Heyyyy Guys!
So, I'm in my new flat and have just gotten connected up to the internet!
I still have tonnes of unpacking to do, and yet more buying of furniture to do (my poor bank account!) but soon I will be all settled in. (And rest assured, photos will come as soon as I've unpacked my camera!)
My new job is going well too. Everyone is very nice, and I think the work is going to be really interesting :D
More later, once I have time to sit down (and a chair to sit on!)
So, it was my last day at work yesterday. I spent the whole day running around like a lunatic trying to finish everything off. So much so, in fact, that it was only at 4:45pm that I actually realised I was leaving.
Luckily, I didn't have much time to mope before we went off to the pub for drinks, and then on to go have a lovely curry.
I'll be sad to say goodbye to everyone though. I really did get on well with a lot of people there.
Oh well, my new job starts on Monday. Time to move on and meet new people!
BUT FIRST...
I have to move flats to be closer to my new work. I'm moving tomorrow in fact.
WHICH MEANS that today I have to pack all my stuff.
Current packing status = 0%
Goddammit.
Hiya!
So, for the past few days, Mariya's been here and we've been gallivanting around London town. Then, yesterday, I helped Mariya move into her new room and get some of the stuff she needs for her new life as a student. (I am so jealous! I don't relish the idea of having to do more coursework, but I am suddenly looking back on student life as being a lovely and joyously joyous time. Ah, the wonders of nostalgia.)
So, we did a few things while Mariya was here, including:
- Eating a very rich raclette
- Eating a pasty
- Eating tasty Japanese food
- Eating cake
Also, we went to see some modern art at the Saatchi Gallery. (I love the Saatchi Gallery; it's just so clean and nice to walk around.)
And then we wandered around Highgate Cemetery, which is very pretty with it's tumble-down, over-grown, jaded tombstones and large, extravagant mausoleums.
And, as a thank you for letting her stay in my flat, Mariya gave me presents! (And far more presents than I deserve, too! Mariya, you are so good to me!)
1. A fantastic scarf, which I have been wearing all day.
2. A set of flannels in the shape of a swiss roll (no, I don't understand why either!)
3. A set of matching Death Note magnets and keyrings. (Little L is so adorable!)
4. A selection of books including (most excitingly) an album of photos from Mariya's wedding; plus a guide to the live action death note movie; and a Code Geass artbook.
Haha, now, you might have noticed the scantily clad ladies on the front of the Code Geass artbook, which pretty much sets the tone through the whole thing. We couldn't look through it without laughing; I really get the feeling that I am not the target audience for this book!
Many pictures prompted responses such as:
'Why's she straddling a large banana?'
'Why have her clothes fallen off?'
'What on Earth is Lelouch doing to his mother???'
And that last one was particularly mind-boggling:
Why Lelouch? Why? I know he's royalty and so prone to a little family-loving, but his mother? Oh, just another complex to add to the many others that he's accumulated.
Hahaha. What a crazy crazy book.
AND FINALLY:
In completely unrelated news, I've really been enjoying this song recently:
Here, let me share with you two funny videos that I've been enjoying greatly over the past few days.
1. Rowan Atkinson as a school teacher.
It's often easy to forget that Rowan Atkinson does anything other than Blackadder and Mr Bean, so here's something a little different. He's so good at doing what he does (and with a straight face too), and his enunciation, as always, is brilliant.
2. Flight of the Conchords sing a sweary song.
I love the Flight of the Conchords and I love their songs. I've been relistening to a few of them recently, and this is my favourite of the moment (the bit at the beginning is pretty funny too - 'get out of here before I peel your beard off!')
Whew. I still haven't stopped to take a break yet. Oh well, it's the best way I suppose.
So, you know how I said I got a new job?
1. My old job ends in just under two weeks time, so I'm busily trying to get all my loose ends tied up before then.
2. I'm also busy getting everything together and making phonecalls to get my new job sorted. Hopefully I'll get a contract to sign sometime soon :D
And, I found myself a new flat! It's not too fabulous on the inside, but it'll be MINE. MY OWN. I WON'T HAVE TO SHARE WITH ANYONE ELSE HAHAHAHAHA.
Also, it's unfurnished, so I get to choose some furniture for myself. Hopefully I'll have just gotten the bed sorted, woo!
Of course, after that, I just have to deal with the moving all my stuff and the changing my address for everything and why are there so many things that I have to try to remember to do?
In much more exciting news. Mariya is coming to start her MBA this week \o/ She moves into her new home on Saturday, but for two days before she'll be homeless, so the two of us are going to have a nice jolly around London. I'm looking forward to it! A final fling with the big smoke before I have to move on to more boring sedate parts ;_;
So, yesterday was finally the big wedding day, and the second time I've been a bridesmaid in under 12 months!
