Sat Aug 26, 2000 -

Morpheus woke up in a grumpy mood today, he's worried about our place back in Manchester because it's sitting empty and costing us a shit load of month every month that it is empty.  It's pretty annoying, but then he needs to call the realtors and growl at them, and not be impatient with me, just because I didn't wake up feeling as depressed as he did.

Anyhow I left him to ponder while I showered and headed out to The Gap.  I can't remember or not whether I've mentioned my endless search for the perfect pair of leathers pants but I ended up choosing the ones from Gap.  Now I know they may not be as cool as Calvin Kleins, or well made as Michael Kors but for $178 instead of $378, I'll be happy with Gap leathers.  So I initially tried on the reddish brown pair which fitted me great and made my arse look fabulous, but then when I wore them one evening to a friends birthday, I couldn't find anything to go with them, you see I really don't have that many tops in the reddish brown category or even close for that matter.  So I took them back, completely lied about the fact that I hadn't worn them and got the black ones instead.  Now you see I've already got a pair of black leather pants that I've had for nearly 10 years but the arse has gone and they look crap.  So I thought that black leathers would be safe, however, because they're ONLY Gap black leathers they don't look that good.  They're too shiny and the belt loops rip as soon as you try and pull them up, also my arse didn't look so hot in them.  So back THEY went, I finally picked the Olive Green ones which people look absolutely fabulous and fit like a glove......like they say, "the grass is always greener on the other side".   Now all I need to do is go out and buy some forestry coloured tops.......

This afternoon was total crash out on the sun deck time.  Morpheus went off and worked out...yeah yeah, good for him.  I on the other hand couldn't be bothered and fell fast asleep whilst getting a lovely tan.

This evening we went to Petite Albeille across the street for dinner, I love this place because it's small, intimate and a great people watching place.  We always see someone that we know walking by, in fact today we saw the Professor on his way to work looking very happy with himself bouncing down the street...he's such a sweetie.  The we saw "the thing", my god she was scary....big black woman, quite young, but absolutely huge, wearing a tight short black dress, with some kind of long black netting over it that came down to her knees.  I'm not sure what the required effect  was supposed to be but she just came across looking like a big fish caught in a net walking down the street.  Even another guy in the restaurant had to cover his face when she came towards us.  There truly isn't anything like sitting in an outside restaurant or cafe 'people watching' it truly is one of my best things to do.

After dinner we back and watched "Romeo Must Die".  Morpheus has wanted to see this movie forever, so we did and yeah it was pretty crap, very Matrixy in it's effects, acting was very macho and gangsterish, but it wasn't too bad to watch.  Jet Li was the main character in it, he's got an adorable little face and moves like the wind...very cute.  It's very loosely based on Romeo and Juliet as in there's two rival families, in this film it's a black family and an asian one.  One son gets killed then revenge is taken and the other gets killed....you know the deal.  Anyway that was it really, the goodies survive and the bad guys get killed....finito!!

Yeah it has been a quiet day, but glorious, everyone needs down time, we do too much partying, a break is definitely needed.  Especially as I'm off to London soon and there's absolutely no way I'll be getting quiet time there....