Friday evening, had a really chilled out one. Friend brought a coupla of DVD's round so we had a couple of beers and watched them. Due to having a fairly late night on Thursday (which involved the badness) was fairly tired so crashed pretty early. Did manage to watch the IT crowd, new sitcom from Father Ted guy. Thought it was pretty good all in all, bearing in mind it usually takes me a while to warm up to new characters etc in a comedy, found a few bits really funny (especially the scene with the fire - the set up with the phone number was pretty good and evoked memories of set ups from FT).

Saturday in the day, I was looking after my niece again. Picked her up in the morning from ballet classes which I got to early in order that I could a) look at the cuteness which is my niece dancing and b) look at the cuteness which is her ballet teacher dancing. We went and grabbed a post dancing drink (me hot chocolate, her chocolate milkshake) then got the bus back to my sisters. We then had a thoroughly competitive afternoon playing Guess Who (which my niece thought was pronounced 'Guess Woo' until I explained the whole wh thing), followed by Dora Scrabble and finally the Barbie Princess game (the rules to which frankly escaped me). Whilst she had a nap, I cleaned out my sisters goldfish (which appeared to be trying to throw itself out of its filthy water) and also deiced the freezer bit on her fridge (mainly as there were mini-milks in there and I couldn't get the door open to get at them).

Saturday evening, went to the pub for a couple pints with a mate, then back round to mine for another quiet evening in and another early night.

Sunday, C came round to help me lay the new flooring in my bathroom. Now, if I do say so myself, we have done a very professional job, hardly anywhere can you spot any joins, even round the fiddly to cut bits.

All in all a very sensible, constructive weekend.

DVD Reviews
Jarhead. Thought this was very very good. Loved the fact that there was very little violence and loved the performance by Jake Gyllenhal. Thought the guy who played his spotter was excellent (the actor whose name escapes me is also in another favourite of mine Garden State and is excellent in that also). Don't want to issue any spoilers but would recommend thoroughly as a surprisingly honest hollywood depiction of US army life.
Lord of War. Bit older this one so not going to worry too much about spoilers. Basically, I thought this was disappointing. Still thought it was good but thought the potential was there to be excellent. I think there was too much emphasis on the black comedy (eg his brother) and not enough was done with Yuris moral ambiguity. Brilliant, brilliant (horrible) opening sequence though.

Women.
Convoluted as ever. Despite only seeing her twice and being at serious pains not to rush into anything, am getting lots of scary texts and calls from the Spanish girl. Everytime shes off work (even if its for a couple of hours) she calls me to see if I'm free. Yesterday, I didn't reply to a text she sent because I was in the middle of doing my bathroom floor. By the time I picked my phone up I had 2 further texts asking if she had done anything wrong and if I was upset with her. I received a further text at 2:30am this morning saying she missed me and wished she was with me. SEEN HER TWICE. For fucks sake. Am going to tell her I can't see her anymore as she seems keen for something more than I want. Arrggghh.

C was very helpful doind the floor yesterday, fortunately she is pretty arty and was able to do the tricksy cuts with relative ease. As recomspense I made her some dinner which we ate together whilst watching Peep Show on DVD. Had to make myself not watch her instead. Sigh. I have asked her if she is free sometime next week for a couple of beers in order to non-aggresively keep pushing my cause. Must not propose, must not propose, must not propose.

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