And while Elisabeth is doing chores...
Mood:  spacey
Topic: Stephen Says
There was myself and the other vegetarian at work cooking the Sunday lunch. And what did we whip up?
-Roast garlic pork,
-Roast potatos,
-Roast onions,
-Roasted carrots in thyme,
-Yorkshire puddings,
-And assorted veggies (Carrots, peas & cabbage).
-Plus gravy, of course & mint sauce & apple sauce.
Yum Yum.

Chores
Mood:  chillin'
Now Playing: BBC4
Topic: Elisabeth's Entries
It is raining. The sky is grey. It is November in the UK.

Sunday morning Stephen is at work, I slept in. I tested my mettle and in shorts and t-shirt went for a run to see if I could stand running in the rain. It was surprisingly relaxing. And I now have no excuse in the mornings not to go running just because of the weather.

Saturday I woke up with cotton in my brain having thoroughly enjoyed my Bridget Jones Fri. night. I went into town, and what do you know? I ran into Stephen on his way to do the weekly grocery shopping for his residence. So I joined him, and witnessed the insanity that is Morissons & shopping on a shoestring for 8 people for a week. It was like shopping for an American family: crisps, ready-made meals, 5 gallons of milk, pork, vegetables, cereal, coffee, tea, etc...

I helped him pack the bags...full cart! And waited for the cab to collect him. Then into town I went and was harassed by an stallkeeper in the Italian market that was set up in the town square. I did buy a slice of nougat that sadly neither Stephen or I cared for, but ate all the same.

Today is chore day: laundry, vacuum, etc... BYE!

Girlie Drunk
Mood:  party time!
Now Playing: Barbara Streisands Greatest---shuffled play
Topic: Elisabeth's Entries
Stephen's not here...I've been through the Hairbrush Diva's dual CD, ate a fried egg sandwich, walked into town, bought a bottle of chardonnay, a girlie magazine, and some Wallace and Grommit cupcakes.

And I've tried on the free makeup samples that came with the zine...the effect of all this combined with some Barabra can be summarized:

-hiccup-ooo

Blah! Not enough coffee = grumpy blogging
Mood:  cheeky
Now Playing: Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Topic: Stephen Says
I'm counting down the hours to a fun 25 hour shift at work. It's always like this when I have to pull this stunt: A bit of dread and then I show up and I feel more dread and then, by 9pm, I just want to kick all my co-workers out so that I can hang out with the residents & watch TV. The Hitcher is on tonight so Big Excitement there.

Then I get up tomorrow, stinking of cigarette smoke & eat a shitty breakfast and catch up on paper & course work all day while chatting to residents, before I slink out of the house at around 3 and head home to where there some chilled cans of cider waiting for me in the fridge and a nice hot shower.

And from there I have to fight the urge to get pissed because I've got to be back at work on Sunday morning at 8:30AM. But that's not a tough fight because I'm usually in bed by 9 o'clock, anyway and Sunday is fun because it mostly involves cooking a roast and watching TV shows for deaf people. Which is funny and sad all at the same time.

I'm constantly surprised by how much London sucks. Yesterday I had to get in there early for my course and I'm perpetually disgusted by the sad sack business men all doing work on their lap tops in the train, bustling into the tube station... honestly, it's like the 1930's movie Metropolis. And then, ass soon as you're on street level in the city, all these dopey zombies suddenly go into London mode and go whizzing all over the place, bumping into each other like a three year old with tunnel vision who hasn't taken his ritalin.

I had a good conversation about theatre in London but I just can't get excited about it. The city & it's mind-set ruins it for me. If I was God, I would spike London's water supply with horse tranquilizers.

The Evening Post
Now Playing: BBC4
Topic: Elisabeth's Entries

I got home and panicked. Not job related this time...but because Stephen wasn't here. No messages on the phones, and his mobile was turned off.

Muggings, bombings, accidents...

Turns out he was in London having drinks with a girl. An old classmate. Training day my arse...

Even though I knew he was having a rendez-vous, why was he still out, and not contactable? It turns out Stephen was on his way home on the underground when I tried his phone...so he then called me and put me out of my misery after only 5 min. of Panick.

What's up with me? Protective, jealous, possessive, paranoid? Or just not used to breaks in routine?

No---I'm just a concerned and loving lovely wifie...

Anyway, today was a good day...another day in the deep-end at work as the two other sales people were out of the office, leaving me to figure things out...which is a good way to learn.

Friday is dress casual day & I'm looking forward to wearing flats for once!

I tried personalizing my desk a bit...I bought a little potted plant, brought in a little (non-Innova) photo frame, and a little trinket from Hong Kong. I'll slowly rearrange things to erase the previous users, and then, and only then will I feel properly settled in. Funny how territorial I am.

