sheets of rain comin' down & a money rant
Mood:  spacey
Now Playing: sheets of rain comin' down
Ahh, a pleasant day - the only one E&I get to spend together this week. After a conversation (not an argument for once) about money, we decided that, yes, we could afford to pick up a paper and get a cup of coffee and then head to the pub for a few pints of beer and a two-for-one meal. Yes folks, at long last it looks as though we're able to afford spending 20 pounds on luxuries. After almost a year and a half we can do what most Britons do on a daily basis. My god, will the wonders ever cease?!?!

In other news; my mom's care package has arrived and, as followers of our comments section will know, I've now got more new socks and underwear than you can shake a stick at. Or at least a small twig. A sapling perhaps. Of the coniferous variety. Cedar perhaps. Or a white pine.

4 day work week for me coming up. Plus two pay cheques coming in sometime mid-week. ...of course mine goes right into paying off some of the credit card but oh my God look at that! It's a light at the end of the tummel! TuNNel!

Updates (...duh...)
Mood:  hungry
Now Playing: Back - "minus"
Uh, nothing really to report; I suspect that Elisabeth'll have lots to say this weekend though. Fridays used to rock but I've got to work most Saturdays so they don't so much rock as roll along into another shift at the bookstore.

[BTW mom, I don't work most Mondays - the Friday I had when you were here was a one off.]

Man-o-man, it's depressing working retail when you have to deal with the public so much and you realize just what F***ing idiots most people are most of the time. It's stopped being cute and is just depressing. I've been warned that they'll become stupider as we approach Christmas - Adults who have never been in a bookstore are the nightmare AND the reality this lad will have to face off with. Arg!

Oops! Dinner's up.
Toodleoo!

AAAH!
Mood:  don't ask
Angelfire just ate the blog entry I typed out!
Boo Angelfire!
Oops. Never mind.

stuff??
Mood:  bright
Now Playing: Radiohead
Man-o-man, 2 incomes = nothing to report. Except, perhaps the Boggle score: Elisabeth: 1.5 / Stephen: all the rest. I give her a ".5" because I was tired last night, making dumb mistakes and she would have beatem me [maybe] if we'd kept it up.

>sigh< so many silly customer questions, I can't single any one out to type out. Jeeze, shopping malls make people dumb.

Your mission for this weekend: watch Dawn of the Dead (The original not the remake) to see what I deal with for 37.5 hours a week. Except in a British accent. With the occasional American-who-thinks-they're-reconnecting-with-another-American. Except I don't play along; just give them the condescending-with-a-side-order-of-pity smile all the other booksellers give them.

update
Mood:  bright
Now Playing: BBC news at 1
Oops! Almost no updates for a week. Well honestly, nothing much has been going on. This past weekend was our first weekend in a month where we had absolutely nothing going on so we spent Saturday at the French & continental market and splurged on some tasty French pastries. Oh, and I got socks mom; I finally got socks.

...otherwise not much; catching up on sleep and counting down the days to the time change where England will be plunged into 20 hours of darkness a day.

Back to normal
At long last... we're eating spicy potatos with mayonnaise, grilled cheese, tomato & onion and the last of our gift vino.

Tired
I'm tired and I know I've made a million-billion typos on the photo galleries tonight. I'll fix them up tomorrow. Or whenever.

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Susan Allin's Visit

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Thanksgiving 2004

Things are NOT back to normal
Mood:  lazy
Oops! What with mom now left, balancing work & chores is a tad tricky. It's been 2 days and so far the only thing that stinks is our neighbour's apartment. Lets see... my job is awfully slack but not so slack it's boring. The nice thing is that I'm working with a bunch of reading-type-people so we don't have to hide our introverted/anti-social natures. Bliss.

Elisabeth's busy, busy, busy. Jack the Ripper's nearing opening night and what with 2 rehearsals a week plus random meeting plus Italian classes, she's a touch busy. Biking to work is much less of a pain in the ass for her. Ironically though, her biycle seat is giving her a pain in the ass. Go figure.

Thanksgiving was pretty fantastic with Jane, Glenn & their two boys coming over. I built a tent for the boys to play in but they seemed to take more pleasure in wrecking it. This tent thing, I suspect was a ploy to get me out of Elisabeth's hair so that she could cook up a fantastic feast: Quiche, stuffed peppers, spaghetti squash, mashed potatos, brussel sprouts, apple pie, caesar salad, corn on the cob, veggies & home made dip, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. We've just finised up the last of the left-overs.

Pictures will go up soon of mom's visit plus Thanksgiving and yes, it was requested that we should put more up but damn, it's such a pain in the ass. Knowing basic Html looks good on a CV but actually having to type it kinda sucks large.