There's a Rumblr in my Tumblr

Euro land.

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:12:15 +0000

Plus, has anyone else noticed the climate changing? Of course you have. Longer, colder winters are going to be followed by the hotter and hotter summers which is going to devastate the ecological balance in this country and cause billions of pounds worth of damage. It has already! How the hell are we gonna turn all this around now? The timing couldn’t be better and it’s enough to turn me fanatical. Thank goodness I’ve read at least three books otherwise I’d be ignorant and easily led.

So still I’m confused. Is the euro struggling as much as the pound? Will changing the currency mean I’ll have to pay three times more for chocolate? I think I’ll read more about it then agree with everyone else when the time to decide if a change is in order comes.

The Euro. Fancy coinage no?

Hotter summers? I must have missed something… the last ‘decent’ summer we had was nearly 3 years ago. I say ‘decent’, because it wasn’t like they used to be when I was a kid. You know how I know? Because for both the last 2 summers since then, Mick and I have said ‘F*ck working in Chessington this summer, imagine how sh*t it would be’.

Where are all these followers I've heard about? I think I need to get more interesting.

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:41:03 +0000

This is a Kinkajou. I want one.

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:52:17 +0000

This is a Kinkajou.

I want one.

Finally some (fuzzy) proof that Robert Downey Jr’s...

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:00:43 +0000

Finally some (fuzzy) proof that Robert Downey Jr’s doppelganger does Kung Fu with me…

Positive 2009

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:52:00 +0000

I’m going to focus on the good and fun things I do this year in an effort not to notice the poo things.

1st January - I went to my first Ice Hockey match in Guildford. ~~The journey back was pants, cause it was freezing and~~… wait no… positive things. It was different and entertaining to watch. I’d go again when it’s warmer outside. Or when I have a car.

5th January - I won £50 of HMV vouchers from a forum I go on.

11th January - Went to Kung Fu. I do this pretty much every week, but the fact I’m still doing something involving exercise is almost miraculous.

12th January - Went bowling for my friend’s birthday. Which was cheap and different. And afterwards Alex and I ate at the tasty Chinese Buffet. Num num!

15th January - Went to the gym and when I did stretches I could touch my toes!!!

…more to come…

"You are not soldiers. You have no discipline, no training, no honour. You do not command respect...."

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:58:53 +0000

“

You are not soldiers. You have no discipline, no training, no honour.

You do not command respect. You may think you do, because you cannot tell the difference between respect and fear.

You are selfish, shallow criminals, remarkable only by the danger you pose to others.

”

- What the judge Justice Irwin said to the dirty excuse for a teenager who shot Rhys Jones. I’m sick of these idiotic, self-righteous gang members calling themselves ‘soldiers’. This guy’s words are just spot on.

The Winter Palace

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:35:51 +0000

cultshasha:

errorgorilla:

Most people know more as they get older:
I give all that the cold shoulder.

I spent my second quarter-century
Losing what I had learnt at university

And refusing to take in what had happened since.
Now I know none of the names in the public prints,

And am starting to give offence by forgetting faces
And swearing I’ve never been in certain places.

It will be worth it, if in the end I manage
To blank out whatever it is that is doing the damage.

Then there will be nothing I know
My mind will fold into itself, like fields, like snow.

Philip Larkin

Did you know that Philip Larkin was a miserable bastard who hated women?

I knew that.

This is a Shiba Inu. Geoff doesn’t like Shiba Inus. He...

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:54:18 +0100

This is a Shiba Inu.

Geoff doesn’t like Shiba Inus. He must be retarded.

"…and don’t spend your time looking around for something you want that can’t be..."

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:40:00 +0100

“…and don’t spend your time looking around
for something you want that can’t be found.
When you find out you can live without it
and go along not thinking about it,
I’ll tell you something true,
the Bare Neccessities of life will come to you”

- The profound philosopher Baloo the Bear

One Eating Disorder Please

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:43:49 +0100

cultshasha:

I have just realised how skinny I have become. I pledge to eat my sweet ass off until I start to look remotely healthier again. Time for a quick trip to the supermarket before work.

But I need recipes, part of the reason I don’t have any food is because I don’t really know what I’m doing with it. I hate throwing away food even more than starving; which is a bit backward I suppose. I must enter Sainsbury’s with a battle plan - or a… er what do you people call them, a shopping list; yes.

…

Great! Although I promise to eat more than just cakes and crap (this is addressed to anyone out there reading this that actually gives a shit). Look I have a pyramid diagram and everything!

In Sainsbury’s pick up those feed the family for under a fiver things. Cheap food and quick and easy recipes. You can collect them and store the recipes in a little binder-thing.

