Have been having a play around with the settings etc on the blog, as I came to realise, that although the black back ground was nice and sophisticated, it made my eyes go funny, every time I looked up from the screen, I kept seeing white lines. I changed the pic a few weeks ago, as although the first one I used was interesting - the arch over Durban football stadium, I thought I would use the one taken of me in Uzbekistan a long time ago.........about 18 years ago.........when not only was I much younger, but much thinner too!!! Well I am working on that.....the getting thinner bit I mean, as as far as I know, we can't yet turn back time!
Well I have finished the worst stretch of our shift pattern..........four nights, three days off, five lates two days off! Even though in fourteen days you have five days off, you still feel like death by the end. Well it is over now and it doesn't come around again for a whole six weeks!!!!
Having been on lates for the week, you don't get much opportunity to do much, as invariably you never go to bed much before about half one in the morning...need to chill a bit first, then you get up late...and before you know it, time to go back to work!! Has meant I have not seen much of hubby as he is still 'in training' so to speak, so is doing Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm. At 7am when he is leaving, I am still sound asleep, I am at work when he comes home and although he was waiting up to see me when I got home, he was then going straight to bed. Well next week I am on earlies for the first three days, so we will be getting home at about the same time!
Nothing much has happened in my work world............well there was quite a nasty murder at a local posh golf club. Member of staff decapitated the bar manager in a row................yes you did read it right, DECAPITATED...as in head chopped off! I still find it rather strange that we know all this info that isn't in the public domain.........like it wasn't released to the press until Wednesday that he had been decapitated, four days afterwards. Interestingly, although you have a body sans head, a paramedic or doctor still has to pronounce life extinct...........how about that for following procedure!! Other than that, the usual of people thinking that the police are here to solve all their problems (they're not!) etc etc. Did have to love the person who phoned up to report that she had lost her hand bag, which included details of where she lived as well as her house keys, so she was having to get her locks changed (sensible) but then proceeded to ask me how she could be sure that the lock smith would not keep a copy of the new keys and then come back to her house at a later date and steal all her stuff. Honestly.............the way some people's minds work!!
Well, back to sorting out the house as my mummy arrives from the southern hemisphere on Wednesday for a few days, so serious tidy up is called for. Now I don't want to give you the impression that I am a complete slob and live in a slum, but when you work full time, and shift work at that, something usually has to give, and in my case it is dusting (don't mind dust, don't think dust has ever killed anyone) and doing the filing......as in the dining room table is the usual dumping ground for all the post etc, rather than actually put it away. I am also going to have to find the spare bed, as we usually use the spare room as a drying room / waiting to sort clean clothes out room!!
I have managed to do a bit more of the outside painting, but generally the weather is conspiring against me and it is cold and wet all time. Hasn't someone told the weather it is August for gods sake and it is supposed to be warm and sunny!! Managed to get the undercoat on before it slashed down, but have then had to have 'another' expensive trip to B&Q to buy stuff to sort out the rotten bits in the boards............well at least I now know how the water is getting in! Hope to do a bit more when I get home tomorrow.
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