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Magazine and newspaper…spam.

August 19, 2008 | No comments

I’ve just logged into for the first time in quite a while to be confronted by over 100 spam comments. That has never, ever happened to me before - I’m lucky if I get one comment at all. It also takes away from my theory that installing plugins like Askimet and SpamKarma actually increase your likely hood of getting more spam. I don’t have any spam busting plugins on this blog at all, as I was fed up ‘marking comments as spam’ on the previous installation of here.

So, looks like I’m going to have to find a good spam fighting plugin that does exactly what it says on the tin - other than the two big names in plugins. Any recommendations?

Last night I spent around 6 hours writing up answers for my Management Training Program, and tonight I’m supposed to be typing it all up, but I’ve not started yet. Considering I’m up at 5am (it’s currently 9.30pm) I need to get a move on. I’m taking my laptop with me to Head Office tomorrow to sit in the office and type my little heart out so I don’t need to finish tonight but I have so much to do. It completely and utterly serves me right, I’ve had two months to finish these two modules and yet I’ve left it until the last week as per usual. I think this one has taken me so long because it’s the most boring thing about running a shop - Newspaper & Magazines. I deal with our supplier in a lot and they’re incompetent idiots, which makes me resent doing anything to do with them. considering they’ve got the monopoly in paper distribution in the UK they can’t seem to get the basics right.

The good news is that the course must be finished for January 2009 as this is when the awards ceremony is. I think I’ll need to be on that week, I don’t much fancy that and having my picture in the quarterly magazine sent to all staff members. Eh, no. I don’t do photographs.

I suppose I should get on with it really, although with my will power at the moment I’ll have to unplug the cable for the router and get my brother to hide it as I’ve got so much catching up to do too.

Why does Firefox’s dictionary not include Firefox or movies? They always show up as being misspelled.

August 12, 2008 | 1 comment

Going For Gold

August 12, 2008 | 1 comment

I’m getting slightly caught up in the buzz surrounding the Olympics, even though I’m not sporty in the slightest. I can’t help it, I don’t sleep much anyway so I’m sitting watching the different events through the night instead of movies, watching all these brilliant athletes Going For Gold for themselves and their country, it’s so inspiring and addictive.

What’s also brilliant is Bet365 Casino’s current promotion which is tied in with the Olympics perfectly - The Going For Gold £50,000 promotion.

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waste of a day.

August 12, 2008 | No comments

I’ve just gotten in the door after leaving the house 5 hours ago to do some shopping at a retail park with my mum. We managed to spend just £20 and that was £3 on lunch (McDonalds pound menu) and £17 in on juice, milk and bread. Typical. I was so looking forward to buying little things in Ikea or a few pairs of trousers for in Next or TK Maxx but every single shop that we went into was rubbish - shelves were half empty or items over-priced.

The whole point of going out in the first place was to let me do some but ended up I didn’t have a chance - mainly because the weather and traffic were horrendous. Hopefully I’ll manage to get out for an hour or two tomorrow since I feel like I haven’t been for ages and I want to sit my test soon, I’m fed up relying on buses to get around everywhere and taxis are costing me a fortune.

I’ve got to laugh at this listing on eBay for Irn Bru glasses - £14.99 buy it now? Those glasses are free for goodness sakes. There are about 150 of them sitting in the backshop in - we’re handing them out with a purchase of 2 x 2litre bottles of Irn Bru and people are selling them for £15? What on earth is the world thinking?

Holiday time!

August 3, 2008 | 1 comment

As all I seem to have done over the past couple of weeks in my blog entries is moan and whinge about how many hours I’m working these days I feel it’s time for a . A cheap one at that, since money’s an issue for both me and the boyfriend.

I’ve had a look on the internet and have come to the conclusion that is the answer, it’s working out around £100 each for four nights including the hotel and bus tickets. That’s pretty damn good because there’s always something to do in , the Pleasure Beach mainly. I love that wee theme park so much because there’s all the old, heritage rides along side rides like The Pepsi Max Big One (even though I’ve been too scared to ride it since I was like 14).

Hopefully I can get the time off (shouldn’t be a problem, I think) and the boyfriend wants to go back. We were there two years ago with his mum and had a great time so hopefully he’ll agree.

$10,000 Dream Room Furniture Giveaway

August 3, 2008 | No comments

Win a $10,000 dream room from Boyles.com If you’re a fan of furniture, and lets face it most people are to some extent, and fancy your chances of winning an amazing prize of $10,000 worth of dream furniture you really need to check out the discount furniture retailer, Boyles.com.

Random Draw Sweepstakes: No purchase necessary to enter or win. Dream Room Give Away Sponsored by Hendricks Furniture Group, LLC.
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Must be a legal resident of the 50 United States.Void where prohibited by law.

I’ve checked out Bolyes.com and there is some amazing furniture on that site that I so desperately want, I just wish I lived in the United States so I could enter the sweepstakes. I’m browsing the site just now, thinking how easily I could fit some of the gorgeous wood furniture into my bedroom. Some of the beds on there are stunning, and would guarantee a comfy night’s sleep.

