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[Sep. 19th, 2006|06:48 pm] |
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Hello Mr Diary. Oh no I have to update you. Okays... erm.
Well as the song says, I am indeed 'living for the weekends'. Being 'real' still sucks. But at least when I lived my weekend it was good.
Boy came to play and we went to Cath's and drank some kind of tasy Aldi-purchased alcoholic beverages. I dressed like a dirty goff for the first time in yonks and my God it felt good. I also attacked Luke with eyeliner which I do really enjoy. All men should wear eyeliner. Maybe when I begin my pink and fluffy dictatorship I shall enforce this law to all the lands.
Echoes was jolly spiffing. I don't know if this is because I have been so starved of dancing and socialisation, or whether I was drunk and thus shielded from the surroundings or whether it was genuinely alright... but what the hell :D What I do recall is that they played TWO Wildhearts songs which deserves a pat if not a near thump on the back :) Woo.
I wish I had enough cash to go out more *sigh* I had another venerable treat on Saturday though as me and Boy went to Birmingham and I got some bargainious items, the most bargainious of all being my TWO POUND TRAINERS :O GO SHOEZONE! *ahem* We watched the film of the book I'm reading at the mo' in the evening too and it's sooo good. Weirdly enough it also semi-stars the singer from Gogol Bordello but minus his huge 'tashe. I guess he had to shave else it would have started acting too and taken away his kudos... ;)
Sunday was blending day. I no longer want solid food. It's all about the blender. Blend, blend, blend, blend. Blend them all!! No fruit, vegetable or mineral is safe! Mwahaha. Me, Luke and Si also enjoyed another film-like feast Talladega Nights which was very silly but very funny. Red Neck films are fab.
I want to go to Body Blance tonight but I ache too much :( I lifted too many heavy boxes and hurt lots now. Books are evil. I'm turning grouchy again too as the fucking estate egents STILL haven't given my deposit back after more phone calls... hassle... urgh.
Oh and we got a threatening letter from TV license people saying we haven't paid when we have.. fuckers. So now I have to try and get to the bank, but it's always closed ARGGGGH.
I have turned into a bitter wench faaaar too soon... *grumbles and hits things with a broom* |
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| Drink Me |
[Sep. 12th, 2006|11:58 pm] |
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Hmm well work's been tough this week. Loads of orders, deliveries, invoicing and if anyone happens to come into the shop please appreciate how I added every single CD we sell onto the database and single handedly alphabetically and categorically ordered them too. My God that hurt... urgh.
In other news I have finally made my decision and am doing an Msc in Electronic Publishing. It should make me a lot more useful than I am now and hopefully make me better qualified to apply for the kinds of jobs I want. It's terrifying to think although it's publishing I will be part of the IT Dept', hahaha. I should possibly be able to keep working part time which is cool also.
I went to Luke's at the weekend which was fun apart from him electrocuting himself and me and his Ma rushing him to A&E at about 1 in the morning... He'd managed to wire a projector to a PC, basically creating a home cinema which is awesome but one tiny slip with a circuit board and I thought I was watching him die :( Everyone I've told about this finds it hilarious but it really wasn't at the time... Only now am I appreciating the possible comedy of it all. Anyway he's still alive so yay. Hell... it's taken me long enough to find someone it'd be ironic if he was wiped out by his own geekiness ;) Talking of which he's sorted me a new computer which now has sound and a working graphics card. Now all I need to do is work out how to use my new shiney MP3 player and I am giggling like a Tickle-Me-Elmo.
I can't think of anything else to say really as I'm in a bad mood... I'm owed lots of moolah and am losing a lot of moolah and erm I'm tired and I've run out of make-up remover and I've had to hide Horace from landlords and yeeaaaah. Grumpy Charlie. Moo. |
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[Sep. 5th, 2006|10:04 pm] |
ARGH HELP! Michael Winner's on Have I Got News For You :(
Ho hum, well my week(s)...
I went home for Bank Holiday which I was expecting to be a painful experience but I actually had a good time. I went to the Dartmouth Regatta and saw The Red Arrows, a Chinook Helicopter and a Eurojet Fighter Plane so it almost made up for missing Leeds. Dad also got me Candy Floss and said he'd teach me to fly. Ahh I'm such a child! :D
We went to this Butterfly Farm and Otter Sanctury on the Sunday which was sooo quoot and animal filled (shockingly). Otters are evil but they look so cuddley... apparently they don't like to let go when they bite. They also got fed ready slaughtered baby chicks which left many small children distraught and me and Mum having a disturbing debate as to how is the best way to kill a baby chick... :S
I had muchos chill out time and took an array of pictures of myself standing next to cows to pass the time. Rock 'n roll.
The following week was really a blur of work and erm work and TV and phonecalls. Such is life.
