Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Working nine to five...

OK well I have not updated for a bit so now I have some downtime here goes!
I managed to get some more work in Guernsey and went back there for 3 weeks. Was good again but not as good as last time as it was dark so early there that I couldnt really do anything as I didnt want to get mowed down by a car when there is no pavement and barely any street lighting! Was nice nice to be earning though!
After 3 weeks there I was wierdly asked back to the job I originally had in London so that was convenient to get to, but also strange coming back. Most people just acted like I had been on holiday for the past 3 months and they just hadn't seen me! Although I have only been here for a week it feels like lifetime...roll on my brother visiting!!

Other than work I have been keeping a full schedule. Before leaving Guernsey I went for dinner with 2 ladies from work there which was nice. I had the most delicious steak ever and really did stuff myself. I also had entirely too much red wine so by the time I had to go home I was a bit fuzzy and also had to get straight to bed as I had to catch a plane back to London the next day. I managed to get to the airport OK, (unlike getting to Guernsey where I was the LAST person on the plane...they were about to do the "will the remaining passenger..." call. Had to walk past everyone to get to my seat, was mortifying).

After I got back and finally got to my room I had to do about 100 loads of laundry as I had left tons there, seeing as I left in a hurry, and had brought all mine back with me so that was a glam Saturday afternoon. Housework and non-drinking never lasts long though so after Anna came over to collect her mail I went with her to Primark and spent about £50 on what I do not know. That was enough to make anyone thirsty so it was off to the pub after that for dinner and yes more drinking! Sunday was uneventful as I wasnt feeling too well and so just hibernated in bed. I didnt really even bother tidying up all that much so it was a bit of a disaster on Monday morning trying to find clean clothes and make it to work on time. Luckily, or not, I remembered all the passwords and log-ons I had so I managed to slip right back in with no problems. Last week felt like I had never been away!

This past weekend was a good one. On Friday Tanya came over and we had a few drinks and watched a DVD as we had to get up at the crack of dawn the next day to go to Belgium for the Christmas markets for the day! It was truly awful getting up at 4am but I fell asleep on the bus down to Dover so that was not too bad. I still have a sore neck though! After the bus then the ferry then the bus again we finally got to Brugge and went to the Christmas markets there! It was so so so pretty, they had a big ice skating rink in the middle of it all and I partook in rather a lot of very festive mulled wine. I also bought some Christmasy stuff and obviously lots of chocolate. It was good fun as 6 of us were all there toghther so we wondered about and just had a nice festive day. At about 5 we caught the bus back to the ferry then back to Dover then back to London. It was awesome coming back into London with all the lights on, the London eye especially was looking very very nice in a kind of purple. Incidentally, Blue and Purple and their derivatives seem to be the colours of choice here at the moment, all the really fancy trees have been blue and I even bought al tiny Christmas tree for the lounge at home and its black with Purple and Pink glass baubles on them. Very cute.

Anyway, on Sunday I had a burger King craving so Tanya and I fed that obsession and did some shopping (I cannot resist Primark £4 pijamas)and then met up with another friend and we went into Lecister square and yes, yet again went to a pub and had some drinking. I forget where we went but it was not the pub I wanted which was called something like 'The Surgeons Scalpel'. After rather a lot of drinking and catching up, we went to dinner and then to see 'The Holiday' which made me want my own Jude Law, or at least my own festive boyfriend. And then the movie finished and I thought that maybe I didn't. There is a big fun fair kind of thing in Lecister Square at the moment and I really really wanted to go on some of the rides but it was late and really I thought I would be back there soon.

Phew and that brings me up to date! This weekend I almost want to go to the Christmas markets in York but I dont have anything else to buy so think I wont. There is some talk to going ice skating at the Tower of London on Saturday so will have to try and manage that. Also on the agenda is trying some of those rides and also booking my Christmas and New Year events. Its looking greatly like I will be going to Dublin for New Year which will be awesome but more on that late. As for jobs, I may also have more on that later but will have to seeeeeeeeeeeeeee....

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