Chunky Chips

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:32:31 +0100

The chunky chips aren’t up to par today.

I’m not impressed,

The Colour of Money Isn't Brown

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:18:21 +0100

cultshasha:

No one has any concrete answers because we’ve been living in a flawed system for years. We’re just going to have to knuckle down and work harder for our wages and forget about the age of instant credit for awhile.

Don’t wanna!

Tropic Thunder

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:04:37 +0100

I’m going to the Tropic Thunder premiere. And by that I mean, I’m going to the premiere. You know, the film with Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr, Jack Black, Steve Coogan and Tom Cruise. Yeah, I’m going.

How fucking sweet is that?!

The Canteen

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:00:00 +0100

Yesterday I posted about my disappointing meal that I purchased from the canteen.

I mentioned how when I ordered a portion of chunky chips, the member of staff gave me five initially. I had to pass the box back and ask for more. Five chips for 50p.

Right well today when I went downstairs, I was standing there wondering what to buy and I noticed the same guy servinf up a portion of chunky chips to a lady. Maybe it’s a coincidence this lady was the same colour as him, and neither are the same colour as me. However, I couldn’t help but notice them both smiling and giggling as he piled up a mini-mountain of chunky chips into her takeaway container. I mean, there was triple what I ended up with yesterday.

Is not the first time I’ve noticed these coincidences happening in that canteen.

Today’s meal was alright, except my mouth is burning and my nose is running and i’ve ran out of napkins. I got jerk chicken, and I never learn that the sauce is far too hot.

Gone Off Food

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:12:00 +0100

I’m probably going to start posting on here a bit more now that I can access tumblr on my work computer. I mean home. I’m at home. Not at work. And if I was, I’d be on my lunch break, anyway.

I just had a burger from the canteen downstairs. And chunky chips. The canteen has annoyed me before with things in the past, like varying portion sizes and stupid ideas they come up with. I send them a complaint which took up five of their comment cards last time because I was told I probably received a smaller portion than my colleague because I’m female and the women in our building tend to eat less(??!!).

Anyway, the burgers are usually pretty nice, I think they’re hand-made from mince in the kitchen. Today, first the guy skimped me on the portion of chunky chips, thinking 5 was adequate… that’s 10p per chip. Um, no give me some more. Then when I got up to my desk I kept getting crunchy chunks in my mouth, I just thought it was from the relish until I looked at the burger, and they’ve started putting bloody onions in with the mince!! Argh!! Thing is they don’t cook the burgers properly, the middle is pinkish but not raw. So the onions don’t cook either, and so you’re just eating massive chunks of raw onion in with the meat. To someone who doesn’t like onions, that’s fookin’ nasty. I still have the nasty taste in my mouth.

I think the canteen should have put up a sign to say the recipe had changed. But then it seems to be run by thick people so I’m not surprised.

The guy did give me extra cheese though. Which I guess was nice.

Anyway, I seem to have gone off food in general at the moment, except for sweet things. I just want chocolate puddings, but only a little bit.

Yesterday I felt incredibly stuffed after eating a few cocktail sausages and about 5 olives. And a big bottle of chocolate milk. I think it was the chocolate milk that did it. I just felt so bloated I had to lie down and nap. Thing is, that was ALL I ate yesterday so I don’t get it. I bought food for dinner but just can’t seem to face eating it.

This is weirrd for me. If I don’t have food, then I don’t have any other vices. maybe I should take up speed.

Batsman Trial and Error will be launching at the London...

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:17:25 +0100

Batsman Trial and Error will be launching at the London Underground Comics festival, ‘Low Energy Day’ at Camden Market on Saturday 30th August 2008.

I don’t have much else to offer the world on that day but Batsman. So come down and get a copy and hang out in Camden for the day.

www.londonundergroundcomics.com

cultshasha: krunchiefrog: Long story short, an artist, called...

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:05:52 +0100

cultshasha:

krunchiefrog:

Long story short, an artist, called Katazyna Zalecka (www.Kasia88.deviantart.com) was drawing a picture of something of my choice. I asked her to draw her version of a character of mine, that I had designed a few years ago, Hyron. He’s a half-demony pirate (there’s a massive back-story but I can’t be bothered to go into it).

Anyway, this is her drawing, and is very good. She’s wayyy better than me on photoshop. You should check out her stuff.

Her stuffs pretty cool, weird dragon people; nice. I liked psychotic hamster.

Have you done that comic yet?

