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Aug. 28th, 2007 @ 05:04 pm Roundabouts
Current Location: Bristol
Current Mood: exuberant
YAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYYAY!!!

I am so happy right now. 

And why you might ask? Did you win the lottery? Did gold fall out of the sky and cover you in unimaginable wealth? 

Nope and nope. 

I successfully drove around a roundabout! Go ahead laugh. But you can't take my joy away from conquering the fear I've held of British roads!
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Aug. 23rd, 2007 @ 10:45 pm Strangeness
Current Location: Bristol

I'm unemployed again, or rather between temp contracts...but either way it's left me with a lot of time to play video games.

I was playing Dark Cloud 2 earlier and I had a bizarre momentary flashback. 

I was sitting on Adam's futon watching him play, and he was at the exact point I was, he just caught the ridiculous looking fish in the swamp, and he turned to me and asked if I wanted to do something else cause he felt bad that he was playing a game and I was just watching. And I said no, I was happy watching. And I was. 

The strange thing was as I had this flashback and I was smiling to myself remembering, I turned and looked and Andrew was watching me play. I just hope he's as happy as I was. 

yeah. 

wierd. 

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Aug. 10th, 2007 @ 06:04 am EFL ending
Current Location: Bristol, heading toward Bath
Current Mood: disappointed
Current Music: BBC Breakfast News
Almost done now with my summer of TEFL.  I have enjoyed it quite a lot though, for the most part my students have been pretty well behaved. The other teachers are all awesome people as well, which really makes such a huge difference! But alas, Tuesday is my last day and I am then back on the unemployed bandwagon. Ugh.
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Jul. 23rd, 2007 @ 08:53 pm Bad weather
Current Location: Bristol, UK
Current Music: Mix CD from a lost friend

Funny how strongly my emotions are linked to the weather. The flooding here in Jolly ol England is certainly not helping me shake my morose mood of late. Then I suppose the fact that I've got the unshakable cold from the netherworld isn't helping much either.

At least I have students who make me smile and play Rammstien for me when I look like I may be slipping into a coma. How very kind of them. 

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May. 9th, 2007 @ 10:55 am YAYness
I am coming home a whole 2 weeks earlier than expected and arriving sans Andrew! WHEEEEE!

I have the best mother in the world. Wahoo.

So I'll be in the states from June 8-July 6 now. I expect to have much fun-ness and to see a bunch of you freaks.
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May. 2nd, 2007 @ 11:44 am Nesting
Current Location: Fishponds
Current Mood: sore
Current Music: BBC Radio One
I've been bitten by a spring cleaning bug.

Seriously

I have been spending all my free time lately either baking, or cleaning. And not like tidying up cleaning. We're talking taking a brillo pad to the inside of the oven cleaning. It's good exercise I suppose, but it's so far from my normal personality. And before anyone asks, no I am not pregnant.
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Apr. 26th, 2007 @ 03:50 pm Nervous
Current Location: Bristol
Current Mood: anxious
Current Music: BBC One
So I accepted a job teaching English today.

I should be really happy. Instead I find myself worrying too much about the practical things, like the fact that the job I am in now ends June 7 and I don't start teaching till July 11. A month without a paycheck is quite traumatic especially when I have zero savings. I need to stop thinking so much about paying the rent and start focusing on what's going to make me happy, and I know teaching is going to make me so much more content in my life.

The other problem of course is that it only runs till August 15, so then I am again jobless and searching. But that's a bridge I have plenty of time now to figure out how to cross. And now I'll have some more teaching under my belt I may be able to swing getting a job in a school as an aide at the least.

I have to keep reminding myself to breathe, and remember that none of this is real, it's all part of the dream and I know everything will work out in the end. It has to, otherwise it wouldn't be the end right?

*grimace*
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Apr. 11th, 2007 @ 10:22 am (no subject)
Current Mood: busy
If you were lost, could you make it back alive?

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You make it out of the Wilderness with only a few blisters and some hunger pains.

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Apr. 10th, 2007 @ 04:34 pm Interesting...
www.fightyearzero.org
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Mar. 30th, 2007 @ 02:12 pm Life Jayne Style
Current Location: Bristol, UK
Current Mood: apathetic
Current Music: KRZ
Yeah so, here I am in job limbo again.

I gotta find a new job before June. Any suggestions? I am thinking of just saying fuck it all to the British passport and such and moving overseas again. Maybe Korea. But then who am I kidding. I can't do that now that I am married.

Word of advice, avoid marriage if at all possible.

But seriously. *sigh*
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Mar. 26th, 2007 @ 12:43 pm Crappy landlords
Current Location: Bristol, UK
Current Mood: annoyed
Current Music: None
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It's cold, I'm broke, and our freaking boiler is broken again.

Our boiler exploded two weeks ago, flooded our kitchen and left us without heating or hot water for the coldest week of the winter so far. If it had been our house and our responsibility I would have shelled out the money got a reputable plumber to come in and fix it, but as we are rented the responsibilty fell to our landlord who hired the cheapest drunkest most worthless plumber I have ever had the dubious honor of meeting. He patched the thing up a week 5 days after it broke and did no checks or tests.

So fast forward a week and this morning I woke up thinking 'gee it's awfully cold, I thought I switched the heating onto auto.' I checked the radiators and sure enough they were cold. Turned the hot tap on, *suprise*, no hot water. The freaking boiler went again.

So I'm taking bets on how long it will take to fix this time. Drew tried calling the landlord this morning, his phone is turned off cause he's at work. Really useful in case of an emergency in his properties! So I get to go home to a cold, smelly flat with damp laundry hung on the radiators waiting to dry.

