Too Much Alcohol?.....Never!

Hello, hello

Well it's that time again - my weekly update!

So last Monday and i thought work would be dull - but it wasn't. The day went by very quickly, Dave didn't come in until the afternoon and Pete was busy upstairs for most of the day. I had a few bits and bobs to do but i was on the phone all day!!

Monday evening i came home and Kieron was in the garden with Faye. Our little cat has been vaccinated so she is alllowed outside but she hasn't been "done" yet as she is too young and we don't want a kitten litter on our hands so we still keep her indoors, but have recently been spending some time with her in the garden so that she can get her scent on everything.

Tuesday was a great day at work - it was one of the guy's (Tony's) 60th birthday and he bought cakes in for everybody. I did some filling for the morning and then lunchtime came and Tony announced that he would take people to the pub for a drink -excellent! So we all went next door to the Tarnished Halo, we were all nattering away with our drinks and Mike told us it was 2pm (end of lunch) so we all finished our drinks but as we were all getting ready to go, Peter (who's now Chief Executive) said "Does anybody fancy another drink?", we all turned and looked at Pete as if he had lost his marbles and then we started looking amongst ourselves as nobody knew what to say until Paul decided to break the silence by sitting down and said "Yes!" who was follows by me and Adam and everybody else. So Pete went up and got another round in. We were all still speechless - Pete has never done this before!!!

So we all had another drink and a natter, but when we had all finished we went back to the office and it was nearly 3pm!!! Woohoo! I had a load of messages on the answering machine. So i made everybody teas and coffees (mainly coffees to sober us all up!) and got on with the rest of the day.

On my way home from work i called into Bullring and had a quick look round the shops for Kieron he wanted a new shirt for Friday as we were going with my work for Dave's retirement party and he wouldn't have time to come into town. I found him this white, fitted shirt with thin blue lines on it and some light pair of jeans to go with it. I got them home and Kieron loved them. We spent the night just chilling and watching tv.

Wednesday Tony came in with left over birthday cake - which was great and really delicious! Even though i hadn't got alot to do at work the day went by quite quickly which was really great! I got home and Kieron had cooked me my favourite - lasagne and chips! Mmmmm it was delicious!

Thursday at work was boring i still hadn't got anything to do! I found odd little things but it wasn't enough to keep me going all day. So the day dragged on and on i couldn't wait for 5.30pm! That evening me and Kieron decided to have something from the chippy 'cos he couldn't think what to have tea. We both had chicken meat and chips - it was lovely although Kieron felt a little bit sick after it!!

Friday was another good at work nobody did anything all day!!! We were preparing for Dave's retirement meal that evening (well semi-retirement!). We had got a card which we all signed and put some money together. So Malcolm and Tony took a trip up into town to get him something and they came back with a small bottle of champage and a really nice Parker biro. We also had the idea about doing a photo so Adam took the change that was left and went back into town to get a photoframe (oh and yes Pete was in the office and he didn't really care what we were doing!!). He came back with this wood frame and it had grooves going around it, very swanky! So we all decided, to make it more special, we would all sit at Dave's desk it was a really nice photo as you will see from below!

Yes that is PD Architects (minus Dave) from left to right we have: Malcolm, Tony, Mike, Me, Adam, Peter and Paul.

We then printed of some paper from our plotter and Paul had put our logo dotted all over it and then it was left to me to wrapy the prezzies up. Peter also let us go 30mins earlier so we could get home and get ready.

I got home for just gone 5pm and Kieron was already ready!!! I dived into the shower and got ready. We left out flat 6.50pm so we could get some petrol and then we headed for the hotel. We were going to the Eaton Hotel on the Hageley Road. We got there for just gone 7.30pm and most of the crew were already there. We sat down and had a drink in the bar for a bit before going into the restaurant. The food was excellent and the drinks kept coming. Malcolm made a speech on the staff's behalf, Peter made a speech about the future for the practice and finally Dave made his speech. We presented Dave's presents to him and he absolutely loved them (i think he was on the verge of tears!) and then he came round the table thanking us all individually.

It was a really good night and we all had a laugh but me and Kieron left at 12am as we were both tired, as soon as we got back we went straight to bed.

So Saturday morning i made me and Kieron a good English Breakfast as i was a little hazy from the night before. I wasn't planning on doing to much apart from going to see my mum, nan and grandad later. It was about 12pm and Kieron's friend Alex called him up to see what we were doing. He and his girlfriend and her sister who had come over from Ireland wanted to go for a pub lunch and wated to meet up with us, so we got ready and met them at the Red Lion in Kings Heath . We got there for 1pm and Alex had already got our drinks in! We had some food (which was very tasty!) and a natter. Jay's sister was hilarious, she was telling us stories of some of nights out in Dublin!! As we were chatting away Kie's phone rang again and it was his mate Steve asking what we were doing later. So we arranged to meet Steve and Natalie at the Cotteridge Village Inn and the nwe would have a bbq at their house. Alex and Jay were going into town at 4pm so we decided we would meet up with Steve then.

We got to the Village Inn just gone 4pm but Steve and Natalie were still on their way but it wasn't long before one of the their kids (Lucy) came running up to us. We were at the pub for a couple of hours before heading back for the bbq. I took Natalie and Lucy home in the car whilst Kieron and Steve took Phoebe to the shops for the bbq stuff.

It wasn't long beofre the lads were aguing over the bbq and who was doing what but we had a lot of fun. Steve and Kieron were both pissed and were both messing about, very funny! But again it was getting alte so me and Kieron went home.

Sunday i decided i was going to do naff all as i had had a busy couple of nights, i watched a bit of tv before we went to Sainsbury's to get the shopping, and we bought Faye her first collar. We thought she would have to get used to it soon and we bought her a couple more toys to play with. The rest of the afternoon i did some washing and a little bit of tidying up before i sat and watched tv again. That evening i went down to nans for tea as usual, i was a little bit late as we were watching Billy Elliott but i still think its funny!

And that's that for my update so until my next blog cheerio!