I am glad to report that everything went wonderfully smoothly. The weather was lovely; the guests all had fun; and I didn't trip and send Theresa flying as she walked down the aisle.
Also, there was much eating and dancing and getting to play dress-up, which is always great fun.
Photos!
Deborah and I in our bridesmaid dresses, which you can't see at all because of our shawls (it was cold!). There was another bridesmaid, Theresa's cousin Sarah, who is 12 and absolutely adorable, but sadly I don't have a decent photo of the three of us together.
The cake!
The happy couple, cutting the cake.
The first dance. Afterwards there was a BARN DANCE in which there was lots of skipping and lots of frantic stepping on toes and lots of very tired and sweaty people afterwards :D
Me, Theresa and Deborah, three friends together! I really like the way this photo echoes another one of the three of us, which was taken seven years ago, at our school leaving ball.
Isn't it funny how things change, and yet stay the same?
Hi!
After a hectic week last week, I am back! And I'm back with news!
Guess what? I got a new job! Woo! All going well, I should finish my old job and start my new one in the next few weeks.
The only thing is, my new job isn't going to be in London, so I've got to move away from the big smoke. I'm kinda sad, and I think I'll miss the place, but I'm also kinda excited about moving somewhere cheaper.
So, after that news, I think I promised to show you some photos? From way back when?
Here we go!
My Holiday
We went to deepest darkest Shropshire. It's a nice place if you like hills and craggy landscapes. Also, I saw a stag's head.
Theresa's Hen Party
Was a roaring success I reckon. I also got some beautiful socks out of it, which I will have to show you at some point (they are so beautiful).
We were very sophisticated and had afternoon tea.
And then I was very sophisticated by wearing my free flower garland (from Chiquitos!) in the "Rambo fashion"
It's the wedding this Saturday! How exciting! (I'm having nightmares about my bridesmaid dress not fitting.)
Gundam00 Second Season Complete Mission Fanbook
Because Mariya is so good to me, she got me this for my birthday. It's got some nice pictures in it (and some crazy Japanese stuff that I can't read, but is nevertheless crazy), and I promised Mariya that I'd give her a poor, camera quality, glimpse of the best parts.
Front cover (very serious)
Allelujah and Lyle. WHY ARE THEY BLUSHING. I find it quite disturbing for Lyle to be blushing at Haro like that.
Once again, Haro steals the show! The Christmas in which Allelujah gets wasted, Setsuna gets a gunpla and the person who forced Tieria to dress up gets a smack in the face (he doesn't look happy).
And finally, a picture I like to call Hahaha, no, it's not fanservice, really, whatever gave you that idea? For some reason, schoolboy Tieria weirds me out more than schoolgirl Tieria.
Hiya! Today I'm running in the door to run out again. I'm rather busy at the moment. Here's the lowdown:
1. It's Theresa's hen party this weekend. The one I've been organising for the past four months or so D: Hopefully the weather will hold out for us and it'll be fun! The organising has been stressful, let me tell you.
2. I'm looking for yet another new flatmate. (Ellen's moving out to move in with her boyfriend.) So I'm fielding calls about the room left, right and centre. Fingers crossed we'll get it all sorted out next week.
3. I've spent the past few days frantically cleaning (see above).
4. I've got two job interviews next week! Woo! I have to write a presentation for one of them. Golly.
5. Work has been hectic recently, because I've only got 3 and a half more weeks before I finish my current job (see above).
5. And the weekend after next there's a bank holiday in which I'm running home to my parents house to get a haircut so I'll be ready for the next weekend which is Theresa's wedding :D
And then after that, maybe I'll get the chance to sit down.
6. In the meantime I've been trying to write a crazy fanfic which is a crossover of Mononoke and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell D: Yes, you heard me. Dear God why.
So, um, yes, busy is probably a good description.
And now I have to go pack clothes and other such hen party paraphernalia.
p.s. I had a lovely time on holiday, thank you! We got chased by dogs and I also fell on my coccyx and now it hurst when I bend over \o/
Photos at some point in the future!
Oh man, I am so tired today!
Here's the deal:
- I finished writing my job applications! *weak cheer* Now all I have to do is wait and see if I get an interview.
- I'm going on holiday tomorrow! For a week! I'm really looking forward to relaxing and sleeping-in every day. So if you don't see me around here for a while (well, a week), I will probably be in a field somewhere.
STOP PRESS!
Here's some exciting news. Mariya's just got a new blog!
http://marishasdress.blogspot.com
In it, she really puts my wardrobe to shame. I tend to spend as little time as possible deciding what to wear for work each morning, and it shows! Boy does it show!
I have been really busy recently.
Here are the essentials:
1. So I didn't get the job. Never mind, that's the way the cookie crumbles.
2. I'm currently applying for more jobs. Filling in application forms takes so much time D:
3. I went to a music festival with James and Steve. It was well fun, and we only got rained on once. Also there were nachos. Awesome.
