Tiredness and Happiness
This weekend is my weekend to clean the house, and since my TiE company have decided to meet tomorrow round someone's house for food and films, I decided it was best to get it out of the way today. I hereby dub today "Housework Day", as it feels like that's all I've been doing ALL day.
I decided to try and get all my washing up to date first of all, since I needed to change one set of sheets ready for Tor, and then had to wash the towels (a separate wash). This constituted two rounds of washing going into the machine and individually being pegged outside. Then I had to catch up on my ironing, since I had a pile left from washing done last weekend and during the week. All in all I must have ironed about 30 odd pieces of clothing... taking me a couple of hours. Then I set to cleaning the dirty filthy house. It took me a good long while to do the kitchen (which was a bit of a state) a little while to do the lounge, a struggle to hoover two flights of curvy stairs, and not too long to do the bathroom (well practiced at this one from last year). Doing my room is always easy, and then I had to clean out the fish etc as well. All in all, the whole lot from start to finish took me about 6 hours. I am knackered.
Job Update:
After reading the message my mum left me about Monsoon in Norwich recruiting for Christmas last night, I decided to give them a ring this morning to plead my case. To my surprise, this wasn't necessary. When I phoned, the line went straight through to the manager Michelle, and when I introduced myself she easily remembered me and then explained that she was in the middle of ringing people to find out whether they'd be available for Christmas work. I explained that it was the reason why I was ringing, and she then asked me when I'd be available to start! It was brilliant - I was so worried about what I was going to say and how I was going to ask about work, but I never had to, and all I had to to was explain when I was coming home and confirm my mobile number :) Just shows that I wasn't supposed to have the job at La Senza anyway - this way, I can come home and generate Christmas spending money!
Fishy Update:
Pearl seems to have settled well into her new home, and Pips isn't chasing her any more. In fact, at times they almost copy each other exactly, and others they swim completely separately from each other, almost ignoring the other fish! Strange fishies. The worrying thing is that, although she wasn't doing it when I first had her, and for about the first day, Pearl seems to be displaying the same strange behaviour as Pips now. She does seem to only do it when he does, and she's always up very close to him when she does it, so she could actually be copying him.. although of course it worries me. I've checked all of the levels in the tank and everything is perfect, so I'm going to monitor the behaviour a little more and if they're still doing it after the weekend (when I can get the bus out to Colton), I'll take a water sample to Pets at Home to see if they can find anything wrong with the water that I can't. One theory I have is that they're looking for food. Pips only started doing this after I reduced his feeding amounts, and since they've both got used to finding the food floating on the surface, maybe they're trying to tell me they're hungry.. of course I'm not going to feed them extra, but it's a possibility.
Cute fishy pic of the day:
I decided to try and get all my washing up to date first of all, since I needed to change one set of sheets ready for Tor, and then had to wash the towels (a separate wash). This constituted two rounds of washing going into the machine and individually being pegged outside. Then I had to catch up on my ironing, since I had a pile left from washing done last weekend and during the week. All in all I must have ironed about 30 odd pieces of clothing... taking me a couple of hours. Then I set to cleaning the dirty filthy house. It took me a good long while to do the kitchen (which was a bit of a state) a little while to do the lounge, a struggle to hoover two flights of curvy stairs, and not too long to do the bathroom (well practiced at this one from last year). Doing my room is always easy, and then I had to clean out the fish etc as well. All in all, the whole lot from start to finish took me about 6 hours. I am knackered.
Job Update:
After reading the message my mum left me about Monsoon in Norwich recruiting for Christmas last night, I decided to give them a ring this morning to plead my case. To my surprise, this wasn't necessary. When I phoned, the line went straight through to the manager Michelle, and when I introduced myself she easily remembered me and then explained that she was in the middle of ringing people to find out whether they'd be available for Christmas work. I explained that it was the reason why I was ringing, and she then asked me when I'd be available to start! It was brilliant - I was so worried about what I was going to say and how I was going to ask about work, but I never had to, and all I had to to was explain when I was coming home and confirm my mobile number :) Just shows that I wasn't supposed to have the job at La Senza anyway - this way, I can come home and generate Christmas spending money!
Fishy Update:
Pearl seems to have settled well into her new home, and Pips isn't chasing her any more. In fact, at times they almost copy each other exactly, and others they swim completely separately from each other, almost ignoring the other fish! Strange fishies. The worrying thing is that, although she wasn't doing it when I first had her, and for about the first day, Pearl seems to be displaying the same strange behaviour as Pips now. She does seem to only do it when he does, and she's always up very close to him when she does it, so she could actually be copying him.. although of course it worries me. I've checked all of the levels in the tank and everything is perfect, so I'm going to monitor the behaviour a little more and if they're still doing it after the weekend (when I can get the bus out to Colton), I'll take a water sample to Pets at Home to see if they can find anything wrong with the water that I can't. One theory I have is that they're looking for food. Pips only started doing this after I reduced his feeding amounts, and since they've both got used to finding the food floating on the surface, maybe they're trying to tell me they're hungry.. of course I'm not going to feed them extra, but it's a possibility.
Cute fishy pic of the day:
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Great news about the job, its strange but it is kinda nice to be working at Christmas. I hope Pips and Pearl are ok!
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