Only On A Monday
Posted by turquoisefloyd on April 7, 2008
Well another week begins and this morning found me at the hospital where I was born, for a pre-assessment for my double wisdom tooth-ectomy. My operation has been shifted back a week to the 2nd which is a pain; it means I’ve got to rearrange my booked holiday. It may not come to pass as my blood pressure was rather high – 137 / 102! I’m always affected by the old “White Coat Syndrome”, though.The mere sight of any doctor or nurse other than my own is guaranteed to send it sky high! Apparently I’ll wake up afterwards with an oxygen mask on my face and cheeks stuffed with gauze. I hope the hamster look is in, this year!
Once again, the Grand National came around and I failed to pick a horse that even finished! I picked Knowhere and Fry picked Slim Pickings, which came fourth. The Magic 8-Ball claimed that Hi Cloy was gonna win. Ha! Of course it didn’t! The Magic 8-Ball needs to stick to football and motor racing – it’s far more successful in those sports.
Have been single for eighteen full months, which is both good and perplexing. I guess it takes time to find a new fella, if you’re fussy. And am I! Very much so, to use the old footballing cliche. The Tattooed Builder is proving as much of an elusive tease as always – I’m getting the impression that to see him again, I might need to actually go to my old job one evening, text him and ask him if he’s in the local pub and see if he turns up in the shop! Of course, if he doesn’t, I’m stuck in town!
Haven’t been writing much on Draft Four but have been writing a lot of notes for Worlds Six and Seven, which is all stuff that had been tremendously vague up til now. I had vague ideas where it was gonna go, but nothing was decided until this weekend. Yay!
The Chelmsford Meet was OK – it was me, S/P, M/S, K/Kt, C/C and belatedly T/G turned up quite late. I’m still not hugely keen on the pub we’re going to now – I much preferred the old one but T/G sometimes needs to bring her baby and the old place didn’t allow children. It’s kinda cool to get to walk into Chelmsford sometimes although I don’t particularly want to eat at Caffe Rouge again as they don’t do decent chips!
So what’s on this week? Well obviously work, which is still great. Happily it’s my favourite BookCrossing Meet this Saturday – Ipswich! I love that one so much – it’s always the silliest fun, I laugh more when I’m there at that meet, than at any other time in my life!
In closing this week, let me share something that has only got funnier with every viewing. As Wil Wheaton says: “I could never get tired of this.”
