Another year goes by....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NAIDEL!!!!

Love you baby xXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXx

Behind, sooooooooo far behind!

I woke up this morning with the stark realisation that i have two weeks left to do TMA 5 and my ECA Portfolio project. CRAP!!!!! I'm so far behind!!!!! I've finished the text book but i'm struggling with writers block again and i just can't get my thoughts down onto paper no matter how much freewriting and clustering i do :( I fear two weeks is not long enough to produce three pieces of competant writing, especially since Naidel will be home in a day or so (he's very distracting). The fact that i've felt ill since saturday night hasnt helped either, neither has another issue that is somehow neverending at the moment which i wont disclose on the internet. Ladies, you'll understand what i mean, i'm sure. So yeah, not good. Work is getting annoying, i've just paid a whole bunch of money out for the train tickets yesterday (im never fun after paying that much money out), my skin is like an oil slick, my hair is doing its own thing so i generally look like crap right now and i have to send the bloody replacement iPod back to Apple UK because its crashed with the same problem as the first one!!! So in short i'm having a bad day. Haven't heard from Naidel since he text me to say he'd got back to camp Monday night, so i don't know if he's back tonight or not. I have absolutely no idea what im going to buy him for his birthday....and its tomorrow!!!! Arrrgggghh!

Seething Jealousy (yes, yes i admit it)

This bank holiday weekend was wonderful. Naidel suprised me by turning up late saturday night was was really wonderful :) We spent sunday and monday together, not doing much, just being together. It was absolute bliss! He had to go back to camp late last night, but he should be home again in a few days :) Its great having him home again, and i'm finally starting to feel like myself again. I slept better than i have in months with him beside me this weekend :) I can't wait to him have back properly :) Soon we'll be off on our grand adventure together, i can't wait to get going!!!
So it was back to work this morning :( Today i am having to put up with a colleague of mine going on and on and on and on and on and on about the fact that she got engaged at the weekend. She keeps flashing the rock in my face. Grrrr. Yes, i will admit, there is a great deal of jealousy seething in me. Its not so back when it's someone you like, then you're jealous but happy for them at the same time, so they sort of cancel each other out. When it's someone you hate, different story. Its never fair that someone you don't like gets engaged before you. They've been together for like, a year, less than that if you include the times they broke up!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRR! There, thats my rant over with. Right, back to planing and plotting.

Thank the Lord

Naidel is back on English soil! Hooorah! It worries me a little that he was apparently shot at and rocketed at on the way back, but at least he's home and safe! I now have to wait a week to see him though :( But i guess after six months of being apart, a week is nothing!!! :)

WAHOOO!

I have had a message and Naidel will soon be back in the comforting embrace of England. WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! I am EXTREEMLY excited now!!!!!!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!! Naidel is coming home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That makes for a very very very very very very very very very very happy Kaiorli!!!! :)

Brain exhaustion

I'm not quite sure how much more my brain is capable of taking. I have been studying pretty much non-stop this past week (hence no entries, my apologies for that peeps) and i am now just about reaching the point of exhaustion. I cant wait for my holiday now - i definately need a break! It'll be so nice to be able to read a book without checking the time every five minutes or having to critically analyse it. I am still having problems deciding which books to take away with me. I have just ordered Dante's 'The Divine Comedy', so that'll be one for the suitcase, other than that, im stumped! I think i might take 'The Historian' by Elizabeth Kostova, possibly 'Wicked' by Gregory Maguire or maybe 'The Thousand Orcs' by R A Salvatore which i am attempting to read at the moment (and not succeeding due to extreeme busyness). Hmmm. . . requires pondering in front of my bookshelves or in Borders methinks. . .

Space Hoppers are knackering

This weekend was fairly eventful. Dad took me shopping on saturday for travelling gear which he has kindly bought me for my birthday :) We got loads of stuff, and i have almost everything on my list now :) He also bought me 'Mean Girls' on DVD (not a brilliant film but one i like to watch with Psy so we can reminise about the 'good old days') and he bought the the complete season one of 'Bones' on DVD which is awesome!!! I have watched quite a few of them already :) I'm a bit concerned i may be fostering an addiction to that show...and no, its not because David Boreanaz is in it.....that just happens to be a plus :)

When i got home from shopping on saturday evening the space hoppers had arrived! :) We blew them up with these crappy little foot pumps so we were knackered before we'd even fully inflated them and then we took them out in the garden and raced them! It was great fun, but very very very tiring. I reckon half an hour on one of those things must be equivalent to half an hour in the gym! Observe below space hopper fun....

