Happy 2012

 

I thought that I would sit down with a very milky coffee and write an entry before I hit the hay for the night.

 

Firstly I think I should start by saying Happy New Year! So far my NY has been alright. I haven’t actually had an argument as such yet.

 

For the last few weeks I’ve been working my arse off, sleeping and tending to my horses. I’ve been working at the crisp factory down the road from the coffee factory I was at. It’s been pretty good and it’s so easy. I did 4 days of 6am til 2.30pm and then last week I was suppose to be doing 1.30pm til 10pm Wednesday to Friday but on Thursday we were done by 9pm so he let us go home and paid us til 10 and then Friday it was just cleaning so we went in for 9am until we finished, which was at 1.25pm but we’re getting paid til 2pm (:

 

A couple of the people who I’ve been working with are a tad odd. One of them is gay but has never had a partner and I’ve been told a story about him wanking in a crisp packet then bringing it down onto the factory floor to show everyone. Another guy is a tight arse and refuses to leave work early for fear of missing out. The same guy wears the same clothes all week, never washes his lunch box or flask and reads ‘dirty’ books, but not dirty as in the content, dirty as in the pages and cover are so dirty you’d think he’d picked it up out of a dumpster! The team leader looks a bit like Alan Carr (not that it’s a bad thing) and the only woman on the shift is a moody cow with a tendency to tell everyone everything you’ve told her. The other 3 seem to be normal so far but they could just not be showing their crazy side lol.

 

I’m trying to make the most of the work this week because it will be my last week with the agency because next week I start a full time permanent job. The company advertising the job I applied for back in September (that I had a maths and English test as well as an interview for) finally got back to me about a week and a half ago to offer me a position. I haven’t told the agency yet and I need to do that tomorrow so that I get all the money I’m owed – which I believe is my week in hand back and any holiday I’ve accrued (3 days my reckoning). I’m actually really excited to start this new job. My days of bumming from job to job are finally over and I can finally get my life back on track. No longer will I have to budget my money for the week. I’ll just be able to go and fill my car up with petrol and not have to be all ‘ZOMG I only have £xx.xx so I can only use £xx.xx’. George and I will be able to go out for meals and out on trips out places like we used to. I can finally start looking towards buying that iMac that I have so desperately wanted for the last 3 years or more. I mean once we’ve got all our bills and finances in order then that’s where life is going to begin.

 

This year is going to be amazing. It hadn’t even started and I had a massive smile on my face from the job offer. I have plenty of road trips I want to go on and plenty of things I’d like to do.  My main goal this year is to get Vinnie all sorted so Sue and I can go riding and not have to worry that he’s going to bolt off. I’d like to try and teach him to jump so we can take part in a few local shows and let him strut his stuff He loves going out for a walk, or should I say ‘exploring’ because he’s got a habit of getting his nose into everything. I’m also hoping to get another tattoo or two. I proved to myself that I could stand the pain of the tattoo needles on my ankle for my first tattoo so anywhere else should be a total breeze.. ha! so she says.

 

Skiddy just turned 22 years old so her work life will continue to be one day a week. She’s lost a bit of weight in the last 2 weeks and I’ve been trying to get it put back on and just when I thought I’d failed, I was proven wrong. I had to readjust her rugs this afternoon because she had somehow gotten it over her head and twisted and one strap had come undone. Well I had a look at her rib area and it seems she’s put a little bit of weight on so now I can no longer see her ribs sticking out. Once all my bills are paid this weekend and I’ve bought the bits and pieces I need, if I have any money left then I’m going to treat her to a nice new under blanket/stable rug. She had a really amazing and cosy one but I had to chuck it out at the beginning of the summer because rats had chewed it and covered it in pee and poo ):

 

Another thing I would like to achieve in 2012 is to try and avoid all drama and try to keep my mouth shut. I’ve shown myself that I’m capable of doing it, even though it’s been hard to do. I’m not going to allow anyone to get me kicked out of my job. If people want to talk about other people and then they look at me like ‘well, what’s your opinion?’ I’m just gunna be like, I’m not getting involved. I want to try and change. I don’t want to be the person that people look at and think ‘Bitch’ just because of what they’ve heard. I want to be the nice person who gives people a chance to get to know me but I want them to also know that if they cross the line then I’ll sure as hell kick their ass and make them realise what they just did.