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April 19th, 2007
09:29 am
this could possibly be hilariously tacky or quite interesting, or both
click me
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April 12th, 2007
03:24 pm - easter that was
( i thought i'd better write this down before i forgot it all..this is a general update, probably of little interest )
in other news, easter's over and done with, it's my birthday next month...
does anyone fancy going to the dog racing at walthamstow dog track?? it's pretty cheap (only £8.50 entrance and 2 drinks included) and i think it could be fun, but would probably be more fun if lots of people went... any takers?
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April 3rd, 2007
10:19 pm
i was cleaning out my underbed storage this evening and came across some sentimental mush... ( this is the best poem anyone ever wrote for me and i die every time i read it )
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March 28th, 2007
10:03 pm - tales of rome
so i had a fabulous time, this is an update of my brief roman sojourn cut to avoid clogging up friends pages with photos ( here )
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March 15th, 2007
11:48 am - good week bad week
This week's been a week of ups and downs.
On Monday i spent the day doing a raft of mundane sh*t just for me to come in on Tuesday and find that i'd screwed it up and all 8 hours i'd spent had been for nought.
Tuesday's bad day continued when I realised had not only that happened, but one of my systems had screwed up magically over night and this at the crucial time when it was due to go live - a stressful day!
All relieved by going out for drinks with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) sir_guernica. We managed to drink far too much and both talked the hind legs off the proverbial donkey. For a first meeting, and being the first lj person i've ever met it went really well and we both had a good time. I'm currently trying to bribe him to come and work for me with promises of hotels, restaurants and just a bit of work!
Yesterday I had the longest day i've done in my new job and didn't leave til gone 7.. i was in again at 8 this morning but have caught up with the stuff i managed to screw up and fix the problem with my system, so the week's looking up, and it's friday tomorrow.
More importantly, this time on Sunday i'll be sat at the trevi fountain sampling the delights of Roma.. I really can't wait.. I'm planning to do the vatican on Monday and maybe again on tuesday depending on how long it takes me to get in on Monday, we shall see... when in rome..
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February 26th, 2007
02:04 pm - canals, vodka and cheese
On Thursday night I went out with a friend to a local pub and drank a tonne of vodka and cokes.. on the way back to my house we walked along the canal and ended up talking to a guy that was walking in the other direction about whether or not he could see the coots in the water - they were driving me insane with their incessant honking. It turned out he could see the coots and wanted to join them, and despite much protestation on my part and encouragement from my friend, he then gave me his doner meat and chips and jumped into the canal fully clothed! We pulled him out, at which point he was very indignant that we hadn’t filmed it.. but really who expects someone to jump into the canal at 1am in the morning?!
Mitch, Sam and I went to Club de Fromage on Saturday after drinking a bottle of absolute between the three of us.. Surprise surprise we were quite drunk by the time we got there and it only got worse… When we arrived it was bizarrely full of girls in their late teens & early twenties with hardly a man in sight – not a good start to a night out!
So a few more double vodkas and red bull later we were dancing with the best of them on the dancefloor… I have vague recollections of a meat pie raffle, which unfortunately we didn’t win, but we can’t win everything…i can remember very little from the night at all, i remember kissing a random and dancing a lot, but i couldn't tell you what they played apart from haddaway - what is love? because i texted jon zpoonz to let him know!
On Saturday morning in a vain attempt to stave off a hangover I downed half a pint of blackberry detox smoothie, unfortunately it only made me feel worse and brighten up the colour of the ensuing projectile! Never mind!
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February 22nd, 2007
07:53 am - speed dating update!
So last night was speed dating night, and this morning I was suffering the effects!
I think the event didn’t live up to the promise of being an educational wine tasting evening – it was more of a let’s drink some wine and try and guess what it is – which isn’t that helpful… but I did manage to drink quite a bit of wine – get all the tasting questions wrong and have a brilliant time doing it!
I ended up making good friends with a couple of guys, one in particular. Unfortunately my friend who I was with started whinging because she was tired and needed to go home = lame! So we left and were just walking up the street when the guy caught up with us and gave me a hug and a little kiss. I was so drunk, but it really took my breath away – no one’s ever done anything remotely like that to me before. So if he doesn’t tick me today then I’m going to throw a fit because we didn’t swap numbers or anything – arg!
**update**
okay so there's no place to give ticks on the website, so you have to send a message - having toyed with the idea for the whole of yesterday i decide to message the guy and say that it was nice to meet him, blah blah blah, and for him to message me back if he was so inclined - and he hasn't! what's that about? he ran after me! arg! men! i'm so annoyed! i think being able to see whenever someone's read your message is a devil in disguise because if they've read it and not responded you can just get depressed quicker..
Current Mood: lame
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February 14th, 2007
04:33 pm - wait for the bell
I got an email from an ex colleague yesterday with whom I’ve spent many a bored-at-work hour gossiping over anything that took our fancy, namely the men screwing us around at that particular time. We haven’t seen each other since she left in the middle of the summer last year, but have been chatting on email off and on.
