Watercooler 0: Nothing Is A Problem For Me

Morning everybodypeeps! Is the person coming to see you the person you went to visit recently, FP? If so, I hope that all continues to work out well for you both :)

I am looking forward to the weekend too - my husband is taking me off to Bath for a dirty weekend to do some Christmas shopping on Friday and Saturday. Two whole days without kids!

But I'd rather choose pictures of my cute bandmates.

Ah. No.

We've been married for yonks, so a 'dirty weekend' for us usually just means one where we get very muddy taking the dog for a walk across the fields. Hopefully, it won't be like that this weekend (we are not taking the dog with us).

Including me, I think sometimes.

La la la, the list of books I've read before I die took up some time. Kinda crap list, though. (And quite, quite male, but that's to be expected.)

that I should actually TALK to him.

Utterly absurd! I could never do that!

no, i just meant the specific women-authored books on that list (a fair number of which now seem reasonably obscure to me).

Besides, whenever I try to talk to a cute boy, my brain totally malfunctions, and I either start going "ugh, me like you, want give you thing, ugh" like a cavewoman who has no concept of speech or else I start immediately tearing off about 4 dimensional modular forms or something completely indecipherable.

No, it's all a very bad idea.

This sometimes works.

Because I'm painfully useless with men?

I'll do a sad.

:-(

stet divvying out mod privs. Pash + whoever Pash added.

I'd be good. I promise!

How am I supposed to keep the NERVOUS EXCITEMENT under control for the next hour?

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003TBG.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

(although the one in the mirror isn't!)

Boycrush Pusher

Totally crushed out, infatuated beyond a doubt
Prettiest boy I ever saw, every time I see him wanna be around him more
Gosh, I catch him smiling every time I look
Wanna scribble his name in my notebook

Catch myself spinning reams of awful teenage poetry
A thousand different rhymes for how lovely he looks recently
Tousled blond hair blue eyes beneath
Every time he looks at me I forget how to breathe

Chorus:
Peter make me feel 15 years young
Peter make me feel there's still silly love songs to be sung
Prettiest boy I ever saw
Every time I see him wanna be around him more
Infatuated beyond a doubt
Totally crushed out

Stutter mutter mumble cough if I try to talk I embarrass myself
Open my mouth, there's no sound I'm finding lame excuses just to hang around
Why won't my brain behave like it ought?
He robs my mind of intelligent thought

Chorus

Don't dare to dream or think what comes next
Wouldn't wanna ruin this with sex
Never get old, never get bored, never have to worry about being disloyal
Unrequited love never has to spoil

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Lollies

Dammit, I'm trying to download an MP3 of Boycrush Pusher but everywhere wants me to register. DUDE, I AM NOT GOING TO PAY *YOU* TO DOWNLOAD A SONG THAT *I* NEVER GAVE YOU THE RIGHTS FOR!

Statistic of the day: about 8% of the Lollies tracks played by Last.FM users were played by me since I signed up for it - 32 plays out of 440 total.

Last night was fun.

It was all a bit awkward, of course, as it always is when it's not only a first date, but a first meet too. But then, we were standing on the station platform saying our goodbyes. The train was starting from here, so it had been standing there a while. There hadn't been any shouts or whistles or anything, when we both suddenly noticed: the door lights had gone out. And as we were both saying "Oh - shit...", the engines revved up and it pulled out of the station.

It was only half-eight, but that was very definitely the last train of the evening that went anywhere near the right direction. And it was, frankly, by far the biggest ice-breaker we could have had. Never mind the awkward conversations about how we feel and what sort of relationship we're looking for; that was all out of the window, and things were suddenly all relaxed.

I've just started the whole dating thing in earnest (thanks to the previously mentioned msf - http://www.mysinglefriend.com/detail.php?|=zefqrefghcd ) and meeting people is terrible. I can never do the ice breaking thing very well - I never really know what to talk about. I've never been good at small-talk, and big-talk can't be just launched into on a 1st date - so what's going on? EEEK! The last date I went on was lovely in a "met new cool person" kind of way, but still no fancying going on. Hurumph. Who's got advice on the whole "meeting people is easy" thing? What do I talk about on dates? This is REALLY hard!

Who went to Kate's shindig last night? Need people to report back on and tell me what I missed :(

Yes, we got Dave and PBW to dance onstage with us. Suzy has pictures, I think.

Dumped my guitars back at the office and drank until 3 in a funny handshake bar. Talked to PBW some. He's more fucked up than I ever imagined. He went home with another girl. I should feel devastated, but all I feel is... well... I'm in love with the world again, for having boys like him in it.

I'm just utterly and completely smitten, in a "god, I just want to write songs about you" way. Which is the best way of all.

I think so :-)

JB, we had already been talking on the phone a lot over the past week or so, so we knew enough about each other already to have a fair amount to talk about. But that only works with a few people, I think.

That's the thing I forogt abotu dating - the pressure to have fun and be likeable/witty/etc. I'm an easy going guy, I don't need pressure!

Pretty much shot the rest of the evening for me - burned in shame for about 30 minutes and then left.