Melman & Monkey

I'm going to be a Melman today (our word for hypochondriac) and moan about my back lol. It's killing me, I can't sleep, sit, stand, walk, it's driving me mad and is so painful. I did something whilst we stayed with Teresa and it's just got worse from there. Right that's it, I'm not moaning anymore (out loud anyway).

I work on Sunday's and this morning I left my lunch on the kitchen side. I wasn't meant to, it was just me being a numpty. Andrew phoned and said he would bring it down to me (isn't he great). I'm so glad he did as I was tearing my hair out with the printer. The paper has been jamming for more than a week now & will only print 1 decent copy in 10. I asked him if he knew anyone who could look at it and hopefully sort it out. He asked if I had cleaned the drum? Ermmm cleaned the drum? Yep there's a little blue sliddy thing that you whip across the toner drum a few times and it cleans it for you. It was that simple!! The flippin thing's fine now. I'm not joking, the amount of people who have looked at it, including the bosses son who is a whizz with computers and downloaded the printer manual to read, and none of them mentioned it. ROFL.

Elena's arm is getting much better. 2 days of antibiotics and cream has worked wonders :O) It should be fine for school on Thursday. Just got to get her to drink some Actimel once it's healed up so that all the good bacteria will be topped up :O) Managed to snap these of Monkey the hamster whilst he was asleep yesterday ~ isn't he the cutest little guy you ever saw!! I am a bit concerned at the length of his teeth though so may end up taking him to the vet. We give him lots of things to chew on but he never touches them?

Puss in Boots (not for the squeamish) :O)

ROFL ~ Elena has a hamster called Monkey, he is the cutest hamster you have ever seen and so tame. He lives in a cage on the work top in the utility room and we love him dearly. It's one of those Rotastak cages with all the colourful plastic tubes attached to it so he can run around at will. Unfortunately he has this habit of weeing in them, which is OK, but the tubes have little breathing holes in them and the wee drips through onto the work surface below ~ yuk. We have some kitchen roll strategically placed to catch said wee and this is changed at least twice a day and the work top cleaned with dettol spray.

So, Elena also has a McDonald's toy, Puss in Boots, from the Shrek movie. When you move his arm the voice of Antonio Banderas (in his strong foreign accent) says, "Fear me, if you dare".
Elena had laid puss in boots under monkeys tube and was wetting herself laughing. When I asked her what she was laughing at she said, "listen, he's saying ~ Pee on me, if you dare!!" ROFLMAO!!! Now, what am I supposed to do (answers on a postcard please). A couple of days ago, Andrew was moving a filing cabinet at work with another bloke and as they tried to carry it upstairs it slipped and landed on Andrew's shin. It's taken the skin off and although it hurt like hell it seemed to be OK. After an evening of me whinging in his ear, he logged it in the accident book at work the next day. His poor shin has a lovely scab on it about 5 inches long and seems to be getting better until tonight. When I got home from work he has a job to walk on it. It's swollen up and when I told him I was concerned for him and that he should see the doctor he said he'd think about it :S Should I insist he sees someone or should I leave him be as he's a grown man???