I have some time to kill before my lunch break ends so I thought I’d share some thoughts. Currently I’m in Reading doing some computer stuff.
I am rather down atm due to news that my poor car needs very expensive work and the warranty won’t cover all of it :s Basically there is a crack in the gearbox housing and its going to cost an arm and possibly half a leg to sort. Not good. On top of that I’m missing Kai and I know she misses me dearly whilst I’m away. Now we both knew that for the 1st 12 months of any new graduate job that I’d be away from home a fair bit due to training, I just think that we didn’t know how hard that would be, especially with the sess that T & L bring into the equation. These visits are harder on Kai than me to be fair, I’ve never been one to worry about being on my own for large periods of time and whilst I know Kai has a pile of stuff to work on, I know she won’t be sleeping or eating well during this time. So please feel free to give her a call and cheer her up.
I’m also stressed and still a bit depressed over money issues, no matter how much Kai and I work we’re always just balancing on the edge of the black and red. May will be no different, we have a wedding, council tax, car repair bills, credit card bills, rent and another trip to Edinburgh to worry about, most of that will come out of my salary, Kai has running costs of her own like the kids, food and numerous other things that will nibble at our budget but frankly the short of it is we’re not really managing to put much away for that rainy day, instead we seem to be living in the rain-forests at the moment..
Oh and as a side note I have downsized my lj friendlist. My reason for this is due to the fact I never really chat with these people any more, suffice to say though, if you can read this, then please don’t discuss it with anyone else.
…Today I took the day off – I love flexi time. I spent the day wallowing in bed, spending time with my beloved, Kai and getting medieval on WoW players asses. I also got a fair whack of tidying done, put some laundry together for next week and generaly relaxed – somehting I haven’t done in what feels like ages. I also tried once more to deal with my car – turns out the garage ordered (or maybe recieved) the wrong part *GROWL* so the car won’t be ready until tomorrow, if I’m lucky. 
…This Evening I ran a very short chapter of my NWOD game (due to a missing player), people’s minds weren’t really on the game so its just as well it was a short one. Afterwards we gen’d up their supernatural char sheets (they will need these soon) and got down to some serious board gaming. Now I like Shadows Over Camelot – I love the fact that its a bunch of Arthurian emo knights (they injure themselves to prevent bad things from happening and to get extra goes) – no offense intended; that go around and try to complete quests in order to save Camelot. I love the fact that I can make ‘Monty Pthon and the Holy Grail’ quotes whilst playing it but mostly I enjoy making my fellow players spray tea across the room at the humour the game invokes. For me tonight was a good night, we laughed, joked, we drank what felt like a sea of tea and Kai and I got to spend time with new (not a bad thing) but imho good friends.
http://www.scarysquirrel.org/special/movies/foamy/spellcaster.html
and I’ve been looking out for this for ages….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coIMe4u7fGg
…some stuff I have been involved in recently – Well Kai and I have finally met and made some friends down here and got an RP group running. Yay us! Currently we’re running NWOD and I think my players are enjoying it. We setup a wiki as a resource base at:
http://www.cheltenhamroleplaysoc.com/NWOD/tiki-index.php
So feel free to check it out. Hopefully our next session will be on Friday…
We also have a car now (though it needs a new clutch and is in the garage at the moment – grr) which is fantastic and we’re hoping we’ll get some more really good use out of it soon. So far we’ve been to up to Edinburgh in it, over to the Forests of Dean and a couple of other places – I’m hoping for a trip to Cornwall sometime in the near future and at the weekend we’re planning a trip to Pitville Park (so Kai can see bunnies and squiggles and other cute little things that make her go ‘awwwww’ – no, not me.)
Life down here is pretty damn good, truth be told, currently we’re enjoying the nice, long, warm, sunny days (about 15-20 deg C. today) and has been for the last (and next few) days. So long may it continue!
I heard from me old chum Scott Dumycz today on his train home from London, he’s doing fairly well and said he was off to Brighton over the May day bank holiday with the gf….its the longest, full-time relationship I can ever recall him being in.
Anyway, Kai is pretty busy tonight lots of work for her to do, calls from the states and stuff so I’ll mostly be leaving her to just get on with it. I quite fancy going to the pub tonight but to be honest, money is prett damn tight at the moment – especially with the clutch to be fixed on the car! So it looks like I won’t be going anywhere in the evenings for the next few weeks :s
Just testing this pocket blog software.