Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Secret agent Sam


OK, now, when you listen to this song you have to replace EVERY 'man' with 'Sam'. You now have my theme tune in your head!

Basically, I'm the WORST person you want looking into your life. You see, I have this absolutely awful problem, it's an addiction, really - and I hate that the internet makes it so easy to do. At least if the internet didn't exist I could possible make this addiction into a really badly paid job.

What is this I'm talking about? Spying. Yes. I said it. I, Sam won't-say-my-last-name (but if you were like me you'd have already found it), am a spying fiend. (Also, don't worry, I don't spy on people I don't know... only people I DO know in the realz worldz).

I can't help myself. If a friend or slight acquaintance has a website, twitter account or the 'should be secret' Tumblr page, I'm going to find it. I don't want to, but I can't help myself.

Recently I learnt 3 of my friends have Tumblr's. I do too, but I like to keep mine private, as it's kind of like a blogging diary, where I don't WANT people I know to read it. I don't want people I know to read this (bar a few), and I get the internet is a nice place to publicly share in an anonymous way. BUT MY BRAIN DOES NOT COMPUTE. I found their Tumblrs within seconds. I couldn't help it, the internet makes it SO easy to find things. SO easy... and then I learn that someone I know, who I want to keep an eye on (but we're not friends) has a twitter account. Now, I can't follow her, as I don't want her to know I spy on her... soooo... I now just type in the twitter address for her page and I check up on what she's doing (it's a VERY long story, but basically it's both entertaining and necessary to watch her movements).

I would hate to think of anyone I know doing this to me but I really can't stop myself, I love snooping. I'm not a gossiping person outside of the internet. Yeah, with really close friends I'll have a bitch and moan, but I don't gossip at work and I try not to get involved if others are (kind of), and I don't gossip about any of my friends if I can help it, but on the internet I'm a magnet for information.

I wish they did internet rehab - they probably do it in China... I'll just sit on my hands and try not to do it as much, ok? Good!

Hope I didn't make you all paranoid!

Sam

Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Gosh, Darn it!

I was lying in bed last night in a rage (because I had a very annoyingly rage-inducing evening) and was trying to go to sleep when I thought of what I wanted to blog about today. Turns out my memory is just as faulty when enraged, than when relaxed, so that's a plus... right?

No... you're right. It's a stupid fact. I hate starting the blog with 'I forgot what I was going to blog about', but it really is true. And last night I really DID have a good blog idea! Damn it!

So, what's new? Well, not much. I planned on eating healthily this past week, which has meant I've eaten far more rubbish than I normally would. It's one of those things, and I knew I shouldn't have said it out loud, but when you say 'I'm going to be healthy' you NEVER are. Ah well!

I recently purchased 5 items of clothings from Dorothy Perkins. I don't shop there, not because I don't like it, but because I generally don't actually shop. I hate shopping, especially for clothes. But I saw a nice dress in a magazine and I was all 'Ooh that's nice'. The end of this story isn't what you'd think. I didn't buy the dress I saw in the magazine! OHO! Keeping you on the edge of your seat, I know. No, I bought 2 other dresses and some tops and I will be blogging pictures of them at a later date because I know you all want me to show you my clothes! And I just remembered what my blog was going to be about. Kind of.

I wanted to make this blog more themed, but then I realised I don't. I like that my blog is random. It's just passing thoughts and what's fun about a theme? Well, in my case nothing. I can't stick to them so it doesn't work. So I am actually going to work on making this blog EVEN MORE RANDOM! Yes, there. I said it. Out loud... oh cripes. I've done myself a disservice. No. I'll break the pattern!

I need to go and blog about films I've watched recently. Don't get over excited, but the new Footloose is soon to make an appearance. What? It's not THAT bad... oh, ok... it is!

Live long, and prothper (I always thought Spock would be better with a lisp!)

Sam

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Things that annoy me.

I didn't write this post in a bad mood, I was just wandering around the house, fully dressed, but clothed also in slippers and a dressing gown, thinking about how I needed my hair doing. And then I was kind of hit with an array of things that people say and do to me that really really irk me. Let me begin.

1. When someone tells me how I should dye my hair WHITE blonde. It's always someone in my family, and it always wants me to just pull all my hair OUT. No, I wouldn't look good with white blonde hair. I'm pale, and I'd look like death personified. I like having dirty blonde hair, it's something that I just have and yes, I get highlights but no, I don't feel the need to bleach the life out of it. When someone says this to me, this is how I interpret it - "You look nice, but you COULD look nicer, if you do what I tell you."

