Why is it that I have weeks of having new songs and then all of a sudden several come along at once. For starters, having only listened to it in passing, I discovered to my pleasant surprise that the song "Runaway Train" was not Bon Jovi but a band called Soul Asylum. Bonus band explorage will ensue.

Holiday is progressing with requisite laziness. I feel I should be doing more work and even nipped over the the deserted school to pick up my mock papers and marking criteria instead of yelling at the internet next sunday for not having the answer booklets I so sorely need. I felt so organised and strangely creeped out by the lack of ANYBODY up in the English block. Felt like writing swear words over the board just because I could. I didn't.

Also had little brother come and visit and single-handedly sleep in three seperate beds thanks to social (gasp shock horror) things to do such as anime nights of wonderfulness. We had a pleasant few days commencing with the visiting of Ye Olde Manga Shoppe which proved to be a little on the disappointing side. Having been there several times in the previous months and come out with an urge to sell my own kidneys just to get MOAR manga love. This time it was two volumes and that was it. All my (ha-ha)saving and pondering on writing some pointless drivel came to nothing.

However the trip to the Japanese centre proved more profitable as I now have cooking chopsticks, a bunny plate for nibbles and a cat saucer which are very cute. Chinese Supermarket trip in Cambridge also proved profitable as they had banana mochi which I enjoy very much and everyone else seems to hate which means more win for me.

It is also a funny thing how I now get cravings for films. For weeks I have had the music, jokes and a good portion of the pointless dialogue from Shrek 2. I get the dvd, I watch the dvd, and for some reaosn I hoped for more. Even though I've seen the movie thousands of times I somehow wanted it to be just as great as my memory of it. I was sleepy though.

Car update - Took it to Kwik Fit to find out what needs doing on the car after the garage I got it from "forgot" to include the advisory note that came with the MOT they put on it. Six things need doing apparently, although lucky for me the kiwk fit guys didn't think so except for one: there was a hole in the exhaust the size of my fist and when the exhaust was removed and it dropped to the floor and the back box split open like a chocolate easter egg. One replaced exhaust and suddenly my car is a whole lot quieter. Feel like a right ding dong for not noticing sooner.
I then decided to wax the car to protect it in the weather and yuck and whilst was merrily painting it on, noticing the twitching of net curtains. I live in such a nosy neighbourhood.

Oh well I have three lunch dates to look forward to next week.