You sound like a really good friend :) Eddie is super lucky. Is he an old friend of yours? I have a cousin called Eddie, a bit of trivia for you :P

Jewish parties are very different from services at a synagogue aswell. Parties are very very lively with lots music, dancing , singing etc and the services are very formal :)

[MissPandora]

Well done you :)

Ok, well 54027523475 slices of pizza later I feel better ^^

It sounds to be that you've done pretty well in the interview but have my luck anyway :) I hate suspense, it drives me crazy.

I have spent the past two days trying to work with Noah to see what we have and its not quite clear that even our friendship is non-existent. So I'm feeling abit emotionally drained at the moment, so not a happy Pandora...:P

I don't even own a proper pair of running shoes. Just crappy plimsolls.

I have more to say regarding your comment but now is not a good time, so I'll comment again later :)  

Oh and good luck with the marathon!

thanks for your comment. I guess too religious people freak me out.

[daydeary]

The prospect of settling down and getting married is tempting, but I know with him there will be no 'settling down'. I'm really going to try and avoid him from now on and hopefully he gets the message because this sort of relationship is probably not the most healthiest.

In the end I didn't buy the shoes I was looking for even though I found them. Though it wasn't a waste of a day since I did buy a few others things. The shoes I wear at the moment I have almost worn to death because theyre so comfortable. I'm tempted to buy another pair identical to them but they will probably not be the same and I have to learn to let go :P

In the UK its not warm enough to leave animals outdoors, not even rabbits (I know this from first hand experience :P). Though I have a cat flap so she goes out if she likes during the day but not much.

The masters keeps me extra busy which I sort of like ^^. I don't like to go out partying or drinking and the like. I'd much rather stay indoors with a cup of tea writing an analysis of the scene where Pip meets Ms Havisham for the first time in Great Expectations. I also like to read and do a bit of my own fictional writing.

By the way, this entry gave me a good giggle as I imagined Frank hinting about the gift cards and the door being stuck by its handle :)

It's also so sad about your friend Eddie. I can't imagine what it must be like to lose a limb. I wish him all the best and it is also nice to see that he has such a dedicated friend.

Good luck with the job interview. And why would you be banned from all city jobs? Can that happen?

Long entry. God is good.

-Jovonnah Rabbit

This is my second year of teaching, I teach English - not the language, English as in Literature :) Its a tough job. I spend all day teaching and all night marking :( I guess thats why we get paid less, because we'd never have time to spend it anyways ^^ I'm also doing my masters degree in English Lit. So, busy busy busy :P So I'm having to treasure this last week of summer holidays.

Today I trecked around Central London for a good 10 hours in search of a pair of shoes. I didnt find the shoes but hopefully Im a little fitter than I was yesterday :D

I have a cat instead of a dog because cats can let themselves out :P Also dogs smell.

I've been to disneyland :) if the one you're talking about is in Florida. I went agessss ago.

Well, my first run will probably be in the first week of September when I go back to Uni/Teaching only because I find it easier to plan things if I have more things to plan ^^ And it won't even be a proper run, more like a jog :P I can't run for more than 5 mins without getting a itchy tingling sensations inside my thighs and calfs and becoming so out of breath that I'm sure my lungs stick together slightly...I'm not sure how normal that it :P

Good luck on the job interview :) My job was only part time in a restaurant to give me more money towards my social life as I'm only a newbie teacher at the moment in a high school and the pay isnt very good.

I've always always wanted a dog. I have a cat instead. :P

Woah! That's something. I love all kinds of puzzles and I've done some jigsaw (even doing it online). But I have not done a 1,000 set yet. Hmmmm... Never too late to do anything yes? I'll let you and your grandma know if I did one already.

