Monday, March 24, 2008
slinking off on ajet plane...
I was informed of my birthday present the other night. I had a hunch it was a trip to London for a few days but I got it ever so slightly wrong. I am in fact heading off to New York for three days which is on the right side of awesome. :-)
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Yowzer.
Sooo... by personal request ;) here is some of the work I've been occupying my time with over the last few months:
I'm preparing for a mail out of postcards and some cool little mini bookmarks that I had printed at the start of the year, though I have a feeling I'm going to be distracted by my birthday suprise next week which involves being taken on a mini break away to a mystery location. It's all very exciting but I fear there'll be a lack of alcohol to my birthday celebrations this year for two reasons:
1). I've been informed that I have to get up at 6am the day after my birthday to travel to the mystery location.
2). My tummy is absolutely buggered. I don't know why. I don't know what the hell is up with it but it's just wrong, and it has been for about two months. The doctor had a good poke at it today but she didn't seem concerned at all by my symptoms. She's told me to stick to a bland diet, no fizzy drinks, fruit juices or tea/coffee and to go back in 2 weeks. That's if I haven't died of a perforated ulcer of course.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Mountains and Mole Hills.
My mood is all over the place at the moment. One day I can feel quite contented and buzzing with creativity, the next I'm having a not-so-mid-life-crisis. I think it's money really. I was relying on winning the euromillions last week, and against all odds we did! However, seven pounds won't stretch very far between the seven fold syndicate we had. Instead we bought scratch cards in a desperate attempt at bagging us some cash... but we only made a grand total of £2. Ah well.
Anywhoo, "AllyCats" was finished last week along with another one day project for my portfolio called "Me and My Dinosaur". I have lots more ideas to be getting on with right now which will be a welcome distraction from the dreaded job hunt which isn't helping my moods much. Another positive is that it's only about 6 weeks til my birthday and I need some more clay so the timing will be perfect. Although I might have to miss out on a new coat or some other far more interesting but less career focussed pressies.
Oh, I'm also trying to catch up with people at the minute so forgive me if I love you heaps but haven't got round to saying hello, how you doin? yet... I do care. Time just seems to ... pass by. Unless it's getting caught up in the mole hills.
Laters. x
Anywhoo, "AllyCats" was finished last week along with another one day project for my portfolio called "Me and My Dinosaur". I have lots more ideas to be getting on with right now which will be a welcome distraction from the dreaded job hunt which isn't helping my moods much. Another positive is that it's only about 6 weeks til my birthday and I need some more clay so the timing will be perfect. Although I might have to miss out on a new coat or some other far more interesting but less career focussed pressies.
Oh, I'm also trying to catch up with people at the minute so forgive me if I love you heaps but haven't got round to saying hello, how you doin? yet... I do care. Time just seems to ... pass by. Unless it's getting caught up in the mole hills.
Laters. x
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Stuff...
I hope a great Christmas and New Year was had by all. I apologise for the lack of updates. It tends to happen when all you have going on is fish dying and buying baubles.
Speaking of which I have news.
Tallulah died. Both our veteren fish Edgar Alan Poe and Tallulah were being attacked by Dumbledore who had to be seperated and was renamed Voldemort. We tried to reintroduce them all at various stages but after a savage attack on Poe, The Evil one was banished to a bare tank until further arrangements could be made. We gave him away to a local school where he could be kept on his own in the hope he doesn't start trying to attack the children. Not our problem anymore anyway.
So yeah I think the stress from that made Tallulah ill and despite rescueing them from a bout of White Spot, she sadly died a few weeks ago. At the same time we'd inherited a great big 54 litre tank from my sister... but were left with only one goldfish! Talk about irony. So, the plan is to keep Poe in a smaller tank on his own where he seems quite happy now he's settled, and have the new tank ready and set up to get some fancy goldfish at the weekend. Can't wait. We've never had a big tank before and we've never had any fancies either so it's going to be a step up for us.
In other, less fishy news, I'm piss bored of my part time job right now and am having to have some serious thinking sessions about wether or not I stick it out to give my illustrations another years chance, I get another part time job and thus stick with the illustration still, OR re-train for another career, OR number two I just look for a fulltime position elsewhere. The last two make me feel shit because I want to illustrate and I spent three years developing my skills at uni and getting myself into debt for nothing. The first one leaves me feeling completely utterly miserable and the one in the middle leaves me feeling like I'm not doing enough still. I'm a bit lost to be honest... but we'll see. In the meantime however, I'm working on a new illustration at the moment and it's a biggy. It's called "Allycats" and although I haven't got very far with it yet I'm soo glad to be getting back into making stuff.
I have a birthday suprise being planned and its already leaked out that it's some form of mini-holiday but I'm not sure where or what it entails yet but it's all very exciting. I need a break away... even if it's not far away.
Japanese lessons are going okay... it's getting much harder but I'm now able to say 56730033 in Japanese. It might take me a while to work it out and even longer to say it but I can do it!!!
By the way if you're wondering it's: Go sen roppyaku nana-ju san man san-ju san. :-) I think.
Speaking of which I have news.
Tallulah died. Both our veteren fish Edgar Alan Poe and Tallulah were being attacked by Dumbledore who had to be seperated and was renamed Voldemort. We tried to reintroduce them all at various stages but after a savage attack on Poe, The Evil one was banished to a bare tank until further arrangements could be made. We gave him away to a local school where he could be kept on his own in the hope he doesn't start trying to attack the children. Not our problem anymore anyway.
So yeah I think the stress from that made Tallulah ill and despite rescueing them from a bout of White Spot, she sadly died a few weeks ago. At the same time we'd inherited a great big 54 litre tank from my sister... but were left with only one goldfish! Talk about irony. So, the plan is to keep Poe in a smaller tank on his own where he seems quite happy now he's settled, and have the new tank ready and set up to get some fancy goldfish at the weekend. Can't wait. We've never had a big tank before and we've never had any fancies either so it's going to be a step up for us.
In other, less fishy news, I'm piss bored of my part time job right now and am having to have some serious thinking sessions about wether or not I stick it out to give my illustrations another years chance, I get another part time job and thus stick with the illustration still, OR re-train for another career, OR number two I just look for a fulltime position elsewhere. The last two make me feel shit because I want to illustrate and I spent three years developing my skills at uni and getting myself into debt for nothing. The first one leaves me feeling completely utterly miserable and the one in the middle leaves me feeling like I'm not doing enough still. I'm a bit lost to be honest... but we'll see. In the meantime however, I'm working on a new illustration at the moment and it's a biggy. It's called "Allycats" and although I haven't got very far with it yet I'm soo glad to be getting back into making stuff.
I have a birthday suprise being planned and its already leaked out that it's some form of mini-holiday but I'm not sure where or what it entails yet but it's all very exciting. I need a break away... even if it's not far away.
Japanese lessons are going okay... it's getting much harder but I'm now able to say 56730033 in Japanese. It might take me a while to work it out and even longer to say it but I can do it!!!
By the way if you're wondering it's: Go sen roppyaku nana-ju san man san-ju san. :-) I think.
