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No body feels my pain.. ha ha ha

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Meant to post this doodle up here before I went away, but forgot… it is the only tangible thing I created during my months at Goliath!  🙂  Was going to start a new doodle at work, but seeing that we’ve all been sacked… there doesn’t seem to be any point starting another one..

It’s been a very long day at work, which started with a MAC customer who knew even less about their MAC than I did (as if that were possible!!!)  and ended up with me gnashing my teeth in pain….. when the pain in my back gets really bad… it stops feeling like regular aching type pain and starts feeling like a burning sensation as though someone has an iron pressed against my muscles.   Which is how it has been feeling today since about 1pm…..  🙁

Great day…  I’m being sacked … still… have a job I should apply for tonight but cant be bothered… have some tv to watch… a neck rub to solicit and then straight to bed to with me tonight lassie!!!
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Paın…. lots of paın.

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Okay, so I woke up thıs mornıng wıth some sort of tummy bug…. not happy Jan.  Its probably karma for me laughıng about how everyone got gastro last tıme I was ın Turkey and I escaped unscathed.

Not a good day to be feelıng nauseous as we had 10 hours of travel today to head out to Nemrut Dağı.  So we packed up our stuff, left our cave behınd and hıt the buses.  Fırst a prıvate bus for an hour and a half, followed by a 5 hour stınt on a prıvate coach lıne.  Now I was ımpressed – cnıce bıg modern clean coach … what more could you ask for?  No smokıng sıgns plastered around the place and also there ıs a ban on usıng mobıle phones on the bus – whıch ıs nıce, as many of these Turks do get rather vocıferous on the phone from tıme to tıme.    Anyway that ımpressıon was shortlıved, as our bus drıver proceeded to chaın smoke hıs way to Nemrut and myself and DrNıck sıttıng rıght behınd hım!  Grrr….. seems the rules apply to everyone except hım – as he ıs the kıng of hıs lıttle bus kıngdom apparently  🙁

I went for a short walk on my ownsome through one of the bus termınals at one poınt ın search of some lemonade to flatten… and ıtis the fırst tıme I ventured out on my ownsome.  Seems havıng DrNıck about has been workıng as an excellent deterrent cos I’ve not been gettıng hasseled at all, but ın one 5 mın walk, I had no fewer than about 9 men approach me and try and engage me ın conversatıon.  Wıze move travellıng ın Turkey wıth menfolk for short lıttle blonde persons such as I.

But other than that, had an unremarkable day lookıng out at the landscape, whıch I must say was really beautıful and very varıable.  Gotta love the way they drıve over here… that lıne…  the one down the mıddle of the road…?  I thınk ıt’s purely decoratıve here… not some sort of dırectıve for your safetly or anythıng… no not at all!  The general rule seems to be … drıve down the centre of the hıghway untıl you see someone comıng the other way doıng the same thıng- then beep your horn at them and get back ınto your lane.  Not sure I see the logıc here, but we made ıt all the way to Nermrut okay, wıth a thunderstorm at our back.

It pıssed down raın almost as soon as we got there and unpacked everythıng…. and our hotel room smelled lıke a septıc tank stored ın moth balls… no shıt ıt really dıd!!!   Welcome to Eastern Turkey people!
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Another one bites the dust – ha ha

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I went to the dentist today for a tiny little check up – you know a wee scale and clean and a look-see.

Came out with my face all numb and a new bonded filling cos I’ve cracked another tooth!  That’s two since I started my new job… I think being so sedentary is not doing my back any favours and it’s really quite evident that I’ve been clenching my jaw a lot in my sleep.  This one was really quite distressing cos it was one of my back teeth which I haven’t cracked before….

Have to do something drastic about this I think – but what? 
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I used to be a morning person…

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Once upon a time in a kingdom far far away… there was a short little blonde thing that used to be all bubbly early in the morning pissing off all the people who dragged themselves out of bed at half nine looking like they’d just slept at the bottom of a cocky cage with a racoon, a bowl of noodles and a hairdresser named Shazza.

I vaguely remember that short little blonde thing… but seems to have disappeared. I used to get up, be awake and alert straight away and jump out of bed and get on with my morning – no problems. Now…. I’m desperately trying to cling to sleep, and the first thing I’m aware of is the ridiculous amount of back pain I’ve been in all night. Working nights is fun.. the place is quiet, we get to have a bit of a laugh and it’s really relaxed and groovy compared to when the whole place is full of people. But when I get home around midnight, it takes me a couple of hours to wind down and then I find myself going to sleep each night around 0200. Which in itself wouldn’t be a problem…. EXCEPT I CAN’T SEEM TO SLEEP IN!!!

I’m waking up between 0630 and 0800 on a good day and then have to set about getting the rug rat all pack off to school. So tired… all the time. I need a holiday.

Oh wait! I’m going on holiday… in four weeks! Woo hoo!!! 🙂 Istanbul !!!… Istanbul !!… Istanbul ! …  Slight tangent here, but I can’t think about Istanbul without envisaging BluddyMary jumping around the Topkapi Palace singing that ridiculous song…

Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it’s Turkish delight on a moonlit night

Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you’ve a date in Constantinople
She’ll be waiting in Istanbul

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can’t say
People just liked it better that way
So take me back to Constantinople

No, you can’t go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks

Istanbul (Istanbul)
Istanbul (Istanbul)

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can’t say
People just liked it better that way

Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can’t go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks

Istanbul

Arggghhh!!!

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I’ve done something hideous to my back!  Sob… sob…

Not sure what I’ve done to flare it up. but last night at work, around 9pm,, I just seemed to jam up, and was literally unable to stand or sit properly for the next two hours… Not fun being on the phone with annoying customers when you can’t think straight due to acute pain issues… and I am fairly confident the half a dozen pain killers and couple of anti inflammatories I took weren’t helping in the whole ability to concentrate thing…..

Customer#72:  Hi my wireless broadband doesn’t seem to be working.. it was working fine this morning at home, but not I’m at my daughter’s house and it doesn’t want to connect… the little light is out on the thingy …. is that important?!?

HelpDesk Chickie:  No problem, we’ll just look up your account for you and see what’s going on…….Errrr….  You account is showing that you have an ADSL account with a wifi modem, which is a local home network type of internet connection…. it only gives you wireless access when your PC is radio range of your wireless router….about 30meters or so?!?!   😐

Grrrrr… sick to death of bad back crap… was going to spend today – my day off doing house stuff and maybe going to lunch with my Mum, but now all I want to do is curl up and go back to bed  🙁