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The Lock-In Update #3

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Well that is just over 24 hours of islolation.

Lunch!

Since my last update I made lunch and got right in aboot it while watching Scrubs on E4. Two soft brown bread rolls with square sausage and tattie scone each. Magnificent.

After that Gemma went and did her corrections for school (she’s a primary school teacher) while I read my book as mentioned in the previous post. Three chapters in. Very good reading so far, but I feel like everything brought up so far is already common knowledge. Maybe as a result of the popularity of the book?

An Amazing Scene From The Movie

After G-Town had finished her corrections we snuggled up on the couch and watched the classic ‘The Princess Bride’. In my eyes this is awesome, but sadly Gemma wasn’t seeing it. Think you have to have an emotional attachment to this from your younger days to still enjoy it.

So that’s us had our day-time movie. Gemma has started playing Wii Fit while I’ve jumped on the lappy to do an update.

Our lunch was a bit too late so still not even close to hungry for dinner yet!

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The Lock-In Update #2

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Hello again!!

It’s Lock-In day 2. I’m writing this on the couch. Watching the repeat of Celebrity Big Brother. I’m basically just up, had a shower stuck my slacks on and I’m now messing about on the laptop waiting on Gemma getting ready – after which I’ll be making lunch.

Dinner!

Last night was amazing. After dinner we stuck on a movie called ‘The Boat The Rocked’. You Yanks out there will probably know it as ‘Pirate Radio’. It did the job. Light-hearted, funny and a lot of cracking old school tunes. The highlight being ‘So long, Marianne’ by Leonard Cohen (See YouTube Video). Gemma thought it was alright too. Probably not as enthusiastic about it than me.

During the movie I ate half a bag of Thai Chilli Sensations with a Garlic dip. I had a beer then opened up some of my cheese and had a few crackers. The main cheese event is tonight so I only had a wee bit.

A Classic

Straight after dinner me and Gemma were both knackered so we went to bed. I, however, stayed up and got started on a new book that I plan to get in-about later on today. It’s called ‘How To Win Friends and Influence People’ by Dale Carnegie. Of course I’ve heard of the book before, but it wasn’t until my buddy Colin recommended I watch a TV program about millionaire Warren Buffet that I became interested in reading. The program centred around how Warren Buffet was the unlikeliest kind of man to become overly successful and how he was still very grounded in his routes even through his unbelievable power.

One thing stuck with me. He talked about the aforementioned book as being his Bible. ‘I wouldn’t be anywhere without that book’, he joked.

I’m looking forward to getting into it. Especially the chapters on public speaking as I have the biggest public talk of my life coming up during my Wedding in July ;-) .

So with that, I leave you and get late lunch made.

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The Lock-In Update #1

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Hey People! Around two hours ago I got home from work after a bit of a nightmare on the train. Me and Mrs Mario.Blog, lets call her Gemma for talking sake, went to Tesco and got some more food etc for the planned weekend. This included some more wine, tonights dinner, tomorrows lunch and dinner and some crisps with dip.

After we got in the door, we had a little moment to acknowledge the our isolation from the world. Here it is:

(How interesting!)

Dinner!

Both of us have had a hard day and were starving, so I got straight to cooking dinner. I bought some chicken and a bbq sauce to make it a bit interesting, and just bought those roast potato things that you just need to heat up. No frying required. Have a swatch:

It was awesome.

Already had a couple of glasses of wine and now about to put a movie on. Not decided yet!

Speak soon!

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The Lock-in

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Too often on this blog I avoid personal topics. Well tomorrow after I finish my Friday shift the future Mrs Mario.Blog and I are going to lock ourselves into the house and have a weekend away from any other distractions in the world. The door will be locked and no one will be allowed in or out.

No Escape!

The unbelievably bad weather has a big part of the decision to do this. It’s bloody freezing out there. Who would want to go out anyway? Another issue is the fact that its the first weekend after the Christmas holidays and the wallet is not in a position to be any lighter than it is already.

We are going to sleep late, watch crappy telly, read dodgy literature and generally laze about.

I’ve got the Wii remotes fully charged for some intense swinging about, the fridge stocked with wine, beers and whiskey and the cheeseboard is awating a large helping.

One thing that is missing is a good page turner. Feel free to comment some suggestions.

There is something to be said for deliberate isolation. Just the thought is really appealing to me at the moment. NOTHING to interupt you. No errands. No demands. Just pure relaxation and fun. I honestly feel like I could enjoy a life in jail.

The plan is to post updates throughout the weekend. After all, I’m not going to be busy, so I may as well write some shite on this site to pass the time. Who knows, there may even be some suprises along the way so stay tuned! ;-)

Maz.

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