Monday, December 24, 2007
Fishy Business
The newbies are sick. Our remaining oldie is sick. It's not good news on the old goldfish front.
We named the newbies Little Tallulah (which I believe is Choctaw for Leaping Water or something like that; she's goldish brown) and Dumbledore (who is grey with black speckles). They all (including Edgar Alan Poe) have White Spot, which we're trying our hardest to treat but so far there's no sign of improvement. We've had to seperate Dumbledore because he seemed to be trying to eat the fins of both Poe; who is about three times his size I might add, and Little Tallulah who seemed to be suffering from a lot of stress. Since Dumbledore's been seperated Little T has been doing much better but all three of them still need to shake off White Spot before we're all in the clear. Man, who said keeping goldfish was easy!!! By a strange twist of fate though, if they hadn't got sickm, requiring an emergency visit to the local garden centre for fish medicine supplies I wouldn't have bagged myself my bargain of the year. They only went and had a half price sale of all their christmas stock! So, never to miss out on a bargain I bought half our christmas baubles for next years red/white theme for half price!
Saturday, we met up with Rfa, Ktp, John and Dave and a whole host of Rfa's friends for his birthday tour of the Wychwood brewery/curry night. Despite having to leave early at 8, it was a great weekend; made me feel all studenty again sitting outside in the dark with a log burner, eating curry. The tour wasn't too bad either despite it being cold and smelly. I even tried some of the beer and it didn't taste like poison or wee so that was a first! We got a free glass each, a nice little half pinter with a hobgoblin on it. :-)
So, incase it's escaped your notice it's christmas day tomorrow. The pressies under the tree have seemed to multiply after numerous parcels last week, my nails are painted a bright purpley-petrol colour, I bought a wicked cool She-Ra T-shirt for tomorrow, the flat was vacuumed and tidied to a musical soundtrack of Bill Withers and System of a Down for tomorrows un-wrapping-presents-freny and my friend Becko is coming tonight to help me highlight my hair and drink Baileys and so I'm feeling the twinkly christmas spirit. Awesome.
To anyone reading, have an awesome christmas!
We named the newbies Little Tallulah (which I believe is Choctaw for Leaping Water or something like that; she's goldish brown) and Dumbledore (who is grey with black speckles). They all (including Edgar Alan Poe) have White Spot, which we're trying our hardest to treat but so far there's no sign of improvement. We've had to seperate Dumbledore because he seemed to be trying to eat the fins of both Poe; who is about three times his size I might add, and Little Tallulah who seemed to be suffering from a lot of stress. Since Dumbledore's been seperated Little T has been doing much better but all three of them still need to shake off White Spot before we're all in the clear. Man, who said keeping goldfish was easy!!! By a strange twist of fate though, if they hadn't got sickm, requiring an emergency visit to the local garden centre for fish medicine supplies I wouldn't have bagged myself my bargain of the year. They only went and had a half price sale of all their christmas stock! So, never to miss out on a bargain I bought half our christmas baubles for next years red/white theme for half price!
Saturday, we met up with Rfa, Ktp, John and Dave and a whole host of Rfa's friends for his birthday tour of the Wychwood brewery/curry night. Despite having to leave early at 8, it was a great weekend; made me feel all studenty again sitting outside in the dark with a log burner, eating curry. The tour wasn't too bad either despite it being cold and smelly. I even tried some of the beer and it didn't taste like poison or wee so that was a first! We got a free glass each, a nice little half pinter with a hobgoblin on it. :-)
So, incase it's escaped your notice it's christmas day tomorrow. The pressies under the tree have seemed to multiply after numerous parcels last week, my nails are painted a bright purpley-petrol colour, I bought a wicked cool She-Ra T-shirt for tomorrow, the flat was vacuumed and tidied to a musical soundtrack of Bill Withers and System of a Down for tomorrows un-wrapping-presents-freny and my friend Becko is coming tonight to help me highlight my hair and drink Baileys and so I'm feeling the twinkly christmas spirit. Awesome.
To anyone reading, have an awesome christmas!
Friday, December 14, 2007
*waves*
My kidneys returned to normal functioning a few weeks ago I'm glad to say; just in time to completely re-arrange the lounge to accomodate the christmas tree which I put up last thursday. I love it. We've stuck with black, white and silver again this year... but next year it's going to be red and white. I'll have to set up a bauble fund though I think to cope with the complete new range of decorations we'll need.
We do have some sad news unfortunately. Wenda, our goldfish died last week. She hadn't been well for a while and despite our attempts to stem what seemed to be some sort of internal bacterial infection, she died. It was pretty sad actually because we've had her for years and I'm pretty sure Edgar Alan Poe went through a few days worth of fish-grief. Seriously he seemed really blue and lonely, so obviously we had to go right out and get him a new friend. I couldn't resist getting two new little ones to add to the tank. So, we now have two new fishies who are currently nameless. They're both really small still and look teeny compared to big old Poe but they all seem to be getting on nicely so far.
RIP Wenda.
We do have some sad news unfortunately. Wenda, our goldfish died last week. She hadn't been well for a while and despite our attempts to stem what seemed to be some sort of internal bacterial infection, she died. It was pretty sad actually because we've had her for years and I'm pretty sure Edgar Alan Poe went through a few days worth of fish-grief. Seriously he seemed really blue and lonely, so obviously we had to go right out and get him a new friend. I couldn't resist getting two new little ones to add to the tank. So, we now have two new fishies who are currently nameless. They're both really small still and look teeny compared to big old Poe but they all seem to be getting on nicely so far.
RIP Wenda.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Kidneys.
They exploded.
Well.. not really. But for the last week it's felt like it. I've had a kidney infection and even though I finished my antibiotics on monday... it still feels like I'm being punched over and over again in my sides and back. Urgh it's horrid. My doctor didn't retest me to see if the infection was still present, even though I was still complaining of pain... he said it may take a few days for any swelling to go down which is probably what the pain is. Hrmmm... that or he just wanted to get home and couldn't be arsed. I can't decide which yet. All I know is that it hurts.
And because I'm some sort of sadist I just took a look at my bank balance. All my christmas shopping is DONE but my god does it show.
Pain and debt. Just peachy. Could be worse though... I could have had a huge furball like this woman.
Well.. not really. But for the last week it's felt like it. I've had a kidney infection and even though I finished my antibiotics on monday... it still feels like I'm being punched over and over again in my sides and back. Urgh it's horrid. My doctor didn't retest me to see if the infection was still present, even though I was still complaining of pain... he said it may take a few days for any swelling to go down which is probably what the pain is. Hrmmm... that or he just wanted to get home and couldn't be arsed. I can't decide which yet. All I know is that it hurts.
And because I'm some sort of sadist I just took a look at my bank balance. All my christmas shopping is DONE but my god does it show.
Pain and debt. Just peachy. Could be worse though... I could have had a huge furball like this woman.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
BAD. Mood.
I have had a stinking headache all afternoon at work.
I'm cold.
I'm hungry.
I'm on my period.
