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That was me today :).

Wearing my £3 charity shop skirt and my £1.50 charity shop top along with some leggings. I had about 6 compliments on the skirt and how I looked today generally, which always makes me wonder if I look dreadful the rest of the time 😆

Work was mostly okay – I’ve been there nearly 3 years which is the longest I’ve ever stayed in any job so quite aside from Nightmare Colleague I do have short attention span itis setting in and same job fatigue. Not at all sure how to combat that really but I do feel the winds of change a’blowing round these parts one way or another…

But some nice stuff; I found a directive from above detailing how we all had to be friendly, polite, treat customers with respect, have trained personnel on hand to answer queries and various other things so we started the morning with very enthusiastic greeting of people as we opened and attempted to answer the first query of the day which was about why funeral directors are called directors. We had two of our resident ‘characters’ (read nutters) in today. The first is a bloke who tends to only really be a fan of dead celebrities. He’s very big on Michael Jackson for example and was in to ask if we knew about the new single he is releasing. This had suggestions of ‘something from beyond the grave?’ and ‘Thriller?’ from the floor along with some sniggering. He then went on to ask about contact details for the Patrick Swayze fan club :lol:. We’ve noticed since Kylie got the all clear he’s not so interested in her anymore…

The other nutter was after details of suppliers of gargoyles. He hates his neighbour with a passion and had seen some TV show about gargoyles and how they ‘really work’ with their curses, so he wants to get some for his garden to face to his neighbours house. I printed some internet stuff off for him while fighting the urge to suggest a complex arrangement of mirrors instead as a cheaper option.

Our final chance to shine with our customer service skills came when one of the borrowers who has a boyish crush on my colleague F came to say he wanted to complain about the noise – it was storytime so there was some ‘if you’re happy and you know it’ going on, the people on the computer next to him had a toddler who was rather out of control and we were all giggling at the counter about swingers. F suggested he went home for some peace and quiet! 😆

Later we were talking about a new BBC Headspace campaign called ‘what makes you smile?’ that we have a big poster, some smiley face balloons and a load of postit notes for to put up a display for people to add their own suggestions of what makes them smile. S said she’s going to write ‘Nic Goddard’ on one and put it up 🙂 Nice to be appreciated! I remember last time we had a postit note thing was about ‘something you learnt in the library today’ which was mostly filled with the staff writing things – about slowworms if I remember correctly…

Ady was home this morning and did some bedroom excavations in the kids rooms. Mum was here this afternoon and all seeemed calm and well. She stayed for a chat about various things and lurked while our food shopping was delivered. I put that away, Ady arrived home, the kids had some tea and as they were busy watching a Star Wars film I’d brought home and chose watching the end of that over some stories I made a lasagne for our dinner and went off for a bath.

Tonight I spent way longer than I’d have liked reconfiguring the router and wireless network at home. It’s been playing up and I’d been meaning to put a password back on it again for ages so I did it but it was headachey to sort out.

Feeling very blah about the world in general today although I rather suspect hormones are to blame for that and a sleep deprived rather busy week. Looking forward to a quieter day tomorrow. And tea, lots of tea.