Rant, Travels, Rant, Music

Hey all :o)  and big welcome to any new readers that have popped by lately, nice to see ya xx  Hope you'll come back again!!

Anyway so how are you?  Personally I'm okay.......had a misunderstanding with Trina on Tuesday, she thought that I was upset because of something, but I was upset coz of something else, it was silly really but hey, we're okay now and if she's reading a little note for her...........I'm sorrier than you are :oP lol............

Work, I swear is going from bad to worse and much much worser!!  Firstly this bloke whose like two desks away from me keeps opening the window.  Now I know they are only doing it to let some fresh air in but come on.......I'm freezing!!  I was thinking yesterday I may as well go to work in a Queen t-shirt instead of standing there every morning for five minutes trying to decide which top to wear coz when I get to work I have to put my jumper on anyway and nobody sees it anyway!!  The worst was yesterday when said blokie had gone out for a lunchtime walk, came back in and said 'ooo it's cold out there'!!!!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...........I just REALLY wanted to turn round and say yeah it b***** is in 'ere too mate......grrrrrrrrrr........I am really beginning to hate open plan offices!!  When they do our office reshuffle I want to be as FAR away from that end of the room as possible!!  I wouldn't be surprised if I didn't come down with something..............

Sorry I'm ranting..........once I get started though I can't stop.............watch out coz here comes another one............Yep more stuff about work.  The rumour I heard today is that although we have two teams at the moment A-J and K-Z, that is going to change and we'll all be one big happy family singing and dancing through the sunny days with our little buckets and spades (please note the sarcasm!!)  I can't work with them grrrrrrrr.....they are so slow and at the moment we are helping them out to make them work faster but it's crap......they don't seem to be doing anything differently like they should be doing!!  One of the blokes on that team writes notes like he's a school teacher and you have no idea what your doing!!  I've been there for what 3 years....how patronising of him...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...........

Sorry peeps I will calm down but I need to vent and i can't really do this in the office ~ a firm believer of keeping the peace regardless of how i feel most of the time!!  Anyway...onwards and upwards............

*spoken through a tannoy system* Ladies and gentleman.......as usual it's Wednesday night and here's what you've all been waiting for...............Travel Diary :o)

Well last week I said I was gonna start telling you about our mad two weeks in October but of course I meant November (thanks Trine lol) so here we go ~ Enjoy xx

FOO FIGHTERS - CARDIFF INTERNATIONAL ARENA - 13th NOVEMBER 2007

Unfortunately I had to work during the day but I was emailing a girl by the name of Claire pretty much most of the morning. She works for the same company as I do and she had posted a message on the intranet about her tickets not arriving. I had to email her about this mainly coz she was going to the same gig as us. Luckily her tickets were going to be on the door of the venue waiting for her, so she was told. So the excitement was building. I also kept receiving emails from Trina about who was taking the spare ticket. When this date was originally announced she brought four tickets, the usual three and someone Trina works with by the name of Simon. Unfortunately he had been messing Trina about with regards to whether he was going or not and the last minute plan was that another guy she works with by the name of Gareth was taking the ticket. Wayne and I were to meet them in the car park at 4pm.

So I left work at 4pm, as planned and pratically ran out of the door but remembered to say thanks to my colleagues. D asked why I had said thanks, I said it was because they were covering for me, the lady who was going to cover had rung in sick for two days, but the other team were happy to cover. Clearly they are not used to people being grateful!! Anyway got changed VERY QUICKLY and practically ran out of the building to the car park. Managed to find the car and everyone was in it waiting........So we were off, heading for Cardiff and shouting at every red light or person that got in our way. As we had standing tix and I was told it takes two hours to get there, I was paniced coz I was thinking of the queue and not being able to see etc.. We had a brief stop to get food, so we stopped at Burger King near Burnham. I couldn't believe how long the woman behind the counter was taking, it was beginning to seem like a conspiracy that we should never get there. I did voice my opinions quite loudly as did Wayne and Gareth but I think she was making a point of not going very fast after that!! Trina had gone to the loo whilst we were waiting and when she came back she said that she had leaned back on the seat and made it flush, as she had leaned against the flush. Very amusing!! Once we eventually got our food, we made our way back to the car to eat it and then on our way once more.

