| A day out alone and a junk shop |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|08:27 pm] |
A couple of weeks ago Paul was roped into working on Saturday due to some kind of annual stock take. As I had the day to myself I decided to go to Spalding as I haven't been yet and Paul never fancied it. And I had a good day taking pictures and discovered a junk shop which sold me two books, some vintage plates and some vintage jewellery for the princely sum of £3!
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| *headdesk* |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|04:31 am] |
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We went to Sheffield on Saturday to meet up with an old friend of Pauls whom he used to work on the railway with. After a few beers he ended up telling us very earnestly about how the Romans wouldn't allow fish and chip shops to be opened inside the city walls of York.
Um. Between that and the guy outside the Green Dragon who told us that the Americans have been to the moon every year since '69 and are building a city there I just have no words... |
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[Nov. 5th, 2009|04:42 pm] |
Wow, two weeks?
My poor old laptop has been in hospital and is back now as good as new. Thank fuck! I will never, ever take it for granted again!
I mean it's not just the internet, I couldn't listen to any music or watch at DVD or download photos off my camera... I've been naked without the damn thing!
I have been doing the usual stuff in the mean time, like applying for jobs. I sent off three yesterday so fingers crossed. I've also got a meeting with a lady from the RIBA tomorrow about how I can keep my had in, architecture wise, while unemployed/doing a crappy non-arc job/whatever.
I know I just have to do some volunteering or something like that if I don't get a job soon, because I'm getting seriously bored.
Having said that we're still doing our Saturday trips out of Lincoln, it's just a case of budgeting for it. In the last couple of weeks I've been to Spalding on my own (Paul was working) and managed to score a ton of junk shop stuff from £3 the lot. Last week we got one of those day bus tickets where we went to Mablephorpe and a load of other places we must have been mad to go to at this time of year. I hardly ever see him in the week with his shitty new shifts so it's nice to get out and do something together!
And we went to the exhibiton of that art contest I entered, and I've taken up oil painting again which has been fun.
I should post some pics... |
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[Oct. 20th, 2009|08:42 pm] |
Recently I've:
...applied for jobs without sucsess yet
... entered an art competition
... won four bottles of beer in a raffle
... read tons of books
... sent off for info about something voluntary to do while I'm between jobs to keep my mind active, still waiting for a reply.
Also I'm turning into the kind of fucking loser who gets really bored in the evenings now their partner is working a stupid new shift and they often don't get to see him for three days a week.
There's been some funny stuff going on in this house, like people lighting fireworks out of the window and items of WW2 style weaponary appearing in the kitchen. All seems harmless - the thing that actually bothers me is people throwing rubbish next to the bin bag instead of in it. How hard is it, seriously! |
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[Sep. 30th, 2009|06:48 pm] |
Werid week. On Friday I got underpaid which was really annoying, but better than it was for some other people at work who didn't get paid at all! I mean, especially bearing in mind my rent was coming out that day! The people at the other end are trying to sort it out so I have more wages coming from my final packet.
I'm currently applying for jobs and working on getting signed on if I get stuck without one for too long. I have another meeting with them tomorrow to help me with covering letters (which I always suck at) and whether I need to mess with my CV at all. I've applied for three this week. It sucks not being able to get a proper Year Out job but at least it's not for lack of trying...
Apart from that I've been reading loads of good books, cleaning out my laptop and thinking about my entry for an art competition. Theme "Then and Now".
In terms of fun stuff, we went on the Great Central Railway last week and I've bought myself a 1940s dress as a joint birthday and passing the course present. Pictures will come! |
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| Bday |
[Sep. 22nd, 2009|01:03 am] |
I'm 25 today:) Wooohooo. I'm a quarter of the way through my life if I take after grandpa. I should try and be mature and sensible now but I don't seem to be all that good at that. Though once work/rent/food/whatever is done I guess I'm allowed a little non-mature and sensible time!
We went out for a meal, courtesy of my parents as that was their present. It was delicious! |
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| Pass the smelling salts :p |
[Sep. 15th, 2009|06:06 pm] |
I seem to be having one of those mental exhaustion attacks that spoilt rich people get in Agatha Christie books and the like. I had a spazz attack about putting bins out today*. Can be go to a sanitorium for the sake of my nerves please?
*It's all guys that live here and none of them have been here long either and nobody knows when bin day is or cares and just keeps shrugging it off and ignoring it and there was rubbish spilling all over the kitchen and full up bins outside and flies everywhere and guess what I'm the only person that recycles! I finally evicted the kitchen rubbish and cleaned the place and found out that bin day is tomorrow and then I keep worrying that I'm putting them on the wrong side of the house as it's a corner house and there are two sets in the yard one of which has a random different house number so what if I get accused of stealing bins and aaaaaggghhhh!!!! |
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[Sep. 10th, 2009|08:29 pm] |
Thanks so much to everyone for their lovely comments! It's been awfully exciting (kind of looking forward to my graduation in January now. It's going to be at the cathederal, awesome!) Mum and dad and eveyone sent me a lovely card they'd made with pictures of buildings:) I had dinner with Paul in the Green Dragon to celebrate and it was lovely!