4. I had a birthday last week. I am now half-way to 50. Good golly. I went to see Theresa, and we baked cakes :D Also, I bought a ruddy lovely new skirt, which has made me realise that my current tights situation is dire.
5. Song of the moment, to keep me going through the applications, is aNYway by Duck Sauce, to which it is impossible not to boogie.
I had a job interview today!
But I have to wait until next Tuesday (possibly Wednesday) to find out if I've made it to a second interview.
It's all quite nerve-wracking.
Wish me luck!
Howdy!
Do you want to know what I'm loving at the moment?
1. Psychoville is brilliant.
I'm not sure if it's as funny as the League of Gentlemen or if I'm just finding it funny because I know what to expect (which is creepiness, and boy, do they deliver it in spades). Either way, I was laughing hard at the 4th episode.
So dark and yet so good.
2. Here's a song:
Fire by Kasabian makes me want to rock out in the best possible way.
(Vlad the Impaler deserves a mention too, because it contains Noel Fielding being a goth in the video.)
3. And last but not least: My copy of Yun Kouga's Dear Meisters Comic & Arts came through the post today \o/
Look at it! Look how pretty it is! It's very nice. If you like Yun Kouga and Gundam00 you will not be disappointed, let me tell you.
I had previously bought Yun Kouga's Gundam00 Design Works, but this new volume is, without a doubt, better. This is because Dear Meisters contains all the artworks that were in the Design Works plus loads of new artworks from the second season!
So, I am a little miffed that I have had to pay again for some of the illustrations I already own, but I am glad that I bought this book, because I'm glad to see all the new artworks.
And those new artworks include, not only coloured pictures and character design sketches, but also the minicomics for each meister! Each comic is absolutely adorable, and I really don't know who will give me the most cavities. At the moment, I think it might be a tie bewtween Moe Tieria:
And baby Lyle with a plaster on his nose:
One day I will get out my Japanese dictionary and try to read these properly! But for now I will just look at the pictures and cry tears of sugary joy.
Good thing the first:
I got a job interview! It's in a couple of weeks! \o/ \o/ \o/
Good thing the second:
I just bought myself this.
Oh God, I can't wait for it to arrive. If it's anything like the first season Yun Kouga artbook, it's going to be wonderful. But I think it also contains bonus comics (including young Neil and Lyle! Together!) so it sounds like it's going to be even better. NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT IT HAS NAKED TIERIA IN SPACE ON THE COVER!!!
:D :D :D
Whew! It's been a while, hasn't it?
I seem to have been particularly busy recently. Let me give you the lowdown.
1. So it's that time of year again. That time of year when I find myself in need of another job. My contract runs out in September, so in a desperate bid to not be unemployed when the time comes round, I've been applying to jobs. Or should I say, 'applying to job'. Because the job market is looking a little less fruitful this year. Damn you recession! Damn you!
But as I pointed out: if it comes to it, being unemployed won't be so bad. It'll be like being a student again, only without all the stress and coursework or the price tag of a few thousand pounds. Sounds alright to me.
2. I found myself at the Globe again last week. We went to see As You Like It for Susan's birthday. It was fun, and decidedly cheap at only five pounds per ticket. Standing for two and a half hours is slightly taxing though. My feet fared bravely throughout the whole thing, until it was time to go home when they decided to 'stuff that for a game of soldiers' and promptly gave me cramp.
3. I had to work late on Thursday evening, helping to set up my first proper exhibition. It was, sadly, the most exciting thing I've done in a while. But, I mean, come on. They had canapés! How is that not exciting?
4. And I've just been to see my parents all weekend on account of it being my Dad's birthday. I did the dutiful daughter thing and bought him lovely presents, all of which I would like to steal for myself at one point in the future. So we spent the weekend sitting in the sun (and the heat! Golly, I'm fanning myself with an actual FAN at the moment! It's proper summer now!) and later sitting in the pub through a thunder storm that went on for ruddy ages. That was one serious storm let me tell you; it's rare to see one last that long! And it had proper thunder claps too. None of that low rumbling nonsense.
We spent most of the time doing evil laughs and shouting things like 'It's alive!' hoping to catch the thunder at the most dramatic moment. You will be glad to hear that we failed miserably on that front.
And now for some breaking news (shut up I know it's three days late):
I am still quite shocked. It's sad news. Yes, he was mental, but he also made some great songs and boy could he dance well.
Little known fact: this was the first single I ever bought. And don't tell me you never tried to recreate the video by standing in a door frame with a fan blowing in your face. I KNOW YOU DID.
Good Lord, why haven't I posted about this already?
Literal video version of Total Eclipse of the Heart
This is my favourite thing at the moment. I've almost memorised all the lyrics.
Slo-mo dove~
In other news, I've just had a new flatmate move in today. He's called James, like the flatmate who just moved out. Which is handy.