Kinda like a diary of sorts for a gal who refuses to grow up but who's old enough to know better, likes her beach holidays, beer, gin, WoW, music, working out, reading, footie and nerdy, geeky sci-fi stuff...
Away for a wee while now - off to the Hong Kong to visit family, do some shopping and to catch some much needed rays - bikinis packed already (case will be full of stuff for various members of the family!)
Whilst I do really need this break, it feels like I'm going away at the wrong time as Boom is going through a hard time - if there was any way I could postpone this, I would.
So on Saturday, I continued with this year's gig fest and went to see Green Day at the MEN Arena.
I'd say I'm a relatively recent fan of theirs, only really got into them after the release of their American Idiot album in 2004, although I do have some of their older stuff on my ipod.
Anyway, whilst I was really looking forward to the gig, I didn't expect to be so entertained! Billy Joe really worked the crowd (although he did swear a lot, which didn't offend me but may have offended the parents of the numerous young children present...should young children be at gigs even???), encouraged lots of audience participation and at one point, chose members of the audience to form a band, ie drummer, bass guitarist and lead guitarist. Then as this new 'band' played, he sang the vocals! At the end of the song, the girl on the drums started doing her own thing and was reminiscent of Animal off the Muppet Show! The girl on lead guitar suddenly realised where she was and ran around hugging all three members of Green Day!
They sang some songs from their excellent latest album 21st Century Breakdown and their encore must have lasted over 20 mins, including the epic Jesus of Suburbia and a couple of Billy Joe acoustic renditions!
Anyway, thought it was absolutely brilliant and they have just announced that they will be back in the UK next year for a couple of stadium gigs - think I'll try to get tickets for that too for deffo!
Following on from me driving straight past my usual motorway exit to work in total clueless-spaced out mode, I did another klutzy thing at the weekend.
Was just chilling on Sunday when I noticed the time was 3pm and that Tesco would be closing in an hour's time and I hadn't yet done my weekly shop. So I scooted down, found the place quite busy with last minute shoppers like myself and I whizzed around, picking up my usual bits and pieces, plus some comics for my little niece that my sister had asked me to buy.
The call on the tannoy went out for all customers to go to the till as the store was closing so I just made my way to the nearest till. As I was unloading the trolley, I noticed that the comics were no longer there - wtf I thought, who's robbed the comics from my trolley??
That's when I looked at the rest of the things in the trolley and realised that it wasn't my trolley at all - in between the dairy aisle and the tinned foods aisle, I'd somehow grabbed someone else's trolley and wandered off with it, merrily filling it with the rest of my shopping….
Anyway, I paid for everything, there wasn't anything that I wouldn't eat, although the apples were different from the ones I usually buy.
Yeah, I know there's a lot on my mind these days, yeah I need more sleep and yeah, I need a break, which I should get soon.
Just don't want to turn into a mad woman yet I seem to be on a seemingly unavoidable path right now! :-S
This from the lady who had just given me a 6 minute head and shoulders massage - work is promoting a healthy wellbeing thing, so we've had people in to give advice on healthy eating, exercise, discount cycling initiatives and some relaxing massages provided by a local beauty/massage bar. Someone even brought in a Wii so they could have Wii fit competitions!
I'm knew I was knotty as I've been working hard in the gym recently (punchbag), don't move around much at home and things have been pretty busy at work.
We also heard some good news - my gym membership will be subsidised again soon, which is a good thing as I'd been trying to justify my £60+ per month membership I've been paying since the beginning of the year when we lost our 'perk'. Sure, it's my biggest regular leisure expense and as long as I go regularly, then it's cool. But the odd months when I can't make my aerobics classes or to the gym, £60 doing nothing is a lot and the fees go up next year.
It was revealed by 'accident' recently (at some work conference) that the bods in our corporate HQ in London have been enjoying a big £50 per month subsidy towards their gym membership whilst we have been getting a big fat zero. Since they didn't want to piss off the bigwigs, they decided to give all other members the same benefit (less the London weighting of course). The where, when and how hasn't been sorted yet but I'm well happy about this - about time something positive happened at work. Anyway, this whole heathy thing has been great to just lift the mood and spirits around this place - something done right for once and I've signed up for a couple of pilates lessons which should help keep my tum flat.
And on another positive note, I watched Liverpool beat Man United 2-0 on Sunday, all on my little ownsome, surrounded by around 30 United fans in the gym restaurant area. Whilst I didn't cheer loudly at Torres' brilliant goal to take the lead, I couldn't help jumping up with my hands in the air as Ngog knocked in the second goal. I could feel eyes all silently burning all around me and I'm sure had I been a bloke, it could have gotten a bit physical as well as verbal! I'm just so glad that Michael Owen didn't score - if he had scored the winning goal, I think I would have cried!
I was easy on Boom as things haven't been great for him recently - his car was keyed by mindless scrotes and his mum's still poorly. Had it been the other way round though, he wouldn't have been so sympathetic regardless of my predicaments!
