Stuff

I'm bidding on a tent on ebay!!!!

If I win it, we'll have to camp! Though have to say getting into the whole festival vibe and the more I think abour ithe more I want to be at Litchlake for the last GP at the Stone! The tent is pretty amazing and I have bid the asking price for it so I won't be surprised if I'm seriously out bid on it but if I can get it for 35 quid then it will be a bloody bargin!!!

Other than this life is fine and dandy... work is stressfull but hey whats new? counting down the weeks to Silverstone now and am really ridiculously excited about going (you'd think I'd never been before) and keep thinking about the P and W word. There are some luscious pics of Jensie Baby in this months F1Racing and they are talking about his chances at SS,so couple that with my excitement at actually having the driver I support doing well, it no doubt menas he'll have a shocking race and some numpty like LLPOF will win it (yes Steph and I probably were the only 2 people boo-ing him last year)

Right home to Mum's for lunch, been very good this morning and swam just over 900m. Still don't seem to be getting any thinner though! Think I will have to up the ante - you never know who you'll bump into swhilst you're wandering around... (makes mental note to text Jade and find out if Carl is racing that weekend and if she is going, would be great to meet up, great if he could blag us into the paddock.... sigh... in my dreams)

Yup at work all weekend! I can't complain too much though as I only have a week to go before I have just over a week off. Still, as the weather is good, I'd much rather be sitting in my back yard with my nose in a book, just relaxing. Work has been quite stressed this week too which hasnt helped really. We've effectively had to do 2 layouts in the space of a week, which hasn't been fun!!!Well 3 if you count the mini layout we did before Easter. RI doesn't really give me too much cause for complaint but this week has been tough and I'm counting down the days til my hols now.

What has been really funny this week is everyone who has visited the shop (ie: security guards, manitenance guys) have all come up to me and gone, leading the championship then... I still think it's hilarious that everyone knows I'm a JB fan and I mean everyone - even regular customers!

There isn't much else to say - Rach is going to try and set me up with this chap she knows who s meant to be quite a catch, though she was quite reluctant. I did say it wasn't her fault that Jamie just couldn't see what a lovely person I was. I was quite impressed at how cool I was about it - the therapy obviously helped!!!!!

Against the odds Jensie won!!!

It was a 3 biscuit race which means it was quite stressful. Jens drove beautifully though and I of course worried about nothing. Booked my ticket for Silverstone this afternoon, couldn't resist the temptation, just praying that I can actually have the weekend off now!

Really need to get writing this afternoon but don't really have the energy or the inclination. I did manage to do a wee edit on chapter 1 last night, just altering a few things here and there but need to do the same for chapter 2 and finish chapter 3 only got a couple of paragraphs to finish, then I can send it to be beta-d. Pleased with how it's going though and have managed to write about 15,000-ish words so far, don't think I've ever written that much before. Then I have to get my head round chapter 4, got some good ideas but not really sure how I'm going to execute it. I will get there soon though.

Right I need food, so am going to eat then will edit chapter 1 and finish chapter 3... I will! I must! I won't watch the re-run.... I won't watch the re-run... I won't watch the re-run.... yeah I will watch the re-run!!!!!!!!! That smile is too cute to resist!!

I have PMT and been in a really crappy mood all day - so much so that I succumbed to an icecream sorbet this afternoon. So a bit cheesed off with that. I'm also tired which doesn't really help.

Last night I went to the Ladies Circle annual general meeting. Blimey it was long winded!! It didn't help that I didn't have a clue what they were talking about most of the time. Plus this woman from Spalding really wound me up by having a go at Rachael's book keeping abilities! I very nearly said something to her. I very nearly decked her!!! Which wouldn't have been a good idea at my first area meeting. Was really cheesed off at how late it finished too, we sat there at 10:45pm thinking bloody hell when is this going to end. I have to say, I don't think I'll go to another one unless I have a day off the next day! The area handover is whilst I'm on holiday so that will be fine!

Anyway, I'm meant to be going out tomorrow night but don't think I can really afford it. Actually that's a lie, I can sort of afford it but at the moment I'm in such a shitty mood that I don't think I can be arsed! Maybe if I get a good nights sleep tonight I'll be more inclined tomorrow!!!!!

On a completely separate note, how cool is it that free practice is on the red button!!! I'm at work so Steph I'm relying upon you to support Jens on my behalf!!!!!

I have a day off today so as well as doing lots of uninteresting stuff (sorry but I simply cannot view taking crap to the rubbish dump as exciting)I've got lots of time to sit around and write (yay almost finished chapter 3 of novel) I've also laid in bed musing on life the universe and everything. Well I say life the universe and everything, it's mainly been musing about F1.

I have to say most of the time I try not to think about Lewis Hamilton (or Liarliar Pantsonfire as he is now known in my house)but was thinking over the whole lying thing and was trying to work out what it is about him in particular that makes me so teeth clenchingly angry. And came up with this...

Had it have been Michael he would have squared his shoulders and said, without a hint of remorse 'I did whatever I did to win the championship.' We'd all hate him for it but he wouldn't care because he knew the reasons why he did something and believed in his mind that it was the right thing to do, even if the rest of the world didn't see it that way. Alonso I suspect would do much the same thing. Jens would apologise, go 'yeah I know I'm an idiot but remember when it comes to being an idiot I have form' and would then remind everyone of Honda/Williams/Honda and a not so small dent in his personal fortune. Kimi would shrug his shoulders say, 'so what? Ban me' and then go off and snow board for the rest of the season.

The thing with LLPOF is that he doesn't have the balls to stand up as Michael would have done and take the crap that the world will now throw at him. He has (or his father has) this thing where he has to been seen as'the perfect black role model'. He has passed the buck to someone else and made an embarrassing cringey apology that no one believes. If it had been me I think I would have rather stood up and gone, 'yeah I know it was silly but I thought at the time I was doing the right thing, I can see now it wasn't. I apologise to the FIA, to Mclaren and to Jarno and will accept any punishment.' Instead he's going to go in to this hearing and say I did what the team told me to do, which is him trying to say, I want you to forget the quite intelligent articulate young man that you've seen interviewed over the last two seasons and believe that I am an idiot who doesn't have a mind of his own. In all seriousness will the FIA believe that? I wouldn't! And would you really want people to believe that? Rather stand up for what you think was right or admit to the mistake not blame everyone around you..

I'm not sure where I was going with this ramble, there seemed to be a point to it when I started it. So there you go my take on LLPOF, now I really should type up the rest of chapter 3 then get up and take stuff to the dump, pay bills and do other ...stuff, for want of a better word!