Anyway, so this email I get yesterday sounds very mysterious, she asks what am I doing on Tuesday and after about 5 emails in exchange it turns out that she’s going to a speed dating night and has a spare ticket.
Now, I’ve never been speed dating in my life. I’m unclear on the merits of it for someone like me, I think my impact is better felt after talking for a while, not over a 3 minute timed conversation cut off by a bell. Moreover, I don’t think that the visual bias inherent in getting to know someone in such a manner is a plus point. I prefer to think of myself more as an acquired taste.
That being said, the premise of this particular night seemed interesting. It’s a wine tasting night where we get to drink some wines, get instructed by a sommelier and have some food.. Hmm, now food and inclusive booze is involved my interest is piqued. So in for a penny, in for a pound I’m going. I’m likely to be the youngest there as I’m only a year over the youngest age limit, but that might be good for me.. who knows? Anyway I shall keep you posted – at the very least I’ll get to drink some wine!
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January 31st, 2007
05:07 pm - Rome anyone?
I've just booked to goto Rome with Ryan Air in March if anyone fancies it, otherwise I'm going on my tod... It's part of my NY resolution to spend more time in places more interesting than London!
I'm going try and experience some culture... Has anyone been? Any recommendations?
Hurrah!
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January 30th, 2007
02:18 pm - ah the wonders of myspace...
i just received this:
Heya,
How are you today hunny? Well I’m sorry about the message and I apologise before I even send it. First of all I do hope you are having a good day? You doing much? I’m bored at work and the kids have been hell today so suffering with headache at the moment, but I’m going to see Beatrix Potter at cinema tonight, so hopefully that will cheer me up.
Well anyway darling, I was hoping we could have a good old natter, you seem really down to earth and I’d love to get to know you. Can I comment first of all, I have to say you have taken my breath away. Your gorgeous, I can’t help writing this, because basically its what I see. I didn’t think I’d ever write this to anyone, but I have to say you are stunningly beautiful. You have lovely hair, the way it flows is amazing and the most beautiful face. Gorgeous eyes, to die for. I mean they sparkle and are sexy, well you are sexy to be honest. I’m going maybe over the top, but I really mean it, if there is a more beautiful girl around, I’ve let to meet her.
Anyway enough of all of that, you’ve probably just thrown up with the cheesiness of it all, but all I can say is I’d love to get to know you. So what are you doing tonight then? By the way I’m babysitting tonight and I’m very happy to wait or tomorrow and chat on here, but I’d love to hear from you tonight, my number is XXXX, please feel free I’ll trust you to text.
Well anyway I really hope to hear from you soon, tell me more about you? What kind of things do you enjoy doing then? Sorry its so long this message, I think I’ve got carried away somewhat, but I mean what I say, speak soon,
Pete xxxxx
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January 29th, 2007
12:11 pm - amnesty, berlin et al
I can’t remember the last time I wrote an update that didn’t have something to do with who I was shagging or how to get money off XYZ.
After a mdma fuelled night out for Kevin’s birthday I agreed to dress up in an orange boiler suit to protest about the continued illegal detention of people in guantánamo bay for Amnesty at the fifth anniversary of it opening. Can you believe it’s been open 5 years? That’s 20% of my lifetime. Needless to say it’s unlikely that the protest will amount to any change in policy by the US government, or the UK for that matter, however it definitely felt good to be doing something worthwhile. Even if my feet nearly died from sitting on them for so long.
Pictures of the protest can be seen here. I haven’t spotted myself or sam yet, but I might just be being blind!
Tim and I went to Berlin a week or two ago. Unfortunately Tim had been suffering a bit with general illness before we went and after a night out with Jana on our first night pretty much failed to leave the bed for the rest of the trip! He did manage to get out to go to the Pergamon Museum though. If ever you’re in berlin, you have to go. I’m not very au fait with classical antiquities however those on display here were stunning. Particularly the Pergamon Altar which consists of a massive frieze:
To stand in front of it is breathtaking, it’s just really depressing that more of it hasn’t survived, but then to coin a phrase, I wouldn’t be in such good nick if I was 2000 years old(!)
Had another really good night with Jana on our last night, we went to White Trash and got wasted. I ended up talking to this American for most of the evening and didn’t pull him at the end of the night – crazy. Though we did exchange MSN addresses and have spoken since though he’s now in Korea so that’s not much use to me.
In other news, I’m completely despairing over the labour government and the fact that there’s going to be a general election next year and I don’t want to vote labour because it’s time for a change and I abhor Gordon Brown, but I’m not ready to vote Conservative. I don’t know why I’m fretting, I’m in a safe labour seat now so it shouldn’t make any difference what I vote, but that’s not quite the point…
I’m going to see The Caretaker tomorrow at Richmond Theatre. I’m going with my mate Julie from London welsh, it should be good, a few glasses of wine, some food, some theatre, some more wine.. shame I have to go to work on Wednesday… but at least I’m going to Spain on Thursday, so it’s not all bad! My carbon footprint is going to be ridiculously high this year, but f*ck it… I don’t own a car so it’s still better than most!
