Thursday 19th February
Well we had a slightly reduced day today in aid of the trip to Blood Brothers in the evening! Was in the office til about 1pm rehearsing the Gospel Lesson with props and then we left. David was going back to Wales and Rachel and I had getting ready to do! Spent from 1.30pm til 4 showering, shaving, moisturising, straightening hair, make up-ing, perfuming, and getting dressed (whilst watching Neighbours and Murder She Wrote!). Rachel picked me up at 4pm and we went to Billericay station. In the short walk from car to station, Rachel stopped twice to readjust her shoes and decided they were too big and could possibly be annoying. Oh understatement. Sat at the station waiting for the train and got given a customer satisfaction form to fill in at a later date and send off. The train arrived and I got on. As Rachel got on her shoe fell off between the train and the platform, landing next to the tracks. We jumped of the train as the doors were beeping and found a nice man to rescue her shoe with his grabby stick thing. We laughed a lot. Got the next train into London, went to Boots to buy some plasters in an attempt to make the shoes fit better. We used the self service machines and I sneakily put my advantage card in. Rachel then pressed the advantage card button thinking that it put the points on my card, instead it paid for her plasters with my points! Very funny. Then got the Central Line to Tottenham Court Road and the Northern Line to Charing Cross where we met Ryan. He then said we needed to get to Tottenham Court Road! We got back there and Rachel finally gave up on her shoes, took them off and walked barefoot for the rest of the evening! Ryan had no idea where the Theatre was so we walked round for a bit, then found a bus shelter with a map. We had time for a McDonalds and then went to the Theatre to pick up the tickets. Having booked them on lastminute.com we had no idea where out seats were. Stalls A4,5 &6. Front Row!!!! Very excited…until we got to front row. Knees against stage, Ryan had a speaker in his face, I couldn’t see over the edge of the stage. So we kept an eye on some seats behind us and as soon as it started went to those, which had slight restricted view but meant no neck ache! The people behind us got annoyed but no one told us off! The show was great, Nicky from X Factor 2007 played Mrs Johnstone and was fantastic! The only problem came at the end. I knew there were gun shots but forgot the policemen came down the aisle. I was on the aisle. The policeman was stood inches from me with a gun. I was terrified! I was huddling as far away from him as possible without being on Ryan’s lap, tears were streaming down my face because I got so worked up and jumped so much when he fired! The end is just too sad anyway so at the end we had to have a toilet trip to check makeup! No real drama’s or excitement on the way home, except when driving from the station car park, Rachel got flashed by a speed camera even though she was only doing about 20mph!
Wednesday 18th February
Opti-Weds! Steve Tinning (who used to be Lewis’s fieldwork tutor for CYM…small world!) took the session on Matthew 5:21-48, which was good. Lindsay had to leave at lunchtime so we did worship, personal time and share and pray slightly quicker than usual and left a bit early! Went back and did a bit of printing and packing for holiday then Rachel picked me up at 4.50pm and we went to her local Chinese, arriving as it opened at 5pm, ordered food and took it back to hers to eat off our laps in front of Neighbours and Home and Away with a glass of wine! I then got to choose a film from her extensive collection of films that I really should have seen but haven’t. We watched ‘Never Been Kissed’ and it was great! How I love Drew Barrymore! We then went to look at her dress collection to choose her outfit for tomorrow night and chatted a bit, then she took me home just after 10pm!
Tuesday 17th February
More gospel lesson rehearsing interspersed with facebook, emails, newsletter, general catching up on entertainments news etc! Spent the evening writing lots of blog entries, and watching Holby City!
Monday 16th February
Was far too comfy and cosy and asleep when my alarm went off, took a lot of effort to get me out of bed! Felt tired all day. In the office today for the first time in a long time! Freezing cold upstairs, but nice and warm in the meeting room where we rehearsed. Spent the day between the cold and the hot, blocking the rest of the Gospel Lesson and going over it several times, some time on facebook and emails and downloading images for my newsletter. Suzy (previous Envizage Actress) and her husband Simon (previous Taste bassist) came to visit so we all went over to the Bistro for drinks and chat which was nice. Rather long lunch break…and then ate lunch after! We decided to leave at 4.35pm so was home by 5…lovely! Had a cup of tea whilst chatting to Julie and then watched Neighbours and Home and Away, unpacked and tidied up, painted my nails, had dinner, had coffee, printed out my essay, wrote some blog entries and will have a bath before bed!