Wednesday

Halfway to the weekend. Today has been a great day! The train into town was on time for once, and a faster commuter train was in when I came down the escalator at the commuter train part of the central station. So I caught that commuter train, and then I arrived my work area earlier than usual, was expecting to having to wait for my bus for about 20 minutes but then a bus I'm never able to catch came, so I took that one today, and arrived work even before I would have gotten on my usual bus. Could just sit at work and relax with some coffee for nearly 1 hour before my shift started! Wish everyday was like this.
My workday was a little bit unusual too today, I helped a workmate moving some products and shelves today instead of doing my usual stuff. Was nice with a change and also nice to work with someone and just chat while working. Just did my usual task the last 1.5 hour today. Now I know why my forklift gets stuck too. The driving wheel on it must have the wrong dimension. I didn't drive my usual forklift today, but a workmate was driving it and managed to get stuck on a rubber carpet, and when I compared my usual forklift with the one I drove today which is the same model, I could see my usual one barely has any air space between the floor and the lowest part of the forklift, while the one I drove today had space. Of course the workmate got stuck in the slope today too, but we were prepared for it...

Now it's just about two weeks left until first of Advent if I'm not mistaken. I don't really keep track on it very well these days I must admit. Anyways. I'm going to put up some electric candles in the windows fairly soon. It's so cozy and gives extra light in this dark season.
I still haven't started christmas shopping. But I'll wait until the november salary comes. It will be plenty of time to shop until Christmas, and I'm not going to buy much anyways. Just a little something for my closest family and some friends, but nothing big.
Feels quite incredible it's just a little more than a month left until Christmas, this year has been so fast! Doesn't feel like nearly a year has gone since last Christmas. Interesting how the speed of time changes with your age. When I was younger the years felt very long, but since high school or so, the years has just gone by in the speed of light.
In April it was 5 years since I graduated from high school, but it feels like it was yesterday. My husband and I have been together for 4 years in December. Wow, time has just been flying!

But now I have a mission! And it has nothing to do with Christmas, working or how fast time is. I really have to deal with the Chinese issue! I have to learn it! It's been 4 years since I first started learning a little, but I'm still totally unable to communicate with my in-laws! That has to change, I have to spend more time with the books and remember what I read. Time to learn those spiderwebs (ehh, characters)! Next year when my husband and I visit his family in China, I want to speak with my Chinese family, maybe not a fluent conversation, but just be able to speak freely a little bit instead of using translating softwares and pre-made phrases. I have no clue about expressing myself in Chinese yet :/

Oh well, long blog post today. I've had too much coffee! (6 cups) LOL

Got stuck again

Something is definitely not right with my forklift! Today I got stuck again, in the same place when driving up to the forklift room, and today I even paid extra attention to hit the top of the slope at full speed and with an angle. I don't think the new driving wheel on the forklift is right... I've never been stuck like that before, but now it's the 2nd day in a row. Luckily today a workmate came just seconds behind me, and he was driving one of the even smaller forklifts which is not sensitive to slopes at all. So after a few loud moments of forklift crashes, my forklift finally got a grip on the floor again and I could drive into the forklift room.

This morning I got up at my usual time to go to work. Had a headache in the morning which I just ignored. Just got dressed, took my B12 shot and left home about 15 minutes after getting out of bed- yep, I'm that fast in the morning ;) Got to work, headache still pretty bad, along with being real dizzy so I took a couple of painkillers and an anti-sickness pill. Luch break came, and I still didn't feel on top of things but decided to stay at work anyways. At 3pm I gave in and told my team leader that I had to go home. I was just feeling too unwell to last until 6pm. In the afternoon I have been feeling like as if having a fever, felt cold and shivering a bit even after putting on my college sweater over my work T-shirt. Don't know what's going on now really. Didn't have fever when I got home, but still feeling craptastic and have recently taken yet another anti-sickness pill. So if I fall asleep in mid-sentence you know why :P
I just hope I'll feel better tomorrow morning. I'd rather not have to stay home due to illness now when I've finally started working again after being on sickleave for two weeks for the B12 deficiency.

