Still water runs deep

USING ONLY ONE WORD:

Where is your mobile phone?
There.

Your significant other?
Home.

Your hair?
Head.

Your mother?
Dead.

Your father?
Vague.

Your favourite thing?
Comb. *Edit. Toothbrush.

Your dream last night?
Unrecorded.

Your favourite drink?
Tea.

Your dream/goal?
Energy.

What room are you in?
Stairway.

Your hobby?
Preening.

Your fear?
Looping.

Where do you want to be in 6 years?
Home.

Where were you last night?
Marquee.

Something that you aren't?
Ambitious.

Muffins?
Crumpets!

Wish list item?
GHD's.

Last thing you did?
Chatted.

What are you wearing?
Dress.

TV?
Downstairs.

Your pets?
None.

Friends?
Varied.

Your life?
Progressing.

Your mood?
Ok.

Missing someone?
James/Diego.

Drinking?
Nope.

Smoking?
Nope.

Your car?
None.

Something you're not wearing?
Girdle.

Your favourite store?
Londis.

Your favourite colour?
Blue.

When is the last time you cried?
Dunno.

Where do you go to over and over?
Tap.

Five people who email me regularly?
Email! In one word?

My favourite place to eat?
Maharani's.

Favourite place I'd like to be at right now?
Sofa.

Ended up stopping off at the pub on the way back from the train station last night and staying out late getting hammered. Two of my mates had said they were having a meal there and to stop off. Then bumped into another mate of mine and her bloke, then two work mates of the boyf's. Fun was had by all. The boyf was mashed, was very amusing. We had a little dance and sing in the street on the way to subway... er, like I said, we were a little worse for wear.
*Edit - one of my favourite bits of the night was him pissed in Subway singing along to Savage Gardens 'I want you'.
Word perfect.

I'm dressed and ready for the lesbian wedding now though the cousin says we don't need to set off til 3.45pm he was planning to arrive 3pm anyway incase I needed chivvying along

Due to extra time now questioning my outfit decision.

At the moment it's a white linen knee length dress with a rainbow belt and orange shoulder shrug cardy. But now think it makes me look ma-hoo-sive. Might change to the black dress with tulip shaped skirt. The black one shows cleavage. It's the high neckline with me boobs that means the white makes me look like a fat tart I reckon. I mean, I am a fat tart, but more of the tart than fat would be preferable.

What would you wear? I'm considering a silk scarf as well. I got a load more from a charity shop recently, got a bit of a thing for them.
Might wear folded as head band instead of jauntily round the neck trailing into the cleavage.

Had one of those moments day before yesterday and cut myself a fringe. Looks goooooood.

So, any outfit inspiration anyone? Unless you want to go 'ooooh' when you tell me your contribution isn't coming from the right place

Dark jeans with hem that looks like cuffs, navy fabric belt with fire buckle, thin longish pink t-shirt with three shiny stripes down the side in green pink and yellow with imbetween stripes diff shades same colour, fair isle style cardigan blue, diff blue, green, greeny brown & white. green glasses today.

I might put my green neon dangly earrings on before I head out.

Going to take more bottles to the recycling and pick up Indiana Jones and The Crystal Skull from the video shop. Popping into welsh-teacher-friends for a cup of tea before I go meet the boyf at the train station coming home from work.

Need to hang out a load of laundry before I go.

And try again to get the lid off a jar of plum sauce preserve (courtesy of the current housemate, who rocks). Doing chicken breast with mushroom and onion for tea. With oven chips. Classy.

Currently listening to an old mix tape entitled 'mum's mix' (9 years yesterday since she passed away), disturbingly enjoyable considering it includes Annie Lennox, Dire Straits, Cat Stevens, Gladys Knight, Peggy Lee, and The Cardigans.

I like the mundanity of my posts.
I would compose one with a topic, y'know, be a bit less ignorant.
However I prefer just to read Soy or MJohnsons. Or Barcardincoke's but he appears to have disappeared while I've been neglecting blogland.

