New Adventures

If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll know that today is my first Thursday of blogging, so why not use Thursdays for keeping everyone updated about my previous week’s adventures? So here we go…

Friday

Gareth invited us all around to his house for a healthy game of poker, which we all love, and a few beers. Problem was that Gareth only had rubbish beer, so he and Donovan sat there drinking and trying to convince themselves that they were enjoying it. It only worked for Gareth, because he had about 3 in quick successions, while Donovan wasn’t as successful, giving up after about 15 minutes.

We played a round, and then decided to go out to shoot some pool. Now, I’m not very good at pool, but I always enjoy it, even if I do usually lose. [I’d like to use the chance to point out that the only game I actually enjoy is poker, the rest of them I don’t really bother with.] I got us all a round of Hunter’s, because we actually drink it rather than horrible beer, and started playing. There was however one large problem. Donovan and I couldn’t figure out why our drinks were disappearing so fast? Turns out Gareth had been so drunk he’d been drinking our drinks and not noticing the difference. As a result Gareth had about 2 ciders, while Donovan and I had about half each.

Feeling quite cheated, I decided to get myself my favorite drink of all time: Jack and lime. After being browbeaten for a while because my drink is so ‘awful’ we played the tie breaker game of pool. 4 – 4 to each team. Donovan and I were stripes, while Gareth [quite drunk at this stage] and Justin were solids. Eventually it came down to the black ball. I took quite a difficult shot, and managed to sink it in the corner pocket, only to realize that I’d sunk the white ball too. Crap. Guess it’s just not my night…

Time to leave, but I need to quickly run off to the can. As I got back we left, and not 5 minutes later did I realize that I’d forgotten to return the chalk and white ball, losing my R20 deposit. Oh well… Heading back to Gareth’s house, we had a cup of coffee, which was great, and Donovan convinced me to play a game of chess with him [he’s addicted to games], which I was winning until I managed to do something weird and ended up messing up the game. I choose to believe that I won though.

Saturday

The day started well for me, waking up at about 11 or so. I hung out until just before 3, knowing that I was going to be doing a lot of driving in the evening. Let’s just document my travels quickly:

My house to Matt’s
Matt’s to Constantia to pick up Tessa
Tessa’s house to Matt’s house
Matt’s house to Mike’s house
Mike’s house to Justin’s house
Justin’s house to Gareth’s house
Gareth’s house to Pick n Pay
Pick n Pay to Table View AOG
Table View AOG to Lisa’s farm near Malmesbury
Lisa’s farm near Malmesbury to Mike’s house
Mike’s house to McDonalds
McDonalds to Val’s House in Kraaifontein
Val’s house in Kraaifontein to Gareth’s house
Gareth’s house to Matt’s house
Matt’s house to Tessa’s house in Constantia
Tessa’s house in Constantia to Matt’s house
Matt’s house to my house

Total distance covered: 283 km

Bloody hell! When I got home I was so tired, I just wanted to lie down. Anyway, we’re a little ahead of the story now…

So we went through to Lisa’s farewell, on account of the fact that she’s heading off to London for a year or so and we wanted to say goodbye. Had a good time, it was pretty mellow until Justin got a bad headache, which was quickly mended by 3 Panados. No problem. At about 10 we headed out to make our way to Val’s house.

Personally I had a great time at Val’s. It was Val’s brother, Stevie’s 21st party, and he was pretty drunk. And so were most of his friends, which I love. Drunk people are just so much fun, you can get them to do dumb things and they don’t remember it the next day. Anyway, the crew were pretty tired, so I went and hung out with Val and her older brother Denis, and then I chatted to Stefan before he was thrown out / went home.

Anyway, I wanted ice cream cake, so we waited until about 1:30 before Stevie summed the strength to cut it before we could go home. And so the great trek began again. I think everyone was quite tired on the way home, but I had a great time at Val’s.

Sunday

Nothing special.


Monday

Went off to the dentist in quite a while, which is never much fun. To be honest, it wasn’t anywhere near as bad as I thought it would be. Although the oral hygienist was the worst part, because the entire time she sat there talking a load of crap, and kept on asking me questions. But how the hell am I going to answer her! I’ve got her hand in my mouth!

Tuesday – Thursday

Things at the studio have been quite quiet, and there’s a horrible story behind that too, but I’ll tell it tomorrow. Suffice to say, I did some general stuff, and sat around at home sick. I’m mostly better now, but being sick is never fun…


That’s it. If you have any questions about the adventures, comment away.