I’ve just this minute found out that you’ve gotten your girlfriend pregnant.

I should be very happy for you, when in fact I’d quite like to knock your head off of something very hard, tie your hands behind your back and demand to borrow the TARDIS from The Doctor in order to go back a few months so that you never meet her.

We (me, the boyfriend and friends) have told you since day one that she was out to get everything she could from you. First it was staying in your house 24/7, even when you were at work or with us. Next it was unofficially moving in with you, then getting a key to your house when you wouldn’t even give your friends of at least 10 years one for case of emergency. Then she got kicked out of college for never showing up because hanging on to your every word was more important than her education.

Next came the jokes of how she’d deliberately fall pregnant in order to ‘keep’ you and get money from the government. Yes, even you made these jokes.

You don’t ‘do’ kids. You’ve always, always said that if you actually managed to get a girl pregnant you’d make her get rid of it (you always are a charmer that way). In fact at the moment you’re drinking yourself under the table with the boys, just to forget.

I love you as a friend, I really do. The fact that I don’t find your girlfriend very interesting has nothing to do with the fact that at the moment I think you are the biggest idiot on the planet. Because you knew what her little plan was and yet here we go, you’ve fallen for it hook, line and sinker

I really hope that this is what you want, friend. Because you’ve now got to grow up. No more drinking as much as you can every weekend, getting drunker than the weekend before. All nighters? Yes you’ll still have them but not in the way you still do. And more to the fact, somebody else will rely on you. Yes, you. The person who finds is acceptable to eat 2 days out of date meat and eggs and mix your drink and drugs. The boy who still acts 16 even though you’re 23. In around 9 months there will be a little you on this planet (god help us all), needing you to do everything for them. You can’t even phone your own taxi home most weekends.

Don’t get me wrong, we’ll all be there for you. But I think your an idiot, really I do.

Messy Room, originally uploaded by Melissa Gray.

This is a photo I took of my room on the 22nd April. It’s now the 3rd June and even though I tidied it all back then, it’s in an even worse state now. So my task for this afternoon is to completly gut it.

I’m going to rearrange it, throw out everything that I don’t need anymore (like 8 year old nail varnish, anyone?) and sell anything that’s still in good nick and people will find useful, like my old Dell Inspiron for spares & repairs only mind because it’s wrecked.

I can also see all my books being sold, they’re threatening to take over my room at the moment, as well as clothes. I have so many but can never find anything to wear. I’ve been to Oxfam 4 times so far this year and yet I still keep finding more clothes lying around…not to mention that bags and bags of my stuff that’s at the boyfriends house.

Right, enough blogging - I’m going to tidy. Anything to take my mind off the fact I’m not smoking and have a horrid pain in my lungs :/

I’m having the nightmare of all nightmares. It all began yesterday…

My area manager came into the shop and wanted to talk to me. I thought he was going to pull me up for being 10 minutes later the other day, but he was in fact telling me that in 5 weeks time I’m moving to an other store as a supervisor (ie my current job within the company). The way it goes is that I’m leaving the shop that I’m in (and love), and I don’t have a choice in the matter. Apparantly the manager, other supervisor and I have ‘too close a working relationship’ and are too clique-y. Uh, what? Surely getting on with your work mates is a good thing, and we are a bloody good team! Also there’s the small fact that an other supervisor HAS to be moved from the store that he’s in and the only one he can come to is mine, and that means one of us goes - ME!

The shop that they’re proposing that I move to is hard for me to get to because I don’t drive - it’s 8 miles away and the bus stop is one mile away from the store, and I’d need to walk through an industrial estate at 10pm to get to said bus stop. I’m not putting my life in danger to get to work in a shop I don’t want to go to, even though that’s exactly what seems to be happening. I admit that this new shop is a lovely, lovely shop if it was tidy and that I need experience in as many different shops as possible before I get offered a manager’s position but the fact that I’m being pushed into it isn’t sitting well with me at all.

I can say no, as I have a joker up my sleeve - my contract which states that I do not have to move to another shop unless it is within a certain distance of the current shop that I’m working in. I’m still waiting to hear back from the second time that I said no to the area manager earlier this morning. But, he’s also said that ‘to think about what I’m saying no to’ which confuses me a bit.

Needless to say, I’m not a happy bunny at the moment - I’m stressed and worried and downright pissed off that I’m leaving the shop that I love and my friends. But, saying that…everything happens for a reason, doesn’t it?

