Rant: Lazy so and so

Ok, this is a random wordy post. Just a bit of a rant so please feel free to avert your eyes.

There's an advert that comes on the radio everyday and it bugs me so much, it really gets my blood boiling. The ad is for 'Three' (nothing wrong against Three as a company) and it's their "do the smart thing'" campaign. The ad man basically says that there is no need to waste time shopping or researching for a new smart phone, go to Three where they've done all the hard work for you and you can just pick out of the best phones and packages they've chosen for us.

Why does this piss me off?

To me, the message given says all there is to say about what is wrong with today's youth; especially after the recent riots: lazy so and so's.

I'll put my hands up and say "yes, I love convenience. Yes I am a lazy cow", but you know what? That's on PJ Sundays, in the week I live and lead a real life and contribute somewhat to the society I live in.

The advert pisses me off because it highlights how we now live in a society where it's all about instant gratification as opposed to the generations before where it was about deferred gratification.

Of course advantages in technology and science and globalisation means that life really is easier, and I am not suggesting that we wash our clothes in a river and shun the washing machine; I am not even suggesting we don't make use of Three's service, heck, why waste time when we can save it? But it's the underlying message that hurts my heart.

Our children, our youth, our future are the sort of people who cannot be bothered. A generation of wastemen and wastegash!! The only dreams they (ok, I know I am super duper generalising but you get the point yeah?) have is to win X factor and become instant superstars.

Sure, if I had the talent and opportunity I would also want to be an instant superstar/instant millionaire but that hasn't stopped me from slogging it out in the rat race. For a lot of 'kids' these days, when they say "I've only wanted to sing/danceactplay football" they are also saying "and I am not going to bother doing any thing else until I get what I want".

Of course I am being ungenerous here, there are plenty of 'good' kids out there working weekends in McDonalds and not looting during the riots. But they don't piss me off so they are not what my post is about ;)

And I've run out of steam. Felt good to get that off my chest. I might have to start listening to another radio station from now on! xoxo

Rant and Holidays part 2 + ramble

So today was a good day at work; I definitely don't want to fling myself off the top floor anymore!!
But for some reason I am so tired. Don't know if it's my sickness or just stress.

Last night I went to bed at 8pm as planned (well 8:15 to be exact) but I couldn't sleep. Was in the worst/weird random pain ever. My shoulders were so tensed, I ended up having to sleep on the floor without a pillow, it was the only way I could ease the pain (and even then it wasn't gone). Woke up feeling ok but not feeling like I had a long sleep.

Been tired all day, and it didn't help that all I had to eat by 4pm was a bowl of cocopops!!! We had 'an event' today and even though a long lunch was scheduled I ended up spending an hour printing out 330 pages and stapling it together. So i had 15mins for my cocopops and a wee (TMI?)

But yay I am home now and on the way I popped in the chicken shop and got myself chips and wings :)

The holiday part of this post is to basically say: no morocco. I went into work to check my work schedule (Cos I'd checked my diary and I didn't have any big events coming up) and the period I need off has been taken (its the first week of the summer holidays duh) and only 1 person off at a time, especially if its a whole week, which is fair considering my team consists of 3 people.

I am a bit sad. Because I was weighing up all the pro's and con's and the only real con was money and I was thinking of robbing a bank (or maybe just spending a bit less on my credit card) and I am a bit miffed that my decision has been made for me. In fact, because the decision not to go isn't mine it makes me really really really want to go now!!! *sighs*

Tomorrow (TGIF) I'm debating whether to pop down to oxford street after work, I need to buy my dad something for fathers day (i was thinking of a Gap giftcard) but if I'm feeling how I am now tomorrow then that's definitely a no. I could always pop to oxford street after work on Saturday but am worried I'm cutting it a bit fine.....and what if I'm feeling dodgy on saturday and need to go straight home for a lie down? Then I am screwed. I was actually planning to go today becasue an event usually = a relatively early finish, plus thursday is late night shopping but I was all wobbly from stress, fatigue, sickness and hunger so had to speed it home.

All my ramble type posts have been just moan moan moan recently and i do apologise. Hopefully next week will be a better week for me!

One last moan: i painted my toes with Barry M's lemon ice cream...horrible!! It looks like my toenails are rotten or something equally as bad :( In fact, it probably looked better on my finger nails which isn't saying much!

I think now would be a good time for me to do my 3 blessings before the wind changes and turns me into a miserable old hag forever!!!

1) Finally got to eat chicken wings, first time this week :)
2) No longer vomitting which is always a good thing (hope I haven't jinxed my chicken wings!!!)
3) Will get to see the family on sunday cos its fathers day :)

So you tell me, what's been p*ssing you off?!