Star

you have to choose your role models carefully. and make sure they are
worthy of that title.Some pastors cant carry that load,they are too weak.
Billy Graham is a good strong old time pastor ,that the word of God is
the backbone of his life and ministry.But some of the pastors today
worry me.maybe <I am older in my soul than I am suppose to be>,because
I dont care for the modern day pastors or music .everythings changing,
some is good and some is really to modern and you have to look for the
Word of God in a sermon.sorry I totally went on a rant and didnt mean to lol .but you choose the best role model of all the t.v pastors.They dont make them like that anymore.
Elizabeth

I have my own horse. It's hard work keeping a horse as they need so much attention and training if you want them to be disciplined. There are some local stables owned by a family because they do horse riding lessons and a small fee for keep and food. They let me keep my horse there and ride in their fields or training school, in return that I allow them to use him for some of their students. But its my responsibilty to groom him, muck out his stable, feed him and generally look after him, so I'm more or less there twice a day. But I love him so much ^^

I'm probably much more heartless than you think. I'm the sort of person who will see someone fall in the street but start walking more slowly so that someone else can get there first. Though it's probably more to do with that fact that I now nothing about First Aid so I'd pretty much be quite useful, but I dont know.

My going to the gym resolution has totally gone out of the window now. I hate working out, its so boring :P I horse ride a couple times a week so that should be enough really now that I think about it.

 I hope you are keeping track of your daily miles and time. I started my major walking when I decided to walk the diameter of the moon(2160 miles) in one year. That was my challange to myself. I walked 2300 miles that year. It was 2005.

 I wish I could run. But for some reason I just cant. The farthest I ever ran was maybe 300 yards. For some reason I just cant do it. I couldn't when I was 20 years old, and I cant now, at 51 years old.

 I walk to work and back each day. It takes me right at one hour each way. Its a total of 7 miles or 35 miles a week. Lately on weekends, I have also been walking 12 miles on Saterday and another 12 on Sunday. It wears me down pretty good and usually takes me 3 hours and 45 minuites each day.

 But in my own defence...When I walk during the week, I am wearing steel toed shoes. In the past few years when I was jogging a little, I was wearing walking shoes. steel toed work shoes are a challenge all by themselves.

 Congrats on the running. I solute you!

Thanks :)

My mum said that it was also good that I prepared because it makes good practise, and if I hadn't prepared and they had asked me a question that I thought they would, I'd have been kicking myself.

I can't believe you jogged 10 miles. Thats like me jogging to work there are back 4 times. Too far...:P

congratulations!! i would never be that disciplined...:P

wb

xx

Yeah, but it hasn't happened often I dont think and it seems under control at the moment. And I'm also sure that the media hype it up a bit to make it seem more bad than it really is. Thats why I hate the media, they like to cry 'wolf' a lot so I can never know when to believe them or when something is actually serious. Like at the moment in London, we're going through this knife/gun crime phase (for lack of a better word) with teens and I was like "Pfft, dumb media. Don't believe the hype." Untill the signs of this increase in knife/gum crime started becoming more visual; more stop and searches by police...no tolerance punishments being put in place...kids killing kids in my own back yard...

One day I'll move to Vegas.

Well, I don't know much about it but theres this deadly infection called MRSA which people get from unclean hospitals. And theres been stories of people going in hospitals and being cured of cancer and what not, then leaving with MRSA which eventually kills them, which really is a kick in the teeth : Yeah so, now hospitals have become really strict with cleanliness and its called the superbug because its so strong, antibiotics don't work on it.

I envy anyone who has the patience to sit down and complete a puzzle that huge. Just thinking about it makes me want to kick something in frustration ^^

Ah... I did think 70 degrees was a bit mental but I didn't think to question it as I once had a Canadian boyfriend who used to say the temperature would get to so low as minus 60 or whatever degrees and I was like "Surely you mean faranheit!" and he was like "No ;)" So yeah, I'm still not sure if I believe him though, but then again I've never been to Canada.

I can't believe it's only Friday.

Thanks for the advice :) However I'm generally quite an extroverted person but the thought of answering questions like "why do you want this job" when the honest truth is that I just need the cash, makes me want to crawl back into my shell. And whats worse, is that I've already jinxed up my fate since its common knowledge that things don't turn out the way you want them to if you spend hours and hours and hours creating and editing the scene in your head untill its perfect. eep. I really need to get more hobbies...:P I used to read and write all the time but now I'm too busy stressing about things.  I also missed out on the weekly gym visit I apparently dedicated myself to. I'm too job sick .... :(

To be honest, I don't really know the rules or the concept of cricket either. I just enjoyed hitting the ball, then running around. There was this game called rounders which is  a bit like cricket but less complex that we played a lot of in high school, kind of a girly game (went to an all girls school). Anyway, I know the rules and concept of that, since basically all it is, is hitting the ball then running around :P

I honestly envy you and your discipline. I find it very hard just to wake up at 7:15 AM let alone go out and have a run. And I also can't believe it gets up to 70 degrees were you are. A brilliantly hot day in London would be about 29 degrees, and that is actually pushing it. Right now its just rainy and miserable.