My room is started to come into some sort of order and feels nice and homely. The only things still packed up are books, and I'm on the lookout for a cheap bookcase so I can get them out. My Green Lantern posters and beer mat collection are on the wall now and I have my art deco teaset on display.
Yesterday I ran into ly lecturer from last year and it turns out the book they were putting together about the Brayford Pool Development project is out! I have a copy. My work gets a page and there's a picture of me and it's all awesome!
Work is finishing next week and everyone's hours have been cut down. This is good because we've finished cleaning the flats now and it's just stairwells, which are repetative and annoying. Plus I need my rest! I have some work for the week after too, doing some leafletting for a friend of mine.
The only sucky thing at the moment is that Paul is being the most insufferable misery guts. He didn't come with me to meet Dan in Boston last week because he was in one of his Major Sulks. I thought it was because of me - the previous night he'd been a bit moody and I had a huge attack of ranting Moral Outrage (I was really pissed off about these Real Ale magazines being hijacked by unfunny Daily Fail journalist wannabes using them as a soapbox to whine about recycling and various other stuff which have nothing to do with real ale) and I know I'm hard work when I'm in that kind of mood. But it wasn't that. He texted me later to say that he wished he'd come as he was bored. Today he's been in a horrible gloomy mood as well, moaning about being hard up this week and then being gloomy about all my ideas for a fun cheap weekend. I think it's partly because they're changing his shifts at work and putting him onto some really shitty hours, but he does have this habit of sulking and not saying what's wrong and then I discover later and don't get why he didn't tell me because I get thinking it's my fault. Guh!
*bitch bitch moan moan whine gripe*
Now off to bed with some CAMRA magazines (the non-right wing reactionary twat-filled ones) and an Agatha Christie novel. And a packet of crisps. I love my new bed, it's so comfortable! |
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| PASSED |
[Sep. 8th, 2009|10:35 pm] |
I have my degree now as my resit went through:)
I kind of knew I wouldn't fail, but at the same time I couldn't believe I'd passed until I'd seen it for certain. Yay anyway! |
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| LOOK WHAT I SAW TODAY! |
[Sep. 6th, 2009|08:42 pm] |
She was on her way back from a fly past at a cricket match, apparently:)
Lots of pics to come of Saturday's adventure when I get round to it! |
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| There goes the neigborhood |
[Sep. 4th, 2009|10:16 pm] |
Finally, pictures! Hope you enjoy:)
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I'm not settling in too badly though there still seems to be so much to sort out. Getting a bookcase seems like a good start:)
We're off to Boston tomorrow for a Steam, Vintage Machinery and Real Ale Fest. Yay! We're meeting Dan. Paul was being weird tonight, I think because we're still thrown out by having both moved. Also work was kind of crappy because there was sick under a bed. WTF? |
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| Moved! |
[Sep. 3rd, 2009|09:36 pm] |
I'm in my new place and online, but it's chaos! Why does it take so long to get sorted out in a new place? I'm mainly unpacked now but have a load of books to sort out.
It's a gas oven! I coulsn't figure out the hotplates to start with. How embarrasing!
Sork is hectic as ever and I'm applying for new jobs for when I finish.
I've taken loads of pics of the area. I love it! Just need time to get them all sorted and posted.
And another thing, AIM works on the connection here. I haven't been able to sign on to it for so long. So maybe seeing some of you again! |
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| Moving! |
[Aug. 27th, 2009|07:59 am] |
I get the key today for my new room! It's in a terraced house (which I've always had a soft spot for) and there's INTERNET! Yay!
I was going to be moving today but the guy who was going to drive me and my stuff doesn't want to do it anymore. So we'll see what happens. I have to be out by Saturday anyway. I'm all packed already except for essential things. It's starting to freak me out that there won't be room for all my stuff but most of it packs up small, it's only really the books and comcis which are bulky. And clothes of course.
I'm close to Paul's new place, to the Ritz, and apparently to Tesco though I haven't found it yet. There's some interesting architecture porn of the ex-industrial variety around too.