I’ll keep you updated!!

1. Melissa Gray can speak braille.
2. Melissa Gray can slam revolving doors.
3. Melissa Gray can eat a rubix cube and crap it out solved.
4. Melissa Gray does not hunt because the word hunting implies the possibility of failure. Melissa Gray goes killing.
5. Melissa Gray and Superman once fought each other on a bet. The loser had to start wearing their underwear on the outside of their pants.
6. Melissa Gray beat a wall at tennis. Yes. A WALL.
7. Melissa Gray does not sleep. She waits.
8. On her birthday, Melissa Gray randomly selects one lucky child to be thrown into the sun.
9. Melissa Gray sleeps once every 2 weeks, for half an hour, standing up, with her eyes open, and she looks pissed off.
10. Melissa Gray is allergic to doorknobs. Thats why she can only kick through doors.
11. If it looks like chicken, tastes like chicken, and feels like chicken but Melissa Gray says its beef, then it’s beef.
12. Melissa Gray doesn’t have to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Tall buildings duck under Melissa Gray.
13. Melissa Gray was originally cast as the main character in 24, but was replaced by the producers when she managed to kill every terrorist and save the day in 12 minutes and 37 seconds.
14. Melissa Gray doesn’t read books. She stares them down until she gets the information she wants.
15. World champion eater Takeru Kobayashi once ate 53.5 hot dogs in 12 minutes. Allotted the same time, Melissa Gray ate Kobayashi.
16. Melissa Gray died ten years ago, but the Grim Reaper can’t get up the courage to tell her.
17. Melissa Gray once visited the Virgin Islands. They are now The Islands.
18. Leading hand sanitizers claim they can kill 99.9 percent of germs. Melissa Gray can kill 100 percent of whatever the heck she wants.
19. Melissa Gray sleeps with a night light. Not because Melissa Gray is afraid of the dark, but the dark is afraid of Melissa Gray
20. Melissa Gray is the reason why Waldo is hiding.
21. Melissa Gray doesn’t have a computer. Just a basement full of Asian kids that memorize numbers.
22. Melissa Gray’s calendar goes straight from March 31st to April 2nd; no one fools Melissa Gray.
23. Melissa Gray’s dog is trained to pick up her own poop because Melissa Gray will not take crap from anyone.
24. Melissa Gray once stated that she "doesn’t wail on sissy boys." This led to the pink polo shirts with popped collars craze. Little do those pitiful fools know that Melissa Gray was just making it easier to find sissy boys to wail on.
25. When Melissa Gray gives you the finger, she’s telling you how many seconds you have left to live.
26. Melissa Gray always asks for the same Christmas gift: A box of Smurfs and a sledgehammer.
27. If you play Led Zeppelin’s "Stairway to Heaven" backwards, you will hear Melissa Gray laughing at you.
28. Melissa Gray has beat the crap out of so many people over her brilliant life that most medical journals now classify her as a laxative.
29. Melissa Gray can kill two stones with one bird.
30. Whenever Melissa Gray plays Chutes and Ladders, she treats the chutes as ladders, because she’s not some sissy who can’t climb up a plastic slide.
31. Melissa Gray counted to infinity - twice.
32. When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night he checks his closet for Melissa Gray.
33. On a high school math test, Melissa Gray put down "Violence" as every one of the answers. She got an A+ on the test because Melissa Gray solves all her problems with Violence.
34. Melissa Gray had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow, and anywhere Melissa Gray went the lamb was sure to go. So she killed it.
35. Melissa Gray’s blood type is WD-40.
36. Melissa Gray can predict the shuffle on her iPod.
37. Melissa Gray puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".
38. Melissa Gray destroyed the periodic table, saying Melissa Gray only recognizes the element of surprise.
39. Melissa Gray can delete the Recycling Bin.
40. Melissa Gray can do a wheelie on a unicycle.
41. Melissa Gray became a vegetarian not because she loves animals, but because she hates plants.
42. When Melissa Gray plays any video game, God mode automatically turns on.
43. You are what you eat. That is why Melissa Gray’s diet consists entirely of bricks, steel, and the tears of small children.
44. Melissa Gray invented the hammer when she was tired of using her forehead to slam nails into wood.
45. The last man who made eye contact with Melissa Gray was Ray Charles.
46. Melissa Gray’s family wraps her holiday presents in lead, so she can’t see what’s in them.
47. Melissa Gray irons her shirts while she’s wearing them.
48. The popular videogame "Doom" is based loosely around the time Satan borrowed two bucks from Melissa Gray and forgot to pay her back.
49. What scientists thought was natural selection is actually only the continued survival of animals Melissa Gray has found too chewy to eat.
50. Melissa Gray was fired from the Psychic Friends Network for always predicting pain.
51. Onions do not make Melissa Gray cry. Melissa Gray makes onions crap themselves.
52. If you haven’t seen Alien vs. Predator yet, don’t bother, Melissa Gray wins.
