girls night out

hi.

Lea/dancing/dresses/shoes

iloveiloveilove.

things to love

my beautiful new home
the way it only takes 15 minutes to walk into work
how I feel like I'm having a better relationship with my area manager
buying things for my house
having movie nights with my housemates
how good things are with my boyfriend
being independant
finally.

team cullen

Okay well not exactly the Cullens. But my favourites anyway. We ate lots and lots of amazing Chinese food at Jess' house and it was just lovely to hang out with everybody. It's kind of taken me a while but usually I see Gus over the weekend, but for some reason I actually was more cool about this, and it made me happy that I wasn't annoyed or whatever. Jess' good friend Anna was in the same boat as me so we were 'fireworks widows' for the night. It was a hilarious walk down to Sparks in the Park, Hector didn't quite get if I was being sarcastic and generally I was laughing til my sides split. We got there a bit late and me and Anna were massive kids about the 'pretty lights' so we pretty much ran down the road as we could see it was the start of the display. We managed to lose Anna somehow and Hector left us for his other friends, but we caught a good fifteen minutes of the fireworks and we all sort of stopped and stared. And yes, still doing the whole 'oooh ahhhh' thing. Paul looked after me and Jess and Ham whilst we looked for Anna. Best line of the night 'we'll meet you by the tree!' followed by 'which tree?!' haha.

Once the fireworks had finished, and they were incredible but it felt like we'd been cheated out of a huge amount of fire work delight as it was quite a bit to get in. We were about to get on the rides as Jess thought they were free (as if!) and I think we sort of waundered for a bit before heading to get the bus. Gareth was pretty quiet but naturally he's a bit like that, however he did come out with some excellent one liners through out the evening.

Jess and me hung out for a bit after, discussing her beautiful boots (practical vs beauty) and then I got a taxi home. It was nice although I am seeing a definate pattern in taxi driver views. Kind of er well...BNP ish. Weirdly I saw my brother and his best friend Rob hanging around on a corner near Jess' house, it was so bizarre of all the places they could've been!

Today has been unproductive. I've got most of my stuff packed away just my dresses need to go. I'm gonna order my mattress from Argos I think, as it's just round the corner I think?

So excited/nervous/feel sick.

you are electric

burn my nerves,
light me up,
oh oh oh,
I am shadow without,
this charge,
flowing through my blood,
my soul,
oh oh oh,
you set my heart into flame,
red to black,
I am not how I used to be.

cold

war

kids

ftw...

packing

like mad. I should've started ages ago.

Man.


So much stuff.

russians and Chopping

we had some rad hang times, yes we did. It's funny, we're very good friends but we talk A LOT. I guess we (as the computer generation) all communicate a massive amount, myself and Chopping calculated we spend time texting, msn-ing, facebook-ing, blogging...it's a wonder we still have stuff to laugh and talk about! But it was good as I haven't properly hung out with him in a while and had some deep chats about hardcore (or mainly Chopping had to listen to me rant, and pretend to be sort of interested haha) and we had some chats about the 'Chopping Clan' and life generally.

I was stoked to see Chopping's very very excellent Kabeedies artwork which he produced for their new album. His work always reminds me of the artist who did the artwork for Billy Talent's album, or the person who did the illustratives for A Series of Unfortunate Events. Pretty rad to say the least!

Gus and Robbie and Nina turned up too which was lovely. Had a nice time with them, Robbie tried to teach me Russian, they're learning German on the sly so they can have secret chats....so I will be learning Russian with er no one to talk to bar Robbie and all he can say is 'My name is ___ and I like cats' and some more lewder things as well. Probably.

I went to Mackintoshs with my cousin Donna, had some amazing chicken and sticky toffee pudding. It was great to talk boys, friends and pool attendants!

Tomorrow I have to seriously start packing my room for the move on Monday. I get my key at 9.30am so I'm kind of excited. My parents, relatives, friends all keep asking how excited I am but it's taken so long to sort out it's sort of lost it's meaning. Now it's so close I am beginning to get a bit ahhh about it. As Gus said, it's like when Christmas is promoted in September and by the time it comes around you're sick of hearing about it!

I am happier though, so so much happier about knowing I'll be in town and able to do what I like without worrying about upsetting anybody or anything. It'll be nice to appreciate my family as well.

I'm going to Eaton Park with the guys and girls. I'm massively loving fireworks, it's my favourite time of the year I think. I'm gonna get to Jess' house for Chinese with Anna, Ham and Jess, then meet everyone with them at the park. It's a bit of a walk but I might try and get a bus into town so I can meet Gus as we've got a house party at Robbies.

Times!

true love

I got Gus a new jacket...looked something like this...but from Urban Outfitters vintage section. Pretty sweet.

London was fun, nearly ALMOST saw Jim Carey turn the Christmas lights on, but we were still working so all we got to see was craning our necks out of the window, producing poor, un Jim worthy views....i.e not seeing him! Still, he was metres from our store....cool by association haha.

We heard Peter Andre singing though funny times. Celebrity breakups are just funny sometimes but when it comes to Brad/Angelina/Jen....Team Jen for the win (seriously if you're going to adopt that many kids at least take time off work to be with them, and while you're at it, stop being such a husband stealer...and annoyingly smug about it, then lie about when you got together...THEN 'accidentally' reveal the truth later) . However, I am very much Team Peter. I've never liked Jordan, I think at best I've felt pity, but I think she is very vile or at least she portrays herself that way.

Anyway, it was a good training session, cannot wait for the house now. Gonna start packing up soon!

tired

sleepy. want to be in bed.

Off to Laaaandan

Yawwwn already at the ridiculous train journey tomorrow. Not so much the time but it's gonna be soooo early. I'll be getting up at 5am to get the train for 6.30am. I'm hoping I'll have some time to grab some breakfast before the meeting, sometimes the provide us with food but not always, they'll take us out to lunch and stuff but after that we'll be moving from Oxford Street to Regent...and prepping stock until late into the night for the floor moves the next day...huff.

At least I'll be able to return my shoes to Urban Outfitters!

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Style central x

broken

so yeh for the second time I've managed to break a phone, unintentionally obviously, however I still can't ring anyone without it cutting out and turning itself off.

I'd like to get a Blackberry or an iPhone but not sure if I can stretch to going on contract again as it crippled my bank balance!

Last night was okay, we had more fun I think dressing up than anything else, I went as Poison Ivy! I wish so hard I was as hot as Uma Thurman in Batman, she was totally smoking!