I know its stupid to care as much as I do, but this morning I awoke to find all the recycling I have carefully sorted since I've been here has been thrown into the bin with takeaway chips and sauce all over it :( I find it a bit annoying when people just cant be bothered to recycle anything normally, but to actually expend effort undoing what I have done, especially when we only have a fortnightly bin collection based on us recycling the other week I find ridiculous ad upsetting. I was in kind of a good mood for first proper day at uni and now I'm not :( I just don't understand why someone would do it :(

Started this once before, but I failed at posting
1. Post about something that made you happy today even if it's just a small thing.
2. Do this everyday for eight days without fail.
3. Tag eight of your friends to do the same: r05km, tinuviel, shabzilla, calexio, aimznemesis

Been doing this in my head since last saturday, so you can have them all at once :P
Have a feeling I'll be updating more now I'm kind of moved in, unless the internet cuts out, last person just left it so not sure what is going to happen....
Anyway, apologies for lack of proper tag, I must keep doing it wrong because in preview it errors at me everytime :(

Saturday (last)
I finally got to go sailing with Marc (and his Dad) which made me incredibly happy! We've been waiting all summer to get a day when we're both free and the weather is optimal to go out, but when that finally happened during the week, we discovered the place had tightened up their policy on civilian non dependants (me) so I couldn't go :( Luckily Marc's Dad spoke to them, and with him there as well it was allowed :) Although his decision to allow me to steer might have indirectly led to him getting smacked in the head by the boom :S Also briefly saw Vicky for a goodbye hug :D

Sunday
Successfully made a lovely pork roast for us, also the last properly cooked meal in that house, so it was also quite a sad moment really, I am already really missing that place, but at least the food was good :D And the 1.5kg joint lasted us through monday too. I totally cheated with frozen potatoes, but I also made stuffing and awesome gravy so it balances :D

Monday
Last of the packing got done and we picked up the van to trek me up here. The things that made me happy were being able to see Penryn cat and have time to stop and stroke him, sending out a few letters and things, and having a lovely evening watching Planet Earth on shiny blu ray :) There was a lot more sadness related to missing everything though, was pretty desolate when we packed everything away into the van :(

Tuesday
Moved house! Left at stupid o'clock and made fairly good time, got the keys and stuff despite a small mix up with my sister, and got to enjoy a lovely meal at pizza hut with my sister and Marc, stuffed our faces :D Got to see Lucy for the first time in months, and got free dinner, wooo! Was also happy with getting my library card when I thought they'd stopped for the day, as well as orientating myself a little :)

Wednesday
Had a really nice chinese and they gave us free sparkling wine which was unexpected :D Huzzah for that ^__^ Also managed to sort out a few more uni related things, because I'm a special case on all fronts it seems so every easy to use simple thing to do is always more awkward for me ^^;

Thursday
Seemed like it was going to be gloomy as Marc had to leave, but I did have some reprieve in the form of visitors and the intro meet thing for my subjects, including an evening social, where I totally made a friend (hopefully) and a few acquaintances :D Lucy took me to Asda to stock up on real food, apparently cake and cereal isn't all that you need to eat all things considered! Was brave enough to sing at Karaoke too :) Was incredibly relieved to get most my modules sorted out, finished the day just needing one more slot, when I started it with nothing :D wahey! Met my sisters boyfriend which was nice too :D Yay Tim!

Friday
Filled the last slot! I have now completed enrolment :D Also went to the first years first japanese class thing and met a lot more people, some familiar from the night before :) Hopefully this'll be the beginning of good things :D Emma also showed me round some cool places in Preston and helped me in my mission to sort out the last module... wound up not being quite as productive as I had hoped, but still got it done so I was happy :) Also got a free brownie, Huzzah for that!

Saturday
It's just started but sorting out my car insurance was much less painful than expected and the lady was really friendly and helpful so I was pretty happy with that :D Too bad the phone call cost a fiver but oh well... might update later, time will tell!