The traffic was fine until we got to Wales, trying to get into Cardiff was proving to be a bit of a nightmare. We entertained ourselves by taking the mick out of Gareth for his welsh roots and Trina who was trying to say something about it being a conspiracy that anyone who had a welsh flag in their car was going faster (there was one in front of us!!) We managed to find most of the right roads once we had got into Cardiff because of Trina's excellant directions and Gareth who was sitting in the front could find it all. Unfortunately we took a wrong turning at some point (there were traffic lights everywhere and needless to say they were dead set against us getting any further!!), and whilst we took this wrong turning the doors to the venue had been opened. I was panicing now coz I had actually wanted to at least try to get to the barrier. I had read online that the band were using a catwalk so there was plenty of barrier to use!! I was gonna miss out on it though, damn it!!

With the directions we went up one street and I started saying that the building to our right looked like the venue. I remembered it from the Queen Paul Rodgers gig two years ago. Trina couldn't even remember being there. I had to remind her about all the sleeping bags outside, how we had been the first to arrive and how Brian had mentioned on his website something about us camping out, which wasn't true at all we had just been cold that day!! So we had found the venue which was a good sign, we went to find a car park which didn't take too long and managed to find a space up on level 3!! Once out of the car we made our way down to the venue. Wayne, and I raced Gareth down to the bottom of the car park as he had decided to take the lift. Trina was trying to keep up with Wayne and myself, bless her!! We all got into the arena without any problems and went straight into the main hall. There was quite a crowd in there and I definitely couldn't get to the barrier so we got as close as we could. We were on the left hand side about half way up near to the catwalk!! At that moment there was quite a lot of room to manoeuvre but I kept trying to close the gap up. I was learning lessons from the 606 gig at V!!

As we were waiting for the support act to come on Trina and I discussed whether we should stay where we were or not, but I don't know why. When I looked around at the crowd that was building they were all taller than me!! It made me wonder if a tall gene was given out to everyone in Cardiff and surrounding areas. As it was I didn't have a great view but every now and then I could see a bit!!

Serj Tankian came on about 7.30pm (might be wrong with the times, so just ignore them). I had downloaded his album, knowing I was going to see him supporting the Foo's. I prefer knowing songs by the support acts rather than not coz if you don't it can get quite boring!! He played the two songs I know quite early on in the set and I think Wayne was quietly impressed I knew the words. Serj seemed to me to be a strange bloke, he's the lead singer for a band called System of A Down. He came on stage wearing a cream coloured suit complete with top hat. His band were all in black but also had top hats on which I thought was pretty cool. The hats didn't stay on for long!! Every now and then Serj would do this rather strange dancing and when he spoke he waffled on about really random stuff. Sounded like one of those evanglists you get on TV, very weird, I think that put me off him a bit!! So I found myself looking around at the crowd a lot and all the tall people in front of me. This one woman was with her boyfriend/husband and she didn't face the stage throughout Serj's set. How rude!! This annoyed me, coz she was in a better spot than me.........if she didn't wanna be there she could at least move so I could see better!! I did manage to take a couple of pictures of Serj with my camera, they didn't look too bad!!

His set came to an end and we had to wait a while for the Foo's to come on stage. It was getting hotter in the venue and we hadn't got any drinks with us so I kept chewing gum and putting lipsalve on my lips to help. More and more people were trying to get past us. Wayne did let two girls go past him to get nearer to the barrier but as he was behind us Trina and I didn't mind too much. A bloke by the side of me was trying to get in front of me and there was NO way that was gonna happen!! I blocked his way by moving closer to the person in front of me. No-one was going in front of me apart from the people who were already there!! God help them if they wanted to leave and get back again. In fact there was one bloke who was going past Trina and I saying his friend/sister was in front. We just laughed and said 'yeah right!' but apparently she was, he said she was the one waving but I didn't see her!! During the break we heard songs such as Queens of the Stone Age 'No-one Knows', Eagles of Death Metal 'I Want You So Hard' and Wayne thought he could hear a Nine Inch Nails track, but it was loud in there and we couldn't hear them that well!!

Ok so I shall leave you here for now xx

Sorry for the long entry

till next time............

Ranting, Shopping, Recycling and Smiling

Hiya journal buddies ~ how are you all :o)  I'm quite happy for a change!!  Make the most of it, it won't last..........especially as tomorrow is Monday!!  Monday's tend to bring me down..............*groan*

Ooooo I forgot to say many, many thanks to Amy as she gave me a nicey award ~ that makes two :o)  Aren't i lucky tee hee hee.........Amy is lovely, if you get time check out the link and pay her a visit!! 

