Ramblings of a Disorientated Mind

Wow, what a busy past few days week! And where, oh where, to begin?

Oh yes, probably at the beginning.

Last Monday [the 3rd] Jade-chan and I went up to see Alex up in London. We both traveled up on the train and did a ‘twenty questions’ style ‘lets get to know each other’ session, which was fun and I learned a lot about her. Random quote from the train: Announcer – ‘If you see something suspicious please report it’ *Jade and I both simultaneously point at each other*. We arrived at London Bridge station at around 2200h, and got minor-ly lost coming out of the station. Fortunately Alex [Mr Nose-Like-A-Snake] came and found us and we headed back to his place. I don’t really remember much about the rest of that night because we all got a lot rat-arsed. I remember we were talking about relationships and I shouted at jade quite a lot about Greg, her ex, and then they made me talk about Andy, which made me drink far to much vodka and I ended up having a minor panic attack [only ever really happens when something upsets me to the point my asthma is set off]. I’m a little annoyed at myself that I let my walls down that much and Alex had to see me like that. Damnit, the whole point was that we cheer him up >:( There was something about Jade getting engaged to my toe though…

Anyway, the next morning I was very ill. I think I threw up 7 times in total and couldn’t even hold water down. That lasted until about 1500, before I started feeling a little better, so Jade and I decided to go out. We wandered down to Borough Market, but it was shut, so we decided to go to the Tate Modern because I’ve never been. It’s quite cool – surrealism is now definitely my favourite art genre. While we were in there there was a mini rainstorm, but by the time we got out again, the air was as dry as an oven. By this time we were both feeling peckish so I took Jade to the Eat. that’s just down the river from the Tate Modern. We’ve both decided that there should be an Eat. in Bournemouth, it’s just that damn good After finishing eating, we headed back to Alex’s and discovered we couldn’t get in. He’d given us the key for his front door, but we couldn’t turn it, so after sending him a couple of complaining texts we gave up and walked a park that’s not far from him and just sort of sat and chilled, before going to meet him from work.

That night we had a roast dinner that Alex cooked [yum ] while his twin brother Greg [now nicknamed by me as MacGyver] copied files from a really stupidly huge hard drive [I think he said is was a terabyte]. After we finished eating we all took our cameras, a blanket and a picnic hamper of vodka jelly shots to a patch of grass next to the London Eye and chilled and took pics of the London Eye and each other. Once it started getting cold we walked down the Thames back towards Alex’s but got caught up listening to the buskers. Right next to the eye, we listened to a piano player, then under Charring Cross bridge I heard an soprano sax, so we went up and listened to him, then further on there was a guitar player which we listened to for Alex. Then we walked down this scary, dirty titled alley thing in search of the loo at Charring Cross station. ‘Places to get raped in’ as Jade put it. After we’d been, Alex took us through Trafalgar Square and then back across the other side of Charring Cross bridge and back home. Jade’s said she’s fallen in love with the section of the Thames bank side walk that goes between Westminster and London Bridges, and it’s easy to see why

The next day [Wednesday now, try to keep up] Jade slept in late so I decided to talk a walk around the are by myself. She was due to be cooking stir fry, so I decided to scout out the route to the big TESCO at Elephant and Castle, and in the process maybe pick some stuff up for my own meal to be done the next day. In the end though I just picked up some Relentless from the Sainsbury’s on Borough Highstreet. After I got back and Jade woke up, we decided to head over to the Covent Garden/ China Town area. We wandered around China Town for a while before heading into Orc’s Nest and supposedly CyberCandy, but I couldn’t find it, so we headed to Forbidden Planet instead [I didn't buy too much for once I got MegaTokyo 4, ROD 3 and ROD the TV 3]. By the time we got out it was quite late so we didn’t go to Covent Garden, but we did find this really cool catering/ wholesalers shop that had the hugest pot ever. You could have fitted a 10 yr old child in it.

Because we were feeling a little grocklish, we walked back through Whitehall, pausing for a while to consider Parliament [and remember the scene from V for Vendetta], Big Ben and how big the hands were. Turns out my guestimate of 10ft wouldn’t have been so far off, since we found out later the clock face is 23ft across. Walking back from Westminster was fun. Because it was the day, there were loads of other buskers, and we almost got collared by someone we think was being Jack the Ripper.

