Third Time Lucky ...

What a day it's been for me and it's only 10.30am! First thing this morning when I came to work, I locked myself out of the car with the keys still in the ignition! Dumb, dumb, real dumb! My car remote control has not been working properly for a while now, so I disabled it seeing as how I didn't get around to fixing it and I manually locked the doors. So there I stood outside my office staring at my car with the doors locked and the keys including my office keys still stuck in it.

Usually that won't be too much of a problem for me cos normally I have a spare key in my wallet. With a smug smile on face, I whip my wallet out only to find that the key is no longer in my wallet cos many moons ago that key was giving me grieve and I threw the damn thing away without getting a replacement. Oh god, how I wanted to give myself a swift kick in the rear! So I call my colleague to see what time he'll get here cos he has another set of the office keys. He's says about 20 minutes, so I'm stuck outside my office till then.

When he eventually gets here, he tries to help me get my car door open. We try all kinds of stunts and finally I used a steel ruler to press down some godforsaken thing in my door and the locks pop up! Woohoo, I breathe a HUGE sigh of relieve. Now I can add car thief to my resume ... LOL! By this time I'm thoroughly soaked with sweat and smelling like a cow on steroids. Guess I'm going to have to head home for a bath during lunch.

Then I head up to my room and reply all my comments in my blog cos I don't have anything to do just yet. While blogging, my colleague downstairs comes up and hands me a package and I look at her a little blur like and say:

'For me? Now who would be sending me a package this early in the morning?'

And when I look at the sender, I yelp in joy that my colleague thinks I'm a little not right in the brain department! The package is from Emilia and it's my notebook prize :D Cool, at least the day is moving in the right direction. I haven't opened it yet, I'm going to keep it till I get home and open it with wifey and share the joy of my gift with her :) I haven't even called her yet to tell her I got it, I'll just surprise her.

Christmas really is looking up and I can't wait for the day to be over. I'm mulling over starting my leave from Monday instead of Wednesday. I'll wait for my boss to come in and discuss it with her. I don't have anything urgent on so I guess taking off on Monday wouldn't be a problem. Yesterdays holiday was spent shopping. Yes, again ... hehehe ... We had some errands to run for the Christmas party preparations. Then wifey wanted to get a pair of shoes so we went to one of the malls we don't normally go to cos it's always packed and parkings a bitch but she wanted to try someplace different so off we went and surprisingly we managed to get one spot the moment we went it. That was a good sign :)

Then we went shoe hunting. Wifey has problems buying shoes and it's not cos she can't decided. The problem is me. I'm really fussy about the kind of shoes she wears. And she, being the sweet girl that she is always asks for my opinion first before buying and if I don't like it, she won't buy it, the same with clothes. And most of the time I really dislike a lot of womens shoe designs out there so she ends up not buying any. But yesterday, she saw one and surprisingly I loved it. It was this urrmmm, brand called Sembonia or something and I liked it the instant she showed it to me. And better yet, it was on 70% sale. That made it a good buy. And I was more excited about the shoe than she was ... LOL! I'm sure she's gonna look gorgeous in it ...

Then we went to look at some dogs cos I'm seriously planning to get one. We saw one at this place called Pets Wonderland, a beagle and I was instantly in love with it. Then I saw the blooming price he costs! My eyeballs nearly popped out. Guess I'm going to have to be doing loads of paid postings before I can afford the little tyke. After that we went home and later at night we had another surprise.

Mom went for the caroling dinner that is organized yearly and she came home bearing a gift from the caroling group. Apparently we had won (again) best decorated house for Christmas ... woohoo ... my third gift for the season! I was elated with the win ... hehehe ... I mean we won last year as well, which was an absolute surprise and I seriously didn't expect to win again this year but it's such a nice feeling to win again. Like I said earlier, Christmas is getting sweeter by the minute :) I guess all that hours and hard work of working on my winter wonderland theme has paid off. I didn't think it deserve to win though but I'm not complaining ... hehehe ... I'll post some pictures of my tree on the 24th like I promised in one of my earlier postings. Hopefully you guys don't laugh at it ...

Will you just look at that, it's 12.30pm already. Where has the time gone? I haven't even done any blog hopping yet and I still have 2 assignments to complete in Spiff's blog. Not forgetting that I have to go home and take a shower later. Guess I'll end here for now and start blog hopping a little and before I sign off, I'd like to thank Emila for the prize :D