Yesterday me and the chip went on a pub crawl with Cuz, Karen, Stymaster and the stymistress around the delights of Wolverhampton and Bilston – I know how to show her a good time. As the afternoon went on we had to make a dash in a taxi over to our good friends Sam n Jon for some lovely dinner and more beer. Woke up this morning full of spring joy and have recorded a song to celebrate just how blummin great our life is and how lucky we are. I blame this song for the direction my mind is in as it’s not only a beautiful tune but its catchy as flip to boot:
OK, I’ve given it a fair chance now but I simply do not get the point. Last night we went to the imax and saw Tim Burton’s latest sh*tfest in 3d and surprisingly all 4 of us fell asleep. The headache I get as a result of constant eye strain for 3 or 4 immersive moments just isn’t on. That’s me, I’m done. Well got back confused, annoyed and frustrated at a film that was poor. If I wanted to feel like that I would go to the Wolves. Anyroad, we got back to Kates and watched an Iron Maiden docu nay rockumentary and felt much better about life. Scream for me Rowley!….
Saturday we had a well deserved day off from life and didn’t get out of our pyjamas all day and night. We bought the full box set of the Soprano’s at Xmas and have been watching them off and on since so we decided to go full on this weekend given the empty diary and managed to get to the end of season 4 by early Sunday morning. Once we surfaced on Sunday, we had a lovely dinner at TGI Friday’s to mark the 12 month anniversary of our engagement – we had our dinner at TGI’s in Times Square you see so it was only fitting to do the same restaurant. Bloody great too, really improved the food since last time. Great weekend and I flippin love my wife…
Dad, Luke, Chip and I went to the Wolves on Saturday and witnessed Chelsea beat us 2-0 but that was to be expected. It was a great atmosphere and a good introduction for my wife to the game that so much of the country is obsessed by. She even got into the chants despite the biting wind in the Molineux! A great time had by all and it was lovely to have Luke and Bobbi stay over, Mills was a tad upset that they had gone this morning. Last night we had more visitors stay over – my Mom’s dogs. It was seriously cold last night so I made the decision that they should stay in the kitchen and it was a decision that I regretted several times during the night…those pesky animals are outside tonight!
Well that’s what Mills had to say about the Christening of Charles yesterday. Everyone had a grand day out in our local Church and then back to the ranch for a lovely party. Mills was inseparable from Izzy all afternoon and it was great to see her play like a loon. Special mention must go to my wife who looked simply stunning and radiated beauty all day. I’m a very lucky man…
Me and the missus are planning a day out in London village to celebrate our 1 year of being engaged and I came across this google thing this morning that gives you a tour that is linked into google maps – as both of us have android phones, it makes sense. I love the idea that you can use gps on your phone to do great stuff like follow a tour but the comic in me had to check out if Wolverhampton was in there and sure enough it is. A two day tour of the wonders this fine city has to offer…. someone with a sense of humour methinks…
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…
