Need sleep, cake is baked, tragically taken me sooo long to get it done.
Prep done for my Lunndunn excursion should be alright.
Need sleep, early start tomorrow.
MUSTN’T FORGET OYSTER CARD!!1!
Stomach feels tender again :( and bloated, must be it tackling the food digestion stuff now.
Can’t wait to see Nick.
(I know, I just dropped a ball, so sue meh)
Here’s the plan…
I bake burfday cake for Nick, let it cool down. Then I go packs things so less to pack tomorrow and worry about. Then I do 101 other things like charge stuff and sleeps. Morning comes and I get up and epic o’clock to wash my hair. Dry it. Finish packing. Decorate cake of doom, then drive down to Southend. Where I shall somehow take a train into LUNNNDUNNNNNNN and meet up with Nick and his work peoples and alcohol will probably be consumed by all apart from meh, and then we returns to Southend before probably eating CAKEEEE (or I feed cake to a possibly passed out Nick who knows).
Do you likes that plan? I haz a plan.
Unfortunately plan doth not allows for sleeps. But hey, who needs sleeps…. (I do!)
I think I have a mild stomach bug :( my tummy has been feeling bad since I got up for work today and I drank some tea and a rice krispie square thingy. Though I’m sure there’s some sort of strange irony to this, as I would have expected to get a tummy bug while at either of my two festivals (especially with my somewhat sub-standard level of hygiene when I was cooking grub). But nope, perfectly aye okay, ticking over nicely until today.
Now I could determine that the bug is either from the following: the cup of tea or rice krispie square (unlikely), the beef and tomato pot noodle I scoffed before bed last night (again unlikely), the dinner I had cooked by ma mere (which again is unlikely because I’ve never suffered bugs from her cooking before) or it could be the crazy seafood pasta and chocolate (x6) desert I had on Monday night…Or maybe it was the rest of those jelly belly beans I scoffed…hmmm
I don’t know. None the less, I’m just about managing to survive with the aches which seem only provoked after I’ve eaten/drank something. Gargh I hope this is something I can sleep off and will pass through my system soon. Especially before the weekend as I venture on the last of August’s crazy crazy misadventures.
Been pretty productive today, working through my list of to-dos, washed/cleaned car and tent. Though the tent seems to smell of smoke and I can’t make it stop smelling of smoke…hmm.
Anyhow, I best carry on, still more to do, though at the moment I just want to zzZZZzzZZZZzzzZZZzzz for a long time.
Two music festivals, two weekends of camping, one weekend of mud, an excessive amount of travelling and fuel consumption, two weekends of eating utter shite, hundreds of pounds spent, body aching, days of excessive heat, nights of excessive cold, two weekends of pop, rock, dance, metal, comedians, dancing, rocking, getting bruised, throwing yourself about, not showering, getting hairy and being herded about like cattle in just endless and endless crowds of people - all topped off with hooliganism, destruction and pyromaniacs…
I have decided to call it quits on music festivals folks. I think I’m getting too olde for this shit ha. Nah seriously I don’t fancy doing the weekend camping thing any more, music festivals are just getting more expensive every year, and the crowd have changed, the music is alright only if you get to actually see the bands you want to see, and not far far back on the screen. I was just thinking to myself while laid on the hard floor of my tent freezing my ass off thinking for the same amount of money I’ve dished out for these two festivals I could have gone on holiday, to a nice hotel in a nice warm country…
I mean, I still love music, I love the atmosphere of a crowd and a gig, but I don’t know. These past two weekends have been a struggle. I think you know it’s time to quit when you come back feeling more relieved than buzzing. I think the only festival I would do now is glasto, and I’ll still day trip it but otherwise I think I’m done. It would have to take some heck of a killer line up to make me go weekend it again.
Photos and blogs to come, I have sooo much to do, let me make a list so I don’t forget:
Can haz! Well for about a day and a half.
Hello kids, I have finally returned after what I am now coining as mudfest aka v fest. Alas it’s probably the muddiest festival I’ve been to and camped at and I have much to tell and an insane amount of photos for your viewing pleasure. But because I only have a day and a half at home, and I’m off to Reading in a day or so I hence forth have a zillion things to do and I’m probably going to be running around like a headless chicken.
