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Bonjour!

I’m back in work after an extended weekend, I’ve also somehow managed to delete my last entry on my phone so all the noting I said I was to catch up on, I’ve lost all your notes and am a fail because of this.

Eve and I went away to Blackpool for our anniversary. It was meant to be Prague as we found a 4* hotel for £1.78 for 3 nights on t’internet. However as the flights where along the lines of $1,000,000!!!!

It was a little out of our price range and so we settled for Blackpool instead. We stayed in a boutique hotel with a sea view, despite splashing out for the superior double room, the most expensive room they had, we had a view of an

alley way. The window wouldn’t open too and as the Sun had decided it wanted to sit about 2m off the grond it was very, stupidly hot and humid. We did not let this dampen our spirits. The Hotel itself, though no Hilton or even Premier

Inn or Travel lodge was good. It was run by a lesbian couple who kept two poodles. The room wasn’t that big, though apparently there was smaller rooms still! It was plenty big enough for us both though which was great.

I paid for all that and the travel and the breakfasts in the morning, which we’re advertised in the hotel as £7.50 so I was expecting some insane amount of food, literal mountain of food. What arrived was a small breakfast but

daaannnggg… they must have laced it with something because that shit was sweeeeeet! It was very tasty! Though on the last day it all got a bit moody over breakfast as at first, it was just football talk, albeit how shit is Liverpool

football talk, bitches be jealous because we have won more European Trophies than any club… ever… then there was an Indian couple sitting by us. One of the other tables (as all of the guests had to mix in and sit together on the

tables) started talking about how moody it was in some suburb because it’s mainly a Pakistani area. Anyhow, the Indian couple left and then one of the guys said Paki and then another guy started to say how he didn’t insinuate anything

about their ethinicity as you could "tell they were Sri Lankan just by looking at them." We left after that.

We went up Blackpool tower, the ballroom, the tower dungeons and the sea life centre. It was all super, especially as Eve paid for it as an anniversary gift to me as I paid for the hotel and travel/food and bits for her as she wanted to

go to Blackpool. The dungeons where awesome. It was all going really well until just before we went into the lifts to go into the dungeons 3 people came in. Who wouldn’t shut up and did kind of ruin it immediately. You know the type of

person you class as "Captain Knobhead" within 3 seconds of them opening their mouths. Well this guy would have been Commander In Chief of the Knobhead army after he worked his way up through the ranks from the annoying infantry through

to the Cunt special forces brigade etc etc.

So we get into the first room and they won’t shut up and as expected one of the actors jumps out and this guy screams like a bitch, stands on some kid and generally everyone in the room was forming a line to throw a punch at this chap.

In the words of Homer Simpson, he was Flaming! I’ve not seen anybody that camp since erm, him. To be fair, I thought his quip about the Monk saying the plague is God’s punishment for all your sins and he said "That’s homophobic" that did

make me giggle. Anyway, they got kicked out. I rubbed my crotch in front of a plague doctor, Eve was accused of being a witch, bless her, I couldn’t help supress a laugh when the Judge said "what did you get up to last night?" *Giggidy*

We also found a Bierkeller, for those of you who do not know what a Bierkeller is, it’s a German themed pub with huge benches like at Oktoberfest and you all drink Steins of beer which are like huge 2 pint glasses with handles. Point

being, awesome. Eve had a cider and a water. I had a Haus Bier because the others looked like guest ales and I’m not much of an ale drinker. We then went to Bella Italia and I had a martini classic because it was a natural progession

after Pilsner. Then we met up with my old friend Jo and her boyfriend Gary and we drank. I had Toffee Apple cider which is yummy. I was drinking it after the theatre too.

The next day, which is when we went the dungeons etc we ended up in *sigh* Nandos. I’ve huge issues with Nandos. It’s so rediculously over priced. You don’t get waited on despite their being 500 staff and the portions are tiny! Eve seems

to regard Nandos as the saviour of the food industry. I had a chicken burger with the Hot sauce, Peri peri fries and the macho peas (which to be fair are super.) The hot sauce didn’t really do it for me. It was hot but not, sweet jesus

it hurts to eat hot which I was expecting, so next time I shall try the black sauce, the super hot one. Eve went for the eye ball popping Lemon and Herb which burnt a hole in the plate and such. I joke, it’s a lovely marinade that. 

We had a lot of fun. Eve and I have now been together officially 367 days.

Yesterday was Tom’s birthday and we all went to Chester Zoo which was great. It was rediculously hot however and Eve wanted to take her camera after taking a serious of frankly jaw dropping shots over the weekend on her new camera. The

auto mode seems to combine multiple scene modes which means it just takes technically flawless images by just pressing the shutter! I am quite jealous as my 8 year old work horse of a camera struggled to compete in low light or capturing

the same depth of field, given that our sensors are far too close to the lens to get a true depth of field effect, Evge’s camera managed it. Also Eve’s camera has a focal length of 28-600mm which is something like a 20+x zoom. On an SLR

these to cover that would cost almost £10,000. Eve paid £200. Grim. I love my camera, I am looking forward to buying my new one and I know that it will be epic but it is also a lot of money. Part of me is thinking that it’s silly that I

want to spend that much. Then the other part of me is saying that when I have a camera that can keep up with me, no amount of money compares to the feeling of getting that awesome shot. So for now, the camera Idea is still on.

