Friday night ramble
Hmmm, that almost sounds like some kind of wholesome activity! But I'm here for a big splurge of free association, I've got nothing in particular I want to say so bear with me, we'll hope something good turns up....you've got to look for gold in the dirt, you know!
End of the week, and I should be rather perky but I'm not. There are a couple of reasons for this, one being that I've got nothing specific planned so I may just end up spending cash on snackettes and caffeine, always a tad depressing because you feel like you've socially failed, and second is that it's bloody cold and snowy and icy, which means no riding tomorrow unless we have a big thaw. That isnt exactly likely either, so the roads will be treacharous and I'm not risking my life on that. So I'm in a bit of a grump, with nothing planned. So we'll now think of something to do.
Well, I suppose I could go and look at the Abbey. Since nobody has visited me yet (why would you? You're all miles away!), I'd better fill you in.....my road faces down to the Aire (river), and there's a runied abbey and some parkland just down the end of my street. Very picture-skew, and you can actually see it out of my skylight too! If you tip-toe and stretch you neck, of course. But it is a bit of a sight, so I suppose I should have a shufty since it's right on my doorstep, and I've not done any foot exploring of Kirkstall as yet. Seems a shame to live somewhere and never really get to know it! Wonder if there's a library to join around here.....
Cooking is also something that I should do, for the money saving prospects. I tend to go overboard every once in a while, but right now I need to do it and build up a food stock, because I'm spending far too much cash at lunchtimes and throughout the day on snacks. Bad for me, bad for my wallet. There's a really good sandwich/bakery effort opposite my workplace, so it's just so easy to go buy things - but it's also expensive, very much so if you add it up! And right now I cant face starving myself (it's not got that bad quite yet), because rumbly tum is painful, specially if you put cold liquid in empty tum! So maybe I'll cook up a big stew and some muffins, not baked for far too long. Not that I can bake much lacking cake tins, but the muffins I can manage. So yes. I need flour anyway after the OTT pizza efforts at the start of the week. And I've got a pilaff-in-the-making with the veg I've got left from this week. So maybe tomorrow a trip to the market, a stock up on nice things and the rest of the weekend cooking? How depressingly boring and lacking in human contact. *sigh*
Few things hanging on my mind, in a 'stuff you need to do' sense. For example, there's my credit card bill to pay, the money I owe back to Dad (though he'd probably tell me not to pay it back, since this is the only money I've ever really borrowed from him or Mum), the household bill stuff NOBODY is taking responsibility for, it's like one of those blinking contests, and the first person to look away and actually sort something out is going to be doing it for the rest of the time. I just know it's going to be me, worse luck, I can never let things lie! And I also, shame of shame, have to deal with the car one way or another. It's run out of it's MOT *and* tax disc, so is actually quite illegally parked as we speak, but it's going to cost me over a hundred for the right to park it and do nothing with it, or garage fees if I choose to hole it up somewhere, but you know? I dont really want a car, now I've got the bike! It was dead handy for the southampton moving-thing, and no doubt would be again (not least for weekend trips, bike less suited for that in the wet!), but I resent paying a load to insure and tax and MOT it when I'm not going to use it. But it's worth something, and just getting it towed would be a bit of a waste (though it's wasted at the moment!). Still, something else to do........
Room also needs an organise. Lack of storage space means I've got things just sort of plonked and it's not exactly tidy or condusive to tidy-keeping. But then, I've always been the scatter-y sort of person, so maybe I'm fighting a loosing battle!
Oh, must remember to buy bog roll tomorrow, we're nearly out...though I did buy the last lot too! Shall have to maybe suggest the kitty thing soon; it'd be worth it! The pedestrian chores of communal living, eh? Most of you are aware, no doubt...
Drowsy and droopy this evening, as ever! Dont seem to be awake at all these days, was I ever? Evening have been lost into a routine that is as repetetive as it is dull; what is a boy to do? Stop typing shite, perhaps!
End of the week, and I should be rather perky but I'm not. There are a couple of reasons for this, one being that I've got nothing specific planned so I may just end up spending cash on snackettes and caffeine, always a tad depressing because you feel like you've socially failed, and second is that it's bloody cold and snowy and icy, which means no riding tomorrow unless we have a big thaw. That isnt exactly likely either, so the roads will be treacharous and I'm not risking my life on that. So I'm in a bit of a grump, with nothing planned. So we'll now think of something to do.
Well, I suppose I could go and look at the Abbey. Since nobody has visited me yet (why would you? You're all miles away!), I'd better fill you in.....my road faces down to the Aire (river), and there's a runied abbey and some parkland just down the end of my street. Very picture-skew, and you can actually see it out of my skylight too! If you tip-toe and stretch you neck, of course. But it is a bit of a sight, so I suppose I should have a shufty since it's right on my doorstep, and I've not done any foot exploring of Kirkstall as yet. Seems a shame to live somewhere and never really get to know it! Wonder if there's a library to join around here.....
Cooking is also something that I should do, for the money saving prospects. I tend to go overboard every once in a while, but right now I need to do it and build up a food stock, because I'm spending far too much cash at lunchtimes and throughout the day on snacks. Bad for me, bad for my wallet. There's a really good sandwich/bakery effort opposite my workplace, so it's just so easy to go buy things - but it's also expensive, very much so if you add it up! And right now I cant face starving myself (it's not got that bad quite yet), because rumbly tum is painful, specially if you put cold liquid in empty tum! So maybe I'll cook up a big stew and some muffins, not baked for far too long. Not that I can bake much lacking cake tins, but the muffins I can manage. So yes. I need flour anyway after the OTT pizza efforts at the start of the week. And I've got a pilaff-in-the-making with the veg I've got left from this week. So maybe tomorrow a trip to the market, a stock up on nice things and the rest of the weekend cooking? How depressingly boring and lacking in human contact. *sigh*
Few things hanging on my mind, in a 'stuff you need to do' sense. For example, there's my credit card bill to pay, the money I owe back to Dad (though he'd probably tell me not to pay it back, since this is the only money I've ever really borrowed from him or Mum), the household bill stuff NOBODY is taking responsibility for, it's like one of those blinking contests, and the first person to look away and actually sort something out is going to be doing it for the rest of the time. I just know it's going to be me, worse luck, I can never let things lie! And I also, shame of shame, have to deal with the car one way or another. It's run out of it's MOT *and* tax disc, so is actually quite illegally parked as we speak, but it's going to cost me over a hundred for the right to park it and do nothing with it, or garage fees if I choose to hole it up somewhere, but you know? I dont really want a car, now I've got the bike! It was dead handy for the southampton moving-thing, and no doubt would be again (not least for weekend trips, bike less suited for that in the wet!), but I resent paying a load to insure and tax and MOT it when I'm not going to use it. But it's worth something, and just getting it towed would be a bit of a waste (though it's wasted at the moment!). Still, something else to do........
Room also needs an organise. Lack of storage space means I've got things just sort of plonked and it's not exactly tidy or condusive to tidy-keeping. But then, I've always been the scatter-y sort of person, so maybe I'm fighting a loosing battle!
Oh, must remember to buy bog roll tomorrow, we're nearly out...though I did buy the last lot too! Shall have to maybe suggest the kitty thing soon; it'd be worth it! The pedestrian chores of communal living, eh? Most of you are aware, no doubt...
Drowsy and droopy this evening, as ever! Dont seem to be awake at all these days, was I ever? Evening have been lost into a routine that is as repetetive as it is dull; what is a boy to do? Stop typing shite, perhaps!
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