The Importance of Being Idle

A Tale of Two Cities

Blimey, been a few days hasn't it? Okay, I'll fill you in...
Wednesday, after I'd signed on I went to see Ronnie, 'cos she'd taken a couple of days off work. Archie was having most of his teeth out on the Tuesday and she was worried that he was gonna be all grumpy, but he wasn't at all, if anything he seemed cheekier than ever, so we had the afternoon to ourselves and went for some nice walks in the country and got ourselves all tired. Then we stopped off at a pub/hotel combo where she used to work (and from where she used to call me to complain about her crap boyfriend!) for a drink and a quick bite to eat. It was cool to finally be in there, it was a place I kinda knew so well from all the time she'd worked there, and I'd heard her talk about it so often, so it was cool to finally put a place to it. We spent a fairly huge sum on the quiz machine in the bar too, and were generally rubbish! This does not bode well for our quiz night in a couple of weeks time! Then we went back to her parents house, and ended up curled up on her bed watching movies. Eventually though I had to come home, but really all I wanted to do was stay there, all snuggled up with her...
Not that I had to wait long! What with it being Easter and all, Ronnie wasn't working Friday so she came down Thursday night! She didn't get here till quite late, so once we'd had dinner we just curled up in bed with a movie.
Friday we had to find ways to entertain ourselves without money! Actually that's not too hard, even if we didn't leave the house there're tons of things here to do: games, movies, music - but we chose to spend the day applying for jobs and then re-arranging and tidying the living room! We moved a lot of the pictures around, put up Ronnie's geckos, and finally got rid of that nasty electric fire! It was weird, cos I've thought about it before, but it's only when somebody else is saying "Oh it looks like the wire comes straight out of the wall" that I can suddenly see the circuit and realise how easy it is to unwire the damn thing! So now it's down in the garage, and in it's place we've a lovely bed of beach stones and candles! We'd gone wandering out to the shops, so deciding we wanted to buy a ton of stones (okay, slight exageration, but they were way too heavy to carry home) wasn't our brightest idea, but luckily it was a nice day, so Ronnie could sit on a bench at the DIY store, out in the sun, while I rushed home to fetch the car! She spent the whole day wearing a pair of my jeans which were obviously massively too big for her, but also looked really hot on her too... The living room looks really nice now, combining elements of my stuff and hers, to make, well, ours! Sadly my washing machine pretty much exploded last night while we were washing the net curtains. It'd been a little hinky for a while, but nothing serious until last night when it was arcing and banging like a sonofabitch, but it was the triple explosion, and especially the smoke that made us finally decide to turn it off! Luckily I've got a landlords inspection on Wednesday, so I can get them to get me a new washing machine, and complain about a few other things that STILL need fixing! Just hope my clothes aren't too smelly by the time I get a new washing machine...
Sadly she had to come home early today cos she's been working this afternoon, and she's working tomorrow too, but Monday she's off and we're goin' to the seaside! Woohoo! I've wanted to go to the seaside for flippin' AGES, even if it is just for one day! Can't wait, which is a shame, 'cos I've really got to...

posted by BadMonkey @ 9:34 PM