On the way back from the Zoo we had an accident in the car where some guy didn’t indicate and tried to shoot past Eve coming off a roundabout and lost the entire side of his van and the lovely Mazda RX-8 Eve drives needs some body work

on the front. The guy was saying it was all Eve’s fault though clearly, she slammed on and he kept going, tried to shoot around her instead of keeping his distance etc. So it’s a whole mess and Eve is understandably stressed and upset.

I try to save £400 a month from my wages. This leaves me with about £70 a week after paying off everything else, so providing I don’t do anything stupid, I can easily afford to live on this. I said that when i get paid in 9 days, Eve can

have the £400. I was saving it for the camera and for the holidays and christmas and things but I am sure that if I am super duper careful with money I can make it back up before xmas. I don’t mind helping Eve out. If sh

e needs the money

and I have it then I’ll only spend it on stupid things. Granted I was saving it for things which weren’t stupid (for once in my life!) I know that Eve needs the car more than I need a camera or money for holidays (paying it off and

spends, so not all stupid things! If only my younger self could see me now!)

I’ve always liked to be like that in relationships, any money I have I like to share, I don’t mind paying my way and I do like treating who ever I am with wherever I can. Though i’m no millionaire. Amy taught me that throwing money at

everything and buying her everything including the food etc and all the rest when she had spent her student loan and didnt have a job. She said it meant nothing to her. So i’m a lot better than I was regarding paying for everything and

getting myself into debt etc.

So the money is there if Eve wants it, plus if we have a car that means we can go to the cinema so you may say I have an alterior motive. I fucking love the cinema.

The word in work has come back. I am to move to Luggage as when Rob leaves, Jeanette will be my mentor. However there is still a rumour that I will be taking on As seen on TV and Cosmetics. Espeically as now I have access to Rob’s

critical path (it’s a piece of software that manages all of our to do lists for all of the products we have. It’s designed to alert us to products that need attention, keep on top of where we are up to with testing/writing manuals etc.

I just spoke to him then about it, apparently we are doing a handover with Cosmetics merch/sales department tomorrow, which means thatas far as Rob and I are aware that I am getting Cosmetics which stands that I should also get as seen

on tv and closeout too. This is what I wanted even though it is alot of work. It will build my experience quickly as I will have to deal with every type of product in as seen on TV but then build a real focus on cosmetics, luggage and

even with closeout too. I won’t be narrowly tied down to one department. I will be a more rounded QA, a jack of all trades, If I can get to a level like Rob, this will be super interesting work and also make me a shed load of cash!

HUZZAH! He gets taxed what I earn… so he is on a lot of money. About 5x more than me which means if I can get to that kind of salary, it shall be a nice house/car and a smegging huge camera! *cheers*

I like being a QA Technologist. I get to do a whole load of things and test a whole variety of products. For instance, two paragraphs ago the Senior QA asked me to test a waffle maker… by making waffles!

Flawless Victory.

Ok so I just made the waffles. They don’t taste as sweet as I would have liked them too. But they are soft and fluffy so I must have done something right. Before I came here, they tested a chocolate fountain. This upsets me greatly.

However the waffles aren’t terribly bad!

The new girl in work has started which means that I should be getting less and less housewares work to do. I don’t mind it at all but I have 3 other departments to cover and then Housewares and Electricals ask me for help so I am always

busy. She is called Natalie and I cannot pronounce her second name. She seems nice. Maybe she will stay longer than Kathryn did?

I’ve my induction at the gym in 2 hours. This terrifies me. I’m going to look and feel a tit as well as really fat and unfit so I am not looking forward to the whole experience, saying that I started the diet today so apart from the 1

waffle I have had erm nothing all day, which is bad. Though I figured after downing that 40oz steak yesterday I should be ok.

Did I mention the steak? Yes, the Supersaurus 40oz steak. Thats 2.5 pounds of Beef! It would take me almost 3 weeks to burn off that bitch! I did it though, before then, the largest steak I had tried was a 20oz and beat that! I felt

rather manly! Take that life! So it was the big blowout before the gym. I’m looking forward to going, just not to the induction when the small female gym attendant starts measuring me and I make jokes to mask the awkwardness and she is

th inking "Shut up you slightly overweight toss pot" and i’m thinking, this skinny midget is judging me! Ah, i’m panicking already. Though I do get to wear my new gym kit and DC running shoes… aww yeah buddy! It Cost me £130! My entire wardrobe costs less than that! So I should be fine. Though i’ve to charge my iPod and I need some music as i’ve Eve’s playlist, which is good but lacks a lot of Pantera and Alkaline Trio and some other bits and bobs that I had and so sorely miss. I Need workout songs! Though really i’m only going to drop a stone and tone up. I’m hoping by Xmas i’ll be looking like someone that girls would go "not a bad body, shame about the face, dress sense, hair.. oh he’s talking? voice… personality" etc etc however the body, not too shabby!

I don’t want to become one of them people who say "Goin’ the gym" and say things like "Good sesh" and "feeling pumped" I just want to listen to music and get trim, hopefully beating my records on the rowing machine! It6 was £60 to join up, split between Eve and I and then another ^0 on the 1st which is the monthly fee. I think it’s £30 each a month, the original 60 was £15 joining fee each and the £15 for the rest of the month. Eve said she will set up a standing order. Given that I owe her about £30 for converse and what not, I’ll pay off her joining fee etc. Then we can be even!

I may have to go now as it’s 6pm! My induction is at 7.30 and i’m still in the office, 28 miles from home. Grim.

Much Love,

(S)aint