Drifting

Work is the same as usual, I have a coworker who keeps scaring me with his realistic toy rat, it makes me scream whenever he tricks me into looking at it. Another coworker always bring me sweets, I can’t believe someone would care enough about me to drop £1 on sweets for me every day.

I’ve booked a week off work next week, it’s just because I don’t want to wait too long and be unable to book off a straight week. Work itself is very relaxing, I’m doing less work now that I’ve become more comfortable just throwing more of it at the person who does my job during the day.

In my personal life, I’ve just been playing Elden Ring, along with 11 million other people around the world. I like the grinding aspect of the game. I’m playing as a sorcerer, throwing spells at enemies from afar rather than engaging them head on. I’ve put in almost 70 hours now.

My driving lessons are so so, I’ve had 27 lessons and my driving instructor says I’m performing at the level of someone who’s had around 17. The test is less than 2 months away now, my root canal is next month. I think I’ve put on weight, I tried pulling on some old jeans and I couldn’t get one pair on and the other really hurt my waist.

That’s dinner sorted then

I am shocked and appalled at myself for the lack of update on my blog last week, I thought I had posted one but I was misremembering a Discord post I made. The highlight of last week was heading into work and being told by a colleague that they had a hot tip for me that I’m going to love them for, I was suspicious but the tip was on the money, he told me I could purchase 12 high end doughnuts for only £2.50.

I handed my money over to the man he pointed out and a few hours later he came down with a box, I opened the box and to my surprise and delight the box contained 12 smaller boxes of doughnuts, each box containing 4 each. I dug into 4 and at the end of my shift I was informed I had chocolate on my face, I appreciate being told but resent not being told sooner.

I played “Titanfall 2” last weekend, I don’t like multiplayer 3rd person shooters but the campaign’s in these things are usually fun. I felt quite sick during that weekend though too so didn’t accomplish anything. The next weekend I played Elden Ring, it’s a light and relaxed experience for me since I’m playing with magic instead of being a melee character, I keep my distance and hit with powerful spells to kill with a few hits, there’s also lots of grinding and checklist stuff, I enjoy making the numbers go up.

I plan to look for a house again very soon, I need to buy a place before the prices go up again, the lowest priced houses are at my budget of £120,000 unless I want to buy a new build for £145,000. New builds tend to be smaller and for that money could buy a nicer older house but the new build comes with a low deposit mortgage.

As for television, I’m watching the new Catherine Tate sitcom “Hard Cell”, I think it’s funny but the reviews disagree. It’s set in a women’s prison and Catherine Tate plays multiple characters.

I missed the /britfeel/ Spring meetup, it’s just not possible with my current working situation, I hear it was a riot and regret missing the occasion.

Alone at the Show

Last Friday I went to say Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of “War of the World’s” with my cousin, I booked the day off work specially. My cousin is going through a divorce and left her newborn son with the father who was complaining about not seeing him. The show was great, I really need to get back to watching live shows and listening to more music, it really evoked emotion in me. My cousin and I gossiped a bit about my sister’s upcoming wedding and things of that nature.

My cousin left less than an hour into the show, she claimed it was because the baby wouldn’t settle, I was disappointed as she’d just wasted an £80 ticket but the situation was out of her control. My favourite song from the show was the last one.

The next morning my sister barged into my room without warning and shouted at me she said that my cousin was “chatting shit” about her and that I’d told her about her. My mother overheard and tried defending me but my sister just attacked her instead. My mother then tried speaking to my cousin but then word reached my sister about that and she became even more irate as now my cousin knew my sister knew and that someone told her. My sister’s tirade involved calling my mother a child for not being able to be civil to my father, saying I was trying to be some kind of woman and referencing my other sisters relationship to a white man. It seems she thinks she’s better than us but she’s right where she belongs. This encounter was very distressing and I’m glad it’s over. There are rumours that the guy my sister is marrying has some white ancestry but I find that hard to believe given what I’ve heard about their religious views.

The weekend felt long because I booked the Friday as holiday from work, I also didn’t have any new video games to play, I looked through my PS Plus collection and I’m giving Titanfall 2 another go. I have used Amazon credit to get a £10 discount on Elden Ring too but the cardboard sleeve containing the game was a bit damaged so I’m returning it for a replacement, I paid for new copy and that’s what I’ll get

My shifts at work have changed, my pay is apparently going up to £11.02 an hour and hours reduced to 7.5 a day, my total pay for a year is alleged to be around £24,500.

My most recent driving lesson went OK, I was previously told that I wasn’t looking, I was just driving. I think I’ve improved a bit, watching out for signs and leaning to the left, speeding and checking the mirror are still problems though. My driving instructor often shares stories which I enjoy, his heart attack, how he almost became a footballer but his parents were in Pakistan during the tryouts, how his brother almost became a footballer but didn’t because of racism but had a goal featured on a Sky Sports highlights show when he was playing for a league 7 team.