erin vs the paper shredder.

I spent a good hour this morning fighting with the paper shredder at work. I was given a HUGE stack to shred and I actually like shredding paper. Sharon went through and checked for staples and I sat with the shredder, until on my second set through it got stuck.... and not just stuck, but omfg stuck. I tried reversing it, nooope, only made it worse. So I unplugged it and set out trying to make it work again. I had to go through pulling out each piece of shredder one at a time, seriously, more than one and it wouldn't come out. After getting all the big ones, I found a pair of needle nose pliers and sat there poking about, it took me a while but I finally was able to free it. I was quite excited, and then spent the next 30 minutes shredding. It is just kinda soothing, to do it, I don't know. I'm kinda weird. It kinda reminds me of the summer of 2006 at the academic camp where we used the shredder as discipline. If a student misbehaved during their evening free time between dinner and evening activity they would get a 20 minute time out, where we would put them to work in the office usually shredding or something like that.

Anyway, the weather in Ireland, I do not approve. I know I shouldn't talk as at home they've been getting snow/ice/cold weather pretty much since mid December, and we didn't get any snow in Cork except flurries while other parts of the country got a few inches. Which I was glad, I'm not a fan of snow. It is all pretty when it falls, but after ugggh.

This news story just caught my eye, about a 10 year old divorcee, wow. I can't imagine life that that, and what a smart little girl. She was supposed to be buying bread, but went and took a taxi to a courthouse in Yemen because she saw on TV courthouses helping people, a judge noticed her and when she said, "I'm here for a divorce" he took her home to play with his daughter and two days later granted her wish. This happened last Spring, but she was recently in Paris talking about her story.

Uggh, I hate taking off acrylic nails. I sat with my hands in nail polish remover for an hour and a half and it wasn't really working. It is the acetone stuff, but I might see if Boots is still open after my aerobics class and see if they have anything stronger, or I'll be sitting around again tonight with my hands in nail polish remover.

Oh, and I'm sure people must think I'm crazy when I'm at the gym. Friends is on in the evenings and I make sure I'm on either the bike or the elliptical when it is on, and even though I know all the episodes I can't help but laugh. It just makes me happy to watch Friends and I actually don't have add while on the machines, I seriously get bored after about 5 minutes and after about 15 minutes on a machine I'm done and I have to switch, but watching tv I like helps keep me distracted and I can do 30 minutes on one machine.

So while I write about the Spanish adventure I'll leave you with this little video from Malaga along the Mediterranean Sea!




Happy Wednesday :)