letter to the landlord from the flat part 1

Dear Mr Sha

It's been nearly one full week since we last chatted. The new tenants have moved in. Goodness do they ever have a lot of stuff! But you would be most proud as they've carefully placed pieces of felt on the bottoms of their potentially damaging furniture so as to protect my delicate wooden floors.

I watched the blond one read instructions on how to use the dishwasher... good thing she did or else she wouldn't have known to add salt to the first wash. Then I saw the brown haired one consult the washing machine instructions so as to know where to put the fabric softener.... You would be so proud of them!

I've got a sneaking feeling that they're planning on wall mounting this beautiful painting brought over by one of their friends... as the one girl with the longer hair was running a stud detector along the wall... then I noticed her re-charging a drill! I'm quite frightened as I've not had anything like this done to my walls before!

I hear you are planning to visit me on Sunday as you forgot to give the ladies a key to one of the bedroom windows. I can't wait to see you again and show you all the neat things they've done to me!

Yours truly,

the flat apt. 307

ps. the girls were speaking of how you call each of them individually at work on Tuesday to make sure that I was okay. You're so sweet, always worrying about me!

I've been

home being mostly sick.. I just can't shake this cold... so I've resolved to just let it win, and agree to be sick forever more...

I have however had the chance to unpack my room and fit everything in!

I must say that our new bathtub is heaven.

This weekend is jam packed... wine festival friday. Pride Saturday... Brighton to meet up with seestor on Sunday...

once upon a time

I had this lust thing with this bloke... yea yea it was a bloke... he was young... it was one weekend it was a blast... nothing that I wanted as it was terribly impossible due to a millions of reasons... just a few minutes ago I got this message from him out of the blue... god it was hilarious... I don't' think I could have any less interest in the fragmented conversation with him if I tried... god, I really am as old as I am supposed to be. I've really got to thank him though as I was terribly close to losing consciousness at my desk and his messenger woke me up! Guess there is always a good side to things like this... back to my big gay world now...

the move went well... was very tiring but it's done and that's what matters. Now it's time to unpack and compact life into a much smaller flat.

henceforth I will begin to feature a special segment that I will call 'letters from the flat to Mr Sha' it will be a journal-esq collection of thoughts and messages from our new flat to it's owner... who seems to have a very vivid passion for his flat... Just to give an example, he insisted (and then with great glee) spent 2h on Saturday morning flipping through the owners manual and page by page reading out it's entire contents! It made us all lose the will to live! So as an ode to the landlord/owner (complimented by his phone call to all three of us this morning to make sure the move went well and that we've set up all our bills) I'm going to commence a series of letters on behalf of the flat so that they can keep in touch throughout the tenancy. Oh how sweet they will be. Stay tuned!

Kaffin arrives this Sunday! I'm meeting her in Brighton. Friday night is the wine festival with work peeps and Saturday is pride...but not sure yet if i'm even going to go as there don't seem to be many tickets left and I seem to be living very far from where one can procure them... and I'll be damned if I'm paying lastminute.com's outrageous 3£ postage plus 4£ admin fee!

So I guess I'll be sitting at home then!

bizarre quirks

everyone's got'em the strange thing is that a lot of them are totally unconscious to the beholder. I've mad a list of a few of mine... feel free to add to the list

-writing in all lower case with very little regard (if any) to punctuation along with a terribly embarrassing inability to spell

-the inability to close twist lids firmly (this involves anything from toothpaste to bottle tops) Christie flagged me on this one when we were living on Lewis st.

-the need to walk on the same side of the road of my destination

-the lack of self restraint to not be able to open a weekly TV listing and not read every single east enders update

-how I stroke my throat and collar bone with my right hand when I'm nervous

Tonight i'm heading to some promotional/launch night with my friend Hon and his brother at Pop in Soho... all I know is that it involves free beer and polish vodka... perhaps that will kick my cold once and for all?

Now all I need is a plan that will get me from half ten to 18h with the least amount of pain and the most amount of productivity...

i'm mostly...

liking my entry for today's oneword.: "Go west on the road that veers to the clouds... where the sky dips down and you can taste heaven perfectly... ask Tori, she knows all too well."

j'ai mal à la gorge!

c'est impossible car c'est l'été... je ne veux pas être malade :(

the weather has been fantastic but alas I'm locked in the office... I can imagine that the heat will definitely stay until we move next Monday... I excel at consistently moving on the hottest day of the year... some would call it a gift... others would call me an unlucky mare.

Poor Neil, our designer got knocked off his motorbike on the way home last night... dislocated shoulder and suspected broken arm. It's so yucky. I hope he's okay... I've never been a big fan of motorcycles stemming from my father's accident... It's not the bikes that are the problems it's the motorists who consistently don't pay attention and run them down.

Spooks was great last night.... I really enjoy that program!

best feign working for a while as I was suuuuuuuper late this morning...

you know...