Got an invitation from my GP clinic a few days ago, about the swineflu vaccination. I knew it would come soon, and I had so been looking forward to do what I did with it: Tearing it into 1000 pieces and throwing it in the bin!
Yesterday I got an invitation for the vaccine from my boss, but I said thanks but no thanks, I'm not taking it!
I'm so sick of the flu talk everywhere all the time! It doesn't matter how much the media is nagging about it. I'M NOT GOING TO GET THE VACCINATION! And I'm sick of hearing people saying "It's your duty to the society to take it to protect others" No, it is NOT my duty towards the society to take a vaccination for a flu. Those people who don't want to risk getting the flu, THEY should take the vaccination and leave us who doesn't want the vaccination alone! I'm well aware of the risks of the flu, but I've never had a confirmed flu and I've never had a flu shot so why take the flu shot now?! I have a strong immune system and don't catch infections easily, seem to be resistant to most bugs- touch wood!

Dinnertime soon now.
Laters

Getting late...

About 10pm now. I'm pretty sleepy. Didn't have dinner before, just felt too tired to even think about it so decided to just relax instead. Would like to sleep now but my hair is still too wet- thank you new work schedule! I have a hairdryer around but it's about as effective as taking a drinking straw and blow on the hair... Along with making my hair all wierd. My hair really hates hairdryers and styling products! And it really doesn't get along with conditioner, but who needs those anyways! My hair rarely has any split ends, and that's with just 2 hair cuts per year, and not using conditioner when washing my hair. Even my hairdresser is totally amazed by that. And my hair is always very easy to brush through. And that's all I do with it: Wash, let dry in a towel or air dry, and brush it. Haven't had a haircut since June now, and my hair looks good still and can probably go at least until Christmas before having a haircut again.

Yep, you guessed it right: I'm BORED! And sleepy...
Really should have some snack before sleep too, will see what I can find in the kitchen.

Tomorrow is B12 day, going to have my shot before going to work in the morning, but it for sure won't make get up earlier than usual. I'm not at all afraid of needles so it only takes me a couple of minutes to finish the whole process of breaking that little vial open, draw the B12 up and inject it. Bought some fancy Disney bandaids and Tom and Jerry bandaids today too^^ Always need a bandaid after those injections to avoid stains on my clothes, so why not use some FUN bandaids, the regular ones are just too boring. I might be 24, but sometimes you just have to let yourself be a bit childish. Got some shorter needles today too so tomorrow I'll probably take my shot in the arm instead of on the bum. Want to rotate the sites a bit and not just use the same area all the time...
Just hope I'm not too tired to go to work tomorrow. It was so great to be back today again, even if it made me very tired. Just hope someone has managed to move my forklift tomorrow when I come...
My forklift got stuck in a small slope at work today when I was driving to the forklift room when finishing work, and even with my best efforts of unstucking it for about 10 minutes, it just wouldn't move because the driving wheel couldn't get a grip on the floor. Think someone will have to lift the back of it a little bit with a bigger forklift. I couldn't try that today though because I don't have licence to drive those big high lifting ones. The one I drive lifts pretty low. Guess my workmates will laugh at me tomorrow, but I'll just laugh with them. It is a well known fact that the kind of forklift I drive absolutely hates driving up or down a slope even on a concrete floor. And my forklift has recently gotten a new driving wheel and I feel it has been difficult to drive it today compared to before. The new wheel just doesn't get a good grip on the floor. Will have to mention that to the guy who deals with the reports about which forklifts needs to be checked when the maintainance and repairmen comes. My forklift really felt quite horrible to drive today, and normally that one is very nice to drive. Something is definitely not right with that new wheel it has... Oh well, my workmates and I will have a good laugh at it tomorrow :P

Hmm even after wasting about 20 mintues writing this blog, my hair is still no where near being dry enough for sleep... That is quite annoying...
Now I'd really better head into the kitchen to make a sandwich or a bowl of noodles. Feeling a bit lightheaded and that for me might mean having a little bit low bloodsugar...

Will update tomorrow sometime.