Most of yesterday was spent studying as i now have a very short time to finish the course projects. I have some background notes for my final project i just have to write it up into a coherent piece of writing! I'm going to be studying every opportunity i get for the next couple of weeks to get it all done on time so then i can go on holiday and completely relax in the knowledge that i have done everything :) We went walking last night despite the rain (gave me an opportunity to try out my new waterproof jacket) and i took my bergen with me. It wasn't too bad actually, the bag was quite comfortable and my stamina held out quite well, so i think i should be ok on the trip. I'm really looking forward too it, i cant wait to spend some much-needed quality time with my Naidel away from everyone and our every day lives :) T'will be bliss :)

Apple Anger

Thats it. I am officially angry with the Apple Corporation (which i think are a part of Microsoft, which makes me angry at them too, so there). My replacement iPod has frozen! The past two days it has frozen as soon as the first song has finished playing and im sick of hard-resetting it if its just going to die again two mins later. Grrrrr feel my wrath Apple employees! So now i shall have to send it back AGAIN and get a replacement AGAIN which will probably go wrong AGAIN. I'm hoping it gets sorted soon because i want to take it away with me when Naidel and I go for our oober holiday :( So yes, Apple (and by association, Microsoft) is on my hit list. For now at least, until they redeem themselves. If they have any sense they'll upgrade my iPod for me, but we can't wish for miracles can we?
On top of that, my life writing assignment isnt going well and i have to submit it by tomorrow! I am going to work flat out on it tonight (with a break in between to have a quick chat with Psy about her possible career choices, and hopefully Naidel will be about for a chat too) so i am probably going to be completely knackered tomorrow :( I have already warned Sammy that i will not be in the best of moods tomorrow, and the best thing she could do to avoid my wrath is make sure theres a mug of peach and passionfruit tea on my desk when i get to work. Peach and passionfruit tea is a cure for grumpiness, along with chocolate, cuddles and kittens (but no boyfriend here to cuddle, cutting back on the chocolate and not allowed kittens in the office, so the tea is the last resort).

MISSING - Spider: Presumed consumed

Spent last night working my little butt of my assignment but once again, getting nowhere. *anguished sigh* Watched more episodes of Bones too - soooo good! Must get it on DVD methinks. I wish i had the stomach to do a job like that, but i'd throw up and the mere hint of blood. Blegh.
A spider (and a rather large one at that) has been living in the corner of my room since friday and i have been vary brave (if i do say so myself) and allowed it to cohabit peacefully in the corner without attacking it or trying to dislodge it. I was a mite concerned when it brutally murdered another spider that happened to wander onto its web, but still, i let it continue to live (which is good for me, because its a harvest spider which is one with a big furry body and scarily long furry legs!). When i woke up this morning I looked over to see if the spider was still there (i constantly check if its still there, just uncase its wandered across the ceiling and is above me ready to pounce on my face) and it was gone! It wasnt anywhere in my room, so now i think it is either living on top of of wardrobe, under the bed, or i ate it when i was asleep *shudder*. I'm glad i hadn't named it yet....

Catch a falling star

This weekend i have done pretty much naff all, other than sit in the sun and study. Oh, and watch an inordinate amount of the TV series Bones, which is very very good. The incredible things they can find out from bone shards, some dirt and some bacteria! Went for another walk down to the horse sanctuary and back, and saw a huuuuuuge rat running across the road! With the evil little leggies and the long swooshy tail and the beady soulless eyes....*shudders*. Managed to glimpe a couple of shooting stars last night despite the heavy cloud cover :) Apparently the visibilty was much better on the coast, and i doubt Norwich saw anything at all with that amount of light pollution!
Work is still slow as ever, and the boredom is slowly mounting. I dont think it helps much that its not long til mine and Naidel's backpacking trip. I am getting all excitable, which always makes time go slower! Dad is taking me shopping for backpacking equiptment this weekend as he's buying it for my birthday :) I already have a few bits and peices for the trip - so far i have sun lotion, deoderant, toothbrush and flannel. a good start methinks. I'm still working out and walking as much as poss, tho not walking a lot today as i am wearing high heels which are, quite frankly, murdering my feet! Gimme the comfort of my walking boots anyday!!! Guen and Ixian are packing their little suitcases ready for the trip, and Gerald is hording packets of mini-cheddars just in case there arent any on the continent.I had to throw away my favourite Tigger mug yesterday :( It got chipped somehow (methinks someone dropped it...no names will be mentioned...grr). I do however, have a very stylish Tigger mug and bowl set for work :) I decided to give this Special K diet thing a try in a bid to get fit for the trip, so me and Sammy can often be seen with our faces in our bowls at 9 am in the morning :)*yawn* I wish today was over so i can go home and nap...i mean...write my assignment and go to the gym...

