I'm Learning!

As you may now be able to see the Custard Pie posting has pictures!

On friday at work I was able to attend a workshop on how to use Adobe Photoshop - it was very well taught and as can now be seen equipped me with the skills to put pictures here! Although I don't have Adobe Photoshop - at least I now understand better the picture editing software I have.

Very excited as tomorrow I have day off work - which I am intending to spend writing and visiting the midget psychic in Worthing...

Meet the Boyfriend Party

Over the weekend I went Worthing to spend some time with my friends Jo and Sass. We were all hoping to see a midget psychic, but unfortunately she was having a day off :-( anyway we are now hoping to see her on Halloween which will be interesting!

And I was very much looking forward to giving Jo her present from Cadburys World which I got her in August. Sadly our Joey was suffering with gallbladder problems but now its been removed she is able to enjoy the chocolate again! I given loads of people chocolate as a present over the years but watching Jo open the box and being delighted at the smell of the chocolate was quite wonderful.

In the evening we went to Portsmouth to our friend George's house were she was holding a party so that her friends could meet her new boyfriend. Really it should have been curry party as the amount of curry that was available was unbelievable! Anyway the curry was great George's new man is lovely and best of all it was highly entertaining to watch George continually nearly fall over in her heels due a little too much booze (it used to be me who always fell down).

Alone in the Office

Currently all alone in my office at work and bloody Xfm keeps featuring an advert with a screaming person!!!!!!!!!!!!! But no must focus on my work.

But first I just have to say that I saw the worst film last night Alone in the Dark its based on computer game and probably should have just stayed that way. I slept through the 'scary' bits thanks to years of de-sensitising myself by watching the Aliens films over and over (ooh and going to the Alien War thing in London).

Hopefully I won't get eaten in my office...

Hanif Kureishi

Had a great time on Monday evening. Myself and my friend Sass went along to a reading/book signing by Hanif Kureishi at Brighton Uni. He started off with a reading from his newest book My Ear at His Heart' which was quite entertaining as it described his Father's first visit to a brothel...

There were lots of questions put to Hanif about his books and stories that look at racism particularly after recent events. Despite the seriousness of the questions he was still very witty about it all!

Was quite nostalgic for me and Sass as we felt as though we were back at university in a lecture... Ah if only!

Custard Pie Fight

Last night my house celebrated my best friend Kira's (and house mate) birthday. Kira had always wanted to have a custard pie fight and last night she sort of did... Instead whipped cream in a can was put on plates and the fight began. Well not before having a civilised discussion as to how the fight would work. It was decided that Kira could throw the first 'pie' which she very kindly threw at her brother Trev...

I was the photographer so stayed custard free! Will put pics on when i figure how.

Promiscuous Old People?

Was quite shocked today to see a big queue of OAP's outside the family planning clinic...

Upon closer inspection I found out that they were not waiting for free condoms, pregnancy tests or STD tests, but to receive the latest flu jab.

Amused though for a few minutes...

The Beginning!

Well I have decided to do this as part of my new commitment to make sure I spend more time writing and doing stuff that makes me happy.

Working, paying the bills and a social life is just not enough - my brain needs more!

So I will do the following when I can:

1) Write creatively
2) Write with aim of making money (sooner I am debt free the more freedom I will have!)
3) Make stuff with my sewing machine to find out if I am really doomed to make them break (one broke when I used it at school and more recently when my mum was teaching me stuff on one of hers that she was about to give me, something inside it exploded and smoke came out... I have new one now!)
4) Read (probably do more than average person - but I must read more!)
5) Learn Astrology
6) Learn more about witchcraft

So thats my list of all the stuff I'd like to do more of and know more about. I am sure over time there will be more stuff that interests me but I think thats a fairly realistic set of aims for me now...

There is also my passion for ebay but I am not sure how much more time I should dedicate to it. I have made a fair bit of money from it but equally so I love buying stuff on there! I am just going to have to assess over time how much commitment I should give it...

Oh and ginquinn? Thats nickname someone gave me a while ago. We both had very stressful jobs at a university in London, I won't say which but the bizness students who we dealt with were pure evillll! So we used to work hard and party hard - which meant a lot of drinking. And a lot of gin which rhymes with my surname Quinn.