The Book of Ashes

Now 11:41AM

So anyway Gerry is noticing me bouncing off the walls and says I should go for a run just as it starts to pour down. I reply ""What? Run in this rain?"" and she gets excited and says ""YEAH! YEAH, I dare you!"" so I say sarcastically ""Double dog dare me?"" (I think thats off Stand By Me but not sure) and she goes ""YEAH, if you run now I'll, I'll do the dishes for a week"". Oh dear, silly move. I don't mind getting a little wet and even though I don't actually mind doing the dishes that much I can't let her away with such a rash bet as that. I must teach her a lesson so I say OK, just let me finish writing up my word for the day and I'll get changed out of my suit and I'm off. She starts to have doubts, realising that I'm actually going to do it and tries to back out with ""When I said week I meant till the end of this week"" which is only 1 or 2 days worth. No go, you're on them for an ENTIRE week I say and then I'm off out the door.

Well it was wet, it stopped raining as hard as it had been but it was still raining. I wore my jacket but the legs and head still got wet. I struggled towards the end but made it the whole way in 12mins 13secs, almost only 14 secs off a best time. Be happy to know that it hurt Gerry, but it was a good hurt. Now know that you will be doing the dishes for a week. Maybe next time you will think twice about what you bet. I like to help people out like this, you know, let them realise without hurting them that they shouldn't really be so rash.

What else is there to tell? Martin has gone to Dunners for a trip down memory lane. I imagine he'll get as pissed as he used to and get back the memory of all those black-outs he used to have. I have decided I wish to learn a proper dance. Gerry was trying to teach me a few salsa moves but I sucked at following her instructions. When you're told to wiggle your hips this just doesn't come easy to a guy. I don't even really have hips to wiggle, let alone have any experience with wiggling them. Anyway I can learn. There was a chick at Jo's work called Fiona who tried to teach me once but I was too pissed. Maybe I should ask her to help me. Also Gerry's friend Jackie does it a bit and may help out. Maybe we should have a salsa party? Well I gotta learn some moves first.

Well it looks like I'm catching up with Chris, Tijs & Brad on Saturday night (old Dunners friends) as Brad's back in town. Will probably go see the rugby or something. And yes I am still not drinking. Rockon. Damian and I have decided that a good name for a kid is Urok. So his friends would say Hey Urok, and he would say, I know! It appears that A Knights Tale is coming to the Embassy. I shall have to go there to see it. He shall rock your world. Indeed

Good mood, told Gerry the story of the Jungle Party 11:41AM

Thursday. I must have slept well. I woke up earlish. I wanted not for mortal food. I ate none. I played guitar and sang instead. I walked to work. I worked. I stopped for lunch but still was not hungry. I had a coffee. I went back to work. I fixed all my problems. I finished work. I became whole again...

It is funny how words can make your day. I read some yesterday and now my mind works for me again. I was given hope, whose words they were I do not know, if they were meant for me I do not know, but I have taken them anyway. I think my curry night out with the development team kept me full all the way till the next tea time. Usually I am starving by 10am, today I was just getting a little hungry by 6pm. This is how my body works at its most efficient. It doesn't really need that much food, but in the space of a day I get bored and eat and the wrong foods just make you hungrier later on down the track. Anyway I gave Damian a call and we went down to Arizona for a meal. It was a little embarrassing as we got a table and Damian says ""Dude, can I get you a drink."" and I'm like ""Yeah the usual thanks"" but the waiter guy says to me ""Whats the usual?"". Doh, I was real embarrassed to have to say ""Uhh raspberry and coke, but I'm not drinking at the moment."" He just gave me a funny look, man I feel a wuss saying raspberry and coke. Well I won spin the wheel so I had 3 of them and on top of my good day I was a little hyper. We went to a few bars after the meal and then off to the Grand for a few games of pool. I wanted to dance but there wasn't really anywhere to do it that early on in the night. So I came home and had a good long chat to Gerry about life. I was telling her about some of our parties and some of the weird shit that went down at them and realised that even though not much happens in my life (eg I haven't even snogged a chick since way earlier this year) when you tell it all at once its quite interesting. I was telling her of the cool Jungle party we had at the scody Roseneath Terrace flat (only $65 per week with free mould). Literally the section was a jungle and we just brought some of it inside to decorate the place. We didn't have any furniture and I drunk a bottle of scrumpy before anyone turned up. I remember walking outside over broken glass in bare feet and spewing outside with Damians now ex-girlfriend watching me. When I went to go to bed I had this Bi chick pretending to be asleep in my bed (she had a bit of a crush on me) and then the toilet had broken that night, refusing to flush so the next morning we found that someone had left a little present down the side of the house - nice one. I am so glad to be out of that flat, but still there is better stories from there, hehehe (sound of me chuckling silently in my head as I remember). Theres also the parties from this flat with Tammy (she who snogs more chicks than me) and her hawks bay friends. Very interesting nights indeed