friday night was a pretty standard friday night. when you work all week, friday night is the time to blow off some steam - its the official start to the weekend. the mistake is to go so wild that saturday is then lost to a hangover, however, to spend a friday night not drinking and not staying out late in town with friends would be equally as wasteful in my opinion.
after spending some more time on my mix-tape we headed into town for a chinese meal to celebrate my grans birthday. 82 years old! and shes still so fit and healthy. whilst in the plough me and trish decided that her growing up in the country was probably to thank and that people who grew up in towns and cities were probably less healthy.
friday night was also when we welcomed our friend back from his navy training. i cant really explain why but for some reason the night left me with a new found respect for those serving in the forces.
i felt really ill friday night, probably because i drank too much lager.
saturday morning i forced myself out of bed and eased myself into the day with a coffee before starting work cleaning my scooter. i wondered why it was that no matter what food i ate from tuckers, my burps the next day would always taste the same. i did a tiny bit more work on the mix-tape before heading into town for a ride about on the scooter and to get some vital supplies for the coming months.
saturday night was a pretty weird one. we all met in the plough to say a fond farewell to our mate chris who is soon leaving for india. i was driving so perhaps didnt get into the atmosphere of the night as well as the others, but found myself wondering why i would celebrate my friend leaving for what is going to be a very very long time. id gone from welcoming someone home the previous night to saying goodbye the next and it didnt exactly put me in a great mood, although i do wish him all the best and i hope everything goes great for him.
i was feeling pretty overwhelmed in town so i left and had a really nice ride home on the scoot where i watched the omen and had a beer.
sunday was an early start as i was going on another scooter ride with me dad and his mate barry. we didnt go far but i loved every inch of it on those quiet country roads. we spent most of the morning discussing scooters, motorcycle driving tests, scooter fashion and books about scooters or adventures. i drank two cappuccinos.
sunday afternoon was spent finishing the mix tape so that i could deliver it to chris before he left for india. martin popped over to keep me company whilst i had the exciting job of bouncing the mix down into single audio files. i was sure there was a reason why i shouldnt bounce the files as aiff but i couldnt think what it was so i simply went ahead and did it. as i tried to burn the cd i discovered that format wasnt accepted by my cd burning software so i had to go through the whole process again. it took a good few hours of watching progress bars slowly move across the screen. it was especially annoying as the welsh bird from catatonia was standing in on bbc 6 music and her music taste is awful.
after a busy weekend, sunday evening was spent with my headphones on, listening to new order, doing some of those things i didnt really want to do but had to before work on monday. ironing, tidying, shaving.
the weekend was a sensory and emotional overload so for the next few weeks im taking some time out for myself to concentrate on the simple things close to home. im looking forward to the chance for my health and wallet to recover, to spend some time with trish and my friends and to sit back and listen to some music and read.
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