Weekend fun

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Bellisin and Rosi visited this weekend (friends from EQ, used their character names to maintain their privacy) which was cool 🙂 We had some food at ours on Friday with them and Simes, went shopping on Saturday and then went to the cinema and had Mexican on Sunday.

X-Men 3 was ok, better than the second, different to the first one.  Certainly darker, less ‘fluffy’ than the first two, but too many holes to be a brilliant movie.  Enjoyable although slow paced in parts, especially for those new to the franchise.

Back to work tomorrow (boo) for four days (yay) and then Live Action Roleplaying for three days (yay) and a day recovering (yay) and then back to work (boo).  So a boo-yay-yay-boo kinda time ahead.

House!

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Another full car load of stuff cleared out of the house last night.  Mostly CD cases which we don’t need, some video’s we’ll never watch and a bunch of craft stuff we’re never going to get around to using.  Some more boxes, some paper, some random junk, some random computer junk.  I can’t believe how much stuff we’ve thrown away and how much stuff there is still to go through.

Where was it all!

It’s like we’re living in the Tardis, every time we clear another car load, we look and the room is STILL full of stuff.   However, at least we’re making progress, and we did manage to hang up the LRP costume in a cupboard for the first time in its entire life history.  We’re slowly collecting some stuff for e-bay as well, buffy top trumps, lord of the rings cards, magic the gathering, a large air-con unit and various other bits.  Spent about 15 minutes last night trying to photograph the buffy top trump cards and failing miserably.  Either need a better digital camera or I need to work out what I’m doing wrong.  Oh well.

loan shmoan

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it’s gone.
paid.
finished.
closed.
ended.
complete.
no more.
resolved.
fixed.
terminated.
returned.

today was the last payment on my 7 year loan.

i’m ridiculously emotional about it.

Tirranun – Trounced

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These posts are archives of forum / blog entries I made on my EverQuest guild website. The website won’t be around forever, and I wanted the posts all in one place so I didn’t lose them, this blog seemed like as good a place as any.

Not looking so happy and smug NOW are you Tirranun. Amazing work from *everyone* tonight, Tirranun fell to the TNF raid force on our 3rd attempt. Perfect execution, grats to those that won loot. TNF’s first DoN dragon and arguably most challenging encounter so far. Grats also to Enchy and Swifit who took one step closer to their epics.

So it begins

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Full car load of stuff just went to the local tip. Several black bags of paperwork, old casette tapes, boxes, bags, boots, magazines, etc., etc., etc. The back bedroom is looking MUCH clearer. Still full mind, but a hell of a lot better than it’s been since we moved in. There’s a serious risk of being able to see the floor in all 3 bedrooms *at the same time*.

Caught Up!

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So we’ve caught up with friends, Andy, Chris & Christine, Sarah & Michael after about 2 years. We’ve promised them it won’t be another 2! We’ve booked Maelstrom as well, so if you knew us from the Omega LRP campaign you should see us at Maelstrom in June.

We’ve spent a week or so now seeing friends, sorting Maelstrom, testing reading some stuff for David Gemmell, getting out of the house, sorting the back bedroom, picking up one or two other DIY bits and pieces and generally moving our life forward a bit, which is a little unusual. It’s meant less time in EQ than normal but I can’t think of a psychologist on the planet who would describe that as bad. We’ve probably burned ourselves out a bit on life and I should think we’ll be a bit busy in EQ for a few days catching up with those friends.

I may try and fix the clothes rail in Grete’s wardrobe tonight if I get time, have to see how I feel, generally really down at the moment, not sure of any specific cause other than my usual ‘worrying about everything related to money’ thing.

Root of All Evil

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Money, it’s true.

So we decide we’re going to go to Maelstrom, if we’re careful with cash we’ll be ok. Then we remember about the Car so that’ll hurt, but that was going to hurt anyway. And then my monitor at home starts playing up, looks like the start of a slow death, so there’s another £100-£200 we’ll need. Then parts of the bedroom start falling down (clothes rail) and I shouldn’t imagine it’ll be much to fix, but when you’re me and you’re already worried about everything[tm] and money mainly, it’s just ‘another thing’ to add to the growing list.

(Including the rotting woodwork around the front door frame on the house, and the rotting woodwork near the back door and the rotten decking).

/sigh