Inconvenient Annoyances

From Christmas to New Year's Eve, I had a terrible cold, courtesy of  DH.  Now, it appears to have morphed into some sort of flu.  I didn't go into work today, but I'll need to tomorrow, and I'm BORED of being sick.

Uggh. I have managed ,again, to be sick last night, whilst at at my parents on holiday.  I am really curious why I keep puking my guts out every time I come here
Third time I have been this year, third time I have puked and been ill.   

No post today.  I really really really want my biometrics letter!

No post today.  I really really really want my biometrics letter!

Since this mess of snow in late November we've only gotten post 5 times and these last 2 times have been nothing but junk mail from Boots (not junk really but not important either).

We've been waiting for a package from the US since my brother posted it from the US on the 18th of December...either it's stuck in Customs or someone decided to nick it...not a great prospect either way, since it was DD's Christmas pressie. Plus, we're waiting on word from the US Embassy on DH's visa interview as well 

Since this mess of snow in late November we've only gotten post 5 times and these last 2 times have been nothing but junk mail from Boots (not junk really but not important either).

We've been waiting for a package from the US since my brother posted it from the US on the 18th of December...either it's stuck in Customs or someone decided to nick it...not a great prospect either way, since it was DD's Christmas pressie. Plus, we're waiting on word from the US Embassy on DH's visa interview as well 

Wait on mine too! lol I swear your post people don't like you...they want you to just wait ;-(

Wait on mine too! lol I swear your post people don't like you...they want you to just wait ;-(

Yours too! I've just not built up any anxiety about that one yet...figured since it's only been a couple days that they've worked since you posted it I had a bit of breathing space  ... yeah, our posties in Derbyshire suck pond scum.

Still waiting for my sister-in-law-to-be's Christmas gift to arrive in the Western Isles.  We got her some beautiful bracelets that I knew she would love to wear to the New Year's Dance at the local hall...guess that won't be happening!

Also, on week 6 of waiting for my fiancee visa!

We ran out of heating oil this morning an when we tried to order some more the next available delivery will be Fri Jan 14th!!     we have to pay twice the amount what we paid for the heating oil the last time we got a delivery an that's not cause of VAT increase that doesn't help either   its cause most of the heating oil places around our area have jacked up the prices they were jacked up well before before Christmas as well!! if we would have thought about it we should have ordered some oil before we went on vacation cause when we came back to the UK is when the prices got jacked up up!!     Good thing we have a few space heaters here at the house MIL is going to bring us one of her space heaters as well thankfully!!    

My husband, who looks like death and can't speak without coughing thinks he's going to put together an ikea television cabinent.  I may kill him.      

There will be a big fight in our house tomorrow when the tv for the stand arrives. 

My husband, who looks like death and can't speak without coughing thinks he's going to put together an ikea television cabinent.  I may kill him.      

There will be a big fight in our house tomorrow when the tv for the stand arrives. 

Or just go to Starbucks and leave him to it 

Or just go to Starbucks and leave him to it 

It's always a possibility. 

Since this mess of snow in late November we've only gotten post 5 times and these last 2 times have been nothing but junk mail from Boots (not junk really but not important either).

Sounds like you and I have the same post office.    I hope you have some luck and everything turns up soon!

Why is it that some Americans think that it is so uber cool to pretend that they are from the UK?

My US friend is going to Israel soon and I commented on her facebook jokingly that 'since she is going to be in the neighborhood, she should come and visit England ' Some guy, who pretends to be from Ipswich, missed the joke and said, 'though I love my country, she should visit Israel.'

Argh! How I wish I could be bothered to leave a snarky message to the tune of 'well, at least some of us have actually been to England...'

This guy has never been to England in his life. He deliberately puts on a fake accent at all times (I kid you not), and it is clearly not an Essex accent. It's too fake posh, if that makes any sense. He has probably never even heard of Essex.... Me and all of his friends have heard him accidentally utter in his unmistakable American accent while tipsy. The friend I mentioned earlier has spoken with his brother and he unwittingly admitted that they were from small-town Texas and have zero ties to England, so I doubt he has dual citizenship via ancestry.

You're interested in England. That's cool, but why be such a fake? This is an identity that he carries with him everywhere. He introduced himself to me in his 'English accent' and told me that he was from Ipswich. Yet he knows nothing of Essex and even before I moved to England, I could tell from a mile away that his accent was fake fake fake. You nut, you have never been to England and you know it  

Why is it that some Americans think that it is so uber cool to pretend that they are from the UK?

My US friend is going to Israel soon and I commented on her facebook jokingly that 'since she is going to be in the neighborhood, she should come and visit England ' Some guy, who pretends to be from Ipswich, missed the joke and said, 'though I love my country, she should visit Israel.'

Argh! How I wish I could be bothered to leave a snarky message to the tune of 'well, at least some of us have actually been to England...'

This guy has never been to England in his life. He deliberately puts on a fake accent at all times (I kid you not), and it is clearly not an Essex accent. It's too fake posh, if that makes any sense. He has probably never even heard of Essex.... Me and all of his friends have heard him accidentally utter in his unmistakable American accent while tipsy. The friend I mentioned earlier has spoken with his brother and he unwittingly admitted that they were from small-town Texas and have zero ties to England, so I doubt he has dual citizenship via ancestry.

You're interested in England. That's cool, but why be such a fake? This is an identity that he carries with him everywhere. He introduced himself to me in his 'English accent' and told me that he was from Ipswich. Yet he knows nothing of Essex and even before I moved to England, I could tell from a mile away that his accent was fake fake fake. You nut, you have never been to England and you know it  

Why would anyone pretend to be from Essex? Unfathomable!

He introduced himself to me in his 'English accent' and told me that he was from Ipswich. Yet he knows nothing of Essex and even before I moved to England, I could tell from a mile away that his accent was fake fake fake. You nut, you have never been to England and you know it  

He might want to look on a map, too... Ipswich is in Suffolk.