53. Melissa Gray is able to rip a phone book in half with just one hand.
54. Melissa Gray once won a game of Connect Four in 3 moves.
55. There is no theory of evolution, just a list of creatures Melissa Gray allows to live.
56. Only once has Melissa Gray ever cried. The only survivors were a bunch of animals and some dude named Noah.
57. Melissa Gray is the only person in the world who can actually give 110%.
58. Melissa Gray can set ants on fire with a magnifying glass. At night.
59. Melissa Gray once got caught doing 100 in a 50 zone. The cop did give her a speeding ticket, however Melissa Gray still pleads her innocence to this day, stating that she was simply out for a morning jog.
60. The grass is always greener on the other side, unless Melissa Gray has been there. In that case the grass is most likely soaked in blood and tears.
61. Melissa Gray used to beat the crap out of her shadow because it was following to close. It now stands a safe 30 feet behind her.
62. The eternal conundrum "what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object" was finally solved when Melissa Gray punched herself in the face.
63. Crop circles are Melissa Gray’s way of telling the world that sometimes corn needs to lie the hell down.
64. Melissa Gray wears a cup not to protect herself, but to protect the players on the other team.
65. When Melissa Gray goes to donate blood, she declines the syringe, and instead requests a hand gun and a bucket.
66. Melissa Gray owns the greatest Poker Face of all-time. It helped her win the 1983 World Series of Poker despite her holding just a Joker, a Get out of Jail Free Monopoly card, a 2 of clubs, 7 of spades and a green #4 card from the game Uno.
67. Melissa Gray can make a paraplegic run for her life.
68. The only time Melissa Gray was wrong was when she thought she had made a mistake.
69. When Melissa Gray deletes files from her computer, she doesn’t send them to the Recycle Bin. She sends them to hell.
70. Melissa Gray invented black. In fact, she invented the entire spectrum of visible light. Except pink. Tom Cruise invented pink.
71. There are only four horsemen of the apocalypse, because Melissa Gray is going to walk.
72. Giraffes were created when Melissa Gray uppercutted a horse.
73. Once a cobra bit Melissa Gray’s leg. After five days of excruciating pain, the cobra died.
74. In an average living room there are 1,242 objects Melissa Gray could use to kill you, including the room itself.
75. The word "gay" derives from an old Latin phrase that roughly translates as "He who has not yet been introduced to Melissa Gray."
76. Superman owns a pair of Melissa Gray pajamas.
77. Melissa Gray does not believe that there are 50 states, only 2, because where ever she goes becomes a State of Emergency and whenever she leaves, she leaves a State of Destruction
78. When Melissa Gray gets pulled over she lets the cop off with a warning.
79. Weeping Willows are a result of Melissa Gray yelling at trees for not being tough enough.
80. The United States Federal Reserve Bank decided that Melissa Gray’s basement was a much safer place for their gold than Fort Knox.
81. Melissa Gray played Russian Roulete with a fully loaded gun and won.
82. Melissa Gray was once on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune and was the first to spin. The next 29 minutes of the show consisted of everyone standing around awkwardly, waiting for the wheel to stop.
83. Melissa Gray doesn’t play "hide-and-seek." She plays "hide-and-pray-I-don’t-find-you."
84. The movie Ray is loosely based on the life of Melissa Gray, only they substituted piano playing for eating toddlers, and blindness for the ability to fly.
85. If at first you don’t succeed, you must not be Melissa Gray.
86. Melissa Gray can watch a season of "24" in just three hours.
87. Getting murdered by Melissa Gray counts as a natural cause of death.
88. Melissa Gray is the only one who can "try this at home."
89. Melissa Gray is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for her left and right legs.
90. Melissa Gray can tie her shoes with her feet.
91. Melissa Gray has the heart of a child. She keeps it in a small box.
92. Melissa Gray knows the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow (African *AND* European).
93. When Melissa Gray enters a room, she doesn’t turn the lights on, she turns the dark off.
94. Santa Claus actually *did* exist until he accidentally skipped Melissa Gray’s house one Christmas.
95. The end result of the game "Clue" is always the same: Melissa Gray was the murderer, it was in the orphanage, and the weapon was a hamster.
96. Circles exist because Melissa Gray beat the crap out of some squares.
97. Melissa Gray was born with the right to party. Unlike the rest of us, who have to fight for it.
98. A Handicap parking sign does not signify that this spot is for handicapped people. It is actually in fact a warning, that the spot belongs to Melissa Gray and that you will be handicapped if you park there.
99. Melissa Gray does not know where you live, but she knows where you will die.
100. If Melissa Gray wants some shade, she stares the sun down until it eclipses.

