Hiya J-land Peoples :-)
How are you all?
Just wanted to post a quick entry to remind you all that I am still around even if I'm not posting or reading at the moment LOL...........but also to say that once I've finished writing up about my travels I will be back!! Yes you read that right but don't get too excited. Oh........................ok then a little excitement is allowed ;-)
Till then..........take care peeps xx
Jen
Just a quick entry to let you all know that I'm ok :-) Thanks to those that have emailed/left comments.
I will come back at some point ~ just enjoying the freedom LOL................
I hope your all ok xx
Jen
This is a quick entry to let you know that I'm not feelin' the love with my journal at the moment so I'm taking a break from J-land!! At least for a week if not longer!!
At the moment I'm getting fed up with the whole thing and even had a discussion with Trina today about deleting it. I've deleted my private journal as I just didn't see the point in having that anymore!! You have no idea how close I came to deleting this one!!
For now though I'm not going to ~ I'm just gonna take a break and hopefully when I come back I shall feel the vibe for my journal and j-land again!!
Please don't leave messages of sympathy etc I don't want them............
Thanks for reading and your support
Jenny
I don't know whether to tell you about my weekend today or tomorrow!! Reason is I'm feeling miserable and appear to be shedding tears at anything. Earlier it was during the programme The Chase on BBC1 and just now it was during the Foo's Best of You. I have a feeling and I don't really wanna mention this here, but I will so you don't think I'm mad or something, but I reckon it's hormones!! It's not coz of the weekend coz Trina and I had a fab time :-)
I guess I shall have to type it tonight as I'm going on a course tomorrow afternoon to learn about Cardinus (blurgh) and I may forget items if I have to concentrate ~ which knowing me I won't LOL
Ok so let's start from the beginning........nope first things first the kettles just boiled LOL ;-)
Right that's the essentials ;-) Plan was I was going to Trina's Saturday and we'd see the Free and Bad Company tribute band. Wayne was going to stay at mine on the Saturday night as he was going to his brother's stag night!! So thinking I'm going down to Torquay for about 1.30pm we could do some shopping it would be a good laugh. Instead on Friday night I get a call from Mrs B informing me that she's working on Saturday now and that I would have to arrive later grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..................
So in the end I doss around the flat for the morning ~ can't be bothered to tidy, had told Wayne I wouldn't bother so he wouldn't have been expecting it lol.........Change the playlist on my MP3 player to Free/Bad Company songs and I head off to catch the 2.48pm. Not long out of the flat and walking to the station some bird poops on me EWWWWWW.........................It landed on my arm and splatted my trousers and shoes. Luckily I had a tissue with me so got rid of the worse of it!! Just couldn't believe it!! Couldn't risk going home to change so laughed it off and carried on towards the station. Supposed to be lucky anyway isn't it ;-)
The train was on time :-) I sat by the side opposite of the one that looks out over the sea. I always sit the sea side so I felt like a change. Feeling happy, I wanted to sing out loud with the Free/Bad Company stuff, I did restrain myself though lol Got in earlier than Trina would finish work so said I would walk to the harbour from the station. It was a nice walk, a bit chilly but I was happy :-) Mind you I usually am when I listen to my MP3 player.
Met Trina outside Debenhams and we make our way into town. We pop into a couple of the shops but can't find anything to spend my money on. Well I tell a lie, we went into Gilesports as they were having a closing down sale. Found THE most gorgeous pair of trainers. I live in trainers and adore my Vans and agree with the money my ex spent on them ;-) They've lasted me a long time but unfortunately squeak when I walk in them now. I still wear them, but need a new pair!! Not a cheap pair either, you spend the money and you get the quality I have learnt this!! They were a pair of Airwalks and they were black with purple bits on them, they were simply gorgeous. Unfortunately they only had them in a size 8 :( Misery set in!! (I'm size 6)
The shops were shutting by this point so Trina and I caught the bus back to hers. First we stopped at the chinese though :-) I had sweet and sour pork with egg fried rice. Hadn't had chinese for ages so it was very nice, whilst we ate we watched Bad Company in concert DVD. At about 10 to eight we had to leave. After a discussion of whether to wear our trainers or boots. Eventually we opted for boots, not sure if that was the right decision or not but I do feel more ladylike in my boots which is why I only wear them when we are going out at night.
