I must be dreaming!!!

I have to type fast, I'm scared that if I take to long I won't be able to post!!! AARRRGGHHH I have been trying to post on my blog for about a month now and everytime I try it won't let me sign in!!! Argh. Well it's letting me now so I guess I must make the most of this!!!

So hmmm, where to begin. It's been so long since Christmas, I don't know where to start. Really not a lot has happened, and most of it is old news.

Here's the recap:

The New Years street party in Edinburgh was cancelled and I ended up having a pretty dull new years. We had some friends staying with us so we ended up going back home to bring in the new year. The storm was pretty bad and we were worried that if we didnt' head home we would get stuck. I had to work at 9am on New Years day so I ended up just going to bed at about 12:30. I know I'm a loser.

Since then my life has been full of...well work. Not much else happening. Pretty much settling into the routine of Scottish life. We are trying to plan a trip but now that Cheryl has a new job we rarely see eachother. Because my job isn't a 9-5 Monday to Friday job no one is really off when I am so most of my time off is spent puttering around. I'm starting to make friends in the railway, which is a surprise considering how shy I am...(that was a joke for those of you who didn't get it), so I've been hanging out with some of them, but even then everyone works different shifts. To keep myself busy I've starting baking and cooking. I like the challenge and the tasty food that comes with it. I made tea biscuits with are extremely frustrating but ended up being pretty tasty. I would make muffins but muffin trays are ridiculously expensive here, and I don't need muffins that bad.

We are trying to get the internet at home and then I will be able to keep up with my blog more (if, that is, the blogger gods let me).

I am now going to become like all of my work mates and talk about nothing but the trains.
First of all, for those of you who remember I once wrote about an incident where I had the misfortune to walk in on a woman while she was, well...taking care of business. Shortly after making fun of this woman I had a reversal of roles, only this time I was at work, which I feel makes it worse because I have to keep interacting with the peeping tom. That was uncalled for, I'm sorry. It wasn't his fault, it was the trains. Sooo, here I was running up and down the train looking for a loo. Now there was a wheelchair one, but the locks on them are so iffy I tried hard to find another one. Unable to do so I had to go for it, confident that the door was locked I settled in to take care of business. Luckily (?) it wasn't until I was pulling up my trousers that some poor man kept hitting the door open button. I could hear him keep pushing it and knowing how those doors can be I tried to go as fast as I could, but unfortunately our uniforms can be a little tricky, you know with the belt and all. The worst was we both kept trying to hit the close button on our respective sides, but it was just making it stay open. I don't think the man took coffee or tea for the rest of the journey, deciding instead to stare out the window with his headphones on. The moral of the story? Don't make fun of people because it can happen to you? No, don't use wheelchair bathrooms on the train!!!

Just yesterday I had one of the most interesting days that I think I have ever had at work. Coming back from London the train was heaving, we were packed to the gils, standing room only. While this still can be a bit overwhelming for me, I was surving, and it wasn't that eventful. That was until a drunk laddy came up to the buffet car looking for a door so that he could get off. Now there were a few problems with his getting off. The first was that he was Scottish (as he kept telling us) and we were still in England, the second was that we weren't in a station yet and still moving. Somehow we managed to keep him on the train until we got into Newcastle and forgot about him while we went about our work. As we started to leave the station we could hear a commotion outside of the train I went over to the window to take a look and just as the train came to a halt, after only just heading out, I saw the drunk guy hanging from the window. Platform staff were trying to pull him away, all the while he was shouting "That's my train, I'm Scottish" He accussed the staff of being racist because he was Scottish. While it was delaying the train and make me late for my bedtime, it was pretty amusing to watch. Well it was at least until we started moving again and he tried to jump under the wheels of the train. It took 4 platform staff to wrestle him to the ground and hold him there until we were gone. That's the problem I have with people being allowed to bring their own alcohol on the train, there is nothing we can do when they get that drunk. He had friends on the train who should have been watching him, but they were pretty drunk themselves. In case any of you get any ideas to do the same thing if you miss the train, he was arrested, banned from the trains for life and has to pay £140 for every minute that the train was delayed. They didn't say whether or not the staff were going to have him charged with assault. Needless to say, it was quite the night!!

Well hopefully this posts and hopefully I will be able to get it to work again. I now have to take care of business (if you know what I mean).