  Hello again,

I stopped in to say your words of praise really meant a lot to me about the book and its potential. Thank you very much.

[commonsensechristian]

Yes, Are You Being Served is very funny. A lot of old British comedies are like the Carry Ons, Two Ronnies, One Foot In The Grave...I could go on sadly enough :P

I'm kinda nervous about my interview, I havn't had many so I never really know what to expect, but the manager who will be interviewing me seemed nice enough on the phone. What kind of work have you been applying for? I wish we had temp agencies here, but none that I know of, it would be pretty useful, I may have to look into it.

I have never really been to sport events before except one time I went to see a football (soccer) match with a friend, I didn't really want to go since it was a jamaican team vs. some team I cant remember. Anyway to cut a long story short, I left smelling like I had just bathed in pot. Baseball doesn't even exist here, we have cricket instead which I actually quite enjoyed playing in Primary School.

Oh, and you're right to conclude that your comment did make me happier as I found out about the job interview yesterday and the previous post 'sad pandora' was posted today. Strange...:P

wow you put it in perfect words,I never thought of it that way.Thank-u
Elizabeth

Do you know what was super weird? I logged on to MDD a few minutes ago and it usually takes me to my latest diary, so I checked if I had any new comments and I didn't. So I then clicked Diary Contents on the side bar to see if any of my other entrys have recieved comments but then it said that 'sad pandora' had been updated, so I click on it and low and behold there was your comment. Weird.

Have you ever seen a film called Run Fatboy Run? In my opinion Its quite funny, but it's also a British film which automatically makes it bad :P It's about this really unfit guy that tries to shape up in 3 weeks to run a marathon.

I want to write one of my 'controversial' entries, but the topic I had in mind will make tempers flare. I'm scared ^^

Thanks for the reply.

Perhaps I did walk a mile, the machine thing was in km, so I dunno :P I was too busy huffing and puffing to even notice anyway.

I totally understand what you mean about some Christians being hypocrites, I wont even get into otherwise I'll be here all day ranting. Though I suppose it is only really a minority, so the world isn't such a bad place after all :)

I enjoyed these interesting facts. I have a sort of fetish for random facts. I now know why money doesn't grow on trees...they grow on cotton plants :)

how long was just Sunday ?? just asking LOL
Elizabeth

Its not even him being super emotional that annoys me. This guy is like 26 and he is just so immature. Grrr.

Btw, you finally get thirsty after 7-8 miles???? :P Show off. At the gym, I did a fast paced walk for 20 minutes on that running machine thing and by the end of it I was gasping for water ^^ I doubt I did a mile.

I think it will take me a very long time to be able to run a mile. :P Just the thought is gruesome. The only physcial activity I've been getting for the last 10 years is 1 week of skiing a year and that usually kills me ^^

When I was 12 I ran 800 metres to pass P.E. The memory alone stirs up gripping chest pains and the taste of metal in mouth. (Do you get that when you run out of breath, a metalic taste?)

But thats all in the past :)

I've only really read your recent posts, is this like sort of a running progress diary along with random pieces of miscellaneous.

Best comment I've received so far :)

I wish I could run as much as you do...Gosh I'm so unfit. The other day I ran for the bus, it was perhaps 5 metres away and when I reached it I was seriously afraid that my lungs were so empty that they were going to stick together.

Good news is, as of recently I've started working out :) Now I can kiss goodbye potential cellulite.

- Pandora

Thank you for your comment :)

Ive only read one entry of your diary but so far I'd like to say I love how your diary is so...diary like, if that makes sense ^^

I am also job-hunting. It's not going so well for as it seems to be going for you :P

I think we should be friends :)

- Pandora

thanks for the comment. 

and you got alex pegged on the nose.  he does strut around here like he owns the place.  he used to have this way of sitting with both his paws stretched all the way out in front of himself and crossed at the ankles....we went through a period of calling him "the boss."    that's what he reminded me of.  some mafia boss surveying his streets.

you are a very good friend and grandson,i love it that you Grand mother puts puzzles
together.