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I absolutely adore live music, the thrill of being in the same room as somebody famous (I’m weird like that), hearing my favourite songs live with hundreds of other fans shouting the lyrics back at the artist and experience new music through support bands that I’ve maybe never heard of before.

I’ve kept a list (and the tickets) of all of the gigs and music festivals that I’ve attended since 2003, i.e. when I began going to gigs with the boyfriend instead of the Smash Hits Tour Party with school friends (cringe).

Taproot

Taproot played the Garage on January 2003 and were supported by Pulse Ultra. It was my first date with my boyfriend, so this gig’s special to me for obvious reasons! It was also the first time I’d been to a ‘real’ gig.

Placebo

April 2003 at the infamous Glasgow Barrowlands. Placebo are probably my most favorite band in the world and this was the first time that I saw them live. They were supported by The Faint who I weren’t too keen on. Brain Molko was as sexy as ever but they didn’t play Nancy Boy - very disappointing!

Marilyn Manson

The worst gig of my entire life! Manson and co played the Braehead Arena in June 2003. Well those of the band who hadn’t fallen out with each other and decided to do a disappearing act! After a forgetful warmup by Queen Andreena and hearing the full Rammstein - Mutter album twice through MM finally graced the stage. What a shame the sound in the Braehead arena is rubbish, it ruined the night!

Muse

At the all mighty SECC in November 2003. Again, this was the first time I went to see Muse live and they didn’t disappoint me! They were supported by Elbow who made me want to fall asleep. I don’t have much luck with support bands, I usually hate them!

Franz Ferdinand

Their amazing homecoming gig at the Glasgow QMU, broadcast live on Radio 1 in April 2004. For once I enjoyed to two support bands - Sons And Daughters and The Fiery Furnaces. I was right at the barrier for the entire gig but the venue’s that small I could have been upstairs and still be as close to the boys as I was at the front. I think I may have fallen in love with Alex Kapranos during this gig.

Download Festival / Gig On The Green

June 2004. Complete waste of money. Saw Machine Head, Iggy and the Stooges and The Distillers. We left before Lost Prophets and Linkin Park played. Funnily enough I don’t think Download’s been back in Glasgow since…

T In The Park

My first year at the awesome T was July 2004. Even though we were only there for the day I managed to cram in Black Eyed Peas, Keane, Mylo, Basement Jaxx, Faithless, The Darkness, Felix da Housecat, Tiefchwarz and Muse for the headline act. This day started my obsession with TITP.

Mauro Picotto

Not strictly a gig since he’s a DJ, but this night out at The Arches was a good one - little did I know that I knew so many of his songs already!

Franz Ferdinand

Seen my boys for the second time in December 2004, this time at the SECC. They were supported by the Kaiser Chiefs (yay!) and the Fire Engines, who were weird beyond belief. It’s such a shame that there were so many idiotic neds / chavs there ruining it all - just because they like ‘Take Me Out’ and spent the rest of the gig booing and getting drunk on watered down beer. Brilliant.

Electric Six

At the Barrowlands in Febuary 2005. Awesome gig, I loved it more than I ever thought that I would. Dick Valentine is a true showman, if not completly crazy!

Nine Inch Nails

July 05. The most amazing gig, ever. Trent was great live, didn’t really interact with the crowd although the crowd were singing back to him a lot, even though he was singing at a different time. Hilight of the night was either Hurt, Head Like a Hole or The Hand That Feeds. Supported by Saul Williams, who I didn’t enjoy but each to their own…

T In The Park

July 05. The day after NIN we headed to T In The Park for a weekend camping. Excellent weekend all in, saw Mylo, The Prodigy, Haysed Dixie, The Corel, The Killers, Keane, Joss Stone, Audioslave, Queens of the Stone Age, Snoop Dogg, New Order, The Streets, Jimmy Eat World, Ada, Butch Cassidy Sound System and Drive By Arguement.

