Friday Five!

1   Had a rather busy day at work yesterday… we had heavy snow showers and gale force winds through the day, so I was dealing with various questions and phone calls from the customers, plus we had unexpected visitors in the office, and I had requests to give extra briefs… which meant that it took twice as long to get my normal workload done (and I have deadlines for that work right through the day).

2   One of the unexpected visitors was the base photographer who wanted to take some pictures of us at work for the base Facebook page. They were online within a few hours of him leaving our office:

3   I normally try to swim as many miles as I can while I’m down here, though the long tiring hours doesn’t make it easy… I was doing pretty well by last weekend (9 miles) but then I caught a mild cold on Monday, which put the swimming plans on hold… feeling better now though, so hoping to go today

4   Earlier in the week, I was looking forward to watching the new season of Bake Off… only to remember it’s not on BBC anymore (we have BBC1, BBC2 and ITV here, but no Channel 4)… then I discovered that the British Forces TV channel (which airs a combination of shows from different channels) was showing it at 7:15pm last night… so I ate an early dinner and had a night in to watch it .

5   I am exactly halfway through my overseas tour today – 32 days down, 32 days to go ... oh, and it's payday!

Bummer. Can't see the picture. Paused ghostery, paused Ad Block Plus, still nada. Any chance of attaching it rather than inlining it?

Nan, rock-wool hydroponic cubes sound really interesting. I'm intrigued? 

http://www.canna-uk.com/characteristics_of_rockwool  Not the brand I'm using, but it explains the process quite well.

My birthday is on Monday 3rd (hence going to Costco... for a cake! ) 

 

My birthday is on Monday 3rd (hence going to Costco... for a cake! ) 

Yay!  Happy birthday soon!  Birthday month is the best! But I'll try not to make too big a deal of yours if that's what you prefer.   Cake!!!

I'm almost perverse in my desire to not celebrate!  I haven't always been like this...and I want to say I have no idea where this has come from, but I think I do know.  I have a 'frenemy' who is the same age as me, and I find myself comparing myself to her a lot... and trying to be as different to her as possible, because I find her really embarrassing and cringe-y.  Oh god, the photos from her pink & sparkly-themed hen night, and the multiple daily selfies on FB... CRINGE!!!

So I'm going to Costco to get this cake, I'm going to eat a massive wodge of it, then chop it up, put it into individual takeaway containers and take it in to work when I go back on Wednesday.  This will ensure that I don't eat the entire thing myself, but also, because it's after the fact and all chopped up, means that people at work won't be all celebrate-y... they'll just be like 'oooh, cake... thanks!'

I'm almost perverse in my desire to not celebrate!  I haven't always been like this...and I want to say I have no idea where this has come from, but I think I do know.  I have a 'frenemy' who is the same age as me, and I find myself comparing myself to her a lot... and trying to be as different to her as possible, because I find her really embarrassing and cringe-y.  Oh god, the photos from her pink & sparkly-themed hen night, and the multiple daily selfies on FB... CRINGE!!!

So I'm going to Costco to get this cake, I'm going to eat a massive wodge of it, then chop it up, put it into individual takeaway containers and take it in to work when I go back on Wednesday.  This will ensure that I don't eat the entire thing myself, but also, because it's after the fact and all chopped up, means that people at work won't be all celebrate-y... they'll just be like 'oooh, cake... thanks!'

I just care which combo you go with!  So.... which one? 

Combo??

Combo??

Yup, chocolate or vanilla cake?  White or chocolate icing?  Filling?

Let me live vicariously through you!

ohgod, chocolate cake..... wimper

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Yup, chocolate or vanilla cake?  White or chocolate icing?  Filling?

Let me live vicariously through you!

Oh!  I didn't know there were options.  I've only ever seen/bought/eaten the big white cake with the icing roses... I think it's got a buttercream & jam filling.

weee beeee beee beeeee 

Oh!  I didn't know there were options.  I've only ever seen/bought/eaten the big white cake with the icing roses... I think it's got a buttercream & jam filling.

excellent choice and exactly what I would choose!

I'm almost perverse in my desire to not celebrate!  I haven't always been like this...and I want to say I have no idea where this has come from, but I think I do know.  I have a 'frenemy' who is the same age as me, and I find myself comparing myself to her a lot... and trying to be as different to her as possible, because I find her really embarrassing and cringe-y.  Oh god, the photos from her pink & sparkly-themed hen night, and the multiple daily selfies on FB... CRINGE!!!

So I'm going to Costco to get this cake, I'm going to eat a massive wodge of it, then chop it up, put it into individual takeaway containers and take it in to work when I go back on Wednesday.  This will ensure that I don't eat the entire thing myself, but also, because it's after the fact and all chopped up, means that people at work won't be all celebrate-y... they'll just be like 'oooh, cake... thanks!'

Unsolicited advice:  Block the frenemy from your life.  just stop looking at her and thinking about her. 

I also keep my birthday secret from all my coworkers and don't participate in the custom of bringing my own birthday cake to work.  I'll take care of my own cake on my own time, thank you.

Unsolicited advice:  Block the frenemy from your life.  just stop looking at her and thinking about her. 

I also keep my birthday secret from all my coworkers and don't participate in the custom of bringing my own birthday cake to work.  I'll take care of my own cake on my own time, thank you.

I really hate the birthday and special occasion collections we do at work. Usually there is an envelope sitting on the table in the canteen saying something like Collection for so and so's birthday on Monday. Big 40.

People are free to donate or not. If you donate, you stick your money in and write your name on the envelope.

It's like a popularity contest. Sometimes you see an envelope stuffed with cash and others have hardly anything in it.

I wish we would do away with it all together. 

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I always hated office birthday parties. For me, I mean. If others wanted to have them, fine. But I used to request that my supervisor NOT include me in the birthday of the month pool. They'd have a cake at the monthly staff meeting and then congratulate everyone who'd had a birthday that month.  The birthday boy/girl got to choose the kind of cake.  I repeatedly said I prefered to keep my personal life personal, and it was uniformly ignored every year.  I was not sad to leave that particular office.