Your one? Not yet, but I have started getting my arse into gear comic-wise. At the mo I’m working on a bunch of short ones (6-8 pages) to hand out and/or sell at Hayley’s launch night this Thurs. I need to pad out my website, too. I haven’t forgotten about your one. I want to do it stylised, so it doesn’t really look like my other stuff.

Long story short, an artist, called Katazyna Zalecka...

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:14:56 +0100

Long story short, an artist, called Katazyna Zalecka (www.Kasia88.deviantart.com) was drawing a picture of something of my choice. I asked her to draw her version of a character of mine, that I had designed a few years ago, Hyron. He’s a half-demony pirate (there’s a massive back-story but I can’t be bothered to go into it).

Anyway, this is her drawing, and is very good. She’s wayyy better than me on photoshop. You should check out her stuff.

Mr T's Secret

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:57:04 +0100

cultshasha:

My brother called yesterday, he said he was unhappy to be working the entire weekend. He’s a chief working in the kitchen at one of those My Hotels in London.

… your brother’s a chief, Geoff?

Luck

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:09:00 +0100

Hello.

I have decided to start catalogueing my luck. Or, rather, lack of it.

I’m not saying good things don’t happen to me, I guess they do in small doses, but they sure do not appear half as much as the bad luck.

Yeah, so I’m not a starving child with AIDS in Africa. And I haven’t been kept in a cellar for 24 years either. But for a person growing up in London, in my circumstances, I would say I have shit luck.

I’m going to start with today, and as and when I will update with new stories of bad luck happening to me. To make it not look like I’m whinging I’ll mention when good things happen, too.

So… today. I had to leave work early for a doctor’s appointment. Let’s backtrack a bit first… I wrote a post up on this here site when I couldn’t sleep just over a week ago. I had something wrong with my ears. Well, the ear problem has continued to exist, sporadically and at different degrees of pain/annoyance. However, I thought it best I go get it checked out at the doctor’s. That was last friday (a week ago today).

The doctor was a woman I hadn’t met before. She kind of made me feel bad about coming to her with my complaints and then ridiculed me when she took a look inside my ears because there’s wax in them. Well excuse me!! She said I should make an appointment with the nurse for a week’s time to get my ears syringed, and in the mean time put olive oil drops in to soften the wax. Tasty.

After the appointment I went straight to the receptionist and asked for an appointment with the nurse in a week’s time to have my ears syringed. She said the only time they had was 3:50pm. I said that’s great, thanks and I was on my way.

I haven’t bothered changing my surgery yet to a local one, because there was a couple of ongoing things I needed to sort out at this one first. So this doctor’s surgery is all the way in Mitcham. It takes me 30 minutes at most to get home in Surbiton from work. To get to the doctors from work, it takes about 45 minutes… maybe 50 minutes.

Sooo I left work early today to get to my appointment. I managed to catch the weather just after it had stopped raining (which was good, because I didn’t have my waterproofs with me). I rode through the traffic in Putney, I rode all the way through Wimbledon during tennis season (agh!), stopped for petrol just in case, and squeezed through more traffic to get to my doctor’s surgery. I parked up my bike, put the disc lock on the front wheel, put the chain on my back wheel that I specifically had brought with me for this visit.

I went inside the surgery and the lady I booked the appointment with was there along with this rude receptionist that I have never liked much. On account that she is often rude.

I said I had an appointment with a nurse at 3:50. After some typing on the computer and looking confused she told me that there isnt an appointment for me. I said I booked it a week ago with ‘this lady’ (who promptly decided not to get involved and help me out - yeah thanks lady). The rude one said that she wouldn’t know it why would have been booked for today because the nurse doesn’t work on fridays. So I asked when the appointment was booked for then. She looked it up and told me it was the Monday just gone.

I was confused and asked why it was booked for the monday when I had asked for it to be for a week’s time. She shrugged and was clearly under the impression that I had gotten my dates mixed up and it was somehow my fault. All the while, the other lady didn’t say a bloody thing. I didn’t get an apology for the mix up, either.

So I had to book another appointment for this monday instead. And she wrote it on a card for me to remember - hinting I had forgotten the last appointment because it wasn’t written down.

Pleh.

I had to give a letter to her too to pass on to one of the doctors. The last time I handed the receptionist something to pass on to the doctor (test results), when I had my appointment with him a few days later to discuss the results, they still hadn’t given it to him. It was still down on the reception desk. He had to phone them from his office and tell them off. So God knows when the doctor is going to get this letter.

Anyway, there’s my typical Sod’s Law bad luck for today.

Next week I am going to apply for a loan from my bank, after waiting two months for my credit report to update and show I had no debt.

I’m not holdng my breath that it’ll go the way I want.