Lazy Bones

The Little Paris Kitchen

Rachel Khoo is living the life I want! All I need is £5,365 pounds to undertake the basic patisserie training at cordon bleu, ha!

Washing Machine

has broken and typically Harriet seems to have deleted the email with the 1 year guarantee on it so we’ll have to do some begging. For Pete’s sake.

Crit yesterday went well, made the last few long days in the studio worth it. Now I must kick it up a gear and get stuff done now that I can then just bank away until needed in May. Four years and numerous crits later and I still hate them, I don’t think I’ll ever get over my public speaking fear, however I really liked yesterday’s ‘critics’, they weren’t aggressive like others I watched.

Need to do some food shopping, long days in the studio muck up my eating big time and I need me some vitamins!

Also need me my boyfriend back, not too long now I think, a couple of weeks maybe? Still no date to countdown to. He accused me of cheating on him, just a simple ‘Have you cheated on me?’ by text, when drunk as well to add insult to injury. At least I know he still doesn’t trust me, but there’s not a lot more I can do besides becoming a recluse and he probably wouldn’t want to date me then. Plus I would rather not become a hermit - I’m pretty independent, but not that independent.

Sorry Bunce, but your instincts are wrong this time.

The past couple of weeks

have absolutely flown by! Maybe there is something in this going to studio everyday lark (except for today, I just couldn’t bring myself to be in there for 7 consecutive days!) I was the only one in my studio yesterday and it was fairly bizarre. In a nice way though. Looking for material precedent for my Health Hub design - I want warm and sustainable materials, I’m seeing copper, I’m seeing timber… Handily, copper has antibacterial properties! Who knew… Everyone except me I imagine.

I’ve started tweeting regularly now, my iphone enabling it. I think I’m ‘shellyharper’ if anyone wishes to follow me/spy on me.

Weather is beautiful today, if only it were warm enough to go without a coat! I’ve got to remind myself it’s February still, not June. Did some spring cleaning this morning because to me it is now officially Spring! Partay!

Quick recap of couple of weeks… Saw Milton Jones at a comedy night, such a great night! Got surprises flowers for Valentines. Saw the family and dogs at home, twas lovely! Went out to Motown Night, my kinda music and should definitely be played more. Walked up Widcombe Hill TWICE! (It’s a big ass hill) Explored colour in Life Drawing class and my efforts were described as fantastic :D Bought The Times and Grazia for the first time in a long time and very enjoyable they were to read too. Read the first two books in The Hunger Games trilogy and OMG! Read them if you haven’t. Trying to pace myself with the final one. On a related note, Kindle’s are really good, I may be a techie convert…

On the boyfriend front, he’s been gone for a month now, I’ve been keeping myself busy so it’s gone by speedily and the missing him isn’t as bad as I was expecting. The fact that he works mornings and evenings and I want to knuckle down in the daytime, compounded with his lack of internet means the only real communication system we’ve got going is texts, which is pretty lame. We do call, but for some reason I’m reluctant to call him first. Might be because everytime I have done previously he’s been busy, instilling the idea that he has this totally awesome lifestyle and is always busy and that I’m just dull sat here wanting to hog his time. Actually, it’s pretty clear that’s definitely the reason. Plus he sometimes suggests skype, but never materialises so I’m past taking those suggestions seriously.

Basically, he’s enjoying his indepedence like I knew he would and he does his best to keep in touch I’m sure, but it’s just the not the same really. And naturally I’m quite missing the physical side of things, the flippin’ Kenco Millicino or whatever advert, the one where the couple can’t keep their hands of each other (until they spill the coffee) well just the 5 seconds of fake physical contact between those two made my heart pang (yes my heart, not my…)

Dammit, I was in such a good mood at the beginning of this blog session! It’s not all bad though, more free time to spend with other people/doing my own thing is fairly nice, maybe we did get a little bit intense last term? And then of course all sorts of questions about our future crop up, predominantly what happens when I leave Bath? Eurgh, should not have opened this can of worms!

And on that note, I must go and socialise, which will undoubtedly stop my mind from wandering to where it shouldn’t.

Never thought

I’d see the day that I enjoyed listening to Alexisonfire, but it has arrived! Anything goes these days folks.

Happy Birthday to my lovely boyfriend, sadly I can’t be with him, though I’m sure he’ll have a splendid day in Morzine - much more exciting than anything Bath could offer I reckon! It was great to see his face on skype on friday night, couldn’t help but smile like a goon, I don’t think I realised how much I missed him until then, him not having internet or a webcam sucks big time baby.

A slight hangover’s making me come over all pensive. I think the solution may lie in eating something stodgy - might rustle up a batch of risotto. And then maybe some work, could be a tad ambitious though…

Oh lords

I miss my boyfriend.