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Thanks, Aussie!

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

James and I spent the last week relaxing in the Lake District – more to come about that once I sort the photos out – and so today was my first day back to work after 10 days straight of freedom. To add insult to injury, my work day was utterly crap.

Cue moaning: I only managed about 2 hours sleep last night (or should I say this morning?!) so I was really tired, my head was hurting worse than usual, my stomach was playing up thanks to my painkillers, and I still have a tickly sore throat & cough left over from a bug I caught on holiday. In addition to all this, something happened today at work which had me sniffling at my desk… all in all, a bit of a rubbish day.

Thankfully, there was a parcel of goodies waiting for me on my desk, from the lovely girls over at Aussie (@yummyhair) and @1000heads. I am now an official member of the Luscious Long Aussie Hair Tribe, stage 2 of Aussie Angels is go go go!

The goodies I’ve received are:

A washbag with the Luscious Long logo.
Some gorgeous shampoo, conditioner & 3 minute miracle – this stuff smells so yum.
A couple of Luscious Long badges.
Chocolate buttons – just what I needed to give me a mood boost!
A comb – which is great actually, cos James keeps losing mine.
A compact – perfect for my handbag.

So, thanks Aussie! This was just what I needed as a pick me up on a cruddy day like today

Tags: aussie, goodies, work
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A web 2.0 lunch?

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Earlier this week, I noticed someone on twitter talking about their graze.com (@grazedotcom) box. Being the curious person I am, I decided to go ahead and find out what this was.. turns out it’s a new way to have lunch at the office. Each day, they send you a box in the post, with 3 punnets of fruit/nuts/seeds/etc to graze on throughout the day, instead of having a sandwich.

One of my many flaws is I am a terrible snacker. I like to nibble on things and prefer this to a lunchtime sandwich, so my office eating is bad. Packs of crisps, chocolate bars, biscuits, that kind of thing. Blood sugar highs & lows! So my immediate thought was that this service could really work for me. I’ve tried buying fruit at the supermarket but I forget to pick it up, it’s often not very good quality, and it only stays fresh a few days.

I got my first box this morning and it’s gorgeous. Juicy cherry oranges, roasted pistachios (one of my fav things) and dried strawberries. I’ve had a nibble of each and the quality of the food is very high – it’s all very yummy and good for me!

Each box costs £2.99, and they can delivery Tues-Sat. I did the maths, and to have 4 boxes a week will cost me about £50 a month.. this sounds like a lot but when I take into account the amount I spend buying snacks to eat at work, on sandwich fillers, sliced meat that never gets finished, and on buying unhealthy sandwiches from the cafe, it’s not that much money. Even if i will be paying ~£10 more than I usually do on eating at work, I think the quality of the food, the fact I will be eating healthily and that it will make my lunches easy to sort out make it worth that. I hate making sandwiches for work and they never taste very nice by the time lunchtime rolls round, especially as I’m not that keen on sandwiches in the first place!

So, from now on, every Tues – Fri I will be getting my graze.com box in the morning post at work. I wonder how long it will take the other girls to notice!

To get your first box for £1, use my ‘feed your friends’ coupon code: 9NV2ZM7

Tags: food, work
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But you don’t look sick?

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Anyone who has read my twitter updates in the last few days will know that I was ill for a couple of days last week. For anybody reading this who doesn’t know, I have been diagnosed with a few medical conditions over the past 5 or 6 years after suffering with them for several years before that; CDH (Chronic Daily Headaches), Chronic Migraine, Cluster Headaches (otherwise known as suicide headaches).. and the doctor also suspects I am currently anaemic, which doesn’t help!

Someone said to me today “oh, are you in today then? You take a day off every time you have a headache!”, in an attempt at being sarcastic about me being off last week. Needless to say this didn’t make me a happy bunny – if I took a day off every time I had a headache I would never go to work! It also set me thinking, and talking to my boss about my sick days this afternoon got me thinking too.

