And that isn’t even a joke!!

So, I’ve been struggling a little to blog lately for a number of reasons.  The main one being that work has literally sucked the life out of me!  Why you ask (well if you didn’t I’m going to tell you anyway!)?  Here’s the story…

There’s this woman at work, I’ve spoken about her before, and she has been making my life an absolute misery.  Like you just cannot imagine!!  She came back from long term sick leave just before Christmas (having had 6 months off with “stress” and also claiming to have been bullied by management – I would have sympathy if there was even the tiniest shred of truth in this) with a list of demands and one of those was that she wanted my job.  And she got it.  That’s why I got the new job, sort of.

Anyhoo, it’s not just my life that she’s been making unbearable…it’s literally everyone in our section of the department I work in.  She’s the sort of person who you can’t talk to in case you say the wrong thing, but if you don’t talk to her she’ll complain about you.  She’s also a little crazy in that one minute she’s over the top happy and boisterous and the next she’s flying off the handle at the smallest thing, and not even in a bipolar way!

She took over my job (when I started the new one) 2 weeks ago.  In 2 weeks she has had 3 complaints made against her, had numerous arguments over the telephone and caused an unmeasurable about of stress and anxiety for those still working with her.  She’s also try to get me into trouble over many many things, mostly fabricated, to cover up mistakes she has been making.  All in just 2 weeks!  Hopefully you can imagine how horrible this would be!

Our management have been working with Human Resources to accommodate her / get her out!  Yes, bizarre, I know.  She’s the sort of person who knows every rule in the book and every sneaky thing to get her out of sticky situations…so she’s very difficult to deal with.  She also lies, but isn’t a good liar because she forgets things that she’s said!

At lunchtime today, after another bad day with her yesterday (she’d caused multiple problems before 9:30 yesterday morning), our managers phone rang (her office is opposite mine) and she let out a scream of delight, I kid you not, and ran out to tell us that the woman will be leaving on Thursday…and not of her own choice!

It might sound horrible but I cannot even describe to you how relieved I feel.  The past 2 weeks I have gone to work and almost every morning felt sick with anxiety, so much so I was convinced I was going to get a stress ulcer because I just didn’t know what to expect when I arrived or how she was going to be.  I have never known one person to cause so many problems and such tension in an office.

So, I’m sorry for neglecting the bloggety blog….but now that I’m feeling happier I hope to be back with you!! x

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I’m not generally a competitive person, but I think this is mostly because I’m not that good at…well…anything!  No joke!  I’m at generally useless, I mean I’m good at things to a certain extent, like baking, cooking, reading, my job,

Just recently though,things are a-changing!!

I bought KPC a Wii for Christmas the year they were released, whenever that was.  The only game I’ve ever really paid much attention to has been Guitar Hero (for some Pat Benetar).  Oh, and Surf’s Up, but that doesn’t really count because I loaded the cheats for it and got bored very quickly.  We’ve had a game called Links Crossbow Training for a couple of years at least, and to be quite honest, it freaked me out and scared me everytime it was on!  There are fire breathing frogs, scary skeletons a-plenty, crazy looking things called Oocca’s that look like my cat with wings, these giant weight lifting toads (I’m not a fan of slimy things that wee on you) and loads of other creepy shit.  There were many occasions KPC was not allowed to play this game because, yes, I am pathetic.

Just after Christmas my sister bought a Wii, and literally days later, my parents got one too (they have jealousy issues, I’m sure).

Anyhoo, now we all have this game…and I’m obsessed!  No joke!  I am literally addicted to it!  I’ve made a Dog the Bounty Hunter Mii (he’s protecting me!) and we are blowing the competition out of the water (when I say “we”, I mean Dog and I of course).  I cannot get enough!  Even though I’ve got platinum medals on all levels, and that’s the highest you can get, I cannot stop playing!!  I need to bake a cake or something!  This competitive stuff is no good for me, I think it’s giving me anxiety issues!

I’ve even had to have a break whilst writing this post to play the fracking game!  Help me!

If you don’t hear from me for a while, this is the reason!  But you can always check out some of my favourite people and I over here!!

I’ve been trying to coach my mom to be better than Dad as well because, let’s face it, Dad is pretty competitive (it’s a man thing apparently)!  I actually told her to “stop dilly-dallying”, dilly-dallying?  Seriously.  I said that! I think I need to put my addictive tendencies into something good, something creative that’s more worthwhile.  Maybe a drug addiction would be good?  Better than this anyway!

Title from Pat Benetar – Hit Me With Your Best Shot

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