So thank you all for the comments towards the pictures and videos :o)  Glad you liked them all!!  I still laugh at that first video I posted, every time.......it never fails to make me chuckle lol

Have you all had a good week?  JE went okay apparently according to the fellas so that's the main thing!  She did reccommend it for a formal appeal and now we have to wait 6 months or more to hear the outcome *sarcastic yay*

Not much else has happened this week to notify you off so I shall just carry on and tell you about my weekend.  After I've had a good moan about car drivers GRRRRR.... On Friday I cycle round to Sainsbugs to do my weekly shop!!  This Friday it was raining which wasn't good, but as usual I cycle on the road, but that night EVERY car i was trying to go past would suddenly decide to move in closer to the pavement!!  A builders truck did that when I was alongside him........ooooo I was so angry!!  I could've been knocked off or anything!!  Damn you car drivers.....look out before you swerve!!  No offence to you lot unless you live near me ;-)  and drive that road on a Friday night!!

Saturday I got up early *shock* and went to the hairdressers.  I love walking up past the quay on a Saturday morning nice and early, coz there is hardly anybody about!!  As you can imagine at weekends it gets very busy!!  Anyway luckily the hairdressers weren't busy either!!  I sat down after telling them what i want and expected to sit there for at least half an hour which I sometimes have to do and the lady came over to me and started off.  Her name (according to the book she wrote in was Rach, just in case I want to ask for her again).  She was nice and chatty, in fact we chatted the whole time about cooking LOL.........Apparently she was going to cook a meal for her mum that night and was using all fresh ingredients, so I started telling her about 'cook from fresh sundays' :o) 

After the hairdressers (my hair looks so much better, it's still in the same style hence no piccies) I went to wait for a bus into town.  Unfortunately I just missed one and sat at the bus stop with an elderly gentleman who decided to inform me the new seats at the bus stop where much better coz homeless people can't sleep on them and how there is a homeless guy he sees every morning when he gets his paper.  Trust me not to put the MP3 player on!!

In town I brought a new bra (ooooo, which is actually hurting me so that's not good but I'm living with the pain lol) and two new pairs of trousers!!  One of the pair was marked in sale at £25 and when she put it through the scanner it came up £20 :o)  Yay to savings lol  I also went to Poundstretcher and brought myself a wok for £3, as I shall need it for the next 'cook from fresh'.  I was supposed to do that this weekend but without the wok I thought i would swap the weeks around ~ confusing LOL

Then I came home (walked all the way) and sat down, watched some more 'Cutting It' and then hoovered.  I spent the rest of the day trying to be creative and catching up on the journal alerts ~ it's down to 20 ish woohoo :o)

I dyed my hair later (same colour as before hence no pics), cooked tea, watched casualty, spoke to Trina on the phone, watched Gavin and Stacey as BBC 2 where showing the whole series, which was good :o)  Then at 12.40pm I watched the highlights of the NME big gig.

OH MY GOD.......................I am so glad I did and this is gonna sound so Pathetic to you lot!!  Basically when I like bands I try to find some link between them........For example The Foo Fighters Taylor Hawkins is a BIG Queen fan :o)  So I have been waiting patiently for a Queen reference to come from my new obession The Kaiser Chiefs :o)  I know they are big Beatles fans and you can hear that in the songs but there must be something..............anything????!!!!!!!  Up until last night i thought the only link was that they like the Foo Fighters :o)  Nothing wrong with that but...............Last night i was rewarded with my patience as there during the interview the singer Ricky was wearing a Queen t-shirt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One I have not seen before, how is this possible!!!!  lol  So today I have searched for it ~ yep I am THAT sad lol (damn it the link to the pic isn't showing grrrrrrrrrr) I rung Trina (yes at 1am!!), needless to say she didn't answer and i ended up sending her 4 texts, not just on this matter lol........I had to be patient again as i had to wait for her to a) get up and b) ring me about this lol.......she did eventually :o)

So I have spent mothers day with a little smile on my face (yep that sad) and didn't really do much!!   I walked round to the clothes recycling bank at Sainsbugs as i forgot to take some when I did my shopping on Friday night.  On the way back I was nearly home when I took out my MP3 player and realised the back had fallen off :(  This is not good news as without it sometimes the player won't recognise the battery is there........I thought to myself well I have time let's go back!!  So I walked all the way back to Sainsbugs, passed the place where I figured I could've dropped it but no sign!!!!  Dejectedly I walked back and guess what.................yep it was right where I thought it would be!!!  I had gone passed it LOL........................who said i need the exercise lol

Came home, had a nap :o)  then spent the rest of tonight on the computer.  Today's cook from fresh is Tuna Pasta Bake, which I have to say is the most delicious thing I have made so far!!!  Looking forward to tomorrow for the rest even though it includes the burnt bit *groan*  The only problem with cooking it was the continual stirring!!  I've just had melon for afters!!