Anyway, once we got back we were both quite tired and damp, so we popped back to Alex’s before going to meet him again so we could head off to buy food. Having bought food, we got back and Jade proceeded to cook a delectable meal of Sweet and Sour noodles and fried bananas. Afterwards we watched the Princess Bride [complete with Rodents of Unusual Size] and Spiderman 2 before retiring to bed.

The next day Jade took me to Camden Town Market which is fantastically cool I only bought a beautiful silver torc, and some yummy rice, but it was still really cool After we got back… I don’t actually recall what we did so it couldn’t have been that important but later I cooked my ‘Campsite Medley’ [Rice, beans, leaks, sausage and mushroom] eventually followed by chocolate bananas . We started playing a DnD that Alex came up with on the spot, that sort of turned into Gunsmith Cats/ Dirty Pair Flash gone to the darkside. We were a pair of petty criminals about to steal some Arabian jewels worth several million, but we never actually got to pull of the heist. It was then I remembered about the bananas and they’d gone really… odd. But Alex and I liked them so And that’s about it for Thursday.

Friday, we decided to take it fairly easy since we had to leave at 1730, and Alex had ordered us not to take the underground because it was the anniversary of the 7th July bombings on the underground. So we took a boat ride instead. We walked over London Bridge and Thames side towards Tower Bridge. Once there we wandered around the Tower of London [took a peak at the price - Jade was thinking about wanting to see the Crown Jewels - it's fifteen bloody pounds! I think not...] and sat looking at Tower Bridge and talking about boys and memories. The Thames was suitably misty and grey and completive. Made me think of this:

Will you let me romanticize,
The beauty in our London Skies?
You know the sunlight always shines,
Behind the clouds of London Skies.
[Jamie Cullum - London Skies]

It started to get cold, so we went into the Tower café and had a cup of coffee and talked some more. We’d already bought tickets for the boat ride and so now we headed back and got on the boat to bank side [where the Globe Theater is]. While on the boat we found out that there have been 4 London Bridges, unlike the 3 that I knew of, and that the Anchor pub that we’d passed several times walking, was apparently London’s oldest pub and that it use to be used as changing rooms for Shakespeare’s actors for when the Globe was where the Financial Times building is now. So because she knew that, Jade-chan decided she wanted to have a drink there, just to say she’d had a drink in London’s oldest pub. I don’t usually go in for grockly things like that, but it was for her and I suppose it wasn’t as bad as going ‘Ohmigod! Big Ben! Gotta have a piccy of us with Big Ben!’ We’ve also decided that it must be London’s most lesbian pub. We walked in, a very attractive, maybe Hispanic, barmaid comes over. I order a coke and an orange juice. She brings them back [complete with straws, for some reason] says the amount, I hand her a fiver, she gives me my change and Jade swears that she winked at me while saying ‘enjoy your drinks’. [*is blushing again at the thought*] While we were sat, said barmaid goes and talks to some other barmaids and we could have sworn they were looking at us the entire time. It’s very odd. I wasn’t even wearing anything that flattering. Alright my top was very low, but… yeah *is easily confused by random people indicating I’m in some way attractive*. So we finished our drinks and set off back to Alex’s to pack and tidy his apartment up a little, before heading out to catch the train with him.

We arrived back in Poole at about 1930, and I phoned on ahead to make sure we had food waiting for us as we were all starving. We were due to be playing World of Darkness, but I was just too tired so I went and joined Jade and Alex in my room and snoozed and chilled.

Saturday we played Chronicles of the Heartland [Alex's RPG] for most of the day, before going to see Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest at UCI. Unfortunately we couldn’t get into either of the two 2100 or 2230 showings, so Andy and Luke went and watched XMen 3 while the rest of us headed to Calendars and drank for two and a half hours. The film was very good – except I can’t really remember much of it. I do recall that Kiera Knightley looks better in a ‘cabin boy’ outfit than a corset.

The film ended at something silly like 0230 on Sunday, and I got a little miffed because I went to the loo and when I came back Luke, Duane, Ma, Ryan and Jenny had all gone and the rest of us had to walk home in the rain. What’s particularly irritating is that Luke took Duane and Ma home, but they live in the complete opposite direction to us and Luke. But the walk home was interesting and I blathered in a ‘Lyrical, verbose and archaic’ manner [my own words].

We got in at about 0300 and we were all pretty much soaked. I had a cup of hot chocolate before going to bed.

