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turpsChanning Tatum announced Magic Mike live, and I like his style.
Catching up. On Saturday night it was a party for a family friend. She'd ended chemo and radio for breast cancer a while back and wanted to celebrate being in remission. It was a good time, a disco, lots of buffet food and karaoke. Two girls tried to sing The Black Parade, which I give them props for because man, that's a hard song to attempt. The only bad part was mam went with us, and inevitably got too drunk by the end of the evening and caused hassle. As soon as she started on vodka I knew things would end badly, and sure enough, just past 11 she stormed off.
Sunday I went swimming \o/ I was so nervous beforehand. You don't want to know how many times I google imaged the pool and looked at the ladders, trying to work out if I could get out or not, not to mention stressing about wearing a costume in public and showing off my legs. But I could get out, quite easily in fact. With it being a hotel pool it was pretty quiet, and we spent about two hours in the pool, with quick tries of the steam room -- which I loved, the jacuzzi and sauna.
They also had good disabled changing facilities for the most part. It's a joint disabled/family changing room, and you go in one door into the room, and exit another straight onto the pool side. Which is excellent, except that door has about a foot high gap at the bottom, so if I helped James get dry and changed on the floor, which would be safest, the people in the pool would have been given a free show. In the end the attendant brought in a chair and covered it with a towel so that was fine. There was a fold down chair in the shower part of the room and the toilet, but neither were ideal for changing purposes.
Also, next time I need to take a bigger bag, or two bags. The one we had was fine for taking in two towels and costume and shorts, not so much when I had to take our clothes, shoes, towels, my usual bag and James' leg into the ladies changing rooms where the lockers were. And I really need to take in shampoo and shower gel. My hair was like a crazy thing the next day.
Monday it was Civil War day! I was talking to one of our favourite cinema people and he made me laugh by saying how he's been working at the midnight showing the Friday before, had gone in the staff room and saw Captain America getting changed. I thought he was leading up to some kind of joke but nope, they'd had cosplayers there, and he made me laugh again when he described Iron Man turning up too, so he'd left saying he wasn't an Avenger so should go.
As for the movie, I really enjoyed it and suspect we'll be going back to see it again soon.
Tuesday we went to the beach for the first time in a while and caught up on house stuff and grocery shopping. We didn't actually do anything exciting that day but it was still busy.
Yesterday we went to an early showing of Eye in the Sky which was really good and got both of us talking. It's one of those films where you walk out and think, what would I do? And I'm still not sure.Five Guys has just opened in the area so we tried that for dinner and I was underwhelmed. We shared a milkshake which was very sickly sweet and as I don't like to eat red meat, I got a veggie sandwich which turned out to be nothing more than a layer of button mushroom slices, a few jalapeños, some onion and two slices of tomato on a bun. For nearly £4 I expect much more than that. The fries tasted nice, though. Then it was off to the limb centre to pick up some new stump socks for James, and onto Asda as it was scout/explorer night and they were cooking pizzas, so we had to pick up the bases and fixings for that.
Today James was supposed to be back to work but he woke up ill and has had to call in. So now he's holed up on the couch being pitiful as I keep him supplied with hot tea. It is a beautiful day though, so I intend to go out in the garden soon and plant some more seeds.
Other random things. I had a good phone conversation with Corey last night. His course finishes in a week or so but he's staying on for a while until the majority of the students have finished. I don't blame him at all, his friends are there and better staying in halls and in the heart of Newcastle than coming home and having to travel back in to socialise.
And finally, GoT. Wow, that was an intense episode!
Catching up. On Saturday night it was a party for a family friend. She'd ended chemo and radio for breast cancer a while back and wanted to celebrate being in remission. It was a good time, a disco, lots of buffet food and karaoke. Two girls tried to sing The Black Parade, which I give them props for because man, that's a hard song to attempt. The only bad part was mam went with us, and inevitably got too drunk by the end of the evening and caused hassle. As soon as she started on vodka I knew things would end badly, and sure enough, just past 11 she stormed off.
Sunday I went swimming \o/ I was so nervous beforehand. You don't want to know how many times I google imaged the pool and looked at the ladders, trying to work out if I could get out or not, not to mention stressing about wearing a costume in public and showing off my legs. But I could get out, quite easily in fact. With it being a hotel pool it was pretty quiet, and we spent about two hours in the pool, with quick tries of the steam room -- which I loved, the jacuzzi and sauna.
They also had good disabled changing facilities for the most part. It's a joint disabled/family changing room, and you go in one door into the room, and exit another straight onto the pool side. Which is excellent, except that door has about a foot high gap at the bottom, so if I helped James get dry and changed on the floor, which would be safest, the people in the pool would have been given a free show. In the end the attendant brought in a chair and covered it with a towel so that was fine. There was a fold down chair in the shower part of the room and the toilet, but neither were ideal for changing purposes.
Also, next time I need to take a bigger bag, or two bags. The one we had was fine for taking in two towels and costume and shorts, not so much when I had to take our clothes, shoes, towels, my usual bag and James' leg into the ladies changing rooms where the lockers were. And I really need to take in shampoo and shower gel. My hair was like a crazy thing the next day.
Monday it was Civil War day! I was talking to one of our favourite cinema people and he made me laugh by saying how he's been working at the midnight showing the Friday before, had gone in the staff room and saw Captain America getting changed. I thought he was leading up to some kind of joke but nope, they'd had cosplayers there, and he made me laugh again when he described Iron Man turning up too, so he'd left saying he wasn't an Avenger so should go.
As for the movie, I really enjoyed it and suspect we'll be going back to see it again soon.
Tuesday we went to the beach for the first time in a while and caught up on house stuff and grocery shopping. We didn't actually do anything exciting that day but it was still busy.
Yesterday we went to an early showing of Eye in the Sky which was really good and got both of us talking. It's one of those films where you walk out and think, what would I do? And I'm still not sure.Five Guys has just opened in the area so we tried that for dinner and I was underwhelmed. We shared a milkshake which was very sickly sweet and as I don't like to eat red meat, I got a veggie sandwich which turned out to be nothing more than a layer of button mushroom slices, a few jalapeños, some onion and two slices of tomato on a bun. For nearly £4 I expect much more than that. The fries tasted nice, though. Then it was off to the limb centre to pick up some new stump socks for James, and onto Asda as it was scout/explorer night and they were cooking pizzas, so we had to pick up the bases and fixings for that.
Today James was supposed to be back to work but he woke up ill and has had to call in. So now he's holed up on the couch being pitiful as I keep him supplied with hot tea. It is a beautiful day though, so I intend to go out in the garden soon and plant some more seeds.
Other random things. I had a good phone conversation with Corey last night. His course finishes in a week or so but he's staying on for a while until the majority of the students have finished. I don't blame him at all, his friends are there and better staying in halls and in the heart of Newcastle than coming home and having to travel back in to socialise.
And finally, GoT. Wow, that was an intense episode!