Anyway enough from me.............Happy Mothers Day to all you mums  :o)  here's a link to whatI wrote in 2005, which I still stand by coz my mum is lovely xx  She received her earrings which she likes, so that's good :o)

Well till next time x  Have a good week peeps x  This week should be good, we are going to see The Editors on Friday :o)

How cute is that sig :o) 

 

More Pics and Vids

Hi peeps ~ just a quick entry to show more piccies and videos from V Fest and Dublin last year and a little amendment to the last entry.............I said I was gonna start the next adventures from our mad two weeks in October.  Well Trina asked me what had we done in October.............and she's right...........I meant November!!  So I just wanted to clear that up LOL

So here's more vids:  The first one is Wayne doing a pan round of the V festival site.

This second one was shot after the Foo's in Dublin ~ listen to my voice lol it's gone!!

oh and I wasn't scared of the foo's I was scared of Wayne woohooing at the camera LOL

Well I hope you all have a good weekend ;-)

Best wishes

Jen xx

Ooooooooooo dfs ad is on...........who doesn't want it all :o)  My friends over the pond, don't worry about that lol

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Travelling Home, Pics and a video

Hey everyone xx

So here we are at Wednesday again and it's travel diary time.  Not much has happened so far this week, just the usual getting annoyed with people at work.  Our informal appeal meeting is tomorrow for the Job Evaluation so wish us luck ;-)  Mind you I'm not attending, we've already nominated the fellas to do that for us.  After that it's out of our hands, what happens next *fingers crossed*

One thing I will say is I found out on Monday one of the girls I don't like very much (don't ask me why!!) is leaving ~ woohoo!! 

I'm still behind in my alerts so I do apologise people xx  Oh and I've decided to add a video to this entry eeeeekkkkk.........It was taken at V by Wayne and hopefully you'll enjoy it.  There are more from this trip which I may include at a later date xx

So onwards........last I left you we had just seen the Foo Fighters play at Marlay Park Dublin and had, a  nightmare journey back to the B & B.....read on for the endeth to our week long adventure ............Enjoy x

THURSDAY 23rd AUGUST 2007

I can't remember what time we woke up but Trina and I went down to breakfast, leaving Wayne were he was. After we finished Trina sneaked some toast and coffee upstairs for him, which was quite funny to watch!! The plane back to Bristol wasn't until 2pm so when we were all up we made our way to catch the bus back to the city centre. It took a while but once there we found the stop for the airport bus. Wayne still hadn't got over his obsession for the big pointy thing in the city centre and everytime Trina and I walked off, we turned round and he was taking pictures of it with his mobile phone, it was very funny!!

We couldn't decide what to do so as Wayne hadn't had any breakfast we went to a nearby cafe which was very busy, but we managed to find a table. Trina and I went up to the counter and got some food and drink. There were some blokes behind us in the queue getting fry-ups and they were wearing Foo Fighter t-shirts. They were sat at the table behind us so we listened in everytime they talked about the gig and then we started singing (in our own heads, I hasten to add) songs that they mentioned. We left before them and wondered round the streets of Dublin. We looked in a jewellrey shop, like the one we went into in Germany, Trina wanted to show Wayne some of the lovely pieces of things that they had. Wayne looked in Game (or was it HMV??) and Trina and I went into a gift shop. We had some euros left so decided to spend them. I brought mum a bell and for myself a garfield pen and a teddy bear with an Ireland jumper on. I kept moaning to Trina that they didn't appear to be selling bookmarks which I thought was quite odd, but she managed to find some. I moaned that I couldn't afford it so she brought me one and some chocolate from a previous shop that we had been into!! To this day Trina still owns them ha ha..................

We caught the bus back to the airport, Wayne and I sat at the back of the bus and Trina sat at the front looking after the bags. It was funny because she could hear every word of our conversation and when I texted her, she replied saying that she knew coz she'd heard us. We weren't talking that loudly I should point out!! Once we arrived at the airport we made our way inside and Trina mentioned that we had just walked past Vanessa Feltz and her bloke. I kept a beady eye out for Dave and co as he said they were leaving that day too!! No such luck though!!

