Psychoblog

i have had THE best weekend, and i don’t use capitals lightly. we took the tent and camped on a remote farm in the peak district, which had chickens and dogs. my brother and sister-in-law (chris and jill by their other names) camped with us and we spent the weekend geocaching in spooky disused lead mines and up cliffs and along viaducts. my legs need a break from moving for a while now. amazingly i only have one blister, although my calves moan at any hint of an uphill now. we also fitted in watching the villa match in a pub in bakewell. so should have won. and all you liverpool fans know it.

we cooked beans and saussies on our new camping cooky thing (uses meths, brings back bad memories of tom’s home brew wine). on sunday night found out that chris is the world’s worst barbecue cook (solid sausages anyone?) and that jill is a mean firestarter. never had a campfire before so that was cool in an oo pretty flames kind of way.

on my birthday (yesterday) we met up with mum and dad at chatsworth house and looked around the house and gardens. enjoyed this, but chatsworth is /so/ expensive and i wanted to go in the farmyard to see baby pigs but that cost more again. £3.70 for a pasty? very reasonable. there was a maze there that had me really excited for the first 5-10 minutes. after half an hour of being lost in bushes though i wasn’t quite so taken with it. unfortunately we had decided that the last couple to the middle would buy the first round at the pub. since me and carl made it 20 minutes later than everyone else there were no real arguments (i wish 20 minutes was an exaggeration but some kind soul timed it).

a-n-y-way, after chatsworth doings we went to matlock to munch and drink and have the grand present/card opening. got lots of nice and interesting things. cool candlesticks and candles and kenny to put in car and pretty wind thing for garden and pizza board/cutter (carl pleased) and weird/interesting/cool things from weird/interesting/cool brother and lego and money.

today is carl’s first day at work at the university. this is /so/ cool. he is a couple of buildngs across from me and so we are going to meet for dinner. i think he’ll be so much happier here than he was at experian. but then experian are especially bad employers (for anyone even contemplating working there, just don’t).

short week at work (hoorah for birthday bank holidays) and then back off to brum for the weekend. going to see how the reception place looks when it’s decorated for a wedding, going to church and going to have my girly night out. i’m so happy that i have found my friends again, after a long while of losing touch with them. going out with them is just like a sex and the city episode. i’m charlotte by the way. michelle is carrie (she has the hair for it), kelly is samantha (she has the reputation for it) and caddy is miranda.

so thinking about it, everything is pretty much perfect at the moment. great times with family and friends, planning wedding things with carl, jobs things going well and everything else seems to be falling into place nicely too (if only the monsters in the kitchen will leave us alone). the only bad thing about the last couple of days is that my other brother and his girlfriend couldn’t be there too.

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had a fairly nasty dream a couple of nights ago. witnessed a robbery at the beginning and the rest of the night was filled with being chased by the bad people who were trying to shoot me. predictably they always caught me and shot me and then the dream would begin again. poo knows how many times i died in that dream. i particularly remember running through a huge dark room and in the floor was a coffin shaped hole. the hole was filled with thick, pus type liquid and there was a body of an old woman floating in it, obviously dead and the flesh was half eaten away. swimming around the body were huge maggot type creatures. never mind.

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oh, i have missed out so much about the weekend. i forgot to say about the mirror carl bought me and the flowers and balloons and the millions of stars and the water vole and everything. ah well, suffice it to say that it were great and i am very happy.