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Date: 30 July 2010 23:07:27
First the mad dash into the big city. I still can hardly believe I live near enough to London to "pop in for coffee" - surreal! But it was extremely nice to see several lovely shippie people, albeit fleetingly as I had to leave to get back for my afternoon shift. This is the life, though. I could have got some lovely photos, if only my SD card hadn't gone mysteriously missing. ("SMUDGE-LE-E-ET!!!") The sun shone, the coffee was just the right strength for my liking, and I managed to resist the temptation to have a chelsea bun.
Then the mad dash back to work (via the flat for a toilet stop!), just in time to find myself drafted in to blow up balloons. Now isn't that better than SATs tests and league tables? It was party night tonight and we had fun! It's lovely when one's work is just like being part of a big family. Also lovely when the kids spend so much energy on partying that they're all ready for bed nice and early and fall straight to sleep!
Then finally the mad dash home to go into the ship cafe for a reunion of all the cafe folk of the dim and distant past. Weird, actually - it seems a long time ago those crazy cafe days. But lovely to catch up with people once again and to find myself once more at the computer at pumpkin hour, forgetting the stresses of everyday life and rediscovering those carefree days just a little bit. Good to break ice, too, in several ways. Goodness knows how I'll wake in time to get the place tidy for the babysitter tomorrow, though. Wish I had never had the genius idea of taking advantage of the Smudgelet's absence to empty all the boxes all over the flat. Tomorrow will end up being a mad dash to repack everytthing ready for next time he goes away!!! But still, having fun was... well... quite simply too much fun to miss, and the housework will still be there tomorrow.