I'm going to have a whinge ):

For want of something better to ramble on about really, but this is my blog - it is about me - it is your choice to read it - so there!!!

Right, got that out of the system now it is down to the whinging part.

As you should have figured out by my last post, M34tb4LL i got married one month and one day ago. We did the whole secret thing and told people the next day, SURPRISE. But it was the way we wanted to do it, and after being together for over fifteen and a half years, having not really talked about getting married, and with a baby on the way...

Well the reasons are there and, yup, anyway back to my whinge.

There is a girl (woman) at work who has been planning her wedding for the best part of two years, ever since her little man slipped a ring on her finger and her wedding happened to fall about two weeks after ours. I had the Monday and Tuesday off work after our little event and came back to work on the Wednesday to much congrats and people laughing about how much of a sneaky peoples we had been, love it! On the Thursday i had a rather large envelope placed on my desk with a request to sign a card for the afore mentioned bride to be and a second envelope with a request of money to buy her a wedding present.

This is not the whinge part by the way, this is just setting the scene for you.

The envelope made its way around the office and by early the next week members of the office were called into the kitchen for a presentation to the bride to be. She was given the giant card that about 100 people had signed and was given a present that consisted of a two-in-one DVD and VCR player, and a milkshake maker.

Still just setting the scene.

I was standing at the back at the crowd (as is my want) feeling happy for her and enjoying watching her blush with excitement at her new appliances, when

Here comes the whinge part...

A member of the senior management pointed to me and encouraged everyone to turn and give their congratulations to me having recently gotten married myself.

Don't get the whinge part? I spell it out.

It was a choice i made to 'elope' and if that means not getting showered with gifts is part of it - don't care. We've been in our house for 10 years and have enough crap. Plus i have always kind of felt like i have to give a gift at a wedding because the bride and groom have spent so much money on that one day that they need a bubble or two as pay back. I can cope without getting a gift, but...

To have this girl being the centre of attention, holding a stupidly big card and loving the look of her new toys, and then turn the attention on me with an "oh, by the way, lets also recognise G" made me feel hideously embarrassed.

Either have a presentation (again, don't care that i did not get one) or leave me be. Actually, just leave me be!

(: G

BIRTHDAY!!! and more (???)

Well it is my birthday and my stress levels are far lower than they were the other day when i rambled on amnd on and on and on and on and ...

M34tb4LL and i had our party last night, and it all went well (i can say that now). We had far too much food, better to have too much than not enough though.

After people had eaten we gather them round the telly to watch a little surprise birthday video that we had prepared -



If it does not load, it might, it might not, here is the direct link to YouTube -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iqHjhkjXnM

It was sort of like a reverse surprise party - the birthday peoples (and a few others) were the only people who knew what was really going on!

(: G