Drag 2010: A Decade Dawns

[Badgers]

will NOT drink booze tonight, will NOT

This is us too...

Planning a quiet, sober, organised, productive January and must be strong

 

[marty21]

Manic Monday so far.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

ah! so that's where you're all hiding is it?

back at the desk, feeling not too bad, got through my emails, now need to go back through and deal with important ones. feet are fucking freezing cos heater is on the ceiling

 

[Ms T]

Back at work after mega-short turnaround (11 hours) and feeling very rough indeed. I think I'm coming down with something.

 

[neonwilderness]

feet are fucking freezing cos heater is on the ceiling

Same, it's like a fridge under my desk...

 

[Badgers]

Fan heater is helping a lot.
Just went for a smoke just in jumper, that was brrrrrr

 

[neonwilderness]

Zzzzzzzz

Lunch soon I think

 

[Badgers]

Zzzzzzzz

Lunch soon I think

Chicken Broth (Baxters) in my drawer

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Pretty quiet here at the moment but I am anticipating a large post. Time for a cuppa I think

 

[Badgers]

Pretty quiet here at the moment but I am anticipating a large post

We got four parcels delivered.
All of them for a girl who stopped working here a year ago.

 

[sojourner]

I have a fan heater too, I think I would die of hypothermia without it.

Can't wait for lunchtime - have brought in nice big bowl of defrosted cullen skink, and will have it with buttered toast. Best part of the first day back

 

[neonwilderness]

Can't remember what I picked up this morning. Mushroom I think, although I was half asleep so it could have been a tin of sweetcorn

 

[QueenOfGoths]

We got four parcels delivered.
All of them for a girl who stopped working here a year ago.

Open them, open them

 

[Badgers]

Open them, open them

Nah, she is a nice lass...
Sent her a text and will get them too her.

 

[marty21]

just had some sad news, my dad's mate died this morning, RIP John Daly, he was a lovely fellah, known him since I was a kid, when I was 15 and in the pub with dad, he asked me and my mate John, if we had girlfriends, we said we didn't, he said

"do you know what to do when you get a girlfriend?"

we mumbled "no"

"get their panties down"

John, I took your advice later on

I was drinking with him a few days ago, seemed in good form, and we had a laugh about that advice

he was there when my dad called me a "fucking wanker" probably the last words he heard about me tbf

massive heart attack, he was about 75, RIP John.

 

[sojourner]

awww marty, that's sad. hope he has a grand wake

 

[Badgers]

Sad news Marty, he sounds like a top chap.
At least he was drinking and on good form to the end.

In other news I have just managed to avoid temptation with the offer of a paid for boozy lunch.
That would not have got my sober + healthier eating off to a good start would it?

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Just had my first "Oh ffs" moment with another department here. Which sadly I think may come back and bite me in the ass rather than them but hey ho

 

[sojourner]

Explain queeny or gtfo

Okay, someone make me do some actual work. I have work to do. I just can't bring myself to do it.

I have to go the shop for bread and milk after work. They sell red wine there.

You know what? I've hardly been pissed over the holidays. Because I didn't want to. The SECOND I step back into work, and I want a drink.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

sorry to hear about the old man marty, but like badgers says, at least he was still doing what he enjoyed.

i just ate cottage pie and am finally starting to feel warm. and i exchanged the face cream stuff for the missus for the proper one and got a 54p refund as a result

 

[marty21]

aye, it's not a bad way to bow out, he was in good firm when I saw him on the 29th December, then dies a few days later

 

[Miss-Shelf]

sorry to hear about your friend John, Marty

when you told that story before it really made me chuckle and I've been saying to myself in a terrible irish accent 'get their panties down'
what good advice who knew how richly it would bear fruit.

I couln't sleep till 4 am. it was soooo hard getting up. But i did. went to work. did very little work. took annual leave this afternoon to ahem, work on my essay....

and shake the sand out of my bits from the wet swimsuit

 

[marty21]

sorry to hear about your friend John, Marty

when you told that story before it really made me chuckle and I've been saying to myself in a terrible irish accent 'get their panties down'
what good advice who knew how richly it would bear fruit.

I couln't sleep till 4 am. it was soooo hard getting up. But i did. went to work. did very little work. took annual leave this afternoon to ahem, work on my essay....

and shake the sand out of my bits from the wet swimsuit

the phrase "get their panties down" has to be said in a Northen Irish accent

 

[Miss-Shelf]

the phrase "get their panties down" has to be said in a Northen Irish accent

great tagline

 

[neonwilderness]

At least you'll have some good memories


3 hours to go...

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Explain queeny or gtfo

Okay, someone make me do some actual work. I have work to do. I just can't bring myself to do it.

I have to go the shop for bread and milk after work. They sell red wine there.

You know what? I've hardly been pissed over the holidays. Because I didn't want to. The SECOND I step back into work, and I want a drink.

Basically we have been supplied with something which may, or may not, be what a customer needs. It is currently with the other department and they are 'too busy' (an oft used phrase from this certain department) to check at the moment.

So I have had to try to explain this situation to the customer who is now going to get on to the person who supplied us in the first place and who will probably in turn get in touch with us saying "I have supplied this, why aren't you telling your customers?" at which point the other department will fuss and fluster (which is what they are very good at) and blame me for giving out wrong info. When in fact I am waiting on them to give me the correct info

This is not the first time something like this has happened and I doubt if it will be the last!

 

[Badgers]

Three (maybe three and a bit at worst) hours to go here too.
Had really been lazy and working short hours through all of December and then off from 18th till today so feels long.

Town was bedlam today too, all the shops are rammed and queues are looooong.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Have applied for a few jobs, paid bills and finally done other IMPORTANT stuff.

It's cold and I am hungry.

 

[Badgers]

Two hours to go and time for a __~

 

[Yetman]

MORNING!!

Fucking hell man, I didnt leave any heating on in my house over xmas and now I've come back and its FRUCKING FEEZING I just put my feet on the radiator and it froze up and instantly got covered in what can only be described as snow

Work sucks as always, hopefully I'll be out of this house by the end of the month and have a nice new warm place with normal heaters and double glazing and shit to work from. Drag 2010 by the way? Did Badgers veto this? I frucking hope so

Happy new year anyway everyone. I'm on the straight and narrow from now on, no drugs except weed til the weekend and no booze except maybe the odd pint here and there except for weekends Going to throw myself into the worlds of literature, art, music and science, get the fuck out of this job and surf into next year on the non-self-medicated high I should have been on for the past few years. Bring it on baby