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Topic: Stephen Says
Since I doubt that there'll be any blogging before we take off at 6AM tomorrow morning, I thought that I'd stick The Bangles up to keep y'all occupied until we return:

Busy, busy, busy
Now Playing: Nick Cave - Henry's Dream
Topic: Stephen Says
It's been hectic today - I had my first sleep in in what feels like weeks and felt rejuvenated enough to tackle our heap of dirty dishes first thing while E went jogging and then biked 4 sacks of recycling to the depot.

Breakfast, etc. led to a jaunt into town where I made myself feel 'manly' by buying socks, underwear, some clothes for the trip and a pair of over-priced designer titanium re-enforced sun glasses. I'm a bit terrified now because the average life expectancy for my shades are about 2 months and I'm so picky that it takes about 4 months to find a pair of shades that I can tolerate and, based on what these damn things cost, they need to last me at least a year.

We popped over to the pub to read the paper and get refreshed before wrapping up our shop with the final bits & bobs for the trip. We're set now with the exception of money which, I hope, will be sorted tomorrow.

We finally got a memory card for our camera as well. It's unbelievable but we've been going around with a 32meg card in it for the last 4 years.

I also cut my hair a little too short and E is infuriated with me. But really, is that even news?

Yarp. Narp. Yarp.
Now Playing: Joanna Newsom - Ys
Topic: Stephen Says
Been a hectic week to say the least. The Trail of Dead concert was wonderful - 2+ hours of noise. I'm far too old to go into a mosh pit and made a relatively significant ass of myself in it for the whole damn concert. My neck and back feel better for it so go figure.

Spent the day in London - went to the Hogarth exhibition which was jaw droppingly awful. Not the art, that was fine. But the amount of pretentious old biddies who were queuing up, shoving, jumping the queue and being generally horrible patrons of the art while assuming they're the fricking bees knees of the arts world.

I will never again go willingly to the Tate Britain. It's just like the Barbican: A centrifugal force that draws the faux art pretentious crowd with their highbrow (read: simplistic) ideas at over inflated prices.

So later, on Uncle Chris' reccomendation, we went to Bermondsey (sp?) where we were too aggrivated to do anything other than have a swanky late lunch and then wander around London bloated and full of pee while losing our minds in the crowds and fleeing back to Woking which we've decided has deliberately decided to be crap just so that it doesn't draw the crowds like London does.

Congratulations Woking for your determination to be crap!

E is in bed already and I'm freaking out over the fact that we're leaving for Egypt on Wednesday and we're not prepared in any way, shape or form.

PS- Mom: The reason why we ain't blogging much is because we're either too boring or too busy to blog.

PPS- Sean: Hot Fuzz lives up to the hype and then some. I think overall it's better than Shaun of the Dead. Yarp!

Thursday already?
Mood:  not sure
Topic: Elisabeth's Entries

I actually have nothing to say. It feels strange to feel that nothing has happened over the course of a few days--even though I feel I've been busy. I've just been working, Stephen's been working, he went to see ...Trail of Dead on Tues. night, I dontated blood yesterday...and the list runs out there. The flat is pretty filthy and we have no plans for tonight.

Later..

*sigh*
Now Playing: The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
Topic: Stephen Says
I was hoping that Elisabeth would do some blogging over the weekend - it's been a busy one for her - Off to the West End to a 'Big Play' that got her hackels up, etc, etc, etc. She's also been excessively (Not really excessively) celebratory and has been out drinking me which is good for her to be cutting loose but also kind of worrying as it probably means that I'm just not drinking enough.

We watched a great TV series State of Play that's a terse 6 hour political thriller. I reccomend y'all check it out, especially you folks in North America because it's being made into an Amurrikan moveee starring Bradley Pitt which means it's basically going to suck because it'll have at least 4 hours of drama removed from it, made stupid and the Bradley Pitt hasn't put out a decent film in at least 5 years.

We're off to see Hot Fuzz tonight and I can't freakin' wait!

