Posted in charity, funny, get fit, health on 31 January, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Just got an email from the BUPA 10,000 organisers. It reads thus:
Dear Soupy,
Thank you for entering for the 2008 BUPA London 10,000 race. In order to optimise the race, we are inviting you to give us your predicted race completion time. It’s a simple process - all you need to do is click on the [...]
Posted in Blogging, charity, health on 31 January, 2008 | Enter your password to view comments
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Posted in health on 31 January, 2008 | 17 Comments »
Get your minds out of the gutter!!!!
The photo above is of the two health supplements I take in the morning now. The large one on the left is cranberry extract (the iPod Nano is there to give you an idea of just how huge it is!!!). I started taking this recently, almost in desperation. Research [...]
Posted in charity, good stuff, health on 30 January, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Just gone over the £2k target
You can still sponsor me here: http://www.justgiving.com/run4cc
Posted in Commuting, London Commute, London Underground, South West Trains, Transport, Tube, commuter cretins, rants on 30 January, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Those people who lean against the poles in train carriages.
Do they really need to lean against the pole to be held up or would they just flop jellylike to the floor without them? Do they do it just to annoy the rest of us, who cannot hold onto the pole with their entire body pressed [...]
Posted in charity, good stuff, health on 30 January, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I know that I have already hassled a lot of people via email and Facebook about this, but I am putting it up here as well in case general passers by want to do something good (and free).
I just wanted to take up five minutes of your time to ask if you would help me. [...]
Posted in Blogging on 29 January, 2008 | Enter your password to view comments
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Posted in rants on 29 January, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I hate my boss
I hate my job
I hate that nothing ever materialises
I hate that I am in the shit because someone else couldn’t deliver
I hate that they got away with it
I hate that they pay me fuck all
I hate that I am always tired
I hate that I am unmotivated
I hate that I dream up ways [...]
Posted in Commuting, London, London Commute, Transport, Tube, commuter cretins, rants on 29 January, 2008 | 5 Comments »
“Is that gap behind you housing a hole in the floor or is there some other reason you can’t move back into it and let people onto the train?!”
Muttered by Soupy at approximately 8.46am on getting into a (not particularly packed) carriage on the eastbound District line at Victoria this morning. Although the train was [...]
Posted in Fire Man, Love, Mechanic, Relationships, boys, rants on 28 January, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I didn’t tell the whole story about my weekend when I blogged on Sunday.
In fact, I missed out a rather massive happening.
Saturday morning, I came around at the crack of dawn with my pounding head and upset bladder overriding sleep. I don’t know why I did it, but I texted The Mechanic to wail about [...]
Posted in Blogging on 28 January, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I just managed to drop the ends of my hair into my cup of tea.
Not. Having. A. Very. Good. Day.
And I need a haircut. I think that when your hair is so long that it falls into your drink without you noticing, it’s time for some serious chopping.
Posted in Money, family on 28 January, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Just a quicky to let you know that I am up and running again after the storm blew the computer up. Our friend Ian is going to build me NEW ONE and I’m having a flat screen and a new keyboard as well, and a memory stick thingy! Oh how exciting!! the old computer was [...]
Posted in Blogging on 27 January, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Sometimes I think you could easily be forgiven for thinking that the world revolves around you, that everything that has ever happened in history around the world has been all about your coming.
Life is subjective. My life is different from yours because it is unique to me; yours is unique to you. I couldn’t ape [...]
Posted in food and drink on 25 January, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Now I feel sick.
Posted in health on 25 January, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Following on from Mr Frog’s post about his petition to government to introduce first aid training for kiddie winkles, I was scouring the Downing Street website for petitions of interest to me. You know about my strong feelings regarding women’s healthcare and cervical screening and how I regard the NHS screening programme as having quite [...]
Posted in good stuff, health on 24 January, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Just got home. Letter on mat. Taken upstairs, opened while bath water running. From Chelsea & Westminster hospital, a “cc” from the specialist to my GP. Reads as follows:
Dear Dr Thingymejig,
Re: Blue soup - d.o.b 21.3.1983
I reviewed this very pleasant 24 year old lady in Chelsea and Westminster gynae outpatients… blah blah blah medical stuff [...]