T In The Park

T In The Park 2006, crammed in the following bands at some point in the weekend, Placebo, The Who, Hard-Fi, James Holden, 2 Many DJ’s, The Zutons, Lily Allen, My Robot Friend, Magic Numbers, Franz Ferdinand

T In The Park

Again, away for weekend camping in 2007 despite the horrendous mud situation! Completly missed the Friday night (yeah, thanks CityLink I wanted to spend 14 hours on a bus for a journey that should take 2) but managed to see The Fratellis, Just Jack, The Killers, My Chemical Romance, Goo Goo Dolls, Scissor Sisters, Queens Of The Stoneage, Jet.. and spent the rest of the time in the PKR fun casino!

I’m reading journals and blogs of friends both old and new and everybody is going away on holiday somewhere utterly cool this year. New York, China, Russia, Denmark. Me? Balado. Which is in Scotland. And where the greatest music festival in the world takes place on the first weekend of July each year - T In The Park. Although so far there’s only actually a few bands that I want to see - Newton Faulkner, Primal Scream, Scouting For Girls, The Hoosiers, Reverend And The Makers. I’m a bit worried that the Sugababes and Will Young are playing, Geoff Ellis what are you thinking man?

So, the countdown begins. It’s only 11 weeks away. Well actually, it’s in 11 weeks. And I can’t wait. Question is, are any of you going to T this year? Or any other music festivals?

I know that a lot of bloggers who use PayPerPost get slated. I’ve seen it referred to as ‘just like adverts on TV that I flick past’. The person was explaining why they do not read blogs which have sponsored posts; which is fair enough - each to their own. I for one actually quite enjoy reading sponsored posts as they show how great (usually) the blog writer’s imagination is. It’s a skill being able to write a review of a product / service and incorporate it into your blog, personal experience, writing style and making it keyword heavy all at the one time. It’s a challenge sometimes, but that’s why you’re getting paid for it!

As avid readers of my blog (go on, you know you all love me) you’ll probably have worked out that I use PayPerPost from time to time. I made a pact with myself when I signed up for the site way back in July 2007 that I would only take opportunities that were actually relevant to me personally or my blog. I have no interest in garage storage
cupboards or homeowner insurance, so why on earth would I want to blog about them and bore you all senseless with my opinion on something I’ve never used or had an experience with? Unfortunately not all Posties¹ do this, and all you get is page after page of sponsored posts about online gambling, poker websites and weight loss miracles². To date I’ve been paid for just 12 posts, and made a grand total of 80GBP. Nothing life changing but that money has been put towards paying my credit card debt which is getting smaller and smaller by the month. Thus helping reinstating my credit rating, making me a happy girl again. Today I’m amused to see myself on the day’s top earner list. 3rd as well. And only from posting one post, sweet.

Anyway, I digress. And I’m starting to think that this post sounds like a sponsored post. I can assure you that it isn’t, I’m not getting a single penny for biggin’ up PPP, as I’ve already done that and been paid for it.

What I am worried about is that these random, not-so-frequent paid posts are discouraging readership. Don’t get me wrong, my life doesn’t revolve around how many comments I receive or my Alexa rating but I don’t like the thought of pouring so much time and effort into my site, as I have done since 1998, only to be shooting myself in the foot and loosing out on readers (and more to the point, new friends and blogs to read etc) just because I make a few bucks writing about things that people don’t want to read about.

So my question is to you, dear reader, is this. What do you honestly think of PayPerPost blogs. Not just mine, although do feel free to make your feelings known, but any blog that sides on the money making side. Do you have a tolerance level? Do you just skip the posts you don’t want to read or do you delete the blog from your RSS reader the moment a “This posts was sponsored by…” tagline pops up? Or do you not really care and read every post anyway?

I’m actually really interested in knowing what you think, good or bad. Everybody has their opinions so please share yours.

EDIT:This post has had over 200 views and only one comment, so I’ve added a poll for quick opinion posting. I like opinions, please pick one!

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²Weight loss miracles do not exist. All you need is portion control and some exercise and commitment!

So it appears that my friends are idiotic, pathetic non-friends.

