Streak - occasional esk

Sun, 27 May 2007 19:58:28 GMT

some of you may have noticed i've been quite active since being single
and doing things, that i'm fairly sure a few people on my friends really don't want to know about
but its stuff that i need to be able to say somewhere
so i am starting for the very first time on my lj a specific subject filter

if you want to know about my sex life, let me know
this will include a run down of my trip to london
and other peoples privacy well be respected.
comments screened

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:13:05 GMT

today i was hyper, all day
I blame
bag of jelly babies, redbull
last day in job,
shopping trip with brain_hurts
swanidris (drools over wee0ne)
(there photo's go look (of the swanni not the drooling)
sorting of stuff
random_redhead, the evil stash temptress
kitchen catalogues

Sat, 01 Apr 2006 13:58:53 GMT

well he was supposed to be spending the afternoon afixing the scotoiler to the bike
he is still out there getting parts, won't be back for awhile and he hasn't had lunch (blood suger levels get to be an issue)
pauls round at five to get him out of the place, so no time this afternoon to afix the scotoiler i think

i have no paper plates for serving the cake
i have finished tidying the flat and plenty of time after 5 to get paper plates (i have a car damn it)
off to make lunch

and no the music wasn't front loaded!!!!

Sat, 01 Apr 2006 12:12:49 GMT

panic somewhat abated
i collected the most gorgeous cake (darkfudge with coffe/choc icing with after eight dinner mints and coffee praline choclates and many many chocolate sprinkles) and even if the whole thing goes pear shaped, so long as he gets a slice of that i've made it.
must check vodka levesl

Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:01:06 GMT

okay the conversation , went something like this
'you know saturday night'
'yes'
'well theres been a few red herrings, so expect the unexpected, well expect anything really'
'ooookay'
'I'm feeling rather nervous about it, i've never done it before and I don't want you to hate me, or have it go wrong, or, or..., how are you feeling about it?'
'nervous, aprehensive, preturbed, bit excited'

yeah okay so I'm crap at keeping quiet, but i don't think he's much the wiser, but I feel much better

Gamers Birthday

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 12:55:38 GMT

also could someone or two turn up about 7:00 to help me out with the last few bits and pieces so i don't dissolve into a nervous wreck.

birthday surprise

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:21:52 GMT

the best present you can give us, is to have this go without incident

alan knows he has to be out for a couple hours til eight on saturday
paul is distracting him.
so if you want to be in for the singing of happy birthday please be here for just before then
there is many crisps, muffins and cake

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:52:56 GMT

On the plus side, he knows I have a nefarious plan, which makes its easier to get things sorted out. He’s also been told its not to do with his birthday. So hopefully he’ll still be surprised. Now I just have to organise cakes and getting him out the house for a couple of hours on Saturday. A shopping run will also be in order sometime next week to stock up on crisps, soda and the like. These can hide in the car.

I’m actually getting quite nervous about the whole thing.

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:13:09 GMT

alan says to me last night
there is an orchestra camp the weekend after conplusion
to which i said
thats the weekend of my nefarious plan
he replied
oh, eeekkk, i'm not going to orchestra camp then am i

nope, dear you aren't

If you are reading this

Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:54:17 GMT

You are cordially invited of a surprise birthday party (30th) for
ALAN JACKSON
On APril 1, at 185/6 Canongate

This is a Top Secert Surprise Birthday, if you want to be in on the surprise bit let me know on joexnz@hotmail.com.
If you don’t, any time after nine is fine by me.

AND PLEASE DON’T TELL HIM

PS its also my birthday to

EDIT: Godamnit, yes its APRIL 1st, thanks guys

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:57:14 GMT

the non-gamer filter

thanks for the feedback on surprise birthday
given that our birthday falls between conplusion and beltaine
i think scaling back might be the best idea

someone also pointed that I could have it before hand
so i'm thinking April 1, the weekend after conplusion
at our place, from 8
if you can make it for before 8, you get to do the happy birthday thing
if you can't make it till after that, please check so you don't ruin the surprise.

other arrangements
cake baking, need to find somewhere to get this done
finding someone to get alan out of house until 8

birthday stuff

Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:55:57 GMT

nongamer - filter

as you may or may not know, me and gamer have the same birthday (everyone say awwww!!!)
APril 15
we did nothing for my 30th last year, my choice, but kinda wish i had

so this year is gamers 30th birthday (and mine to)
I am considering having a surprise birthday for him.
our birthday falls on a saturday this year, however, it is two weekends before beltane

so (not up to doing a survey)
who would be interested in coming/assisting (obviously most people here would be coming to my birthday, but I can round up people for his bit as well)
should i reschedule it for after beltane
suggestions on where
and would angus/graham interested in assiting for the dj'ing.

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:08:26 GMT

Midnight must got to bed

Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:00:08 GMT

so wishing hadn't given those jersey's my mum knitted me to charity, wool's expensive over here and I could have undone them

so many cool things to knit
*faint*

http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEspring03/PATTjanda.html

http://knitty.com/ISSUEsummer05/PATTbaseball.html

so projects

1/ baby Xander is nearly a year old and summer is round the corner and he currently lives in auckland
if its okay with donelle I might leave that one for awhile and knit him something in a few months.

2/ my new cable jersey, must look for suitable arran pattern

3/ have decided to reknit the large blankie, it needs a cable in it to stop it streching sideways so much
I should undo it, wash it etc, but its huge, dirty and mutlistranded, so shall cheat and reknit it then wash it. It's only a blankie.

