Fri July 7, 2000 -

Last night wasn't exactly a warm evening for me and Morpheus.  He was at the gym when I got back and didn't get in until nearly 9 which upset me as I was hoping for a nice romantic evening in, just the two of us, but we had no food in and then I got shitty with him about some other thing, so we didn't speak for a couple of hours....you can imagine, not exactly the perfect evening.

So yeah sorry people, I just feel a bit low today, it won't last though as we're off this evening to Professor and Mary Anne's in Cold Springs for the weekend....can't wait, really looking forward to it, so I'd better cheer the fuck up before we go.

Sometime later.............

Ok I feel soooo much better I can't even begin to tell you.  I decided to go upstairs and run my sadness off and it worked completely.

I've packed way too much for a short weekend away, it's pathetic really but I do feel justified in my luggage.  This includes: rucksack with 3 tops, two pairs of shoes, two pairs of pants, two books.  Notepad computer, Prada handbag (please....anyway Mary Anne hasn't seen it), Straw Bag, Gift for Professor and Mary Anne, plus Pashmina and Jean Jacket.  There you go, not much there, oh yeah and my makeup bag with toiletries as well.  The toiletries are a problem I must confess, way too many different products for different parts of the body, good god, way too much....

So Candy has had a Ford Explorer this week for her own personal use, so we're driving to Cold Spring in that, the cargo includes: myself, Morpheus, Cricket, Professor, Mary Anne and Candy.  Oh boy, that's going to be some trip.........

Much later......

So we finally get to Cold Springs after a rather long laborious journey....I was sat in the front with Candy so it was fine with me....

The house looks beautiful, it's amazing what Professor and Mary Anne have done with the place, from the last time I saw it.  Me and Morpheus have our own room which is dead Martha Stewart looking, with a huge beautifully covered bed with lots of comfy, poofed up pillows (we have about 3 each), I never know how other people make their beds look so appetizing.  Ours looks crap, our pillows are old and knackered and have absolutely no poof in them at all, they just sad in the middle where our craniums go.....

I also want to know how other people keep their white sheets and pillows covers soooo WHITE???  I can spend a small fortune on new sheets and shams, then the first time I wash them they come back a pale dead looking colour...it's just crap, it really pisses me off.  I think the cleaner must probably put the sheets in with all our coloreds as well....silly cow!!

So after we'd all settled down we went into town, not far from the house, but far enough to take the car to a open air restaurant near the lake.  The lake appeared like a huge black sheet of glass and the mountains beyond it were breathtaking.  It's just aswell though that we had a great view from the natural surroundings because because some of the patrons in this place were particularly dodgy looking.  I don't know they just seemd to look like they were in a different time zone to us, in their dress and their hair styles (wow, some of them are so old fashioned they've passed around twice already).  A guy called Jim was serving us, who used to rent the house that Professor and Mary Anne now own, he's also a weird sort of chap, kept telling me that I'd caught too much sun and that I was SO RED.  Yeah right, fuck off and get me a Cosmopolitan.

The meal was ok, I've had better but I was so hungry, I'd of eaten anything.

Later on we went to Katherine's which is a cute little bistro that, guess what Katherine owns.  She's an ex New Yorker that was sick of the city life and moved up to Cold Springs and opened this bistro.  You could tell she was an ex-towny as the place was decorated very tastefully, with a 3 piece band playing fabulous tunes, with PROPER Cosmopolitans served.  A delightful place where I continued to get plastered and ended up crying on Candy's shoulder for some stupid reason.  I ALWAYS get emotional when I've had a few to drink.

Back at the house we were all up till the wee small hours drinking and chewing the cud....a great night to start with....