New Title in Progress: July 2006

Boring

Finally got all my housey things done. Dinner cooked and eaten, washing done, other washing put away, dishes washed, bedclothes changed. It's surprising how long those things take. My whole evening has disappeared!

My room still needs tidied and hoovered and Henry needs cleaned out, but I'll leave those things to disappear my evening tomorrow. I don't really mind actually because being busy makes time go quicker and I'll be quite happy for July to speed off into the distance because I'm getting fed up with it now. It's been going on for ages!!

I was reading the back of a packet of cashew nuts I bought the other day.

Beside the nutrition section, it said: CONTAINS NUTS

Of course this surprised me as I had expected it to contain bananas.

Hot Hot Hot!!!!

....or "gurum gurum" as Ravin would say.

My phone informed me yesterday that it was 33 degrees as I was walking home from work. Was difficult to sleep last night because of the humidity and after I finally got to sleep I got woken up at 2.30am by the blokes in the house across the way :

"It's definitely coming from that direction."
"Yeah I think so, although sometimes its hard to tell."
"Ohhhh there's another one!!!"
"Yeah definitely coming from south west."
"Listen to that, it's getting closer!"

When, I opened my eyes, I could see them standing on their patio and hear them really well because I had gone to sleep with my window and curtains wide open because it was so hot. They are always up and about on their patio at odd hours those blokes. I've seen them having a barbecue in the rain at 3 in the morning before.

Anyway, when I managed to open my eyes (it takes a while when I've just woken up because they seem to be glued together and when I open them, I can't focus for a few minutes) I saw lots of flashes about every 10 seconds. I quickly deducted that this was lightning (I'm clever like that you see).

It was very cool lightning, the thunder was just rumbly though, not big exciting crashes. I sat on the windowsill for a while hanging out the window to watch the lightning. Over the course of the next couple of hours a few storms passed over and there were a few big crashes. I finally got to sleep about 5am. The problem was that I got myself all giddy and excited watching the storms and then I was wide awake and it took me ages to get back to sleep.

As usual they are making a big thing in the news about the weather:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/5197248.stm

We didn't have any power cuts. Well I didn't put any lights on in the flat, but I saw street lights on.

In other news...................I bought a new phone!!! I was originally going to get one bought for me for my birthday but I decided that it would be rather an expensive birthday present and I would feel guilty having all that money spent on me. It cost £129 and this is it:

http://shop.o2.co.uk/shop/o2uk/jsp/handsets/viewHandsetDetails.jsp?prodID=consumer:SE:W300i:GROUP

Its very cool. Still getting to grips with it because have never had a Sony Ericsson before. It kindly beeped at me at 6am to tell me I had no appointments today. Well I'm glad it reminded me..... grrr!!!! I think I've turned that reminder off. I don't fancy being informed every morning at 6am that I have no appointments.

I have used half the battery power already because I've been constantly fiddling with the phone.

I'm off to eat some rice now. Feel a bit sick today. I think it may be because its been so hot and I didn't sleep properly. I suppose having had a bar of Green and Black's chocolate at 8am didn't help either!!!

Hello Again

I was away in Scotland again but I'm back now unfortunately. Back to the boring normality of going to work etc. filling in the time until I go back over again.

On the plus side, we've got lots of new games for the Playstation that Jackie's boyfriend bought and I'll get paid more this month so I'll be able to get new clothes, although I probably won't because I hate clothes shopping. The only time I seem to get new clothes is when I go into Primark on my lunch break, walk round quickly and buy lots of clothes that look vaguely interesting then I try them on when I get home and if they are no good, I'll bring them back the next day. I find its a very efficient way to clothes shop. You don't have to bother standing in a queue to try stuff on or spend ages trying to wade through people.

When I was bored

I googled myself. I didn't find myself but I found a My Space page of another Emma Smyth who lives in Belfast, just over the river from me. She seems to have much the same taste in music and things as me. I considered making contact and saying hello but that could possibly freak her out.

It's not really that unusual to find someone living nearby with the same name as me. There was a girl in my class at school called Emma Smyth as well. The teachers used to always skip one out when they read the register because they thought it was the same person accidently printed twice. I got labelled "big Emma" because I happened to be taller than the other one. I disliked that moniker because it suggested I was very fat or excessively tall, when in fact I was just normal height and size. It was the other Emma who was extremely small and petite.