Mid Weekly Update...

Ok, my post yesterday wasn't really a post as such, so I thought I'd update you all on my life this week...

(Helen, I can see you sitting at the back, sit up straight and stop yawning..)

Ok, well my first very important news is that I now have my own nation.

It is called the Republic Of Hobbitaslavia, and you can visit it here.

Also, several interesting things happenned this week:

1. We had a nutter coming in to the shop telling us we were (and I quote) "working for the enemy" because we sell communion wafers to catholics. How we are meant to recognize catholics on sight, and why someone would go on and on for 20 minutes about a piece of processed bread I really do not know, but he did.

He seemed to get very angry because I desperately tried not to laugh, as the cap he was wearing had a slogan that said "no war" on it, and the irony just left me in stitches...

Apparently he's not going to shop with us again, which is a miraculous event in itself because I've never seen him in the shop before, and I've been working here eight and a half years...
Perhaps he's abiding by the Jubilee Law of Shopping and not going into a bookshop until every seventh year or something... *yawns* anyway...

2. We bought biscuits. Now, usually this wouldn't qualify as world-shattering news, apart from the fact that we bought LOTS of biscuits, and many varieties for out tea breaks, which, as we don't have official ones, are many and at various times throughout the day!! We now have Pink Panther Wafers, Lemon Puffs, Nice Biscuits, (pronounced "niece") Jammy Dodgers, Custard Creams, Malted Milk Biscuits, Digestive Creams, and Mini Shortbreads.

3. I have just completed Month End Accounts yesterday, which I hate with total abandon. I spent the day looking up and down rows and rows of Microsoft Excel sheets and making them balance, which was NOT fun. In my desperation for comfort, I managed to eat sixteen biscuits yesterday, which I think is a personal record.

4. In order to appease my guilt at all the biscuit eating I did during the day, and because I am meeting various peoples from chat over this next weekend, I decided to punish myself last night by going to the gym. I warmed myself up by doing 15 minutes on the rowing machine, (by the way it's "row" as in row, row, row your boat, not as in shouting at a machine and getting very angry for 15 minutes) and then I proceeded to cycle on the stationery bike for and hour and 20 minutes, whilst listening to a sermon on my Ipod. I wore myself out and cycled approximately 20km, and now have a gluteous maximus of steel, though walking home it felt made up of very bruised lumpy material!! I must remember to take it easy, otherwise being saddle sore will be a permanent feature of my new fitness regime... I then had not eaten since the biscuits, so had approximately seven glasses full of a 7 fruit smoothie I had made for myself, with approximately 2 pints of water. (I won't go into to details for those of a nervous disposition, but I sweated ALOT when i was cycling)

5. I then chatted with margo on msn for most of the rest of the evening, although for some wierd reason grinned my way through most of the conversation, and couldn't stop from smiling!! (I think it's a hobbit disease)

6. On saturday, i am meeting up with fellow chatters at Alton Towers, and also meeting some chatters on Monday, in a secret undiclosed location!! Much frivolity and cackling laughter will be had at both events, and I shall bring back incriminating pictures to post, taken with my camera ;)

That's it, I'm exhausted now.

Oh, p.s. margo is dissapearing for roughly a week as she is on holiday... lucky person that she is... please leave her lots of humourous comments and general insults so she can read them when she gets back... :p