Archive for August, 2004

Making lists

Wednesday, August 25th, 2004

The last few days have been spent making lists.

Uni lists
Ikea lists
Greenbelt lists
GB food lists

So now that I’ve come to pack everything for GB, how many times did I refer to my list? *hint, not very many* and do i actually know where on earth my list is? *hint – No*. So why on earth did I make a list??????

This is my Greenbelt food list,

bread
milk
eggs
cheese
butter
*COOL BAG*
pasta
sauce x2
spagetti
beans
salady bits
milky ways
apples
drinks

This is what I brought for GB…

bread
butter
cheese
chocolate spread
pringles
time outs
chocolate digestives
cans of drink
cartons of fruit juice
carrots
mushrooms

so…lists don’t work.

And no, there isn’t really a point to this…

A new style for a new start!

Saturday, August 21st, 2004

Well, nearly a new start.

A month to a new start anyway.

I’m starting Uni in 30 days. This is actually fairly scary – and I’m only travelling about a mile down the road! There’s so much I have to do, to prepare…

I wonder what it will be like…

*sophs drifts off into a pleasent day dream of chatting in rooms, sitting on kitchen work surfaces talking till all hours of the morning, cooking for herself exactly what she wants….oh, and a few lectures thrown in for good mesure!*

My preparations for today were going to be boxing up some of my many books, but I couldn’t be bothered so I phoned some reletives telling them I got into Uni…which was interesting. There was a large difference in the reactions of my biological family and my family to the news – my aunt and birth dad just said well done many many times and were really genuine – my family asked what grades I got, and were pleased that I’d managed to get in despite having low grades.

Me, I’m just pleased. But sad too. In the pleasedness is the sadness, they are the same thing, not two separate things – I wish my dad and Molly had been alive to see this. ’specially dad. It’s the same hint of sadness that is in most major life events for me – but something that I doubt will ever go away. I don’t think I want it to – but I guess that sounds strange.

Soooo, I’m going to Uni. I’m actually really going. Really really really going.

I’m studying Theology and Religious Studies and Contemporary History Joint Honours.

I’m going to Uni!!!!!!

more about my hamsters….

Monday, August 2nd, 2004

Well, my hamsters were named Jessi (the brown one) and Emily (the white one). And all was well for several weeks.

Until late one night just over a week ago, when i suddenly noticed that Emily, was not, in fact a girl. Well, that’s not true, I worked out that she either had a tumour or was a he. She was most definatly a he.

Which means that I’ve now got one male hamster (as yet unnamed) and one female hamster.

In the same cage.

Which means……..that somewhere along the line I’ll get more ickle baby hamsters!

Which would be absolutely wonderful! Apart from one small fact. Greenbelt. In 27 days i go to greenbelt. hamster pregnancies are about 19 – 25 days long which means i could have babies by greenbelt, and once i have babies i can’t move the cage, and i won’t be there to look after them cos i’ll be at greenbelt, and i can’t not be at greenbelt cos i’m venuemanageing…

so it’s all very confuinsing.

but hamster babies would be cute…

(i wouldn’t mind if they stopped scrapping…appearntly one of the signs that jessi is pregnant is that she fights a lot. – eeeek!)