I have just ordered a brand new MP3 player from Sony, so new they haven't even dispatched them yet and I am so excited. It's a MP3 Walkman Flash (in pink of course). I was saving for an I-Pod, but it seems that the new Sony will be the next 'in thing' and according to a review it has a better sound.

I have a really cheap MP3 player at the moment which will only hold 4 CD albums, which means I am forever having to delete songs and add new ones. I think I should get about 90 albums on my new one, which will be fantastic.

I feel like I am working in a coal pit at the moment. The girl I share an office with, who is also my line manager is in an awkward mood at the moment and insists on turning the lights in our little office off as she said 'It is nice and bright today'. All very well, but I am over in the darkest corner, with a black keyboard and as the day gets later, it is getting darker and darker. Everytime I turn the lights on, they go off again. She says I should get a desk lamp like she has. All very well, but I will have to buy it myself and I am skint. I will come to work with nightlight candles and matches tomorrow.

Actually, that would look quite pretty.

Edited on 01/03/2006

I am so excited. Last year I went to a work function that the Earl of Wessex attended. He actually spoke to me, asking me what my role was in my company and before he could speak to anyone else in our group, some rude person decided we weren't important enough to speak to royalty and moved us out of the way.

Unbeknown to me, the moment was captured on camera and I have appeared in their company magazine, talking to none other than Prince Edward. You can only see the back of my head, but everyone at work recognised me. (Part of the giveaway is that I am very short). I am dead chuffed as it is likely to be the one and only time I speak to a member of the royal family and it has been captured on camera.

I am sooooo hungry at the moment. I just can't stop eating

At this rate I am going to be the size of a house by the weekend. I am going out for two meals at the weekend and I keep thinking 'fantastic, more food'.

I don't normally have a huge appetite, but I can't stop thinking about food and no matter how much I eat, I am still hungry. I am blaming it on the cold weather, even though I am all toasty at the moment with three heaters on in our office.

I know I am not supposed to be on Boinng in work time, but I am pipped for want of a better word.

Someone rang up to check on their booking. I took the phone call and the person they needed (I'll call her X)is off ill and so I offered to see if I could help them. They wanted to check on a booking they had made, but I don't know where to look so I asked someone else. She went to look and discovered that X had taken the relevant file home, as she was working at home last night and obviously didn't expect to be ill today. So I told the man that I couldn't access the information and he said 'Thank you for your help, I'll call back Monday'.

Then the lady who I asked for information absolutely tore me to shreds. Said I should have said that X has taken the files home and that I have made X and the company look inefficient. My arguement is that we are not supposed to take files home that other people may need to refer to and I didn't want to get X in to trouble, or make it look like we have files spread out in peoples homes across the country. I am sick and tired of some of the people here who make me feel thick and stupid.

I feel better for that rant and if Boinng wasn't here, someone would have been getting voodoo pins

As from this afternoon, I will only be able to visit Boinng at lunchtimes and when I am at home.

They are moving people around in our offices. I am staying in the same office at the same desk. The main problem is that we have a door at the front of our office and a door at the back. Both doors are internal and lead to other offices or a corridor. My screen faces the back door. As from this afternoon there is someone moving in to the office behind mine, who will be coming in and out of the back door like there is no tomorrow and if she catches me on Boinng, there will be hell to pay, if she catches me on the internet at all there will be hell to pay.

I know I am not supposed to be on the internet while I am at work unless I am doing research, but I only visit Boinng and don't surf the net like some others here. It is a bit of light relief between jobs. Well she can't shout at me when it's lunchtime.

I am feeling positively evil at the moment. I don't know why, lots of evil thoughts and stuff are entering my head. I think it's because I had so much fun while I was working away from home a couple of weeks ago and I just want to have some fun again. I have lots of stuff to do this weekend that I am not in the mood to do and I think that's why I am feeling very devilish

I hope I don't get pay back for my evil thoughts.

I am sad today.

In my old job we would go and work in London for a couple of weeks a year and I got to know lots of people from all over the world. Each time we went, the same people would be there and I got really fond of all of them.

I changed my job last year and today, they have all gone to London and I realised that I wouldn't see lots of these people ever again, unless I had a chance meeting at an airport or something. (A bit far fetched, but I can hope). I did think of going up to London this weekend to see them, but I can't just march in uninvited and also my old work colleagues would not be too happy as it's like I am stealing their thunder.

The good news is that I still cross paths with some of these people in my current job, but there are just a couple of guys that I won't meet up with and I really miss them.

Maybe they don't miss me as much as I miss them.

Edited on 25/01/2005

I got my car back today after someone drove in to me at a roundabout and broke the headlight and indicator light. It wasn't badly damaged, but I hadn't been driving it for nearly three weeks and it is sooooooooooo nice to have it back all fixed up with working lights.

I managed without it quite easily as I can walk to work and people are very kind and have given me lifts if I am out late at night, but I missed cat sitting for my friend when she was on holiday as she lives miles away and I couldn't do the journey to work every day without my car. It also means I can bring work home with me and do it from the comfort of my dining room instead of having to sit an a huge dark office on my own because I can't carry all the files home.

I am now a very happy girlie

I have been in my new job for about 10 weeks now and for a lot of the time, the people in my department have made me feel like I am not good enough to go out to lunch or socialise with them and I often feel about an inch high. Yesterday we lost something on the computer and as a I was the last to use the document I think they thought it was me who had lost it and told me it was about time I went home at 5pm as they were just going to chat.

We got the doucment back this morning, but I felt still felt like poo. Then the board chair from our sister comapny came in. (I know him from my old job) I haven't seen him since November and he just broke out in to a big grin, hugged me and said 'It is so good to see you, you have got such a nice face and you always look happy even if you are not.'

Now I am very happy and all the poo was worth it.