An all-female digest. Mostly.

It all happens at once! Completely out of the blue, both V and R2 have left comments on Facebook, mainly regarding a less-than-serious change in profile picture. I haven't had direct contact with either in months... possibly over a year  if not longer.

QC2 text back and we've got vague plans sorted out for two weeks time. Details are still to be arranged, but we have something to aim for.

CH has text to say that our planned meeting at the end of next month probably won't be the all-singing, all-dancing night out that it initially promised to be due to other commitments, so we've agreed that we'll have a few drinks that night, then arrange something else for another night.

The proposed night out with KfW2 for mid-August has fallen through temporarily, but we've already re-arranged for a weekend to be decided in September.

And I've invited JB out along with myself, KfW2 (and fiancé)  and FP (and wife) when we go to a local festival at the end of August.

In apropos of nothing

Reading through a few older posts earlier on and it struck me that the whole RB incident was four years ago. FOUR YEARS! Fucking hell. The odd time that RB does pop into my head, I'm still convinced it only happened in 2010, two years ago.

Making plans (update)

Following on from this post, I got a reply from QC2 about meeting up. To be honest, I thought she'd forgotten as it's unusual (in my opinion) to take a few days to reply to a text message). August is a busy month for QC2, so her time is limited, but I do want to see her again (not just for trying to move the MMBF thing along), so I'll tell her that I am free when she is, and let her make the arrangements.

More planning

KfW2 is due to get married next year and she is, obviously, already making her plans. She's pretty much told me already that she will be extremely disappointed if I don't go, which is interesting as she's not even nailed down her final guest list yet, but I already know that she'll want me there for the whole thing.

On three separate occaisons, DSC, KfW2 and another female friend from work have already said that I need to find my 'plus one', which would be nice (I hate turning up to weddings on my own), but obviously it's easier said than done, especially when there's going to be travel involved (proper travel, not an hour in the car, either).

Things that go bump in the night.

I don't know what the girl directly upstairs is doing, but she's creating quite the racket. One minute, I'm convinced she's walking round her room (though if she is, she's been doing it for the past half an hour) and the next I'm convinced that she's fucking. Though, if truth be told, I'm not sold 100% on either assumption.

Either way, I wish she'd stop so I can get some sleep!

Making plans.

KfW2 will have a free night in a couple of weeks when the family is off out playing elsewhere, so I suggested that if she was at a loose end, we could meet up for drinks. The last time we went out on a Saturday night, I had a great time, so hopefully, this could be something just as fun.

It's a good few weeks away, so she's liable to forget and/or make other plans, but let's see.

I might try and get QC2 out next week, too .I haven't seen her in a while and I still need to see if I can move this MMBF thing forwards.

Add another to the list...

...a list that is no doubt shared by many men - that of females in figure-hugging catsuits. Black ones, especially, but catsuits are great.

Step forward Anne Hathaway...

For reference, see also: Uma Thurman in The Avengers, and Scarlett Johansen in Avengers Assemble. Honourable mentions (in non-black catsuits): Jessica Alba in Fantastic Four.

There goes my weekend...

While I was out with DSC yesterday, my boss rang to tell me that he thought I should have been in work. This was news to me as I had plenty of plans for the day. It turns out that our client had a communications failure and that there was an assumption made that we would be in the office today to help move a project along. If the client had asked, I would have refused because I had already made arrangements, but I said to my boss that if needs be, I'd go in later today for a while to mop up some outstanding stuff.

Well, I regretted that as, hours later, he gave me a call to say that he would appreciate it if I could go in. Of course, I said that I would... and I will. I plan on heading in for a few hours at most, do a bit of investigation and get out again. This week hasn't been fun because of this particular project and client, so all pf my time out of the office has to be utilised for my own relaxation, enjoyment and leisure. Additionally, I may be slightly tipsy right about now, so I will not be in great form when I wake up and my mental sharpness isn't going to be strong, so I will do what I can, then get out.

Ultimately, I'll look good by even doing the bare minimum as the client will appreciate us going into the office on a Sunday. What I will be interested in seeing is exactly how much the client appreciates that effort.

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There's a smell of cigarette smoke and perfume wafting in through my bedroom window. Recently some girls (maybe just one, possibly more) have moved in downstairs (not directly downstairs, but downstairs and one over) whose balcony is just outside my bedroom and they've been partying quite hard since they moved in - music's not too loud, thankfully, but they're always on the balcony having a smoke and a drink and a laugh.