In no proper order;

Got into UCLan and am moving to Preston, WIN!
Got congratulatory cakes for above in the post from Katy, EPIC WIN!
Worked lots and other boring stuff....
Had visitations from my Father and Step-Mother, followed by Laurie and Jenny.
Went to Culdrose Air Day with Marc's cousins and it rained so hard and nothing flew till right before we had to leave :(
Got to view the Red Arrows for free last week from my house as they were doing a display for Falmouth week :)
Did some posting I've been meaning to do, but by no means all
Went to see Henry V in Greenwich
Went to Ned's Wedding :)
Probably did other stuff but I have a poor memory.....
( That again in more detail )

Another week of 10pm - 10am shifts out the way, now three days off and then normal hours next week. Should feel like a holiday after killer hours of doominess, so that's all shiny :)
Been playing Eternal Sonata, which is lovely, now in the final dungeon of giantness and death.
Nearly went sailing a couple of times but the weather didn't work out, but I'm hoping to go soon :) Marc is now qualified to take a boat out by himself so that should make things easier :)
Also finally broke out Singstar Disney songs which was a lot of fun, but I feel guilty for having massively underused singstar in favour of rockband.
Nothing much is going on at the minute, which is why I never write anything....

Can hardly believe it! Been working like mad, right up till yesterday morning, and now I'm not in again till tuesday morning... luxury! Did a whole week of night shifts as well as my normal hours... combined with another bank holiday means I paid some student loan again... and with the interest rates getting lower I nearly covered one this month :) hehehe.... Won't do it again for a while though, there's only so many 12+ hour days you can do in a row without getting a bit meh over it. Tim and Kira also paid a visit, took them to the eden project by public transport.... Never again! the waits at every change were riduclous! You'd think that they'd connect them at least mildly, instead of having hour plus waits for the bus one way, the train the other, and the last train was an hour and 20 minutes after the "connecting" one. We ended up shelling out for a taxi :( But other than that it was great to see everyone :) Marc finished for the year on tuesday, so we took the pinata up to his parents house and set at it with the bb guns :) 2 hershey kiss things were too bb'd up to eat but other than that I'm still enjoying the innards... We tried giving pinata a helmet but it made him fall over too much... Anway, thanks muchly to Katy for the joy! Marc purchased for me one Pokemon Platinum, got the first gym badge but haven't played too much since I've been working/sleeping. I'm also stuck again in trials and tribulations.... trying to not look anything up, though it's so tempting! Found out that Johnny Winters played in Falmouth last week and we totally missed it :( Would have been great! He's left the country now though. Next month I get paid twice... looking forward to it! Pictures will come eventually, once I locate the useful camera to usb cable and stop being lazy :) In the meantime, sorry for the highly disjointed entry... Keep meaning to update more regularly but somehow never do... Ja ne!

Had a Katy visit me this week, so we went to the museum in truro and the aquarium in newquay and watched ponyo and had fun. I also saw a lovely chair that turned out to be £2000.... shame! Worked 188 hours in the last month, which, some of them being bank holiday and night rate managed to push me into the boundary to make my first student loan payment! £1 Hehehehe! Not going to make much of a dent that way unfortunately... Also nearly had a cat for the morning as one ran into my house just as I was leaving for work at half 4 but I got him out... would have loved to have time to play though! No cats allowed here though, plus we live right on top of a pretty busy road :( One day! (alongside many other one days ^^) Tim and Kira are visiting next week too, so after I work 39 hours over three days I'll have another nice break :) Hehehe!

I totally got paid again :) This has allowed the purchase of one PS3, which was a bargain and we can sell for more than we paid if we get bored.... Go go cash converters! I am also still looking for a tortoise... if you know of one, prod me! preferably at least 4 :)

Anyhow, car is due to be fixed really soon, now that I have some funding for it, which I can then sell and have some savings again :) Then the sensible car will magically appear and not cost a small fortune in insurance... Wooo!

