So what's been happening around Sock Monkey Mansions?
Well Sock Monkey managed to leave 2 jobs in 2 consecutive days. I had been working part-time for 2 companies and I left one on the Tuesday and the other on the Wednesday. Two leaving do's in 2 days ha ha. Actually the first one was really lovely as I had only worked there since January and everyone came out for drinks and they gave me a bottle of champagne and 50 quid's worth of gift vouchers which was really generous.
Went to see Miss Behave's Variety Nighty which was absolutely fantastic. I have never seen a woman swallow a metal table leg before, the table holding a wine glass & bottle at the time just for good measure. Spy Monkey was my favourite act. I did like their first piece where a woman would swallow various things only to have them reappear from her nether regions (eg she drinks 'washing up liquid' and bubbles appear from her, ahem down belows). There was also this amazing woman who performed a wonderful acrobatic routine whilst gracefully dangling from 2 trailing sheets of silky fabric.
I'd have definitely gone to see it all again but I went up to Scotland where my sister and I carried out the following activities:
cake baking, muffin making, a cheese sauce making master-class (I can now make cheese sauce which isn't horrible), expensive bra-buying, luncheoning, a visit to an auction to check up what kind of prices we could achieve for the rest of Mum's stuff which we need to sell, luncheoning again, oh lets just have a glass of wine, a visit to the Royal College of Surgeons museum to look at all the medical stuff (the one in London is a lot better - more unidentifiable things even though, disappointingly, they have hidden their pickled siamese twins) and a visit to the Edinburgh Festival to see Nina Conti and her extremely potty-mouthed monkey.
I spent a bloody fortune up there! However most of this expense came approximately 2 minutes after my arrival at Edinburgh Airport where I bought a MacBook. I love my MacBook! PCs suck- macs rule yay!
Then I had another few days off before starting my new job. This is an actual real job and not like the toy jobs I have been doing for the last year. I was a bit apprehensive after the last time I started a full-time job at Fucking Bastard Publishing where I was dumped in a corner, given fuck all training and no support from my manager who then described my leave when my Mum died as 'holiday'. However this place is the exact opposite. They had worked out who would train me in doing what over the course of the first week and have been very friendly and supportive and patient with all my questions. The Summer Party is next week. Two friends from a previous job also work there so that's nice too.
My friend left one of my previous companies after 26 years and they threw her a huge party. It was great to see so many people from years ago. There was a big turn-out and it was a really fun evening although I doubt she made it to her tennis match for 10am the following morning!
So its been all change round at Sock Monkey Mansions. And am going for a nice picnic later on today.
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