The queue for check-in was busy again!! Once we were checked in and through security (I think Wayne had to remove his shoes again) we looked around a few of the shops then made our way to the plane. We had to walk for miles to get to our departure gate!! I think we even walked past a plane that was going to either Exeter or Plymouth I can't quite remember!! At the gate we sat waiting for the flight to be called and a few more people turned up wearing Foo Fighter t-shirts, I couldn't get over this and thought how funny it was that we were all on the same plane! Eventually the flight got announced and we went to queue. Priority customers got to board first though and that got on my nerves coz just when you thought you could board more priority people turned up!!

We managed to board at some point though and got seats together again. The flight only took 40 minutes again but it felt a lot quicker and I didn't seem to panic as much as I have done on the previous flights!! Obviously getting used to it now! We managed to get straight onto the coach to the train station once we had collected our bags in Bristol. Unfortunately when we got there we had a long time to wait for the train home so we went round to Weatherspoons for food, which was nice.

When it was time we caught the train to Bristol Parkway to catch our train home. At Parkway we arranged to meet up with Dan to collect our stuff that we had left with him. I didn't remember having so much stuff!! The train arrived and the rest of the journey home was okay but Trina and Wayne were panicked about getting back to Torquay. Unfortunately we were delayed just outside Taunton as someone had been sitting on the bridge!!

I managed to get a taxi from the station back to mine when we eventually pulled into Exeter. It was very sad to be home but very nice to be back in my own bed!! What a week................

Here's the video

I hope that works lol..............

Anyway that ends the August 2007 adventure ~ hope you enjoyed V Fest and Dublin.  Next week (yes there is more) see's the start of the two mad weeks we had in October last year.

Till then take care xx

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Pics, Pam and Shopping

hello friends and fellow J-landers :o)

   

Well I bet your surprised to find all this merriment going on in my journal LOL......To be honest so am I.......but I have one person to thank for that!!  The loveliest lady in J-land Pammels :o)  Not ONLY did she give me a nice matters award but she's now gone and picked my small insignificant journal for a guest editors pick   For those of that you that haven't seen it (although I've left the link there..........) here's what the lovely lady wrote xx

Jenny, a total music lover and No:1 Queen fan, Is 30 going on 18!! lol. Her journal leaves me In awe of the things she manages to do. All the gigs she attends, Her bike ventures and best classic line of all, was from her entry, "Work, NHS, Family and Friends" she describes feeling worthless, sitting In a meeting at work and decides to doodle away on her pad, It turned Into a Pirate Boat that she was so proud of, she took It home! lol. Her closeness with her best friend Trina Is heartwarming, they have so much fun. Jenny shares all her stories from every gig she goes to and makes you feel a big part of It all.

Tee hee hee............Have you ever read something that someone has written about you and thought to yourself yep that's me :o)  Then gone and had a cry about it coz it's the nicest thing to happen when you don't expect it too??  Yep I crossed all those of on my list.  So I just wanna take this opportunity to publicly tell Pammels how much I love her and appreciate her.  That she not only takes the time out to read my journal but that she likes what she reads.  (By the way I know must of you that visit and comment also do the same so please don't feel as though I don't appreciate you just as much ~ oh dear I'm digging myself a hole aren't I?)  Never mind...............

 to pam :o)  Thank you xx   Have a drink on me ;-)

It's so sad that such a small thing can make you so happy isn't it LOL.........

Anyhoo..............as you can see I've added the pics from last weekend's jaunt to Dartmoor and a few extra's that I thought you might like to see ~ including the infamous Pirate boat ;-) 

This weekend I met up with Mum and Megs in town on Saturday.  First I had to go to the post office and pick up a parcel which I had to pay £2.52 for the privilege of picking up.  I was NOT amused!!  You see this is the 2nd book in the Emporer series that I wanna read.  I managed to get it on ebay and when you buy something on ebay, you pay for postage!!  So I asked the guy at the collection office whether any postage had been paid and they said no it hadn't ~ armed with this knowledge I was gonna have it out with this person......Technically this book has cost me as much as it probably would've done if I had brought it in the shops!!  Well of course he's come back saying he has proof of postage and that he paid for it.  I've decided I am not gonna pursue this, I just cannot be bothered, but I'll tell you something I ain't going back on ebay for a while!!  First the flippin' necklace for Trina's xmas pressie and now this!!  Grrrrrrrrrrr..........

