Psychoblog

just had a great weekend down in brum. today is being quite good too. strange for a monday.

lets do the weekendly round up in a neat and structured way for once:

friday
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we were due to meet up with carl’s flying club friends and go out for curry and beers. i like these people. they are (mostly) people who would do anything for you and who are also fun to be around and chat with, when they aren’t talking about plans/wood/wingspans etc. however, this is the only curry and beers night i have been on that didn’t actually involve curry. not that great when you have only had 2 and a half sausage rolls all day in anticipation of curried goodness. that, coupled with the fact that i was driving home so could only have coke, made it an average night with a twinge of disappointment and a bout of sulkiness. never mind, at least i had an excuse to buy a fantastic new top.

saturday
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i drove us down to brum. got flashed by a speed camera on the way. if we get a fine for that then i will be really pooed off. was only going about 2mph over the speed limit due to natural drifting when not staring at the speedo whilst driving. the other 2 lanes of traffic were whooshing past me.

anyway, mum, dad, chris (bigbig brother), jill (sister-in-law), me and carl went to go visit our wedding cars. we were all really impressed with them and so we booked them. the bridal car is going to be a 1929 hudson (think american gangster, in particular the gangsters in whacky races) and the bridesmaids and some other people will be going in an austin princess, painted cream and black to match the hudson. so that was all good. we also got a leaflet for a florist who we think is a distinct possibility for the wedding flowers. it’s all going along nicely.

helped mum and dad put up their decorations. always scary doing the traditional blue-tacking of our old christmas cards to the doors. they all have dates on the back saying when we made them and i found one that i made when i was 3. 21 years ago. no wonder the nose from my snowman had fallen off. other decorational highlights include the cereal box santas, the papier mache robin and the loo roll snowman. mum and dad had their usual arguments about christmas lights and tinsel (”we don’t need any more lights. if you want more bloody lights you can bloody well put them up yourself”).

in the evening me and carl went out to frankie and benny’s for a romantic meal for 2. yesterday was our official 5 year anniversary you see. we made up for the non-appearance of curry the night before by ordering shed loads. it was so nice though. shame we had to leave half of it. we had cocktails though and they were so gorgeous. i could have drank mine all night. baileys, amaretto, something else and cream. so smooooth.

sunday
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this was the family dinner day. we went down the club and met up with nanny and grandad, auntie dot and my other brother michael. we had a really good time and i was sad to drive home after that.

i always feel quite sad to leave birmingham again. all my family live within a mile or two of each other. i am the only one not to have returned to brum again. so i hear everyone planning to meet up for the midweek family pub outing or this show or that shopping trip and it’s sometimes like i’m an outsider looking in on a cosy family scene. like those really sad bits of christmas films, where cold and lonely people stare through the window at a family opening their pressies under their tree. carl’s family are a lot more spread out so i don’t think it’s the same for him.

today
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was the christmas dinner for our research group. i was a bit apprehensive about it because i didn’t want to go there and have to talk about work all the time. it was really good though. i was sat next to my supervisor, but he chatted really easily about everything but work. the food was nice and we all had a laugh. i tried my hardest not to be as messy an eater as i usually am. was doing really well until i somehow catapulted a mayonnaise covered piece of lettuce into the air and down the front of my top. i don’t think anyone noticed though. i had to leave it there until the next loo trip.

how do these things happen?