The big exam day has arrived. 16 year old girls are stressy enough without the nausea of 5 exams in one day. Went shopping last night for high energy snacks and currently making her favourite dippy eggs for breakfast.
Fire alarm went off at work today… didn’t happen at the best of times.. I was knee deep in deeds searching for an item that was lost not quite where it was meant to be. It turns out that despite our fire drill last week they thought it might be a fabulous idea to do it all again this week… which is a right royal pain in the arse.
What alieviated a particularly tiresome 30 minutes was watching women young and old (OK… by that I mean almost every woman in the place apart from a select few… including me because I am… after all… a lady) go simply gaga when the fire brigade turned up.
I’m sorry but I fail to understand where this myth of handsome and incredibly hot (pardon the pun) firefighters comes from. If there are any hot firefighters they sure as shit aren’t in Plymouth. From where I was standing they looked mighty grumpy and pissed off to have to put their massive uniforms on on such a warm and delightful day.
Yeah… and from where I’m standing (which is right next to a miserable old goat who has forgotten what it’s like to have her nipple ring tugged by someone other than herself) a wedding band sure as shit does the trick in downgrading hotness.
gooneruk:
I love how Amazon really does undercut the competition massively. I’ve had a quick comparison with another website for a little set of books I want to pick up for summer reading:
Nicola Barker, Behindlings
Sergei Lukyanenko, The Night Watch
Lionel Shriver, We Need To Talk About Kevin
John Twelve Hawks, Dark River
On Amazon, it’s £20.38 for the lot, delivered. Waterstone’s was £25.96, WH Smith was relatively competitive but whacked on £3 for postage, making £24.76, and the Guardian is £30.96. Only Tesco gets competitive, at £20.52, but you have enter a code for free delivery to get that.
So, thanks to this little unscientific survey, I now know where I can buy my books. I like wasting time at work.
I had a moment like this yesterday… Flight of the Conchords is out.. I looked on Amazon £7.98… HMV Online.. £7.99… I wandered in to HMV at lunchtime and it’s there… for £12.99… All ordered from Amazon…
For the last few days I’ve felt a bit crappy…. not sure why… just have done.
Last night as I lay in bed reading my book with a packet of crisps and a mini milky way it suddenly dawned on me…. this (looking at the empty packet of crisps and half eaten milky way) is why I’m feeling crappy. In the last few weeks I’ve fallen back in to my old ways of snacking on crap and eating shit…. and before it shows up on my scales… its showing up in my emotions.
Then I had a good cry and fell asleep.
End of…
brightmeadow:
What’s the name of the guy who wrote Do Androids Dream and Total Recall?
Dick… Philip K. Dick… he also wrote Minority Report and Scanner Darkly.
fatmanatee:
ellebelle:
carolynannahall:
This is just classic from the very funny Noelle Hancock.
I was having drinks with my friend Manish last weekend when he stopped to admire my new sandals. “I like them because the straps are thick,” he said, looking them over with approval. “Not too revealing.”
“It’s possible to have shoes that are too revealing?” I asked.
“Absolutely,” he said. “If a girl is showing too much foot, I assume that she’s a slut. Especially – especially – if they’re lace-up. I think it’s part of the fall-out from Sex and the City.”
“I thought the slut litmus test was always the tramp stamp — whether or not the girl has a back tattoo?” I said.
“Oh, strappy sandals are the new back tattoo,” he declared. “The first thing I do when I meet a girl is check out her feet. If her shoes are too skimpy, I won’t go there.” Who knew?
I am in so much trouble as strappy shoes are one of the things I most look forward to about summer.
Someone please tell Noelle to get a tumblr because I love her blog but am too lazy to visit Wordpress blogs outside of a very selective few.
I’m Christ… I’m screwed then…
I have a back tattoo which I got almost 15 years ago… long before they were the “tramp stamps”. I probably pay more each time I got it recoloured than some girls spend on their “pieces”.. and I too love the summer as it’s the perfect excuse for strappy sandals. Is there a correlation between what the sandals are worn with? As soon as the sun is shining I pile my short ass body on top of 3 or 4 inch strappy sandals but most of the time they’re hidden by jeans.
Do I redeem myself by keeping my feet and “tramp stamp” covered?
