what is the french for brainsluice anyways?

dave has posted a lovely review of his trip to gay paris. I realised I never wrote a review of when I had my trip – very bad of me – but rest assured I loved it šŸ˜‰

tigers and beers

Oliver had his 29th birthday yesterday [bless] and so I headed on up to Tiger Tiger for some catch up and drinks. Slight snag is that this is a straight bar with a door policy – since I do not own shoes it’s a bit of a pain really – still at least I did not fork out for new shoes like one of the party. Oli’s kid brother lent me his shoes so a quick change outside the angus steak house and a change of door meant I got in – we played the same ruse 3 times in the night to get poor shoeless people into the bar.

This was followed by the trauma that is the toilet attendant – gah – after asking him how much it would cost just to leave me alone we reached a settlement of him letting me pee without him, wash my hands with little help but he had to hand me the paper towels. I can’t think of any job more boring [unless you like hanging around gents toilets] than this.

So plenty of mixed jug cocktails later and a few new friends later I staggered back to the tube wondering why it was I haven’t seen Oli in so long. We promised to see each other again soon and at the very least meet for my birthday party on the 15th of Feb.

annoying

oh and I am beginning to get really pissed off with people at work who fail to respect other peoples property – certain people just come and help themselves to biscuits and food without replacing – small thing I know but starting to bug the hell out of me while others hand back the decorations you lent them in pieces as if it is expected that you rip them down so they are unusable next year… gah!

pop quiz

andrew and I dropped down to the retro bar last night – I needed out of my flat – and joined in with the pop quiz. Poor Dave joined our team and I was traumatised to learn I failed to beat my personal best of 6. What with Dave answering all bar one question I have decided maybe I should rebrand the blog to ‘hope springs eternal’. So no ?11 and no left over christmas pressies for us. Still lavender bath salts was not a prize worth winning really šŸ˜‰

I actually quite like this

The new iMac but then I always like the powerbook and the old G4 cubes – which alas are no more.

thanks to dave from work

for cheering me up lots and sending me texts and IM’s to lighten my mood! oh and for showing me the way to the newly registered http://www.8letters.tk/ so nip along to http://www.dot.tk and register yours today. shame my nickname is a trademark šŸ™

today

I mostly want to just go and become a recluse – I couldn’t sleep last night – lots on my mind – and today everything I have touched has fallen apart. I feel an overwhelming gloom settling like a thundercloud and it’s worrying me.

I’m feeling bad too as I broke my New Year resolution on the 5th day – well technically it was after midnight so the 6th day of 2002 and feel resigned to being a smoker for the rest of my life.

Oh and I am very very moody šŸ™

the weekend

well an interesting weekend all in all – I was going to revert to a weekend in

hypertext™ but then realised a lot of it would be missed as there are

no related websites. Friday night was a bit of a rest and recuperation from the

working week – I know it was only 3 days but it’s about 3 weeks since the last

time I worked! The boyf was washing his hair [I know and there was no joke] even

though he has just had a #1. Still it did mean I got some much needed rest. Saturday

was a mixed day – went and ordered the carpet for my hall – it will be the first

time I have had carpet in the hall for a year and a half. So now all I need to

do is remove all the laminate I laid at the top before realising I couldn’t get

it to go down the stairs. DIYtastic – not! After tidying and the other usual weekend

chores I got bored and the boyf still wanted to spend time on his own so I decided

to take the plunge and go out on my own – I bottled it though and luckily Rob was already going out. Unfortunately

he was going to the reflex in kingston šŸ™ too many memories I figured of when

I used to go to the reflex when it was still in putney. I spent part of the night

looking for tom before I remembered.other than that though I had a fab night –

cheers rob šŸ™‚ I was introduced to his friends [including the cute ginger craig]

and bumped into Robin who I knew from when I used to be the assistant manager

at the Old Doctor Butlers Head in the city. He used to come on a thursday night

when the gay mens professionals used to meet in the upstairs bar. Sunday as ever

after a heavy night was spent mostly vegging in front of the TV watching totty.

Ben Browder, Paul from S Club, some rather cute bloke on Sliders – played Deric

played by Eddie Mills

When we weren’t vegging though we managed to go to the common and walk the dogs

and to the local for quite possibly the best meal I have eaten. The lovely lady

behind the bar asked Rob and I completely without irony if we wanted chicken or

beef We both had beef although in real life Rob normally does chicken! In

fact the only downer of the day was the number of adverts for McDonalds – I could

quote it word for word – but I’m not going to. Still no sign of the boyf though

– he sent me a text earlier to say he couldn’t come for a walk as he was too ill

and he was going out with mates to see Lord of the Rings. Call me paranoid but

I think this needs an entry in the other blog…

smallville

okay so scally was upset he missed smallville and quite rightly points out [well actually I pointed out to him via IM yesterday] that clarkes dad is a bit of alright – mind you I thought that when he played Bo Duke in the Dukes of Hazard too and I was only 9 :).

However the plot was very weak and I couldn’t help but be distracted that young clarke looked very similar to hamilton from young americans.

It was dave that started it all by asking if we had seen it though the other day – and he raved about it – gah bloody antipodeans!
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