the accidental girl

Bad news monkeyophiles. I had to run off from my last afternoon of work, trying not to cry (it was quite emotional really) to go to an optician's appointment.

It is a sad sad day. I haven't been in two years and lately though that I've been squinting more whilst driving....... I'm BLIND. That'll be why I nearly ran over those kids playing traffic chicken in the parking lot and in fact, Cypriots are amazing drivers, I've just been confusing their cars for the parked ones.

Ok, not quite that bad but still pretty bad. Enough to get new glasses (hurrah! I can look like my inner self- I wear some now when I'm not using suction powered lenses but they're not serious enough).. I've gone down a whole point and a bloody half in one eye!! No wonder I couldn't see a thing. The other eye's ok. Not quite disabled yet. And annoyingly, not enough to have to have a doggie.

Come to think of it, marmaduke wouldn't like a dog.

Ah.. bad times. The only good news being that I chose my thesis topic afte rmuch deliberation. 1st choice- long span roofing solution for historic structures (a la british museum type jobbie) and next 2 choices to do with FRP and their effect on shear in concrete which, as I am Geek numero uno, interests me more than you'd like to know. One of my favourite moments in my career at uni was making my own concrete using BRE specified design. It were fun and then I crushed it which were funner. All I need to do now is to find a partner to work with. Trouble being, the boys are deeply suspicious of us lady engineers. One particularly loathesome wonkface actually snatched the calculator out of my hand and said "Now now, leave the proper calculations to the men, you can make the report look pretty afterwards if you like" "No I f*king don't like you miserable little fartmouth, I'll do the calculations and you can sit there and plait your ginger facial pubes..." I said in my head.... My irish matey who's very pretty and otherwise intelligent thinks he's a hoot but then her type is what I'd write off as a wonker so maybe he's perfect for her.

Ah I have digressed. Anyway, with my new glasses I can look intellylekchual and kleva and maybe the boyz will let me play with their sums.

Night night xx

Ahhh goodness me!! I'm about a zillion pounds poorer.. Applied/paid for visas this morning:
belarus
russia
kazahkstan
china

Am 359 pounds lighter..... then I have to buy my actual tickets. And my flight home... EEK!

Saying that, I got another pay rise 2 weeks work = 700 euros... not too shabby.
Shabba!

I'm glad I'm not going to mongolia. In Mongolia they eat horse, cured in soured milk. Me and Marmaduke Periwinkle-Smythe can eat caviar jacket tatties in russia, er.. camel burgers in kazahkstan(?) and rice in china. I shall duly record all our meals because I know that's what you're interested in.

It's all go here in monkey land. The tenants have signed and agreed to move out. I've designed a sketchup model of what the building will look like.. so far I only have the ground floor:

Anyway, the idea is to get people interested in the refurb and some potential tenants. Then I'll model the inside to their specs. Turfed out the oldies with 32 months' rent paid to them. One has prostate cancer the other's had major surgery, they're both in their late 80s, I'm not being horrible.... am I? Anyway, it's their fault for making it look like a slummy warzone.

So, three sleeps until I'm back in cold UK. I ran out of FrizzEase some time ago (if you don't know what this is, then you're a man) essential kit for me especially as my hair is the bad kind of wavy. The kind that frizzes up into pube like fuzz if I don't tame it a little. Like now, for instance:

I also appear to have a mysterious growth on my usually flat belly. Is this a phantom pregnancy I wonder....

Ah good times.. right, well back to sketchUp.... I won't be on properly until next tues so y'all have a lovely weekend and I'll let you know if I pop out the immaculately conceived monkeybaby by then. I shall name it Marmaduke Periwinkle-Symthe and we'll go shooting and horseriding and sneer a lot and laugh like this: HAW HAW HAW. It'll be magic.

Ok.. too much coffee...