Got home late night. My poppa's birthday so five of us went out for Italian. The UK's being battered currently with rainstorms, I don't think it stopped raining yesterday at all. When we did arrive at the restaurant it took us less than five seconds to walk from the car to the front door and in those five seconds I needed an umbrella that turned ( Read more... )

I was speaking to my mom on the phone yesterday, and I shared the feeling that ever since I turned 30 life has been speeding like its strapped to a rocket sled. this year I'll be halfway to 40. I feel 24. from '09 onwards life has gradually increased its momentum in my head. in '10 I moved out of home, in '11 I moved into my current apartment (one ( Read more... )

I should be getting ready for bed, instead I'm typing this. Though I do blame Weird Al in part, I got Polka Power blaring in my ears and BtVS running through my head ( Read more... )

similar title to the previous I know. it's just the last entry kinda ran away with me a bit and I wanted to write about something else ( Read more... )

Got this week off. Don't like working in November, so it's like an annual ritual for me. either one or two of the four weeks I have off. it's nice, it's usually always open and it gives me a leg-up on the Christmas shopping ( Read more... )

Things I've learnt over the past seven days in work ( Read more... )

my feet are burning. I had to work 30 minutes over quitting-time so it's not surprising they're so sore. today I realised something very important today. difference isn't lorded ( Read more... )

I wrote the below in work this afternoon, before finding out the NHS Trust where I work has formally banned any blogging abilities from their mainframe. so here's what I wrote. I'll write the follow on to what I wrote tomorrow. weather depending. X ( Read more... )

i saw this bizarre C4 program about reckless drunken tattooing last night (recorded from thursday). personally, and possessing six of the things, i was always told you should never get a tattoo while drunk. That the tattooist should refuse service. But I guess in Aya Napa (wherever that is, I'm guessing Spain. 18-30 crowd, drinking, etc) the ( Read more... )

friday was horrible for the one reason being that some bright spark put me in charge of a list ( Read more... )