Posted in rants, work on 24 January, 2008 | 11 Comments »
I had a fight with the stationery cupboard this afternoon. The hunt for a biro made finding Private Ryan look like a gentle stroll in the park and I lost my temper.
I pulled everything out and sorted it all out on the floor, amassing a huge pile of rubbish and empty boxes that ought to [...]
Posted in Blogging on 23 January, 2008 | 5 Comments »
One of this blog’s regular lurkers has taken the plunge and started a blog of her own! Why don’t you hop over and say hello, send some best wishes and get her off to a winning start?
Breezyallatsea
Posted in Commuting, London Commute, South West Trains, Transport, commuter cretins on 23 January, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Walk along the yellow line that runs parallel to the platform edge. Count how many people in front of you are unable to walk in a straight line, but instead weave all over the place. Marvel at how every other commuter around you is a complete moron whose only purpose appears to be getting in [...]
Posted in health on 23 January, 2008 | 9 Comments »
These pills are making me do an impression of a weeble. Trying to avoid zop, but might have to reach for it at this rate!
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Posted in Blogging on 21 January, 2008 | 6 Comments »
There was a post up here a little earlier about something I was going to do.
I have since changed my mind.
It’s still early days in my recovery. I already raised a lot of money. I am a regular presence on the boards and support women who are now in the position that I was a [...]
Posted in health on 21 January, 2008 | Enter your password to view comments
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Posted in Fire Man, Mechanic, Relationships, boys on 21 January, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Good person: The Mechanic
Bad thing: Blue soup
The Mechanic came to visit this weekend. We had a good time. As El Pres pointed out on MSN earlier “The Mechanic played with the rats. Must be love.” We didn’t manage to actually do much, a lot of dossing about talking and the best part of Saturday [...]
Posted in Fire Man, Love, Mechanic, Relationships, boys on 18 January, 2008 | 16 Comments »
In a moment of tired weakness yesterday, I might have accidentally texted Fire Man. Just a response to his message from two days before. It simply said: “Heya, not dead nor dropped off planet. Been swamped. Hope you’re ok and enjoying 2008.”
I KNOW!!!
But I do think that my message clearly showed the marked change in [...]
Posted in Blogging on 18 January, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Posted in Blogging on 17 January, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I have managed to get some. I don’t feel quite so anxious now. It is amazing how tiredness can totally warp your sense of perspective. At least I restricted my irrational ramblings to this blog and worked out some of the fear. Talking therapy. It works for me, whether I am talking to “you guys” [...]
Posted in Blogging on 17 January, 2008 | 17 Comments »
I have been tagged by London Girl. Praise the Lord for an excuse to blog and distract myself.
See post title: as it says on the tin.
1. Cuddles - A cuddle, big or small, can go a long way. I mean, it may not if you don’t need it - in that case it may [...]
Posted in Mechanic, boys, fashion on 17 January, 2008 | Enter your password to view comments
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Posted in Friends, Love, Mechanic, Relationships, boys, health on 16 January, 2008 | 21 Comments »
This weekend, The Mechanic wants to come and visit.
On Saturday I am supposed to be going out in central London for a former school mate’s birthday. I was going to cry off because I would have been holed up doing my course so when The Mechanic said he wanted to come up, I said fine [...]
Posted in Blogging, Fire Man, Love, Mechanic, Relationships, boys on 16 January, 2008 | 18 Comments »
Last night.
Fire Man: Hey trouble, how’s life? Have you died or dropped off the face of the planet? I guess if you’ve died them (sic) life is probably not great but if you’ve dropped off the face of the planet then that could be quite fun! x x x
The Mechanic: I heard a song [...]
Posted in health on 15 January, 2008 | Enter your password to view comments
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Posted in Mechanic, boys on 15 January, 2008 | 24 Comments »
I have been pondering something since Boxing Day. I wondered what you think about it.