Lukey Boy came over on Thursday and we went to see the band I was interviewing. They were nice enough but not amazingly chatty, still I've written the article now so whee. I also took some piccie's for my own amusement which ain't bad for a crappy digital camera. I got one of Charlie from Busted's brother looking like he was bumming the guitarist which I find comical. Hur hur.
Poor boy was really ill all weekend with efil flu so I looked after him. As it happens nobody could come out on Friday or Saturday anyways so staying in was cool. I finally saw the mighty Team America... I think I almost fell off the sofa several times laughing... 'I was raped by Mr Mistofolies' *ahem* Teehee.
We went to Vicki's on Sunday and ate lots of yumminess and watched half a crappy teen movie which I secretly enjoyed. We also hunted Sk8ter kids only to discover there are none. Gutted.
Sadly one of my fish, Weebl, died last week :( He shall be missed. Luke was going to buy me a new one and suprise me but then he worried I might not want a new one, but it just so happens I did as Bob was looking all sad and mopey. So we got a new fishy who has cheered Mr Fish up lots and s/he has been named 'Sponge'. Woo!
Yesterday I had exciting news. It was exciting. Well for me anyway :O |
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| Ying Yang |
[Aug. 13th, 2006|09:36 pm] |
Good thing - Space Raiders now being available in multipack form.
Bad thing - Chomp bars finally being hit by inflation. RIP 10p, welcome 15p. It just goes to show we are not all immune.
Good thing - Finding some amazing fruit-filled Asda cheese left in the fridge.
Bad thing - Finding a comically shaped week-old, half -eaten chunk of Germanic cheese abandoned in my car by Luke. Actually it wasn't a bad thing really as I laughed (unlike my olfactory senses).
Good thing - Getting a date for *legal* Internet connection.
Bad thing - The landline breaking.
So far in attempting to establish balance in my life this is as far as I got. I am rather pleased with the results. |
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[Aug. 11th, 2006|07:36 pm] |
Hum so stuff. Well, work is going OK... lots to remember and learn but the people are lovely. In the past week I spotted a German and Vicar in the shop... but sadly not at the same time. However I do feel I need more moolah and am feeling distinctly apprehensive at the new uniform *cough* bright orange *cough*. I will actually be halloween... and I'm suffering in the heat from having to cover up my ink. Boo :(
I'm experiencing serious post-Uni' flip outs and career path confuzzlations. I'm trying to do lots of research and figure what's best to do to make me more rich and employable. I have the opportunity to do a Journalism course this year but it would mean getting a bank loan. Hmm. Debt scary but course looks good. *sigh* In between pondering postgraduate study I've also been considering becoming a plumber. My mind works in special ways :D
Last weekend Boy stayed and we went to see Superman. It was very cheesy but Kevin Spacey made up for the Brie. We also went on a mythical trip to Asda... few mortal souls can comprehend the joy Asda brings me, suffice to say it is on a par with rats and tea. I had a spiffingly jolly weekend but am now missing Luke muchly *girlish sniffle* :(
The start of the week sucked as I feared my family were near to disowning me, but it seems I was wrong, they are just plain 'concerned because they love me'. Murg. I cheered up a bit at times during the week... especially at Body Balance - it made me click less, relax more and even getting kicked in the face by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) waggle_dance was fun! I want to go again, but maybe not snort and splutter with hysteria whilst lying in a darkened room listening to the Lord of the Rings soundtrack. Ahem.
I wish I could afford to do more... I wanted to go to Brum this weekend or visit my Bro, but I can't even afford to go to the pub or Echos. My life is becoming QVC and sleeping *sigh* I wanna dress up all Goff and wiggle to strange industrial music. Alas. I'm trying to do all the cool free stuff I can... drawing, reading, gaming but right now all the things I want to do involve moonies. Darn.
I played with vixel and Si and Sam for a bit during the week too and they too made me chill somewhat about being a grown up. Yay. Vicki's house is amazingly nice and in a part of OogieBoogie I didn't even know existed.
Anyhoo I'm off to watch some weird history documentry which will inevitably involve Hitler.
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[Aug. 1st, 2006|06:58 pm] |
I just spilt burning hot tea on myself.
And I have another cold :(
Woe is me etc etc etc.
I had to leave work early yesterday as I was sick. I was very unhappy, as aside from feeling icky I don't think I get sick pay for ages yet. Bugger. Hence I dragged my still sniffly self in today and managed to last (just about).
Saw boy for a lil bit which was cheeryfulling but I was mostly doing work on databases and dull stuff for the rest of the day.
