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Posted Mar 31, 2003
Got my ticket - and - after swearing he didn't want to go hubby decided he does want to
(something about me going along to paragliding with him and him being worried about me going on my own...silly muppet doesn't realise I only go along paragliding because I quite like it and that once he's seen what people are like at glasto he won't be worried anymore about me being on my own
).
So I've got 2 tickets 
Now we've got to try to find somewhere cheap to rent a campervan from (hubby has said he WILL NOT CAMP
) and a robust scooter for getting around the site (alternatively we need to persuade the nice Mr Eavis that our quad bike wont ruin his farm and squish his festival goers).
So all change. I don't know whether hubby will still want to come when he finds out it's going to cost £400 to rent a crappy VW campervan for the week but even if he changes his mind we'll just sell his ticket on to someone for the same price it cost us (it's so anti-glastonbury to rip off fellow partiers) and I'll go back to my original plan.
It's a shame really, I'll have to get used to having a little less freedom to act like a nutter and I went to all the trouble of checking my tent was ok this weekend too
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Glastonbury
Posted Mar 28, 2003
OOooooooooooooooooooooooooooh I'm getting rediculously excited about going. Tickets are on sale on Monday so I'm going to be (ab)using works computers to nab my ticket asap
Bizarrely I've decided that if all goes well this year I'm going to take someone with me next year...my mum. Everytime I talk to her about which bands I saw last time and who is likely to be on this time and all of the *other* parts of glasto that don't get mentioned in the reviews (the food, the market, the out door cinema (nothing like watching Withnail and I at glasto), the cabaret tent etc etc etc) the more she sounds jealous. And seeing as she was the one who paid for me to go last time, plus took me to V96 and to see all sorts of other bands live, I think it's time she got to go to the ultimate festival.
She was telling me last night about all of the young girls at work and how they're gobsmacked everytime she mentions the bands she's seen live (especially when she reminds them that she's technically a pensioner
).
As for general excited preparations I've already started making mental lists of things to do:
get tent out - air it and re-water proof it,
buy ground sheet,
buy bumperpack of firelighters and some firelog thingies from the petrol station (these things have got our BBQ's going in the snow so should stand up to a muddy glasto),
buy a gas light/heater for tent,
dig out sleepingbag and wash it,
buy a sleeping mat (someone seems to have nicked mine) and a blow up pillow,
find waterproof backed picnic rug (and decide not to take it),
buy some cheap wellies to keep in the car,
air out the waterproof ponchos,
buy a cheap watch from the market and some disposable camera's,
empty dissertation rock samples (2 1/2 stone(35 pounds) of them
) from big rucksack,
wash mould of little "jolly bag" rucksack,
find fieldtrip handbag for valuables,
buy some clothes (I'm not losing another pair of good jeans)
run round in panic
stock up mini first aid kit (contains sun cream, insect repellent, plasters and pain killers + scissors, safety pins and numerous kfc moist towellettes)
Worry about being a sad lonely muppet and not talking to anyone - worry about talking to people and them running away in fear - worry some more
Buy hair products to place hair into indestructable plaits/buns for duration so as not to inflict greasy hair on people after 1 day without washing
Buy extra oxy pads for removal of grease from hair, face and hands (this is the point where I'm starting to worry about putting this stuff in my journal - if it sounds like I'm obsessed with grease blame my classmates in school - bast**ds
they've turned me into a cleanliness freak and I used to be so proud of being a bit grubby)
Find out location of towing loop on car
Buy luminous paint for guy ropes on tent (my tent looks a bit like this http://www.outdoormegastore.co.uk/acatalog/chougasgr.jpg and if the guy rope isn't really taut the porch area leaks) - consider painting tent pegs too.
Reconsider not taking cooking equipment and consider living off seeds of change minestrone soup - remember that cooking equipment includes stove, pans, food, washing up liquid etc etc etc and decide to just take soup and try to nick someone elses stove/pan - reconsider and decide to stick with original plan of buying all food.
Panic even more
Feel smug that co-workers are going to be working while I'm partying
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Glastonbury
Posted Feb 17, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2770683.stm
Hopefully sanity will win through and I'll get to go and see REM again...might even be able to get my tent to stay up too
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Skint
Posted Feb 11, 2003
F**king cars...why on earth did I imagine that my not-quite-ancient astra would cost any less to MOT than my rust-held-it-together metro.
So now I have a nice big £170 MOT bill to pay for a car I use maybe once a week but can't get rid of because the once a week is very important.
So now I'll have to put less into the saving account to pay for the eventual excess milage bill on hubby's car...and my credit card will have to have a minimum payment jobby.
On top of this my overdraft is due to shrink in the next couple of months so I'll be paying interest on everything
Why do people tell you that when you graduate and start working your finances will improve - it's been almost 2 yrs of solid working and I'm more in debt now than I was on graduation day (and thats not counting the mortgage)
Anyone willing to pay for some top notch excel tuition?...only £100ph to cover my overheads.
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AFK
Posted Jan 31, 2003
Going to be away from a net connection for a few days.
I might get a chance to pop in at the weekend but other than that I'll be away until Thursday.
*thinks of future backlogs to read*
But then I will be socialising with people in the flesh - I just hope the course isn't going to be full of 
s or rather s who are y about different things to me.
General update on life: Workload is still off the scale, enthusiasm is still below the scale but work colleagues have suddenly become friendly and nice
...hope it lasts...I feel much more able to cope with the other crap when I can have a laugh about it with someone
Hubby is fine but not looking forward to 2 mornings of being "cared" for by his mum and dad...Where I will chuck him his clothes and let him get on with it unless he asks for a hand they like to help him put all of his clothes on...Where I make him a cup of tea and let him get up in his own time, they nag and huff and puff about the time.
Of course he needs some help (but then I'm sure he's not the only man to have packed for a weekend away and forgotton to pack any trousers
) but the last thing he wants or needs is to be treated like a baby...but then sometimes I think he quite enjoys it.
I'm certainly looking forward to not getting up at 5:30am and not having to cook for a couple of nights...but I'll miss having someone to cuddle up to, and someone to joke with about strepsils, and of course I'll miss that too
...and I'll miss university challenge (monday nights bbc2 8pm), and waking up to the radio, and diet coke (bleah coffee or tea). And I'll probably end up feeling fat clumsy and stupid because everyone else will be petite, co-ordinated and articulate while I just grunt and knock things over....soddem though, snot like the course is of *any* relevence to my job it was just something to fill in the training section on my appraisal that meant my boss didn't have to admit to how inadequate the training is here.
Anyhoo...seeya
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