(ooooo a song Cover'd starts with that made me smile briefly:-) Anyhoo we caught the bus into town and then one to Paignton. The gig was at the Lime Tree where we had seen Morph the weekend before. We were both a bit apprehensive about what the night was going to entail. The pub was packed, more so then when Morph played, so there was no seats left, which was fine by me as I had envisaged us standing at the bar. Trina was not amused as her feet were killing her.
There were people mingling around on stage and I mentioned to Trina that I thought one of them looked 'alright', she agreed but figured they were probably roadies and the band were actually the older, hairier lot that were sat down behind us LOL..........We were a bit bored so started to watch Joseph on the TV screen behind the bar. The 'alright' guys came and stood near us when they were getting a drink :-) One bloke entered the bar and Trina mentioned that it looked like the Morph's sound man. I couldn't be sure as I had spent the majority of the gig looking at his back. Not long after the singer from Morph came in. Trina figured this band scene of the South West was a bit incestuous!!
Eventually the band Free&Co went on stage and the 'alright' guy was one of them, in fact he was the guitarist!! The singer was awesome, he didn't look like he was gonna be but most give credit where it is due and he is really good!! The crowd started off very quiet and only really seemed to get into it when the well known stuff like Alright Now, Wishing Well, Feel Like Making Love and Can't Get Enough was played. Trina and I were certainly making up for the rest of them though ;-) Whenever we didn't know the lyrics we just made some up like for example "Brian's coming to Exeter" (Yep that is right people according to my fanclub mag BRIAN MAY is coming to MY hometown WOOHOOO, anyway major tangent lol), Trina and I had both worn our Paul Rodgers tour t-shirts. Trina was lucky as her hair covered the name etc........I kept my coat on thinking how sad I was to have worn it but eventually I got too sweaty so had to take it off LOL.............Trina was getting chatted up by some drunk bloke, whose misses was with him!! and I got asked who Paul Rodgers was!! So I told them and Trina mentionedhow sad I was for wearing the t-shirt, that made me feel better..........order another round of drinks LOL
The band took a break and we stayed by the bar. None of them came over to us which is what I thought they would considering the damn t-shirt LOL..........instead it was just the two of us bitching about the Morph guy and stuff...............
Second half started off with ones people knew so there was a lot of people up dancing. Eventually I convinced Trina that's where we should be and we headed to the front :-) Also managed to find an empty seat so I sat there as Trina didn't want to and the band played Movin' On. I had heard that song earlier on my MP3 player and I sung along to all the words. The singer had noticed this, pointed at me, smiled and gave me the thumbs up sign tee hee hee...............That was more like it!!
The rest of the gig was great but we were very wary of the fact we had to catch the last bus. Eventually they finished at about 11.20pm, we had to go at 11.30, but not before we had said something to the band. The singer was making his way past but I stopped him and said it was awesome. He mentioned that I had been singing all the way through and knew all the words :-) So we made a point of pointing out the t-shirts. He asked me where I got it from like some website or another, I was like no, we saw him live last year. He couldn't believe it and said that we should talk to the drummer as he would be totally jealous. Apparently he had not seen him live. At some point the 'alright' guy was approaching and the singer said something to him and he stopped and chatted to us. Not only that but he hugged me :-) *BIG MASSIVE GRIN* To this moment I still don't know why he hugged me but I was on cloud nine thinking YES lol.............Apparently Trina's jaw had dropped lol
He was a really nice guy too :-) A fantastic guitarist and we told him so, but he played that down!! He hadn't seen Paul live either and was dead jealous that we had lol................When he went to leave coz we had to catch our bus (really didn't want to!!) he touched me on the arm!!
We made our way out of the pub and the singer said 'bye girls thanks for coming' and that was that. An amazing night and I'm sooooooooooooooooo glad I went LOL
Didn't really sleep that night, mind you I am not used to cats and they were making a lot of noises so that freaked me out!! Useless me.............
Perhaps I'm miserable coz I'm sleep deprived who knows.......................
Well that was our weekend ~ today we crashed out in front of the TV watching Power Ballards on the music channels. Next weekend I'm off to Torquay again to baby sit the devil spawn and his brother, that should be fun but probably won't come close to the weekend I've just had tee hee hee
Speak to you during the week xx
I believe this tag is by Heather (thank you xx) - link is in the links section peeps :-)
Grrrrrrrrrrr.....................
That's how I felt today at the end of work!! I've decided that I wanna write an entry just to let off some steam!! Please bear with me lol ;-)
For the last two days at work I've been on my own as P is still on holiday (although this has been changed to sick leave :-( ) and the team leader took a couple of days off too. We are still working through the accounts and I felt stressed before I even got there yesterday.
