Confession time.............

well it's 11 am, Paulines gone to work and I feel it's time to confess to a deeply disturbing fact........I'M ADDICTED TO WALKERS ONION BAAJI CRISPS!........ there I've admited it, now I'll be able to sleep at night. Talking of night....out for a couple of colas (diet of course!) tonight with the guys & gals from work.....if I have any alcohol it will be purely for medicinal purposes...can't stop long though, last metro and allllll that, besides Pauline has promised to pick me up from South Hylton station. I can't keep her out too late as she has to go to work again tomorrow. It is a bit of a problem at times, living in Sunderland and everybody else living in Newcastle, I think they think I'm a bit of a misery but I cant take the car, the last metro leaves way before the fun finishes and Pauline has a job driving around the town she's lived in all her life so Newcastle would drive her around the bend! Changing the subject completely............ Pauline wasn't very pleased yesterday, she challanged me to a duel on RRR3 and lost 6-1....... and they were all 'dancing' type games ....... she was livid..... HOW CAN YOU BEAT ME? YOU NEVER DANCE!

No post on Weds

Forgot to say I didn't post anything yesterday cuz we had a power cut about 6.30 pm. Candles everywhere......... Power didn't come back on till late so no post.

Metro Centre

Well as yesterday(29th) was Pauline's birthday we went to the Metro Centre in Gateshead. I normally hate going to these sort of places as they're usually very crowded but by the usual standard it was deserted. We got greedy and went to KFC for lunch, stood there getting napkins etc and I could hear someone calling Adrian!!, well I thought 'nobody here would know me so it's not me they want'.... You guessed, curiosity got the best of me and I looked up from what I was doing only to find it was Sarah, one of the call centre girls from work. After a couple of hours walking we decided we didn't want to buy anything and started making our way to the car. Passing near to Debenhams Pauline says we should go and see what they had in the Photo frame line. We bought 2 nice wooden 10x 8 frames and a silver plated triple frame. As we reached the car park I noticed a 'Maplins' electrical store and thought I'd pop in and see about a mini flash drive for the digital frame we had for xmas. Spoke to the guy at the counter and explained what I wanted, he went and later returned with a stick that was about the size of a disposable lighter, even though it was cheap(£10) I declined as it was far too big. Again he goes and comes back this time with a mini usb stick, 2GIG £14.99 and only about the size of my mob's sim card, great! Arriving home, Pauline and I then spent the next 6 hours printing and transfering photos. Never again!........

well....too tired yesterday to blog.... today has left me feeling quite good.....started the day very quietly sat playing Freecell on the works PC till the bosses arrived then it was tea duty......Kylie from NECC arrived at 9.30 to sit in on my appraisal and take notes for my NVQ in Team Leading...... it went quite a lot better than expected..... didn't get handed my P45 lolol.......mostly positives with 1 or 2 not really negatives more doing well but!!!......seems as well as trying to pass my CPC this year I have to do an IOSH course (basically a risk assessment course).....get to know more about the business development side of things at work and do a man management course ...........if I get any spare time I think I might get drunk........... oh yes! then there's the IT courses and Driver CPC course to be done. This afternoon was spent running around the place dealing with people who don't know the difference between a £10 note and a £20 note when paying their parking charges. Came home tonight to a wonderful tea of chips with chicken breasts with Philli and garlic inside and then wrapped in smokey bacon .....MMMmmmmmmm MMMMMMMmmmmmm

GRRRRrrrrrrrrr........................

Wot a day today has been, if it could go wrong it has, from payment machines not taking coins to ticket machines not issuing tickets. Had to call the ACS engineer out to try to fix the Pay on Foot machines but he cant make it until tommorrow. The number of idiots pressing the intercom button to tell me that their ticket wouldn't go in the machine when the screen is flashing bright red and white with the words "OUT OF ORDER FOR MAINTENANCE" EMBLAZENED across it was unbelieveable. Another guy complains at 07:40 that he's had to pay £12 for his parking when he has been delayed due to a baggage hold up, he entered the car park at 06:00 and the first plane didn't land until 07:30. There are BIG signs at the entrance warning that the charge is £6 for 45-90 mins and £6 per hour or part of after that. A similar thing later too, a guy has been in for 24hrs 35 mins asks why the machine has charged him £30 when it's £15 for 24 hrs and only £3.90 for 45-60 mins in the short term car park, READ THE BLOODY TARIFF BOARD!! £15 FOR 4-24 HOURS AND THEN £15 PER DAY OR PART OF AFTER THAT. Good job this isn't the states and I don't have a few automatic rifles in my collection because I would certainly have made the front pages tomorrow!

Well what can I say? ........ I've worked hard and earned my wages today?..... yes I could but that's a lie. It's been sooooo quiet today, one of my drivers got locked in at the M/T dept. The bus broke down after he fuelled it and security had to go, so they just locked the gates and left. 45 mins and 2 very angry Meet & Greet customers later (he had the keys to the Galaxy in his pocket and we couldn't get the paperwork out) we finally got him released. Took 2 new 24v batteries to sort the problem out........we've only been telling them for 18 months that the bus has an electrical prob, but what do we know we only drive the things everyday. Well that hour was about the only thing that happened in a 12 hour shift....... hope tomorrow is more exciting..........

Well it's 8.40 p.m and time (almost) to go and have a shower, have a BIG question to ponder over the next few days..... do I go out with the lads from work on the 30th or do I go out with the lasses from work on the 31st hmmmm gonna take some pondering this is. Thinking it's also about time I got my head stuck back into my CPC manual and did a few mock exams before the real thing (again) on the 6th March. Answers on a postcard please to Adi wil rog 21 pres..............................................

BL**DY WII

what a night!......still up at 3.30 a.m playing Rayman Rabids 3...... I gotta be MAD!........ still beat Pauline's scores on a lot of the dance programmes ...... that will go down like a barbed wire sandwich...... she won't believe it although it's there in front of her... THANK GOD I'VE GOT WORK TOMORROW!!!!!

It's 1 p.m and I've just woken up.............

well it's day 2 of blogging........ Pauline is rushing around getting ready for work at 5p.m, it's been happening since 10.30 a.m it's now 2.54 p.m. I've managed to drag myself out of the sack and made MY OWN cup of tea. Just read a very funny e mail from Nikki (GO TOM!!!)......boys will be boys! lolol. How many times can you redecorate a bedroom? All I can say is ...like father like son.....'cept 'daddy drew all over his........... laters peeps!

well here goes...........

Well after much badgering from a certain member of my family I've finally started a blog. Can't see that it will be very interesting but I hope to put something down most days. Finished nightshift at 6 this morning, felt really tired by the time arrived home. Monday nights are so boring especially now the runway at the airport is closed between 23:30 and 06:00 for repairs to take place. Tried a silly rebound game that Pauline thought was a shoot-em up and finally went to bed. Slept until about 14:15 when I was woken by the Makem tones of Pauline informing me of the time. Then the usual afternoon schedule started ........what's on the box? NOOOOO your're not watching a motoring progamme again????...... what do you want for your tea?...... etc etc.......you get the idea? Gemma (Pauline's daughter visiting from London) and Pauline have gone to Asda hence me being able to get to the PC. Probably end the evening with Pauline playing ANOTHER hidden object game and then just as I'm about to go to bed "AAADDDDEEEE can you make me a coffe please?" So life goes on.....and.....on....and....on. Good thing is I'm not back to work until 6:00 Saturday morning.