Maybe more a stroke of good fortune - yeah, that makes a change around here.
A week or so ago, we were thinking of putting together something "truly great" that we could organise for the future - a trip, holiday or an event. Something along those lines... I couldn't think of a dman thing that meant that much to me and then later that evening, it hit me like a two ton heavy thing. The one thing I'd always wanted to do since I was a kid was go on The Orient Express.
From London to somewhere like Southern Italy will cost you around £6000 - one way (I guess you have to fly back or shell out another £6k to get home). Accordingly, this got filed in the "very far in the future" folder.
Anyway, a week or so ago, somebody I work with got offered a Christmas trip on said Express from London into Kent and then back to London again for the afternoon. Jealous? Me?
Might have been.
As the universe would have it, she can no longer go and an empty seat on a train is such a waste... so here I come. I don't do excited but I'll make an exception next Wednesday. Be prepared for a very sad fan-boy photo journal. It may not be Southern Italy, but it sure as hell beats the living daylights out of whatever else it was I was doing next Wednesday.
Note to self: increase size of M2 card in phone.
Looking forward to seeing my mum this weekend. Might even make an effort to catch up with some people but it really is a flying visit (if anyone is reading from back home - drop me a text if you're around Saturday afternoon, I'll try and make some holes).
Appendix to yesterday's post: I mailed the link to both Pizza Hut and Vue Cinema to see if they might have the guts/courtesy/vision/balls to respond in some fashion but all I got was a bunch of tumbleweed. I guess most big companies out there run along the following lines: the MD makes 100k+ a year and could care less what customers think or never actually gets to see any of the comments made, meanwhile those at the bottom left to deal with said things are paid minimum wage and could care less that you had to wait.
Kind of fair enough but if somebody told me here that there was something wrong (cue mail), I would want it fixed pretty damn fast - why the hell would anybody want to come back otherwise?
Currently listening to: Heart | Bad Animals, Dope | No Regrets & Conny Bloom | Psychonaut
Currently watching: Supernatural got bumped this week and we're two ep's away from the end of Californication. Bring me LOST. Now.
Currently (still) reading: Company of Liars. Awesome book... book of the year? Quite possible.