Had a nice day with mum and Megs.  I brought (list especially for Trina), Manic Street Preachers Send Away The Tigers cd, The Editors An End To A Start cd (or whatever the 2nd album is called lol), a proper pepper dispenser, a new baking tray, a melon, hot chocolate, socks for work and I think that was it!!  I was hoping to find some new trousers as most of my jeans are getting holes in them :(  but I didn't find anything.  However I have decided that after I've got my hair cut next weekend I shall venture into town again and get some!!  I need them for the convention lol...........

Today I chopped and prepared food as it's Sunday Cook from fresh day :o)  Today's recipe was Fajitas, which weren't bad but weren't great either, shall try again tomorrow and see if I can improve on it!!  I have requested Trina to make me some the next time I see her as she is the expert that I know that can cook from scratch

Later I went to Matalan, still looking for trousers ~ no such luck :(  So i went to the range and brought two heatproof dishes (it was like a special pack of two, but they aren't the good make, can't remember the name) as I need one for Lasagne which is in a couple of weekend's time :o)  a new DVD holder which I assembled myself!!  A mother's day card and something to go with the card, which I wanted to get her for xmas!!  There's a hint mum lol

Otherwise I have been trying to catch up on alerts, had to delete a few, sorry :(  Saved a few piccies to photobucket and caught up on roger-taylor.net, good to see quite a few people over there :o) 

Anyway I think i shall leave you here, gotta update my MP3 player for the rest of the week and it's getting late.  Hope you have a good week xx

p.s before I forget ~ Pammels, Trina said to say thank you for picking me too :o)  She was so chuffed xx

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The Saga continues...bike repairs and travels

hi all *waves at you*

Guess what?  Bike man turned up yesterday *rolls eyes*  He seems to think he can fix it woohoo :o)  He is coming back next week sometime to collect it and take it to the mystical garage to be fixed *fingers crossed*  He's apparently going away for the weekend hence why he's coming back.  I was relieved when he said that coz I need it to do my food shopping tomorrow.  Plus I'm gonna take some clothes to the recycle bank so I shall need it to help me transport this stuff!! 

Ta for the comments to the last entry, I found it surprising how many of you agreed to feeling shy sometimes, you certainly don't come across that way, but then I suppose the blogs are a good way of hiding the shyness ;-)  Don't know what I'm doing about a group yet.  Have been trying to think of it but my mind is blank.............

I'm not gonna talk about the Brits.........jeez what a farce!!  The only good things about it was the Kaiser's performance (Ricky looked good yum :o), the Foo's winning both their awards (but this got me to wondering whether that was a good thing or not!!), and Mr McCartney's performance at the end weren't bad, (not a big fan of him but like the songs he did :o)

So Wednesday's travel journals have moved for this week to...........yep you guessed right Thursday :o)  Let's see where did I get too??  Oh yeah we are still in Dublin and Nine Inch Nails had just finished their set...............enjoy xx

As soon as their set ended we all sat down and conserved our energy! During this break they played Bohemian Rhapsody on the big video screens. Trina and I went mad and then realised the whole crowd were singing along. The boys behind us were singing louder than we were and we kept smiling at each other as we were so proud of our boys. Everyone took part in the head banging as well, it was so cool and we were feeling quite moved by it all. For the rest of the break we just kept laughing at the boys behind us, they were being stupid and applauding the stewards and shouting out random stuff.

The Foo Fighters came on stage and if I remember rightly they started in pretty much the same way as V with Everlong first (so wrong!!) The band joined Dave on stage and they burst into some of their bigger hits. Learn to Fly, Monkey Wrench, Best of You, Times Like These, All My Life, The One, My Hero, Enough Space, This is a Call, DOA, Breakout. I cannot recall which songs they did from the new album apart from Pretender which they did as an encore and Pat (and the rest of the accoustic Foos) joined them on stage which was cool. However the best bit for me was when Dave walked down on our side of the stage and stood in front of us. On one of these walks during a guitar solo, things had gone quietish and I screamed. I swear to god he turned round at that particular moment and looked in my direction. The scream was the worst thing I could have done coz for the rest of the show I had no voice!! When Pat came on stage I went to scream for him or yell at least and nothing came out!!

