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Topic: Stephen Says
Whee, it's Friday & E&I are both off tomorrow. We're off to our second favorite Restauranto Italliano tonight for din-dins. Plus booze. It's la Fete Nationale, after all and what better way than to celebrate a pointless holiday that's celebrated on the other side of the earth, than to beat your liver to death like it's a rat in your basement.

The 'heat' wave over here has come to a dramatic end with thunder & lightning storms and lightning strikes on the main stage of the Glastonbury festival.

Elisabeth's wounds are healing slowly. Her arms no longer look too bad. Just kind of like how Jesus looked in The Passion of the Christ. At least I assume they do - I can't bother to waste my time on that right-wing pap; bring on my DVD's of M*A*S*H season 3!

Kudos to Markus Barkus & Dr. J for making a very good and correct and holy decision concerning their Xmas plans.

G'night!

just stuff
Now Playing: Elisabeth playing the piano
Topic: Stephen Says
You know, I'd blog a heck of alot more if I wasn't working 13 hour days. Like the one I did today. Or the one I'm going to do tomorrow. Or the one I did before. And the one I'm going to do after.

E took a header off her bike by the canal today and has some terribly sexy road rash on her arms & palms and her thigh is turning, oh, lets say... mauve. It'll be black this time tomorrow.

So, like the Fraggles, we're drinking our cares away. Well, sorta like the Fraggles.

Busy, busy, busy, light blogging, etc...

PS- according to Angelfire's top 100 blogs, we're #5. Got figure. That means that there are 5 people even lamer than us and 20,000,000 less lame. LiveJournal, Eff-off. At least until we need you, that is.

Toodleoo!

Gratuitous Linkage
Now Playing: See below but add a pneumatic drill off in the distance
Topic: Stephen Says
CLICK HERE.

It's a pretty amusing blog, period, and, while the 1st 3rd might not make too much sense unless you've been following the minutiae of his life, when he starts ranting about Air Canada, well, um, yeah, it's true.

Oh, and light blogging for he next few days - Very busy.

Just some stuff
Now Playing: the clatter of the train, the um of the fan, the fat blow-hard on the radio ranting in his wheezy, flinty voice
Topic: Stephen Says
You know, I really should type ‘light blogging for the next few days’ at the top of every blog entry that I do, because that usually means that there will be some actual blogging going on, instead of dead silence. So, um, anyway, light blogging over the next few days – Very busy over here.

Over on my end of the stick, I’m still really enjoying my job. Now that the inspection is over and the various problems with residents is over, it’s actually quite relaxing: Giving out medication, chatting to people, organizing activities, blah, blah, blah. By my figuring, I’m working 5 weeks in terms of hours for every four weeks of actual time. Make sense? The main problem is the degree to which we’re massively understaffed but the amount of freely available overtime is very nice for my wallet as we’ll should be able to get out of debt almost as quickly as Elisabeth is building it up. And yeah, she will kill me for that comment but, Jesus, do you know how much that piano cost?!?

As for England, well, it’s hot. But I won’t complain, since I understand that Mtl & T-dot are, of course, much hotter and much more humid (Show offs!). The significant advancement in my overall maturity is that I’ve gone & bought myself shorts. Willingly. Happily without argument. The big test is today when I hit Guildford for a new pair of shoes. Baby steps. Baby steps.

Anywho, it’s my day off & I’m only starting my second cup of coffee (I need 3 to function at above 75% capacity) so I’m not fully together. Hoping that there’s a long promised thunderstorm soon so that the humidity will be cut. I’m slowly melting. Oh, and light blogging for the next few days – Very busy over here.

The Cotton Anniversary
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Elisabeth's Entries
Since this past Tuesday, Stephen & I have been married for 2 years!!

And only after 2 years of marriage have we begun to do anything close to a honeymoon...(we had no money in Paris...)

We booked at lastminute.com...and got a good deal on a 5 star hotel deluxe room with a river view.

And on closer inspection:

In short, the view was stunning. Especially at night...cor blimey govna'

When we arrived, the room was not ready. But the hotel gave us a sign that our marriage was truly meant to be: complementary drinks at the bar....And what a bar! There was a quiet garden with heating lamps (and yes, we needed them) a trickling fountain, flowers, etc... very relaxing. And relax we did with the help of Organic chardonnay & Jack Daniels. Bliss.

