Eventful Tuesday

I'd say it was an eventful day today so this will be a bit longer.

To start things off, I had a dentist appointment in the morning.
Needless to say that I hate going to the dentist (I don't hate the dentist anymore as mine is fabulous! Finally someone I can trust and feel comfortable with!) but I needed to get some fillings done and I thought I'd share a picture of my personal "house of torture" ;-)




Second event - well, this will be a moan about work - might as well get used to it, you'll be reading much about it.
We had a team meeting today. Just at the thought of that all my hairs stand on end.
I should explain: please don't imagine a team meeting as being something where us lower "support folk" actually get to influence the way our live at work is shaped. Oh no. It's purely for some sort of sick entertainment purposes. I'm convinced of that.
And because it's really late and I haven't got the energy to go into a full blown tirade about it, I'll just say - again, incapable people made incompetent decisions. Again, the loosers are we. Again, we are still supposed to view this as a "be happy you've still got a job" situation. I say - bullshit!
And what makes me really angry is that most in my team think the same but when it comes to speaking up, I'm the only stupid idiot. And whilst I think I'll be backed up, suddenly I look behind me and nobody's there. I have made the decision to stop getting involved a while ago and I've put this to work today. I spent the entire team meeting shutting up. Damn, I knew it would be hard bu I'm proud to say I did it.
Watch this space for the never ending work tales..

The third event was my last Spanish lesson today.
After 30 weeks of two hour Spanish sessions I can say that I am now able to barely get through a conversation and would probably manage to survive in Spain if needed. I'd love to continue with Spanish 2 but it starts in September and so many things can change until then.
The last lesson was a bit sad (even though our class has shrunk from 13 people at the beginning to 4 at the end LOL) - I will miss my Spanish teacher, she was good fun.
One of the last things we did today was watch some BBC Spanish lesson from a video tape. The VCR looked fairly new but at the sight of the TV I knew I had to take a picture. See below!!!!!




I mean - those things STILL exist? It must be at least 20 years old. If you look to the right, you can see the buttons you have to use to turn the volume up and down and change channels! Ah, the good ol days when people didn't have to fight over the remote control... ;-)