I found some D&D players in Asda, I don't normally work the afternoon/evening shift so I don't often see these people, and I go to sit with one who I'd spoken to before about Phoenix Wright games, and he starts about a drow elf name generator. Being thick it does take me a minute to work out where I know drows from but in the meantime I said it in a slightly spaced voice and got an, ah, D&D player? Unfortunately there aren't any free games at the minute, but at least I now know people who actually play :)

Just slept for about 11 hours, which has heavily cut into my 25 hours off, but I guess I needed it, and I'm now off to play some Oblivion on the shiny PS3 :)

Been at work since 5 this morning, am therefore reasonably tired, but it sucks coming back to an empty house, as marc has had to leave for his job before I could get back. His being bar work there's also always the chance he won't be home till 3 am and then I'll be up again at 4 tomorrow to go to work again. Can't complain too much as no one forced me to do these extra hours, but the week ahead is just going to be so filled with work I don't want to think about it, but I can't stop myself. Got time and a half for today though and the same again if I pick up a shift on monday, not too sure about that though, as I would then work every day from tuesday to next saturday (getting sunday as a day off) The money will be worth it, especially as now I'm a smelly tax payer so I have to work more to earn the same. I'm just in a mopey mood I guess. Bleh!

and in possesion of cake :) I worked for 13 hours today, but surprisingly I haven't fallen asleep yet. Given that I am normally totally gone by now on only 5 hours I find this impressive :) This week I did an induction thing for volunteering a the local maritime museum and I think it went well, although I have been promised an email that has yet to appear, got a fleece and a t shirt though ^__^ Doing the 13 hour thing twice more next week, then maybe I'll have enough money to fix my car :) Also visiting a Katy on thursday, I can try to sleep off the early mornings on the train up, and then do joyous things in northern lands and the like! Been rubbish with writing stuff again... but one day I will send some post, and it won't be worth the wait ^^; Can't be helped!

So I can't find my keys and Marc was working last night so stayed over at his mum's and I'm locked in. Which might not have been so bad had it not been for the fact I was meant to be at work 20 minutes ago, and it's not like I can get back to sleep right now either. So my search has been combined with a super tidy (which this place does need) and I'm hoping I have some holiday hours left to take today off as because I don't need to be missing a days pay....

Have actualy half written some letters, but not yet managed the completing/posting part.... Been watching Arrested Development, as well as some azumanga daioh for cutes :) Got pikmin yesterday, I managed to fall down some slopes I couldn't get back up with only one pikmin and a huge monster and lots of hot water blasting things.... Luckily I can just try again later, I've not got stuck proper yet :) Can't wait to have the blue pikmin too, yay for multicolours!

My car is currently broken, I've volunteered at the maritime museum, work is the same and that's about it..... My life is so exciting!

I totally got one, not in the shape of a cat though unfortunately.... It makes me lovely warm rice for when I get up in the morning, I even managed to make a quick onigiri before work yesterday :) If I'd've actually got up to my first alarm I wouldn't have had to rush :) Shall have to practice a bit more though. Was disappointed to not get the sukiyaki furikake we wanted as it was out of stock... got a reasonably nice chickeny one and a not so nice fishy one instead :S I'm sure I'll use it up eventually though...

Work is hopefully picking up a bit again. January is the quietest month so there's next to no overtime to be had, and as I'm only technically contracted 20 hours a week I'm fairly dependant on it. Then again I can't really be that worried because I just spent money on a rice cooker, which isn't exactly urgently needed. Also planning a route 66 shaped holiday, probably not until next year though... could do it this summer, but if we actually took more time to plan it then it'd probably be more memorable in the end. Besides, although the flights are pretty cheap the dollar isn't to great against the pound right now so everything else is somewhat more tricksy.

I get bored here a lot... which I shouldn't do. I know if I just got on and did stuff I wanted too I'd prolly actually achieve something that would cheer me up and not feel like I'm wasting my life. Doesn't quite happen though... I have moments of productivity, but more of vegetation. Wishing to get post but having not sent any seems unlikely... I sit and start writing but I just don't finish...

