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I was going to moan about the fact that the people in the flat below were having a loud party. However, the party seems to have ended now so I won't bother. Their taste in music was thankfully similar to mine but I wasn't very impressed by them playing loud enough for my furniture to be vibrating. Anyway, it's over now so I can get a good nights sleep.
Tomorrow is the last day of term so we're having our annual lunch time buffet. As usual we ordered the food from Tesco Direct. When it turned up today they had substituted the six cartons of pineapple juice we ordered for six actual pineapples. Surely they could at least have provided us with an alternative juice! Now we've got to figure out how to serve pineapples at a buffet. I predict that someone will be making cheese and pineapple chunks on cocktail sticks tomorrow morning. Normally, I help get the buffet ready, a job which has the benefit of getting first pick at the food, but this time I have work stuff to do in the morning so I'll have to queue with everyone else. I actually quite enjoy serving or helping out in some way at staff parties as it means I get to speak to everyone for a little while. I think it's my Guide spirit in action.
All my Christmas cards were put in the post today which I thought was very efficient of me. A whole day before the last posting day for second class. Normally I end up queuing in the post office on the last posting day for first class with loads of borderline hysterical people trying to send last minute gifts. It took me absolutely ages to write them as they all included a personalised letter. I didn't finish writing them until 12.30 am this morning so I was fairly knackered at work this morning. It's a good job things are winding down at the moment so I didn't need to concentrate too hard. Also, someone bought us a big tin of Roses so we all ate until we felt a bit queasy.
Talking of eating, I cooked sweet and sour chicken and rice for my best mate from school this evening. It's one of her favourite meals so I hope she enjoyed it. The rice turned out a lot better than last time I cooked it so I with any luck I've cracked the problem of how to cook rice on my cheap and nasty electric hob. I don't have to cook at all tomorrow as I'm going round to my parents' place to help put up their decorations. I was hoping my dad would be out as we normally get cross with one another during the annual Christmas decoration crisis but he's not going anwhere as he hurt his elbow playing badminton yesterday. Mum and I will just have to decorate around him.
As my friend was here I didn't watch 'Coupling' this evening. I saw series four on its original run and didn't think it was a funny as the earlier series. Some of my male friends quote the 'men don't care about cushions' scene quite regularly. It also struck me that Jack Davenport's hair looked absolutely terrible in last weeks episode. Did he always have a comb over type 'do' in Coupling or was it just in series four I wonder? Watching Jack Davenport in Coupling so soon after watching him in 'This Life' struck me as being like watching Julia Sawalha in Press Gang and in 'Second Thoughts'. They adapt their styles of acting quite noticably to suit the different formats. I didn't notice it until recently, although I guess it's fairly obvious, but traditional sit com acting is much more obvious and over the top than comedy drama acting. Though, 'The Office' has changed things now I suppose.
Last night, whilst writing my Christmas cards, I made use of the BBCs fabulous 'listen again' facility and listened to the episode of 'Trevor's World of Sport' I missed on Tuesday night because I didn't realise they'd changed the transmission day. It really is a very funny show on the radio and Paul Reynolds, although playing the wheeler dealer character once again, is on top form. I can understand why it didn't translate to TV very well. Last night's episode was about a one legged dog which would've been impossible to film so they must have changed the whole storyline of the episode. Adding the Joe Absolom character as an ongoing storyline was a mistake in my opinion too. Talking about TWOS has reminded me that I forgot to put DVDs of 'Drop the Dead Donkey' on my Christmas list. I'll have to put them on my rapidly expanding birthday list instead.
Really must start my Christmas shopping this weekend and maybe even do some uni work too. Watch this space.
Tomorrow is the last day of term so we're having our annual lunch time buffet. As usual we ordered the food from Tesco Direct. When it turned up today they had substituted the six cartons of pineapple juice we ordered for six actual pineapples. Surely they could at least have provided us with an alternative juice! Now we've got to figure out how to serve pineapples at a buffet. I predict that someone will be making cheese and pineapple chunks on cocktail sticks tomorrow morning. Normally, I help get the buffet ready, a job which has the benefit of getting first pick at the food, but this time I have work stuff to do in the morning so I'll have to queue with everyone else. I actually quite enjoy serving or helping out in some way at staff parties as it means I get to speak to everyone for a little while. I think it's my Guide spirit in action.
All my Christmas cards were put in the post today which I thought was very efficient of me. A whole day before the last posting day for second class. Normally I end up queuing in the post office on the last posting day for first class with loads of borderline hysterical people trying to send last minute gifts. It took me absolutely ages to write them as they all included a personalised letter. I didn't finish writing them until 12.30 am this morning so I was fairly knackered at work this morning. It's a good job things are winding down at the moment so I didn't need to concentrate too hard. Also, someone bought us a big tin of Roses so we all ate until we felt a bit queasy.
Talking of eating, I cooked sweet and sour chicken and rice for my best mate from school this evening. It's one of her favourite meals so I hope she enjoyed it. The rice turned out a lot better than last time I cooked it so I with any luck I've cracked the problem of how to cook rice on my cheap and nasty electric hob. I don't have to cook at all tomorrow as I'm going round to my parents' place to help put up their decorations. I was hoping my dad would be out as we normally get cross with one another during the annual Christmas decoration crisis but he's not going anwhere as he hurt his elbow playing badminton yesterday. Mum and I will just have to decorate around him.
As my friend was here I didn't watch 'Coupling' this evening. I saw series four on its original run and didn't think it was a funny as the earlier series. Some of my male friends quote the 'men don't care about cushions' scene quite regularly. It also struck me that Jack Davenport's hair looked absolutely terrible in last weeks episode. Did he always have a comb over type 'do' in Coupling or was it just in series four I wonder? Watching Jack Davenport in Coupling so soon after watching him in 'This Life' struck me as being like watching Julia Sawalha in Press Gang and in 'Second Thoughts'. They adapt their styles of acting quite noticably to suit the different formats. I didn't notice it until recently, although I guess it's fairly obvious, but traditional sit com acting is much more obvious and over the top than comedy drama acting. Though, 'The Office' has changed things now I suppose.
Last night, whilst writing my Christmas cards, I made use of the BBCs fabulous 'listen again' facility and listened to the episode of 'Trevor's World of Sport' I missed on Tuesday night because I didn't realise they'd changed the transmission day. It really is a very funny show on the radio and Paul Reynolds, although playing the wheeler dealer character once again, is on top form. I can understand why it didn't translate to TV very well. Last night's episode was about a one legged dog which would've been impossible to film so they must have changed the whole storyline of the episode. Adding the Joe Absolom character as an ongoing storyline was a mistake in my opinion too. Talking about TWOS has reminded me that I forgot to put DVDs of 'Drop the Dead Donkey' on my Christmas list. I'll have to put them on my rapidly expanding birthday list instead.
Really must start my Christmas shopping this weekend and maybe even do some uni work too. Watch this space.
