tick list tells me I am doing everything on time. My job is still ridiclously easy and easygoing and in general, apart from my killer throat, life is all good.

I saw on facebook the other day that Debbie Coope (sales) had a baby with Ian Bernhadt (IT) is this old news? I didn't even know they were dating!

Anyhows I am enjoying catching up on all your blogs.

Take Care,

Perhaps I'll enlighten you with another post again soon.

Big love to all, especially the american baxter.

Over and out

Colesy x x

Erm...whatever you want it to be

hey all

Sorry i've been a bit absent the last few weeks!! It's been so long i couldn't remember how to add anything to the blog!!

Last week was pretty crap I had the dreaded cold / flu bug (bad times) so i was only in work for a day and a half (good times!). Went back up north on Friday to my mum's home made roast beef dinner and bloody hell it was gorgeous!!

Met up with my cousin and her little baby for lunch and she's moving back to harrogate from scotland so that's good because i'll get to see little Hayden more often and he's grown loads already.

I went out for dinner on saturday with some old friends - good old girls night out but having taken copious amounts of tablets over the last week the wine fuddled my brain and i was found by my mum at 7am sunday morning asleep at the kitchen table with a half eaten curry next to me. All that alcohol obviously helped though because my sore throat had gone. Or maybe it was just that the hangover was so bad I barely noticed my throat. It was one of those 'i can't be around people or mix with the public cos i feel totally wierded out' kind of hangover which was unfortunate because I had to get a train back to london and sat next to a strange looking foreign boy that smelt funny and had big hair and had some kind of ongoing nose bleed so he kept dabbing a tissue to his nose and then laying it out infront of him so i got full view of the artwork he was creating. It's a small miracle i didn't throw up over him. Watched Quantum of Solace on the way home and I don't know if it was my alcohol addled brain, the 2 inch screen I was watching it on or just because i'm stoopid but i found it all a bit confusing!!

As for other big news my housemate Helen is moving out to live with her 2 best mates who are also moving out of their flats so for the 50th time in the last year I am having to spend my nights showing random wierdos around my flat and try to hide the mouse traps that are dotted all over the place. I'm not even going in to the mice problem cos the thought of it just stresses me out.

I'm going to the theatre on saturday to see Nigel Harman (off eastenders) and james mcavoy in Three Days of Rain which i'm really excited about. And on Sunday i'm supposed to be meeting up with this guy that i was seeing for a few months a few years back - he text me when i was drunk on saturday so of course i called him at 5 in the morning and arranged to meet up.... like you do!

Well that's enough ff my grotesque stories - oh and only 2 and a half weeks til my holiday yey!!!!!!

Take care, over and out.

xxx

hello all, havent posted in a while as i have not been doing anything worth discussing!
I had my job changed at work the other day and I am now Event Manager (pause for round of applause) basically this means more work and no pay rise but i now have people i can boss around which is always good!
Other than that just plodding along as ususal. Been going to the gym and exercising for a change and although i have not noticed any difference, Sean did inform me the other day that 'your gut looks smaller' - such a way with words that man o mine!
Anyhoo peeps - i will leave you to your day.
xx

Thinking about what's important...

Looks like I'm safe from redundancy at the moment, but things are still really up in the air. Having to take on lots more work, and waiting to have a meeting with my manager today about everything. Hopefully things will make more sense later on today.

I've had a bit of an epiphany this morning though, I'm sitting here at my work computer wondering what it's all for?! We've had so much sh*t happening over the last few weeks here, and obviously in the world, and I'm just really starting to think about what's important. I realise that although I need to work to pay off my debts, it's not the be all and end all of existance. A colleague of mine, Bob is not in work this morning as his wife has cancer. She was diagnosed just before Christmas, just a few weeks after their daughter gave birth to their first grandchild. We knew she was very poorly, but found out this morning that she only has a matter of days to live. My ex-colleague Carol (who took voluntary redundancy last week) found out her brother has terminal spine cancer and it just seems like there is so much of this happening, it's started to make me think that we all need to start concentrating on the important things in life, like spending time with family and friends, going out and spending time in the fresh air and with nature, doing more things you enjoy and DON'T put off things til tomorrow that you can do today! I know I'm starting to sound like that "Sunscreen" song by Baz Luhrmann, but it's true. This isn't supposed to be a lecture or anything, I just realise that we all need to concentrate on the important things in life, like love and laughter. Don't dwell on negatives. Enjoy life, because we don't know how long we have.

On a more positive note, I went to Kew Gardens on Saturday and spent a really lovely afternoon with my mum and dad, and went shopping yesterday which was good too!! hurrah!

Anyway, I hope you're all well.

Love 'n' stuff, Becky xxxx

What is wrong with the world?