I think I've been remarkably quiet about my whole break up... the only trace of the actual event lies in some comments left by her in my comments a few weeks back. I think I'm a fair person and have an enormous amount of room in my heart for moving on and trying to stay positive... I don't hate or resent her. It was not working, we were not happy, it had to end. I have not slung about blame and pointed fingers and been spiteful and all of those easy but wrong things that people do when the part company with their partners... in fact I can clearly say that I do a lot of times miss her company... miss the good times... but am very aware that those memories are all in the past... this is very apparent to me today...

money is evil... it makes every break up even harder... being out of love and subsequently out of pocket just plain sucks... but that's life... you live, you love, you learn... you make similar mistakes... you repeat the cycle... you laugh you cry...

it was really nice to read about how David and Markus were able to meet up for the first time post their break-up... all in due time I suppose... but distance certainly has it's place. Distance is difficult as it comes with time... and time is eternally slow in healing hearts after break-ups...

my advice to me? life is really good right now. smile and enjoy it.

ten minutes...

left in this day here at the office and there has been little time to even think. For some odd reason it's become uber busy here....

the pain in the legs from tumbling on Tuesday has peaked today as pain often does (two days post exercise) I'm walking around like a wobbly peg-leg woman... this is all too familiar... this is the part of tumbling that I had forgotten *creak*

It's been a glorious day almost 30 degrees which is very hot for these parts! Too bad I missed it all sitting inside. Miss Dearbhla and I are meeting tonight to catch up on things. It's been ages since we last caught up! Hopefully we can find somewhere nice with a terrace to soak up the remains of the day.

Got news that our credit checks all passed and that the flat is officially ours! Not that we were doubting it but it's re-assuring nonetheless. *hobbles away*

celeb spotting...

My boss and I walked by Mini Driver today during lunch... Yes she's quite tall but had brushed out her lovely curly hair and was looking slightly worse for wear...

Tumbling class last night was an absolute fab time. I went to the intermediate class on a whim as I had messed up the date of the beginner intermediate class... I wasn't the worst in the class but I was certainly not even close to the one bloke who could do full tumbling passes including back layouts! I can still do no handed cartwheels... It was such a great workout, we were all dripping with sweat... just like back when I used to take gymnastics class... I really had fun at the end when we did front tucks and layouts off of the trampoline on the big squishy mat. Next week I'm going to the beginner intermediate class to brush up on my back 'flicks' as they call them here... 'handspring' as we call them in Canadia. I'm absolutely besotted by this class, I never thought I could have this much fun at my age!

T-12 days till our move to our new flat. I can't wait. Moving sucks but the new place is so lovely... I think the housewarming party will be around the 8th of Aug... Sean get your arse over here!

YOU ARE WEAK YOU ARE BLUBBER!

I got the funniest orientation email for the nike fun run from my chosen trainer... you can read it here.

work has been mad... at least time is passing quickly.

Mummy is off to Halifax with the grandparents today... They hope to make it to PEI too. Mum promised to visit the interactive kiosk we made back at Filament that is in the confederation museum there... That was such a great project to work on! I miss stuff like that!

I'm supposed to go to my first drop in tumbling class tonight (if I can make it home to change in time) youpie!!!!!!!!

welcome...

to my updated links... these are all the people that i visit daily... enjoy...

Manolos?

So trying to make the best of our new location... my boss and I ventured down the road to the Manolo Blanik shop at lunch... We arrived and looked in the window... it was looking suspiciously like the type of place you needed and appointment to enter... we quickly psyched ourselves out and aborted the mission... perhaps we'll brave it later when we're looking a little less topshop and a bit more bond st. (erm... that would be never!)

The weekend was fun. Hung out with some peeps at Soho pride... not that I'm one for rainbow flag waving malarky... this was far from it... It was a nice chill afternoon.

I had a great chat with my sis and my mum on Sunday afternoon... I then witnessed a funny conversation at the bus stop when I was heading into angel... a girl was chatting with her boyfriend and they were discussing the most important people in her life... I listened as she went over and over 'my priorities are god, then me' the guy kept insisting that he should be included on her list... she was adamant that it was just her and god that were eligible. Hilarious... It's interesting to hear people discussing religious beliefs in such an urban neighbourhood.

I really really...

like this site it's a great little daily writing exercise... I'm far from brilliant but some of the entries are just terrible.

some days just will never end... this is one of them. Went to Harvey Nic's at lunch (guided there by Tasha) I'm so out of my bearings around this part of town... Almost got run over by a Bentley on my way back to the office and just when I thought I was safe a Rolls Royce nearly got me... I tell no lies.

This weekend should be eventful... busy busy.

Happy Yankee day...

so yea my blogging has been short as of late

but some things don't require many words

one of those things is a comment uttered by our designer in our production meeting we had on Tuesday... he was speaking of this new navigation system that they're trying to bodge...

'for a three legged dog, it's got a real shiny nose'

I leave you with that!

*laughs*

Oh...

how the smallest things can change your life... I just need to say how much I LOVE Vanilla diet coke!... now where can i find me some diet cherry coke?

it could get...

worse... the commute in the morning is worse than imagined... long, hot... squished...

