Psychoblog

i suddenly decided that i wanted a gallery and so carl worked his putermagic and made me one, this one in fact. i like it.

carl had a cold last week so we didn’t go out to celebrate our pre-anniversary like we planned. we did keep commenting all day about how this time next year we’ll be getting ready, or arriving at the reception and so on. all very strange imagining the big day and knowing that it’s getting closer all the time. we have decided that for our honeymoon in paris we will book a hotel room, rather than staying in the tent as we had thought. it’s going to be perfect, carl says we can even go to eurodisney.

today is a silly day. i’m sat at home waiting for the electrical man to arrive to fix our boiler. apparently he was going to come around 1pm. i’m sure he will turn up soon. maybe. good thing about today is that me and carl have both been paid and we both have more money than we thought. which means we can finally start sorting things out. thank poo for that.

bit grumpy at the moment. just came back from a wasted trip across nottingham. wouldn’t have minded quite so much if it hadn’t been pooing down and if i hadn’t spent most of the time walking in the opposite direction to the one i needed. now i am very soggy and cold.

a-n-y-way, wedding stuff is rolling along nicely at the moment. we have made decisions about flowers and bridesmaid dresses and church hymns (thanks in part to jo, carl’s sister in law). we have bought bottles of bubbles (nice bit of alliteration there) to have instead of confetti, i have decided what my hair should look like, what kind of shoes i want, what style of dress to have and carl is close to making a decision about photographers. on thursday it is our pre-anniversary and we are going to have a meal at the place where carl proposed to me (everyone say “aaaaww”). looking forward to it. getting excited about it all now. and it’s really nice to see other people getting excited about it too.

weekend was a bit weird. combination of really good bits and really bad bits. mostly good though, i think. next weekend we are planning to do a spot of geocaching in the peak district and to sleep lots.

actually, this is a bit of a boring blog entry. never mind. too soggy to care.

just come back from the british aphasiology society’s conference in newcastle and it was great. met lots of interesting people and important people and important interesting people. managed to learn some stuff and come back with new ideas and renewed enthusiasm for my phd. did some shopping in newcastle, saw the millenium bridge (impressive and vertigo inducing), tyne bridge (beast of a thing) and went to the conference do in st james’s park. this was /really/ cool. it was all very posh and all that, and i found a door out onto the terraces and sat looking across the pitch. forgot how impressive that view of a footie ground is. must go back to villa park soon.

so yes, i really enjoyed it and newcastle looked like a really nice place. missed carl though, so glad i’m home again. tomorrow we are having the day off work to paint our bedroom in the colour we chose about 6 months ago, which is actually very close to the colour of this blog. then on saturday we are going down to brum again to meet jobo and hannah and go to the wedding fayre at the nec and see michael play in artsfest. sorry, that should be artsfest. oh, and if you are going to then these are bits you want to see. not just biased either, he is just reallyreally good. then we are going to church again on sunday to see nick the vicar do his thang and see how many other people we can fit in a visit to. busybusy. should be a good weekend though. looking forward to it.