This week’s Friday Five:
1. List five things you’d like to accomplish by the end of the year.
– get the current project at work live
– finish Robin Hobb’s Tawny Many trilogy (I’ve so little time to read at the moment that what should have taken me a weekend has now taken three weeks – and I’m only half-way through the second book)
– get all the Christmas presents sorted (duh)
– send Chirstmas cards before Christmas for once (rather than in January or not at all)
– fix the tear in my coat (it’ll take five minutes once I get round to it, it’s the getting round to it that is the problem)
2. List five people you’ve lost contact with that you’d like to hear from again.
– Marianne Jepsen, fellow student in Aarhus in 1994/95 – please get in touch!
– Adeline and Suen Suen, from my hall at Uni in Manchester 1997/98
– Vipul Kundu, penpal from India – it’s been years. Mind you, I probably still have his parents’ address.
– Gertrude (nee Bere), originally from Zimbabwe, last heard of living in South Africa
3. List five things you’d like to learn how to do.
– play the sax (no patience, no ear for music, no chance)
– scuba dive
– snowboard
– speak Spanish (beyond ordering two beers, I mean – I don’t even like beer, so what’s the point?)
– weave on a proper loom
4. List five things you’d do if you won the lottery (no limit).
– buy a house
– go to Scotland and buy ridiculous amounts of Whisky to put in the “cellar” of my new house
– pay off my student loan and my brother’s (plus pay for the rest of his studies)
– go visit Glenda and Roger and Sarah and Donna and Betsy and Jo Ann and Peter and… (and bring Jane with me on the round trip)
– start that second-hand bookshop cum pub in Scotland that I’ve been talking about
5. List five things you do that help you relax.
– read
– sit on the couch with Martin’s arm around me (actually, just being with him at all tends to work)
– stand on a beach and watch the waves (tends to be difficult to accomplish around here, unfortunately)
– listen to music
– read some more
*g* I completely forgot about paying off my students loan. I sorta focussed on things I’m likely to never realise without winning the lottery.
It would just be so nice to say bye, bye to the student loan. I mean, I know I had a lot of fun for that money, but I’d just as soon not have to pay it back ;)