Did do something I've been putting off though, finally got round to actually putting some pressure on my old boss who still hadn't paid me for my last week, shall be getting that tomorrow! Woo!

Got stuck and therefore frustrated on bleach, phoenix wright, elite beat agents, kingdom hearts, ace combat 6 and professor layton. The gaming world is rejecting me for the moment it seems! I shall sit here using the xbox for music playing purposes instead, fie on you xbox!

Like everywhere else it has been freezing here. Yesterday I had to scrape the inside of my windscreen as well as the outside before work. And a few hours later when I finished I had to do the same. There were also frozen water drips all over the dashboard.... fun! This in turn meant kitchen was freezing, the stuff on the side was colder than the milk in the fridge, but that'll teach me for not bothering with the heater in there... At work the warehouse was also colder than the fridge... Fun times! Anywho, work is still work shaped... I might start running to get into shape (with a couple of people so maybe we'll stick at it) I'm about to get a rice cooker and I should be debt free in a month or so :) Being employed is pretty handy! Although the early starts in the freezing icy cold mornings is still not fun. Roll on summer!
(and balls of awesome rice from a super cool rice cooker!)

I finally got around to playing Phoenix Wright, so far so good, although I did spend ages hopelessly stuck on one testimony because I didn't notice there was a word wrong. That was frustrating, but luckily Marc eventually hinted at what I repeatedly missed aqnd led me to a path victorious! Now on the last case of the first game, and I'm looking forward to the second! It's weird the sense of achievement I feel when I spot things in advance, although it is annoying when it doesn't come up in the case for ages! And a couple of times when I'm all ready to contest the last thing said in a testimony, only it didn't actually make it to the testimony thing so I have to go round again. So that and watching Firefly have been the bulk of my new years day :) now we have a nice sized monitor on the bedside table I think I'll end up lazing in bed with dvd's a lot lot more :D Go laziness!

Also been playing some Lost Odyssey which I mostly love, but just bfore my last save point was a giant gap between points which was obviously the bit I had to keep messing up on and I ended up having to play over an hour again.... would have been a lot longer had I bothered with the cutscenes, but twice in 24hours is far too many! Aside from that gap there have been pretty frequent savey places though, dunno why that one had to be such a pain!

Also dabbled in a bit of Mirror's Edge, but I fail quite epically. Nice to watch Marc though :) Le brother got himself a 360 in the sales, as did a few friends, so maybe I'll hang out more on xbox live in days to come. For now I'll just use Marc's though as I bought him a years worth... seems appropriate! If you want to add me, give me a prod :) Bear in mind I'm fairly failworthy at most multiplayer games though :P

Also went to my friends wedding in Bath this week :) Congratulations to Kat and Dave! (not that the use lj... oh well!) Made it back ready for 5am work the next day too!

Well now I've harped on about games for a while I shall wish you all a happy new year (and a certain someone an awesomely happy birthday too), and who knows, maybe I'll manage another post before 2010 :) Peace!

Here are just some things that made me happy this week because I fail at keeping up to date...


Christmas cards in the post! Always a joy, only mixed with the guilt of knowing I haven't actually sent any out myself.... shall be posting random things at random times instead though, spread the postal joy throughout the year!

Realising I hadn't touched my advent calendar for a couple of days and getting more choccies at once :)

Getting the Jeff Buckley version of Hallelujah off of itunes and the hope that xfactor might not win :) Technically marc was buying but you know, I was there and I get to listen :)

Talking to people online when I've been alone here, makes me feel happy too :)

The magical healing power of a nice hot water bottle.

More stuff made me happy but that'll do for now :)

Yesterday I was happy to come home and have the stuff I cooked on friday all ready to eat again :) I was so tired after my epic 13 hour shift of doom if I'd've had to make something I'd've probably gnawed on a shoe instead. Or something....

Was a bit lame to only see Marc for half an hour on saturday, but with both of us working a lot at opposite ends of the day not a lot could be done. And the half an hour I was mostly asleep for as it was between 3.40 and 4.10ish in the morning! On the plus side though, all the work I did up till saturday I'll get paid for on friday, and I've done a few long days so I should be pretty much sorted!