Dave also did a speech about how he had come to Ireland just after Kurt had died and went round the ring of Kerry. He said 'what's with all the sheep? Don't get me wrong I like sheep.' which prompted the crowd to start chanting sheep, sheep, sheep. Dave thought this was hysterical and then said 'I hear the trick is to get their hind legs inside your boots.' It was so funny!! During some of the songs I take a moment to look around at the people enjoying the gig too, and there was this one tiny girl only about 5/6 years old sitting on her dad's shoulders in the gold circle. I watched her a couple of times and everytime she was singing along, she knew all the words ~ how cute is that!! When I pointed her out to Trina, she told me that she had seen the girl before at the t-shirt stand. She had been pointing out which shirts she wanted to her dad. I want a kid like that!!

The gig overall was brilliant and I felt very sad when it finished as that was the end of not only the gig but of our adventures too!! Abby had already left by this point and we waited for a bit and then decided to get some food/drink before we make our way back to the B & B. Trina was starting to feel panicky coz we didn't actually know where we were going and we had to leave when other people did so we weren't left alone in the middle of nowhere. As we made our way out of the park, Trina found a policeman to ask directions, but unfortunately he was very unhelpful!! So we followed the crowds and started walking down the main road, the way we had come in the taxi!! There was a lot of people about and we debated about waiting for the bus that was put on to ferry the crowds back to Dublin city centre, but every bus we saw was jam packed with people. I didn't really see the point of that anyway as we didn't want to go that far!! Unfortunately there were no taxi's to be seen anywhere and we were just wandering in a direction that we hoped was right. Wayne was convinced he knew what we were doing was right, I tried to agree with Wayne tried to stay positive and Trina was quickly losing her temper with us both as she was sure we weren't going in the right direction. The problem was that because of road works EVERYWHERE, so at one point it made us take a wrong turning, although at this point we weren't actually aware of this at first. Trina found another copper to ask for directions, yet again though he was very vague. Nobody seemed to know where the B&B was!! He did however give Trina a number for a local taxi company which didn't work coz we didn't know the code for Ireland!! In the end we walked back up the road we had just come and down a turning that we probably should've taken to begin with.

None of us were talking to each other by this point!! We carried on walking and praying that we might actually be going in the right direction.........It was such a shame that this had happened to ruin our Foo High that we had, had!! Eventually we came to a cross roads and traffic, up until this point we had seen the odd car picking people up and buses but that was all!! Trina managed to find a taxi and asked the driver for directions as he already had people inside. The other side of the road was busy with traffic but in amongst that traffic were more taxi's. I managed to find one with no-one in it so I caught the drivers eye and asked him if he was free, he said that he was so I screamed (as best as I could with no voice!!) at Trina and Wayne and we all got in!! You had never seen three people more relieved than we were at that moment!! The driver drove the taxi up to the cross roads, down a lane and turned round and went back in the direction we had been heading in. It took about 5 minutes for the taxi to drop us off after we got out of that traffic. Wayne was still convinced he would've found the B&B ok.

As we got out of the taxi I noticed one of the neighbours curtains twitching. Clearly they don't get much excitement down that way!! We got back into the B&B and went straight to bed.

Hope you all have a good rest of the week xx  I'm suppose to be meeting up with Mum and Megs on Saturday (note to mum...I'm guessing it's 11.30am??)

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Honesty and Annoyance

Hi Everyone,

I didn't feel like leaving an entry for the past two days and tonight i wanna rant so here I am lol...........

Firstly I had a good weekend, well a good enough weekend that someone can have when they are feeling miserable.  I went to Trina and Wayne's for the weekend.  Went down on Friday night and came home on Sunday.  Saturday we went to Dartmoor in search of something or another - can't leave you a link it appears I didn't save the website doh!!  I took some pics though and I shall post those at a later date, I can't really be bothered right now sorry...................

The funniest thing to happen (and she knew I would post this!) we were coming back to the car after going for a walk on the moor and I decided to go down a different path to Trina and Wayne.  Eventually Trina thought she would follow me and ended up running a little bit to catch up with me.  She jumped down the part we had climbed up to start walking, but what she hadn't taken into consideration was the ground was slippery and muddy and she lost her footing and went bottom first into the mud!!  I'm still laughing about it now........There was a group of lads getting into their cars at the time and they had watched her do it and one said 'Wahey' (If I'd been thinking about it I could've started the chant 'you fell over') all I could do was laugh at her!!  When I looked her legs were bent over and she was trying to get up using her hand in the mud, it was so funny, bless her................. She's such a star though coz she didn't stop laughing!!  It got even funnier when she got into the car coz she had to take her jeans off as they were so wet!!  She then worried about getting from the car to the house without people seeing that she had no jeans on!!   I swear if that had been me, I would not have been amused at falling over, let alone having people laugh at me :(  I'm such a spoil sport!!