For most people, a headache is something that happens every now and again, when they are overtired, or stressed – take a few painkillers and it’ll go away. For me, my conditions are frustrating, tiring, and an endless, continual presence in my life. I came home from work today, I got hugged while I cried in frustration, and I turned to a few of my friends for help & support (thank you girls – you know who you are!). Both of these friends have experienced chronic pain, both of them have the curse of being able to understand – which is in one way a wonderful thing, but in another way a horrible thing because I would never wish chronic pain on anybody. But most people I interact with, they don’t know what it is I deal with every day. So I thought I would try to explain – if only to define it for myself. (more…)

Tags: health, work
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Another day in the life of me

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Well, work has been incredibly boring today. There have been about 5 phone calls this afternoon, and none of them have been for me. I’ve had about 10 emails, none of which actually required anything doing. I’ve caught up on my paperwork, done some unneccesary work, and got my teeth stuck eating a toffee. Hopefully tomorrow will be more eventful, or possibly not.

Maybe this evening will be nicer. I was hoping to walk Homily after work but the way the sky has behaved today, it’s looking doubtful. She doesn’t like to get her fur wet and makes a big deal about going outside in the rain. And that’s just the dog – I refuse to go paddling in our local park in the rain. Besides, my favourite trainers leak, and my new ones aren’t broken in yet!

Can anyone who uses netflix tell me what they think of the service? I’m thinking of subscribing for longer than my free trial, but I’m interested in the game rental as well as the films. It intruiges me! Reviews, suggestions, comments, anyone?

I have my driving test this Friday, but I don’t feel too nervous about it – I think it’s because if I let myself get jumpy then I know I’ll screw up, so it’s a ‘what’s the point’ attitude to getting nervous. I think I drive well enough to pass, as long as I have no weird & wonderful moments in the car during my test. My manouvers are spot on, it’s just junctions and roundabouts I don’t like!

Ooooh, just got this email from my wedding dress people: “Your measurement form is received. Your dress is in process now and will be delivered to you around 25 working days.” YAY. In other wedding news, I’m not wearing my engagement ring because it’s off being polished and replated – we dropped it off at the jewellers whilst choosing our wedding rings :D. We’re going to order them when we pick them up (though I’m currently deliberating between 18ct and 9ct white gold, as my engagement ring is 18ct – but I’m fairly sure that I’ll wear my engagement ring on my right hand after the wedding, cos I don’t think I’ll like wearing two rings on one finger). It is very weird not to be wearing my ring though, my finger has a groove in it and I keep going to fiddle with my ring to find it missing. Also, we’re off to the registry office on Friday to declare our notice of marriage – basically to declare that we want to get married.

More and more plans are being made to make my life busier and busier. I’m off to the Royal Cornwall Show on Saturday, while I’m at my parents. Becky & Seb, and James & I are off to Drayton Manor on the 21st and they will be staying at the flat for the weekend. Also, and very exciting for me, James was a sweetie and we’re off to see the Britain’s Got Talent Live Tour in a fortnight :D. Woo. AND Becky has invited us to go see Dylan Moran in October. Busy busy busy bee.

Anyway, I think I’ve rambled on enough. Bye

Tags: driving, friends, netflix, wedding, work
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Sunshine :D

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

So, is everyone loving this sunshine? What gorgeous weather we’re having here, all over the UK. I’m off to the Peak District on Saturday with James & some friends, which should be great. A nice relaxing picnic, Homily will enjoy a day out. And benefit from it too, greedy pig, she’s been getting a bit podgy this week. Really looking forward to the weekend

I loved this weeks Apprentice episode – very dramatic boardroom! Annoyed that Claire is still in, she annoys me SO MUCH. But I reckon that Sir Alan has a soft spot with her, otherwise she’d have been long gone by now. I thought Jenny was MEAN so it’s good she went – I can’t believe that she tried to cheat with the tennis racquet thing!

Work has been stressing me out a bit today and so I was all hot & flustered – owie headache results. Bah. Stupid people making stupid trouble. That makes more work for Zoe – I’ve been dealing with three very similar issues ALL day that are SO frustrating. Grrrrrrrrr.

Anyway, must dash – I have to go drive around in circles for an hour!

Tags: driving, friends, homily, work
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Posts Tagged ‘work’

Thanks, Aussie!

A web 2.0 lunch?

But you don’t look sick?

Another day in the life of me

Sunshine :D

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