So Pis**d off...

I am more furious than I ever thought possible… Here was me having a nice stress free run up to the wedding, doing bloody well thank you very much not to get stressed by anything and then Unite go and ruin all that. Due to the potential strike action by BA cabin crew announced yesterday I am now turning in to a gibbering wreck about whether or not we’re going to get away for our long anticipated and looked forward to honeymoon on the 20th.

The most annoying things is that the strikes may not happen or may not affect us and then I will have done all this worrying and stressing for nothing!! If a strike does happen we are covered by insurance, BA will refund or change our flights and we can cancel our hotels with 24 hours notice, but that doesn’t stop me worrying about it now!!

It isn’t helped by the fact that I think the actions of the cabin crew are totally and utterly ridiculous and unfounded. I wouldn’t mind quite so much (or at least be as apoplectic with rage!) if I thought they had good cause. But I don’t. I tried writing the following rant on Facebook by was restricted by the amount of space they give you…

Do they not realise that their actions will eventually cripple the airline and then many of them will lose their jobs? Do they not realise that the economy is not healthy and that the airline is being hit by falling revenue?? Do they not realise that none of them are losing their jobs over this stupid issue or having their t&c changed (only new entrants are) and that the public sympathy is not really with them (according to comments I have read on the BBC website and the Times online)?? Do they not realise that their T&Cs and pay are better than any other airline's, even though they don't offer the best customer service anymore?? Why does the union not see that loosing two high court battles, the last of which stated that BA was correct in its course of action to try and save the company from going under (!), means that it should let this one go.... The Unite leaders behind this are clearly living in the past and have no concept of current economics or the necessary changes that have happened to business in the past 20 years.

And breathe.

Not exercising

Well, it's been a while! I didn't mean to leave it so long between blog entries. I think if I had actually done any exercise in the last couple of weeks I might have been more motivated to blog!! So, we'll get that out of the way to begin with - I haven't done any meaningful exercise since I last blogged, or, let's face it, this year. The weekends are better than the week days as I can generally find myself walking many (as in 5-10) miles over the weekends, but I have become chained to my desk and a desire to build up flexi time that the gym and pool are abandoned, along with my walk to work.

NOT GOOD.

I've had a bad cold this week too, so have been stuck in the house on my own, largely bored. Unfortunately when I'm bored I eat. And when I'm ill I don't eat well. So it hasn't been a good food week... Today was better (back at work and therefore no snacking at the desk!) - I had rivita and mackerel pate - my new favourite lunch - and an apple and raw carrots and a light yoghurt, all during the day, and then a light pasta of crevettes with chili and garlic, sugar snap peas and tomatoes. Very yummy. Just have to keep on with that sort of day I think...

I'm reaching the stage as well when I'm sure I should be obsessively dieting or exercising or something to 'lose a dress size' for the wedding... Just five weeks to go now. Eek! Thankfully I'm just not motivated in that way... And probably a good thing. While I could probably loose another half stone before the wedding, and that would be no bad thing, I'm not one of these crazy people who thinks that crash dieting is a good thing. I'd rather be plump than a crash dieter.

Getting very excited about the wedding now. Really really looking forward to it. Flâneur has got his suit, shirt, tie and fabulous shoes and boy he looks good. I know I'm biased, but he looks very handsome and I'm going to be the cat who got the cream with him on my arm (or on his arm, you know, whatever... ;o) ) on the day. I've had my first fitting with the dress maker where I could actually see what the dress is going to look like. That was very exciting (if not a bit daunting as she kept giving me options - don't give me options, I have no idea what these things would look like or if they'd look good!). We're also starting to get our RSVPs back - so nice to see that people are actually coming. It's nice to see people putting the effort in to let us know they're coming, after the effort Flâneur put in to the invites!! All hand painted by him, all different. He's so clever. We gave people til the 20th to RSVP and haven't had so many back yet - may have to start poking people soon, we have a seating plan to organise!! I am a bit disappointed that some people think it might be optional, the 'you know we're coming, right'... Well, we do now, but what ever happened to etiquette?? I have never considered RSVP (when asked to RSVP) to be unnecessary - why else ask for an RSVP if you don't want to receive one?? And they are really lovely to receive. We've even had some formal ones by e-mail, which has been quite funny, but there are still a lot of people to get back to us...

Anyway, don't mean to rant. The fact that people are coming is lovely, no matter how they tell us... and I'm really looking forward to the day more than anything right now.