Friday = Beach Day

The calling of the Beach is being answered next Friday. We are going in a transit van with a hammock in it. Am ridiculously excited. It feels like the start of Summer! Although I really shouldn’t say that as in true, classic English style it will now piss it down.

But I don’t care.

My packing will consist of:
Rum
Ginger beer
Limes
Bikini
Wellies
Sunglasses

End of.

Come on, English weather. Be kind to us this week!

{Promises of Sunshine}

So many things have been happening lately, in keeping with my ‘let’s stay busy’ 2009 mindset. As always, I’m not the most articulate of people so here are the happenings in bullet point stylee:

Setting up Summer Schools is going well, waiting to hear back on some funding

Was at Step into Sport camp all last week, teaching lovely kiddies how to use cameras and make a film. Am having a big career shakeup as a result. Watch my transformation into a film person!

Cut my Bulb Studios days down to one. Will use the spare time to aid my transformation, as before I’ve been filling it with Pedestrian work which is not ideal.

Bought an iPod classic! I never buy things! Although again in keeping with my recycling brain, it’s second hand off ebay. It never occurred to me that people could be wankers, so I’m hoping that it hasn’t been dropped in water or similar. There is a way to tell, but I haven’t picked it up yet so we shall see. I’m a bit nervous, as my naivety might have cost me a hundred quid. Damn.

Have come back to parents for bank holiday. It is lovely and relaxing and I have slept lots and hung out with my Dad. We went to Blackbushe market. I bought shampoo. No, really.

We have a new lovely housemate called Lucy. She is wicked. We go to reggae nights and drink a lot of rum and ginger beer. I enjoy her face and her brightly coloured happy hippiness.

My poledancing competition is this coming Thursday. I haven’t done any practise for 13 days. I am going to fail miserably.

Have been planning Summer. It is lush. So far it looks like this:

Ibiza maybe! Not sure if I can afford it yet though.

One week in Devon with my down south chicas. Surfing!

Random, unplanned days in a transit van. You can put a hammock in it! Pure joy.

Reading festival maybe, if I don’t sell my ticket. Will see how I feel.

Promises of a reggae festival in the Netherlands, but again we shall seeeeeee.

Bestival! Am buying my ticket when I get some pennies.

Family tings. Standard. Maybe Scotland. Exciting! Heather and sheep and highland coos.

Would like to do something with Samantha. But due to the nature of our jobs we can’t take time off at the same time. But I will broach the subject anyway, test the water with our manager.

I feel a lot better in my mind at the moment. I am still sorting myself out, it seems to be taking a lot longer than I thought it would. Step into Sport really helped as we had a bit of down time in which I could have a really good think without the pressures of work around. Pedestrian is really stressing me out for no reason, I’m getting too emotional about the job. I am not my work. Must remember that. Will remember that…..

Memory Loss

Just logged onto this blog thinking “Wonder when the last time I wrote was?”.

Apparently it was yesterday. I don’t remember at all.

That’s what you get for chugging multiple pints of cider whilst drawing dragons with brightly coloured felt tips.

WHat the hell am i doing?

- Enjoying the sporadic sunshine
- Questioning my work career decisions
- Looking for new fun things to push out into the open and pioneer
- Trying not to bend to the impulse of running away to another country, despite what feet are saying
- Dropping myself on my face, am such an idiot
- Am excited about something…

It is an exciting time, but am really fighting the impulse to jack it in and go somewhere completely different. However, feel it is more like grass is greener than actual thought out plans.

Miss.

Even More Sad Times….

Esko is closing! There will be one more night put on but after that they’re closing the doors for good.

Where are we going to go for a good stomp now? Esko was always the Old Faithful stomping ground of choice. Superfly’s good but there’s something about the vibe there that puts me off a little bit. Maybe Bambu will pick up some of the acts that no doubt will have been planned for the next few months. That venue is lovely.

Urgh, rubbish.

Friday the 13th

I found a tenner on the floor. Get in.

The Day Jenzo Rolled Into Town

It has been a blinding weekend. Jenzo came to visit Lestaaa and we have had many, many fun times going into town and buying lampshades (I know how to show a girl a good time), playing DVD Catchphrase and drinking. Very big drinking. Loved being her tour guide, she saw all the best places.

We went to the Hub for a couple of shots of very strong Christmas on Friday night before heading off to see Cyantific at Superfly with Tanda and Ema. Bloody amazing set, but the crowd was a bit odd. We soon forgot about that after yet more tequila. Oh tequila.

Saturday was spent being a bit spaced out and wandering the streets of Lesta looking at all the sights, sounds and charity shops before being ripped off by Sainsburys (checkout girl stole our pineapple juice!), making coffee and falling asleep in front of Dogma (£4 down the charity shop get in!). Then it was an evening of cooking pizza, drinking gin and getting down to 9 Bar for their 12th Birthday. Amazing ice sculpture shot slide, phat beats and many, many drinks. We danced like the crazies before walking to Esko afterwards and dancing like more crazies. It was much fun. I am very tired. We ate pizza at 5am. Ohh yeahh. My brain has ceased to function.

Ace weekend, loveth thou Jenzo.

I won tings!

Forgot to write about this but aaaaages ago Ethical Superstore ran a competition to win copies of ‘What About China’, a very hard hitting and informative book about climate change. To win you had to post a fact or opinion about climate change, and the best 10 got copies of the book.

Here is my book winning entry:
Lauren Ramskir 6th August 2008

“An observation: the last time there was a major temperature change was the ice age. Everything died. Do we really want to experience that again?”

I’m only halfway through the book but it is a brilliant and informative read which I would recommend. Also, I got it free which is even better.

Muuuusiccccckkkkkkkk

Geeking out with Gemma tonight over music. It was ace. Have never played on Traktor Scratch before but it was lovely. Have rediscovered reggae and made new dancing playlist (separate things, although I could dance to reggae but it would be a bit odd).

Heavy heart. But I adore that everyone is doing what they want in life, or at least taking steps towards what they want. Everything is changing. I am fighting the impulse to move out too, just to find somewhere with higher ceilings so I can do some practise once in a while.

This weekend is going to be proactive. Am going to make dancing website and start advertising. Not sure if anything will come of it but I’m going to try. Try, try try.

More Sad Times

The wife is moving to Nottingham in three weeks time. It is a bit sudden but she is doing what she needs to do. Maybe we will become better friends after this, not just work friends.

It is very like her to just up and leave. In truth, I saw it coming.