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January 4th, 2007
04:37 pm
i have a blackberry... it's very snazzy..
the best thing about it is that i can browse myspace and my yahoo/hotmails on it, which i can't access from work normally (woo hoo!)
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December 31st, 2006
11:16 am
okay those of you that are going to unskiny bop, sam and kevin and another girl are coming round to mine beforehand for pre-ubop drinks and if you have my phone number you're welcome to join us... text me for my address, cunningly i live a short bus ride away from the bop...
to all else.. happy almost new year..
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December 19th, 2006
10:24 am
My ipod has arrived, it's such a beauty, i'm really excited!!! I can't put anything on it yet as i'm at work, but it'll be fully charged before it's time to go home.... eeeeek!!!
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December 4th, 2006
02:57 pm
so i've been told for the first time that i'm a slut... i don't quite know how to take it, mainly because i'm not sure if i'd agree... i know that of late i've been lacking in moral fibre, but does that a slut make? does sleeping with men that are going out with/living with/engaged to girls make me the slut... i don't think that it does...
if i were pursuing these encounters then yes i can see how that could make me slutty, but in each of the cases in recent weeks, i've been on the receipt of an advance and i've just not resisted. but that being said, i did know that the guys in question were 'taken'.
when does this become my problem?
i'm not looking to steal them away from their ladies, i'm not looking to sleep with them on any sort of regular basis, it's just happened. but in these particular cases it's served for me to highlight their lack of happiness in their current relationship, so maybe some good will come of it for them and their ladies in the end.
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01:03 pm - discounts
Okay so with the Threshers discount being published to all and sundry - here's a few others that might help you this Christmas!
http://www.selfridges.com/index.cfm?page=1225
www.dorothyperkins.co.uk - use code DPMN29 for free delivery and 15% off anything
http://www.oasis-stores.com - use code GLAMOUR06 for 20% off anything
http://www.usc.co.uk - use code SDM20 for 20% off anything till Sunday
www.missselfridge.co.uk - use code MSGL15 for 15% off anything
www.faith.co.uk - use code 150906 for 15% off till 2nd December
www.urbanoutfitters.co.uk - use code URBAN1 to get £10 off if you spend £50
www.asos.co.uk - use code HSBC182116 to get 15% off
www.warehouse.co.uk - use code MCY291006 to get 20% off till 30th December
www.next.co.uk - free p&p if you use code K8004
www.powderrooms.com - use code 4E5KT for 20% off
www.hannahzakari.com - use code hzhb10 for 10% off
www.hqhair.com - use code BEAUTYBIBLE for 10% off
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November 29th, 2006
10:06 am - vip, killers & plan b
i went to see the killers last night courtesy of the manager that my mate slept with last time we went to see them (see earlier post).. thankfully the manager was in vegas so we didn't have to fend him off, but bless him for putting us on the list... swanning round brixton academy with the little sticker on was much fun!
the band were good too, obvious highlight was mister brightside, but the night was marred by the pain in my feet caused by wearing my 'come f*ck me' boots all day.. hey ho we have to make such sacrifices for fashion...
anyway after schmoozing in the vip area for a bit afterwards we went to leave and ended up at plan b which is on the high street... free to get in and they were playing lots of indie and pop, it was wicked... many hours later i ended up pulling this random and yay for me i didn't take him home!
got a taxi home which was only £25 which i thought was pretty good and saved negotiating at least 3 night buses!
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November 28th, 2006
06:36 pm - christmas drinks?
so i was thinking it's about time i had some sort of housewarming event as i never managed to have one up until now.. but i want to stress that it won't be a party because having a one bed flat i don't think i've got enough space for a party...
all that being said, christmas is coming and i'm in the mood for pimms winter, mince (ha i typo'd mice) pies and mulled wine at some point in the next few weeks.. i'm thinking probably friday 15th or saturday 16th december... what are your thoughts???
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November 10th, 2006
12:23 pm - can we change?
i'm flirting heavily with a guy i used to date (if you could call it that) when i was in my late teens. the wonders of myspace. but i do wonder what on earth i'm doing, this guy always was trouble. charming and funny, but trouble none the less. when i messaged him on myspace it was just after i'd split with jamie and i was in need of conversation, but didn't consciously think for a minute that we'd still be attracted to eachother (and lord knows we might not be face to face). but i thought it's okay, you're just looking for friendship and anyway you know what he's like so can avoid any unnecessary mess.
but then he goes and apologises, and talks the adult talk the likes of which he'd never have spoken before.. he would say it was all bravado now, but at the time he was a ladies man and a bad boy with it. and now he still has all the charm he used to along with apologies and now i find myself falling into the old trap! it's infuriating in one sense, but in another i do ponder the age old question of whether a leopard can change its spots...
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November 8th, 2006
03:34 pm - berlin again
Timotei and I are going to Berlin in January - ryanair has a sale on which closes tomorrow I think... we're going on 11th January at 18.45 returning 15th Jan 21.55
anyone who fancies joining us is more than welcome.
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