I don't have much to say about my week, so I thought I would just talk about how the world is going to hell. This is partly coming out because I'm watching the news and partly because I've had a rough day. I first noticed this when I was coming home from school this afternoon. The train I come home on is normally full. A man was sitting in front of me in the seat next to the aisle. A older woman got on and said excuse me to the man so that he would move over and she could sit down. The man then moaned and slowly moved over. Now, I could only see the back of his head, but I knew he had an attitude about moving. The woman noticed this too and responded with attitude of her own telling the man that he shouldn't sit in the aisle if he didn't want to move. The man then told the woman that the world didn't revolve around her. Needless to say, it was a heated conversation and was awkward as they had to sit next to each other for the next 30 minutes. Too much rudeness for me.

I just saw on the news that a family had their car broken into at the airport. The thieves took their garage door opener and their car registration information which had the family's address on it. The thieves then drove to their house with the garage door opener and stole tons of stuff including TVs, money, and their Mercedes. Not a nice thing to come home to after going on holiday. I just thought it was a bit nuts that they would do all that with a garage door opener and registration information. Just goes to show you that you are really never safe.

I just heard something so weird. The US equivalent to the Job Centre is talking about how the job market really sucks and that everyone is getting laid off, but because everyone is out of a job the Job Centre is hiring 400 people to help with the new people coming to the Job Centre. Does that make any sense? Is that ironic or what? If infinity people were laid off, does that mean there are infinity jobs at the Job Centre? Someone please explain this too me!!!!!!

Also, it seems like every business is going out of business and as having going out of business "sales". I don't know why they are calling it a sale when clearly they just brought their prices down to normal levels. Buy everything from Amazon.com so you don't get ripped off.

A volcano in Chile has erupted.

Barack Obama has gone to Canada and bought his daughters maple leaf shaped cookies.

It's 50 degrees (Fahrenheit) in San Francisco, but rain this weekend.

Sickness & Redundancy

OMG, what a ridiculous week this has been so far! Last week didn't turn out to be the best as we were all told that there was a possibility of us being made redundant, not the most enthralling and exciting thing one wants to hear! Had 2 meetings last week with another to follow this week (either Monday or Tuesday). The week continued with everyone feeling quite forlorn, but looking forward to the weekend. I met Caroline on Friday night and had a great time, and then went to Kingston on Saturday with my friend Emily, did a bit of shopping and went to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - which is AMAZING! Got home about 9 looking forward to chilling out for the rest of the evening and weekend, only to spend the next 4 hours puking my guts up! I managed to get some sleep at about 2:30am but woke up the next day feeling absolutely horrific with stomach cramps etc (you know what I'm talking about, but we won't go there!) and could barely get out of bed. This has continued until today (when I have returned to work) but I'm still so weak and drained and am dragging my legs around like they are made of lead. Not good. So, being that I've been bed ridden for days, I missed my consultation meeting yesterday. My boss apparently had the audasity to ask if I was actually off sick, I couldn't believe it! :0( So I've come in today and noone can talk to me as they've had their meetings and can't tell me anything about them, I am hopefully having mine this afternoon. I just want to know what the f**k is happening, I don't know if I should be looking for a new job or not, you know? It's soooo frustrating, coupled with the fact that I still feel like death warmed up - not really condusive to a productive and happy day!
Anyways, I hope you are all keeping well.
Lots of love
Becky xxxx

Being Rubbish

Hello all! I must apologise for the fact that I've been hopeless at this, but am here now as HaeNa gave me a good hard kick in the pants and told me to do it!! Life is mad at the moment as it always seems to be - ticking along at work, Hae NA and I are managing to just about keep each other sane - although HaeNa went deaf somewhere along the line! I'm buying her an ear trumpet for Easter... x x

3 years of being married makes me tired!

I can't remember the last time I was this tired. It seems that all my energy has been zapped from my poor helpless body. I feel physically okay, just mentally feel like poo. This week was all about work, school, and planning our anniversary/valentine's day plans. I can't believe it's been 3 years already!

The week started off great. Chris and I went to the SAP Open (formally the Sybase Open) and saw my all time favorite tennis player - Pete Sampras. He can still play. He's just a little slower and slightly balding, but might actually have more body hair if that remotely believable. Going to see him totally took me back to when I was like 14-16 years old. When I was really into tennis, I used to sit in front on the TV, holding up handmade signs for Pete thinking he would play better because I was watching him. The last time I saw him was at the Sybase Open when I was 16. It was valentine's day and I made him a handmade card. I was too embarrassed to give it to him. What a retard! Anyways, so the SAP open was great. I think I embarrassed Chris by yelling "go Pete" every five minutes. I'm sure I saw him covering his face at one point.

