Harry Potter!

We saw The Half Blood Prince on Saturday. I don't know why but we booked for the 10:45pm showing, which means it wasn't over until about 1:30am. Normally, I wouldn't mind but I had yet to recover from my 13 hour work day on Friday! And then, this morning, I was woken up by a bunch of Canadian Geese honking like crazy at 5am! It was really weird, they would carry on for a few minutes, then be quiet for a few minutes, just long enough for me to start drifting back to sleep before honking away again! It even woke Steve up and he admitted it was very strange, he said something along the lines of "There must be a tsunami coming". I was too tired to tell him birds would just fly away, not stand there honking. Although geese are pretty dumb...

So needless to say, I haven't had much sleep recently! And you all know how I love my sleep so I have not been a happy camper. Anyway, back to Harry Potter...

I'm ashamed to admit I don't remember much from the book! I'm going to have to reread the last two books. So I was sort of watching it from a non-reader point of view and it was really, really good. Steve hasn't read the books and thought it was the best Harry Potter movie so far. Don't want to give anything away so I won't say much more. But I've heard the last book is actually going be split between two movies and I'm very excited about that because I was disappointed the whole thing is nearly over! Though I'm sure it would seem overwhelming to people who didn't read the books, I honestly think most of the books could have benefited from being split into two movies.

Been a while

Sorry, I haven't posted in so long. I wish I could say we've been really busy but in fact, our lives are just that boring, I had nothing to post about, lol. But now I do.

Last night Salford had a game so it was our usual 13 hour work day and not surprisingly, it was RAINING. And we lost. I haven't processed the photos from it either so that's about it for that topic.

Today, there was a City friendly being played in South Africa and they aired it on a big screen at the City stadium. It was also the opening of the new shop and release of the new shirt. They advertised it as "family fun" and were supposed to have lots of activities there so I went along but the whole thing was very disappointing. In terms of "family fun", they had soccer kick game set up (you know, kick the ball and try to hit a target), a man on stilts making balloon animals and a face painter. I thought it would be more than that - more games or maybe even rides. So we decide to go into the new shop but as we round the corner, there was such a long ling to get in, we decided to skip it. We were hearing some engine noises and wanted to check it out - I think it was a motorbike race - but it was £10 each to get in so we axed that as well, lol. The only thing left was to watch the game on the big screen. Only trouble was, they couldn't get the satellite working! Took them 32 minutes after the game had started to get it working. We stayed until half time but it was threatening to rain so we got out of there. All that to watch 13 minutes of the game! But I did manage to snap some pictures so here they are (Aoife was very grumpy!):

Comedy

Yesterday was the last day for one of the guys from the community department at the Salford City Reds so everyone from work went out to a comedy club to say farewell to him. The comedy club had something of a game where a bunch of amateurs did a few minute stand up bit but 3 members of the audience were given big cards to hold up when they wanted the comedian (or so-called comedian!) to stop. Once all three people put their card up, the comedian had to leave the stage. Those that made it the designated time without getting voted off went into the next round. Sort of like Britain/America's Got Talent.

But before the game started, there were two comedians on that were the winners from previous nights. They were okay but the best comedian was actually the host of the night - the guy who introduced each act, explained how the game worked, talked to people in the crowd inbetween acts, etc.

The first comedian of the game was pretty good but everyone after that was just terrible. No one was laughing and yet 2 of them went through to the next round! I couldn't believe it. The last act was two women and they were the worst - they did a bit where one read from her "diary" while the other acted it out. I guess they were trying to do something like on Whose Line Is It Anyway but it just wasn't funny. No one was laughing and 2 of the 3 card people put theirs up... the third refused to do so! And I remember she really wanted a card so we wondered if she knew the double act and wanted a card so her friends wouldn't get voted off. How annoying.

Happy 4th of July from England!

Tonight, Amanda and I are going to Ladies Night! Another one of the players is celebrating his 10th year with the team and it's customary for him to hold several events for it. There's a fancy dinner dance one, a golf day, a ladies night, etc.

So anyway, I decided to go shopping for something to wear last minute and while at the Trafford Centre, Selfridges (a department store) had a bunch of American food brands you don't normally find over here for the 4th of July! Steve tells me they always have this stuff at Selfridges (they just had it out on the front display for Independence Day) but I'm sure if I'd known that, I would have taken advantage of it before now!

On another happy note, Salford had a surprising win last night against St Helens - haven't had time to process the pics from it yet but for now, here's a picture of all the American foods I got at Selfridges (yes, that's our couch in the background). I'm now off to get ready for Ladies Night - hopefully I'm not too worse for wear tomorrow for webcam! lol

What is going on?

Illness update!

I feel fine now but I still have this cough and it's not getting better.

But Steve is sick yet again! About 5 weeks ago, he got a really bad cold, the week after that he was feeling better but still had a nagging cough (just like where I am now). I bugged him to go to the doctor because with the cough, his cold had lasted more than 2 weeks and you know Mom's 2 week rule (my cold is about a week and a half so I still have some time). But he didn't go until the 3rd week, when he suddenly started feeling sick again. The doctor said he had a chest infection and prescribed him antibiotics. But he finished the antibiotics a week ago so now it's the 5th week and he still has a little bit of a cough and yesterday, suddenly had a sharp pain in his throat. Since it was a game night, the team doctor was there and told Steve his lymph nodes are swollen and his throat is "red raw" - he instructed to see his GP on monday and get a swab of his throat done so that is the plan.

Hopefully, I don't continue to follow Steve's pattern.

We were supposed to babysit Aoife tonight but I don't think that's going to happen. I feel okay but the last thing I want is to give this horrible cold to little Aoife!

As for the game, we lost horribly but I think I got some good pictures, I haven't gone through them yet.

Spiders everywhere!

Why is our balcony like a spider colony? I went out there and saw a few so I got the bug spray but then a few more crawled out nearby so I just started spraying all over the railing and spiders started crawling out everywhere! There was easily 20 of them and one was HUGE, it was a nightmare! I think I got all of them except this one which was hiding on the other side of the railing and I don't want to reach over the edge.

Still sick!

Well, our water came back on around 4pm Friday but I haven't posted about it because I've been sick all weekend. I'm feeling better than I did on Friday but today, I have no voice. Fun stuff.

The building management say there still needs to be repairs done on the pipes but they did not say they'd be shutting off the water again. I have a sneeky suspicion they will though. After all, the ceiling in our hallway where the elevators are has been leaking water all weekend - that can't be a good sign. There's 4 buckets out there to catch it but it's already ruined the carpet and stained the ceiling so I'm sure that will all have to be replaced once the water is finally fixed. There is a lovely damp smell in the hallway, luckily it hasn't reached inside the apartment. Oh, and did I mention we can't use the trash shoot on our floor for some reason? We have to go up to floor six. What a mess this has all caused.