I think I should have gone to the pub tonight.

There's nothing like...

...a massage when things are being pants. Work is being pants but I'm spaced out of my gourd because of a corporate massage that I've just had.

Keep on running.

A few years ago, me and a group of mates travelled to Dublin to do a 10km run for charity. It was all done for a good cause and then we went on a horrendous bender afterwards that left me incapable of anything for days. I think I even took a few days off work due to what was borderline alcohol poisoning and a severe pain in the lower legs that meant I was incapable of walking any more than half a dozen steps.

Arriving in work today saw an email from G suggesting we do the same thing. I signed up immediately even though I'm injured (again). As a previous post suggests, I think my body's just given up as I appear to have a problem with my achilles (not the one that I got fixed last year). If I'm still having issues next week, I'm going to take a trip to my GP to see what the issue is, because I would like to do the run, I would like to do it in a decent time and I would like to be fit enough to do it without feeling like I am going to die.

Woke up this morning...

... with a strong, and semi-random urge to see New York City. It was prompted (rather embarrassingly) by a work-related dream where I travelled to NYC with work to start a new, high profile project with my current boss.

It's kinda tied in to my current feelings anyway becaue I do want to go somewhere warm and sunny for a bit, but there is a lack of travelling companion with which to share the experience.

I want a holiday...

...with this woman off the Secret Escapes advert on the telly. Mmmm...

Camilla Arfwedson

Talking, talking, talking. Happy talk?

It's been an interesting few days. I had my night out with KfW2 etc. and it was a great success. DSC didn't show up (alongside JB, disappointingly) but I was able to catch up with her earlier for lunch and a chat for a few hours. I mentioned KfW2's wedding, which is about a year away which is going to require travel (a sunny holiday beckons), and DSC's first comment was that I need a date to take with me.

That's easier said that done, mind you. The only girl on the radar currently is MMBF and she's an outside bet at best. MM has already kinda, sorta warned me off her - she's high maintenance/sophisticated and I guess that MM reckons that's not my type. She's right to an extent; Personality-wise, I would prefer someone who's a little more quirky rather then sophisticated, but that doesn't stop MMBF from being a good looking (striking IMO rather than traditionally cute) and incredibly sexy with a fantastic body. I would like to get to know her a little better in order to see for my self if she is too high maintenance.

DSC has suggested (again) a return to online but I just don't have the mentality for it. I regard it as impersonal and a numbers game that I just don't have the enthusiasm/motivation to get into again.

I have...

...big plans for this weekend. Well, tomorrow night really. Plenty of people will be in the pub because of me, and I'm hoping that it will be a fun night. KfW2, DSC and quite a few others are coming down. Probably about a dozen that I know of and potentially another dozen more who haven't replied to the invite.

Then I have next week off, so I have a few things planned. Or I would have, but this RBS/NatWest things is really grinding my gears at the moment, so I can't make any proper plans.

Useless Fucker (him and me)

Our gas ran done yesterday, so we've had no hot water. I asked MfW about it and we deduced that it's UF's turn to top up the gas credit. But it's still not done, over 24 hours later. This is a man who likes at least two showers per day, but we have no gas for hot water and he hasn't (to the best of my knowledge) asked MfW or me about it.

He's due to go away for a few days tomorrow and he'll be out of the apartment for the best part of ten days. What are the odds he's going to piss off on holiday and not do his bit?

It's not the money. I could easily top up the card and get the cash off him at a later date, it's the other part - the leaving the house, walking to the shop part that's inherent in people taking their turn. That's why I was so pissed off with the two guys drinking my beer - it's not enough to give me the money - to adequately replace what was taken, you have to physically go out and replace what you used.

It's the same in this instance.

Time and again, UF has shown that he either doesn't pay attention or doesn't care about the flat or the people in it. In this case, I'm guessing the latter because you can't fail to notice that there's no hot water if you manually wash up (he doesn't use the dishwasher) and shower twice a day. My assumption is that he has noticed, but why he continually refuses to do anything for the benefit of others is still a mystery.

I think it's gotten to the time where we need to sit down and have a chat - he needs to step up with respect to doing stuff around the apartment - but I hate having these chats.

Poke?

*POKE*

Breaking news!

So, after a somewhat suspicious post on Facebook yesterday by E's sister, E updated her relationship status earlier on Facebook from "in a relationship" to "engaged". Go E! I wonder if that means I'll have to do some travelling for the wedding?