Had such a nice weekend! Did the garden on Saturday (resulting in much backache on Sunday) but felt like I’d achieved something by the end of it although I’m now looking to put it off for a while before I do it again! Felt good to be outside in the warm weather

Sunday involved smelly getting up early to go to the gym, but was followed by lunchies in the Raddie afterwards which made up for it Then Sunday evening we (me, Kev and Dave B) went to Starz for dins where I gorged myself but was very good and had jacket potato instead of fries, and no butter on my corn on the cob

Yesterday was a bit of a quiet day - had a good long lie in til midday or so, got back into KOTOR2 again, went to Tesco (so got out for an hour or so) and then watched What Women Want on DVD in the evening

Anyways, time to leave work

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Today is Friday - another day of faffing about doing not very much at all in work and then three days off I do like Bank Holidays Prolly going out for lunch with Kev and Dave at some point to celebrate the bank holidayness which I’m looking forward to, and I suspect Sunday morning will see me sweating it out at the gym when I should be tucked up in bed but at least there generally aren’t many people in there then. I hate going there after work when its full of sweaty men who smell and grunt a lot and awful music is blaring at a million decibels! Can’t really go any other time tho - if they had shower cubicles I might go at lunchtimes but I hate using the communal showers so that’s a bit of a nono.

Just found out I have a free 5 day subscription to CoH that started yesterday and lasts til Tuesday so I’m tempted to take them up on it as I really want to try some of the new character creation elements they’ve put in but don’t really want to pay for a month as I can’t really afford 2 MMOs with my bank balance…besides, the actual game is pretty boring when you’ve got the fun making your character bit out of the way! Great for teaming but the death penalty and lack of variety bring it down a lot IMO.

As far as other games go, Kev is now levelling up my 52 (now 53 - thanks Kev!) troll priest on Mal’ganis so that I can take part in endgame raids and instance runs without having to grind to get there Heralds of Woe (our original guild that we founded) has kind of evaporated since it stopped being useful for the needs of its members (4 not a great number for guild raiding!) so we’re now in Quarantine who only have one level 60 priest so far and are seemingly quite keen to get me to 60 so they get another one I’m actually looking forward to doing endgame stuff (although I don’t want to do it all the time) as the normal playing is getting a bit boring for me now really. I hate levelling on a PvP server so will prolly never start another Horde character unless I do it on another server and that leaves me guildless and friendless so that sucks. As for Alliance, I’ve hit that impasse with my 32 mage now I’ve started getting to the same lands I was levelling in as Horde so the newness has faded somewhat. Rolled a NE druid and a warlock but I hate the NE starter lands and have done the human ones too recently so I think I’ll mainly do endgame stuff and play with Kev and Mupps and enjoy not having to level or PvP anymore

Have gotten really into Sims 2 again recently - I suspect this will be another few week long intensive phase and then I’ll lose interest in it again but for now I’m having fun watching my sim go about her life If I had money to fritter away I’d prolly buy the expansion pack, Sims 2: University, which would give me some more to do in the game and introduce a new life stage (young adult) and new career paths and things but as I don’t it’s a bit of a moot point.

Having gone on about all these games, I have a sneaking feeling that RL might be about to get a lot more hectic and interesting over the next few months for one reason and another…..watch this space!

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Went thus: out at 4pm on Saturday for a BBQ/Eurovision evening (odd time to leave the house in itself for me - not really an afternoon or evening thing, more of an inbetween sort of time). Stayed til 11.30 or so, came home and then stayed up all night and went to bed at about 8am Sunday. Got up at midday and despite yesterday being fairly normal, the feelings of mugginess from the day and night before just made the whole weekend feel a bit unreal….as Hugh Grant said, surreal….but nice

Had a bit of an all over the place weekend when it came to things to do aswell….went through Guild Wars, KOTOR II, WoW briefly, revisited Sims 2 for the first time in absolutely ages….still not sure what’s so entertaining about watching someone eat, go to the toilet and go to work although Kev has a theory that I think has probably hit the nail on the head. It’s like playing with a doll’s house; putting furniture in it, making your dolls do things - I used to love playing with my dolls. I had a baby doll called Toya (sadly beheaded by my git of a brother) who I used to feed and bathe and take for walks in her pushchair In a world of games involving variations on killing things or competing in contests of some sort, Sims stands alone as somewhere you can go and indulge what you used to like doing when you were an ickle girl. No PvP, no creatures to bombard with spells or bludgeon to death, no looting corpses, no fighting for the greater good (or bad) - don’t get me wrong I still enjoy my MMOs (albeit in a slightly more fickle sense than some people - altitis does exist I tell you!), but it was really nice to just play house with my grown up pixelated dolls yesterday

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It’s that time of year I hate again - the General Election happens today and tomorrow someone else may or may not be in No. 10. It’s not this that I hate - I think it’s great to have a system that’s dependent on public votes rather than dictatorship and am all for democracy! What I hate is that suddenly *everyone* is on your case to vote and make a stand, and women everywhere are declaring that Miss Pankhurst died for us girls and therefore it is our moral obligation to put a tick or cross or whatever it is you put in the box! I admit I’m something of a cynic when it comes to political parties - I think whoever is in No. 10 will screw up at some point, none of the really annoying things in life like tax and poverty are ever going to get fixed by anyone, and they all have a hidden agenda. I’m leaning towards Lib Dems this time around for no other reason than Labour have had their chance and the Conservatives have based their entire campaign on a hate-Blair non-policy. I will probably vote this year as that is the closest I’ve come to ever having a valid reason to do so, but a large part of me is screaming at me to stand firm and not submit to the masses who persist in making me feel obliged to do so.

If I vote I want it to be because I feel moved to do so, not because I’ll feel guilty if I don’t! Two people so far today have made me feel like I’m letting my country down for saying I might not vote I can’t be the only one in the world who sees that democracy goes both ways; that I have the right to choose not to vote and by doing that I am voicing my opinion as well as if I choose *to* vote! Why can’t choosing no party be a viable option?? It doesn’t make me a nasty person! I would never even think of telling anyone that they should or shouldn’t do something that was down to a personal choice (barring that something being wrong/illegal/harmful to someone)…that’s fundamentally why I don’t follow an organised religion. I just wish other people would treat me with the same respect

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