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Sunday 21st October - Another Week Blown Again.

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Posted by: knightrider45 Sunday 21st October 2007, 9:45pm
Last edited 21/10/2007 9:45pm by knightrider45

This is a blog that I've prepared at work and saved to memory stick today. I've just had some news which has changed some things, but I'm posting my original blog first.

My baby sisters just been diagnosed with Bowel Cancer - but I'll write about that tomorrow when, and if I get chance. I've thought about this blog, and changing it, but I'm not going to. It's just that this news, again, has reinforced some points I mention. See what you think - this blog was written at work today before I got my news.

Paul

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Busy busy all week, just where does time go?

Monday 15th - 12 hour day shift, getting really bored, it's criminal watching my time - my life - slip away completely wasted like this.

Tuesday 16th - Day off. I've arranged to work my enforced days around my wife's shifts - so as she works on Tuesday and Thursdays, these are my days off (normally) so she doesn't have to walk to work, especially with winter coming up fast now.

Or, at least, that was the plan. Over the previous weekend, we had a chap bring us a second hand dish washer as ours has just packed up - it goes through all the cycles, but doesn't wash anything. Always something isn't there?

Anyway, this dishwasher was delivered by a friend driving his horse box - and he dared my wife to drive it around the block. She did, and forgot how high it was when she got out of the thing. Net result - one twisted back & two weeks off work! Oops!

So, we went to do some food shopping at ASDA Norwich - and we had only been in an hour and half when we had to go back out to Woolworths at Dereham to pick up one of the kids Christmas presents. Got back home 4pm, that was Tuesday gone. Totally.

Wednesday 17th - Switched batteries on the Volvo and Nissan. Second hand battery on the Volvo, giving me my Nissan battery back. My Nissans now started up again after all the fluid & oil checks. Hopefully I'll be getting it MOT'ed sometime over the next week. Can't remember what else we did now, but we did have to go out again to do whatever it was and Wednesday disappeared.

Thursday 18th - Another 12 hour boring day shift. Got home at 8pm, that's another day wasted.

Friday 19th - Oh Oh, flat battery on the Volvo. My fault. Unknown to me, Volvos have 4 positions on the ignition ring, instead of three, like normal cars. I had taken my wife to the Osteopath for her back so I could drive her back home aterwards. While I was waiting for an hour or so I thought I'd take this opportunity to clean the inside of the windows. And listen to the radio at the same time.

For my defence, I turned the key on from the passenger side, then turned it back off when the radio started. Unfortunately, instead of leaving the ignition key in the number 1 position for the radio, I turned it into position 2 by accident.

The silly Volvo lights were on for just over an hour. And when the wife came back out to her nice clean Volvo, it died in front of her.

Thank you, RAC man, whoever you are, for getting us started. Its just a great pity that it took a long time for you to get to us because you were busy. We were just grateful to get home. And I DID manage to do about three hours work on Friday as well, wasn't I lucky? And that's as well as playing Taxi's for my daughter and her friend who was on sleepover with her - twice, once at 8am, and then, picking them up from Tesco's car park at about 7.30pm.

And now I'm on my second, 12 hour, weekend day shift, but I'm managing to do a little bit of work for me as well as it's the weekend.

So, all told, I wanted to do so much on my three days off this week, but ended up doing virtually nothing instead, but being so busy doing it!

So Frustrating!!

Oh, and eBay results this week - I've sold about 9 things, possibly 10, the money's not so good this time around though, just making about £30.00 after postage. But everything helps towards the big goal!

At least I know I and the wife are kindred spirits. Woke up at 1.45am this morning in agony with backache! Haven't had backache for years! Years ago, when the wife was sterilised, I knew when she was having the operation, because I got this horrible, searing pain around the belly button. This was witnessed by the kids ( or rather, I was - not the operation!!) as I told them all when I got the pain. And, believe it or not, I was absolutely right! The hospital staff were wheeling her down at exactly the same time that I got that pain.

After the weekend, I'm off after Wednesday night, so I'm off Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday. I know my management (the wife) has delegated my services to the garden next weekend. I'm out half the day Thursday after I get up after Wednesdays night shift, so, again, I've only got Friday free at the moment.

So, the lack of "me" time coincides with some wicked dreams I'm having at the moment (increased anti depressant doses?). I haven't dreamt for years, or at least, I can't remember them except for the last week, leading to broken sleep - three or four times a night - as well as the "sympathy pains" with the wife. Too much to do, never, ever, ever, enough time.

What gets done, gets done. What doesn't, well it'll just have to wait, won't it? As long as I'm ready for all systems go on January 2nd..........

Paul.

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