I spent the whole day on the phone trying to answer queries but not doing so well. My confidence was taking a knocking. I knew I could answer them but the answers weren't coming into my head quick enough for me. I got through the day but I think I could've done better.
Today has gone from bad to worse but only because of the damn Pension Service. As we deal with the elderly, we have to deal with the Department for Work and Pensions on a weekly basis. We become appointee for their benefits for some clients and trying to get the benefits paid to us and the right bank account is such a hassle.
For example: One client, there has always been problems with paying so we are becoming appointee to make this easier on all parties concerned. We received a letter in the post to state that they have made us appointee but they are paying the money into a bank account which isn't ours. So I ring them and say hang on a minute, don't pay into that account change it to ours. The woman I spoke to first was quite willing to change the account but as soon as I mentioned this payment she said I had to speak to someone else.
They rung me backand said they couldn't do anything as they did not have any paperwork to state that payments should go into a different account. Now this is where i get wound up!! At the end of the day someone, somewhere has received our application which includes our bank account details, as they are sending correspondance to us!! So I said I would get back to them. Later that day luckily for me ;-) The rep called asking what was going on but he has reinstated that he is happy for us to become appointee as he is going abroad and it would make life easier for everyone concerned!! *phew* but grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..............
The next run in with the DWP was a client which we completed the application for back in January. P has had so many run-in's with them regarding this client. So I just decided to do a routine call and find out what was happening. I was told that the previous appointee has told them she wishes to remain (which is a load of c***) and they aren't going to do anything. What is even worse is they told me we might have to reapply if we want our application to be considered!!
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....................................
I just can't believe it ~ how incompetent is one organisation. I often think we are pretty rubbish but compared to the DWP we are a walk in the sunshine!!
Another thing that's been winding me up is my neighbour!! Both nights I have been woken up by them. The first night it was about 5.15am and they were coughing or that's what it sounded like. Last night it was 4.30am and they had just turned out a light in what I'm guessing was the bathroom!! How supersensitive is my hearing..........they then proceeded to have their coughing fit grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...............
I really wanna go up there and ask them to visit the loo before going to bed coz then they wouldn't have to get up.
I don't really have much else to say I just need to get things off my chest otherwise I could continue to be angry grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...........
At least I have a gig to look forward to on Saturday. When we were at the Lemon Tree seeing Morph, Trina and I saw a poster for a Bad Company/Free tribute band. I had actually forgotten about it, but Trina is having a go at me to not forget as she is looking forward to it. Well I've told you lot now so I can't forget lol
I think I shall leave this here..............probably said too much but who cares? My blog ~ my rules ;-)
I think Emmi gave me the sig ~ Link in the links section xx
*PLEASE NOTE THIS ENTRY WILL BE SLIGHTLY TINGED WITH UTTER SADNESS ~ BE PREPARED!!*
Thanks for the comments to the last entry ~ some came a bit too late but the people that said I'm young and should be enjoying myself were so right and here's what I did with my bank holiday weekend :-)
Saturday I got up leisurely, came online and played some games of bejewled (addicted to that I am ;-) and went to catch the train to Torquay at 12.53pm. It was about 6/7 minutes late but who cares lol..............Wayne picked me up on his own as Trina was at home making sandwiches, apparently we might go out and therefore we needed food.
When we got to theirs Trina enquired as to where we would like to go whilst we had teas and coffees. I mentioned the story of Kitty's grave (remember I told you about it last week), well Trina googled it on her phone and we found the location. Wayne also googled other legends on Dartmoor and found one about a farmer and his dogs (or was it sheep I can't remember??!!) Well they had been out one night and a witch came along and frightened them and turned them into stone. This was hound-tor. So we went to Dartmoor. I haven't been there since I split with my ex, and I missed going there so I was looking forward to it :-) We listened to Queen on the way there.
Trina kept mentioning she could see bunnies out by the road but by the time she mentioned them I couldn't see them. Wayne slowed the car right down, it was very amusing but possibly a little dangerous. We stopped once we reached Hay-tor. I had been there before I remember sitting on the rocks eating sandwiches with the ex. Trina wanted to take a pic of the ponies we had just gone past.
