Reservation
Let's get the most important point out of the way first, eh? My enjoyment of tea has been fully restored to it's previous level, so no need to panic there.
Now that's been said, we can get to the little things. Like oh, I'm moving out on the 28th. I said I'd start searching for a place at the beginning of April, but honestly didn't expect to have somewhere so soon. After the first property I visited went very well though, I got worried that if I took too long I was going to lose it, so I actually never got to see any other places. Might sound a bit stupid perhaps, but I'm happy with it and we can always move anytime anyway.
'We' is just myself and Shanna by the way; Graham decided he's better off staying where he is for now. It's a shame that it means I'll be living on my own for a while, but once Shanna is here I probably would prefer to be alone with her anyway, so maybe best overall.
It's only bad points are really that it's on a farily busy road, which I'm not used to, and it doesn't have a bath. The road thing is more than made up for by the fact we have no neighbours though - it's above a shop so business hours on weekdays we have to keep that in mind, but on Sunday and outside of business hours, it's all ours! There's no other buildings connected on any side, so it's completely isolated.
Now I just need to pay for it. I've given the £350 deposit already, and I need to get the first £455 of rent a couple of days before I move in. So, I'll definately be needing to start that job at Darius' new office soon - I expect sometime next week. I can absorb a month or so though; my assets are roughly £1,400 now, although much of it is credit so I'd rather not use it if it can be avoided. At least my bills should be low; water is included and my electricity heavily discounted, so I only really have to pay full for gas and council tax, plus phone and internet when I get it connected.
Today I was at Cali again, because the server is dying fast now. It can barely stay up for more than a few days, and each time it suffers damage to the hard disk. This time it'd gone down so hard, Windows wouldn't start - I had to boot from a CD and repair the disk. I have no idea what causes it, 'cause it's a nice machine... but there's no doubt that it's a serious hardware problem. It'll have to be replaced. Most of the day got wasted as usual, but in return I got a little more reassurance that everything was going in the right direction. I've been worried the last few nights about not really knowing what to do and even scared that something'll go wrong with starting this job, but I'm more sure about it now.
My family have all gone to Oxford, so I'm here all alone. I actually quite like coming home to the empty house, it feels like I own it, lol. Soon I'll have that feeling every day. The only downside is my cooking, which isn't great - not because I can't do it, but because I can't be bothered; I always take the easy route and make something really easy, which does it's job, but would get very boring after more than a week or so. I made myself a pie-thing and some potato-things tonight, then watched Road Trip because it just happened to be on. I'd not seen it before, but it was okay, even if the ending was a bit disappointing. Or maybe just unexpected.
Now I'm feeling sexually frustrated, and seemingly doing everything I possibly can to make it worse, with my choice of music and the fact that I set a huge pornographic image as my desktop wallpaper. Just to make myself feel worse. Yes, that is stupid.
Now that's been said, we can get to the little things. Like oh, I'm moving out on the 28th. I said I'd start searching for a place at the beginning of April, but honestly didn't expect to have somewhere so soon. After the first property I visited went very well though, I got worried that if I took too long I was going to lose it, so I actually never got to see any other places. Might sound a bit stupid perhaps, but I'm happy with it and we can always move anytime anyway.
'We' is just myself and Shanna by the way; Graham decided he's better off staying where he is for now. It's a shame that it means I'll be living on my own for a while, but once Shanna is here I probably would prefer to be alone with her anyway, so maybe best overall.
It's only bad points are really that it's on a farily busy road, which I'm not used to, and it doesn't have a bath. The road thing is more than made up for by the fact we have no neighbours though - it's above a shop so business hours on weekdays we have to keep that in mind, but on Sunday and outside of business hours, it's all ours! There's no other buildings connected on any side, so it's completely isolated.
Now I just need to pay for it. I've given the £350 deposit already, and I need to get the first £455 of rent a couple of days before I move in. So, I'll definately be needing to start that job at Darius' new office soon - I expect sometime next week. I can absorb a month or so though; my assets are roughly £1,400 now, although much of it is credit so I'd rather not use it if it can be avoided. At least my bills should be low; water is included and my electricity heavily discounted, so I only really have to pay full for gas and council tax, plus phone and internet when I get it connected.
Today I was at Cali again, because the server is dying fast now. It can barely stay up for more than a few days, and each time it suffers damage to the hard disk. This time it'd gone down so hard, Windows wouldn't start - I had to boot from a CD and repair the disk. I have no idea what causes it, 'cause it's a nice machine... but there's no doubt that it's a serious hardware problem. It'll have to be replaced. Most of the day got wasted as usual, but in return I got a little more reassurance that everything was going in the right direction. I've been worried the last few nights about not really knowing what to do and even scared that something'll go wrong with starting this job, but I'm more sure about it now.
My family have all gone to Oxford, so I'm here all alone. I actually quite like coming home to the empty house, it feels like I own it, lol. Soon I'll have that feeling every day. The only downside is my cooking, which isn't great - not because I can't do it, but because I can't be bothered; I always take the easy route and make something really easy, which does it's job, but would get very boring after more than a week or so. I made myself a pie-thing and some potato-things tonight, then watched Road Trip because it just happened to be on. I'd not seen it before, but it was okay, even if the ending was a bit disappointing. Or maybe just unexpected.
Now I'm feeling sexually frustrated, and seemingly doing everything I possibly can to make it worse, with my choice of music and the fact that I set a huge pornographic image as my desktop wallpaper. Just to make myself feel worse. Yes, that is stupid.