And I said what about breakfast at Tiffany's?

Alot has happened since my last blogg, I have turned 20, visited the zoo and seen many VERY cute animals, continued to work and make pizzas for a living and plod along with my driving lessons. I've seen the ending of the first series of Gossip Girl, so now I'm seeking something to fill the gap of Queen B-have you seen what she's wearing-craziness that it was. It was nice to see Michelle Trachenburg in something less sweet and innocent too :)

Richard and I have hit a snag with our move to Lancaster. Apparently the ASDA in Lancaster hasn't got any vacancies. Which means he currently has no job there. Rather worrying. We've got our fingers crossed that something turns up at ASDA. In the mean time we're working on a shiny CV to send people in Lancaster before we move. Not something we needed really.

Hopefully the lovely people in Merkinland hit by the earthquake are OK too. Jane that means you so poke me to show you're OK!!!

I was going to leave you with some zoo pictures but after poking around my laptop I found I haven't yet put them on here. Ooops, maybe next time :)

you know you love me xoxo

I can't decide if you should live or you should die

Another break in the blogging but I'm sure you will forgive me. I've been plodding my way through a 35 hour week, and all but 5 hours of that is done :) It hasn't been too bad, but I'm very very glad next week I've just got my contracted hours and that's it. I need the sleep, the bags under my eyes are huge! Being up at half six when your body isn't used to it isn't fun.

Other than work I've continued the grand sort out of my bedroom and list a fair bit on ebay. So far I've raised nearly £45, which should go someway towards a Channel silk scarf or some other treat (and if it's the Channel it's a Treat with a capital T). The only thing I've used my hard earned pennies for is an academic diary because try as I may I can't find ANY in the shops below £3. And yes, I am a cheap skate. I'm a poor student.

Last night was a staff pub quiz held at Madison's Wine Bar, (local readers will know where that is). I've not been in Madison's since it's revamp, and might not have been in prior, but it was never painted in a shiny lovely light really. I must say it is lovely inside, and rather than a loud raucous pub, it seems to be a lovely place to go for a quiet drink.
As for the quiz my team consisted of myself, Richard, Richards work friend Colin, and my work friends Katie and Jane. Unfortunately for Katie and myself the questions were very much aimed at the 35+ audience, so we knew very little, but Colin and Richard seemed to have it all pretty much covered. Overall we came third, beaten by the managers team, (who I don't doubt knew at least some questions prior) and the home shopping team, which had 2 geniuses on it. So not bad, and it was brilliant to see Katie again, I haven't seen her since Easter properly.

Now before I go I want you all to close your eyes and wish for nice weather this weekend. Preferably Saturday. It's my birthday you see and I want to go to the zoo. I can't go any other weekend because Richard won't be able to get another weekend off for about six months. (One weekend off in four my arse)
Thanks for the weather help in advance :)

And the results are in....

Well folks, I got my results and you can all rest easy now.

I PASSED!!!

With a 2.1 :)

Don't I just kick ass sometimes?

He smiles it's like the radio

Well tomorrow I get my results. I'm not thinking about it too much really. It's after :) Hopefully it won't take too long to get them online. It better not.

Not alot is new with me. Been to see Hancock, Will Smith is gorgeous as ever and I rather didn't expect the plot. Nice to see him doing something more grown up, I still recall the Fresh Prince days. Went with Chrish, Jess, Liz and her friend Dan. Then to Frankie and Bennys, which is the first time I've eaten a full meal there. Nice, can't fault the service but I rather feel the prices are a bit much. It was a good night though, much fun was ahd by all AND I didn't walk into the wrong toilet this time.....

I'm pretty much all unpacked from uni, aside from a bag of shoes which I really don't have anywhere to put. I'm slowly sorting everything out, ebaying as much of it as possible, but plenty is still heading to the charity shops.

And as for my favourite topic, Richard, well things are wonderful as always. We marked 11 months yesterday :) Possibly the best 11 months of my life. Certainly don't know what I'd do without him.

I should head to bed now, I don't know whether I'll be crawling out of bed very early to watch for results. I can see much pressing of the F5 key

Shes like a dreamer in a dungeon or an angel in a cave

Well I have a new haircut, the fringe has been altered slightly but I don't quite know what it looks like till it's dried and straightened. Hopefully not a mess. My layers are back in, which helps it curl nicely but it doesn't feel like there is much hair on my head right now. Eeek.

I actually managed to get another theory test paper done, AND more importantly didn't fail it. It's all about learning to think as a driver, which may be all common sense but I do kinda lack that. I'm wondering that if I just book a test for a few weeks off I'd be able to make myself ready for that. After a year of constant deadlines and revision I'm struggling to make the effort to revise for this.

