Inconvenient Annoyances

Need to be out of our apartment by the weekend and as of yet have nowhere to move to.

Our lease had expired sometime ago but our landlord was happy to let it rollover month to month until we decided what we wanted to do. We currently live in the city centre and decided to take our time and find a nice house for rent that had a garden and a nice kitchen. It took awhile but we finally found the perfect house. We were told by the agency the application would take a maximum of 10 working days for the application to get approved so we informed our landlord that we intended to move out at the end of the rental period (end of the month) and made him aware that he would be contacted for a reference. 2.5 weeks passed without a peep so I phoned the agency up last Wednesday and they said they would chase the referencing agency. All of a sudden Thursday is when they STARTED making the checks. I phoned again yesterday and was told all the references had been secured (my HR, husband's HR, both our credit checks, etc) however they had gotten a landlord reference for my husband but not for me. Apparently our applications are treated individually and are no way linked so they phoned up the landlord and got a reference for my husband and when they tried again for me they couldn't get ahold of him. I am furious. We've got 4 working days to try to get approval, sign a lease, finish packing up and secure a removals van. Estate agencies are the devil.

Wow Kayla- I feel for you- good luck!!!!!!!!! 

I don't want to leave the house today, or do anything, but I have to because that's life.  WAHHHH!

My office is freezing. This does not bode well for the winter!

Okay, completely heartless Londoner complaint but...

A person decided to "fall" onto the tracks at South Kensington, resulting in me being delayed for a good while. I know it's horrible to say, but Tube suicides are a complete inconvenience!

I was getting the laundry together and I did something to my back. Damn you, laundry!

MIL already starting with the *dreaded* Christmas lists.  How I hate the whole materialistic, wasteful, expensive thing.   

A stupid cow from a shop accused me of using a counterfit bill. I told her it wasnt counterfit. She gave me my change from the note and I walked out. A few minutes later a cashier came into our shop and told me that lady "wanted to have a word with me". I go over there and ask what the problem was. She went on a rant about how the bill i gave her is counterfit and how I knew I gave her a counterfit bill and made this huge scene infront of everyone. I told her again it wasnt, and for her to walk across the street to our shop and I can show her under the note detector that we have, that its real.
So she sends her little cashier over to our shop. I showed the cashier that it wasnt fake with the detector. and the cashier goes "oh well I guess its real then" and walks way, I said "Oh so no apology then???".

I still didnt get an apology. Am so not going to that shop again. We frequent that shop atleast 3-4 times a day everyday for drinks,food and such. But not anymore they can go F*** themselves

MIL already starting with the *dreaded* Christmas lists.  How I hate the whole materialistic, wasteful, expensive thing.   

Could you do an Oxfam unwrapped list for yours? Where I worked at the bank instead of doing xmas cards or secret santa the six of us would save change and donate during December and buy the team something  from the Oxfam xmas list, like an alpaca or goat or whatever, then we'd give it a stupid name, I'd stick a picture of it up on our team notice board for the year and it would be our mascot.

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/content/unwrapped/animallovers.html#ico=unwrappedhub&icl=unwrappedpromo5

Could you do an Oxfam unwrapped list for yours? Where I worked at the bank instead of doing xmas cards or secret santa the six of us would save change and donate during December and buy the team something  from the Oxfam xmas list, like an alpaca or goat or whatever, then we'd give it a stupid name, I'd stick a picture of it up on our team notice board for the year and it would be our mascot.

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/content/unwrapped/animallovers.html#ico=unwrappedhub&icl=unwrappedpromo5

I could, but I think I'd like it better if we ditched presents for *everyone* except our 3 year old niece, and did something like that for all of us.  I seriously doubt this family would even begin to agree on something like that.  I mean, if everyone is being greedy with long expensive lists of crap I feel I should at least get *something* out of it, too even if it's just something small, right? (guess I'm a bit materialistic, too.... )

I could, but I think I'd like it better if we ditched presents for *everyone* except our 3 year old niece, and did something like that for all of us.  I seriously doubt this family would even begin to agree on something like that.  I mean, if everyone is being greedy with long expensive lists of crap I feel I should at least get *something* out of it, too even if it's just something small, right? (guess I'm a bit materialistic, too.... )

Get your niece a little farm set and buy everyone else a goat

The majority of the office is usually warm, so the air con is on with a low fan. my co-worker, whose desk is joined to mine, is always complaining about the cold and how her feet and legs get a draft and she refuses to wear a sweater, cardi, trousers, tights or socks. This wouldn't bother me, but she runs this little heater all the time, so I've got the air con on one side and the heater on the other And it is making me feel faint and ill  

The majority of the office is usually warm, so the air con is on with a low fan. my co-worker, whose desk is joined to mine, is always complaining about the cold and how her feet and legs get a draft and she refuses to wear a sweater, cardi, trousers, tights or socks. This wouldn't bother me, but she runs this little heater all the time, so I've got the air con on one side and the heater on the other And it is making me feel faint and ill  

We're not allowed those little heaters because of fire hazard. Maybe you can suggest to the powers-that-be that you are sitting next to a potential disaster? 

We're not allowed those little heaters because of fire hazard. Maybe you can suggest to the powers-that-be that you are sitting next to a potential disaster? 

We've raised the tripping issue because she takes it out from under her desk at night and puts it next to it. this is the same heater that melted one of our pda's...

I hate packing and moving. BF and I are going into a temporary flat today for a few weeks as we search for our next flat, so that'll be two full moves in a very short amount of time. I'm supposed to be writing my dissertation right now but simply can't focus on it because when I'm not packing, I just want to relax! I wish I could just wave a wand and make this stuff pack itself (and perhaps make that dissertation write itself, too, while I'm at it)!