Today sleeping in and having a nice fire made me happy :) I epically fail at lighting it though.

That my pizza and soup both turned out quite nice made me quite happy. :)

First time making soup as well, yay for the internet and it's guidance! Makes up for the fact me bread turned out weird, perfectly fine in the middle, but horribly burnt on the bottom.... don't quite know why it did that, but I'll try again another time no doubt. Maybe once I've eventually cleaned up from this lot!

Got work tomorrow, so prolly better iron my shirt and the like... Can't wait till it's done and I can be lazy! It's weird having my weekend one day late...

1. Post about something that made you happy today, even if it’s just a small thing.
2. Do this every day for a week without fail.
3. Tag 8 of your friends to do the same.

I won't tag people because I'm lazy, but if you read this and feel like joining in, go for it and pretend I did :P

I got a christmas tree today, which makes me pretty happy, mostly because I imagine I can look after it for aaaaages and it'll grow big and awesome and I can always think how cool it was I've grown my tree at later dates. In reality I'll probably knock it into the fire or have some other improbable mishap, but we'll ignore that for now. Also Marc not getting annoyed with my half asleep at stupid o'clock panic about going to lancashire. I don't really need to go, I just dreamed I did, but he reminded me I didn't so all was well. And stupid o'clock really is stupid when it was sometime before I wok up and 4.15 for work.

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Emma, sorry I've been so crap at looking at lj I didn't even see this until now. Ditto to everyone else, I've been trying to do lots of hours at work so I can have some real money coming in before christmas, so I spend most the rest of my time sleeping :) One of the other guys I work with did 90 hours last week.... the thought of it is tiring enough, but if I did pull that off for a month I'd be laughing! Not that I don't laugh enough anyway :)

Now time to tidy up before Marc's Dad visits, I hope he is suitably impressed with the tree!

I am now going to be an employee of Asda :) Should be pretty good, but I'm going to end up with a crazy sleeping pattern, because it starts at 5! but the money's good and it leaves me most the day to find another job in :) Or, y'know, bum around like I did as a student! I've lost my first japanese books though, I wanted to get back into studying them, but I don't want to start at the second book because I know there's stuff I've forgotten from the first.... how laaaaame! Anyway, I have induction training on tuesday that may or may not be paid (though of course I hope it is ^__^) and then I might start on friday. And I'll have a reverse week, because my shifts are friday saturday and monday, so I'm sure it won't be long before I'm grouping weeks with monday at the end ^^; The hours clashed with my cleaning job though so I've had to give that up. If I could have done both I would be sorted money wise, but at least this job will do crazy things like give me holiday pay and extra for bank holidays, and more hours over less days so it's much better really :) I can't wait!

I also saw Raiders of the Lost Ark for the first time last night/this morning, twas pretty cool, although the use of a lot of paint to represent face melting does have a little room for improvement. Am I right in thinking that the box they put away was the one he went to find again in the new one? Anyway, off to make some nice breakfast now, before fulfilling the joyous task of choosing a new vacuum. The one that came with the house is made of fail and lose.

Subject to them not finding out I have a secret criminal past which I have somehow forgotten in an implausible incident it would seem I have a proper job. Bit scary, but also very relieving! We have, however, lost the internet and the phoneline thanks to confusion at bt, I'm currently at marc's mum's, and he be out at work. I also have another job, cleaning 6 times a week at 7, that's way too early dammit! Depending on my hours at the care home I might leave it though... The money is alright though and with Christmas coming I'll hold on to it as long as I can :) It's a nice change to not be filling out application forms everyday though! And getting an extra long lie in today :) With the clock change I'll probably find the mornings easier at any rate :)

I lack any tv signal, but it at least makes the xbox games look shinier :)I also live in cornwall, in a fairly awesome flat, with loads of extra space :) As soon as someone gives me a job I'll be laughing. Hopefully not too hysterically though, or they might take it back...