Wish me luck! Also, sad as it is I'm really hoping I can get moved before Saturday so we can go to Peterborough Beer Festival. Heh! |
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| Hooray! |
[Aug. 22nd, 2009|09:18 am] |
*touch wood* my housing problem is sorted out! I'm going to look at a room today and there's also the option of getting something from Paul's new landlord. There are lots of rooms around but I'm reluctant to get one which doesn't accept DSS. I am working at the moment but it's a temporary job and though I'm looking for other things I can't garauntee that I won't end up signing on, times being what they are (the jobs page of the Lincolnshire Echo is seriously reminding me of that Young Ones ep where they try and make Neil get one. Heh) and the last thing I need is to be worrying about maybe having to move again in a months time.
I'm so relieved as I've been stressing the hell out about it. I haven't been sleeping and I've been messing up at work (at least I feel I have, boss says I haven't) It's partly that when I was a kid we were homeless a few times (for those who don't know my dad SUCKS with money, and he's had drinking and gambling problems and been psychologially screwed up into the bargain) I mainly got over all that last year after I had that breakdown thing but that's probably why I was feeling a lot more wound up than I needed to.
Everyone we know seems to be moving though. Two of Paul's friends have been in quite a hurry. Then on Monday I got a text from Paul saying he was having a day from hell or the weirdest day ever or something. I phoned him after work and it turned out he'd gone home on Sunday night to find that the house he was living in had been reposessed because the landlord hadn't been paying the mortgage. Not only that, but the guy he'd been paying rent to wasn't actually the landlord at all but was sub-letting. So Paul had 24 hours to pack and find somewhere else and move out before they changed the locks! Luckily he found somewhere and I went along to help him move. His new place seems okay though which is good. Last night we also found out another friend is moving, and yet another may be moving in with his (the previous friend's) old flatmate. Is something in the water?
In job news I applied for one that I suspect I'm not qualified enough for but it looked so interesting! And yes architecture is involved. But I'd love love love it if *something* came out of it.
Today I'm doing an extra shift at work, as is Paul. Then I'm going to meet him at where he works so we can spend his £30 staff voucher which they all got on food and drink and come back here and have a feast! Tomorrow I need to start packing.
The only sucky thing is that I probably will be restricted to net cafe access. Not that any of you will notice the difference seeing how my posting has been lately! |
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| What's that weird blurry thing in the sky |
[Aug. 14th, 2009|07:55 am] |
Because I really want to get back into LJ, have some pictures of Cleethorpes including SPITFIRE! (don't get too excited though, most of them are crap and you have to wade through a load of trains first :) )
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| Two weeks |
[Aug. 11th, 2009|08:32 am] |
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So recently I have:
Seen a REAL LIVE SPITFIRE and have pictures albeit shitty ones (it was flying at the time)
Finished my resit work
Had my one year of being together aniversary with Paul. This is quite amazing as I've never had a boyfriend last longer than about three weeks
Been working a lot of hours doing cleaning
Not found where I'll be living after the end of this month. Or where I'll be working
I will post some pictures and stuff. I have too many awesome pictures waiting to be posted. |
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[Jul. 23rd, 2009|10:31 pm] |
Life at the moment is odd and interesting.
I'm half way through my resits and doing great, which is good as they don't have to be in till half way through August. On the other hand I'm working nearly full time so I'm having to juggle to fit it in. Nevertheless I'm feeling enthusiastic about the work as opposed to never wanting to think about it again as I was a while back.
I don't know where I'll be living after the end of August or where I'll be working!
I start to get panicked and then think about my life back in Devon and wonder why the hell I'm worrying! I love my family very much but spending life restricted by non-existent public transport and people giving you lifts is highly shitty. For years my social life was based on having just a bit of fun and then having to go home too soon and feeling demoralised and miserable. And I can't go home now because my parents had to move somewhere where there isn't room for me (even Christams got annoying and that was only like three nights) which is almost a relief because no chickening out now!
Here's to the future whatever it holds! Heh! |
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[Jul. 19th, 2009|11:29 pm] |
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I havent been updating because:
a) I'm working (Only cleaning again but bettter than nothing)
b) I have to resit some stuff to graduate
c)I've been doing the usual round of beer festivals and stuff at the weekends
So yeah. Caught up on everyones entries today and I love you all!
Also, this weekend seems to have involved me hearing tons of music I loved when I was a teen and had a record player and had forgotten about. Its weird that its all cropped up again. |
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[Jul. 5th, 2009|08:44 pm] |
I HAVE MY CAMERA BACK AGAIN!!!!!
Yes, it was handed in! Just when I'd got used to thinking of it as lost. I'm so happy to have it back, I can't describe! Thank holy fuck people hand things in!
Apart from that, things are pretty good. I'm starting work tomorrow. Only cleaning in the building I live in, like I was doing last year, but it fills the gap while looking for something else and gets a bit of cash in. And I get my results tomorrow. I won't pretend I'm not totally scared because I am. I won't be comfortable until I have them. |
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