July 5th 2015 - St John Ambulance
Today has been a long day and i'm extremely tired! I was awake at 06:30am and eating breakfast a few minutes later, this hour shouldn't exist!!! Well I was fed, had had my coffee, a wash and wash dressed by 7am. I was ready to go at 7:20am.
7:20am came and went and my lift arrived 10minutes late at 7:30am and we set off. We were all heading to Lancaster (about 2hrs drive from where we live) for an update/training day for St John Ambulance.
We were given a lot of information and got answers to lots of things, some may not have been what people wanted to hear etc. I met some new people who were all really nice and friendly, and saw a few people I had met before. I also had a couple of people saying how well behaved and polite and helpful my son is when he is out on events, which was nice to hear.
I am now ready for bed and totally knackered!
Showing posts with label stupid o'clock. Show all posts
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Sunday, 5 July 2015
Friday, 23 January 2015
January 24th 2015 - What stupid hour is this?
January 24th 2015 - What stupid hour is this? (written on 23rd as wont have time on 24th - you will see why.)
WHAT STUPID HOUR IS 5AM??? I didn't even know this hour existed until today! (Well I did see the end of post.) Whose stupid idea was it to make me wake up and get dressed at this hour??? That would be St John Ambulance, lol! I'm NOT a morning person and havn't been for many years!!! My mornings start near noon. However, I knew that this pinning of "random things" would come in handy 1 day and today it has. lol!
Well my morning today doesn't start near noon/mid-day but today it started at 5am, as I was being picked up by a friend at 6am to be on the 06:20am train out of town. God this is unusual torture! This isn't even for a nice reason like a day of partying or a nice spa but to go on a St John Ambulance 1day course that I need to do, based in Preston! They don't run courses locally in Cumbria, they are all in Preston, Manchester, Liverpool and Stockport because there is more units in those areas - what happened to rotating them around to make it fair on everyone??? This is just the first of a few over the next few months that have stupid wake up times. At least with most of them they are full weekend courses and I can leave friday lunchtime to be there for teatime and the course start, and I will return on sunday afternoon.
From the first train from home I have an hours trip to Carlisle, and from here another train of over an hour to Preston. We have to leave this early because the next train gets us there after the course start time, we are being picked up from Preston station to get to the venue of the course.
My god, this hour really is bad - I left the house armed with a coffee in my thermal travel cup and a bottle of energy drink in my bag! It was pitch black and bl**dy freezing! I'm pretty sure there should be a law against this. The coffee and energy drinks will hopefully keep me awake. I had said I was going back to sleep on the train and my mate could wake me up when we got there, the thing is he said he was going back to sleep and I could wake him up when we got there. This could be bad!!! So we may not get to the course in Preston but stranded the other end of the country if we both fall asleep, good job i've set alarms for both stations for 10mins before the trains are due to arrive.
(I'm really not sure HOW I used to get up at this hour many years ago when I started work at 7am as a career in the nursing homes! And to top that off some nights I didn't actually get home from clubbing until 3am and I was still up on time. Then there was me working in the clubs and not getting home until 4am and out again for day shift in nursing home at 6am - but I managed it, but then I was younger than I am now!)
WHAT STUPID HOUR IS 5AM??? I didn't even know this hour existed until today! (Well I did see the end of post.) Whose stupid idea was it to make me wake up and get dressed at this hour??? That would be St John Ambulance, lol! I'm NOT a morning person and havn't been for many years!!! My mornings start near noon. However, I knew that this pinning of "random things" would come in handy 1 day and today it has. lol!
Well my morning today doesn't start near noon/mid-day but today it started at 5am, as I was being picked up by a friend at 6am to be on the 06:20am train out of town. God this is unusual torture! This isn't even for a nice reason like a day of partying or a nice spa but to go on a St John Ambulance 1day course that I need to do, based in Preston! They don't run courses locally in Cumbria, they are all in Preston, Manchester, Liverpool and Stockport because there is more units in those areas - what happened to rotating them around to make it fair on everyone??? This is just the first of a few over the next few months that have stupid wake up times. At least with most of them they are full weekend courses and I can leave friday lunchtime to be there for teatime and the course start, and I will return on sunday afternoon.
From the first train from home I have an hours trip to Carlisle, and from here another train of over an hour to Preston. We have to leave this early because the next train gets us there after the course start time, we are being picked up from Preston station to get to the venue of the course.
My god, this hour really is bad - I left the house armed with a coffee in my thermal travel cup and a bottle of energy drink in my bag! It was pitch black and bl**dy freezing! I'm pretty sure there should be a law against this. The coffee and energy drinks will hopefully keep me awake. I had said I was going back to sleep on the train and my mate could wake me up when we got there, the thing is he said he was going back to sleep and I could wake him up when we got there. This could be bad!!! So we may not get to the course in Preston but stranded the other end of the country if we both fall asleep, good job i've set alarms for both stations for 10mins before the trains are due to arrive.
this just about sums me and today up!!!
(I'm really not sure HOW I used to get up at this hour many years ago when I started work at 7am as a career in the nursing homes! And to top that off some nights I didn't actually get home from clubbing until 3am and I was still up on time. Then there was me working in the clubs and not getting home until 4am and out again for day shift in nursing home at 6am - but I managed it, but then I was younger than I am now!)
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