Awww look at the little one :-) Ponies Trine ;-) We had some of our sandwiches and continued on. We ended up at Widecombe in the moor ~ quaint little place in the middle of nowhere. We went into one of the gift shops and browsed through all the books to see if it said where Kitty's grave was but nothing. We had to buy something after that and I brought Trina a snow globe with Dartmoor Ponies in it lol...........(don't worry in~joke kinda thing lol)
Wayne asked in the National Trust place where the grave was and got directions from a woman who Trina says looked at his legs LOL...........He was wearing shorts that day ;-)
So we followed the directions and although the lady said two miles it felt more but eventually we found it. There were people already looking at it so we waited till they left but had to get out of the car eventually to make them leave .............that sounds bad but that's not what I meant if your following me here!! So we went and looked and an elderly couple came along at the same time. They explained the story although we already knew. It was quite sad to visit it and a strange feeling.
Couldn't tell you which was the fresh flowers placed that day. The white ones were fake!! I would love to know why people left money on the stone though!!
Anyway after a while we went back to Hound-tor and clambered over the rocks for quite a long time. It was such a good laugh and I wish I could show you the pics that we took up there, the view is amazing!! I could've sat there all day except the wind was a bit cold lol..............Unfortunately all pics you are seeing were taken on Trina's mobile and it won't send me the ones I actually want :( (sadness part 1)
To make up for it here is one of me, when we stopped to look at the ponies, I stood on a rock and said here I am on the tallest rock LOL
Tee hee hee
When we decided to leave the tor, Wayne and I ran down the hill, it was so much fun :-) See I'm a big kid at heart!!
We went back to theirs and had fish and chips for tea. In the evening we went to the Lime Tree in Paignton to see Morph. They were good but not as good as I remember!! The singer is a good singer, just doesn't have a deep enough voice for the songs he sings. The funniest moment (although we spent most of the evening playing footie with my labels from the bottles of Bud I was drinking ;-) came when the band mentioned they were going do a bad company song. I went woohoo but I had my back to them, they looked round and Trina was clapping her hands together like a seal waiting for some fish. It was so funny but she found it highly embarrassing!!
The pub seemed like a good one, they were playing some good tunes and even had a Freddie pic hangin on the wall that I couldn't stop staring at all evening!! Here it is but it's a bad quality pic so I do apologise!!
That is freddie honestly ;-) Take it from one who knows LOL
We got back and watched some weird Stephen King film called Cats Eye. Never heard of it before but very odd!!
Sunday we didn't get up that early but decided we couldn't be bothered to go out and as the weather turned nasty it was probably a wise decision. We watched some tele and then I suggested a game of Monopoly as they already had it out. I played the part of the banker (they had the credit card version) and it was so cool :-) We were all bitching at one another and back stabbing. It was funny. Wayne won in the end and I came 2nd.
About 4ish we left for Exmouth and to see Cover'd (sadness part 2). We eventually get to the Phoenix and can hear them playing so we are freaking out thinking we are late, and can't find anywhere to park arrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhh. We do at one point but it's miles away from the pub :( Luckily though the band had only been doing a warm up so we hadn't missed anything. The pub was busy and we couldn't get near the stage or even see a thing, unless I stood on tiptoes, but I was determined to have a good time.
The band were on fine form but they kept saying it was their last gig at the phoenix ?? Why we asked ourselves.................so I asked the singer during the break. They are splitting up :( MAJOR SADNESS ~ We finally find a band worth following in the southwest and have only known them for 6 months and this was their last gig apart from one on July 6th which we have to pay to go to!! Imagine if we had missed this one ~ how gutted would we have been?? Doesn't bear thinking about!!
R.I.P Cover'd :(
They played 3 sets in all and all the good songs it was such a blast!! What annoys me the most is when people wanna stand in front of you and they just stand there and don't move. Well that was happening to us pretty much all night grrrrrr........ Until they played Basket Case. A couple of the people who we see at pretty much all the gigs were jumping up and down and made me join in with them, so I got Trina and Wayne to do it too, it was so much fun :-) Then the people in front started moving LOL............They realised they were clearly missing out on something.
One of the guys from Morph was there and joined the band on stage for Gay bar. Some bloke came on stage for two Bad Company songs :-) and the guitarist we saw at Xmas joined them on stage at some point too. It was such a good gig and I wish I could describe it so much better for you to understand how good it was.
All I can say though that last night when I got home my ears were ringing so much but I was so happy. Cover'd will be sorely missed and I just hope we can find a band to replace them with!!
Today my neck hurts but I haven't really done anything, watched some TV and tried to read some alerts ~ I'm behind again hey, ho!!
Well that's it my weekend ~ tinged with sadness but a blimin' good one none the less ;-)
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