My wisdom tooth has suddenly decide to twist into the side of my mouth and cause me pain.
Today is NOT a good day for Asda to STILL be out of their cheese topped rolls.
I'm cold.
I'm hungry.
I'm on my period.
My wisdom tooth has suddenly decide to twist into the side of my mouth and cause me pain.
Today is NOT a good day for Asda to STILL be out of their cheese topped rolls.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Bauble Edit
To correct the last post...
I have actually purchased four loose baubles, four fancy decorations, one pack 27 of mini baubles, and a pack of 6 baubles. So er... that actually makes 41.
Holy crap. And I was even in denial about it.
I have a problem.
I have actually purchased four loose baubles, four fancy decorations, one pack 27 of mini baubles, and a pack of 6 baubles. So er... that actually makes 41.
Holy crap. And I was even in denial about it.
I have a problem.
dance chameleon dance!
We went to the reptile store recently to get Gizmo some more crickets, and there he was; the cutest little chameleon I've ever seen. He did this awesome funny little wobble dance which was just hilarious and if they weren't so difficult to look after I would have been tempted to get one. Alas, it's not to be. They have a lot of requirements and besides we don't have the space at home for one. However, I'm adding a dancing chameleon to my list, beneath tortoise of course, for possible future pets when we're rich enough to get a proper house with a garden. :-)
Other news? Well the japanese lessons are going okay. We're half way through learning the Hiragana table and I seem to be strangely good at learning the symbols. I keep suprising myself how quickly I can remember them, but I think it has something to do with my amazing picto-brain and the handy pictures we have to help us learn each symbol. The word side of things has been a little bit more complicated, as has learning numbers, but all in all I'm just glad to be still enjoying learning a language since I've never enjoyed learning one before.
I've started my christmas shopping too. It's always bittersweet because I love getting presents... well no, actually I love GIVING the presents. I love the wrapping them to look all nice and I love giving them out... the shopping bit beforehand is stressful, tiring and frickin expensive. I spent a fortune the other day and I only got one main present, some christmas cards and two smaller presents which barely count. I'm just avoiding looking at my bank account altogether for a few months I think. If I can't see it... it's not there. Looming. Screaming at me to NOT BUY THE POSH WRAPPING PAPER!!!! Nooooooooooooooooooooo! It all HAS to match my christmas tree. I've so far only bought like five baubles this year. That's good for me. I refrained from spending loads on a pack of three wicked black baubles with skulls on them which only showed up when you shone light through them. So, for that amazing show of strength I'm planning on going to selfridges to get some posh white ones. :-D Yeah yeah.. I'm weak when it comes to christmas trees. But, I have to perfect the art of my black and white christmas tree before I move on to next years Tim Burton-esque green tree with red and white candystripe decorations!
Must get out more.
Other news? Well the japanese lessons are going okay. We're half way through learning the Hiragana table and I seem to be strangely good at learning the symbols. I keep suprising myself how quickly I can remember them, but I think it has something to do with my amazing picto-brain and the handy pictures we have to help us learn each symbol. The word side of things has been a little bit more complicated, as has learning numbers, but all in all I'm just glad to be still enjoying learning a language since I've never enjoyed learning one before.
I've started my christmas shopping too. It's always bittersweet because I love getting presents... well no, actually I love GIVING the presents. I love the wrapping them to look all nice and I love giving them out... the shopping bit beforehand is stressful, tiring and frickin expensive. I spent a fortune the other day and I only got one main present, some christmas cards and two smaller presents which barely count. I'm just avoiding looking at my bank account altogether for a few months I think. If I can't see it... it's not there. Looming. Screaming at me to NOT BUY THE POSH WRAPPING PAPER!!!! Nooooooooooooooooooooo! It all HAS to match my christmas tree. I've so far only bought like five baubles this year. That's good for me. I refrained from spending loads on a pack of three wicked black baubles with skulls on them which only showed up when you shone light through them. So, for that amazing show of strength I'm planning on going to selfridges to get some posh white ones. :-D Yeah yeah.. I'm weak when it comes to christmas trees. But, I have to perfect the art of my black and white christmas tree before I move on to next years Tim Burton-esque green tree with red and white candystripe decorations!
Must get out more.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Ladybird.
I saw a Ladybird today. It's October but there's still Ladybirds about. Wierd.
Anyway. The Creative review ad seems to be working... but in the wrong sort of a way. I've had two offers for more advertising prospects, costing an arm and a leg of course. One would be extremely advantagous but I simply cannot get the money required in the space of time I have, especially this near to Christmas. I feel like I'm passing up a really good oppurtunity here, but I simply don't have the money to do it and a bank loan doesn't seem to be a sensible option either. So, I have two more months in Creative Review and I think thats going to have to do for the time being. If I can just get rid of the sales calls and get some actual commissions from it I'll be far happier about my decision to pass up on this latest offer. :-(
Sucks.
Anyway. The Creative review ad seems to be working... but in the wrong sort of a way. I've had two offers for more advertising prospects, costing an arm and a leg of course. One would be extremely advantagous but I simply cannot get the money required in the space of time I have, especially this near to Christmas. I feel like I'm passing up a really good oppurtunity here, but I simply don't have the money to do it and a bank loan doesn't seem to be a sensible option either. So, I have two more months in Creative Review and I think thats going to have to do for the time being. If I can just get rid of the sales calls and get some actual commissions from it I'll be far happier about my decision to pass up on this latest offer. :-(
Sucks.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Ichi, Ni, San, Go..... no stop.
So we have a one week break from our Japanese night classes this week for half term. I discovered last wednesday that my Mathematical dyslexia/brainfreeze/utter uselessness is still just as bad in other languages.
We had to do simple maths. And I mean simple... very simple; like sums involving digits under 10, or should I say Jū. This poses a second obstacle for my poor little mathematically reundant brain. Not only do I have to do basic, under pressure maths in front of a crowd of people, but I have to think of the numbers in a different language!!!? It was painful. Almost. My way of tackling it was to just take it slowly... which of course made me look like a bit of an idiot... but even then the brain freeze kicked in and I couldn't remember the word for one (ichi) which was the answer!! The shame...
Our first lesson back is going to be maths again as a review. Maths is crap. In any language.
We had to do simple maths. And I mean simple... very simple; like sums involving digits under 10, or should I say Jū. This poses a second obstacle for my poor little mathematically reundant brain. Not only do I have to do basic, under pressure maths in front of a crowd of people, but I have to think of the numbers in a different language!!!? It was painful. Almost. My way of tackling it was to just take it slowly... which of course made me look like a bit of an idiot... but even then the brain freeze kicked in and I couldn't remember the word for one (ichi) which was the answer!! The shame...
Our first lesson back is going to be maths again as a review. Maths is crap. In any language.
F1 is not recommended for sick people.
Well. I wasn't well anyway... but thankfully my heart held out for the entire race. It was possibly one of the best races of the season, full of action and full of drama but unfortunately not on the right side! I'm genuinely gutted for Hamilton but if it wasn't going to be his title, I'm glad for Kimi. Just a great big huge freakin shame that he won it in a Ferrari. Hopefully next year the FIA can be sorted out and we can have a scandle free racing season.