We also went to see Cloverfield in the cinema on Saturday!!  I have to say I've not read any reviews about this film, I just knew vaguely what it was about and that people raved about it when it first came out.  I tend to avoid things that people rave about aka Harry Potter and Lord of the rings, but curiousity got the better of me and I have to say I really enjoyed it!!  It's definitely one of those films that you can only really watch once to get the full effects but it is very clever and I only jumped at the scariness once lol.......

I came home still feeling very blue and it's nothing that Trina had done, mind you I don't think I do myself any favours, and I couldn't shake that feeling for ages.  I've been like it for a couple of weeks now and Trina is concerned that I might have depression.  I swear that deep down inside I know it's not depression, I am just lonely I think is the best way to describe it!!   I know I have friends out there to talk to, but sometimes you just want someone to cuddle up to and what I wouldn't give to hear someone tell me that they love me. 

I know your probably thinking that this is all sounding a bit stupid or silly and that I should just get over myself but I'm trying to be honest with you here and this is quite hard.  At the end of the day I know what I must do to get myself out of it, Trina's forever telling me that I should join groups etc, but if I'm being honest, which I said I was, when I think about things like that I feel scared.  I'm a shy person and not that good at mingling with people if I don't at least have one thing in common with them.  I also worry about travel ~ that sounds stupid too, but I can't drive, if I was to attend some meeting or another how would i get there and home again?

You see there is something else that bothers me about that too......okay I know what I have to do but am I really gonna find what I'm looking for by attending some kind of group thing?  Jeez I'm making it sound like I'm gonna join an AA meeting LOL.............trust me I maybe be a little blue but I'm not an alcoholic lol

I guess things will turn out okay in the end and my head will leave this weird space that it has got itself into at some point and I can concentrate on other stuff that makes me happy such as creating :o)  I love being creative and I haven't done anything about that lately!! 

Anyway enough of this moping..................sorry about that just need to get things off my chest sometimes lol

Bicycle Repair Man has made it to my list of people I am annoyed with.............So far this week he is the only one on it and that's not bad considering it's Tuesday LOL......

Why is he on it I hear you ask?  Well as you know I emailed him and he eventually emailed me back about coming round on the Wednesday.  I fretted all day about this coz I was really down and didn't feel like being cheerful for him and I had no idea what time he was coming so I didn't really settle for the night!!  Eventually I got called away though as Wayne had lost his wallet and had no petrol to get home so they needed money from me, so I had to go round to the petrol station with him. 

Next day I get another email saying 'I tried last night but got no answer', typical huh? He asked if he should come round the next day.  I thought no, I couldn't handle another night like that so emailed back saying no coz I was busy and was away at the weekend so perhaps Tuesday would be good.

Yep you've guessed it he's not shown up!!  I've had my hall door open, which I don't like doing but I thought if he knocks on the front door I won't hear it!!  I've been pretty quiet all evening too so I could listen out for him ~ damn it!!  So that's it I'm annoyed, I could've done my hoovering after all *rolls eyes*  Now I have to do that tomorrow night and my bike is still not fixed!!

Well I've just got some money back from the mobile phone company so I think I shall ring the professional and get him to look at it!!  eeeek...............well what else can I do when some people are so unreliable!!  I need my bike, I want to be able to use my bike for pleasure not just shopping grrrrrrrrrr........... see that's how annoyed I am lol

Onto happier topics?  A lady at work rung in yesterday asking for time off as her sister in law won tix to the Brits so she is going with her.  Her colleague didn't know if they got back stage passes too!!  I'm not jealous..........they are take that fans and I don't care for Take That!!  Mind you if the Foo's turn up (they are nominated) I shall not be amused LOL...........and of course the chiefs are gonna be there, so I shall probably watch it on TV :o)  My predictions:  The Chiefs to win best live act coz they are :)  and the Foo's to win best international album and best international group lol  If those don't come true I shall spread rumours about fixing of the winners  ;-)  Be wary you music big wigs who vote for these things!!  Yes of course these official people are reading my blog..................

Hope you have a good week xx  Ta for reading

 

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