As you’ve probably noticed, I’m still not done with the complete switcheroo of my site, but then I’ve been busy as fuck since I started the changes, so it’ll have to wait…
Like I said, I’ve been exceedingly busy, what with wedding, role-play, work, camps and reading. With the exceptions of reading and, possibly, work, my time has been mostly spent organising and planning, and, too a lesser extent, plotting and scheming.
The wedding stuff is mostly complete:
- Car? Check
- Photographer? Booked, yet to pay for. Half-check
- Outfits? Bride, check, bridesmaids, check, parents’, check, ushers, half check [ian and my brother have yet to be sorted completely], groom, check.
- Flowers? Half check. The ones free-standing ones have been dealt with, the brides bouquet has not.
- Sound? check. still debating a live band.
- honeymoon? half check. still needs to be booked and paid for
- Hen/ stag doos? quarter check
- ceremony and reception halls? check
- caterer? check
- notice given? can’t do that yet
- Invites? Still being printed, addresses yet to be obtained
So what of the camps?
Well, the Long Island Adventure is drawing closer, and with only a max of 4 of us going I’m hoping it’s still going to be as fun as with the whole group of us that I wanted.
Amusingly enough, we only have the loose plan of ‘assemble raft out of stuff, sail to Long Island, stay the night, sail back, hope raft doesn’t fall apart at any stage…’
Not quite sure what we’re doing for ‘accommodation’ so to speak [or food for that matter], I think I might ask Barry if he wants to share my 3 person, instead of taking his 1 man. I know owen and the rag will have their various funky bivouacs, and I was just planning on having an orange survival sack, but owen’s cautioned me against it…
The second camp will be us back-packing up to Cropready for the Fairport Convention festival. Hopefully we’ll use the lessons of last year well, and I think it’ll help that we’ll both actually have money instead of scraping the bottom of our accounts and me going into my overdraft. I don’t recognise many of the names, but then I guess I didn’t last year, so I’m sure it’ll all be good fun and stuff again 
I’d like to do more camping, but at the moment it’s trying to find a weekend free/ being able to get a Saturday off/ finding willing participants, none of which is easy. And soon we’re going to be running out of good nights [most of my gear is only suitable for 'fair weather' camping. You probably won't find me out and about come October time... Ah well, always next year.
What's next on the updates list... ah yes. Reading. Some people might call me obsessive or mad, but I really like my books. I always have done and I'm sure I always shall. It's just a pity that nearly everything else get in my way of finding time to read. Some people also might think me mad when I remind them I still don't have anything that passes for a bookcase, and yet I went and bought 18 more [for around £60 inc. delivery]. To those people I say: I could easily have spent a lot more 
Oh and then Andy and I bought another 4 at the weekend.
On to role-play. The past week hasn’t been all that busy regarding role-play [except if you count the nice young man we met at the works] but the previous weeks have seen a spate of character building and new campaigns being discussed and planed. At the moment we’ve got 3 running: Andy’s Wushu game, Future’s Past, Luke’s Ebberon game Savage Tides [actually drawing to a close] and Greg’s A Fragment Of Time, based on the campaigns that spawned Alexis Dalliance. I’m looking forward to the epic battle that will end this part of Savage Tides, but I have to say The Wushu system is a refreshing change from D&D, and I’m enjoying it immensely. A Fragment of Time is only just getting started but I hope it’ll be as fun and exciting as the previous campaigns. I just hope that Alexis [me] hasn’t changed to much in the two months [almost a year!] since we played together.
Thinking of creating stuff, storytelling and fantasy, reminded me of something else in planning: The Stone of Tides. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous about how this is going to turn out. I’ve never written anything this big before, neither have I written with someone else either. So I’m going to cram these two new experiences, along with a boatload os characters and a setting that I’m still not sure I’m familiar with or ‘feeling’ into the hectic experience that is nanowrimo. All whilst being a newly-wed with a stressful, full-time job. Now you can tell me I’m mental, and I’ll probably agree… Ah well, in amongst everything else, we’ve got 4 months and a week to get into it and finish planning before all hell breaks loose.
So on to work.
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So Marie left on a Saturday. On the Monday I got made supervisor-in-training. On Wednesday I got made officially-still-supervisor-in-training-but-really-assistant-manager-in-training. That was… wow… almost a month ago [I don't quite know where it went - I barely any recollection of it]. So now I’m getting paid 30p more and have a whole lot more trouble on my hands because of it. I feel like I’ve jumped from big stupid mistake to big stupider mistake, but strangely after breaking down at work in front of my boss I’ve felt better about the whole thing. On top of this I have the NVQ which so far is seeming easy, but still taking up time. I’m afraid it’s going to get harder though… I still don’t know what I think about the whole shebang, and it’s so hard not to take my lead from James when it’s just he and I, and I think I’m doing badly, but Manager-san hasn’t turned around yet and said ‘your fired’ so I suppose I’m doing something right… It’s just all big and confusing and scary and not especially cool and I don’t know if I want to do it and I don’t know if I can and if I’m capable and have absolutely no confidence in anything I do 
Anyway. I think that’s me all up-to-date again. if you made it all the way down here, congrats for making it and thanks for being interested enough. Have a cookie
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