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Hmm well I’m in two minds. On the one hand I’m very very sad because tomorrow is my last day at work and I will miss it and all the people there terribly. But on the other hand Bob is then coming up in the evening and I haven’t seen him in a month, so of course I am immensely looking forward to that and that makes me happy.

And I can’t wait to see him of course, but also I don’t want the day to go by quickly.

It’s strange to feel the exact opposite things at the same time.

Hahaha it makes me laugh to still think about it.

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Yep it’s a huge big commercial piece of rubbish. Everyone agrees that it is no different to any other day, yet single people still moan about being single, and people in a relationship feel happy they have someone to “be their Valentine”.

So yes, although I don’t go in for the whole tacky and commercial issue of Valentine’s, forgive me that I do feel happy that for the first time in my life I have someone to spend it with, and I know that if I was single I would be saying “pfft Valentines, so cares!” while inside wishing I DID have someone to be with on that day, wishing I had someone to spend it with. But it doesn’t mean that just because I do have a boyfriend that I will go and buy lots of overpriced consumerist rubbish which is pink and fluffy and is in the form of a huge great teddy bear which is holding a heart saying ‘I LOVE YOU’ or something equally sickly. Being Feb 14th doesn’t mean that I suddenly love him more than I do any other day, or that we should do something special just because it’s Valentines. Valentine’s is a poor reason for people to be all lovey-dovey and stuff: if you love someone, you love them every day!

I’ve only ever had one Valentine’s card, but it hardly counts because it was from Amy last year at college, and she wrote it in a German lesson, so it came out as “frohliche Tag des Valentins” haha.

I’m going to listen to my mix CDs from Bob all day and then I shall meet him at the train station tonight. And I can’t wait to see him.

Happy Valentine’s Day.

This picture’s got a woman who looks like you, and a guy who looks just like someone I’ve seen. When it turns out, I hope that it turns out the way that you dreamed.

Hmm bit delayed but better late than never.

Just a quick ramble about Christmas.

Edit: okay maybe not that short…

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Right so I spent last weekend the weekend before last in London with the lovely Bob. I say weekend, it was more of a longgg weekend. I went down on Thursday night, straight after work, and came back Monday daytime. So really, that’s 5 days I got to see him for!

I’m not going to blog out each day as before because it is: a) rather tiresome; and b) not that interesting. Instead I’ll do an overview of what we managed to get up to. Nice and succinct.

Here I am sitting on a stone thing in a pond outside the Barbican.

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Final day!

Hmm will probably be a short entry, cos it was a short day. Bob was working today (I booked it off, obviously, mmm my first non-working day since I started (except obviously weekends)), and my train was a daytime one, 11.10, so we got up nice and early, and set off for the tube. Was about half 8 or so, therefore morning rush hour and therefore packed tubes. Hehe was kind of fun. I’m such a tourist

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And Day 3

After the last 2 days of rushing around and keeping busy and all, it was nice to spend today relaxing and unwinding. We were meeting up with Bob’s friends Jason and Rachel today for some yum yum dim sum in town in the afternoon, which would be cool no doubt. I craved this food.

We had a lazy morning. Neither of us felt like getting up early, and I kept doing the whole microsleeps thing, you wake up for a minute or so, then go back to sleep again immediately, and again, and again. Eventually we crawled out of bed a little after 12pm, mainly cos we realised we were due to be meeting Jason and Rachel at 1pm haha. Rush. But luckily y’know, we’re not the kind of people who spend aaages getting ready. Well, not too long anyhow.

As it happens we were slightly late, but we were still there first. We met them at East Putney station and it was chucking it down (again). We didn’t linger and went straight to the restaurant, the Royal China. I guess it’s a good sign when a restaurant has a slight queue of people inside waiting for tables. Fortunately it wasn’t so long that it extended outside in the cold and rain, and despite the slight queue, we didn’t have to wait long at all for a table either. We got a nice round one with a parachuting Santa above it

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So last weekend we had arranged a little gathering to celebrate Stu’s birthday, and since it was in London and all twas the perfect excuse to extend it to last a nice four days to spend some quality time with Bob We’re both working full-time now so our time together gets a bit crippled, but it’s very very very fine.

I took advantage of my flexitime option at work and took Friday afternoon and the following Monday (03/12) off work, and booked me some nice cheap train tickets down south for a weekend with the boyfriend

Ace. Let’s get cracking.

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Saturday 22nd 2007, two days before her birthday, we decided to have a mini-meet in Leeds for some birthday sushi action. Initially we were going to et a huge sushi platter from Sisushi, as Inn gets a yummy 20% off for being a member. But we couldn’t decide which one to get. Did we go all out and get the Deluxe platter with 70 pieces? Or Sushi Party 2 with 78? There were 4 (possibly 5) of us…

We got to Sisushi about half 2, still unsure of which to get. We were getting it take-out, then driving to Kev’s house to eat it, so we spent ages still deciding. I can’t remember who suggested it, but it came up… why only get one? Why not TWO?

A good point. Lindsay was now going to join in so that made it 5 of us, and if we bought 2 platters the price was little different than buying one. Sooo for £12 each we bought 105 pieces of sushi: Sushi Party 2 platter and Zero-Fish platter. It was amazing!

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I really really really wish I could play piano. It’s the most amazing instrument and I love how people can just sit down at it, tap the right keys and a beautiful tune comes out. I used to learn when I was younger but I found it hard to do both hands together in sync. I wish I’d stuck with it, or started earlier or something.

But wishing I could play will get me nowhere. Bob taught me the intro to Fur Elise, my favourite piece of music, so I spent a lot of time today perfecting it. It’s only a few bars but I can pretty much do it perfectly now. I know to a pianist this piece is just standard easy to play, but I’m a beginner and I’m proud of me for doing it

I’d love to get better and carry on playing. Now my brother has gone back to uni I should be able to use the piano a lot more often. I’ll never be as good as Bob but hopefully I’ll be somewhat decent, someday.