Sorry for the extended absence - like I said last week Y was down for an extra day because of the rail strike on monday. it was an extra day that was gratefully received :) We had a fantastic and silly time - and now I'm getting very excited about his birthday. Let's just say that I'm considering kidnapping the presents I've bought him! He left this morning as I went to work and I miss him terribly. We'll have been together for three years on April 14th. They've been the happiest three years of my life :)
I've spent the day hoping that there would be some interesting April Fools somewhere but none emerged and I haven't got the energy to come up with any myself. I also spent the day puzzling over the English language for some reason. It started when I found an old dictionary at work, which thought it was being overly-clever by putting 'Dik-shun-eri' under the title to show the pronounciation of it. If they decided to put the phonetic spelling of the bloody word itself on the cover then why, I wondered, are words not written the way they are said?
I've never, ever questioned it before, you know. I just accepted it the way every kid at school does that 'they' is spelt with an 'e', even though it's pronounced 'thay' and so on. I never wondered why. But now I think about it, it's really rather pointless. I mean, who on earth sat down in the first place and said, "Hmm, I know - why don't we do something really clever and not spell words the way they are said!" Perhaps it was the first ever April Fool. A really funny joke that would last for all time. I know words and language have evolved but why hasn't anyone reviewed the situation?
And another thing - who invented silent letters? Who decided that a knife was so sharp that an 'N' alone was not enough to start the word? And what the hells with the word 'Gnome'?? In fact, what's with gnomes in general?!
Hmm. Anyway, that's my question for the day. Work was odd today - one of those complicated days where everything seems so far fetched that you end up laughing over every event. I saw Running Man with all his shopping bags, screaming onto the platform and almost missing his train this morning. I also got molested by a not-very-well-trained guide dog which was less than pleasant. Now I'm home, exhausted, missing my sweetheart and trying to catch up with all I've missed. Emails had stacked up and my buddy list was so full of redness that it looked like it had been on the sunbed too long. I feel like I've fallen years behind. Time moves so fast online.
I was unimpressed by a bulkmail I received titled; "Are you Feeling a Bit Tired?" Am I? Well, yes. I got one last week titled "Guess Who's Gay?" - do I have to? Is this a legal requirement? But I did laugh at one for viagra which stole a product's tagline and used it to great effect - "The Quicker-Picker-Upper!" Heh heh....
But all this aside, I've just had a wonderful weekend. It was absolutely full of stupidity and naughtiness. We had a couple of days out and a couple of days of just laying and resting. We watched a lot of videos - everything from Mallrats to out-takes of Bottom and Red Dwarf, to the whole of Bob & Rose, which I'd wanted to show Y for ages. I made a poor attempt at pretending to be straight, to which Y responded by trying to make me fall in love with Tom Hanks (the closest thing to hand was a video of The 'Burbs) and I invented various terms of faux-affection for people and objects by addiling 'licious' on the end.....
We also discovered that after years of disliking them, there *are* pictures in existence that make us fancy Jennifer Lopez and Britney Spears - this is perhaps the biggest shock we've ever had! At what point did Britney lose that rubber, giraffe neck?! It seems to have gone now! I also showed Y the fantastic celebrity tattoo website I found a few weeks back. We launched a mean email attack on an unsuspecting Kass, because it's the law :) Oh, and there was some wonderful sex as well.....
The only downside of the weekend was feeling so bloody exhausted and my throat being unbelievably raw. And god, the size of the mouth ulcers I have at the moment... it puts the one on the stupid advert to shame. Ugh. At least I wasn't bleeding. I've started taking the pill again so i'm expecting it to argue with the remains of the deop for a few weeks before it settles down. Fingers crossed things will get back to whatever passes for normal after that.
Anyway, for now I'm just too tired to write any more and I have an anniversary present to complete :) I'll be back soon with tales of evil new computers and apologetic helplines!
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