I think I've just about recovered from it. It was indeed, very stressful viewing! Who needs exercise!!!?
Now... where've I put my Sudafed?
I think I've just about recovered from it. It was indeed, very stressful viewing! Who needs exercise!!!?
Now... where've I put my Sudafed?
Saturday, October 06, 2007
RAOK
Yep. I was subjected to a RAOK today. I was so shocked by this Random Act Of Kindness, that I just had to report it. It's kind of sad that in this day and age I should feel the need to blog about something that's sadly so rare! But still, the young Aston Villa fan who offered me his seat on an otherwise packed train of footie fans who only had a one stop journey, really impressed me and just about made my day. I declined his offer but thanked him for being so sweet. He put all the other fat arsed lager lout men to shame.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Invasion.
No way. It's been almost a MONTH since I last posted???? And that means we've been back from Japan for THAT long?!?!? man ... time needs to slow down a bit.
Anyways... there's an invasion. Yes... my arch nemesis species is launching its invasion. No less than a few weeks after THIS article appeared in the news, there's been many sightings of the beasts... more so at work where TWO tarantula sized crawlies and one possible baby-tarantula-sized spider have found their way onto the shop floor. One is still on the loose, evading capture and death three times. Worrying times people.
Other than that, this month I'm trying to get my groove back. My Creative Review ad should be coming out soon. It's cost me the earth but it might just be worth it if it gets me that elusive commission. I'm also trying to book onto a seminar in November which could be helpful in providing me with some business tips.
I've been chilling to Newton Faulkner also. He's cool. And today he's going to help me focus on the two projects I'm embarking on- More work for The Picture Show, and a self promotional Japanese figure illustration. Can't wait to get stuck in to those. :-) Tonight is also my very first Japanese lesson. I'm a bit nervous about going back to "school" and particularly for doing a language, but I'm also looking forward to it. I'll let you know how it goes.
Laters x
Anyways... there's an invasion. Yes... my arch nemesis species is launching its invasion. No less than a few weeks after THIS article appeared in the news, there's been many sightings of the beasts... more so at work where TWO tarantula sized crawlies and one possible baby-tarantula-sized spider have found their way onto the shop floor. One is still on the loose, evading capture and death three times. Worrying times people.
Other than that, this month I'm trying to get my groove back. My Creative Review ad should be coming out soon. It's cost me the earth but it might just be worth it if it gets me that elusive commission. I'm also trying to book onto a seminar in November which could be helpful in providing me with some business tips.
I've been chilling to Newton Faulkner also. He's cool. And today he's going to help me focus on the two projects I'm embarking on- More work for The Picture Show, and a self promotional Japanese figure illustration. Can't wait to get stuck in to those. :-) Tonight is also my very first Japanese lesson. I'm a bit nervous about going back to "school" and particularly for doing a language, but I'm also looking forward to it. I'll let you know how it goes.
Laters x
Monday, August 20, 2007
Booooooooo...
... for the post-holiday blues.
Why is it whenever you come back after a superb holiday that everything that you left behind feels so much more boring and daunting. :( I'm trying not to dwell on the fact that coming back means at some point I have to get round to doing more projects, getting a new website, job hunting, career hunting, and a few other emotionally draining nitbits.
However, enough of that... I'm still trying to ride out the wave as long as possible after arriving back from Japan and holding on tight to the good vibes from such a great holiday.
Fact. The weather was stifling and I'm pretty sure most of us had a minimum of five strops a day because of the heat and humidity. It was like a sauna, everyday.. or if you've ever worn jeans and had that heavy damp jean-suction-to-legs feeling... then you know what I'm talking about. I bought a hat, a parasol and oober strength suncream to get me through, and fortunately Japan has nifty vending machines on every street corner with tasty sugary hypotonic energy drinks so I survived. Oh how I miss those drinks.
Fact. We had an earthquake on the last day. Funnily enough it didn't feel half as bad as I thought (though I was half conscious at 4.30 in the morning) and being in a 9 story tower block all I really felt was the bed moving and that queasy swaying feeling. The tremor we had in the UK a few years back felt much more like an earthquake... the shaking, the noise etc... but as I said, I think being in a tower block that's designed to sway I think did me out of the whole scariness of the earthquake experience, for which I *think* I'm grateful. yep. I'm grateful.
Fact. My luggage made it all the way to Tokyo and half way back before getting lost at Amsterdam. It arrived the day after which put a great deal fo stress on my anxious little body. I had Japanese Koala biscuits in there for heavens sakes!
I really miss it actually... and I think the post holiday blues is always a sign you've had an awesome holiday. The wedding was lovely, the country, the city, I just loved everything we saw there and there's far too many pictures images and thoughts roaming about my head that I wouldn't know where to start even talking about it; but I have my photo's. All 290 or so of them... a handful of which have been uploaded onto FACEBOOK and on to my temperamental PHOTOBLOG. I'm also going to put together a great big scrapbook of the whole trip with all my photo's and tickety-bits I collected along the way. It'll be awesome albeit HUGE and possibly taking over a year to complete. But hey, I like a challenge. I have many happy, sunny memories and also many lovely purchases from my trip to Japan which I will cherish for a very long time. I just loved all of it.
The cake topper survived by the way ( I recieved the bouquet from Yumi (my new sister in law) as a thankyou :) )... and it went down fantastically well and I'm getting much advice to start selling them asap. Which I'd love to do of course so that's in the pipeline also.
In other quick news.. I think I was far too muffly-headed before I left to tell you all that HeavyRed finally used some of the artwork I made for them on their Myspace page... check it out *here*.
I shall leave you with a list of my purchases from Japan:
* Four boxes of Koala biscuits
* Two boxes of chocolate and biscuit mushrooms
* One box of biscuits
* Two fans
* Some Tokyo Disney chopsticks
* A moomin!
* Two little phone charms- one Ninja, one Pirate
* A Monokuro Boo phone charm
* A Nightmare Before Christmas wallet
* A 100 yen Monokuro Boo Facecloth
* Four mini fan pressies
* A mini Japan map wall hanging
* One beautiful Yukata (dressing gown/summer Kimono) with a print of cranes on
* One AWESOME toy story alien over glove from Tokyo Disney!
* A birthday bear wearing a Kimono (present from Yumi)
* A Henry the Hoover T-shirt
* A parasol
* A Hungry Caterpillar magnet
* and one awesome furry dude with a big mouth toy who's name on the tag is only in Japanese so I've no idea who it is.... but I love him!
* A Pirate bag from Tokyo Disney
* A Pirate card holder
* Pirate earrings. (anyone would think I had a thing for Pirates!)
* A rather funky belt
* A cool hat :)
Not bad eh? And I didn't even get charged for being over my 20kg weight limit!
Now go check out my photographs while I get down to some serious scrapbooking!
Slink xx
Why is it whenever you come back after a superb holiday that everything that you left behind feels so much more boring and daunting. :( I'm trying not to dwell on the fact that coming back means at some point I have to get round to doing more projects, getting a new website, job hunting, career hunting, and a few other emotionally draining nitbits.
