Celebrity Bingo

continues... I walked right by her outside my office at lunch today...

but she had been tangoed*

*tango- referring to the orange soft drink that they sell here in the UK... coined by Luke, referring to someone with an overly orange tan

I am in love!

with my tumbling class... i went to the level lower last night and it was too easy but was nevertheless fun! It's amazing how tricks just start coming back! It's like riding a bicycle. I had such and incredible buzz when I finished the class... not so handy when the class finishes at 10pm but hey... no complaints here

I think the nice weather just may return to o'l London town... They're calling for a warm sunny weekend and a promising next few weeks *fingers and toes crossed* I guess it will be a small consolation of sorts as I'm not able to go on holiday with my seestor and my mother to San Fran to go sailing on my auntie's boat :( It's so cruel that my work has us on lock down... my heart is broken into a million pieces...

I think this exploding dog cartoon found by my boss yesterday (and subsequently used on the front page of one of her briefs...) is kind of how I feel about not being able to go to san fran...

This

is my favorite new website... mUncH a S Lut at YOMiko.com. ... .. You must play the amputee fridge magnet game! Brilliance thy name is yomiko!

The weekend was fab. Very busy but fun!

The wine show in Olympia on Friday night was a good laugh. Made it home in about an hour on a random bus that I caught... Was very strange as I NEVER ever venture about west London... it's kind of like visiting a different city. When I got home I collected Jojo, Sally and Tim and headed to the flat... We stopped in at our downstairs neighbours party... it's always interesting to see what other people's places look like especially when you've both got the same flat!

Saturday morning showed some promise of sunshine... after an immense amount of faffing by someone that will remain nameless... we finally headed towards Hyde Park. Within 30 minutes of mincing in the champagne area we were 40£ lighter and one bottle of champers heavier... then the heavens opened. It wasn't too bad as there were many dance tents and they were quite large. We all laughed and danced and had lots of fun. We were all heading back home by 8h30 which was fine by me as I was exhausted!

Sunday morning I headed down to Brighton accompanied by miss wood. Met up with my sister and my cousins. Had a nice lunch and was generally windswept in a most proper manner... it was madness! The wind off the sea was almost enough to blow you off your feet.

I'm really hoping my friend Karm lands that job he went for a Microsoft yesterday... and also hoping that Sean lands that job at the home office that he applied for! How cool would that be? Oh yea, very!


KJ is back in the UK on Friday but only for 18... however as we're all on lockdown here at work, it doesn't look like I'll be able to see her... very sad really, as this is most likely her second but final trip to London this year...


I missed circus school yesterday as the class I wanted was at 18h15! dang! I think I might brave the advanced one again tonight .
Did I mention all the fabulous pressies my seestor and my mum sent for me? I think I'm the luckiest Jarrett in the world!

There are lots of pictures... email me or leave me a comment if you want to see :)

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!