Home visit

I was at home this weekend. Nice to see the family again. Judi had a dance show, and wanted me there. It had been planned for the last, what, year or so that there was going to be one, and I had promised her that I would come back and watch it.

Glad I did. It is not often that I get jealous of my little sister. At least, not in the sense that I was at the weekend. I knew she was a good dancer. Hell, it's a job and a half to get her to stop dancing, but I never appreciated just how good she was at it. She is absolutely amazing! Out of all the people that were taking part in the show, she had to be the star. And I'm not just saying that because she's my sister. She looked like she enjoyed it, hell, she DID enjoy it. Some of the others looked a little apprehensive and unsure of what they were doing, but she didn't.

And even crashing into a wall on the Friday night performance didn't stop her enthusiasm. There was one part of one of the dances that she did where she made her way across the stage and then goes off, except she didn't appreciate the size of the gap that she would have to exit the stage. She had the choice of a little kid, a light, or a curtain. So, naturally, she chose the curtain. Unfortunately, the curtain just happened to be right next to a wall. And, when you leap into a wall, you kinda get hurt. Bless her.

Her costumes! OMG! She was complaining that the corset she has to wear for one of the dances was a size 10. I was looking at her like she was insane! Hell, if I could get into a size 10 corset I would be happy!! But that the thing. She is so thin! But not "OMG, you're skin and bone eat something already!" thin, but "OMG, you're so thin and it's muscle! I wish I had your figure" thin. And some of the things she wore showed that off perfectly.

She was pretty excited this weekend as you can imagine. And it didn't help that she got the first solo dance of the performance. OK, so it was only for something like 5 seconds, but that's 5 seconds that everyone is looking at her! And she's really good when people are paying attention to her. So yeah, really glad she enjoyed herself, but JEALOUS!! She got the looks, the talent, the brains... What did I get?! The joys of being the first born... GREAT(!)

She was performing it in Whitely Bay Playhouse, and because of the one way system and where we ended up parking, I suggested to dad that we simply followed the coast up to Cramlington and get home that way rather than trying to get back onto the A19, especially with Grandad being the driver of the second car and him not knowing the area and all. So naturally, you have the person who has no idea really where they are going in the lead car and the person who does actually know that way thanks to going out on Kev's trike in the following car. Makes perfect sense... Apparently... /:-l

My grandparents (NOT the one's in the CARIBBEAN with my MUM *GRRR!*) were up for the show too. It was cool to see them again. They went up on the Thursday and were going to go back yesterday but my nana isn't feeling too good at the moment so they decided to come back today. Hope she gets better soon. From what she was describing, it sounds like what she had last time I saw her in December has never actually gone away fully. Whatever it is it isn't nice. She had some antibiotics but they don't seem to have some much. I'm quite worried about her. Have to go visit her in a few weeks, see if she's doing any better.

We were going to go out for a meal with them today, but instead she gave us the money for us to get some food. Went to the "Falcons Nest". Good food. Didn't have to send the salmon back for being too thick. Though trying to explain and get my dad to understand where it was was fun. He was adamant that there was no pub by the Marriott hotel in Gosforth the last time he went down that way. I tried pointing out to him that that was a fair while ago, and the pub is relatively new. And you know what... It was exactly where I said it was... Isn't that strange...

sort wished I'd asked for a life back to Birmingham with my grandparents. Bloody Virgin trains. People going on strike. Canceling trains... Such as the one I was actually booked on! I swear, it was coming in from Edinburgh, and it was PACKED! There must have been about 3 trains worth of people on board. And then the number of people trying to get on at Newcastle was so many that they actually had to leave some people on the platform. They couldn't fit them on the train. I was lucky to get on at all.

And it didn't get much better. It took till DERBY for me to get a seat. Not really worth it if you think that Derby is only about 40 minutes away fro New Street, but it's 40 minutes where I wasn't sitting on the floor by the doors. So I'm happy about that. The announcer on the train made me laugh though. "Please take any coats, bags etc off vacant seats as the train is extremely busy." Yeah... See, if they had run the previous trains it wouldn't be so busy, would it?! DUH!

So I eventually got in about a hour after i was planned to, wrote a post and Blogger decided to eat it! So hopefully this time it will get posted and I can go to bed! Got a full day tomorrow. 9-12 lectures, 2-5.30 biochemistry practical. On the plus side, I have Tuesday and Thursday off this week!! wOOtness!!