If you’re in the United States I’d definitely enter this sweepstake, you’ve got nothing to loose and nothing but stunning, dream furniture to win.

Yesterday sucked.

July 31, 2008 | 2 comments

Yesteday morning I woke up at 3am absolutely soaked in sweat. Not because it was warm outside, like it has been for the past couple of days, but from feeling very much like I have flu. My whole body was aching and my throat felt like it had undergone surgery to be replaced by sandpaper. Not to mention the fact that my glands are swollen and tender.

So I got myself out of bed and downstairs to make a huge cup of hot chocolate (Galaxy chocolate powder and milk, it’s amazing) and tried to fall asleep again. No such luck. So I figured I’d just sit and watch TV until 5.30am when I need to start getting ready for . Eh, yes. I’d forgotten that last night about 8pm the internet, television and phoneline had conked out. I had phoned them with my mobile (which has probably cost me about £5.00) and they informed me that there are no problems on the account, it was a service issue in my area and everything would be ok by morning.
Well, evidently not. I checked the phone - no service. Internet via my iPod Touch - no WAN connection.

So I sat on the couch with my two cups of hot beverages. You see I decided that I needed coffee to wake me up a little so I made a huge Central Perk-esque cup of double spooned coffee for a caffeine boost to drink after my hot chocolate. I read yesterday’s Evening Times. I read a 3 month old copy of Look magazine and realised that magazines are still publishing the same crap as they were 3 months ago - Amy Winehouse’s fears over Blake, Blake out of prison soon, Lohan might have a girlfriend and is settling down, Paris and Nicole hate each other - and an unbelievably old copy of Channel 4’s Grand Design magazine. After all that reading it was only 5am and I was tired again. No point going to sleep for a half hour, I’d only sleep through my alarm. So I did what any sane person does at 5am, threw a jacket over my jammies and a pair of Ugg boots on my feet and took the dog out for a long walk.

By the time we got back I’d to end up rushing my shower and didn’t have a chance to lather on my amazing raspberry and melon body scrub and only washed my hair once. Usually I put shampoo through it twice to make it really shiny but I didn’t think I had enough time so I felt somewhat dirty all morning. Ran like a mad woman to get ready and nearly burned my hand ironing my top, only to realise the clock in the bathroom was 15 minutes fast and I still had 20 minutes to get ready!

I ended up leaving the house earlier than usual to walk to the next bus stop up and catch the earlier bus, theoretically getting me to 10 minutes earlier. Of course, that’s the theory. I got the earlier bus down the hill to where I get my second bus but that didn’t show up. So I ended up waiting an extra 10 minutes outside feeling awful and shivering and actually being late for - ironic or what? Luckily for me the other supervisor was also opening up today so the shop wasn’t late opening or anything.

itself was ok aside from the blinding headache causing my eyes to water and randomly shivering even though it’s a lovely day outside. I ended up taking a half day because of the sheer amount of I did last week, nearly double my standard hours. Which I don’t get paid for, I get it back in time-owed. I’m sure that’s why I’m sick.

So I’m back home, lying in bed. And guess what? The phone, tv and internet are still not working. I called the company again and it’s going to be as late as 11pm that the issue is solved. Over 20 hours after the outage began. I feel disconnected from my world with no way to check emails or Twitter. Thankfully I have installed locally on my laptop though so I continue working on themes and graphics for my new project.

Looks like Google’s been busy again, Ashesfromstars.com now has a PR of 1!

July 27, 2008 | 1 comment

Overworked

July 23, 2008 | 4 comments

Doing a 15 hour shift after just two hours sleep is not fun in the slighest, but that’s exactly what I did on Monday as the back shift supervisor called in sick. I was supposed to finish at 4pm but got talked into staying til 10pm - my boss was there til 10pm also and the amount of we got done in that 15 hour period was amazing. Seriously, the shop looks amazing and sparkly clean. We rock.

The downside to working so hard? Pretty much yesterday there was nothing to do. At all. We’d done all the orders that were required to be done and worked all the backstock so all we had to do was put out daily deliveries which take about 10 minutes top and daily paperwork - about an hour or so? And the rest was just milling about doing this-and-that. It was amazingly boring all day.

Today was good though - more tidying up and merchandising which I love doing with a passion, it’s the area of retail that I want to get into so I do most of it in our shop. I get really OCD-ish about it, fixing products on the shelf until they are millimetre perfect and all the labels line up…yes, I’m sad!

I’m working all day tomorrow again..and Friday…and Saturday. Half day Sunday and Monday. That means I’ll have done 57 hours in one week - result! Shame I only get paid for 39 and get the rest back in time-owed, which will come in handy on the 12th August.

Why the 12th of August? I’ve booked my theory test for my licence. I’m ever so slighty nervous as I keep forgetting really silly and important things - like stopping distances and the like. Eeek. Think I’ll have to read the highway code about 10 times between now and then. And remember not to forget the paper part of my licence, eh Rhys?

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