Richard was lovely and sweet, he found an extra tenner in his coat pocket and presented me with a Meat Loaf CD when he arrived at work. Most of it I've already got, but it's the thought that counts. And it is nice to be treated. Bless him :)

I have to be up earlier than normal for work tomorrow so I shall bid thee goodnight :)
Hope you're all well my friends.

Baby On Board

Greetings from the world of Claire : ) How are we all? All well?Oh good. Things are good with me too, I'm working a fair bit this week and trying to see as much of Richard as I possibly can.

And having driving lessons. Still plodding along with them. Defiantly improving but that's about it really. I need to find the time to revise for my theory test but between work, Richard, sorting out my room and everything else I don't seem to have enough time to get any done. I WILL do some tomorrow I WILL do some tomorrow.

As always things with Richard are wonderful. I'm currently resisting the temptation of a letter he has in his locker from my MUM! Given how he's been taunting me with it I suspect it's something to do with my birthday but I don't know. Richards giving nothing away and I don't want to probe mum in case I ruin any surprises. If anyones got any ideas what its all about, answers in a comment box please :)

Oh joy, BBC is running a news article on the Churches views on homosexuality. There was a very interesting article on it all in New Scientist the other week, apparently there is a remarkable amount of evidence, both within our own DNA and other species, that being "gay" is perfectly natural. Wonder if all that information is in the same category as evolution?

This Innocence is Brilliance

God it's good to not have exams or work of any kind :) Well I've been at ASDA for a couple of days but given I still I haven't moved out booking lots of proper shifts is difficult. I've come back to Lancaster to clean my room so that this weekend we just have to pack everything up. Hell only knows where it's all gonna go when I get back....

Work has been fun, although a 7-12am shift on a Sunday is EVIL! On the one hand we don't have customers in the store till around 10.45, and can't serve till 11, so I just got to make pizzas for FIVE HOURS :) But then that half 5 start is horrid.....And trying to explain to a customer why we can't even take a pizza order before 11am is difficult. Trading Standards folks, it's the LAW, it's the same at Tesco, Salisbury's, Waitrose....if a staff member helps you before 11am they are breaking the law. But who cares anyway.
I have yet to work a shift with our little Mormon friend, she was supposed to work one with me but her name was crossed off later. I wonder why....could it be she realised that telling someone she'd like to beat me up only to find out she'd just slagged me off to an old friend of Richards wasn't her smartest idea. Honestly.

Meat Loaf was on The F Word :) He's such a funny guy :) I wonder if the mums who told their kid not to play with him cause he was too fat have any regrets.

And gawd I'm glad that Alex has gone from BB. I saw a fair amount during exam week, it's so mind numbing it was best before bed. But it's good to see the foul mouthed "women" gone.

Right I'm going to curl up in bed and watch crappy tv :) God I love freeview.

On another note *hugs to a dear friend. Deepest sympathies.

Done

I'm freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :) My exams are all done, and the last one went the best by far. It's all ecology stuff so just listening to the news can be revision. If you've got a good idea about Global Warming and stuff you're sorted. So after the manic this week has been I'm looking forward to relaxing a but. I'm going home via Manchester then to Richards today. I've got a couple of days work planned but not much really. My brain needs to chill out if not the rest of me :) In fact I should go really, I'm supposed to leave at half past. Tootles folks :)

And how did Claire not win The Apprentice???? So not right!!!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR stupid exams. The sooner they're over the better. I'm so stressed at the moment it isn't true. Saturdays exam was a disaster but it wasn't just me who flet that. The one today was much better. I'm going to take tonight off to rest my brain and try again tomorrow for the last exam.

I spent most of this evening helping my friend Hannah find her car. She parked it just off campus, where everyone parks and they towed it. Not just hers, they've started towing because people are parking there. Personally if there aren't any signs or double yellow lines then they shouldn't be just towing. Thankfully we know where the car is now, and her mum is going to help her get it back tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

It's raining hard in North Virginia Just Like London Town

It's raining. How summery :(

Since my last blog I have battled on with the revision, and surprise surprise that's where I'm off next. I'm at a point where I can start past paper questions. Trouble is, which theme. I don't want to start the ones for my first exam too soon, but then again I don't know if I should be starting them. Choices choices. I'm going back on Wednesday to revise and do some more of those psycology experiements. Booked another for Wednesday teatime :)

I have a driving lesson tomorrow which I am looking forward to lots. I so want to be able to drive. Once my exams are done I can start learning all my theory stuff :)

Guess I should go bury my head in revision.....eek!

*waves
YoooooHOooooo I'm still alive!

As Katie pointed out it's nearly a month without a blogg but with all fairness my degree tends to come first. I don't even get time to do all that further reading I'm supposed to do, so you really think I'm gonna blogg :P

So things have been pretty hectic this last few weeks. Currently I'm madly revising for my end of years, (and panicking about them), but in a couple of weeks that's all over and I can actually relax.