Going to take a small mo to chillax mind. And get a brew. Despite my body feeling like it’s saying ‘nooo morees!’ I’m dead excited about this weekend. My first Reading, better rockier line up, hanging with my uni mates, my bloke - I’ve been saving myself energy wise just so I can kick off at Reading like mad. You can’t believe how much I want to rock out after this weekend.
Also excuse my LOLCAT speech of late, I’ve been doing it all weekend - I find it rather amusing trying to translate english to LOLCAT - I get an odd kick out of it :/
Anywayyy, I need brew, breakfast, to unpack, to repack, to dry a tent (somehow), to work out how to make my body stop aching. and then sort my zillllion photos.
Can haz time freeze plez?
Had a quite chilled out day today, I went to meet Amy And Dannii in town, though Amy turned up late due to crazy traffic. It was blistering hot though, but I was loving it. As long as I have some sunglasses on then I’m good. It’s funny, in the winter I live in my scarf and in the summer I live in sunglasses.
Dannii and me ended up having lunch at some random cafe/restaurant place I’d never been to - it was really good. I had lasagne and salad that was proper tasty and filling. Then Amy caught up with us and her friend while Dannii had to head off herself, and we loitered about town until we headed into such a lovely beer garden in a pub I’d never drank at before. And it was lovely, just lovely, sat outside in the warmth with a cold drink or two.
Then I hit tescos and brought the oddest variety of shopping including razorblades, butter and rose. Yes! I am badly craving rose, so thought would be nice to sip on with dinner tonight in the nice weather to cool me off.
I really really wish I could have a barbecue right now, or even last night, that would have been perfect. Gargh I wish I could magically gather people up in wolves like the olde times and just have a barbe then.
But none the less, the weather is wonderful, it’s a glorious summery weekend, and I’m loving it. I swear my mood is directly linked to the state of the weather.
Anyhow I seemingly still have 101 things to do despite it being the weekend, must get them sorted else I’ll ignore them like I tend to do.
I want a holiday. I don’t know where to go. Note a holiday is different from ‘going travelling, I think of a holiday is more of a get away thing. Just chilling out. Travelling has a lot more to it, plus it’s a bit more winging it rather than lounging about a really badass hotel and badass cafes and stuff like that.
My last holiday was Stockholm, and even then it was only a long weekend and had the main purpose of going to a gig. It seems like decades since I’d last just gone somewhere for the sake of it, just a normal simple holiday. Not a boring beach holiday mind, where it’s just filled with people getting lobster coloured in an attempt to get a tan. I’ll like to go see things, eat different cool stuff, marvel at stuff around me etc. I mean where can I go to be able to do all that? Or maybe I am just clouded by the dreamy picturesque concept of this perfect little chilled out place.
Then again there was this wonderful long street in Stockholm, that was littered with cafes and shops. The cafe we stopped in to write postcards (and have tea and cake!) was wonderful. So maybe there is somewhere out there…
In other news, I’m really itching to see Dark Knight when it comes out, it’s very rare I find myself looking forward to a film release, but I just know it’s going to be badass.
Work was a busy four hours, loads to do, and barely actually did anything on the shop floor itself the whole time. Instead I found myself laughing my head off in the store’s display windows while trying to hang up the sale window display signs. It was a bit stressful though and we didn’t get that job finished before our shifts were up. Though I’m damn well glad I could escape.
Death o’clock shift tomorrow morning, I can’t imagine it being really busy at such an early time. But the last sale did result in a packed store. And this time round I doubt it will be any different, if not worse. I’m actually scared if I have to go work on the till :/ Erk.
Though yeah, it’ll be fine…I think, I’ll somehow make it through the day, then go home to try and sleep, then fail and go see Amy and other random people that night. And then that’ll be another week gone…
Which is bad because summer seems to be going so quickly and I’ve barely had any social fun yet, I’ve had other fun mind but you know you need some fun with your mates too. Hope the two festys sort me out. I need to huck a frisbee :(
Oh and I’m addicted to treacle tarts from the bakery :/ I’m going to get fat(ter?)! And I’m totally reloving The Bends by Radiohead, such a goodd album, I’m actually beginning to think I like it more than Ok Computer (that’s a weird album and reminds me summertime a few years back, driving to my uni city late summer evenings, winding down some empty roads).