Mark and Chad don't get the whole "Everything happens at once - what more could go wrong" vibe that I have going on at the moment. For me it seems like a curse or bad spell has been put on us. So whoever did it (the curse/spell) hope you happy it is working :-y. If life at work is not hectic and stressful enough, our landlord is doing major renovations to the front of our building, so we are subjected to dust; noise; more dust and did I mention noise from about 10 Jack Hammers hammering away all day almost everyday. He is building 3 floors of offices and revamping the shop and front area. Whether the area we are in needs a major office block is up for serious debate. Our premises are in the middle of a boomed off residential area. Not a gated community/complex as such. A residential suburb that has security booms at each entrance to combat crime, whether it does or doesn't combat crime is also up for serious debate, but what it does imply is that the residents in that area are not that keen on turning their leafy suburb into a place of work or business hub for outsiders.
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The Building |
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Broken Wash Line |
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Old Rusted Broken Wash Line |
One good thing that came of all this, is that I got a new washing line. Who gets excited about a washing line - well if yours looked like this you would too. Besides I get a bit OCD about hanging up washing and I know it is hard to believe considering what ours looks like, but I do go from moments of OCD to burying my head in the sand with most things in life. With the water logged towels and linen putting strain on the old rusted washing line, it finally gave in. Just in time because it was due for re-stringing AGAIN. Mark asked why the wash line broke - "Ahem - Have a look at it"
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New Wash Line |
I am sure it is as old as the house and our house is old. I was not going to let an inanimate object add to my stress and after a quick search, thanks to Google, I phoned the first company I found Factory Direct Wash Lines. I sent an email with my address and the specs of the wash line I wanted, received a quote accepted the quote and the next morning they came and installed it and removed the other one. Mark always said there must be a business opportunity in re-stringing wash lines, well this company does it too. I don't know why I battled before.
The only hassle was that Chad had to be at school at 11.30 to do his CAT exam, so I had to quickly drop him off at school and come back as they were finishing off. Then back to work then off again to fetch Chad from school. His exam that should have finished at 3 or 3.30 finished at 2. What was that about mobile phones not being necessary at school????
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A Very Ill Sheila |
Then when you dealing with stuff that matters and is serious,you have to still deal with people like the thief and his con artist girlfriend. Again we arrived at work to find their scrap 1999 car parked in front of our gate. Again she came breezing in all friendly later on in the morning ans showed me some video on her phone of her indicators that were not working after Gavin fixed them and to collect her remote that we DID NOT lose, which I told the thief. I am sorry but I cannot fake smile and be friendly to liars and thieves. Yes if we did something wrong I will apologize and Mark always guarantees his work, but don't blatantly lie and imply that we are thieves, when you know you are lying. Mark or Gavin paid R65.00 to program a remote that Gavin had for her central locking. Believe it or not she is an optometrist, I feel sorry for the Ophthalmic practice she works for and the patients that go there. The more I think about them the more she reminds me of the murdering bitch who caused Clint's death. You can read about her over here I will never forget that bitch's face ( I don't swear on my blog, not because I am a prude - I can swear as much as the next person, I just don't think it is appropriate to use bad language on a blog - but there is no other word I can use for that murdering bitch). The con artist girlfriend sounds like her looks like her and has the same morals as her. I cannot get it out of my mind that she is a younger version of the murdering bitch. I just get this very strong feeling that we have not seen the end of them. Gavin felt the same way when they left. Even Mark is in agreement that we do not want their business. They must never come back there. You know that bad feeling you get at times when you meet someone. A feeling that does not make sense, but you cannot shake it off. That is them. You know you can wrap trash up in gold and precious stones, but it is still trash. Don't judge a book by its cover, because it can be all pretty on the outside but the contents are still full of filth and trash.
Then to top it all. It was so hot on Friday, it was such a stressful week, we were feeling drained so I bought us Lucozade and Enerjelly sweets and I broke a tooth eating the sweets. They were not hard sweets, more like wine gums - not even as hard. I managed to get a dental appointment for Saturday morning. She tried to build up the tooth, without a crown and it just broke right off when I was eating hake for dinner. She has gone away for a week and now I will probably end up getting an abscess. I thought it was too good to be true. A painless visit to the dentist, quick - fixed and done. No lies there was no pain. Now this.
What a week and what a weekend. Cleaning in this heat was no fun. This morning after I hung up the washing it was so hot and my Galaxy tab was on and I looked at the weather on the screen and it was 9 deg or something like that and I thought this can never be right it is too hot to be 9 deg. I had been checking the weather all this week and only today did I notice that the last time it was updated was on the 29 September 2013. What an idiot. This was the weather at 10:15 this morning.
It was really hot this weekend and the other good thing is that I am still walking on the treadmill. Not everyday - I missed a couple of days, but made up for them today. If you can make up for missed days. I walked 3 times - morning noon and night each time for 35 minutes and fast enough to walk 3 km's, level one. Lets hope it speeds up my metabolism.
So I end this post with a feeling of doom and gloom; of something bad that is going to happen. Be it the irritation of the thief and his con artist girlfriend; my tooth that broke that is going to give me problems or some other business related issue that I am getting a bad omen feeling about.
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