Thursday 5th April
I am still alive. And i've got hugs for you if you were born in the 80's (and maybe a year or two either side). I am now installed in a new abode avec Caversham Princess and am on my Easter break. Woo.
So what have I been up to? What am I planning to do in my two school-free weeks?
Well, I moved house. I have overly inconsiderate neighbours who are unable to talk at a normal volume. I am still living amongst boxes and assorted detritus but me and Patrick have managed to put together an excellent nest (see photo) that I am greatly enjoying lounging about in during my time off. I got paid. I'm spending loads of my hard-earned cash on the increased bills I now have to pay, taking my Mum out to lunch, a fancy router and a dress that makes me look totally TEH HAWT. That I don't really have anything to wear to. Awesome.
I got overly excited at seeing a new Maplin store in a local industrial park (dork), I actually enjoyed taking rolls of old carpet to the local amenity site and seeing the way things were organised and all the different people unloading different things and have spent most of today being excited configuring the router and being excited at being connected to the internets by something other than dial-up.
I even got to spend an evening being wined and take-away dined by MW#1- Yes, amazingly he managed to come in under the "three months without contact Mister and you're history" limit. I wait to see if there's a repeat of that behaviour. It was good to see the Walking Carpet, even if he is a complete Nerfherder at times; there was lots of embarrassing-in-front-of-the-housemate playful slagging off of each other- Choice quote:
(MW#1 rubs his Vista-infected laptop against my arm)
Me: Ewwwwwwww/AAAkkkkk! (recoils in horror) I'm going to have to burn this now (points to jumper) and I only washed it today...
When I saw him there was lots of hugging and holding on offer, because apparently there's some sort of quota system being run that I was previously unaware of- He gives me lots to "keep me going for a while..." I freely admit that I long to be tactile with him but at the same time I was like, "Dude! Do not give me hugs to keep me sweet! You came within two weeks of losing the awesome individual that is me. Sawht it ahht..." The wine was uber tasty however so I decided to keep the vitriol contained within my head. I didn't get to see Wrestlemania either. As my students would say- Thass well rubbahrshh...
So I need to mark three classes of books, unpack and organise and go visit the family at some point. I am slightly excited yet horrified at the prospect of a shiny new Vista enabled/encumbered laptop that might be waiting to ambush me up North courtesy of my Dad in a good mood; at least if this is the case I will be able to rant first hand about how eeeevil it is sure to be.
Right, must get back to the mirror to continue dancing around in my underwear to Acceptable in the 80's.
