Had two weeks in a row ram-packed with overtime and now I'm finally back to normal hours!
YAAAAAY!
The weather is beautiful! I'm planning on lieing in the garden all day tomorrow, reading 'The End of Mr Y' and getting a sunburnt face.
:D
Also...
Check out the new Gok Wan's from work and red lippy. I don't know about the lippy all that much but I love the good ol' Gok's. He's getting one thing right at least.
I have to carry on reminding myself that I live/work in a city centre now... And a big one at that. Of course, this isn't London. I don't know how I'd be able to cope if I lived in London.
When I get the bus in the morning, people who have weekly bus tickets push in front of those who don't and the bus driver doesn't even get a chance to check their tickets. I always wait in line.
One woman who gets the bus at my bus stop with me every morning really infuriates me. Regardless of the fact that she may not have been waiting the longest for the bus, she'll still stand with her toes caressing the curb, in prime position to be the first one on it when it arrives. It makes my skin crawl.
When I get my bus on the way home, everyone barges on, men and women with prams using their immobile toddlers as excuses to get on first. You'd think that the fact that they had prams would merit them seats at the front of the bus.
But nooooooooo!
Soooo, many times I've had to climb over prams getting off the bus because some self-righteous prick is sat in the buggy area or priority seats and hasn't batted an eyelid.
I've come to the distinct conclusion that I need to toughen up a bit if I'm going to survive in a city centre. Although, I still like being nice and actually asking people if I can sit next to them on the bus when there's no other seats.
:)
Who'd have thought that a movie about a website would turn out to be so bloody good?!
I tossed and turned in bed the night after I watched, incapable of getting to sleep, and the thing that carried on popping in my head was this film.
This is such a cult university movie that it reminds me of the times in Crewe sat around doing nothing at three o'clock in the morning except from drinking and talking - and, obviously, not coming up with the world's next bit internet sensation.
Some of the scenes were fantastic. The nightclub scene where Mark Zuckerman discusses business with Napster founder, Sean Parker is epic - maybe only because we could feel the bass through Chris's million-pound worth speaker system to go with the music on the screen. Eduardo Saverin's outburst at Zuckerman's betrayal as he grabs a laptop and smashes it in half on the ground is amazing. And the music, written by Nine Inch Nail's Trent Reznor, is also a little bit of a winner as well.
I was a little bit surprised that they could find so much in a story about one of the fastest growing website's in the 20th century. Then again, I suppose, no story is too small. Something that we do all the time without realising it... Something that, if our computers would choose it to save us time, would be all our homepages.
One of the most pleasant and rewarding surprises of this year.
:)
Oh, and contrary to popular belief, Jesse Eisenberg is actually a bit of a hottie.
They scrub up nice, don't they?
;)
I don't wanna start doing that thing where I start telling my life story again every time I don't write on my blog for long periods of time. But there are a couple of things that have changed in the last month or so...
I am now a resident of Manchester.
I have a routine, FINALLY.
I passed my probation at work.
:D
But worry that I'm getting a little bit of an attitude that I always bitch about with other people and that I always never wanted to have. So I need to pull my socks up a bit.
I've started doing some serious planning on a comedy TV series for the BBC/Channel 4.
And one of my older brothers is getting married.
XD
Started crying when I found out.
LOOOOVE.
Photos of my beautiful house and sexy Gok Wan specs from work to follow.
... Waiting for the boys to finish playing on the likes of 'Time Crisis 4' and 'Little Big Planet 2' so that we can order a Chinese.
:/
Gutted.
I've always been a little indifferent about Adele. Don't get me wrong, I've always known that she was a good singer. But I've never really been interested until hearing about her 'amazing' performance at the Brit Awards this year.
So to kick off the celebration of finally getting the internet at the house, I watched lots of shit on Youtube until I found this.
And boy, am I glad I did.
The tears are real.
And the words are real.
LOVE IT.
I'm moving in on Pancake Day!!
How cool is that!?
After we've unpacked and everything we can chill out in front of the TV with pancakes! Lots and lots of pancakes!!
:D
Yum!
I've missed pancake day for the last five years in a row! I refuse to miss it this year!!
Absolutely gutted. I know that I hadn't written anything in my blog for a while but for TWO WHOLE MONTHS?!
I'm a little bit disappointed with myself. In my defence, I am out of the house for twelve hours a day five days a week - travelling to and from work on trains and buses, blah blah blah... And one of the last things I wanna do is set up my laptop downstairs so that I can get the internet on it (our home computer is overrun with viruses and we don't have wireless, unfortunately...)
:(
Of course, that doesn't excuse anything.
SPECSAVERS
Life at Specsavers is going well. I think I know enough now to feel comfortable in doing any task that anyone's asking for me to do for them. People are starting to trust me with doing different jobs around the store. But I still haven't finished my three month probation though. Everyone tells me that I've got nothing to worry about but I can't help it. It'll be the biggest weight off my shoulders ever.
I've read one of the shittest books in the whole world. 'No Time for Goodbye' by Linwood Barclay. I bought it because it was a murder mystery and I never read them. And this book made me realise that I never read them for a bloody good reason!
I've put down a deposit for a house to rent in Didsbury in Greater Manchester and will be moving in on Tuesday. Ecstatic. I feel like I've been waiting for this day all my life. Can't wait to have my own little personal space again where I can start writing properly, hopefully.
And I've also walked in on my younger brother snogging his chavvy girlfriend on the settee on Valentine's Day Evening over a bottle of wine, some beers and a toffee cheesecake.
The bleeding romantic.
Not a lot has happened really. I've just been working my arse off at work and not been very social at all. But as soon as I get my arse to Manchester, that's going to change.
List of things to do on arrival in Didsbury:-
--- Get fit and healthy (I'm actually craving healthy food and reeeeeally wanna join dance classes and the gym),
--- Pass my probation period at work,
--- Start writing properly again,
--- Start planning a holiday (preferrably to New York or Las Vegas or any other phenomenal city in the US)
--- Generally be a happier human being and a general breeze of fresh air for everyone around me.
I haven't been the happiest bunny of late but that's all soon to change.
To be continued...
P.S. I need another hair cut.
XD