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday was more of the same old thing. Just college and studying. I had a quiz in tax which was open note, so not too hard. I also had a pop quiz in Internal Auditing which was really hard. I guess I'm not spending as much time studying for that class as I should. I just realized that on Tuesdays and Thursdays I have 3 hours of classes, but travel for 3 hours of the day. It doesn't seem right to me to be spending the same time on BART as I do in class. But, I am trying to get all my studying done on BART so I don't have to do it at home. I had a very weird experience on BART today. I get out of class around 4pm, so I go home on BART at the beginning of rush hour. Normally the train is full, but today no one wanted to sit next to me. I noticed that no other seats on the train were vacant except for the one next to me, plus there were people standing up. Would someone choose to stand than sit next to me? Do I have really bad breath or some kind of strange body odor? I'm not sure, but the whole thing has given me a huge complex. The thing that really got me was when this fat old man that smelled like a ash tray sat down next to me and then moved as soon as another seat become free. HELLO! If that's not a hit, what is?

We're getting our new TV tomorrow morning. It's our anniversary/valentine's day present to ourselves. It's for the bedroom so I can lounge around and watch TV in bed like a sloth. Good stuff. We have yet to get a stand/dresser for it though. I'm not sure how it's going to work having the TV on the floor. Not the best viewing position considering how high our bed is. We're planning to spend the morning downstairs at Pete's Coffee then off to the mall for some shopping. I think we've decided to go out for lunch instead of dinner since it will be crazy busy - probably going to the Cheesecake Factory. Maybe this time I'll actually have the cheesecake. After that we'll probably just come back to the flat for some Rock Band and movies. He's promised that I can get Papa John's for dinner - I love pizza. So, that it. Not the biggest or best plans in the world, but the main idea is to just spend time together. Because after 3 years of dating and 3 years of being married.....I'm still in love with Christopher Andrew Pike. Cheesy, I know. So, I will leave you with a picture of us on our wedding.

Back at work

Following my rant in my last post, I was sent home at 12 o'clock and although I was desperate to make snowmen, I spent the rest of the afternoon asleep!!

Tuesday was a full day at work again and it was MANIC! I think I should turn to the literary genius that is Peter Andre to conclude that it was, in fact, insania! I was on my own and had so much to catch up on from Monday. Ended up staying later, but I got everything sorted before leaving for the rest of the week. I did, however, manage to make a snowman at lunch time! Sadly, he has now lost his head.

Wednesday was my birthday and I had a really lovely relaxed day with my mum and dad. We went ice skating in the afternoon which was amazing. I love to ice skate, I really should do it more regularly, but it's such a nightmare to get to the Spectrum. I spent the rest of the week feeling quite ill, I've had a throat infection (which still hasn't gone) and now have a really chesty cough, so I'm not exactly feeling full of the joys of spring (not helped by the fact that it's p*ssing down with rain at the moment!). I did manage to drag my aged and decrepit carcus into Kingston on Friday morning (and bumped into Parky - was lovely to see you!) to purchase myself a Freeview + box which was paid in the most part by money I received for my birthday!

Managed to drag myself to the supermarket on Saturday morning and then collapsed for the rest of the day - gutted I couldn't make Nicola's birthday drinks. I hope you had a wicked time Nic?

Yesterday I had to be on top form for my niece, but I don't think I really managed very well, I was struggling to stay awake!! It was lovely to see my family though, and I got some great presents for my birthday - mostly baking related... I'm starting to worry that I'm turning into an old lady in the fact that I'm excited about kitchen utensils!

I can already feel that this week is going to be a LOOOOOONNNNNGGGG one, I can't wait for the weekend already! I don't have any plans (considering I am a singleton!) although the idea of sleeping for the entire weekend is looking more and more appealing as the seconds tick by!

Hope you're all keeping well, and hope to see you soon!

Muchos love 'n' stuff

Becky xxxxx

Receptionist

hello ladies,
i was just covering reception and the phones have finally stopped!
i think i may have cut off a few people but managed to put through most of them to the people they wanted to speak to. so i'm doing ok!
so i guess you might be wondering what am i doing on reception?
well since Sam left, they have not got a replacement! you know IAPG trying to cut down costs once again. so me and caroline have been given extra responsibilities of covering reception when Maria is on lunch or whatever.. you know becasue me and Caroline are not busy enough and have so much time on our hands and we Finance girls don't bring any money in (according to you know who). Cherrie and Joanna is also in this groupie thing we have going on and sometime it does get ugly.

well, today Maria phoned in sick and so is Caroline! so i had to start my covering shift from 9 this morning until 11.30. so not long left! and the rest of them will fight over when they are covering..
but i will stay well away from that fight since i have done my share without any complaining as usual! well except to you guys now.. ha ha ha

we should have a album where we can post our picture! only becasue i am still finding it hard to use Facebook! it's so confusing! is it just me?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

I'm slowly dying....