Anyway, looking forward to the weekend...I feel a winter clean is in order.

Arrivaderci

Windy and Rainy
Mood:  energetic
Now Playing: BBC4
Topic: Elisabeth's Entries
It's a cold, rainy and windy morning, so shoot...it's just not running weather...

Stephen's making his toast, and will soon to off to Londun for his training.

I'm eating toast, and have run out of things to say.

Me Too!
Mood:  lazy
Now Playing: And You Will Know Us By theTrail of Dead
Topic: Elisabeth's Entries

Didn't end up doing any theatre stuff...hopefully tonight. Did go for a run this morning, did go to work (so did Stephen), and we've had leftovers for dinner, Stephen was kind enough to bring a fresh baguette home...so we're now happily full.

Today was my first panic ...wait...

Stephen wants me to say that he'll be acting deputy manager now (unofficially--but will get increased pay), for either 2 weeks, or 4 months...and so he'll be working more, and blogging less?

Anyway, today was my first panic that I've started working at another office. Now that I'm getting settled, I've had a chance to reflect that this is not the way I get my kicks...and will have to figure out how to resolve this, in time.

Anyway, here's a picture of my new haircut...from one angle...

And while Elisabeth was blogging...
Mood:  spacey
Now Playing: BBC Radio 4! Ooooooh!
Topic: Stephen Says
This what I looked like when I showed up to Snowdon's Cristmas party:

And this is what I looked like at the end of the party:

I never got out to the metal concert last night - setting off fireworks was much more exciting.

It's Halloween and I'm Blogging
Mood:  mischievious
Topic: Elisabeth's Entries
Yes...it has been a while. Comparatively.

I hope you are all having/had a more exciting Halloween than I am/did. I can hear fireworks going off not too far away, and saw a band (probably Draven) tuning up in the town square as I got groceries after work. I remembered then that last year Stephen & I went out to see the teenage-crowded concert and enjoyed it. This year, I can't feel bothered to go, it's like Halloween is not really happening. But Stephen will be there with a couple of the residents tonight.

So this last weekend was the start of cleaning up my appearance for work, and I finally got a haircut. It's nice, but I've got to figure out how to tame it! On Sat. I went into Guildford for a birthday party, and went a bit early to do some serious shopping...only coming away with a pair of trousers. Stephen chastised me on Sunday because I am so silly about buying clothes that don't go with anything else. So he advised me on what to look for, came with me to the department store in Woking, and actually made suggestions as to which shirts I should try on...and I came away with 4 new tops, all of which go with other things I have. I never would have picked these out on my own. I'm also always wondering why people mistake Stephen for being gay.

But I win on both counts...a great personal shopper, and a great husband ;P (Sorry Stephen---you can edit this blog later if you like...)

So I went to a party, Stephen went to a different party, and who got blasted? Yup...but I managed to bike home from the station, and not remember the rest of the night. Stephen on the other hand drank responsibly and had a very good time.

Work's going well...I've started answering customer calls, and accidently disconnecting them instead of transferring...

I'm meeting more and more serious office people than I could ever dream of...and I don't dream of that.

Done the laundry, cooked a ratatouille, and hopefully will work on some theatre stuff. Tomorrow my plan is to wake at 7, go for a quick jog, shower, tame my hair (if possible), eat breakies, work, come home and crash.

Hope you all had a spooky one.

Panic!
Mood:  lazy
Now Playing: Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
Topic: Stephen Says
Rightie ho, here is some more gratuitous pointless blogging:

Elisabeth has just blown out of the house because she's late for a hair consultation and hasn't eaten her pancakes. Tut tut.

Today's going to be very hectic - She's off to Guildford this afternoon to pick up some proper, office related clothes, followed by a birthday/Halloween party in a pub.

Me? Well now that I'm no longer in posession of a housewife, I've got to roll up my sleeves and start doing some laundry & shopping today before I head off to Wimbledon for my own Halloween party.

Work has gotten quite busy after a few quiet & boring weeks but at the same time, I'm more experienced than I was when I started and it's very nice to be able to actually fix people's peoblems instead of delegate them to other people.

For Halloween, the residence will be blowing up the back lawn with fireworks and then I'm going to see Woking's yearly metal concert with a few of the younger guys. It's the same band, etc from last year. I don't know if y'all remember all that. It's the thing that involves saving children who's skin fall off.

Then on Tursday I've got to go into London for more of this NVQ3 stuff. I checked out what we're going to be covering and part of the day will be explaining just what the hell an NVQ3 is.

Oh, and my supervisor has given s a CD re-writer but it doesn't have any cords or wires. Anyone (Sean) know what wires I need to buy???

Nothing else is going on but I should stop doing this and get a move on.

I'm Blogcrastinating.