Saturday, July 04, 2009

I've had a fab day! Will tell you all about it tomorrow, but in the meantime here's a pictures of me in front of a ruined building:

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After a week of what can only be described as "lethargy" and "apathy" I seem to have turned into a crazy person this morning and have done more in the last two hours than I have all week! Washing, ironing, cleaning, paperwork, a trip to the tip, emails, phonecalls - I'm on fire! Of course it "helped" that I was awake at 5am - by 7am I was bored and needed something - anything! - to do!

And now I'm off for a little trip to the country in search of my reward: lunch!

Friday, July 03, 2009

It's been a funny old day. I can feel myself drifting when I should be taking control of the day and doing stuff. I wasted the afternoon because it rained and was grey and I didn't want to go out in it, which is stupid as that wouldn't stop me in October! I'll give myself a bit of a talking to later.

But in the meantime I've eaten pizza, drunk beer, and watched a Jennifer Aniston film. Bless her, she may have the hair that defined a decade but I usually find her films unwatchably bland. So how shocked was I when he's just not that into you turned out to be funny, smart, sad, and lovely to look at.

It's all about dating and relationships, the games people play, the things people really mean, and the way people drive themselves mad over men. All subjects close to my heart, although not recently as I can't remember the last time I had a date! Strangely although the film was about how awful dating can be it did make me want to go on a date. Or perhaps I was just seduced by the glossy hair? I may even be losing my mind as Ben Affleck brought a tear to my eye in one scene, and not for the usual reasons.

So let's hear it for the healing power of Jennifer Aniston!

Thursday, July 02, 2009

Another sunny day, and another struggle to find anything to write about. But write I must, I hate to let a day go by without some kind of blog, no matter how trivial!

My good mood dissipated slightly today and turned into confusion. You wouldn't believe how many things I've planned today and cancelled! I was going to go to London on Saturday, then I wasn't, then I was, then I gave up. I may go to France with FM & BF at the end of August, but equally I might not. I might just slam my head in a cupboard to stop myself getting more annoying. I wonder if I should just get some dice and let them decide my next move, because I'm obviously a bit hopeless right now. I blame the weather!

Interestingly my horoscope today said I'd get a wedding invitation and hear of a pregnancy but I haven't so far. Anyone got any good news to share?

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Another gloriously sunny day, so hot that I felt like my skin was burning as soon as I set foot outdoors. I think the weather is working its magic on me because today I felt properly happy. I've got my groove back at work and everything just feels lighter. Hurray!

Of course sunny weather is a bit boring to write about. What do you do when it's hot? As little as possible! So I've come home and listened to a Torchwood radio play whilst having a picnic tea on the sofa. Now I'm relistening to Morrissey's Viva Hate CD, which I bought for £2 at the weekend because it was a bonus version with extra songs. And fabulously I don't feel guilty about not doing something more useful!

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Hello lovelies! So we're in the third day of glorious sunshine and baking heat and it's just gorgeous! I'm grinning, clearly drunk on the sun!

Last night I went to the theatre in Norwich to see dinnerladies, the play of Victoria Wood's TV series. She's a genius and the TV series was fabulous - her usual mixture of funny and sad, so it was must see theatre.

It ended up being a slightly strange theatrical experience though. It was based on the second series of the TV program and was made up of bits of the original script re-edited into a play, so it was instantly familiar and very funny. The cast contained two people from the TV series but the rest were lookalikes, and very good one's at that - looking at the publicity pictures it's hard to tell the two casts apart. And they did the same voices and copied their mannerisms so from the back of the theatre with dodgy eyesight it actually looked like Victoria Wood was on stage. But alas she wasn't. But instead of being comforting it was just confusing and it took me a long while to get used to it and settle down and just enjoy the humour.

It wasn't helped by the fact that the theatre's air conditioning wasn't working. Slowly we got hotter and hotter and more restless, until the interval when everyone piled out of the auditorium to get cool and complain. Thankfully they sorted it out in the interval but it didn't help.

I wish she'd written something new, either a new bit for the dinnerladies cast, because it would be a shame to waste such great characters, or a whole new play. But it seems churlish to complain because any Victoria Wood is better than none at all.

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Blimey it's hot! I'm not complaining because it's what we've been looking forward to for months! You just need to adjust your behaviour to suit it, which basically means laying down and drinking lots, two skills I'm quite adept at!

To break up the day I spent the morning at Mum's, enjoying the cool of her house. My sister turned up with the kids, who immediately headed for the freezer in search of ice cream. Not to be left out, the dog had a lolly too:



My Mum, who isn't really one to indulge people, has started to buy ice creams specifically for the dog. His preference is for Walls Mini Milks. He's a cute dog and I've been known to slip him the odd bit of cake when no one is looking, but it means I'm now competing with three children and a dog for my mother's attention. It's a fight I can't win!

This afternoon I made the mistake of ironing. Just what I needed - more heat! Now I'm catching up with the Glastonbury courage - thankfully no sign of the hateful Edith Bowman yet!
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