Day 4 ...

Today I did filing ... because the office junior was busy "you know doing mail and stuff ..."

I must say it warms the cockles of my heart (what exactly is a "cockle" and why is it so important that they're warm ?) to see how articulate and verbose today's teenagers are when they come out of high school.

And it was also pay day !!! Yay me !!! My first pay slip in over six months !! I'd totally forgottten how fantastic it felt to see that little slip resting in my "In" tray, the sound it makes when I slowly rip it open, the thrill at seeing my name and all those lovely dollars signs and zeros ... my heart fair skipped a beat :)

And I have discovered that accountants have their uses. Thanks to the fact I've had a somewhat sketchy work history the past couple of years (we keep moving towns and I keep taking time off) and that the nice men (why are they always men ?) at the tax department always tax you as though you're earning for a whole year ... anyway, to cut a long story short, one of the wonderful accountanty-type-ladies at work calculated that I am owed pot loads of money and I should be seeing it in the next three weeks !!!!! And all this in less time than it would take me to sharpen my pencil and say "Tax Department ?" ...

One day to the weekend !!!!