Once the room was ready we were hungry & left to walk through the tourist infested streets of covent garden & soho. We found a laid-back place called Soho Pizzeria (I wonder why this caught Stephen's eye). We ate pizzas to rival that of Don Benis (sorry Mr. Beni...).

Afterwords, we felt we had cultured ourselves enough, and reverted back into our chav-y ways and went to Tescos to buy cheap Cuvee, wine and cookies.

Back at the hotel we watched TV (a big night out, we know, we know!). I saw Big Brother for the first time. Who Wants to Be A Millionaire was also just the ticket. So we drank cheap wine & ate cookies in bed watching the boob tube..how romatic are we??

In the morning Stephen made and drank every complementary tea & coffee. Yes, even the decaff...it was such a fancy coffee maker. Very hard to resist.

We then walked to a much more peaceful & deserted Covent Garden for breakfast, where we found a little terraced joint called the Rock Garden. Service was slow, but it was the best English breakfast we'd had.

After strolling through the streets, we ended up at the Saatchi gallery, and actually paid to go inside. Big mistake...all the art seemed hyped to make you think "gosh, how disturbing..." But after being married to a man who has perfected the art of drawing disturbing monsters and people, nothing Saatchi had to offer could compare with what's drawn on our pink table. That is, except for a room half-filled with engine oil. You have to read a warning before you enter, and there is a steel runway with walls that come up to your chest that are holding back the oil. Very cool, and very smelly.

But just to prove that our weekend was indeed exceptional, here is a picture of...OH MY GOD!!! IS THAT A BLUE SKY IN LONDON???!!!

Apocalypse!
Topic: Stephen Says
Yes, yes, yes at long last we saw it! And yeah, it rocked. Almost too much of a movie to take in in one viewing. And if you haven't seen all three season (plus special), then you'll probably find yourself just sitting there wondering when they'll get around to telling a joke.

Click here you bums who have high speed/ broadband internet for more weirdness.

It's one of these weird films that both Elisabeth and I would happily go back to the theatre to see a second time. It's a terrible shame that there's pretty much a 0% chance of the movie (let alone the show) getting released in North America.

Bring on December! E&I have already booked tickes to see The League's Christmas show...

"Look! I made a brown fish."

Tired
Topic: Stephen Says
I didn't mean to work so much this week. But I did. Thank God for the 5 star hotel waiting for me in London tomorrow. Thank God for Elisabeth's piano music. She's able to play the Buckaroo Banzai theme song on it already in all it's 1984 electro glory. Thank God for overtime pay because this damn piano is good but costs an arm & a leg & a kidney & and 3 pints of blood belonging to an albino virgin from the Magic Land of Moo.

Da duh da da duh dadada DA
Da duh da da duh dadada DA
Duh da da da dadedaaaaaa

and then, later on it goes

meooooooooooooooooooooow
zeooooooooooooooooooooow

Keep Reading Down
Mood:  bright
Now Playing: The office
Topic: Elisabeth's Entries
Do not be side tracked by wonderful pictures of pianos, and read on, until you are sure you understand Stephen's mental state...

A new member to the family!
Mood:  celebratory
Topic: Elisabeth's Entries

Hip Hip Horay!!

Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'
Mood:  caffeinated
Now Playing: bliss
Topic: Elisabeth's Entries
To my left, you will see an unblemished BLUE sky! Notice the abundance of sunshine which shows off the lush greenery. Yup, it is a GOOD day in England today, and I have a day off of work!!! YAHOOOO!

The reason is not the weather, but that my new piano is being delivered today!!!

Stephen is on Day 2 of his Mental Health Awareness training course in Basingstoke. Unfortunately he is also doing a night shift, so I will not see him until tomorrow afternoon, when I better have some cold cider waiting for him, or else everything he has learned about mental health will go out the window....speaking of which...last night after spilling my wine, we decided to go to the pub to finish of the evening. At the bell for last call, Stephen rushed up to get that last pint...you know the pint you really want but don't need? All was well until 2am when Stephen got up to take a leak, and opened the door to the communal hallway, wearing nothing but his birthday suit. When I groggily asked "What the hell are you doing?" Stephen told me to chill out, it's ok. HA Hha hahaha....he couldn't believe it this morning that he went into the hallway stark naked expecting to discover a place to piss..... Ah the beauty of it.

So yes, Stephen is at a Mental Health Awareness training course today.