so I had to edit my posting yesterday

so that my friend dan's natzi-esq browser security at work will let her view my site... apparently I must writ p with and orn rather than the full word... well I'll be darned

went to see another flat last night... this one in the perfect location... nice size, bright, great quiet residential street... only one small problem... the second room in the flat was the size of a small storage cupboard... there is no way a double bed would have fit in there. So frustrating...

I watched a brilliant program on the bbc last night... it's about career change... it watched the life of a welsh farmer who decided he wanted to be an interior designer... it was heartbreaking and touching all at the same time... it's a good replacement for my other favorite program 'no going back'... the week previously they followed a baker of 30 years on his path to become a funeral director. Simply brilliant... and the best part was... that they both were successful. The Welsh bloke ended up as a cabinet maker for a high end kitchen design company and the Baker landed a job with a funeral company as a trainee funeral director (which would eventually provide him with a much heftier salary than he was earning as a Baker) Life is about well calculated risks and following your dreams.... these people have such spirit it's infectious.

it's a grey Thursday but Friday is not far off now. I'm counting the minutes.

after a long and well deserved break...

I was back a the gym this morning... nothing much had changed... the amount of theft from lockers in the changing room is apparently reaching epidemic rates... not nice.... the leather skinned 80lbs anorexic lady was there as per usual sweating and grunting and crunching away at what's left of her... however, new this morning... was an absolute vision of beauty on the treadmill.... toned, lovely... tanned... quite a bit of eye candy! Then later in the locker room as I was getting changed I noticed that she was too... now this is not going to turn into a 'p' with an 'orn' moment so don't' get excited... To my utter shock I noticed that this perfect specimen was stepping into possibly the mumsiest clothes I've seen a long long time. Large granny blouse, high-wasted trousers... and granny sandals. How could this be? yea yea, well I've got to find excitement in my life where I can...

work has been manic but good. keeping busy keeps life simple... or so that's the theory that I'm going with...

The first day of flat hunting was an astounding flop... I saw a tiny, hot dark carpeted place 5 minutes walk to Angel... I can't believe the estate agent wasted his time showing me that!?!?! What's even more incredible is that they wanted 350£ a week for it! The next place was beautiful, 4th floor, modern all mod cons... a bit on the sterile side... gorgeous view of the city...but again the neighbourhood was so so and really at the end of the day now what's on the cards... The hunt is supposed to resume this evening but I'm not too sure if that's going to happen.

I'm really starting to seriously think about this Spain thing... sooner rather than later...

avis aux liseurs... ne m'approcher pas, sans avoir lu les directions...

My room....

is now a shrine to cleanliness... okay so my sock bins are still not organized but everything else is dusted washed and cleaned... It's amazing how much junk I've accumulated since I moved to London nearly 2 years ago!

Got a letter from miss Denise today... I can't believe she'll be back in Ireland soon. A year of travelling sure when by quickly for her! I wonder if she's going to end up moving across the pond to work in London once she's settled?

Did some flat hunting over the weekend and I'm going to look at a place after work tonight. After yet another weekend of noise I'm about at the end of the tether... At this this time one of the landlords came round at 3am to demand the music be turned off. Surprisingly enough it wasn't the arseholes next door... it was the people on the second floor in the other block of flats!!!!!!!!

Work is very busy, and before you know it, it will be next Friday and we'll be out of this office. My story of air-conditioning relief was short live... they've turned them on here and it's terrible my throat has been sore all day long and i'm shivering in my jumper when it's freaking 26 degrees outside. I HATE IT!


Had a nice drink last night at the firefly in Stoke Newington last night... yummy long Island Iced tea! That part of town was such a buzz last night! Live jazz is brilliant!

Just found out today that my friend Lisa who is expecting (she's such a dear friend she's like my other sister) well, she's having a boy! She'll have a right nuclear family! One boy and one girl. I'm so pleased for her and her husband.