Last night we all went 10 pin bowling and had a complete blast, it was the typical story of we all go bowling and play amazingly bad in the first game (I got 90 points in 10 frames, that is cringe-worthy. Although I did manage to throw a size 8 ball at 16.2mph), get drunk and play brilliantly in the second game. About half way through the second game I gave up playing, I’d been trying to perfect spinning the ball down the lane instead of it just rolling and hurt my wrist. I ended up putting about £10 into a driving arcade game and winning 4 games of that while the boys took my go at bowling. Suited me just fine, as I don’t go in for the whole getting-so-drunk-you-can’t-stand-up thing that they were doing.

Midnight rolled around and the bowling was closing so I called the taxi company to order a cab but they didn’t have any hackney cars on, so I just ordered two cabs to take us back to the boyfriends - there were 5 of us and Scottish taxis are only licensed to carry 4 persons unless they have more than 4 seats (three in the back, one in the front). Boyfriend & I jumped in the first one while the our friends waited on the second car. Everything was going fine until they showed up at the boy’s house about 20 minutes after us - since they had to wait longer on the second car they’d been caught in the snow and were cold and moody. Understandable, but we had to take the first car since we had to let them into the house!

Throughout the night more drinking is done by them and tempers are fraying over the silliest little things. They want the windows open, I don’t since I’m sitting right under them and it’s snowing outside, so obviously it’s rather cold. Around 2.30am I start hinting to the boyfriend that I’d like to go to bed soon…I’m never nasty or evil about doing this, usually just whispering in his ear that it’s nearly bedtime and he’ll get lucky if we go soon! Anyways, one friend hears me saying this to my boyfriend and starts saying that all I ever do is try to throw them out of a house that I don’t even live in. I ignored him, but he says something rather evil and nasty to me about 10 minutes later and my boyfriend tells him not to talk to me that way. Cue shouting and fighting between the boys, and boyfriend’s mum shouting through the wall since she’s up for work in a few hours. Understandable, right?

Then at about 3am one of the boys, who I consider to be my closest friends, says something and then says “Oops, shouldn’t tell Mel that” while the boyfriend face goes sheet white. This gets my heart racing and I calmly asked “Don’t tell Mel what?” about 12 times before I’m told that a few weeks before Christmas my boyfriend was at said mate’s house and his girlfriend invited one of her friends over. The boyfriend fell asleep (he’s prone to do this on work days) and all my so-called-friends thought it would be funny to try and get this girl to try and kiss, fondle and whatever with my boyfriend stating “it’s ok, his girlfriend will never know”. I don’t think I’ve ever felt such anger towards my friends. I wasn’t angry at the boy, after all he was asleep and nothing happened, but I am furious at my friends. The reason that my boyfriend hadn’t told me was because he knew I’d fly off the handle. Which is exactly what I did. I called a taxi, gathered my things together and got ready to leave. In the end I canceled the taxi and sat downstairs crying, listening to my boyfriend and friends arguing until he threw them out his house 10 minutes later and came and hugged me for an eternity.

So now? I’m not talking to any of my friends. It appears that the boy isn’t talking to them either and I can’t believe that they would go behind my back for their amusement. Am I over-reacting? Possibly. But it’s made me realise that finally, I trust the boy 100%. And that I cannot trust my immature friends.

Damnit, why is life always so screwed up?

Well, haven’t I been a busy girl recently? Along with working over 45 hours a week I’ve managed to find time to work on my management training program quite a bit (currently sitting at 25,000 words!), arrange all my Christmas shopping before I even get paid and go and buy it all and set up two websites for clients! Granted the clients in question are family friends but still - it’s great to have something to add to my folio again. You’d never think that I could actually code a website from scratch considering both my website and livejournal are themes that I’ve tinkered with a lot!

As of next week I’ll have finished my Christmas shopping, paid off the remainder of my debt and finally had a night out with my old boss - it’s the shop’s Christmas night out on the 8th December and I can’t wait! It might just be a pub dinner and then heading into Glasgow city center afterwards but it’s going to be a blast since I haven’t seen boss-lady in a while and a few of the other guys that are going no longer cover my shop so I’ve not seen them in ages either!

It’s a shame that I won’t have my new camera by then, since I’m getting it for my Christmas from the boyfriend, but hey - I’ll take lots of camera phone pictures!

So, ladies and gents, what is Santa bringing you this year?