Apart from feeling ill with yet another bug the weekend was fun. I spent most of Saturday shopping for birthday prezzies, I tried to make a cake but it went wrong *sniff* Luke was most pleased with it all though which was cool as I'm normally rubbish at gift shopping for guys :) On Sunday we went to NASS Festival at the NEC. It was awesome!! I was soooo close to the half pipe and saw Tony Hawk kicking gravity's ass :D Wish I'd had my camera! The skateboarders were way better than the ones at Download this year. I wanted to buy loads of stuff but boy restrained me and I even resisted the pink BMX tyres! Woo! They were soooo purdy though *swoon*
We met up with Pig and my Bro as his band were headlining. It was a shame the bands were outside and not well advertised but the gig was good none the less. Unfortunately I shamed myself by not being in the crowd for the first song and was instead partaking in the purchase of a bottle of Fanta... Bro gave me a shout out only to realise his lil sis wasn't there. DOH. Bad me.
I caught up with Eugene of Cheesy Mag' fame which was also good and he told me I was welcome to carry on writing for them etc. and if I wanted free gigs etc. to let him know :) Yay! I'm going to be doing promo' stuff for X-taster soon too which should be fun and ensure yet more free band watching. Mwahaha.
Hum but for now it's back to another quiet week. I need to recover. It's a vicious circle of Charlie-stress; I get tired, I get stressed about being tired, I get ill, I get stressed about being ill, I get more ill :S ARGH. I can't wait until I get into a routine and relax more. I hate being so weak and lame. I think it's because I can't stand to be doing nothing or feeling like I've done nothing apart from work... so after I've done all the boring day to day stuff like washing I then want to watch a film or read or call people or plan something but then I stay up late and thus results my ensuing doom and pain. I've felt quite spaced out at having no free time when I'm totally on my own. I'm a weird mix of stupidly sociable/ hermit-like cave creature and I get all wound up if I have no space. Gawd that sounded so emu... |
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[Jul. 29th, 2006|12:25 am] |
Positive mood has passed since I completed a budget and dropped a hoover and a bike on my head. Oops.
I actually can't afford to exist.
Sadly better paid job hunting may have to commence in a week or so :(
Even if I say I spend a tenner a week on food, not twenty I'm still in trouble. Balls. Balls. Balls. |
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| No Net No Time No Money On The Line |
[Jul. 28th, 2006|08:07 pm] |
Phew!
So much to say, but I want to say it in as few words as possible as I'm tired and lazy and stealing wireless. Mwhahaha.
* After the last exciting account of the moth invasion I discovered the moth and the spider tragically drowned in the bath, after involvment in accidental insect slaughter by Yvonne. It was an odd and sad sight to behold.
* I carried on tidying and moving.
* Boy and I popped back to Devon for a few days before I started work. We had possibly the best train journey ever where we were able to actually get seats, not die of heat stroke and watch films on my laptop whilst trying not to ignore all the people behind us blatantly watching the movie but pretending not to. They'd get thrown out of acting school.
* Had a cool time in Devonia, loafed on the beach, got beaten at rowing by some 7 year old kids, avoided more of the suspicious looking jellyfish, hung out with Ma and Pa, giggled at american tourists, ate pasties, communed with cows and unfortunately got Luke addicted to marmalade :S
* Got back from looong drive, and then got tired and meh, suffering from the worst pmt for ages. The next day I started work. Great timing body! :(
* Day one of work: Nice people, work wasn't too hard but still felt bad, emotional, worried about the future and asked myself what the hell I was doing with my life. Stressed at general confusion of it all. Realised I dislike the public. Tired, no time to cook, do washing etc. hated seeing the world at 7.00. Felt generally lame at the prospect of 9=5 forever. Spent ages trying to sort out lack of money, bills, new house stuff. Cried a lot. Missed boy. Missed Ma and Pa. Felt meh.
* Day 2 of work: Realised a lot of depression was due to changes and hormones. Re-discovered Kalms and Pro-Plus. Reminded myself that at least I wasn't being bombed. Mood improved. Had lunch with Vixel and felt better. Spent all my £10 credit on calling BT to set up phone, said credit ran out the second I got through. GRR. Mood worsened ;)
* Day 3 of work: Gradual improvement, played with Missa and Ash after work and got some free books. Cheered up :)
* Day 4 of work: Learnt to do more stuff then went to Notts to see Guns n Roses and Bullet for My Valentine. Predictably Axl was stupidly late as his ego blocked the door to the stage but once they were on they kicked ass :D Got to see boy and felt happy.
* Day 5: TODAY!
... I got through a whole week! Wahey! I sound like a wuss but people didn't lie - starting full time really does take it out of you, I'm not used to it at all... by the time I get in, cook, wash up, do laundry and sit down it's almost time to go to bed again ARGH. I felt so boring and crappy. I'd been feeling meh anyway as it's minimum wage too but it may actually help me get into publishing and media etc. as I've since got to do more stuff than just merchandising and till work as I got to do admin' based stuff as well like orders, invoices, calling publishers, emails, collections, databases etc.