I have previously shared some of my fave book passages. The following is from the book I finished today. Anne Tyler, Digging To America. It came free with Psychologies magazine which the boyf bought me yesterday (he knows how to treat me lol). I was fairly thrilled when I realised I had read another Anne Tyler book, Dinner At The Homesick restaurant, and eventually loved it. So this one I devoured. If I was so inclined I'd attempt a book review. Especially since it's style is not a Nick Hornby that I know back to front and with first person revelations to quote. So, anyway, here we are page 177 in my copy:

"Isn't it odd," Maryam said. "Just like that, a completely unknown person is a part of their family forever. Well, of course that's true of a birth child, too, but. . . I don't know, this seems more astonishing."
"To me, both are astonishing," Dave said. "I remember before Bitsy was born, I used to worry she might not be compatible with the two of us. I told Connie, `Look at how long we took deciding whom we'd marry, but this baby's waltzing in out of nowhere, not so much as a background check or a personality quiz. What if it turns out we don't have shared interests?'"
Maryam laughed and wrapped her coat more closedly around her.
They didn't speak again until they were in her car, merging onto the highway with the ticket booth behind them. Then Dave said,
"How about Sami and Ziba? Think they'll adopt another?"
"I suspect they feel that one child is all they can afford." Maryam told him. "What with the cost of private schools these days."
"They don't believe in supporting public education?"
She sent him a sideways look but said nothing; merely drove for several minutes in silence. Her profile, edged in silver by the passing headlights, seemed icy and austere, the long slant of her nose impossibly straight.
"Although I guess that's a very personal decision." He said finally.
She said, "Yes."
He felt a surge of rebelliousness. What right did this woman have to act so superior?" He said, "You know, it wouldn't do you any harm to indulge in a little to-and-fro discussion."
She sent him an even briefer glance and went back to watching the road.
"You could tell me for instance, the that Baltimore public schools are abysmal. I could say, well, yes, but if the parents are involved I still had some hope we could change things. Then you could say you didn't want to sacrifice your granddaughter's future to that hope. I could handle that! I wouldn't fall apart!"
Still she didn't speak but she seemed to be fighting back a smile.
"You act as if you think you're so right that you don't need to bother arguing," he said.
She said "I do?" and now she gave him a full on stare of surprise.

Ok. That'll do for the book extract as I need to get to bed now. I really enjoyed the following exchange about Christmas and belonging too though.

Stolen from Magical Mystery Tour

1. I've come to realize that my last kiss ... um. I haven't realised anything about it. It better not be my last.

2. I am listening to ... the laptop fan whirr.

3. I talk ... we talk, everybody talk talk.

4. I love ... giggling with delight. Sex. Him. Lots of stuff.

5. My best friend/s ... are my cousin and my brother my vegan actress friend and my two traveller friends

6. My first real kiss ... hm, real, so not a dare, in that case was probably with my best friend when I was thirteen before she dumped me. Though it was never admitted. So I think when I was sixteen at a house party, drunk, with a guy called Sam who went down on me then later when he thought I'd conked out spent an hour in the kitchen trying very hard to pull some other girl by discussing their predicted straight A's. Ur. Not a quality memory.

7. Love is ... entirely rosy at the moment. Usually I'd say many layered, complicated, tolerant, and probably refer to family love being important to me. But recently I fell in love for the first time since the first time. And it's wonderful. Simple. Easy. Feels meant to be. Can't believe I didn't fall for him earlier. I was blind.

8. Marriage is ... a good statement of intent, loyalty. Weddings I am in no rush for.

9. Somewhere, someone is thinking ... I'll just flip over the pillow to get to the cool side.

10. I'll always ... have a past.

11. The last time I really cried was because ... genuinely can't remember.

12. My cell phone ... is often not reached in time cuz my bag is always full of rubbish.

13. When I wake up in the morning ... I'm supremely comfortable. And always have ridiculous bed hair.

14. Before I go to bed ... I brush my teeth and pee.

15. Right now I am thinking about ... how come it was so nice to have my boyfriend insist on kissing me before he went even though I would only let him kiss me on one side of my mouth - because although it's invisible I can feel a sore bit, pre-cursor to the dreaded cold sore. He's so funny, and affectionate. Mostly I'm not thinking. His face is all. Image just keeps floating back to front and centre. Honestly it's completely involuntary.

16. Babies are ... a bloody terrifying thought.

17. I get on Myspace ... nope

18. Today I ... enforced an evening off from the boyf (though he still popped in on the way home from work), which I have squandored in splendor, hence coming on here so late.

19. Tomorrow I will be ... having to eat the tupperware tub of sausage casserole before it's wasted.

20. I really want to be ... better.

21. Someone that will most likely repost this is ... no idea. I've been out of the blogosphere.

The dirty devil ones were getting a bit sweaty.