I woke up again at about 1000 and Andy and I had some quality time together. We finally got dressed and headed downstairs to chat with everyone else about 1500. We listened to the soundtracks from V and PotC: Dead Man’s Chest and watched V for Vendetta again for Alex and Jade, the last episode of this season of Dr Who, and two episodes of some new Jonh Doe-a-like called Kyle XY. It looks okay, but I’m waiting for it to pick up. Some time or other Ian came over and then left, and Greg came over to talk to jade and generally cause awkwardness. Later, Kat rang Alex to talk to him about coming up to pack her stuff. After that, Jade and Alex had vanished into our stairwell to talk, so Monkey and I made a new batch of Darkliquid using actual caffeine pills, not pro plus [200mg per pill as opposed to 50mg], Guarana pills and Relentless as well as the usual ginseng and soda stream concentrate. It’s quite nice It was getting quite late so I wanted to go to bed and to tell Alex to get some rest, but I didn’t really want to disturb him or Jade, so I settled on sending him a text just before I went to bed at 0100 this morning.

I’ve got no idea if he and Jade got back to London alright, or even if Jade went with him, since I’ve heard nothing from them all day. Not even a ‘sorry I couldn’t say goodbye’… Ah well, I know he’s lost for the moment in the ‘New Couple Bubble’, so I shouldn’t be too angry but… Yeah there are a whole host of stupid feeling buzzing around my head at the moment, but I’m sure it’s just a passing phase. I’m probably just crushing, but since I’ve never had a proper crush before I wouldn’t know, and there’s just so many feelings to go with everything that happened, it’d be a whole other post and now this would be me blathering and trying to justify my feelings and make them go away, so I’ll hush up now…

Congrats if you made it this far

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Music: Random

Mood: Accomplished

Ah! I meant to blog the moment I got home, but I was ‘distracted’…

The appointment with the asthma Nurse went well, she just said keep doing what your doing, which pleased me. It was nice in Poole, except for the ‘townie’ mums with their children. Made me pray once more to the powers-that-be that I don’t end up like them. Had a look in Ottackers and The County Bookstore and resisted the temptation to spend my life savings on everything pertaining to SF and Fantasy. Some girls have shoes, others have bags. Me? I have books

The weather all day has been perfect spring; clear duckegg blue sky, light, warm with a gentle breeze. So nice in fact that I almost missed my stop because I was dozing on the bus! When I got home I ate lunch outside cuz it was so nice, then decided to have a look at the garden, and got distracted ‘gardening’. Its in quote marks because I was really just attacking the plants with a pair of secateurs and snapping dead stuff. It was actually bloody good fun. The next door neighbor came out and I had the obligatory chat over the wall with her. Not sure how long I was out there but I got in and had a minor flop.

Dad came home early, so I suggested he cut the lawns, which surprisingly he did. He then found me the real secateurs [I'd apparently been using Owen's tin-snips. Whoops] and we attacked t3h 3v1l brambles. The people in the house behind ours have a hedge of fur trees, and what I never realized was, they have a fence so they don’t have to see the dead ground caused by said trees. Unfortunately we’ve got our lawn right up against the fence so there is this nasty dead patch of ground right at the edge of our garden and all the brambles, ivy and ferns come from their side on to ours. Its very annoying. We use to have rhubarb there and now I don’t know what to do with it >:( *sigh* Also half the tree in the front garden is dead, but that doesn’t really come as much surprise. If its nice tomorrow I might have to get back into the back garden and try to throw out some of ourmathoms [hobbit word, meaning something that might be useful, maybe, someday...], or at least put them in a heap on the lawn and ask people what to do with them.

Conclusion: Today was a good and prosperous day.

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I hate October. It’s all cold and nasty showery rain and dark And I’m in a horrible mood partly because of that, but partly because I went shopping with mum this morning. There was a really nice purple coat in TK Maxx by some one called Rosen or something. It was only £50, was my colour, did right up the neck and would have looked really good if it had been a 16. As it was there was only an 18 and a 14, and somewhere like that, you can’t ask if they have the right size out the back because that’s probably all the have. Then, in Matalan, I found some nice jeans and a good price, but the 18 was falling off me and while the 16 looked good from the front, the waistband gaped down about 2 inches at the back. So boo at that. Stupid clothes shops >:(

And today is my day, that I assigned me, to do the washing up and I don’t want to. I want to curl up in bed with hot chocolate and watch movies the rest of the day. Stupid having to do stuff

boo

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