Star-studded week

Rafa (Nadal) yesterday, Josh (Groban) tomorrow and who knows who's next on Sat!

Had free (crappy) tickets to the ATP finals last night and it was an epic 3 hour battle between nadal and roddick. got to leave work at about 6pm, yay.

D bought us tickets to a josh groban concert tomorrow night, i hope it's good. at least i get to leave work early again tomorrow.

Lots of stuff undone in the office, and i need to tell myself that I have 2.5 more weeks and that's plenty of time, because it isn't! getting chased left right and center and my mind is swirling with all the different company names and profiles. i just hope i don't start dreaming of them, because that would be REALLY sad. i actually did a couple of WEEKENDS ago. i dreamt that i discovered a new species of insect, whose name was actually the name of one of the new companies I was looking at that weekend. ARGH. job hazard.

In other news, rumour has it that the first snowfall is due. Google says it will be -6 on Friday. Now that's insane. it's already snowing in Copenhagen - wish I was back there.

Also, William and Kate are getting married on 29 Apr! yay to a 4 day week, followed by a 3 day week, and then another 4 day week. i think I wouldnt want to go back to a full working week after that! wooo hooo!!!

better sleep now before i start seeing stars in the morning, dizzy from tiredness.

the ironies of life at 23

so many things to look forward to, but so many things to do before i get there.

too few hours to have, and yet too many wasted...

"the right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing" - Josh Harris

it doesn't hurt when you've spent the last 2 years thinking you're 24, but are still barely there after 2 years.

addicted (part 2)

oh crap. boots is doing it again. another round of that crazy £12 worth of points for 2 days next week, ARGH! at least i'll be busy checking out josh groban next Wed night.... heh.

Addicted.

to online shopping. argh

I never thought i'd live to see the day... i see the merits sometimes, esp when there's free delivery and free returns. it's cheaper than going to the shop (£1.80 to get to town and another £1.80 to come home). it's faster, and 24/7.....

my massive boots order just arrived today (boots is a pharmacy btw.... heh). the box was so heavy the concierge had to help me carry it to the flat. haha... i didn't even ask, he volunteered! how nice is that. i now have a whole year's supply of shampoo, conditioner, soap and cotton wool. i think. i don't even think i need 8 bottles of soap for 1 year (half price). or 6 bottles of shampoo & conditioner (buy 1 get 1 free). but i kinda convinced myself that it's much easier to have them deliver everything so that i don't have to carry everything back. of course, there was the "spend £50, get £12 worth of points" which makes it even more attractive. to be fair, i will offload some of these stuff to D when i next see him so that he can help to use.

but then again, they just had ANOTHER round of that same offer the week before, and i also succumbed. i bought foundation 4 shades too dark for my skin and got scolded by the skin specialist at the clinique counter today when i went to get it exchanged, haha. but it was >20% off, plus another £7.50 of points.

i also think i have enough boots points for all my shopping there for the next year. heh. at least £50 worth. and i just found out that i can get boots points by shopping at asos too! HAHA, it's never ending. you can literally buy anything online in this country. i have never done more online shopping in my whole life than this year alone. tsk. i even bought a whole camera (my Canon S90) from ebay for £250 when it was $800+ in singapore.

(of course, this post only shows that i am super auntie, for i neglect to talk about all the virtual shops i visit too. let's just keep it that way for now.)

the last step i have not degenerated to is grocery shopping online. and the only thing stopping me is the lack of free delivery because of the special refrigerated trucks they use to deliver the stuff. the day will come (hopefully not, fingers crossed). but for now, i shall continue to carry cartons of milk etc physically back home. Afterall, I don't think I could buy a year's supply of milk, can I? :p

i need therapy! not the retail sort....

Rainy Days and Sundays

always get me down. (badly misquoting the Carpenters)

it's so depressing when I take ages to get to church and after 2 buses and 2 trains, i'm still late. and then, repeat 4 times every sunday. the journey really stresses me out. i estimate a total of about 5 hours every sunday spent feeling sick on the public transport network, bleah.

today was especially bad, because the jubilee line was down (again) and it started pouring after church so I was entirely drenched. I guess the lack of daylight makes it worse because when i was on the DLR going to church at 5+pm, the operator was asking some people if they had far to go before getting home, and i was actually travelling AWAY from home, knowing full well that I have to come back the same way. in the night, coming home after YF, it was freezing cold too, winter's just depressing. i also forgot to tap my oyster card when i got off the DLR today, so i incurred another £4.30 penalty charge on top of my already maxed out my day's travel (£6.30 or something like that?)in the 1st half of the day.

it's remembrance Sunday today, maybe it's meant to be a sober and sad day anyways.

i also don't really like having dinner at 10pm on Sunday nights and then sleeping late and starting Monday feeling really crabby.

therefore, i REALLY need to find a solution, and i need a solution fast. this is driving me crazy. every week i feel more and more like giving up.

in other news, work has been stressful too. it's appraisal season - i meant to write my appraisal over the weekend but never got down to it. there are also a million refinancings. why do all companies decide to do the same thing all at the same time, grrr. and project por cu pine flopped, it was just announced :(

3.5 more weeks to finish up for the year. come on Carol, time to man up. :( SO MUCH WORK.

Rainy days and Mondays will get me down-er. so it better not rain tomorrow!