4/ Jersey for babe ruth and babe xander, need one that covers age s 1-4

5/Need time, I knit whilst watching tv, and I haven't watched tv since we moved virtually, but life shows some signs of calming down. It would be to wierd and bulky to knit in the pub. There is a sitch and bitch session going somewhere and Nicky's sewing circle (two form of geekdom that go well together), but i need to completely abandon any pretence of Mage for that, and can't quite bring self to desert ravenstew completely.

Tue, 06 Sep 2005 18:28:19 GMT

brakes on car have seized, well driver rear and handbrake in particular, sigh

Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:04:49 GMT

bush has said he will personal lead the inquiry into Katrina
that's so dodgy!!!!!

Mon, 05 Sep 2005 16:49:16 GMT

and others who enrich my days

David, graham and niall, for their ljs

Matt and Teff, for existing (i don't need to participate, but its fun knowing they are there)

Meran, Xander and ruth, who make childern less scary

thomas, for letting me watch him grow

gamers and wargamers, KAOS and eKAOS (mainly auld hoose), for preserving the ways of geek and promoting their general coolness (and sexiness in some instances)

and the list could start getting silly here
but on the whole there are only a handful of people I wish i hadn't meet
there are probably more circumstances i wish i'd avoided meeting people or ending up with them in
but hey, wouldn't be fun without that bit

Sun, 04 Sep 2005 21:27:46 GMT

I would like to thank the following people for their mere existance in my life
in no particular order

gamer
miche
meerkat
tailgunner
Angus
Stuart's
Steven's
Paul
Rachel
Naomi
Edinburgh castle
EDIT:alison
donelle

thank you and good night

Sun, 04 Sep 2005 09:41:00 GMT

mugged by instant messanger
and the longer i stay up the more I can't ignore its a really nice day outside
and i'm sleeeply
sigh

Sat, 03 Sep 2005 16:16:09 GMT

right despite being 3 players out of five short
the game continues
so much for my idea of muchkin and b5
bah!!!

EDIT: they took a vote, b5 and munchkin it is
whooottt

for geeks, nicked from Theuns

Sat, 03 Sep 2005 09:06:32 GMT

http://www.kirchwitz.de/~amk/shoot_foot.shtml

Quote of the day

Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:47:11 GMT

'The safest place to live in Christchurch is Dunedin' - gamer
he's tired, bless

for those of you in scotland they are a 5 hour drive apart

Fri, 02 Sep 2005 18:31:30 GMT

so tonite
the one night of the week i actually have to sit in the study and think
not only am i quite tired and irratable
the NUS's, who'd been quite all week
are playing dance music
the only way i could drown them out is to play music of my own
but as its taking a fair amount of effort to concentrate anyway
that kinda defeats the point
i will be buying a large set of ear muffles things coem my OU course
at the moment its only minor things I'm trying to get done
like job applications

silliest break up story

Fri, 02 Sep 2005 12:51:13 GMT

where I worked last year employed a guy called M
M had backpacked around NZ and been a labourer whilst there, smoked a lot of pot, he was a laid back, cruisy (alt. lazy) bloke. None of which I had a problem with, expect that it was all connected with him not being able to do his job properly and expecting me to forgive him for it, cause he was such a 'cool' guy. Actually he just irratated all hell out of me (not made any easier with the constant attitude that i must underneath be just like him on the grounds i was a kiwi)

M had a girlfriend who was a dental student, they lived together. He never really struck me as the type to be settled with one person, but its possible he'd drifted into it.

Anyway, his girlfriend has graduated. Like everyone else in that job, he was desperate to get out, and had failed to do so in the edinburgh job market. However, his girlfriend got a dental job (at £75k pa) in london, found them a nice flat and M lined himself up a job (£27k pa (his current one was £15k) and handed in his notice, hurrah.

Except that last week, they were on the phone to each other and got cut off. She assumed he'd hung up on her and he assumed she'd hung on him. And they both went 'oh well if they are going to be like that I ain't calling first'. At the begining of this week there was some communication, ending with a text from her 'I think we should just be friends'. When M recovered from his hangover, he had to call Human Resources and withdraw his notice (he was due to leave end of this week, on the grounds that his salary wasn't enough to live by himself in london.

there must have been under lying issues, and i know i should sympathise with mikey, but i'm to busy giggling over how stupid it sounds

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:26:54 GMT

visted stu, heather and babe ruth
who was two today, and received a yuppie present from us
well it was a top from Zara.

Alan got into there favoured books by fiddling with computer and downloading dos games for them
he then found he can this on the mac, so i have lost to the byteyard (its a junkyard for programmes) again

I borrowed more books
the pile in total is
neuromancer, william gibson (although i constantly refer to it as necromancer)
snow crash, neal stephenson
the feud that sparked the renaissance, paul robert walker
the amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon (okay already read that one, but its a wonderfully written book about comics)
Earthly joys and Virign earth by Phillipa gregory
Memoirs of gnostic dwarf, david madsen
Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre, also by phillipa
The Medieval papacy, geoffry barraclough

tell me again why I have a social life i have reading to do
though there is a disticnt lack of fantasy in this pile
does anyone not named stu have a bookcase i can raid
after I've read the Stross book
and the one called Cities, which I thought was a text book, till I realised the authors included china melville and Michael moorcock
oh and I just found Before and after, matthew thomas, i started it and it feel down a crack and has now emeraged to be finished
but i only borrowed it for the sheep on the cover and its not grabbed me enough to notice it was MIA or even MIR

off to bed to dream of dying under falling books.