Tomorrow: I'm seeing ...And You Will Know us by the Trail of Dead in London - A band that I've been waiting to see for at least five years and, while they're a little past their prime, should be very, very cool to see.

Yay, a busy week. And there's more to come...

Monday catch-up
Mood:  lazy
Topic: Elisabeth's Entries

Since the last post, we have generally been eating and drinking and being lazy. Thurs. night we went to our favourite Italian restaurant, L'Aroma and had prosecco, wine, limoncello and delicious food. Then we went to the pub for more.

Needless to say I was quite hungover at work on Fri. and couldn't wait to go to bed. Saturday Stephen had to work, and I went to see David Hare's "Amy's View" at the Garrick theatre in London.

I really enjoyed the play, and the lead actress was wonderful. However, seeing a play on the westend is god awful. People going in and out of the theatre, mobile phones going off, opening cans of soda, coughing, unwrapping plastic foil, whispering... all throughout the show and it just drove me crazy. People weren't there to learn, just to be entertained...but perhaps it had something to do with the fact I was sitting in the "gods" which was far enough away from the stage that binoculars were available for rent for 50p.

Anyway, Sunday we just chilled out, ended up at the pub, and then drinking at home (what's going on?!) and then watched State of Play, an excellent BBC 6 part TV series.

I've gotta go to work now...

She's Gotta Ticket to Ride
Mood:  celebratory
Topic: Elisabeth's Entries

Passed. I passed. Whhoooopppeee! Within 4 weeks I'll have a driver's license! A full license! Wheee!! I'm a freak with joy!

Only 3 minors...and I knew I did them all...

Zing zang ...I've gotta go drink...

Kinda makes me homesick
Topic: Stephen Says
Linkitty.

A few pics
Topic: Stephen Says
As promised...

First off the bat, this is me suffering fr art as the pizzs that were placed on my eyes were really quite hot:

Elisabeth rocking out and doing some recording:

And finally, a birds eye view of the state our flat was in after the manic art night we had this past Friday:

The touques were, of course, necessary as there's no damn heating in our flat and there's no one living below us to let us sponge heat off of. The good side of this, however, is that our electricity company owes us 40 pounds for over estimating the amount of energy we use.

Blah blah continued
Now Playing: Beirut - Gulag Orkestra / The Lon Gisland EP
Topic: Stephen Says
Bah! I was going to put up some pictures but the computer decided that the camera's battery was flat so now I can't.

Another week and what can I say? Not too much to be honest - E&I worked and spent our first weekend together in ages which has been very, very pleasant. It's nice to be reminded that we get along really quite well and don't hate each others guts. Long may love last.

Any post-Christmas dieting has gone out the window as Elisabeth and I have been gorging ourselves on utter crap (and not quite so crap) and she has been managing to drink more than me over the last few days which is quite spooky. That said, I think she's needed a good dose of unwinding for a while and it's nice to see her cut loose. She's all aplogetic for it now and is making an Armenian soup for dinner while I drink Carlsberg and eat bubbly mint crisp flavoured chocolate on a crunchy chocolate biscuit covered in milk chocolate.

I was dragged into Guildford yesterday where we window shopped, bought music and gorged ourselves on Indian food for lunch. A meal that reduced Elisabeth to an IQ of about 12 as papadoms and aloo gobi replaced her brain cells. I, however, stuck to the biryani, naan and pints of Kingfisher so that I was able to let out farts repugnant enough to upset the emo kid in our carriage so much that he and his fake Keds had to turn away from me in disgust.

Today was a typical paper & pub day for me while Elisabeth shopped for Egypt-wear. e.g., cool conservative clothes for a hot Muslem country.

(Tha's gotta be a great title for something.)

Another week begins soon where I will work (Not that I haven't this weekend as I was receiving particulary annoying 'what do I do?' phone calls all Friday night and more calls today which I've chosen to ignore), Elisabeth will work, etc... She's got another driving test on Thursday and I'm spending Valentines day doing a sleep in. Ah the romance! Can you smell it?

Smells like a biryani passed through my system.

Pics to follow should the laptop decide the camera's battery is suficiently charged...