However, enough of that... I'm still trying to ride out the wave as long as possible after arriving back from Japan and holding on tight to the good vibes from such a great holiday.
Fact. The weather was stifling and I'm pretty sure most of us had a minimum of five strops a day because of the heat and humidity. It was like a sauna, everyday.. or if you've ever worn jeans and had that heavy damp jean-suction-to-legs feeling... then you know what I'm talking about. I bought a hat, a parasol and oober strength suncream to get me through, and fortunately Japan has nifty vending machines on every street corner with tasty sugary hypotonic energy drinks so I survived. Oh how I miss those drinks.
Fact. We had an earthquake on the last day. Funnily enough it didn't feel half as bad as I thought (though I was half conscious at 4.30 in the morning) and being in a 9 story tower block all I really felt was the bed moving and that queasy swaying feeling. The tremor we had in the UK a few years back felt much more like an earthquake... the shaking, the noise etc... but as I said, I think being in a tower block that's designed to sway I think did me out of the whole scariness of the earthquake experience, for which I *think* I'm grateful. yep. I'm grateful.
Fact. My luggage made it all the way to Tokyo and half way back before getting lost at Amsterdam. It arrived the day after which put a great deal fo stress on my anxious little body. I had Japanese Koala biscuits in there for heavens sakes!
I really miss it actually... and I think the post holiday blues is always a sign you've had an awesome holiday. The wedding was lovely, the country, the city, I just loved everything we saw there and there's far too many pictures images and thoughts roaming about my head that I wouldn't know where to start even talking about it; but I have my photo's. All 290 or so of them... a handful of which have been uploaded onto FACEBOOK and on to my temperamental PHOTOBLOG. I'm also going to put together a great big scrapbook of the whole trip with all my photo's and tickety-bits I collected along the way. It'll be awesome albeit HUGE and possibly taking over a year to complete. But hey, I like a challenge. I have many happy, sunny memories and also many lovely purchases from my trip to Japan which I will cherish for a very long time. I just loved all of it.
The cake topper survived by the way ( I recieved the bouquet from Yumi (my new sister in law) as a thankyou :) )... and it went down fantastically well and I'm getting much advice to start selling them asap. Which I'd love to do of course so that's in the pipeline also.
In other quick news.. I think I was far too muffly-headed before I left to tell you all that HeavyRed finally used some of the artwork I made for them on their Myspace page... check it out *here*.
I shall leave you with a list of my purchases from Japan:
* Four boxes of Koala biscuits
* Two boxes of chocolate and biscuit mushrooms
* One box of biscuits
* Two fans
* Some Tokyo Disney chopsticks
* A moomin!
* Two little phone charms- one Ninja, one Pirate
* A Monokuro Boo phone charm
* A Nightmare Before Christmas wallet
* A 100 yen Monokuro Boo Facecloth
* Four mini fan pressies
* A mini Japan map wall hanging
* One beautiful Yukata (dressing gown/summer Kimono) with a print of cranes on
* One AWESOME toy story alien over glove from Tokyo Disney!
* A birthday bear wearing a Kimono (present from Yumi)
* A Henry the Hoover T-shirt
* A parasol
* A Hungry Caterpillar magnet
* and one awesome furry dude with a big mouth toy who's name on the tag is only in Japanese so I've no idea who it is.... but I love him!
* A Pirate bag from Tokyo Disney
* A Pirate card holder
* Pirate earrings. (anyone would think I had a thing for Pirates!)
* A rather funky belt
* A cool hat :)
Not bad eh? And I didn't even get charged for being over my 20kg weight limit!
Now go check out my photographs while I get down to some serious scrapbooking!
Slink xx
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Konbanwa
Just a quickie to let you know I`m safe and well although I`m struggling with the humidity here a bit. This is no place for hair straighteners let me tell you!
I`m having a totally amazing time here; taking far too many photographs of course. The wedding was beautiful also but I'll be sure to fill you in on the details when I get back. Right now, I need a nice cool shower.
Mata Ne!
xx
I`m having a totally amazing time here; taking far too many photographs of course. The wedding was beautiful also but I'll be sure to fill you in on the details when I get back. Right now, I need a nice cool shower.
Mata Ne!
xx
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
All Packed and (almost) Ready To Go...
Well now I'm packed my head's feeling a bit clearer. Today's been pretty busy and stressful- we sent Gizmo off to her boarding.. er... vivarium, popped into town teice for extra bits and have spent the rest of the day packing. I only cried and got in a tizzy once. Woob.
We leave early tomorrow morning and my brother tells me it will take a good 11 hours on the plane to get to Japan. *must remember to buy Puzzler* We even bought some wicked-ass scales today to make sure our luggage was under the limit, but we had a good old play with the body-fat and body-water percentage functions too. I am only 14.8% fat and 55% water. *buy extra chocolate for the journey*
I have much to do tonight still. Most of the night will consist of me doing all the necessary girly things that I need to do to make myself look and feel presentable for the rest of the holiday. Particularly seeing as the humidity is going to make my hair look thoroughly crap for a fortnight.
Fairwell people. I shall return with photos and much to talk about.
:-)
We leave early tomorrow morning and my brother tells me it will take a good 11 hours on the plane to get to Japan. *must remember to buy Puzzler* We even bought some wicked-ass scales today to make sure our luggage was under the limit, but we had a good old play with the body-fat and body-water percentage functions too. I am only 14.8% fat and 55% water. *buy extra chocolate for the journey*
I have much to do tonight still. Most of the night will consist of me doing all the necessary girly things that I need to do to make myself look and feel presentable for the rest of the holiday. Particularly seeing as the humidity is going to make my hair look thoroughly crap for a fortnight.
Fairwell people. I shall return with photos and much to talk about.
:-)
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
My Head Right Now...
goes something like this:
work. friday-meet Lou. Must get holiday sticks for fish. Gizmo-dropped at Reptile store on wednesday. Hope she's ok. Worryworryworry.must get batteries. camera?! is it too big to get into hand luggage?shit-cake topper-handluggage?potential problem with it being made out of wire and foil armatures.xray.bleeping.intterogations.crap. Planes!??! too many planes. Konbanwa.camera batteries. fish sticks. food?!don't buy much shopping this week. post office-get Yen.Water leak-hope it doesn't start when we're away again.must put stuff back in cupboard when dry. Air. Planes. eek. Fear. pub this weekend. cooking for mum and dad saturday.sunday meal with grandparents.pub in evening. baileys.yum. Harry Potter. Must Get puzzler for plane. Sayonara.BATTERIES!packing? time yet. stuff. What about the crickets!?!??! facebook.calm.remember to sifen shampoo.Must write list. whats the time? use up milk before we leave.But they've only found three Horcruxes?! Damn. work tomorrow. breathe. hand luggage. travel. Buy Tissues! Pub. Soon.
work. friday-meet Lou. Must get holiday sticks for fish. Gizmo-dropped at Reptile store on wednesday. Hope she's ok. Worryworryworry.must get batteries. camera?! is it too big to get into hand luggage?shit-cake topper-handluggage?potential problem with it being made out of wire and foil armatures.xray.bleeping.intterogations.crap. Planes!??! too many planes. Konbanwa.camera batteries. fish sticks. food?!don't buy much shopping this week. post office-get Yen.Water leak-hope it doesn't start when we're away again.must put stuff back in cupboard when dry. Air. Planes. eek. Fear. pub this weekend. cooking for mum and dad saturday.sunday meal with grandparents.pub in evening. baileys.yum. Harry Potter. Must Get puzzler for plane. Sayonara.BATTERIES!packing? time yet. stuff. What about the crickets!?!??! facebook.calm.remember to sifen shampoo.Must write list. whats the time? use up milk before we leave.But they've only found three Horcruxes?! Damn. work tomorrow. breathe. hand luggage. travel. Buy Tissues! Pub. Soon.