2. When someone tastes food I have just cooked and says - "That's really nice, but you know what it's missing...?" And then they go on to reel off some ingredients that could make what I have made 'better'. This is how I interpret these helpful hints - "This is really nice, but I could make it better." 


3. When I write something at work (I write a lot of training manuals and notes), and someone else WRITES OVER what I wrote because it 'makes more sense this way'. NO. I will not be edited by someone who does not know what I was writing. I don't mind people suggesting I change wording to 'dumb it down' etc. But when someone writes over MY own words, thus kind of taking credit for the work, it makes me want to kill myself. And I mean that. This is how I interpret their suggestion - "Yeah, this is good, but I think if I write this bit better it will sound way better and I'll get credit for it". Note to all, whenever people do this to me they actual confuse matters even more.

4. When I get blamed for things other people don't do. Again, it's a work related thing - you see I 'fix' things at work. When the system is broken, I am the technical gal who does calculations and work arounds to figure out what should be done to fix said circumstance (hard to explain without really going into it, which is dull!). People who send things MY way to get fixed should write a note on the file to say what has happened. But they don't. And when things go WRONG because of this, it's kind of incinuated that I should have done their job for them. Now, I don't get paid to fix things, I do it because I like it, but managers and colleagues alike take the effing piss when they suggest something that isn't my fault is. This is how I interpret their effed-up attitudes - "You fixed this for him/her, why didn't you do the rest of their job for them?" Well, A. I'm not paid to, and 2. Because they are adults and they should be able to do their own work themselves. Where I work, it's apparent only 10% of the staff work at an adult level.

5. This one isn't as annoying at the others, but it's still something that annoys me and everyone I know. Music and films. Most of us like them, and we ALL have different tastes, but when you're having a conversation with someone about music of films you like and they visually turn their noses up and basically say you have crap taste... just, why? WHY?! This is how I interpret their music snobbery - "You like ? Seriously? Oh my God, you have the worst taste of anybody I've ever met in my life - Hitler had better taste than you. I know this because I am the GOD OF ALL MUSIC AND FILMS AND YOU MUST OBEY MY LIKINGS!"


6. Vegetarianism. There, I said it. But it's probably not what you're thinking. I AM a veggie, well, I'm a pescatarian (which means I eat fish). This is also another thing that irks me. I eat veggie stuff, I don't eat meat. It's not really an animal rights thing, it's a mixture of different reasons, which I don't have to explain to anyone. All people should know is I don't eat meat but I DO eat fish. This doesn't make me a sickly person. I'm probably healthier than anyone I know, and it doesn't make me a 'fake vegetarian', it doesn't mean I hate people who eat meat, so just GET OFF IT. But people are always asking 'Why?' and giving me strange looks like I'M the one who's wrong because I don't want to eat cows and chickens. I just don't want to eat them - it's nothing to do with anyone else, but people comment on it all the time. This is how I interpret these meaty bastards and the veggies who say I'm not a 'real vegetarian' - "You don't eat meat but you eat fish? But, you must either conform to US, the meat eaters, or US the vegetarians. YOU CAN NOT HAVE AN OPINION OR FREEDOM OF CHOICE - despite the fact that that is what we claim to be ALL about... No, you can't have it both ways because WE say so". Well, go jump you idiots.

