Retroexposure

Chapter 20 - February 1

FEBRUARY
Friday 1st February 2008 2:08pm
Coming down with a cold again. I think the central heating of the house dried out the atmosphere in the lounge last night, so I went to bed with a sore throat. It's been very cold today, apparently we are to expect some snow later. Not sure about that because it's been the sunniest day in weeks! If it wasn't for the fairly strong winds, I'd have cleaned out the rabbit but he'll have to wait again. Mum's been laid up again with diarrhoea, so the shopping that we planned to do today will have to wait till tomorrow. So in the mean time I've been playing on my football manager game and reading a book.
I think DAC's angry with me! I've tried to break it to her gently that getting engaged isn't the best idea. She wanted to know what changed my mind. I just told that there was no need to be engaged to prove commitment to each other. You see, it was her that wanted to be engaged to prove her commitment to me. I asked her why that was, was she scared that she might cheat on me again? I haven't heard from her since!! 2:17pm
2:25pm
The joke for February:
A fella wins the lottery and decides to buy himself a Harley Davidson motorcycle. He goes down to local bike shop and after purchasing a top of the range model, the owner of the shop tells him to coat the bike in Vaseline every time it looks like rain.
That night he goes to pick his girlfriend up on his new toy and heads over to her parents' house for the first time. As they arrive there she explains to him that whenever they have dinner, nobody talks. "If you talk you have to wash the pots" she tells him.
So the family sit down for dinner, not saying a word. The man decides to take advantage of the situation and gropes his girlfriend's tits and there's not a sound from anyone. So he decides to shag his bird on the table and still nobody says anything. He then proceeds to shag his girlfriend's mum over the table but still, amazingly there's not a word from anyone.
Just at that moment, he notices rain on the kitchen window, and remembers his precious motorbike, so he reaches into his pocket and flops his Vaseline out. At which point his girlfriend's dad leaps up and shouts, "OK, OK! I'LL do the frigging pots!"
There were a few edits in the joke, but you can guess what the true words were without much thought! 2:41pm

Monday 4th February 2008 1:29pm
I've had a lousy weekend fighting a cold and a sore throat. Not only that, but I'm really pissed off with the job centre too. Whoever it was that I saw last Tuesday, forgot to process my signature, so I never got paid on Friday. It gets kind of embarrassing when you're standing there realising the problem, with the taxi driver that took you to the post office to get your money. And which, at that moment in time, you don't have any money to pay the fare. Anyway, we went back and had to raid the tin, but I was furious. It's about the fourth time that has happened to me now in the last 2 years. It's not on.
It did snow in the early hours of Saturday, but I was disappointed that it didn't last longer! I was awake at 3am when it started, and initially it looked like it was going to snow quite a bit, but after about 15 minutes of blizzard conditions, the clouds had passed and that was it!
Last night, or the early hours of this morning, depending how you look at it, I saw the whole of an NFL Superbowl American football game for the first time! I usually only see part of it or tape it! But not only that I was watching it while talking with a mate via Facebook who was watching it at the same time too! I think that's what kept us both awake to the end! Sadly, for my mate, his team, the New England Patriots, lost to the New York Giants, 17-14. I'd predicted that score before the match had started, but I favoured the Patriots as they had gone a whole season without losing. I can understand why Americans love the sport. Apart from the third quarter, which was a bit dull, the rest of the match, especially the final quarter was amazing! I've always played NFL on my PS2, specifically the Madden NFL games, but never really understood how to play it. I still don't. Mum asked me what the NFL was, and all I could say was that it was like rugby, but with shoulder pads and helmets!
Irritatingly, I had a nosebleed today, for the first time in almost a year. Sometimes I can have several over a few days; I just hope that this isn't one of those times. Check you later! 1:49pm