REEEEElax.
I feel stressed at the moment. I feel like I've had or have still got too much to do, and yet when I actually think about it or list it all, it doesn't seem like much at all.
We fly to Japan a week on thursday. I've already spent a fortune on lightweight clothing and managed re-do all the hard work I did at paying back my overdraft. It's depressing. Niall has used a big chunk of his savings for spending money for the trip as well... it will take us months to save it all back up. I know that this trip is a life-time oppurtunity and of course, I shouldn't complain too much because if my parents hadn't footed the bill for accomodation and flights I would have missed my brothers wedding altogether, but still... it's a worry at the back of my mind I guess.
Then there's the cake topper that I've made for my brother for the wedding. This, thing, is the biggest reason I haven't blogged in the last few weeks because it's taken me that long to complete. It was hard. I had to start from scratch at one point. Vast quantities of Baileys were consumed in the making of it just to calm myself back into focusing onto the task at hand and not letting my perfectionism get the better of me. I like a challenge of this kind, but my god... blood, sweat and many many tears have gone into making that cake topper, and if anyone at any airport, any passenger or customs staff or ANYONE is responsible for breaking it on the long journey over to Japan... well I might just explode there on the spot.
To make things more worrying for my little anxious brain... there was the earthquake! Whyyyyyy it had to happen just before we go I have no idea, but it's scaring me. Apparantly this is the most active Japan's earthquakes have been in years. Great.
We've had pipe/water/leak troubles still. I was woken at 3am this morning by a loud tapping noise coming from outside the bedroom door, which turned out to be water pouring out of our airing cupboard so a sleepy rescue operation was undertaken in the early hours to save everything in the cupboard from becoming water damaged. We managed to rescue my lovely black christmas tree and our decorations, plus the vacuum and alot of nialls old uni work. For once in their lives our letting agent, GREENS, yes you, you crap, over paid-dumb-assed-lazy-arsed-good for nothing idots, actually did their jobs properly and managed to fix the problem within a whole day by actually calling a plumber when they said they would. There, that wasn't too hard was it? I was quite blunt with them on the phone this morning... I even made a comment about wether or not it would take 6months to fix since that had been how long it took to fix our toilet... to which she replied in a snotty tone "no it won't take 6 months I'll phone someone immediately"....My patience ebbed many months ago with this particular letting agent. Quite frankly they're shit.
What else? yes... rain. Lots of rain. That always makes things feel worse doesn't it?
I have a list in my head of things I need to get round to doing after Japan. Like looking for a better job, sorting out and funding another mail out for my illustration work etc. Right now though I can't focus on anything other than the next few weeks which is being taken up with getting things prepared for Japan. I think this is probably the cause of most of my mystery stress. I am excited don't get me wrong... but for me... that means a degree of anxiety too.
My time has also been spent lately playing on facebook (I think I've got used to it now); learning the odd word or two of Japanese, oh and of course, reading the new Harry Potter book which I'm about half way through. I have lots to do this week and next. I'll be catching up with a few good friends before I go away whic should be enough to keep me sane as my anxiety escalates!
Here's the topper anyway:
We fly to Japan a week on thursday. I've already spent a fortune on lightweight clothing and managed re-do all the hard work I did at paying back my overdraft. It's depressing. Niall has used a big chunk of his savings for spending money for the trip as well... it will take us months to save it all back up. I know that this trip is a life-time oppurtunity and of course, I shouldn't complain too much because if my parents hadn't footed the bill for accomodation and flights I would have missed my brothers wedding altogether, but still... it's a worry at the back of my mind I guess.
Then there's the cake topper that I've made for my brother for the wedding. This, thing, is the biggest reason I haven't blogged in the last few weeks because it's taken me that long to complete. It was hard. I had to start from scratch at one point. Vast quantities of Baileys were consumed in the making of it just to calm myself back into focusing onto the task at hand and not letting my perfectionism get the better of me. I like a challenge of this kind, but my god... blood, sweat and many many tears have gone into making that cake topper, and if anyone at any airport, any passenger or customs staff or ANYONE is responsible for breaking it on the long journey over to Japan... well I might just explode there on the spot.
To make things more worrying for my little anxious brain... there was the earthquake! Whyyyyyy it had to happen just before we go I have no idea, but it's scaring me. Apparantly this is the most active Japan's earthquakes have been in years. Great.
We've had pipe/water/leak troubles still. I was woken at 3am this morning by a loud tapping noise coming from outside the bedroom door, which turned out to be water pouring out of our airing cupboard so a sleepy rescue operation was undertaken in the early hours to save everything in the cupboard from becoming water damaged. We managed to rescue my lovely black christmas tree and our decorations, plus the vacuum and alot of nialls old uni work. For once in their lives our letting agent, GREENS, yes you, you crap, over paid-dumb-assed-lazy-arsed-good for nothing idots, actually did their jobs properly and managed to fix the problem within a whole day by actually calling a plumber when they said they would. There, that wasn't too hard was it? I was quite blunt with them on the phone this morning... I even made a comment about wether or not it would take 6months to fix since that had been how long it took to fix our toilet... to which she replied in a snotty tone "no it won't take 6 months I'll phone someone immediately"....My patience ebbed many months ago with this particular letting agent. Quite frankly they're shit.
What else? yes... rain. Lots of rain. That always makes things feel worse doesn't it?
I have a list in my head of things I need to get round to doing after Japan. Like looking for a better job, sorting out and funding another mail out for my illustration work etc. Right now though I can't focus on anything other than the next few weeks which is being taken up with getting things prepared for Japan. I think this is probably the cause of most of my mystery stress. I am excited don't get me wrong... but for me... that means a degree of anxiety too.
My time has also been spent lately playing on facebook (I think I've got used to it now); learning the odd word or two of Japanese, oh and of course, reading the new Harry Potter book which I'm about half way through. I have lots to do this week and next. I'll be catching up with a few good friends before I go away whic should be enough to keep me sane as my anxiety escalates!
Here's the topper anyway:
The main thing was.... they loved it. :-)
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Speed Slinkster.
Look out for my face (or rather a picture of it!) on the left side pod of David Coulthard's Red Bull formula one racing car this weekend at the British GP. I'm there. Square number 02961. Cool eh?!
