Spent the first half of the weekend doing very little and the second half doing very little for different reasons. Saturday we had a lazy day chilling out watching movies and kicking back before we went out to my Gdad’s surprise 90th Birthday party in Netherton. Had a great night with the Trevis family and then came home. At 05.30 I find myself driving the porcelain bus and being sick, just couldn’t understand why and went back to bed. Two hours later, more of the same. And so it went on for most of the day. By now I am feeling very sorry for myself and have started officially making my last will and Heather has called for a priest. Took 24 hours to work itself out of my system. No-one else at the party has been affected so I have no clue what happened. My Grandad had a great time and partied until past 1. He rocks.
In other news, my car is being a pain. It’s now got a lovely pattern of refusing to start if it has been driven in the previous hour. Not normally a problem when I’m at work or going to work but when I nip into a supermarket or have lunch at a pub, its not funny. Its in the garage on Thursday but I think its time to get rid. I’ll open the floor to suggestions, I have two big dogs and a child – my thoughts are a Nissan X-Trail…..
Driving in this morning was not fun. A whole inch of snow and people in **4×4** vehicles driving like they had not seen snow before. It’s not like we haven’t had to deal with snow already this year. OMG. It took an hour to do my normal 20 minute journey purely because people can’t drive in these ‘conditions’. There was nothing out of the ordinary snow-wise, just a little care and low revs was all that my dodgy old front wheel drive car needed when I passed 2 vehicles who figured that the best way to get up a hill was to gun it in 1st. It put me in such a bad mood that the first 3 phone calls I took were left in tears. Well not quite, but I had to take a moment and calm down before continuing….
We have tickets to Download! Woohoo! AC-DC headliners, come on!!!
One of the many pleasures of being drunk and having a bank card is that you sometimes don’t remember how or why you have purchased something until it arrives. At some point before Christmas I must have thought it was a great idea to buy a Zoo for the Wii and we got to play with it this weekend with Mills. You choose your animals, the sex and then put them in an enclosure. Mills wanted 2 tapirs, 2 elephants and 2 hippos and named them all in her special language that cracks us up. The only caveat is that you have to clean the enclosures, feed them, call them and pet them twice a day or else you get naughty or gluttonous animals. Which is what we’ve got. I bring this all on myself…
In other news we went to see Henry Rollins on Saturday with the ginger half of the Bones as man Bone had man flu or more than likely Norovirus Bone which flows off the tongue much like the projectile vomit he was suffering from. Henry did his thang and brought us up to date with what he had been up to in his own humorous, rapid and intense style. I’ve gone on at great length previously about him, nuff said.
Tonight is the first live rehearsal with a band for over a year and I’m nervous/excited as I’m very rusty. That once important part of my life has been dormant for ages and when I picked up a bass last night and it felt weird. I’ve been playing drums and guitar too much over the past year. The reason for it is a one off gig to provide a band for a young singer and we will be playing both types of music – Country and Western. Should be a giggle…
CAN WE GET BACK TO OUR LIFE AGAIN NOW PLEASE?..
0 Comments Published January 19th, 2010 in General Stuff.Last night marked the first good nights sleep in a long while and flippin flip did we need it! To cut a long story short but not so short as to rob it of effect, our boiler died on 23/12/09 and we moved in to my Mom’s who very kindly put us up for a month while we got our house sorted.
Fast forward to last night and we now have 5 new radiators, a brand new boiler, a very warm house, lots of holes in walls, two happy to be home dogs and a wife who is warmer but now wants to move bedrooms.
So, last night we switched rooms and moved into the newer end of the house that hasn’t got drafty windows and hasn’t got curtains that give the street a silhouette show every night. And then finally this morning we woke up nice and toasty in the new room. Both of us with a sense of relief that we can get back to some sort of normal routine. Well, the alarm going off at 06.00 and us both trudging around like zombies in our house waking up equally zombie like dogs, just like it should be.
A massive thanks to Mom and Paul for having us, we wouldn’t have survived the snowy last couple of weeks without a divorce and a plane leaving to California!
Its been 2nd stomach time for over a month now. My normal Feb clean out of being healthy in food and drink is really required. Today yet more Xmas goodies have come out of the work colleague’s kitchen – Stollen is just too good to say no to….Might need to bring forward the POW camp regime…
First day back in work blues all round but it is further enhanced by having Wii arm ache after a lot of Wii Sports Resort. Chip on the other hand is currently freezing in Wolverhampton waiting to start her new job. For the record it is -7 C in Bridgnorth this morning. I woke up again this morning with my eyes stuck together and eyes so bloodshot you would think that me and Tone polished off a bottle of rum on Saturday night – oh hang on we did polish off a bottle and then some but the sticky eye issue is probably conjunctivitis thanks to the Moo. Either way I’m kinda happy to be back at work as I have gained a considerable amount of weight since leaving work and the Guinness family will be able to have a nice spring break on me. Oh and I didn’t send anyone a new years message via txt this year as a) I couldn’t be arsed and b) see point a so don’t think I was being rude…well no more than usual…
Given that we are currently homeless, my wife is 5000 miles away from normality, my daughter has been back and forth between parents and the dogs are co-habiting with two other dogs I can safely say that we have had the best chrimbles I can remember. Great food, great family and great times. So is it ok for me to revert back to the grinch until December 1st 2010? Thank you everyone for such wonderful presents for all of us especially Mills who had some amazin gifts and was wide eyed in excitement. Even the dogs had presents! Ta very much…
Probably not the thing you should be saying to yourself whilst in the village church but flippin flip did I need a wee…its coming out of me like a yellow cable…..well that was a nice xmas eve. The morning with me daughter, the day with me family, the evening full of beef and guiness. You might find it odd that a stout agnost like me should go to a church but hey ho, if i’d married a muslim I would stand next to her because I love her not because I agree. Nice traditional way to spend the night though even if there are no palm trees and 80 degree sun shiny days…
