The Duck Pond
Thursday, May 29, 2003
Ok I haven't been blogging much again, despite intending to because I'm bloody ill again and this time it has really knocked me out. I have a throat that feels like it's made of gravel, grit and broken glass and a head with enough cotton wool to stuff a pillow or two, not to mention dizziness and fever. Bleurgh. Word of the day is "phlegm". Will update the party blog tomorrow hopefully if I am feeling any better. had to stop writing it before I passed out.
Tuesday, May 27, 2003
Well what an absolutely bloody splendid birthday I have had. Started off with a long lie in but for some reason, even though it was my birthday, my mother had some crazy idea that she'd be able to reach me by phone at 9.30am so I was rudely awoken but managed to get to sleep again. I then finally got up to go and meet a couple of friends in town for lunch and to do the girly bit and buy face packs and stuff *flounce* and a couple of bottles of bubbly. I then went back to said friend's house so that I could get a long bath and get pampered (and of course drink bubbly) before going to the party.
Also while at friend's house watched a bizarre film called the Cube, which really freaked me out for days afterwards. If you like your brain running out of your ears then watch it.
Returned home to get changed properly which meant wearing a dress *shocker*. It felt really weird as it was probably the first time I'd worn a dress in quite some time. I drank more bubbly to calm nerves as I was worried that noone would turn up or that it would all go hideously wrong and staggered around the house a bit until it was time to go to scholars for the party.
The party was excellent (the bits I can remember anyway). Lots of cool people turned up and were buying me drinks. I even got bought another bottle of bubbly so I was very happy. My foolproof plan of drinking a pint of coke with every two alcoholic drinks failed after the first two alcoholic drinks, embarrassingly. I vaguely remember winning a game of doubles pool and being very cheerful about that but I was absolutely and completely out of my tree by that time so I dobt the winning had anything to do with me. There's a video of me blowing the candles out on my cake so I must have also done that at some point. I probably talked inane bollocks at people for a lot of the time too but noone seemed to mind. I do have one or two memories of going to the bay and snatches of things from in there but not much really, which is a little disappointing, but hardly surprising - that's the problem with getting lots of free drinks. Near the end of the night I apparently ended up tactlessly blurting to a guy I liked "I find you really attractive"! So much for grace and subtlety, it all goes out of the window when I'm pissed. Anyway I went home with him at the end of the night so all's well *grin* and it turned out he was going to ask me out anyway so I kind of wish I'd held out for a bit longer but I don't remember it anyway *slight shame* so it doesn't really matter.
Anyway it was all splendid which makes up for the bloody shitty birthday I had last year innit. I also really like being 24 because I'm not yet hurtling towards 30 but I'm old enough to really disassociate myself from wesleyness. It also makes me sound mature and experienced without being too much of an old biddy.
Wednesday, May 21, 2003
I had a very peculiar dream the other night about London. Not particularly similar to that dream I have with the tubes and stuff but had the same feeling of disorientation (not unusual in a dream I suppose) and being lost. I was being shown around different parts of London by a friend when he took me to a building from where we could see this absolutely amazing beach (yes I know, I know) with golden sand and beautiful deep blue sea. It was absolutely fantastic looking so obviously I wanted to get to it. No matter how hard we tried we just couldn't seem to get onto it. It was bizarre. We'd get to places where we could see it clearly and then we would marvel at how blue the sea was and how golden the sand was, but we just couldn't get to it. Additionally we did get to this place which my friend described as "the biggest swimming pool in the world" and it was huge with lots of mini-pools around it. For some reason even though we had just walked right in to this "room" we could just start swimming. Truly bizarre.
Had a bloody horrible day yesterday. Started with me having to go to the surgery for a blood test. I had to wait an hour until I could have it done and then it was the usual faffing trying to find a vein in my arm (nigh on impossible) leading to me feeling rather sick when I actually did have it done. When I finally got to work I had to report to my boss on my progress with the automated testing and any problems I was having on it. I was still feeling pretty grim and lightheaded so there was plenty of arm waving and umm-ing and ahh-ing with the possible result that my boss now thinks I'm an incompetent twit who hasn't done any work for the last couple of months. I then worked through my lunch hour and right through until 8pm when I'd just about had enough. I then got to relive my heady student days when trying to get some money out as the cash machine wouldn't give me any due to "insufficient funds". Had to go through the utter humiliation of borrowing some money from a student to last me until payday (Tuesday).
I recruited some more victi..erm guests for my parteh, hurrah!
Saturday, May 17, 2003
Watched Sleepy Hollow the other night with a friend. It had just got to the bit where the headless horseman springs out of the tree when he is summoned to go and kill when my friend started laughing lots so I asked him what was the matter. He said "I almost said something really stupid then". I pestered him until he told me what it was and it was "How does he get out of there without bumping his head?". Much mirth ensued.
