Happy Holidays!

Friday, December 31, 2004

Had a great xmas! Dani and Katia arrived on 24th after I'd whizzed around picking up the goose and buying last minute plonk and sprouts, lol! In the evening we had a kind've traditional Bulgarian xmas eve meal which has to consist of at least 7 items on the table, or 11, 13 etc. We had 11 I think. Dani made stuffed vine leaves and Katia made a traditional bread out of flour and yoghurt and stuff. The bread has a coin in it which augurs good luck if your find it before breaking your teeth!
Katia spent most of the holiday videoing everything... and I mean everything! Contents of my wardrobe, Northampton shops, inside the Bat & Wickets, inside a corner shop, Dani buying fags... it gets worse, honest! rotflol.
Xmas day I made a kedgeree for breakfast then we rang our respective mothers like good sons and daughters before opening the pressies!!! Dani got me a cool expresso/capuchin maker, Dani's mother got me a Bulgarian football strip, brother David - guitar stands, and the lovely Valentina sent me a panettone (delicious cake) and the Mr Brown DVD and book! How cool is that!!!!!
Whizzed off to Bat & Wickets for a swift couple while the goose cooked - was nice to be back in the old local again.
Dinner was a veritable feast and a triumph! Goose cooked to perfection with sprouts, spuds, parsnips, carrots, swede, stuffing, bacon, sausage meat etc. Was quite proud of myself :o))) After the xmas pud we played tiddly frogs and bet on racing clockwork snails! Katia won everything :o////
Finally got rid of Katia boxing day evening and had a more relaxed, mature couple of days, lol. All in all a top xmas was had by all!!!!
GF is over for new year and no, we aren't going out tonight. It's a meal and bottle of wine and bed thing for us old-uns. We will be watching a DVD of Chalte Chalte though :o))))

Hope 2005 is full of snogs for everyone!!!

posted by Andy 08:04

Phwoooaaarrrr!!!

Friday, December 17, 2004

Back at work and still a tart! Thankfully a bit of time out has perked me up again and I'm back in the saddle once more. Tonight was fun, I had to give a talk to a St John's Ambulance troop so decided on a mix of mental health stats and an interactive thingy regarding communicating with a psychotic casualty. Fun fun fun!!! No really, it was! I mean I'm really not one for stilted lectures, partly cuz I need to keep awake and partly cuz information stays in delegates brains a little better with jokes and stuff to hang the memories on.
There was a remarkably gorgeous young drug rep, hehehehe! It's ok, GF knows I flirt, so it's all above board and innocent, honest!
Tomorrow I make the festive visit to the mothership with xmas goodies for her and a few other bods. Be interesting to finally get to see all the changes in Coventry after all this time. I mean normally all I see of the city centre is the walk from the train station to the no.11 bus stop, lol!
Dani and Katia are definitely arriving lunchtime on xmas eve. Apparently Dani had a hard job persuading Katia to come as she's fussing about being in time for her plane at Gatwick on 27th. We'd already sorted out all the coach times and shit but you know some people! Mind you sods law dictates that she'll miss her plane due to an act of god and I'll get the blame, lol.
Anyhow, maybe I'll blog a little more know I'm feeling more chipper :o))
btw, thanks to C for the lovely e-mail.

Festive snogs

posted by Andy 22:18

I Wanna Be Well

Monday, December 13, 2004

Aplogies to da Ramones for stealing their song title for my post. I received a copy letter from consultant Psychiatrist today, Letter is destined for the Occupational Therapy guys. It states that back in June I had a recurrent depressive illness and that I should be allocated work in manageable chunks. Most of this I am in agreement with, despite the fact that it is based on 60 minutes assessment by some locum and with no reference to my records from the 1990's. What the hey. I guess it's some vindication.
I also received a bill for Ł55 for removing rubbish from outside my flat! Bunch of cunts! I got that rubbish removed myself, as they rightly know! I have to sort that shit out, but you get how I end up stressed to the max??
J came down over the weekend and of course it was cool to see her and be with her, but we ended up estranged on Saturday night mainly due to abuse issues that we both have. Wouldn't that just fuck you off???? Both in love and wanting to express that love in a physical way, no-one to blame but the abuser/s but it still fucks yer lives up!
Sorry to make such a heavy post,

2004 snogs

posted by Andy 19:18

Faster Pussycat!

Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Finally have my ADSL connection back - with Virgin this time, so have changed all my e-mail forwarders and shit (I think). Still off work with the stress thing which is pissing me off. I wanted to go back Monday but really wasn't up to it, I even felt physically ill as well as stressed-out. Will go back tomorrow as the longer I hide away in the flat the harder it will be to get back in the saddle, but hey that's not your problem, right?
Have received nearly 100 requests for a demo cd and think I've managed to reply to them all! Will have to get some burned and I have no idea how much the international postage will be for that little lot!
Bloody Royal Mail are being hugely annoying as my upgrade copy of Norton Internet Security 2005 has been sitting at the sorting office since 27/11 and no bugger is answering the phone - scrub that - it's been engaged solidly ever since. So today, to get me out of the flat I'm going to take a hike (lol) to pick it up and anyway I'm nearly out of baccy...
Still have to get my deposit back from old landlord and a few other things but I just don't have any fight left in me right now. Sure I'll perk up soon... NLP, NLP, NLP, positive reinforcement, positive reinforcement, positive reinforcement etc

2004 snogs

posted by Andy 10:56

Bitter Sweet

Friday, December 03, 2004

I may not play guitar again. Seriously, I probably have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and will have to have an operation which Margaret tells me will be under a local anaesthetic.... bleagh! So anyway, I've been off on the sick this week as the stress of the lift/landlord scenario finaly got to me and involved moio being ejected from two licenced premises and the Police called ..... Bugger! You can imagine. I'm particularly pissed as I have been coping admirably throughout my return to work and the move. What threw me was the fact that persons unknown kept telling me that the lift would be back in action tomorrow or indeed was already back in action.... fine you may think unless, like moi, your babe is a wheelchair-user and you ar faced with dragging a 35 yr old babe plus wheelchair up 70 steps!!!!! Like why can't these bastards just tell me it's gonna take 3 weeks???? I could make alternative arrangements then! Right?

So tonight was a bitter-sweet night. Saying goodbye to my gorgeous volunteers but knowing that the helpline has to move forward.... whilst in the back of my mind knowing that my job may still be on the line next April... Bugger!

Thankfully Margaret came to the rescue and talked me into coming out for at least the first hour tonight. I really couldn't have seen myself lasting the whole night without bursting into tears. I mean these guys are the cream of the crop and I feel close to every single one of them and also privelidged to know them. So even on a good day it would have been emotional, let alone on a day that I was a quivering idiot due to Landlord shit. So hooray to margaret!!!!

Will update more fully anon, but as you can prolly tell, I'm fucked!

BTW, please don't ask for a cd if you have no idea who I am and have not even visited this site, you parasites! Mind you.... your parents will be so pissed when I send you shit-loads of junk mail rotflol!!!!

2004 snogs

posted by Andy 23:50