Counting down the hours

Friday is here at last!

It's been a really hectic and long week, full of challenges and achievements. Last Friday, my Team Leader announced that she was leaving me in charge of the team for a week while she was away on holiday. I was a bit gobsmacked to be honest, since I've never really considered myself to be management material, but was still pleased that she'd chosen me. I was briefed quickly during the course of the afternoon as to what would be required of me, and then it was time for the weekend!

First thing on Monday morning, I was pretty terrified to tell the truth, because the project we are working on is being watched very careful by the FSA and duffing things up was seriously not an option. Luckily, we were down on numbers this week so the size of the team wasn't going to be an issue, but at the same time, we were down on numbers, meaning that the workload was going to be tough. Without going into too much detail (because A. I shouldn't for confidentiality reasons and B. It's quite boring really), we had an insane week with data going missing, losing spreadsheets, a certain amount of department rivalry and general mayhem. But we pulled it
off and we hit the targets and recognition was forthcoming!

Sadly though, it did mean that several things I had planned to do in my spare time or lunch breaks fell by the wayside. I've started writing myself To Do lists for the week to try and keep up with what I am meant to be doing outside of work, as life is very busy on that front too. Only managed to cross off 11 of the 19 things I had to do this week; to be fair, some of them are "Hoover my room" and "Buy food for the Boosh Festival", so not exactly insurmountable things to finish off this week ;) More difficult are things like "write to landlady", but I really will do this after I've finished writing up this post.

Just so you know, I am LOVING Blogger! Really pleased with the layout and content - and easy to use. I'm actually writing this post by email from work, which is so wonderful because the thing I really missed was being able to blog during the day when things occur to me. Oh, for the glory days of 20six, when I had daytime Internet access at work! Miss those days. But this way, I've rediscovered my love for blogging big time, and will finally get round to typing up my journal from France :) Fantastic!

So Friday reaches the last 30 minutes of the working day! I'm off to see my therapist as per usual, and then on to the station to meet Lucy. Phil should be arriving from work around the same time so we can all go home together - via Somerfield to grab some goodies and booze for the Festival tomorrow. I am so excited about it, and at the same time, curious to see how it all goes down; it's the first outdoors event that the Boosh boys have organised and it's set to be an interesting mix of comedy and music. To be honest, I'm just really looking forward to being in the sun with some wine, my friends, my man and Noel Fielding being in the general vicinity ;)
My goodness, that man is LUSH.

Speaking of which, I have recently rekindled my love-affair with the wonderful shop that is LUSH. I first discovered it when my best friend Jack and I were travelling around Canada shortly after our 18th birthdays, and was blown away. Being as Phil was vegan when I first met him (again...long story) he was an avid fan of the place because of their policy of only producing fresh, organic vegetarian and vegan cosmetics and bath stuffs. He reintroduced me to them, and I've been bathing in glorious pink bubble baths and smelling sweetly of Flying Fox temple balm ever since. I love it. Have put the website in the MUGGLES section on the right hand side for those who are interested in knowing more about them!

Right, that's enough for now I think. Have a wonderful evening everyone!

*Squish*