:-)
:-)
Friday, June 22, 2007
Spider Theories
Highlight of the week: Getting a new kettle at work. woob!
Lowlight of the week: Nearly losing Gizmo as she explored the mysterious world that lies behind the un-used sofa.
Spider Theories.
We've had a sudden influx of the beasts lately. Some say it could be because we just had a new toilet fitted and many were disturbed in the process and are now scouring our flat in search of a new home. Some may say it's the weather or the time of year for them to come inside.
Slinks says: They're up to something.
It started off with a littlun. This one has lived in a corner of the bathroom under the sink for some time. A strange place, I've always thought, for something whose web is meant to be for catching flies. I mean I can't imagine how many flies it actually catches down in a dark corner of a sink... but I'll play along with this little idea to keep the spider-loving, fool-hardy members of soceity amongst us who think they're helpful and just go about their business catching annoying insects. Anyway, I digress. It's chosen location is a handy place if only because by the time you've managed to reach it's web, it's already run away... or vanished as they seem to be able to do. This one though, I've got used to and since it wasn't the sort to move about much... I put up with it. I know this one. I know it's size and shape. I have a good eye for detail. It's front two legs are longer than the others and it's a sort of semi-small size that I can just about cope with. Well before long... others started appearing. The same shape and size. We tried to kill them... but they kept coming back. Clones. All of them clones of the first bathroom one... OR, the very same spider which never died. My theories were laughed off at first... but then someone of great authority (well.... my boss anyway) told me that spiders have learnt to survive being washed down the plug by clinging on to the sides of the pipe, turning themselves upside down, thus creating an air pocket from which they can breathe and remain alive to crawl back up the plug. Shit. They already know stuff... they already think and build crafty webs and know how to fly and now they're fighting back our well known and loved defences.
Well, things only got worse. I dreamt one night, about spiders... loads of them in a tank. They were white and kept escaping. The very next evening I walked into the bathroom and was confronted by the Mother of all spiders; staring at me it was, from the wall just above the sink. It's legs were the size of straws. Well maybe toothpicks... but still they were thick and black against the pale plaster and white tiles. I backed away, obviously and got Niall to remove the beast. He heard it crunch as he screwed up the tissue paper. And then it all made sense. Almost too big to be just one spider... this spider was bigger, thicker all over... I'm pretty sure now that it was a combination of all the other little clones... some sort of frankenstein spider.
It took a few days for it to all sink in. And it took a few days for me to also re-aquaint myself with the bathroom and all of it's hidden evil. My latest anxiety is that they're hiding in the loo roll tube... waiting. It's almost enough to make me start using the loo roll holder again.
So, now I'm just waiting for the next one. Possibly bigger, I don't even know how many clones there may have been. I suspect our bathroom pipe problems and leaks were all because of them somehow... maybe causing a blockage training the clones in their plughole defence exercises. Who knows what they'll learn next.
Lowlight of the week: Nearly losing Gizmo as she explored the mysterious world that lies behind the un-used sofa.
Spider Theories.
We've had a sudden influx of the beasts lately. Some say it could be because we just had a new toilet fitted and many were disturbed in the process and are now scouring our flat in search of a new home. Some may say it's the weather or the time of year for them to come inside.
Slinks says: They're up to something.
It started off with a littlun. This one has lived in a corner of the bathroom under the sink for some time. A strange place, I've always thought, for something whose web is meant to be for catching flies. I mean I can't imagine how many flies it actually catches down in a dark corner of a sink... but I'll play along with this little idea to keep the spider-loving, fool-hardy members of soceity amongst us who think they're helpful and just go about their business catching annoying insects. Anyway, I digress. It's chosen location is a handy place if only because by the time you've managed to reach it's web, it's already run away... or vanished as they seem to be able to do. This one though, I've got used to and since it wasn't the sort to move about much... I put up with it. I know this one. I know it's size and shape. I have a good eye for detail. It's front two legs are longer than the others and it's a sort of semi-small size that I can just about cope with. Well before long... others started appearing. The same shape and size. We tried to kill them... but they kept coming back. Clones. All of them clones of the first bathroom one... OR, the very same spider which never died. My theories were laughed off at first... but then someone of great authority (well.... my boss anyway) told me that spiders have learnt to survive being washed down the plug by clinging on to the sides of the pipe, turning themselves upside down, thus creating an air pocket from which they can breathe and remain alive to crawl back up the plug. Shit. They already know stuff... they already think and build crafty webs and know how to fly and now they're fighting back our well known and loved defences.
Well, things only got worse. I dreamt one night, about spiders... loads of them in a tank. They were white and kept escaping. The very next evening I walked into the bathroom and was confronted by the Mother of all spiders; staring at me it was, from the wall just above the sink. It's legs were the size of straws. Well maybe toothpicks... but still they were thick and black against the pale plaster and white tiles. I backed away, obviously and got Niall to remove the beast. He heard it crunch as he screwed up the tissue paper. And then it all made sense. Almost too big to be just one spider... this spider was bigger, thicker all over... I'm pretty sure now that it was a combination of all the other little clones... some sort of frankenstein spider.
It took a few days for it to all sink in. And it took a few days for me to also re-aquaint myself with the bathroom and all of it's hidden evil. My latest anxiety is that they're hiding in the loo roll tube... waiting. It's almost enough to make me start using the loo roll holder again.
So, now I'm just waiting for the next one. Possibly bigger, I don't even know how many clones there may have been. I suspect our bathroom pipe problems and leaks were all because of them somehow... maybe causing a blockage training the clones in their plughole defence exercises. Who knows what they'll learn next.
Monday, June 04, 2007
Shoop.
The puke vanished.
I don't think the culprit cleaned it up though. I think the old man did. Either way... it's gone and I'm glad.
I got a new Tee shirt the other day. It says:
" To Err is Human, To Arr is Pirate"
... which I thought was pretty cool.
I've also completed another model but I've yet to photograph it and turn it into a finished illustration yet. It took me four days to finish the model and it's the first time I've tried to get a likeness of a real person, so it was quite a challenge. I'm pleased with it though, I think, and I'll post up the result soon.
And to round up this mini-post... here is Gizmo in all her smiley glory...
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Everybody needs good neighbours...
Some one has puked on our floors landing carpet and I'm pretty annoyed to find that FOUR days after it appeared, the culprit STILL hasn't cleaned it up.
I know it's one of two people... the bald footie fan who I heard struggling to put his key in the lock in the early hours of sunday morning. (Hmmm... saturday night would have been the football cup final, footie fans usually go hand in hand with mass drinking and struggling to put your key in the door is a common symptom of being pissed. As is puking on the floor) I really should be a detective.
OR, it's the gay guy upstairs.
I really don't think it will be the remaining three occupiers as the two oldies on the bottom floor probably can't get up the stairs, and the oldie UPstairs I think would have the decency to a) not puke on the floor, and b) if he did, he'd god damn clean it up.