Even if I don't stay in the job for the whole year it should at least give me admin' type experience, not just retail which should help me get better paid work. I've decided I have to move to a city next year as it's impossible to get the kind of job I want around here, but I'm glad I didn't make a hooge jump and move away on my own to a big place right away as I don't think I'd have coped well at this point :S
The Manager started off in the same position I'm in when she finished Uni and within a year was Assistant Manager and then transferred to Manager so I feel encouraged. I should hopefully get a pay rise in 3 months which will be cool too.
The people there are really nice, it's a shame the girl I'm replacing is leaving to have a bubba as she's cool and into paganism and hippy stuff and does Viking re-inactments!! I may go along to one, it sounds fun :P Fighting with axes and dressing up and wotnot, yey :D Luke has a theory I am replacing her as resident weirdo. He is possibly correct. Anyhoo, added to this both her and the Manager also once owned pet rats which is encouraging. See - I find out all the important things first!! ;)
Odd events of the week:
* Seeing Charlotte Church's boyfriend wandering around the Union everyday. I'd never heard of him but it seems the whole welsh rugby team have been sitting outside JCs most days and I just thought they were randoms, hahaha. I was oblivious until someone mentioned who the bright orange jock was, haha. Seriously, that man is the colour of over-ripe fruit :S
* Discovering a student who spends £100s on books almost everyday and is a tad strange.
Right mushgo... sorry to anyone who I've not spoken to or emailed back, I've hardly been online and still technically don't have proper net.
Oh and I'm STILL not all moved out of the olde house. It sucks. I can't wait till Net and phone are all set up. I also can't wait to sort out my money situation and get paid.
*sigh*
But most of all I can't wait for a lie in :D |
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[Jul. 18th, 2006|10:47 pm] |
WE HAVE HOT WATER! AND TOP GEAR IS BACK! :D
This makes me happy.
Moths and heat are still the banes of my current existance though. It's a catch 22 - window shut = painfully hot, window open = moths landing on my face. I need to rescue the spider from the bath but the none-vegetarian part of me is keeping him there in the hope that he feasts upon one or several of the demon-winged creatures of the night.
Hmm.
Here's a quizzle
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[Jul. 18th, 2006|12:05 am] |
My laptop and I are presently seated amongst a sea of boxes and plastic bags, leeching from some poor local, unwitting wireless internet provider. Thanks to whoever it is who doesn't bother with encryption :D
The move is going slowly and exhaustingly...
Von and I have already had to unleash the fury on Nic Hump's several times and added to the fire hazard that is the electrics in the house we now have no hot water. So much for having a shower after moving heavy boxes all day. Lets hope Mr Boiler Man fixes it tomorrow.
We still need to clean this place but I can't face attacking anything with bleach until I can actually see some floor space anywhere. Thank god I didn't try to do this after I'd started work and thank The God's for Ma and Pa and Lukey for their assistance. Dad actually likes my boyfriend :O Tis shocking... he's not keen on people let alone males, especially those who happen to take an interest in his daughter, lol. He should like him anyhoo as he's clever and funny and kind and has spent days helping me move, fix my pooter, put up shelves and generally continue to be his awesome self :) Dad's even stopped teasing me about cradle snatching now since I pointed out that Bro's g/f is 2 years older than him. Pah! Double standards! ;)
Anyhoo I'm still trying to sort out this place on my own now since the parentals went home. I can't wait till I can arrange phone and net etc. I feel so cut off and out of touch - which is sad considering it's been just under a week, lol.
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Oh, the Graduation Ceremony was fabulous, I was so nervous but it was really fun and it felt like being at Hogwarts with the gowns and everything, yeeeeey! :D My brother (and his office) and my boy (and his chums) even got to watch it on the webcast and attempt to will me to fall over... thankfully they failed and I didn't fall, though I did stare intensely at my feet apparently! Haha.
The Ball was predictably tacky and not worth £50 but it was still fun and great to see everyone again all dressed up. I cried, but only a teeny bit. Aah, so many purdy dresses and fireworks and awww! :) Should be interesting to see how my photos turn out, hehe.
Right back to unpacking/clearing/making stress relieving tea for me and Von! I am sickened at how much STUFF I own. I don't deserve another piece of clothing ever in this lifetime, lol.
Won't be on Net much till all is sorted *runs off to carry on doing*
PS - Spelling probably sucks on this but I'm so tired I can't be bothered to re-read it.
PPS - Talking of spelling, I cheated death on a ferris wheel at the ball. Whilst queuing for the dubious ride I was restrained from trying to correct the pikey spelling of 'you're' as 'your' and 'drinks' as 'drink,s' on their signs *sigh* I just wanted them to learn *sob* |
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