7. Finally (because everything should always be in 7 parts), being a part time worker. The way people view me due to my part-time working bothers me on a lot of levels. People who look at part timers thing they are lazy. They don't like the facts, or the figures of it. I don't like the figures of it, damn it - I want more money but I can't get it right now! I'm stuck in part time limbo from my own actions. I went part time to start a uni course. I work 3 days a week and I'd like to go back to at least 4, just for the money - it doesn't matter that I wouldn't have much time for Uni work, because I really do need the money. Sadly. But A. people think I'm lucky I only work 3 days a week. Let me tell you, doing uni work is harder that working in an office so... gah! and 2. Just because I work part time it doesn't mean I can't do my work. Let me explain. My manager is a crazy dumb woman. I like her as a person, but as a manager she is just utterly stupid and I'm so close to leaving the team because of her dumbness it's crazy. Almost EVERY day she comments on how I can't do something because I'm 'only part time'. I used to have the heaviest work load because I can handle loads of work. I just can, it's a talent in multi-tasking and an inability to do NOTHING at my desk. But she has basically taken 90% of my work load off me, because she thinks it's not possible to work 3 days a week and keep on top of everything. Now, she is part time also, but she works 4 days a week. This, in her mind, is the only way part time works. Her way. Every time I say I can help with something, her reply is the same 'maybe we need someone who works full time doing it...' literally for everything I suggest it's the same answer. It doesn't matter that I find work SO easy that I do my work and make sure everyone else on the team is up to date also, whilst fixing peoples work that they do wrong all in 3 days. No. None of this matters, because she doesn't care, really. Here is how I interpret her idiocy -"You only work 3 days, that's one less day than me, but I know it's not possible to do that. You must work at least 4 days, LIKE ME, in order to make a difference in the world and only MY way works. Look, I know, because I'm a single mother, and if I can do this whilst being a mum and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah AND YOU CAN'T WORK 4 DAYS EVEN IF YOU WANTED TO BECAUSE WE ARE ALREADY OVERSTAFFED". For the record, this isn't true. We are understaffed, they are just cheap bastards.

Well, I'm sorry I bored you all with this list, I just felt like ranting! :P Should really get back to my poetry essay... damn it!

Sam

Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Trimming of the fat

Urgh, it just feels like Feb has almost whizzed by. I apologise in advance if this blog is a little... moody... I'm not in the best of spirits today, which is obviously the BEST time to blog! Yes, it's the secret ingredient. I know.

So, I ignored any kind of blogging duty for the past few weeks because, well, I just didn't have anything to blog about. I still don't, but I figured I'd let you all into the inner workings of my brain. You see, I'm trimming the fat off my blog. Yes, it's time. What with Lent starting tomorrow, I feel like I should start with the blog.

I am giving up following blogs I don't actually read anymore. I have them cluttered in my 'to-read-feed', but there are some blogs which I just... meh, just don't really care about anymore, so I'm just gonna get rid!

Not to worry, if you read this, you're probably one I'll be keeping around, but there are just some I have no interaction with, whether it be reading or even commenting. So bye bye, blogging baggage.

I will blog more often soon, don't worry - just been overloaded with life and work and uni work and reading and watching things.

Sam

Monday, 6 February 2012

Milestone

It's important to celebrate whenever you get the chance. Today I reached 20 subscribers on this here blog. It's taken me about 4 years... but still.

THANKYOU to anyone who reads this muck!

Sam
x

Sunday, 5 February 2012

I should be reading...

But I'm blogging instead. I love procrastination blogging the best! hehe.

I am supposed to be reading Wuthering Heights. Is is just me, or is it unfathomable? Maybe I'm just not smart enough to 'get' it, but it's unintelligable writing. Classic my ass. If the words made sense I'm sure the story would do better. I can tell there is something of interest in the lines, but the style is just so in direct dissent to what I like to read I'm finding it all a bit of a challenge. I think I'm about 40% done with it... and I really need to finish it by tomorrow... hmmm. We will see how that goes!

I went to the cinema this weekend and watched many a film. These will be blogged about over here (well, how else do I big up my other blog?). 3 films at the cinema and one at my friends house. The 3 at the cinema were Carnage, Young Adult and Man on a Ledge. The one on TV was Timer. I will rate all of these for my own enjoyment! You can't stop me. I also find I am giving really good ratings to things. I am just too nice... but I really enjoy films, so what can I say? I'll have to watch a crap one just so I can show some judgement (where's my DVD copy of Gigli?)

I also ordered some things from Ama... wait, can I say the name of shops on here? Do I get freedom of speech or will I be slapped for advertising? Oh God, the rules. The rules. Well.. I shopped online somewhere that rhymes with Bamazon (thank you Creative Writing course, for helping me with my rhymes). It's a Moleskin Passions book where you can log books you read, write about them, rate them. A book diary if you will. So I have started to fill it in with books I'm reading this year to correlate with my 2012 GoodReads challenge.
Here is one of the pages:

You probably can't make out my scrawl, but it's a pretty cool book! 

Not much else has been going on so I really should get back to reading this Wuthering business!

Heaaathcliffff, it's Caaathhhyyy!

Sam

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