03 Apr
Things I’m Grateful For on Thursday 3 April
I’ve found these things to be grateful for or appreciate today:
- A good night’s sleep. I got up at 10:00AM today, when I was ready to get up.
- I’ve managed to sort out the time I have to spare before work. 1hr to be spent blogging, and another hour to be spent showering, eating and dressing.
- Clean uniform. I (rather shamefully) burst the button off my work trousers the other day,
so now I only have the one pair. I’m just glad I actually have that pair, though, because I’d be stuck without them. 
- Hot coffee.
- The snooze/alarm features on my phone.
- I’m only working the afternoon shift, on the tills. Vicki is on too, so I should be able to get a laugh in somewhere.
- My glasses.
- I have a water bottle for work, which is going to save me 98p. Which is a ridiculous amount of money for bottled water.
- I still have a half a tank of fuel in the car. Which is a thing pretty much unheard of.
- Being able to read and write. And being able to fake it enough to carry the rest.
- A nice morning shower. I feel much more awake now.
- Remembering to grab the new toothpaste tube before I got into the shower. Otherwise, I would have had to get out of the shower (never a fun thing to do), run across the landing starkers, grab the toothpaste and then get back in the shower. Which would have probably scared the dog.
- Bamboo flannels.
- Watching A Town Called Eureka last night. I love the show, and the fact that the lead actor is cute doesn’t hurt.
- I’ve been paid back by another $6 on Kiva.org. I’m up to $313 now.
- The tumble dryer.
- My backup system for the blog.
- Safe driving.
- Work went quite well.
- Laughing with Vicki. We kept sniggering at one another like a couple of naughty schoolkids.
- I nabbed some pages from the paper for some free plants. And I got a free bottle of coke plus (which has vitamin C in it - you don’t get the flu, but it still rots your teeth), and some Nobby’s nuts.
- I saved £5.76 by using my staff discount card, and made another 80p on top of that with cashback and my clubcard.
- Tasty food.
- I reminded myself to water the plants. Which they needed, seeing as how it’s the first time they’ve been done this year.
- I have access to enough cash to refill the fuel tank on the way home from work tomorrow.
- Hot fruit tea.
- I made 50p from another YouGov survey.
- More evidence of healing T.
- Watching another couple of episodes of A Town Called Eureka.
- After Eight ice cream. Delicious!
- Not having to cook a meal - I found some stir fry in the freezer.
- I seem to be on an unusual high tonight. Maybe it’s the E numbers from those nuts I ate earlier, but I seem to be feeling what I’d call “happy”. A most agreeable feeling. I feel friendly, and capable of appreciating beauty. And excitable. I haven’t felt like this for over a decade. But I’m feeling it tonight. And that is what matters.
Things I’ve laughed at today:
- Laughing with Vicki. Again, about nothing.
- I had a customer come in work with BO. The guy stank. I served him, and he went away (thank god!). Just as he left the till, an old lady came down to the till, pushing her grandson in a pushchair. Very clearly and loudly, the kid asked “What’s that smell?”. His nan and I looked at each other, and I got the giggles straight away.
- A rather well-to-do middle aged woman came down to the till with her 2 children. The daughter was about 10 or 11, and the son was a few years younger. The daughter bought a sealed packet of toys, which I scanned, put down on the desk, and she picked up again. I told the mother how much it was, and the daughter asked her mom to open the bag. He mother told her no, and gave me the money. I was turned back to the till when I heard the mother exclaim “Don’t open it with your teeth!“.
- I served a cute guy at the till, and he opened his bottle of water right away, and started drinking it. Straight away I thought “Slurp! Slurp!”*.
- These dead cat jokes. Especially with the first one.
Things I want to manifest:
- A good day at work. MANIFESTED.
- Definiteness of purpose.
Things I’ve done for others:
- Fetched the milk in.
- Served on the till.
- Made my colleagues laugh.
*If you’re wondering what this is about, watch Angels in America.