Do you think that your most-used phrase says something about the kind of person that you are? I ask this because I have already noticed that The Mechanic has a particular saying that he uses a lot and I rather like [...]
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Posted in Blogging, Mechanic, Relationships, boys on 14 January, 2008 | 14 Comments »
To those of you that I have been in email contact with today:
I’ve been on the phone with The Mechanic for a bit and read your emails and am just exhausted. I am going to buy some cream cheese and pig out (I haven’t eaten a bean yet today and it’s 4.40pm). Then I will [...]
Posted in Fire Man, Love, Mechanic, Relationships, boys on 14 January, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I’m overtired from the weekend of boozing and heavy lifting (scout tents and hog roasts don’t get in and out of vans and fields on their own you know). So, physically, it isn’t working today. The plan was to drive back late last night, but the rain was heavy and unrelenting and The Mechanic wasn’t [...]
Posted in Fire Man, boys on 13 January, 2008 | 7 Comments »
FM hasn’t heard anything out of me since my email on 9 January.
Just keep swimming, just keep swimming…
Posted in Love, Mechanic, Relationships, boys on 13 January, 2008 | 13 Comments »
I don’t want to go home.
I am still caked in mud and woke up with the best part of a straw bale in my hair, I haven’t cleaned my teeth, my hand is practically falling off and there is mud under my nails that I don’t think I will ever get out.
But I want to [...]
Posted in Mechanic, boys on 12 January, 2008 | 8 Comments »
It’s Saturday late afternoon and I am covered in mud and oil and am absolutely shattered. Woke up this morning to discover that the telly and lamp were both still on. I queried this with The Mechanic who, in that simple fashion of his, replied: “you fell asleep on my arm and I didn’t want [...]
Posted in Fire Man, Love, Mechanic, Relationships, boys on 11 January, 2008 | 22 Comments »
Some things in life are fucked up. The fact that I am awake at 8am this morning is a good example. I have been absolutely shattered for days now, really struggling to not hit the snooze button about a thousand times before finally clawing my way out of bed. At work, I have been bleary [...]
Posted in BS is a loser, Commuting, London, London Commute, Mechanic, South West Trains, Transport, boys, funny, just silly on 10 January, 2008 | 13 Comments »
…and accompanying picture message sent to The Mechanic by Soupy from Little Place station at 8.30 this morning.
In other news, it appears there is a bit of a crisis with the hog roast this weekend. Apparently the pig is still alive and The Mechanic’s mother refuses to let him kill it himself. That is possibly [...]
Posted in Fire Man, boys, food and drink, socialising on 10 January, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Many mobile phones today automatically save sent items. Phones have come a long way from when I got my first crappy one back in Year 11. The brick that masqueraded as a communications device could only hold 10 SMS in the inbox, had an antenna thing, and it cost 10p per text message on Orange [...]
Posted in London Underground, Mechanic, boys on 9 January, 2008 | 21 Comments »
This was the best thing I learnt last night: The Mechanic has NEVER BEEN ON THE LONDON UNDERGROUND.
Never.
Ever.
Not once.
How very quaint… and, to me, incredibly odd (although to him, not odd at all).
He has also only ever been on a train twice - once on a service from Leeds to Gainsborough (to pick up a [...]
Posted in Mechanic, boys on 9 January, 2008 | 14 Comments »
The Mechanic and I were on the phone for ages last night, well over an hour. During that time, as well as talking about a whole load of stuff that I can’t remember, I also learnt that:
He is actually a rather bright so and so. Apart from getting a couple of Es in RE and [...]
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Posted in BS is a loser, Fire Man, boys, funny, good stuff, just silly on 8 January, 2008 | 17 Comments »
And so Respectableside beautifully sums up the text conversation that has just happened between me and FM.
Out of the blue, this evening he texted me:
Hey trouble, how was your day? You’ll no doubt be pleased to hear that I have MMS back up and working on my phone! What you up to this evening? x [...]
