Pork Pies

With a Whole Egg...

genius!

Palace tonight for Wolves, could be interesting, you would have thought we would turn them over but after Friday I'm not too sure. Next season is our big season I keep telling myslef.

Got tomorrow off to revise, quite scary to think my exam is a week on Friday.

Update

Not allot to write about, had yesterday off to revise, but had a splitting headache so I didn't get allot done, nearly finished my 6 sides of analysis now though.

Took Fidel to have his nails clipped it tipped it down all of the way there and the way back.

Then went to see the financial advisor but he thought it was yesterday, so we gave all of our information to his business partner and he is going to pass it on to the guy we should have seen.

Went to bed a 9:30 last night (was knackered).

And today it is back to work.

My phone is broked

Took my phone to the Orange shop today, it's not letting me send calls or receive them, not sending texts or receiving them either. In short it doesn't perform any of the core functions of a mobile phone.

They are sending me a new SIM card in the post.

Also I went to the bank and deposited a big chunk of money into my savings account ready to show the financial advisor on Wednesday. It's all getting rather hectic. That is, for us anyway, I sent financial details to Keri at the housing association last Sunday and have not received even a confirmation e-mail so for to say that she has this data. I'll call her in a bit.

I have to give a presentation to a bunch of school governors on Monday which is a little daunting but should be fun, its only 15 minutes anyway.

Tomorrow is another nightmare 6 hour revision lecture at Brookes, I seem to be getting on quite well with my five sides, I'm waiting for Dave Denny to get back in New York to see what he wrote last year. After that I'm going to find out how many goals Wolves lot to Birmingham by and then we're off to tea at - Ellie's brother - Paul's house with Him and Daisy (of course Ellie will be there also)

5 days since I did a full days work

Back to work tomorrow, I've had today and Friday off for revision and I have to return tomorrow. You would not believe how much washing tidying and other things I've got done in between revision, took all our plastic packaging and bottles from the last week to the recycling point at Somerfiled just, a full bin liner in one week.

Doesn't mean I've done no revision though. The wall next to my computer desk is covered with A4 sheets of SWOT, Steeple internal, Macro and Micro analysis of Universities and of HE. I've clocked up 25 hours worth of revision and a 6 hour lecture since Thursday. Today I reached saturation point at around 2 o'clock but it's now time for spooks.

Big news! Saw some one famous today. I saw the community support officer from the Beat (Channel 3 Sunday evening), she was waiting for the bus in Barton. I should have got her autograph but I couldn't be bothered to stop the car.

House

Went to look at what could potentially be mine and Ellie's first house yesterday. Looks really nice but then again we only looked inside the show home, which is exactly the same as ours (show homes are always nice - otherwise they would never sell the real homes).

There is a lot included, carpet, oven, washer dryer, fitted wardrobe and a shed.Had a word with Jolene about her dad being our lawyer and all we have to do now is find a mortgage. They reckon that the houses will be ready to move in by the end of the month but there is no road in the estate at the moment so I can't see that happening, besides it will be the other side of Christmas before the mortgage is sorted. I'd better tell our land lord.

Did 3 and 1/2 hours of revision yesterday afternoon as I had a half day from work. Then I went swimming around nine and did 35 lengths. There was only me and this other guy in there come 9:30.

Bought Eileen Chin in this morning but my window wipers broke shortly after I drove out of Green ridges, fixed them myself by shoring up all the connections when I got into work. I am an Engineering Genius.

What a weekend

Wow,

The past 2 days have been rather hectic. Friday was the RM sales and Marketing Kudos awards ceremony and yesterday I got back, went to bed, got up and went out to see Gogol Bordello and Bedouin Sound Clash in Brixton.

Friday lunchtime after 3 hours at work we set off to Heytrhop Park for the 2006 Kudos awards, where basically, sales pat each other on the back and Marketing get have a good old drinking session.

After John (Sales Director) and Rob (COO) told us what we were doing for the next 12 months we were treated to a motivational speech from some woman that used to be on Grandstand and some other programmes that rowed single-handedly across the Atlantic, pretty motivational but I can think of better ways of spending 3 months of your life.

Nick (Marketing Director) was up next, this was a bit more relevant and I could play spot the stat, as Nick had come to me to get some stat's off me earlier on in the week and used some of them in his presentation.

About 5pm we all got chance to leave the auditorium and go back to our rooms. I went and lay down and watched neighbours along with some kids programmes that I wouldn't normally be home in time for. (spookily we were in the same room as last year (223).

After a shower and doing my hair. I get dressed into my penguin suit and wondered downstairs, back to the auditorium for the awards ceremony. When I got down there there was Champaign, beer and various games. Martin and I beat Al and Dave Denny at Table Tennis and it was then off to sit in the same room again for another couple of hours whilst sales whooped and hollered as they patted each other on their backs for doing their jobs. The Marketing video was shown, my ninja debut in a film entitled 101 damnations but the 1 minute time limit we were given didn't do the script credit and we were outdone by primary sales with their film called 'Office Olympics".

Finally around 8 with a few people passing out due to hunger it was dinnertime. Each table had been allocated a country and Marketing Services (our table) was Tanzania. Before the started had arrived we tucked into a couple of bottles of wine on the table. It was at this point that I noticed that Anne was already quite drunk after as she put it "only 3 bottles of wkd and some Champaign", Luckily it was Al that was sitting next to her.

After dinner were some more awards, with Mark Bowerman missing out on a trip to New York with all the trimmings thrown in for the award of "Specialist of the year" the award was won by Dave Denny so all was not lost.

After polishing off all 6 bottles of wine between the 8 of us the night got into full swing with the Casino opening and the Disco beginning. I did quite well on the Casino finishing with more than I started with. Unfortunately it was only fake money, otherwise I would probably been well down.

The night continued with crazy dancing, most of marketing being completely legless by this point thanks in part for Adam deciding that we should all be drinking Sambucca (I vowed not to after last year). The last thing I remember was talking to Scottish sales guy Gordon Donald about hunting Tartan (I don't know anything about hunting tartan!!!)

I must have gone to bed at some point between 1 and 3 and was awoken at about 10 the following morning by the sound of Mark vomiting on the bedroom floor. Apparently He was carried back to the room around 5 in the morning.

After breakfast I got a lift home with Mark Berry, my boss (not the mark who was vomiting on the floor). On our way out of Heythrop we saw a horrific car accident. An RMer had collided with a range rover and the rang rover had turned over and was sitting on it's roof, the entire back end caved in.

Got back home about 11 and went straight to bed.

At 4:30 I met up with Mark Bowerman again to get the bus to London and it started all over again.

Went out for some Persian food at a lovely restaurant off Edgware Road, with some of Mark's friends from uni. Must remember how to get there because it came to £58, shared between 6 of us.

Got the tube to Brixton and got into the Academy just in time to see the end of Danko Jones' Set. He was a bit rubbish to be fair, very Andrew WK but generally quite annoying too.

Bedouin Sound Clash were next up and played a really good set, including a medley of Clash covers.

Headlining were Gogol Bordello, by this time I was starting to wilt but the Gypsy punks livened me up, great version of start wearing purple and some crowd surfing on a big drum. The whole crowd seemed to have so much energy.

Got back to Victoria to catch the bus at around 11:50 and had to wait another 10 minutes for the bus to turn up. Once I got on it then took forever to get home. Finally crawled in at about 2.

All in all a good weekend, Wolves won 3-1 and Leon Scored again.