I went out last night and procured some definites for my party so I'm not so worried about looking like a sad eejit with noone turning up now. It's odd to think that I will be 24 in exactly a week from now. How time is flying at the moment. We were also in scholars and when one of our group went to the loo we all got up and moved to a table at the other side of the pub for great olololol-ing when he got back. I was also sitting, drinking away happily when I noticed a flying ant on my leg so swatted it off. My friend announced that he really hated ants so he started to search for where it had gone. It was then that we noticed another one... and then another one... and then another one. We then looked over to the bar to see hundreds of the things crawling all over it. My ant-hating friend had an absolute fit.
I had some bizarre dreams last night. One was where a friend and I bumped someone off accidentally although it didn't really look like an accident and we were discussing what we were going to do. It was really scary because we realised that our lives would be changed forever, having killed someone - even if we didn't get found out and thrown in prison. It felt really realistic too so I was very relieved to realise that it was only a dream upon waking. The bad feeling stayed with me for a while though.
Thursday, May 15, 2003
Predictive text on mobile phones can sometimes be quite humourous if you don't pay close attention when you send someone a message. If you know anyone called "Rew" you'll know what I mean. I also nearly just sent a message to a friend saying "hope you missed the pain"!
I've had a pretty good day today. Nothing particularly special has happened but I've been in a good mood and managed to remember to take a couple of new mp3 cds with me to work and the music is Chemical Brothers which is slightly less morose than my usual stuff. In fact it made me feel really good. I don't know what my colleagues thought though as I just couldn't keep still and was bopping away like a right one. The afternoon the office started to get a little hot so I opened the window next to my desk and every so often a refreshing breeze would waft in bringing in smells of fresh flowers and stuff. It was lovely and very uplifting. I also got plenty of work done which is always a bonus.
When I got home I discovered I had some nice food in *shocker* and had a very long cool shower. It was splendid - probably incredibly boring to read in a blog but I don't care so o_|/
I'm also pretty excited about my birthday - I have hired out the upstairs of Scholars so I hope some people turn up else it'll be really embarrassing and I'll just have to drag people in off the street.
Wednesday, May 14, 2003
Had to get one of those silly loyalty cards to get it though, what a big sham. o_|/ to loyalty cards. I got one so I could get the pancakes but I'll probably never use it again.
Crispy pancakes buy one get one free in somerfield \o/.
Monday, May 12, 2003
Life is good!
Tuesday, May 06, 2003
*** FATCAMP NEWS ***
Decided to leave the slimming world version of fatcamp o_|/ because I was paying money to basically get weighed (I have scales at home) and sit there and be pissed off by what the leader was saying. I have decided to go it alone. It's not even like I've been following their plan for the last month or so anyway - I've just been keeping my eye on my calorie intake. Leaving will mean a bit more discipline as I am only accountable to myself now but I can't see me putting weight on - there's no way I want to get bigger again. The only problem I can foresee is if I stop losing weight because I'm not motivated to lose every week. I got a letter from SW yesterday and they obviously assume that I haven't been going because I've been stuffing my face with chocolate over the Easter period. It was all "don't feel bad, everyone overindulges over easter (I didn't o_|/), come back and we can fight this together" or something like that.
WOOHOO I got some sleep last night \o/
Monday, May 05, 2003
Went to the "new" place that's opened up in town on Friday night. Not too bad. I wasn't drinking after a bit of excess on Thursday so I left early being tired and sober amongst the drunken masses.
Saturday a friend of mine taught me a few things about how to play pool. It was a bit embarrassing for me though as I had only gone round to drop off a cd so had no plans to play pool but the lucky sod has a pool table in his basement. Anyway I wasn't exactly dressed appropriately for playing as I was wearing a fairly low cut top and was too scared to bend over to take a shot, which hampered my playing considerably - or that's my excuse anyway *grin* but I learned a lot and think I can play much better already. There was a bit of a mixup as I was supposed to be going to a "rave" night at the union but the people I was going with failed to tell me in time to get a taxi with them and they had my ticket and everything so it would have been a hassle for me to get up there on my own and find them so I told them to sell my ticket which they failed to do and I suspect they didn't try too hard to be honest. So I ended up paying £6.50 for them to not tell me anything and just expect me to be able to drop everything and go with them at the last minute which I was quite annoyed about. I ended up having a quiet night in watching videos instead which was pretty good.
Yesterday was spent chilling and doing not much at all really until going to see X-Men 2 (good film - go see it). Had the usual problem of annoying cunts sat behind us making stupid comments all the way through the film. I then joined some friends in Rummers but for some reason was really irritable (possibly recent lack of sleep) so was pretty quiet and moody.
Knackered again today - getting pretty sick of my noisy neighbour now - selfish prick. Only another month or so to put up with him now though.
