10 things of thankful #5

Well it's another weekend, so that means it's time for another 10 things of thankful.  Here we go for all the fun and good things in the Emmaverse this week:

1.  I went shopping last weekend, very naughtily on a Sunday (which I try not to do) but it was when myself and the two friends who were coming with me could make.  We went to Gunwharf Quays, a nice mainly outlet type shopping centre in Portsmouth.  I turned a corner, saw the Radley sign, held my finger up and pointed at it like E.T., and my fate was sealed.  About 15 minutes later I came out with the following:

The justifications were many:

• It was my birthday, and this was my birthday treat to myself.
• I had the money left (and if I want to spend it I jolly well will).
• Jessica loved enjoying seeing me spend my money.
• I have wanted Radley stuff for ages.
• It was 50% off, then another 20% off, so I JUST HAD TO!

So operation switch handbag and purse was undertaken and now they are coming everywhere with me!

2.   This week, with the heat that is still continuing, I am thankful for cold water.  This one is all Considerer's fault.  We bought a little gift for a friend and left it in her front garden.  We then discovered the friends were out of town.  So we went for a walk to retrieve the present until such time it could be given to them.  On returning from the walk, Considerer got her big tub and filled it with water, and promised it would cool us down.  It did, and it was lovely, but after berating Considerer for the look on her face as her feet touched the water, this was mine:

IT WAS VERY VERY VERY COLD!!  But I am thankful for that.

3.  The last two items come from last Sunday and Monday, which was an amazing weekend as it consisted of shopping, crafting and movie watching with two friends the first day, and then picnic, blogging, movie watching, drinking and enjoying birthday with Considerer.  They were two brilliant days and I am very grateful for my friends and the brilliant times I had with them.

4.  I am thankful for my crafting bits and pieces and that they help me get my creative side out, for someone who cannot draw and is not arty, I can at least make a pretty decent card and scrapbook page now!  And even better, I am thankful that Jessica has now bought the mighty "Bigshot" (excellent die-cutting machine) which we can now utilise to make all sorts of patterns and embellishments. 

5.  I am very very thankful for gloves this week.  So thankful I double-gloved, which I hardly ever do!  It all started when Lin, my workaholic manager, decided she was finally going to sort out the rubbish that isn't ours which had been dumped by our bins.  A few minutes later I heard "urrrgggghhhh".

Me: "are you okay?"
Lin: "No".
Me: "what's wrong?"
Lin: "come and smell this"
Me: "No I don't want to" (I had heard rumours that there were nappies amongst the rubbish).
I go out to investigate.
Me: "urggghh yes that stinks, hang on and I'll get some gloves and I can help you, actually I think I'll double glove"
Lin: "I think it's meat"
Me: "uuuurrrrrrrgggggghhhh, how long has it been there?  Actually, let's not think about that!".

If I had not had gloves, there is NO WAY I would have been anywhere near that rubbish!

I am also thankful that I didn't have nightmares this week, after SOMEONE (she knows who she is!!) asked if there were any customers we hadn't seen in a while, suggesting that maybe we'd just disposed of a dead body!

6.  I have just been with a friend up to London to the British Museum, on her membership of the museum, to see the Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition they have going on.  It was really good and interesting, and I loved it.  I did the Romans a lot at school, and also did Latin GCSE, so I have wanted to visit Pompeii for a long time, and until my friend and I get our act together and go, hopefully sometime in the next few years, this was the next best thing.  It's amazing the artifacts they found and how preserved they are!

7.  In about 15 minutes time I should be jetting out again having got this finished to an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet with some old work colleagues and new staff from a branch I used to work at to say goodbye and good luck in your new job to our old manager (she used to be manager, she IS NOT old, just to clarify ;) ).  Hopefully we won't get harassed out of the place and plates removed the moment we stop ordering this time!

8.  We have had various jobs in the shop that have needed doing in the shop lately, and luckily Lin has partner extraordinaire who is multi-talented builder, plumber etc etc etc.  He has fixed a step which was liable to trip me up and make me go flying, and unblocked our consultation room sink, so I am very appreciative of this!

9.  Until Friday (obviously used the q word too much on Thursday) we had quite a quiet week in the pharmacy (see, I always say never say that word!!).   What do you do when it's quiet in a pharmacy?  You date check and tidy shelves of course!  So now I am very happy that due to my lovely dispensers my dressings now look like this and we can see what we've got!

10.   And finally, this week it has been sunny.  I have driven home with car windows down.  And I realised how much I LOVE my car radio when this came on and I sang it at the top of my voice, can't beat it!

Made the short drive home x 100 better!

That's all for now folks :)