Procrastination

Been busy - lots of long weeks. More posting to come sometime soon. No, really.

Rob, at Loose Logic, posted this. So I did the same.

1. What were you doing 10 years ago?

Ten years ago, I was 13 years old. The chances were high that I was doing something incredibly geeky, such as playing Dungeons & Dragons. In fact, I was almost certainly playing D&D.

2. 5 things on your to-do list for tomorrow

1. Get a smear (round two)
2. Make juice!
3. Write some blog posts for work and Girls Don’t Game respectively.
4. Have a bath.
5. Write some thank you letters

3. What would you do if you were a billionaire?

Never work again. Spend all day reading, playing games, traveling, feeding the ducks, writing my masterpiece, eating awesome food, baking cookies, going for walks, visiting friends, and attending the theatre. It would be INCREDIBLE.

4. What are three of your bad habits?

1. I sleep ALL the time.
2. I ignore people when using electronics, such as computers, telephones, and nintendo ds’s.
3. I am a complete food snob.

5. What are some snacks you enjoy?

• Lindt chocolate
• Creme brulee
• Nectarines
• Plums
• Cookies
• Carrot and celery sticks with ranch dip.

6. What were the last five books you read?

1. Single & Single by le Carre
2. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
3. Weekend Detox by some randomer
4. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
5. Empowered by Adam Warren

7. What are five jobs you have had?

1. Web Designer
2. Waitress
3. Guitar Teacher
4. Maker of Dohickeys (Manual Laborer)
5. Customer Service Manager (Call centre)

8. What are five places where you have lived?

1. Towcester, England
2. Carmarthen, Wales
3. Rio Grande, Ohio, USA
4. Caerphilly, Wales
5. Cincinnati, Kentucky, USA

This is what I ate for lunch today.

As for the rest of my lie? Exciting adventures all around! I managed to buy a juicer, destroy a juicer, and get a replacement juicer all in one week - and today I drank the juice of two grapefruits and one and a half lemons. Yes, it was horrible. It was kind of an experiment to see just how sour juice could be. And now I know. It can be very sour.

I was sitting here working, and he brought me a BLT and some crisps. Love him!

I am now married.

It was a really nice day, really good to see all of my school friends, uni friends, and internet friends mingle. There was good food, wine, a boat trip, some great music, cake, champagne, not to mention the whole, y’know, wedding ceremony.

After the wedding we went to a hotel with a four poster bed!!! I was so excited it was just crazy. I’m not sure why. I just love that whole sensation where you draw the curtains and have your own private nook.

Also have been given engraved glasses, which is really nice. And a bunch of John Lewis vouchers (I love John Lewis, I would shop there all the time if it wasn’t for the fact it is SO EXPENSIVE), which I spent today. We got a juicer, and made kiwi, orange and strawberry juice. Yummy!

Our compost bin is full after one day. I didn’t compost anything over the wedding period, because I knew with gusts and such it would be too much. But just us by ourselves fills up the whole thing.

I have really great friends. It was awesome to see them all, and I really hope we get to see each other again sooner rather than later. It’s kind of sad we all live so far apart.

However! At the end of this month I will be switching to part time, and this will give me the flexibility to take days off. Which means VISITING! Yay!

Cleaned the house post-guests. It was fun though, since I had all day, and it was mostly just chucking rubbish away and wiping up. Not very honeymoon-y though! We’re going to Willen Lake tomorrow with another friend, so yay.

It’s so strange to think that a year ago all this was just a daydream.

Mrs. Suzanne Hunt.

I’m getting married on the 9th June.

There are some other interesting things that have happened on previous June 9ths. For example, the Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide. London Gatwick was officially opened. Lots of famous people were born. It’s also the third day of the Vestalia, to celebrate home and heart and family, and happens to be the day the first legal corporation was established in America.

It’s all rather exciting really.

I have paid my rent, my gas, my electricity, my national insurance and my council tax in the last seven days. I’ve also spent around £90 on food and drink. I still need to buy ink cartridges for my printer. Apparently, two people can’t live on £12k a year. Not ‘comfortably’ anyway.

I still have further marriage fees, and another £500 ‘administration fee’ for the next part of the visa process to pay. I am £700 in debt right now. Sigh.

In less money-orientated news, I took my first Pill yesterday. Got a headache, but think that was from the heat rather than the Pill. Mm, hormones.

You know, I always feel guilty for doing things like - going swimming, or going for lunch. But then, even if I start work at 3 or 4, I still work through until 12 or 1am. Which is still a good six or seven hours work, right?

And on other days, I’ll start anywhere from 9am to 11am, and still go through to 12 or 1. Which is like eleven or twelve hours work.

Anyway, yes. I went swimming today, which was awesome, although I’m terrible and only managed 22 (or 24) lengths.

Today I got some post from the registry office, stating that we were all booked and ready to get married. They also included some pamphlets on what we can include in our wedding - what music we want, which vows we want to say (old skool thee instead of you) and a book with suggestions of poems and extracts.

The poems and extracts were kind of.. well… run of the mill. It made me sad. Even books I really like were rendered into cheesy extracts by lack of context. There was one from Les Miserables, and it sounded like any other bit of bumph.

I asked P. if he had any suggestions, and he was like: “Can’t I just say I love you and be done with it?”

I’m going to the doctor tomorrow to get hormones. Hormones that stop babies from taking root inside you. WOOT. On balance, I decided that with at least two billion other people pissing into our water supply, not to mention all those fucked up dairy cows giving prodigious amounts of milk, and estrogen leaking plastic wrapping littering the place that my environmental impact was going to be pretty negligible. Plus we’re all going to either fix the planet or die, so whatever, right?

Abel & Cole put the prices of their boxes up. Yay for rising petrol prices! I forgot that was going to impact food prices also… I was all set to laugh at the car drivers, and now look at me. Sorrowfully contemplating the cost of shipping an orange to my front door.

I just tried to register with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs in order to fill out my tax form online (as opposed to on paper).

Website crashed. Repeatedly.

I love our government. Trillions spent on the Olympics, trillions spent on bailing out Northern Rock, and yet we can’t afford decent web hosting for our official websites.