Keep Me Hanging On
Jan. 26th, 2009 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magictreehouseLast Wednesday was my monthly book group which featured our newest member, a one month old baby. Thankfully she was very good and didn't make a sound. I picked the wrong seat as I was sat directly opposite the mother who was breast-feeding. It doesn't bother me at all, it's just that for a second I had that age old thing of the panic of, 'where do I look?!' Well it turns out that you look at their face, like any normal person. Who would have thought? Anyway, the book was David Mitchell's 'Black Swan Green' which I have to say I enjoyed more the second time around. My complaints the first time round were that I've been a 13 year old boy so it was a little like 'been there, done that' and second, some of the school nightmarish stuff was a little close to the truth for me. However, I'm come to appreciate how well written it is. It's so spot on for a 13 year boy, it hurts and it's a book with great depth to it. I thought it was interesting that the two people in our group from Canada and America really liked it too even though it's a very British book. The two also said that the music mentioned during the book was exactly the same as what they had heard in 1982. It's funny how music of an era can be a very worldwide thing, despite the UK been a very central point for pop music in general. I'm always thankful that our charts are a lot more diverse than America's, I think we have a good mix in general (the 15 year old me would hate me for saying that).
On Thursday I headed to the bank to collect my Icelandic Krona. We've got a good exchange rate I feel and the money has some amusing hatted ladies on and a man with the most amazing beard ever. If Icelandic men don't all have wonderful beards I will be most upset. I also upgraded our joint account to a 'plus' account so we're covered for travel insurance and get premium rates on our ISAs. I'm also covered for car breakdown so if your car dies you want me in it! I spent the rest of the day cooking nice things. I made one of my fat free cakes, a bread and butter pudding and then made a nice meal for James consisting of salmon, mashed potatoes and honey and orange glazed parsnips. Omnomnomnom. It was a hit at least!
On Friday night I went out with James and his workmates, firstly to Elbow Rooms where I had quite a bit of wine. Good times though. I'm glad I went in the end, I was considering not as I wasn't feeling too great. After hanging about there for a good few hours we headed off to OK Karaoke where we had a booth of all things. Well, for an hour at least. I managed to rock Girls Aloud and Prince. Hot. When we were back in the main room I got to hear James sing 'Walking In Memphis' with Laura. He was surprisingly good! I'm nto quite sure what else happened that night really. I do remember quoting Mean Girls with Vicki for ages though so overall it was pretty good!
Saturday we took things fairly easy but on Sunday we vowed to leave the house and had a drive around the Dales. It's on our doorstep and I always think it's a shame that we don't take advantage of it more often, so Sunday righted that wrong really. And it was beautiful. We have the most amazing scenery here. We went up towards Grassington, Kettlewell, over the massive hills (with snow!) and then back down through Malham. Some of those roads were scarily steep! I took some photos whice I'll put up soon too. On the way back we stopped off at James' parents to give his Dad his birthday present but we didn't stop for long.
So yeah, a good few days all told. Today, someone I work with went to a ceremony to official become a UK citizen. Amusingly he paid £100 so he could have his own ceremony and not 'graduate' with all the commoners. Haha. Also great was the mystery, commemorative gift. We guessed beforehand what it could be. I won. It was a mug with 'Leeds' on. Haha.
The rest of time I've pretty been much listening to Kim Wilde. I'm obsessed at the minute.
On Thursday I headed to the bank to collect my Icelandic Krona. We've got a good exchange rate I feel and the money has some amusing hatted ladies on and a man with the most amazing beard ever. If Icelandic men don't all have wonderful beards I will be most upset. I also upgraded our joint account to a 'plus' account so we're covered for travel insurance and get premium rates on our ISAs. I'm also covered for car breakdown so if your car dies you want me in it! I spent the rest of the day cooking nice things. I made one of my fat free cakes, a bread and butter pudding and then made a nice meal for James consisting of salmon, mashed potatoes and honey and orange glazed parsnips. Omnomnomnom. It was a hit at least!
On Friday night I went out with James and his workmates, firstly to Elbow Rooms where I had quite a bit of wine. Good times though. I'm glad I went in the end, I was considering not as I wasn't feeling too great. After hanging about there for a good few hours we headed off to OK Karaoke where we had a booth of all things. Well, for an hour at least. I managed to rock Girls Aloud and Prince. Hot. When we were back in the main room I got to hear James sing 'Walking In Memphis' with Laura. He was surprisingly good! I'm nto quite sure what else happened that night really. I do remember quoting Mean Girls with Vicki for ages though so overall it was pretty good!
Saturday we took things fairly easy but on Sunday we vowed to leave the house and had a drive around the Dales. It's on our doorstep and I always think it's a shame that we don't take advantage of it more often, so Sunday righted that wrong really. And it was beautiful. We have the most amazing scenery here. We went up towards Grassington, Kettlewell, over the massive hills (with snow!) and then back down through Malham. Some of those roads were scarily steep! I took some photos whice I'll put up soon too. On the way back we stopped off at James' parents to give his Dad his birthday present but we didn't stop for long.
So yeah, a good few days all told. Today, someone I work with went to a ceremony to official become a UK citizen. Amusingly he paid £100 so he could have his own ceremony and not 'graduate' with all the commoners. Haha. Also great was the mystery, commemorative gift. We guessed beforehand what it could be. I won. It was a mug with 'Leeds' on. Haha.
The rest of time I've pretty been much listening to Kim Wilde. I'm obsessed at the minute.
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