At lunch today I walked up to the Chelsea Holmes Place to see if I was going to switch my membership over to there... HA! It's a dive. It's got a lovely pool but the rest of the place is small with low ceilings, narrow corridors... It's amazing how branding can make rich people go there even though it's clearly crap. So now I'm clean out of options... unless I leave my membership at Holmes place and join a new club near here... pay the ridiculous joining fee... god it makes me want to not be healthy. Well not quite but it sure makes life difficult!

The circus school orientation was brilliant. What fun! I think I'm going to go to one of the drop in tumbling classes next week... I also liked the balance stuff they showed us as well... Eventually once I have some money again *laughs--- we all know that will never happen* I'm going to take a trampoline class!

Here is a pic that the lovely Natasha took of me this morning... you'll see the glory of our new office... look my desk is almost clean!

Happy Canada Day everyone... and, Happy Birthday Duffy Denise!

"have a nice night..."

I said to the Indian man working in the shop where I picked up some things on my way home last night... It was one of those strange shops in Dalston that sells mainly African beauty products... He responded in the most peculiar way... with a great sadness in his voice. 'but i'm alone'. Don't get me wrong, we wasn't at all saying it in a tone where he was subversely looking for some company in me! No, he truly was lonely. I responded... ' you're only as alone as you feel' like hello? Sarah? that makes no sense... I was trying to say something nice and sympathetic but it came out all wrong... Being alone is strange after you've had a partner for a while... it's like getting to know yourself all over again... it's hard work but worth it. I wish I could have said something more clever to him.

We've found a flat! It's just south of Angel in Barnsbury... really nice flat. We move on the 21st! I'm so glad all that flat hunting is done. More info later... as I truly can not be arsed to go through all the hoo ha. Plus perhaps it's best that I not write the exact location of my flat on the blog....

I had a moment of trauma this morning as I signed away 75£ to the man at the tube station... Signing away my fate to travel by tube every morning to this new office. I'm having major culture shock as it's just so posh here it's impossible to describe. Ladies who lunch are everywhere... GUCCI accross the road and Joseph on the corner... there is no lack of swish shops and such in this area. The new office it's self is nice and bright and they've re-arranged where everyone sits, so it's interesting. The air con is brutal and we're all freezing to death!

I'm off to circus school orientation tonight. I hope to do some of the tumbling classes they offer... I can't wait! I feel kind of nutty after this day... I wish every work day started at 11am rather than 9am!

when...

my mobile grows up... it wants to be this! *drools* now just how sexy is this phone... anyone got a spare 200£ to buy me one? Please feel free...

okay...

so the caffeine has kicked in... I don't usually drink coffee at work... but today my 15h drowsiness was unbearable!

I know I've mentioned it before but the sun rises so early here in the summer that It freaks me out. I bolted awake at 4h45 this morning thinking I had slept the day away. Turns out I hadn't it was just the daylight outside that confused me. London almost gets 2.5h extra hours of daylight compared to Seville. And nearly an entire hour more than Toronto... We be proper northerly

The flat hunt is still as dismal as it's been all along... Pushy twatty estate agents that insist that we need to live in hoxton as it's the only area with suitable unfurnished flats... What part of WRONG LOCATION do they not understand? Grrrr. Seeing one more place tonight in the right location... bet ya its' going to be a dump!

Going biking on Saturday with my co-worker Luke. I can't wait. It will be a nice change to cycle somewhere else other than central London!

*scurries back to work*

The weekend was filled with many an ouch and lots of hilarity...

I met up with the lovely Hon for lunch on Friday afternoon... Then Micha after work. We had a few drinks in Shoreditch and then headed home.

There was lots of sunning to be done on Saturday morning as our gracious neighbours decided to come home at 6am and crank their music. Nice. Went to view a flat in the afternoon... then a picnic on the green.

Saturday night met up with the lovely miss Dearbhla and finally got to give her her b'day pressie. Lots of wine ensued and the evening ended in the jazz bar followed swiftly spilling onto the concrete when foolishly giving my friend a piggy back. My knee is most likely broken (okay so I exaggerate but still) it hurts like an SOB! I'm still wobbling around today... if it's not better by mid week I'll get it x-rayed but i'm not a big fan of 10h waits in the A&E of UCL...

Sometime during the night the funniest thing happened... Jo jo's friend Sally managed to wander into Dan and Sally's room (wrong turn from the loo perhaps) and ended up waking up in the morning in their bed. I can't imagine the thoughts going through Dan and Sal's heads when they saw a stranger in their bed that they most definitely did not have in their bed when they got in it. One can only attribute it to sleep walking. It was nothing short of hilarious!

Sunday in a hung over haze I went and did something really adventurous... okay well in my book it is... Sean you're familiar with this activity as you've done the same thing in the past... Ouch!

Work today is mental busy and as I write it's 17h20 and I've not even stopped for lunch... feeling very hungry now... our office moves on Friday which means that we only work a half day... then again a half day on Monday too! Not that it makes the fact that we're moving to south Kensington any easier... but I've got to find something positive about it.