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Posted in Friends, Random, rants, socialising on 8 January, 2008 | Enter your password to view comments
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Posted in Mechanic, boys, fashion, good stuff, just silly, socialising on 8 January, 2008 | 11 Comments »
The Sister messaged me yesterday and mentioned that I would probably want to bring wellies with me when I head down to the party. She said it will be muddy. Well, I suppose she has a point, it is a party in a field. Marquee or no marquee the floor will be field and possibly [...]
Posted in Fire Man, Mechanic, Relationships, boys, sex on 7 January, 2008 | 25 Comments »
I was up until about 2am, unable to sleep.
My mind was initially kept occupied by FM who seemed similarly bored and we exchanged naughty message after naughty message from about 9.30pm til gone midnight. Bad news, of course, but it kept me amused so no real harm done there.
Sleep was still avoiding me (and doing [...]
Posted in Blogging, fashion on 5 January, 2008 | Enter your password to view comments
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Posted in Fire Man, boys on 4 January, 2008 | 20 Comments »
So*, last night I had a dream.
In this dream I was walking down to the train station at Little Place (actually crossing the road just before it) and my phone buzzed in my pocket. It was a message from FM, something playful and flirtatious. I felt my hackles rise and my fist clench. In my [...]
Posted in Mechanic, boys on 4 January, 2008 | Enter your password to view comments
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Posted in boys on 3 January, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Feeling totally uptight. Haven’t done any work for my course module. Got 6,000 words to write, fully referenced, with just 17 days to do them in. Both weekends are tied up. Full time job as well. Oh shit shit shit. Am thinking of pulling out of going to The Mechanic’s birthday…
The last thing I need [...]
Posted in BS is a loser, boys, just silly on 3 January, 2008 | 6 Comments »
You have no idea HOW BADLY I WANT this game. Clicky on the picture to go to Firebox where you can learn all about how the game works. It is up there with Hungry Hippos, Operation and Twister as one of those GREAT and highly immature games.
I was thinking of buying it for The Mechanic [...]
Posted in Commuting, London, London Commute, London Underground, Transport, commuter cretins, rants, work on 3 January, 2008 | 11 Comments »
And that is how it felt this lunchtime as I headed to work. I should have expected it, really. No snow meant that the trains were running fine so I should have just KNOWN that something miserable would happen to me at Victoria just to even it all out a bit. I mean, there has [...]
Posted in boys on 3 January, 2008 | 13 Comments »
The Mechanic and I have been texting all day again. Earlier tonight, while I was tucked up in bed watching crap on the telebox, he mentioned that he was in the bath. I joked that usually it’s me in the bath (I love me baths) and that baths and pizza are my biggest weaknesses.
He said: [...]
Posted in Blogging on 2 January, 2008 | 18 Comments »
I will be going to the hairdressers in the next few weeks.
Questions:
Do I go lighter (my roots need doing, so that would probably see more lights go in, and so a little lighter) or do I get the whole lot put back to my dark? And if I go dark, do I get the blonde [...]
Posted in Fire Man, Love, Mechanic, Relationships, boys on 2 January, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Right, well, it is my last day of being a bum. Back to the daily grind tomorrow… AFTERNOON, so get a nice lie in - lovely. Ease the way back in. Ha, if only!! The magazine is due on Friday and I haven’t written the typed equivalent of a bean…
Anyway, I dragged myself out of [...]
Posted in Mechanic, boys, family on 1 January, 2008 | 14 Comments »
You will NOT believe this…
My mother sent me an email earlier today. Apparently, she is going to the big field piss up for The Mechanic’s 21st. Um… so not cool. In her email she said:
About this party in a field, we have been invited along with M and C [old geezers from the local pub], [...]
Posted in Blogging, Fire Man, Friends, Little City, London, Love, NYRs, Random, Relationships, boys, charity, day-to-day musings, family, get fit, good stuff, health, news, nothing much, thoughtful, work on 1 January, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Well, would you look at that. It’s 2008. Soupy takes up the keyboard again. I was going to write one of those blog round up posts where I go back over the year month-by-month and pull out the big things or the best bits, but I can’t be bothered. Possibly not the most promising start [...]
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