Beer festival today - slightly worried as Sheena announced in the pub last night that she is overly excited about introducing me to a single colleague of hers. I don't know who's worse sometimes for wanting to fix you up and get you off the streets of singledom (for everybody knows that a girl not in posession of a relationship must be in need of a boyfriend, apparently) - the friends who are already all relationshipped up, or the single ones who are looking for someone themselves.
In other disturbing news, I just found out the other day that my boss from work is up on the same dating website I am. Yuck. That feels a bit wrong somehow!
Hey ho - any gossip and I'll let you know!
Saturday, 15 August 2009
Friday, 14 August 2009
Lazy Fridays
Tomorrow I'm going to a beer festival. Pretty hilarious for a non-beer drinker (watch me fall over drunk), but there's tons of friends going, including some back from abroad and others, friends of friends that I've heard so much about and have been wanting to meet for ages, so I'm going too. However, a different group of friends want me to go with them tonight. Or I can go to the pub for an extended session with the guys and girls who are in town for tomorrow's session. I think the pub, else it's all just going to get too complicated.
Other than that, it's a nice quiet day today. The office is pretty dead, and the stress of the deadlines of the last couple of days seems to have calmed down, so I'm just pottering through what needs to be done.
I need to mooch into town this afternoon to get some Kuna for Croatia - more random currency - and perhaps the smallest of looks round the shops as I saw something in a shop window the other day that I really liked. Such a magpie when it comes to pretty things. Hopefully, I'll have time to head up for a walk on the hills for a bit after that and before dinner / pub. I could really do with the fresh air, thinking time and the views are stunning up there.
Other than that, it's a nice quiet day today. The office is pretty dead, and the stress of the deadlines of the last couple of days seems to have calmed down, so I'm just pottering through what needs to be done.
I need to mooch into town this afternoon to get some Kuna for Croatia - more random currency - and perhaps the smallest of looks round the shops as I saw something in a shop window the other day that I really liked. Such a magpie when it comes to pretty things. Hopefully, I'll have time to head up for a walk on the hills for a bit after that and before dinner / pub. I could really do with the fresh air, thinking time and the views are stunning up there.
Thursday, 13 August 2009
The storm after the lull, after the storm
Not a lot has really been happening the last couple of weeks. Scotland was absolutely awesome, but coming back is always a complete anti-climax. I hate how the stress of everyday life always starts to encroach on the last couple of days of the holiday, even though I try hard not to let it do so.
Anyhoo - Scotland was great in several ways. I had a rare chance to completely catch up on my sleep with nothing to drag me out in the mornings that I didn't want to be doing. I had time to sit and do absolutely nothing if that was what took my fancy, and enjoyed spending time just sitting round and reading, or doing puzzles, and whiled away many a happy hour playing goofy board games with friends.
The weather was fantastic, and with all the extra energy stemming from my weight loss, it was a great chance to get out and walk and run, bike and row the little boat out to nearby islands.
It was a fantastic opportunity to really catch up with friends, including some I don't see so often, and to finally meet people I've been hearing about for ages - like the infamous Ali, who I always seem to just miss at all previous social gatherings. He was hilarious, high-octane (knackering) fun, so I'm glad I finally had the chance to meet the man behind the legend. And then I got to meet new people. One in particular, I was very glad to have had the chance to meet - the lovely Andy. It's been ages since I really felt attracted to someone on all levels, but I think I was fairly smitten by the second day or thereabouts. Funny, tall, attractive, scarily intelligent, and so, so nice. Sadly, nothing happened. I'd love to say, that just occasionally, I got hints that maybe he wasn't entirely averse to me, but I have no idea if that's true or just me imagining things. Either way, he was lovely, and I look forward to the next time our paths cross.
Other than that, we ate like kings, drank like fishes and generally, much fun was had.
And so, after a few quiet weeks at home, not doing too much, it's now almost holiday time again! My bank balance is definitely suffering a bit by this point in my holidays-packed summer, but this is the last one, and it's going to be awesome. I'm shipping out with the girls, Lissa and Jo, to Croatia, for a 10 day camping tour.
I'm still trying to sort the chaos from coming back from the last one, so now I've got to suck it up and get it sorted, and start the marathon of organising involved in packing for this next one.
I'm heading out to a beer festival on Saturday with a whole heap of friends, so Sunday is probably going to be semi-devoted to packing. And let's be realistic - I'll probably end up doing most of it Wednesday morning before going to the airport. lol
Anyhoo - Scotland was great in several ways. I had a rare chance to completely catch up on my sleep with nothing to drag me out in the mornings that I didn't want to be doing. I had time to sit and do absolutely nothing if that was what took my fancy, and enjoyed spending time just sitting round and reading, or doing puzzles, and whiled away many a happy hour playing goofy board games with friends.
The weather was fantastic, and with all the extra energy stemming from my weight loss, it was a great chance to get out and walk and run, bike and row the little boat out to nearby islands.
It was a fantastic opportunity to really catch up with friends, including some I don't see so often, and to finally meet people I've been hearing about for ages - like the infamous Ali, who I always seem to just miss at all previous social gatherings. He was hilarious, high-octane (knackering) fun, so I'm glad I finally had the chance to meet the man behind the legend. And then I got to meet new people. One in particular, I was very glad to have had the chance to meet - the lovely Andy. It's been ages since I really felt attracted to someone on all levels, but I think I was fairly smitten by the second day or thereabouts. Funny, tall, attractive, scarily intelligent, and so, so nice. Sadly, nothing happened. I'd love to say, that just occasionally, I got hints that maybe he wasn't entirely averse to me, but I have no idea if that's true or just me imagining things. Either way, he was lovely, and I look forward to the next time our paths cross.
Other than that, we ate like kings, drank like fishes and generally, much fun was had.
And so, after a few quiet weeks at home, not doing too much, it's now almost holiday time again! My bank balance is definitely suffering a bit by this point in my holidays-packed summer, but this is the last one, and it's going to be awesome. I'm shipping out with the girls, Lissa and Jo, to Croatia, for a 10 day camping tour.
I'm still trying to sort the chaos from coming back from the last one, so now I've got to suck it up and get it sorted, and start the marathon of organising involved in packing for this next one.
I'm heading out to a beer festival on Saturday with a whole heap of friends, so Sunday is probably going to be semi-devoted to packing. And let's be realistic - I'll probably end up doing most of it Wednesday morning before going to the airport. lol
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