So, after I've made it pretty clear that neither Niall or I will clean it up, and after I've made several loud mouthed attempts at attracting attention to the brown sick stain that is invitingly awaiting people on the stairs ... nothing has been done about it and it's pissing me right off. I'm thinking about popping a note through bald guy and gay guy's door.. something along the lines of "oi you freakin piss head, clean up your puke from saturday night you gross, lazy arsed fool" but then ultimately I risk offending one of them because only one is guilty of the crime.
It really is bang out of order and I'm NOT a happy slink.
I know it's one of two people... the bald footie fan who I heard struggling to put his key in the lock in the early hours of sunday morning. (Hmmm... saturday night would have been the football cup final, footie fans usually go hand in hand with mass drinking and struggling to put your key in the door is a common symptom of being pissed. As is puking on the floor) I really should be a detective.
OR, it's the gay guy upstairs.
I really don't think it will be the remaining three occupiers as the two oldies on the bottom floor probably can't get up the stairs, and the oldie UPstairs I think would have the decency to a) not puke on the floor, and b) if he did, he'd god damn clean it up.
So, after I've made it pretty clear that neither Niall or I will clean it up, and after I've made several loud mouthed attempts at attracting attention to the brown sick stain that is invitingly awaiting people on the stairs ... nothing has been done about it and it's pissing me right off. I'm thinking about popping a note through bald guy and gay guy's door.. something along the lines of "oi you freakin piss head, clean up your puke from saturday night you gross, lazy arsed fool" but then ultimately I risk offending one of them because only one is guilty of the crime.
It really is bang out of order and I'm NOT a happy slink.
Saturday, May 12, 2007
From out of nothing...
Well readers, (if any of you are left!)
I must apologise once again for a very sad case of blog neglect of late. It's less out of a lack of care, and more out of a lack of an interesting life I promise. My days have largely been taken up by working and I've only managed to scrape together the energy to do one mini project in the last month or so. It's unacceptable of course, and I will be giving myself a right royal kick up the arse very soon. I want to start planning another mail out to prospective illustration agents and clients soon so hopefully a few more mini projects and I can set about making plans for some proper shameless self promotion. If you haven't already seen my latest addition, check out my illustration myspace or website. :-)
In other news, there was a blast of excitement last month when I went to get a bank balance and I noticed that I was... wait for it... ONLY £27.90 overdrawn!!!! This is the closest I have EVER been to being in credit in the past four or five years thanks to being a student, and it's showing that I am managing to slowly slowly bring my overdraft down. Even more depressing though if I think I could have been IN credit ages ago if I'd got a proper job and not a part time one. Though my illustration would have no doubt suffered. But anyway, the miniscule overdraft was promptly destroyed when I paid my rent, bills etc. but it was nice while it lasted. I'm also managing to save. Just about.
I don't remember if I informed anyone about my mass panic last month when I sleepily went to switch off my phone alarm and realised I'd been connected to the internet for 9 hours overnight. I cried. ALOT in a great big girly mass panic sort of a way because I had visions of getting a £500 phonebill that I couldn't pay. Niall even had to phone carphone warehouse for me to see if they could shed some light on how much it was going to be... and I had to embarrassingly confirm that it was okay for him to discuss my account by answering a few questions while in the midst of my girly hissy fit. Well anyway, needless to say that very phonecall cost a whopping..... 51p. That's right. The tears, the hyperventilation, the sheer panic, the bright red face and frown wrinkles that ensued where all meaningless and a stark over reaction. Ah well... at least now I know how much a 9 hour internet call is.
It was Niall's birthday in April too. I cooked him a meal of lamb cutlets with a herb and garlic crust, with a Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles birthday cake for afters. His present from me was tickets to see Bill Bailey in November, which will be a good laugh.
We visited good old Uni-ville last Monday for the traditional freefest. It was a nice day, relaxing on the grass hoping it didn't rain and watching everyone enjoy the festivities and bands, even if some of them were a bit rubbish. Only downer was that we had to leave pretty early so we didn't get a chance to go to Post-fest but since we all had work the next day it probably wouldn't have been a good idea.
Lastly, if anyone is wondering... my 5kg chocolate bar is still intact and waiting for it's use in my chocolate fountain party. All other chocolate has been eaten except for Myrtle Moo's (the chocolate cow) torso and face. I find it hard eating things with faces. Her smashed up arms and legs did make a nice addition to my otherwise bland tasting multigrain cereal though.
I must apologise once again for a very sad case of blog neglect of late. It's less out of a lack of care, and more out of a lack of an interesting life I promise. My days have largely been taken up by working and I've only managed to scrape together the energy to do one mini project in the last month or so. It's unacceptable of course, and I will be giving myself a right royal kick up the arse very soon. I want to start planning another mail out to prospective illustration agents and clients soon so hopefully a few more mini projects and I can set about making plans for some proper shameless self promotion. If you haven't already seen my latest addition, check out my illustration myspace or website. :-)
In other news, there was a blast of excitement last month when I went to get a bank balance and I noticed that I was... wait for it... ONLY £27.90 overdrawn!!!! This is the closest I have EVER been to being in credit in the past four or five years thanks to being a student, and it's showing that I am managing to slowly slowly bring my overdraft down. Even more depressing though if I think I could have been IN credit ages ago if I'd got a proper job and not a part time one. Though my illustration would have no doubt suffered. But anyway, the miniscule overdraft was promptly destroyed when I paid my rent, bills etc. but it was nice while it lasted. I'm also managing to save. Just about.
I don't remember if I informed anyone about my mass panic last month when I sleepily went to switch off my phone alarm and realised I'd been connected to the internet for 9 hours overnight. I cried. ALOT in a great big girly mass panic sort of a way because I had visions of getting a £500 phonebill that I couldn't pay. Niall even had to phone carphone warehouse for me to see if they could shed some light on how much it was going to be... and I had to embarrassingly confirm that it was okay for him to discuss my account by answering a few questions while in the midst of my girly hissy fit. Well anyway, needless to say that very phonecall cost a whopping..... 51p. That's right. The tears, the hyperventilation, the sheer panic, the bright red face and frown wrinkles that ensued where all meaningless and a stark over reaction. Ah well... at least now I know how much a 9 hour internet call is.
It was Niall's birthday in April too. I cooked him a meal of lamb cutlets with a herb and garlic crust, with a Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles birthday cake for afters. His present from me was tickets to see Bill Bailey in November, which will be a good laugh.
We visited good old Uni-ville last Monday for the traditional freefest. It was a nice day, relaxing on the grass hoping it didn't rain and watching everyone enjoy the festivities and bands, even if some of them were a bit rubbish. Only downer was that we had to leave pretty early so we didn't get a chance to go to Post-fest but since we all had work the next day it probably wouldn't have been a good idea.
Lastly, if anyone is wondering... my 5kg chocolate bar is still intact and waiting for it's use in my chocolate fountain party. All other chocolate has been eaten except for Myrtle Moo's (the chocolate cow) torso and face. I find it hard eating things with faces. Her smashed up arms and legs did make a nice addition to my otherwise bland tasting multigrain cereal though.
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