That ( nearly ) friday feeling

Well hello again everyone, nice of you to drop by.

Here we are on a slightly chilly thursday evening looking forward to tomorrow - only because it means then I get 2 days off work. A friend of mine once noted that you know when you are well & truly indoctrinated into office life when you not only look forward to friday but to 'casual friday'...sad but true. Once a week bosses all over the country don't mind you dressing like you're spending the day slobbing out on the sofa! Today at work has been a drag, the first half the day I spent complaining about people opening files wrongly or other people not working them properly, work would be sooo much better if everyone was as professional & conscientious as me ( only saying this cos I know my friend will read this & have a go at me!! ). You will be pleased to hear that our complaints about the increased targets have not gone unheeded, we had another meeting this week & they have reduced our targets to a more reasonable rate - halfway between what they used to be & the ridiculous targets we had, so most of us are happier now. I must admit you lot are lucky you don't work with me, I can be such a cheeky sod & why my friends & colleagues haven't chucked me out the window I'll never know.

Last night we had to take Bailey to the vet, he's been scratching at his neck & made it quite sore, we took his collar off him in case this was irritating him but his neck got worse. The sores spread all round his neck ( he's been treated with frontline flea treatment so it's not fleas ), we've been given some medicated washing solution, antibiotics, steroids & stronghold flea treatment that also treats mites - £61.63!!!!!!! Bloody expensive but as long as it makes him better it'll be worth it. The tablets started last night being a battle to get him to take them but now I just wrap them in bernard matthews turkey & he wolfs it down. Worse thing for Bailey is he's not allowed out for at least 2 weeks. It's quite nice that Bailey and Angel are good friends now, they still like to play fight but they spend most nights sleeping next to each other either on the landing outside the bedroom door or in the bathroom.

Tomorrow night I get the house to myself again as Nic's off to the local chinese buffet with the girls from work ( personally the one & only time i've been I thought the food was disgusting but she seems to like it ), may have to call at the off licence for a bottle of wine on my way home. I might actually get round to watching my Return of the Jedi dvd, & could even treat myself to a take away as my sister's been making me jealous tonight, I phoned to wish her happy birthday just as she was tucking into a chinese take away. I got her a childs birthday card with a '6 today' badge & added a 3 in front of it & my nephews made her wear it when she took them to school this morning!! My oldest nephew has just moved up to big school & is loving it, he's joined loads of clubs & next week has to audition to join drum club. I always swore i'd buy my sister's kid a drum & stuck to my word a few years ago when I bought J a little drum, now he's trying out for drum club I am so proud, mind you I think sis may get her own back once my little un is old enough. My youngest nephew has started little school, he goes part time for another month then full time, he loves it apart from on monday when his mum asked what he'd done, his reply was 'loads of boring stuff'.

As for the weekend itself we see a return of my beloved formula 1, this weekend the race is in China, the qualifying is on saturday mid afternoon but the race coverage starts at 6 am on sunday so gotta be up early to watch it live. It's a strange thing but watching the rerun, even if I don't know the result is not as exciting as watching it live, I don't know why because the result's the same but it has to be live everytime for me. Then next week i'm on earlies all week so even more early mornings for me.......then up for 5am the following week for the race in Japan. I must be mad.

Mind you I have got the week off starting 9th oct so looking forward to that, even if I do have to go to the dentists on the monday. That's the week we have the next scan & we'll be able to get the picture from the last scan, can't wait. In answer to Phoenix's question, yes Nic is starting to show her bump ( or peanut as we call it!! ). I sometimes read to the baby, thats one of the things I am looking forward to the most, being able to read to l'il Vamp. As kids me & my sister were brought up to love books & we both still read a lot, I am hoping my child will get as much pleasure from books as I have. Although I would miss my racing ( at least I think I still will after Schumi says goodbye ) I could easily live without a tv as long as I had plenty of books to read, I remember as a child at christmas once we were old enough to read my sister & i always got our favourite annuals by our beds, this way we would get up and open this one present & spend the next hour reading it thereby giving our parents an extra hour in bed. I have recently seen a box set of Roald Dahl books which I am thinking of getting for when l'il vamp's older, it has all the books I loved reading when I was younger, the twits, george's marvellous medicine, fantastic mr fox & loads more. It's never too early to start reading to the little 'uns.

Right its time I said goodbye again, I am reading 'the brightonomicon' by Robert Rankin at the moment and want to get on with it. If you haven't read any of his books give them a try, very funny. Once I've read this one it'll be back on to the Clive Cussler books.

Take care all.... Vamp x