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Name: Elizabeth
Location: London, United Kingdom
Birthday: 4/25/1987
Gender: Female
Interests: anything that sparkles, shines, laughs, gives good hugs, tickles, plays pretty music, or just looks friendly; along with fairies, shoes, tiaras, glitter, pretty underwear, lollipops, leg-warmers, lace, Greenbelt, haribo rings, cherry coke, kissing, dancing, bullet points, MWCC, having my hair played with, picking dried glue off the side of the pot, crayons, jewellery, photographs, knee-high boots, flirting, sunbathing, frolicking, using the word frolicking at every possible occasion, fishnet tights, webcams, giggling and, every occasionally, just sitting, smiling and savouring.
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
12/27/2004
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| I am so run down. I can't believe it's only Monday.
We spent Saturday at Brookhurst school, doing some gardening and work around the grounds....and constructing a greenhouse. There were no instructions, no pictures of what it should look like, just hundreds and hundreds of peices that had to be fitted together. It took us 7 hours, but we did it. We were there til 6.45pm after everyone went home before lunch. And just as we were putting the final touches to it, we discovered that two crucial parts (holding the roof onto the base) were upside down...so had to take the roof off, turn them round, put it back together.
Then today Hannah found the instructions on the internet. Apparantly it only takes 2-3 hours. When you have the instructions.
So yeah, that was our weekend. And now it's Monday and I'm already exhausted and have that horrible "i'm getting a cold" feeling fuzzing away at the back of my throat. Think I'm going to go to bed.
I also have muscle ache. We bought a Wii Fit. Most. Fun. EVER. You can do hula hooping and snowboarding and ski jumping and yoga and muscle toning and everything. I spent ages on it yesterday and can barely walk today. Oops.
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| I just cooked tuna pasta bake for dinner, and when I went to put a 'dash' of chilli powder in, I accidentally dropped at least a tablespoons worth in there. That was an interesting culinary experience. It was (just about) edible.....but a little hot.
I'm so bored. Ben's at music practice this evening and I've already done the washing up and am successfully avoiding work because that won't help with the boredom....I might play on the Wii. Oh yeah, we bought a Wii. SO MUCH FUN. I love it. It was the last of our wedding gift money, and we don't have a TV license so we need some way to entertain ourselves....ha.
Boredy bored bored.
Oh. I cut all my hair off. Well, I didn't, a hairdresser did.
xxx
See! Long hair was driving me crazy, I was never happy with it and it was in awful condition. So I had a day off last Thursday (what a novelty) and went to Alexander James in Leamington (they were fantastic, and quite cheap too) and went for the chop.
That's pretty much all the excitement going on right now - chilli, wii and haircut.
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| errr...what?
On a similar note, they are apparantly bringing back the name Opal Fruits for the 10th anniversary of Starburst! I have no idea why brand names bother us so much, we always feel like we have an affiliation to a particular brand name and get all upset when they change it. There is a genuine sadness in my heart for the loss of Pizza Hut, and an inexplicable delight at the return of Opal Fruits.
I might go and buy a Wispa.
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| So life got hectic all of a sudden. I spent last week working in a school in Leamington, absolutely LOVED it and made me crave teaching even more...tomorrow I start at uni which will be good - that horrible fresher feeling is back though, where I have no idea what to expect and feel like I have to think out every part of my outfit and my pencil case and my hairstyle in order to impress people, because if you don't talk to people this week you end up not really knowing anyone, even though the people I talk to this week probably won't end up being the ones I'm close to. Ah the joys of starting uni!
I feel 18 again.
So today I have to read read read read read. I went to the uni library on Saturday to read all the books I couldn't find elsewhere and they had none in, they are all out until 2009...why?! So I have to tell my tutor that I haven't done the recommended audits and stuff....which I'm hoping doesn't give a bad first impression because I'm going to need my tutor to be on my side this year!
I'm such a worrier. Ben tells me off for it. I'm sure it'll all be great and once I get there it'll just happen and be fine, but the day before...worryworryworry.
And on top of all that we have our flatwarming on Friday which will be really fun but also a nightmare to organise as Ben and I will now be out of the house full time and Ben probably won't get in til 7.30 on Friday. Apparantly he might have to go to Carlisle soon, overnight again. This was NOT in the job description. Well, apparantly it was but I don't remember it.
And then on Sunday we have to go down to Weston-Super-Mare for Ben's cousins baptism. Which will be lovely, it will be nice to see all the family again who we haven't seen since the wedding.
Then next Thursday is my nan's funeral in London. She died last week which was a bit of a shock. She's been in hospital for ages with a broken hip, and they found all sorts of other problems that they could fix while she was in there, and then they had this big meeting a couple of weeks ago with all the nurses and carers and her and my mum and some aunties and uncles to decide what happens when she's ready to leave hospital, and they decided she'd have an operation to solve some of her throat problems and then go into a nursing home and she seemed happy with that and it all looked really positive. Then the next day she took all her feeding tubes out and said that she didn't want to carry on anymore. She died in the early hours of Sunday morning, last week. My mum rang me at 3am. They'd all been called in and mum had been there when it happened which she appreciated. It's strange though, one of those things that actually has a massive impact on your life...my nan isn't around anymore, it changes a lot, and yet you have no idea that it's going to happen. We woke up one day and were told she'd decided to die. She was very positive about it, she's a christian and all she kept saying was she wanted to go home, she wasn't happy, she wasn't comfortable, and she just kept saying "I just want to be with Jesus". Which actually, is pretty brave. She took out all her tubes and had morphine to relieve the pain. Mum and some of her sisters sat with her all day and all night leading up to her dying. Mum had been staying down the road on the night she died, with another sister sleeping at the hospital.
But it's just one of those things that you can't get your head around. Your world changes in a week. And I can't imagine what my mum is going through. She's organised the funeral and everything and is working so hard to keep all the family happy (my mum is one of 10 kids).
So lots has gone on. Life suddenly got hectic and yet today I'm back in my pyjamas at midday, reading the Times Education Supplement and waiting for Ben to get home. It's the last day I can do this, tomorrow the busyness of a PGCE hits and I'm a 9-5er. I need to go to town actually, buy a 'Unirider' ticket for the bus into campus. Should probably get dressed....
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| So....Ben is away 'on business'. Taking vibration readings from the side of the A14. They told him to take an overnight bag to work today just in case he had to stay over til tomorrow....he rang at 9am to say he'd got to work and they'd told him he has to stay there til Friday.
So I am all alone. For the next 3 days. With nothing to do except reading for my PGCE which is really stressful and I could do with knowing that at the end of a day of reading Ben will come and give me a cuddle and make me a cup of tea.
Pretty rubbish. I still don't know anyone here really, I texted Holly and Jenny to see if they want to come and watch a film tonight but haven't had a reply...and I can't go anywhere because I don't drive and we have no money for trains.
So if anyone wants to come and stay for a couple of days and keep me company they would be very welcome. I hate being on my own, especially for so long in a town that I don't really know with no friends around! We're back to the long distance thing that I thought we solved with marriage!
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