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Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
valley_parade:
Hi bloggy thread! It's been a week, but that's because I have a job now. It sucks, but there's..y'know..money.
Mi amiga Ally was supposed to have a party Friday night, but at the last second called and told me that we were all going to the bar instead. This kinda sucks, because said girl that I hung out with in my last post (we shall call her Cara) was supposed to come to the party with me. But she didn't want to come just to spend an hour or two at a bar and then go home (cos she lives like 30 minutes from my town). Kinda bummed about that, I proceeded to get kinda pretty drunk before even going to the bar, which somehow led to a friendly game of nipplegrab with Ally at one point. It was interesting, to say the least.
Speaking of Ally, I am pretty bummed because we've become really tight friends over the past few months, and she's leaving! She's going to California on Wednesday, and not coming back until late July. I will miss her. (psst, Californiana: if you see a ridiculously cute girl with a lip ring and impeccably short hair, buy her a drink!)
totally forgot! The other day, a few friends and I invented a new sport! Frisbee tennis. It's kind of exactly what it sounds like: doubles tennis, only you throw a frisbee instead of hitting a ball with a racket.
Jimmy the Squid:
BLOOOOOOG THRRRRREEEEEEEAAAAAAD!
Ok so looking for apartments is not my idea of fun. Ingelise and I have been looking for, admittedly, not that long but it is really discouraging to see that for what we can afford, around the areas we are looking at, all the places we are finding are basically all almost falling apart or just too far away for me to be able to get to work (I need to rely on public transport somewhat so that I can get to work, at least until I somehow learn to drive and get a car). Basically we are starting to get stressed out by the whole ordeal and it is making us snappy and irritable at each other which is making us both unhappy (in the 2.5 years we've been together we've never really had an argument). We can't even spend any proper time with each other because even though she just had a week off work she has had a really bad flu and I've been working really long hours so we only see each other when we go to ultimately disappointing apartment inspections. Couple that with the fact that she hates where I'm living now and doesn't like to stay over (my house is hell of crummy) and I don't much like staying over at hers (her housemates are a bunch of cockbiscuits) and it is making things needlessly stressful for us.
For those of you who knew I was going, earlier this week I had my motorcycle pre-learner's course. I did not pass it. I did not even get to finish the first day. I did not even get to the point where you turn the bike on. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised considering I can't drive a manual car and I've never even ridden a bicycle but I just don't have the balance for it. I'm only a little disappointed about it now and I'm not even jealous of Ingelise who passed with only minor problems with stalling her bike, but for a few days I was just incredibly embarrassed and ashamed that I wasn't able to do it. I know it's stupid but things I see as personal failures tend to hit me harder than I would like them to. Everyone is telling me that I should go back and try again after I learn how to ride a pushbike but I honestly don't think I am that invested in getting a motorcycle. The idea of riding one is really cool, the actuality of it is that I don't really like high adrenaline kind of activities and I just don't feel comfortable with the whole thing. I really just wanted something that would get me out of the house and would be fun. Ah well.
Finally, today my brother had another seizure. I didn't hear about it until a little past midday but he was apparently waiting for a bus to work when he collapsed on the pavement. Some idiot called the police instead of an ambulance because he didn't get to the hospital for almost an hour afterwards (response time for an ambulance is about 5 minutes in Newtown, closer to 40 minutes for the cops). Apparently they thought he had been assaulted because he hit his face on the pavement his face is a little cut up. He's doing ok and is staying at our dad's place tonight but I'm still worried about him and I'm racking my brains trying to figure out the pattern in his seizures. He has idiopathic epilepsy so there isn't anything that causes them as such, just that his brain is too active and "overloads" sometimes. So far he seems to get them every three years or so and always just after he's woken up and put under a lot of stress.
nobo:
Jimmy,
Apartment hunting sucks. I just moved into a really crappy rundown house with 2 roommates in february. After a few slight adjustments, aka metal shelving in the kitchen, ping pong table in the living room, and new showerhead, we made the place pretty damn nice and liveable. So if you see a place that isn't quite up to par, you can put some work into it and make it a bit better. Just make sure it meets your minimum requirements, whatever they may be, for us it was central air + 2 bathrooms.
Also, about the motorcycle thing. You're in an awesome position. With your lady driving you can get one of these:
valley_parade:
So that's where the term "shotgun" came from for riding in the passenger's seat..
negative creep:
Well, if it was, it would be called "Tommy Gun", wouldn't it?
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