A faithful friend is a strong defence;and he that hath found such a one hath found a treasure.nothing doth countervail a faithful friend  and his excellency is invaluable
Elizabeth

you have written alot of entryies, congrads!!!  lol

how are you doing?

I so admire you for taking on revelations,a friend and I went thought chapter 2
I read the whole book.I would love to read your commentary,most people
""" RUN "" from Revelations  LOL
Elizabeth

question? why did you pick revelation?
question? In first john when he talks about the antichrists,more than one can I hear what you think about that?
question:would you come sat out my roses bushes ? LOL
Elizabeth

Thank you for the birthday greeting. Yeah I was getting tired of the games Emil was playing if he wasnt interested just say so and move on it seems like some people make it hard for themselves when they cant be real with someone. Not only did he contradict himself he also lied too. He told me when we originally got back in touch he stopped drinking, but it wasnt until I went to the photo album on his MySpace page and saw he was chugging down booze out of pizza parlor pitchers. It didnt dawn on me that he wasnt being totally honest with me because if he stopped drinking why would he contradict himself by posting photos of him drinking heavily within the last year the photos were from spring/summer 2007. I also started having doubts that he couldnt give up associating with his frat buddies and he's pushing 30 usually by the time people get to this age they've retired the club and bar lifestyle. Then he acted shady by blocking me on MySpace and I saw that I was probably not the only one he's done this to and I wouldnt put it past myself that he thinks he looks cute and he can land any woman he wants-mostly the unintelligent females that he can treat them which ever way he wants even if it means playing games with them especially the ones who were serious about him.

It's ok though because I've learned that when guys do this enough times somewhere along that trail they're bound to get burned sooner or later. Emil's lack of maturity pretty much screwed him in the behind since he had a son that he wasnt planning to be a father to and he's acting out because much of his life was occupied by a marriage that ended in divorce after just under 3 years and he misses the freedom he had, but maybe that was God's way of showing him you need to slow your road and grow up since I firmly believe that God has ways of making some people wake up and smell the coffee and to get their head right on a few things. Emil will realize when he grows up that the people he treated like crap who didnt deserve it will not be around and he may face resentment because who's going to want to deal with someone who was good to them only to be treated like they didnt matter. That's what happened with my ex boyfriend Mark who cheated on me and it took a serious wake up call for him to see that and by then I wasnt interested in hearing what he had to say. It's all good though because I know now I can do a whole lot better than him and I can find someone who's not a jerk and takes me for granted as a significant other or friend.

It's too bad guys like Emil think they're the **** and not think their stuff doesnt smell when it's all in who remains in their social circle because if he's one of these guys who has that bros before hoes mentality they're likely to end up single because what righteous woman is going to take a backseat to a bunch of immature boozehounds if she's married or dating. I am not settling for that I am worth much more than to be someone he talks to when he feels like it and kicks me to the side when he's ready to resume talking to women who don't really have it all upstairs. There's that saying you don't realize how good you have it until it's gone. My friends have stood behind me saying that I can do better and they're right I can do a lot better than some simple guy who can't appreciate a good thing when it's sitting in front of him.

Haha they made me smile.
They're cute =]

i wondered wo cheryl was...but i kind of got through hints and things mentioned that she was someone you had been seeing (although that's not EXACTLY the case as it seems).  she sounds like quite the piece of work...

thanks for the comment on paige.  you HAVE been away for awhile if you haven't been introduced to the new monster she's turned into.   mostly she's still good, but we see plenty of the TERRIBLE two's.

  Hello there my friend. I dropped in to say I agree completely with your comment about God being the force behind leaving that selfish man behind in my life and marriage. I hope it didn't sound like I wasn't giving the credit to Him, as I always make sure I place something there to let people know that my faith in Him is at the center of everything in my life.
  Sorry to hear about the behavior coming from professing believers at this church...but there is often little difference in the behavior of those who call themselves Christians and those who do not.........very, very sad; but also very true. Keep on serving as the example they need to follow, and one that resembles Christ to the best of your gifts and abilities.
  Take care, and I'll be praying for your job hunting to be successful. See you around, Michael.