We've had further trouble with Mormon bitch, which wasn't rectified quite how we'd have hoped but on the upside she did get a formal disciplinary for bad language the other day. She is, frankly, less than lady like.

I've been to see Indiana Jones with Richard, and it is defiantly worth a look-see. Not a classic, someone should have reminded Spielberg and Lucas it isn't Star Wars. They did stick fairly well to the original formula though, although the violence seemed more hammed up (typical of to days slasher-horror fans). Harrison Ford is certainly still looking good for his age though, and I loved the nods to Marcus and his Dad.

Tomorrow I get to pretend I don't have exams and go and see Mastermind being filmed (again!) with Richard :) Should be fun, and the second date we've managed in a week.

And now I shall go back to the revising.....

So as Hutters just pointed out, people don't blogg enough so I'm not being a lazy moose and actually doing so. Trouble is, my course is so lecture based that after a couple a day, and frequently a 2-4 hour practicle I'm shattered. Then add in lots of other work and........well it doesn't happen. Today I didn't finish till 5.15. My course thankfully, gives us all the notes in the lectures, but we're still supposed to read the textbook. With what time I wonder :( However I have started reading New Scientist and noting articles that I can maybe mention in the exam. And there has been some revision done....a little.

I've enrolled for next years courses : cell biology, evolution and behaviour, genetics and medical microbiology. They should be rather fun.

And we've had the contract for our house next year. The only challenge will be decieding who gets what room. I'd quite like my own room, it's somewhere to store my stuff and work, so it makes sense if Richard and me had the large room and the smallest room located on the second floor. That leaves a large bedroom on the first, and the front room bedroom on the ground floor. Which is massive. There is talk of getting the downstairs bedroom turned into a proper living room, which would be brillaint, but would mean I'd lose my room.

Neways I shall go try and do my perception tests, one of which is impossible. *grumble

Back at uni from tomorrow. Nearly packed and ready to go back in that sense. In other senses I'm not really, the fact that I won't see Richard for a whole week is pretty horrendous but we're comforting each other with the knowlage that it's only for about 5 weeks. The year is pretty much over.

On a happier note, wasn't Doctor Who good? I think I rather love the Ood and did we all spot that thing that links in to the lst few episodes? And YAY for the Sontarns next week.

Driving lesson number two went very well, and it was actually lots of fun towards the end. Which is certainly going to help if I'm not dreading it!

Yay for new glasses! They arrived today and are all shiny and new. Were they worth £300? NO comment :( At least I can see a little better now.

I'm trying to figure out where the last four weeks have gone. I'm back at uni from Sunday which is going to be more bitter than sweet. I'm looking forward to all the excitment of three new modules, finsihing them all finnaly and picking next years but it brings separation from Richard and horrid summer exams. I haven't done any revision at all, but I've got tomorrow ear marked for that. If I can at least get some of the revision notes done things will be better. And as for not seeing Richard till weekends, well, I'm not thinking about that at all. It will suck.

My driving lesson last week went ok, the instructor is nice and I'm almost looking forward to my next lesson. Mum's car is comng up from Nannas on Thursday so it's all happening :) I have another lesson booked for Thursday so we shall see. It wasn't a complete disaster so that helps

Stay well folks and be happy xxxx

Ouchie that hurt my bank balence

Right unless I get distracted once I've blogged I'm turning the laptop off and going to remake those notes I need to finish my coursework. As the chances of getting distracted are pretty big we'd better make this quick.

On the "big" note, my glasses bill was huge. Not £100, not £200 but just over THREE HINDERED POUNDS!
And my right eye isn't any worse and the left has only got worse by one point, (unfortunately it is a vital point because things aren't so clear these days).
So yes, £300+ for new glasses and that's with a 20% discount for having my contacts from them as well. The frames were about £140ish so what made up the rest was my lenses. If I weren't so blind and didn't need uber-thinned fancy lenses I'd have much cheaper glasses. Nuts.
However the glasses are really really nice. I very nearly ended up with some Velma from Scooby Doo style purple ones but settled for some more professional metal ones. I feel rather science nerd in them, perfect for all my PCR reactions I plan to run :)

Tonight I get to go see my sister in some drama thing her club are doing. She did have a line as a king and mum spent ages making her a cape only to find the scene has been cut and now my sister isn't speaking at all and is a fairy. Big changes. As long as she's happy.

Currently I'm resisting the urge to snack. It's a strong urge but I should do some work and fight it. I did say I was blogging then working, but we have been to Tesco and back during it. OOoooppps.
Ok I AM going to do this work. Again.

I bet she's beautiful, that girl he talks about

Right a proper blog seems to be called for. A fair bit seems to have happened in the last few days, Richard and I went back to Lancaster for a few days and had a lovely time. It was brilliant to have the flat to ourselves, although 2 in a single bed is rather difficult.