Boredom....with a side of boredom...

Blegh. BORED!!!! Work is oober slow at the mo, which means us administrators are stuck here on our todds doing jack all. I hate being bored, always makes me want to eat. Thankfully the only food i have hidden in my draw at the moment is a box of Special K! In an attempt to quell the boredom i am sneakily doing my creative writing assignments at my desk, but getting frequently angry with them. Somehow i have one due next week (not quite sure how that one sneaked up on me), then my last TMA and my ECA Portfolio are due in around 4 and a half weeks. After a long stint of writers block i am finding it hard to get my thoughts down onto paper, especially for Life Writing, but i'm sure we'll get there.
This week i have rediscovered some old friends from high school and from my childhood, which was nice. It was nice to catch up with them all and see how they're doing. Nearly every single one of them has just gradutated Uni (i have to admit it, i am a little jealous), and around 87% of them are engaged or married! Not to mention the fact that 43% of them have kids and/or are pregnant! And these people are younger than me! They all seem really happy tho, which is good.
Speaking of weddings, my cousin Alison got engaged this week, so we shall be shuffling down to London on the 22nd of December for her wedding :)
Right, back to staring at the wall.....watching paint dry would be more fun right now....

Bubble blowing

There have been few updates recently due to a mixture of busyness and laziness. I blame the incredible weather. Its been absolutely beautiful here, which has lead to my being ever so slightly burnt. I spent my weekend playing Warhammer, spending time studying in the garden and blowing bubbles :) We were blowing bubbles as we couldnt find any space-hoppers. The plan is to go down to toys-r-us and buy 2 so we can have space-hopper races! :)

Shooooooooooooooooooooooooooooes!!!! :)

Yes yes i have new shoes :) *does happy little dance* I have my shoes for the wedding in Portugal and they are sooooo awesome! They are a cream satin to match the bag (the box says they are 'champagne' colour, which looks pretty cream to me) with some diamondy bits on the main strap! I tried them on with the dress and the bag and they look pretty perfect :) So now all i need is a pashmina or a little jacket (like a bolero maybe?) and a fasinator of some sort. The hunt is on....

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I am extraordinarily sleepy today *yawn* and having issues staying awake. I may even have a a coffee - yes, its that bad. *Yawn*.

So since it has been a few days since i have updated, i shall trawl the depths of my memory for an update (bear with it, its not running a full speed)....

Tuesday: Tuesday was bad as DM and Fos have had a huge falling out which has thus left the DnD group without another player. Leaving a grand total of two of us. Oh dear. So following the fight i came home early and we had just settled down to watch 'Waking the Dead' (after the lemon squeezer incident last week there was no way i was going to miss the first few minutes again) when Naidel's dad came in and said he'd a got a new car for Naidel's mum and we should take it out for a drive. And it was indeed shiny and pretty. So i got in the car, everyone else came out, and just as Naidel's dad was about to go back inside, Naidel's brother closed the front door and thus we were locked out. So we had to drive to Norwich to retrieve the spare key and when we got back we'd missed the whole programme!

Yesterday: Yesterday we were without directors or managers....or advisors for that matter! So thus, we found something to amuse ourselves. Observe.....

This is Sammie's new friend who has been named Spanky the Frog. Here he is in his trendy Prada shades peeping over into my cubicle...

This is what happens when the directors get changed for social events in the office and leave their suits at work. This is their replacement whilst they are on holiday.

This is me working alongside the 'replacement director'....

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