As the title reads, I fear that I am slowly dying. I have come to this conclusion because my brain has decided that it does not want to cooperate with me any longer. This makes things like driving, crossing the road, and operating heavy machinery very interesting. Okay, nix the heavy machinery bit, but you understand what I'm getting at. I spent all of this morning (before I left for college) checking on the blog to see if a new post was up. Nothing. So, I checked again when I came home. Nothing. Um... I guess someone forgot to post. No, dumbass....it's my day to post. I guess if that realization didn't come to me, I would have been sitting there for awhile. In other news, I am drinking day old ice tea from McDonald's. I'm not sure why. A mixture of being too tired to look for anything else to drink and trying to deprive myself of water. All of which are good reasons, I think.

Yesterday was the stupidest day ever. I worked from 9am-2pm. Jumped on BART (underground) and then had class from 4pm-10pm. I grabbed a coffee on the way into school and was so rushed to make all my connections that I didn't get to drink it until I got into class. I put the coffee on my desk and started to get myself settled in - taking off my jacket and getting my books out - when I knock over my coffee all over some girl's bag. I was devastated! Not so much for the girl with coffee in her bag, but for the fact that it was my only chance at caffeine that day. Coffee was everywhere and I had to run back and forth to the bathroom for paper towels. Needless to say, it was a sad scene. In addition to the coffee incident, I also forgot to bring food with me. All of the food places on campus close early - even though some of us have late classes. I had to feel my stomach acid eat away at my insides until I got home at 11pm. Oh, the joys of student life.

Valentine's day is our anniversary - 3 years. Seems like forever. The more anniversaries we have, the more I realize that getting married on Valentine's day was not the brightest thing ever. On top of that, my birthday is 2 weeks later. We decided to get a joint Valentine's day/anniversary gift - a new TV for the bedroom. I let Chris pick it out which now means that we're getting a 40" for the bedroom. I love watching TV in bed. I know you're not suppose to do it, but it's my favorite thing in the world. Hi, my name is Renee and I'm a sloth.

Why does it have to snow when I'm not there!!!!

Not fair!

Look at me! I'm on the role!

When Renee came to London... We met up for some Tony Roma loving...

Awwwww... don't they look sweet! lol... missing you Renee!!

SNOW ALERT!

Well, this picture is really only for Renee, because everyone else would have had the pleasure of the lovely snow!

i have never seen so much snow in England. the last one i remember was the sudden snow in the middle of April about 10 years ago? or was it less? but this is horrendous.

so i made it into work as well but i don't know why i bothered... Chris my lovely other half was so proud this morning that we had a 4*4 and that it was the best car for this kind of weather!

you can see Chris as i was taking a picture of him he decides to get a snow ball and throw it at me. he really is a big kid in man's body!

so we got out onto the main road dispite the foot deep snow and no cars in the road we were doing fine until we came to a hill in front of Cambridge Estate. It was not fun at all! we were sliding down.. i don't know how i am going to get home later..

So there is about 6 people in the office. And it's freezing here! i might go home now since two people have already gone. Stay home! don't even bother coming out!

Renee! Don't you miss this place?!?!?!?

OMG! Snow!!

Right, well, I am surprised I managed to make it into work this morning! Luckily I only live round the corner, but it was the hardest walk ever! The snow is so deep I was nearly up to my knees! (although that could have something to do with the fact my legs are so short!!) I am currently the only person in my office; annoyingly the girl who works in here with me who lives closer than I do has mysteriously not materialised for work this morning. What a surprise!
There are about 4 people in today in the whole place, so it just seems a bit silly to pay for the electric & stuff, surely they'd be better to just send us all home!! Apparently they might send us home at 12pm, but to me that just seems utterly pointless! I don't mind coming in, but if there's hardly any staff here, they're going to waste more money than they're going to make today!! Send me home now! I want to make snowmen!!!! Anyway, rant over!!

Saturday was great fun! Thank you Louise and Caroline for making it! Sorry that noone else could, but these things happen! Caroline, I hope you're feeling OK now - getting you to that bus stop was the most surreal and hilarious 20 minutes I've ever experienced! That coupled with Dilip's passionate rant and subsequant dribbling made for a great evening!! I am looking forward to being the birthday girl on Wednesday, 27 eh?! Where does the time go!?! Although most people seem to think I'm still only about 20!! Not sure if that's a compliment or not at present! I think when I'm about 40 and I still look 20 that'll be great!!! ;0) I have most of this week off (Wednesday through Friday) and I am planning on going ice skating on my birthday with my parents, they both have the day off which is lovely! Thursday will be a wonderful afternoon of doctor's appointments, and I haven't decided what I'll do on Friday yet! All part of the fun!!

Anyway, I think that's enough from me right about now!

Love to all!
xxxx