Mastermind was brilliant, rather interesting, even if the large number of media students thought it was boring. I got the impression they'd never seen it before they went so hadn't a clue. John Humphrey's is lovely, rather funny when he wants and I had an urge to take him home and make him an honory grandparent.

I've managed to finish one piece of coursework today, although not the one I set out to do admittedly. I discovered I've left a bunch of notes back at uni, even more annoying as Richard was using that pad of paper for nerd letters and it never occurred to me that the notes were in it and I should bring it home! Which means I have to do it all over again. Bugger!

Things are still good with Richard. Yesterday I was in work for the first time in AGES without him being there too, and god it was weird. And boring, very very boring. People please buy your deli goods on a Monday, the store is DEAD! He did pick me up after work though and we spent the evening/night together. Friday and Saturday see the end of Torchwood and the beginning of Tennants last full series of Dr.Who. His excitement has rubbed off on me, I'm eager to see how they're going to explain this "daughter" they keep hinting about. Many seem to have forgotten the Dr. must already have a daughter, given his first regeneration pootled around with his granddaughter. See I am a nerd :)
And proud of it :)

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Ta chickens!

Hellooooo folks :) I'm home and rather happy about it. This week is my resting week before three weeks for making sure I have all my revision notes for the 12 modules I've done so far, finishing (and starting) my 2 practical reports, driving lessons and work. This week should be good. Richard has Tuesday to Sunday off so we're going back to Lancaster for a lovely week of a flat to ourselves :) Be nice to have some proper quality time together. He did spend the whole week with me the other week, but when I'm constantly zipping off to lectures it isn't really proper quality time.

Neways I have tickets for us to go see the MasterMind being filmed on Thursday in Manchester somewhere, which should be good. Unless we do anything else romantic that will be date number 4. Not bad for nearly 8 months together ;)

OOOOOOoo and we've got a house for next year. We officially signed for 79 Lune Street last Saturday, and it seems lovely. I'm glad it's done, a real weight off my mind, and Richards told his landlord here he's moving so thats all sorted. So as of September we will officially be living together :)
This is the house next door, so it's a bit like this but nicer
http://www.studenthousinglancaster.co.uk/property-search.php?property=294

I've done 3 more modules, which is a bit scary, there's only 3 more left this year. What's even more scary is I have to provisionally enrol online once I get back. So I spent alot of this week poking around on the Internet, looking at the modules for next year, their course descriptions and timetables and stuff. I think it's gonna be Genetics and Evolution and Behaviour for me. I really wanna do Genetics, and E+B is the only "ecology" module that seems to fit. I have to do 1 Anatomy style module and 1 Ecology style module you see. Once I've enrolled I want to speak to the lecturers about possibly volunteering in the labs at holidays seen as I won't be going home. I'd happily observe for free, it all builds up my CV for when I graduate.

Right must fly, time to visit Nanna and Grandpa.
Tootles folks xxxxxxx

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Bobbing Along

This is me killing time before my doctors appointment at half nine. Don't worry I'm not ill, it's all in aid of a repeat prescription.
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Right on to whats new with me. Well not an awful lot that I can recall. Mum has bought a car, or rather is being donated a car by a family friend. The idea being I can learn to drive it, and buy it off her if she can't afford to run it and I pass before September. This is all brilliant, it means once Mum is confident enough to drive she can let me practise as much as possible this summer. It would be much cheaper to buy it from her than a new car, especially as that would take nearly all of my savings. I think I'll offer to lend her the money for some lessons this Easter, the sooner she's driving it the sooner I can.

You all remember Mormon Girl, (when I say girl read bitch), from Counters at ASDA who tried to get Richard to cheat on me? Well she was up to her usual dirty tricks last weekend, telling Richard he didn't really love me and shouldn't be with me. He was forcibly removed from our department by her when he popped past to say hello. So we came up with out own little plan, we might as well have some fun with her jealousy. Richard talked to two of the more senior and older women on the department to check he was ok to wander past to chat or just say hello when it was quiet and they were perfectly fine with it. These women after all have watched our romance blossom :) The frequent visits from my other half worked, Mormon Girl was doing a good impression of the Incredible Hulk come the end of our shift. I'm not one for revenge but to try and persuade Richard he doesn't love me or should cheat on me? She's lucky she hasn't been slapped.* (Overall things are pretty good with us two, he's down for a whole week next week YAY)

Neways I better go and do lots of work. We've got dozens of house viewings today. The one I blogged about wasn't very nice but we've seen a lovely one I really like, but it's in a bit of a rough area. Still we've got plenty of time yet.

*don't worry we've planned ahead in the event she puts in a formal complaint. We'd easily have support from the other women Richard was doing nothing wrong AND we wouldn't think twice about repeating what she's said to Richard. Horrid creature, I don't quite understand where her good Mormon teachings are. WWJD?