AND THE LADY RETURNS!

How have you all been, my pretties???

I am SO sorry I haven't been posting, it's just been.... well, actually, my life has kind of caught up with me and started smacking me about a bit. So when that happens, I tend to listen (otherwise it smacks harder, owwwie).

Anyway, how have all your lives been?? Mine has been singularly ordinary, I must admit.

Since I last wrote here, I have done a few things:

a) Won an award encouraging young sopranos and tenors to join my local choir, Canterbury Choral Society (henceforth known as CCS) - I'll get £100 each year "upon completion of a successful season with the choir" which I assume just means turning up to rehearsals, singing loudly in the concerts, and NOT running-over / trying-to-sleep-with / stabbing / doing-anything-else-not-very-sociable other members of the choir

b) Applied (successfully, yay!) to university, and been accepted by the two I want to go to (Kent and Surrey, relatively local in case my dad has another illness, bah)

c) Got relatively not-rubbish grades in my January modules in Biology and Chemistry, a B and a D respectively (well... ok the Chemistry was a bit rubbish, but I only need a C to get into my Firm Conditional place at uni, so I'm not too fussed) I was amazed at my Biology though, I thought it would be much worse than a B, and a good solid B at that, none of your "2 marks off a C" stuff... SOLID.

d) Been preliminarily been offered a 7 or 8-month job at my old place of work, C&H Fabrics in Canterbury, while I'm having my gap year (yay!) - they pay quite nicely, thank you... and the manager of the store really thinks I'd be an asset to the company, even for such a short time (double yay!!)

e) Sung another solo with my singing teacher's choir, the Canterbury Singers, and been paid for it (£25 ain't no fortune, but hey, it's employment)

f) Sung in the Albert Hall with selected sopranos from CCS in the Good Friday annual performance of Handel's Messiah

g) Been a VERY VERY silly girl at a party whilst INSANELY drunk, and as a consequence had a traumatic time for a few weeks... oops

h) Realised that my incessant lack of a love life is probably down to my stupid high standards and the fact that I don't "get out there" enough... oh, and the fact that I have a chronic tendency to develop deep crushes on older, usually married, men who are in positions of power (i.e. teachers at my school, that sort of thing... I know, I'm mad!) and that these usually obscure my bloke-vision for a good few months at a time, meaning I tend not to see anyone else as attractive. Which is how apparently all men feel about me, which makes it a mutual thing.

i) Also realised that I will have to find another singing teacher in a few months, because my current teacher only works through my school and I'm leaving soon - I've found out that my piano teacher's brother gives lessons, I might make some discreet enquiries... Also my mate Zaskton (who lives near me, and has singing lessons) says she knows someone, so I'll do something about it either way.

j) Found out that The One I mentioned in my previous entry here did actually like me, but only in a quite strong platonic way... I sent him a Valentine's card (silly, silly girl) and I got a marvellously sweet text message that evening saying basically he doesn't fancy me, but he really really cares about me anyway, as a friend. Which should, by rights, have made me ecstatically happy. But strangely enough didn't. And then when he next saw me in person, he said "Please let me be your best friend?" which nearly made me cry. As if I could deny him anything! He's so marvellously lacking in confidence, it's sweet but at the same time it worries me SO much, someone's going to take advantage of him through that one day, and I will rip their balls/tits off with rusty blunt pliers washed in the blood of ill people...

On top of that, I managed to remember you lot!! It's been madcap here at MonkeyNoise Central, you know...

Love to all, toodles xxxxx