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To all my American friends! We may not celebrate it here, but I thought I'd just let you know that I'm thankful to have you in my lives. *hugs*

Enjoy your day, and think of me as I attend the world's most boring meeting for work, which is going to last all day. *yawn* Oh well, at least they give us lunch. It won't be turkey, but it had better be tasty. It's the only reason I'm going!

Since when did September become such a mad month? I have no idea but it's crazy! I can't keep up with anything at the moment: so behind on LJ and Twitter, don't really FB enough for it to count, and we're rushing around at home like crazy too. Our builder may be able to start in a couple of weeks, so we've been emptying the garage and I have a ton of things lying around to be sold that I'm attempting to organise. Work is also mad - we have an appraisal period ending when Sept. does, so everyone wants their work done yesterday, which means push, push, push, and no slacking off.

Phew. The tiny bit of sanity (?) in between the madness is writing fic with kaige68! My darlink, you raise me up! Yes, Kaige and I have been writing more H50 with Steve and Danny. It's completely mad too, but so much fun. I squeeze in a part when I can, and it all started here when Kaige wrote THE BEST EVER cargument. We're having so much fun, even though I'm having problems fitting my parts in. We'll get there though.

Oh, also managed to get to the movies last night as a reward for getting most of the rest of our stuff out of the garage and under the house (or into the basement as some people might say), which is half dirt and half concrete, so needed rearranging and some shelves organised so precious-ish items didn't have to sit on the dirt. Phew, all done now and not too cluttered, to my great surprise. I can even still access the wood for the fire and the hay for the pets, and the bikes are also easy to reach. Stunning. I do have a wonderful husband. ♥

The movie was 'Savages' (crickets, thank you for the rec!) and it was very good. Of course, I'd hoped for a little more man-on-man action, since it features two guys with one girlfriend, but that wasn't terribly forthcoming (although there were hints). However, it was still a good movie which the hubby and I both enjoyed very much. Great action, neat double-crossing, and some pretty awful happenings that made us think. Beautifully stylish too, and my girl-crush Salma Hayek was awesome. ;-) Update: just ordered the book from my library!

Now, onwards! Things to do and stuff. So sorry I won't be catching up on flist right now, *sigh* but I will try to get there soon! Love and laughter to you all! *hugs*

This morning was awful. I woke up around eight as a text came on my cellphone (lucky it was in my room, really, I often ignore it for days). I nearly left it, but had to answer nature's call so I decided to read it. It was a message from a workmate asking me to phone her at work as there was some bad news. I felt a bit hesitant, wondering what kind of bad news, but I still phoned.

( The sad news was this )

So there's this:

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Imperial Majesty Haldoor the Waspish of Leper St George Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

(although there was breakfast at Denny's and no work actually done at work today, plus strawberries and ice cream, as well as leaving early *grin* No work now til Wednesday, woo!)

...but I'm just going to say one:

I HATE MY JOB

Because life ain't much fun there at the moment. I'm not supposed to be in here either, but I needed to let that out.

*waves to flist* Not much time these days, sorry.

Okay, I'm so pleased with myself, I'm polishing the medal for the chest I'm hoping to be awarded with! HA!

Today I worked at work all day! Okay, apart from three little tiny dips into e-mail, but that's allowed, right?

Yesterday, I finally made a baby card for niceandfluffy, who only had her baby almost two months ago.

Yay, go me!

Hmm, now if only I can get two more cards made and remember where I hid the rest of the gifts for everyone...

Yeah, my day started off like that. And it didn't really improve until a lot later. But, it did get better, so if you can't be bothered checking out the rant under the cut, don't sweat it! Oh, and this is for you:



Just having a Hugh moment. And that *points* is very niiiice.

( A day in the life… )

I'm actually going to bed, so WTF I'm writing here for, I have no idea. Just thought I'd tell you I flagged the stupid $4 and fudged the audit. It just wasn't worth the effort for freakin' $4. And that's Kiwi$, not even Aussie$ (ie, worth half that in most other places). I mean??? The client won't know. It was in her favour, and the only issue will be if it gets audited, which it shouldn't as I didn't have to alter the computer record in any way. 'Sides, my QA said it was okay, wasn't worth the $ they pay me to search any more.

( In other news )

As I was telling sindahise earlier (apologies, my dear, don't read again, I copied from MSN), I'm beginning to think Tiger's psychic skills are passing into my RL, for a few reasons...

First off, I picked up this file to do at work today, that I'd had lying around for ages as thought I'd better get onto it; and two of my supervisors come up a while later & one says the name of the client. I said "I'm working on it right now", and he said, "That's funny because I just had a call from her" ...and the other supervisor says "Didn't this happen last time?" and sure enough, when I thought about it, the last time I looked at her file, she had just called one of them and they came over while I was working on it...

Second thing: I went to my car to go home, and the car decided not to start - dead as a doornail. Usually when that happens, I call AA straight away (battery, I'd guess), but this time, I called my hubby and said I may be late, then told him I was just going to look under the hood... which I don't normally do, so I looked, pushed slightly on the battery connection, which I'm sure didn't move. Then I thought "nope" and got back in the car, but some little niggle in the back of my head said "it will work now" and guess what? It did!

Now I know why I also had Tiger's headache and lethargy after that last View on the RPG... *twilight zone music plays*

Ok, since it's Friday, and dinner's nearly ready, I'm going for a quick good things list before I have to jump out of here!

1. Hardly worked at all, all week (which is good and bad all at once...)

2. Free shopping day Wednesday with the comps at work down for THREE hours! Ah, it's good when that happens just as you panic about Xmas shopping!

3. Sick day yesterday - felt better after the Panadol, and did some fun posting on the RPG with Coyote, James and Jackal.

4. Kindergarten rang this week (pre-school in NZ), and YAY! LF can start at the end of January when school goes back after the summer hols! Just what I wanted! (though my eyes teared up at the thought of my baby taking his first steps away from home!!!)

5. LJ gave us freebie-cheapsters THREE more icons for Christmas! YAYHOO! I went crazy... okay, so not very, now I have six though - double the fun!

6. Hubby's cooking dinner! and it's Friday!!!!

7. Found out today that my Aunt's going to be a Nana at long last! Excited for her! My cousin is pregnant, and due in June! Actually, it's the second person in as many days that I've heard is pregnant (the other's here somewhere *waggles eyebrows*) and both are due around the same time, how funny is that? Haven't had any pregnant friends or family for ages.

8. Choice of movies tonight: Matt Dillon (eyebrows, and those drop-dead gorgeous brown eyes *sigh*) in "Beautiful Girls" (I've not seen before) or Johnny Depp in "Dead Man" on dvd... could watch the dvd later, hmmm. Maybe both?

9. Bought myself a treat to sleep in the other day, sexy skimpy sleepwear, which I NEVER usually do. Must be the humidity getting to me! Hubby liked it too *grin*

10. Actually bought shoes this week!!!! Me, the one woman in the world who does NOT have a shoe fetish. I now have 9 (yes, count 'em) pairs of shoes to my name, including slippers, gumboots and jandals. I finally found some summer work sandals that are comfy, flat (not a heels girl) and best of all, cheap like me. *grins like a cheshire cat*

Sorry, kaige68 that I didn't get to the 'Jeremy is...' today, but maybe tomorrow?

Hope you enjoy the recipes, mrsbean, even though they're probably nothing terrifically spectacular! Let me know how they go!

YEEHA! Made it through another week!