La di dah

I am feeling really happy today. I had a good day at work, which makes a change from the past few weeks which have been quite difficult. VeggieHubby also went to a kind of job interview today, and now has a new job. It's a small one, but close to home and will hopefully lead to something better in the future. I have a good few weekends planned too:

• This weekend I'm meeting up with some friends from work. I'm quite lucky to have some colleagues who started around a similar time to me last year who are a similar age, and we all get along well which makes my job fun. We have hour-long lunch breaks when we go out for a meal somewhere nice at least once a week. We also usually have half-hour tea breaks in the mornings, and sometimes 15-minute afternoon breaks too. So my job is pretty good like that. Another good thing is that I can work from home sometimes, which I'm going to do tomorrow, so it will feel like a three-day weekend too.
  
• Next week, I'm going to take some time off work & visit my long-lost sister (well, not exactly but we don't see each other often enough) for a long weekend. She lives in a nice area of the country, so exploring the historic cities near to where she lives will be fun too.
• Then it's my birthday weekend, and I'm going to enjoy still being in my 20's for another year. I don't know what I'm going to be doing exactly (apart from seeing my uni friends J and W), but I have a sneaky feeling a surprise is in store.

P.S. Picture above is of my niece's gorgeous cat.

Personal services not required

Oops, I haven't blogged for nearly a week. Work is destroying my blog I feel; when I was briefly unemployed I was a better blogger. It is sooo hot which is good, as it is July.:-) However... Veggie Hubby and I are slowly roasting in our flat. It is so hot and even with the windows open all of the time, it doesn't seem to make any difference. What else has happened in my exciting life this week? Well, I took my car to the garage for it's expensive service and MOT. It passed the test but has a rusty front brake and all four tyres have cracks in them, and one has a nail in it! It doesn't sound great, does it?

On Wednesday night, I watched a reality TV show called 'Personal Services Required' about people looking for domestic help. There are two families per episode, who trial three domestic helpers each. Some of the people on this series have been hilarious, the funniest was that one woman was looking for a housekeeper and asked for him to accompany her to Tescos wearing a chauffeur's hat! The woman in the documentary yesterday employed nine staff including three personal secretaries.

It made me think about domestic help... I really don't think people should pay other people to look after their houses, and should do their own housework. When my parents used to have a cleaner, I found it a real invasion of privacy. However, that was just for a morning a week, but these people who clearly don't need cleaners and are around the house themselves should, I feel do their own cleaning. It is just lazy, and the people in this documentary seem to have delusions of grandeur. It is sickening that they have money they can just throw away by paying a housekeeper's salary. For some things, I feel I have no choice but to pay someone e.g. taking my car for it's service. For other things that I can do myself (or Veggie Hubby can do) I feel I should do myself. Not that I could afford £18K from my salary to employ a housekeeper anyway..

Veggie Hubby often says that he 'likes to be served' meaning that he likes to go to restaurants. I like restaurants too, but I really feel they should just be for special occasions, as you can make your own. I don't feel the need to be served. This may make me sound a bit like a Communist, but I feel that everyone should be treated equally, there shouldn't be hierarchies where some people are more important than others. However, in any job there is always a management structure and hierarchy.