I want to go somewhere tropical with lots of sunshine and nice alcohol. I want some little asian woman to ram her elbows into my back and walk up and down my spine.
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Dec. 14th, 2006 @ 09:33 pm Normally I wouldn't do this. but this was too funny
Current Location: Brizzle
Current Mood: blank
Forget Rednecks ......here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say
> about Pennsylvanians...
>
> If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May,
> you may live in Pennsylvania .
>
> If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they
> don't work there, you may live in Pennsylvania .
>
> If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you may
> live
> in Pennsylvania .
>
> If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who
> dialed a wrong number, you may live in Pennsylvania .
>
> If "Vacation" means going anywhere south of Philadelphia for
> the
> weekend, you may live in Pennsylvania .
>
> If you measure distance in hours, you may live in Pennsylvania
> .
>
> If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once,
> you may live in Pennsylvania .
>
> If you have switched from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and
> back again, you may live in Pennsylvania .
>
> If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging
> blizzard without flinching, you may live in Pennsylvania .
>
> If you install security lights on your house and garage, but
> leave both unlocked, you may live in Pennsylvania .
>
> If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use
> them, you may live in Pennsylvania .
>
> If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a
> snowsuit, you may live in Pennsylvania .
>
> If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph -- you're going 80
> and everybody is passing you, you may live in Pennsylvania .
>
> If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are
> filled with snow, you may live in Pennsylvania .
>
> If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter
> and road construction, you may live in Pennsylvania .
>
> If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you
> may live in Pennsylvania .
>
> If you find 10 degrees "a little chilly", you may live in
> Pennsylvania.
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Dec. 10th, 2006 @ 12:12 pm So true....or is it?








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Oct. 21st, 2006 @ 10:30 am Sacred Stones of the Visigoths
Current Location: Brizzle
Current Mood: curious
I dreamt last night I was the daughter of a Roman noble and my family's home was being sacked by Visigoths. I managed to escape with some sacred stones of quartz and I stole a mount from the invaders.

I want to know what wierd process was going on in my mind to create that dream. I spent yesterday working on a law firms reception desk and then last night watching CSI so where the hell did the Visigoths come from??
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Oct. 11th, 2006 @ 09:32 pm Dreams
Current Location: Brizzle
Current Mood: melancholy
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.

Why do I keep having these dreams?
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Aug. 23rd, 2006 @ 11:18 am Wedding stuffage
Current Mood: loved
Current Music: You Belong to Me
So I figured I should write a bit more about the wedding...

It started out an absolutely miserable day. Rainy, chilly, generally an English summer day. But after a fitful night of not much sleep I was just thankful the day was actually here. I had spent the night with my bridesmaids, after an extremely tearful goodbye to Andrew the night before because it sort of dawned on me at the last minute that the next time I saw him he would be standing at the front of the church waiting for me. I had a bit of a crisis moment where I got freezing cold feet and spent a good hour crying in my bathtub wondering what the hell I got myself into this time.

But anyway the day came and I was much happier and more relaxed. I managed to squeeze into my dress, and my makeup and hair came out fairy tale perfect despite my skimping and not hiring a professional. So everyone got ready and went off to the Cathedral leaving my parents and me to get in the lovely old vintage car to go off on our own. So we went, and we arrived early and I (half-jokingly) told the driver to keep going past the cathedral and take me to the airport. But we ended up at the cathedral and suprisingly I was the only one not crying by the time my father walked me down the aisle to The Throne Room from Star Wars played on a lovely church organ. It sounded fantastic. And when I got to the front of the church I was still scared shitless, but I think fear rooted my feet to the ground as I said my vows.

The service was lovely, even if it was Anglican. I've never been much for traditional services but even I must admit it was beautifully done. And wa-la! We were married.

As we exited the church it was still raining, but we managed to get some pictures in the ruins of the Abby (come on now, we are both archaeologists, we need old stuff in our photos). And then we zipped off in our lovely old car to the reception.

And now my hands hurt so I'll write about the reception later.
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Aug. 16th, 2006 @ 08:39 pm Mrs. Brown
Current Location: Felixstowe
Current Mood: relieved
Current Music: England game. . .
Heeee heee.

I'm married, and I have a residency permit.

I'm LEGAL! WEEEHEE!

In other news, the wedding was incredibly beautiful. More so than I could ever have hoped for. More details once I have an apartment and can sit down and properly write about it. I wish all of you could have been there, and thank you to those who were.
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Aug. 10th, 2006 @ 10:19 pm All better...kind of
Current Mood: drained
Well the dress fits, so at least something is going right.
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Aug. 6th, 2006 @ 11:24 pm the countdown
Current Location: Felixstowe
Current Mood: nervous
Current Music: CSI
19 days, 9 days, 8 days and 7 days.

19 Days till I am in Kenya, another continent in my passport only 3 more to go!

9 days until I move into my awesome new apartment with it's giant bay window and feature fireplaces!

8 days until I am waiting in line in Croydon and arguing with a Immigration Officer to allow me to stay in the country (not as nice an event as the rest in this list. :-P)

7 days till I am a married woman. It's so wierd to think about. In 7 days I will be a Mrs. Although I am not changing my name right away so I'll just be Ms. Wenner rather than Mrs. Brown. Baby steps. The jitters are beginning to set in. I am a bit nervous.
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Jul. 13th, 2006 @ 01:44 pm SNOOZE
Current Mood: listless
Current Music: Silence. sweet sweet silence
Geh!

This TEFL course is mind-numbingly boring! It's taking all my will power just to do each lesson and as I am writing in my blog to avoid it, I obviously don't have enough will power! GRRR!
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