I learned a new phrase from you today “starkers” — assuming that means naked. I’ll have to throw that into conversation when my husband gets home tonight saying something like, don’t want to be caught starkers.
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April 3rd, 2008 at 1:15 pmthe best food disclaimer i’ve ever seen was on a certain brand of bottled water in the uk:
“safe for vegetarians”
what?
safe for vegetarians??
makes you wonder what the other bottled water has floating in it that we don’t know about…
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April 3rd, 2008 at 4:43 pmOn May 2 at 6:01 PM, Solomon said:
Yep. A synonym is “in the nuddy”.
On May 2 at 11:12 PM, Nit said:
Pesticides, cow growth hormones, fluoride, chlorine, Jimmy Hoffa….
Did you know that it’s thought that every molecule of water has been through someone else’s kidneys at east 5 times before you drink it?
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:28 pmI’ve never heard that (kidney thing) about water. Hm. Great idea on your own bottle, though…the bottled water industry is so ridiculous.
And tumble dryers! Towels are so much nicer when they’re fluffy.
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:04 pmOn May 2 at 7:24 PM, sandy (momisodes) said:
There is a restaurant somewhere that offers you a choice of 30 water’s from around the world. Kinda like wine, each water has it’s own distinct flavour. Part of me finds it funny that this should happen, and part of me is appalled that there are people in the world who are dying for lack of water, and we have water snobs. I sometimes wonder about this species.
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:16 pmSew the button back on your pants using a bit of “elastic thread.” Then it will give instead of breaking the stitches.
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April 3rd, 2008 at 9:55 pmOn May 3 at 11:33 AM, Solomon said:
I’d never heard of that stuff before. Thanks.
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:20 pmAh, waking at 10am sounds lovely
And yes, I hate having to step out of the shower to go back in too.
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April 3rd, 2008 at 10:36 pmOn May 4 at 4:11 PM, quin said:
You know what? I get to do it again tomorrow too.
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:45 pmThe 30 types of water thing is hilarious - but I do have to say that the best bottled water I’ve ever had is a brand called “Sidi Harazem” from Morocco - I actually brought 4 bottles back in my luggage with me. On more than one occasion.
I know, I know - it’s just water - I wouldn’t buy any of the brands they sell here in the States, but God do I love that SH. LOL.
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:50 pmOk…
I read #24, and then saw the smiley, and now you owe me a new keyboard and cup of coffee!
:shakes head: I’m *still* laughing at that one, lol!! (Good thing it’s only April, yes?)
No matter what I’m feeling like, I’m like a little kid whenever I see the dancing vegetables… I WANT ONE!!! [LOL!]
As for water, Waiterrant.net calls tap water ’source municipal’ when offering it to his patrons… goes over well with those that have a sense of humor :-)…
I’m still mentally working on paying for bottled water … ['Whaaaat?!? Pay for WATER?!? When we have perfectly good FREE water coming out of the faucet?!?] Don’t get me started, lol!!
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April 4th, 2008 at 3:55 amOn May 3 at 5:51 PM, Eve said:
That must be some very tasty …umm… water.
On May 3 at 3:18 PM, Solomon said:
Yep. And, it’s only just April. It’s not like it’s the end of April is it? [smiles brightly]
April 4th, 2008 at 9:08 amWhen I worked at a fast food place, there was a homeless guy that would sometimes come in and buy coffee.
One time he was at the front counter, paying for his coffee, when a customer who had just got his food and sat down to eat, brought his food back and said “I want my money back! I can’t eat here with that horrible smell! Don’t you guys ever clean in here?!”
I gave him his money back without saying a word. If he was too dumb to know where the smell was coming from, I didn’t want him in the restaurant! ;op
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April 4th, 2008 at 5:04 pmOn May 5 at 1:46 AM, gafarmwoman said:
I had a guy come in the shop today, who was quite clearly off his trolley. He was talking about some politician being in hospital, and then asked me if he was going to get a response. Other than “WTF are you jabbering about”, no he wasn’t.
April 4th, 2008 at 6:50 pm