Yipeeee! We all got our sky dive insurance through today. It's official. On the 14th Feb, six of us are jumping out of an aeroplane! I am sooooo excited! I've wanted to do a sky dive for years and now, I'm not just doing one alone, but 5 of my best mates are doing it with me! I just know we are going to get addicted to it and want to do them all the time.
I took Paddy into Brentwood today to get him a new bed for the new house. The girls in the pet shop love him and always make such a fuss of him. Today they gave him a load of treats that he chewed up and spat out onto the floor.
After we had all played Cranium last night (me and Lauren won), Jordan and Russ bowled in at 3am and me and Russ went to bed at 4.30am in the scary room. I made him sleep with me and Paddy cos I still can't sleep in there on my own. At 9am I was woken by my dad handing me the phone to do a radio interview for the BBC. I waffled something mildly coherent (in my sleepy state) and went back to bed afterwards. I got up again at 11am and have spent more or less the whole day with Paddy. I feel like we haven't spent enough quality time together over Christmas as the house has been so full of people. When it's loud like that, he gets a mood on and sits in the corner and refuses to speak to anyone. That, or gets his belly rubbed by every single person and then falls asleep in front of the fire.
Today has been very chilled out and nice. I kind of feel like it's the quiet before the storm. Whenever I have a few days to myself like this it's cos, by the following week, things will be mad for me and I won't have a minute to myself. I know that my work diary is booked solid already for January, which is great, but I'm dreading the long hours and being away from home when all I really want to do is move house. The bed I bought for Paddy today matches the fake wolf fur that I have for my new bed. He's going to love it!
Lauren is here now. Jordan just cooked us a quorn korma and in a bit, she is going to mark school work and I am off to do recepits for the tax man (God I hate doing receipts).
Jordan Knight texted me today to ask when I'm coming to America. He said that he will show me off to everyone. I'm going very soon, if all goes to plan. Although I want to get moved in to the house, I also don't want to leave it mush longer til I go and see him. I could do with getting away for a bit and I know he'll look after me. Another mate of mine, Patrick is going to the states this month so maybe I will book a last minute flight and go with him. I'll keep you posted.
People keep asking me what my New Year's Resolution is. I don't actually have one. Perhaps it should be giving up men, but I don't want to. Why give up something you love?! My mum and dad would love for me to give up smoking, and I'm proud to say that I have actuallly bought a load of nicorette gum and lozenges. I haven't started using them yet but it's a step closer I feel! I do hate the fact that I smoke and I know how mush it stinks to non-smokers but I can't seem to find the power to end it just yet. I know that one day very soon I will wake up and just decide enough's enough, so that is why I have bought the giving-up aids. I can feel a smoke-free life coming to a home near me very soon! Until then I'm just gonna light another nail in the coffin.........
I'm really sad cos my mum took all the Christmas decorations down today. The house looked so beautiful with them up (not that it doesn't anyway) and everyone that comes here at Christmas never wants to leave. Now, I'm afraid it's all over for another year and I'm back to the slog of work and being slagged off. Joy!
I'm being picked up at 6am tomorrow to do a photo-shoot to promote Juice Mobile. Speaking of shoots, I saw the front cover of the new magazine Love Pouting that I did a few weeks back. It looks incredible! Not sure when it's out though - I'll let you know. I know I should get an early night tonight as my body clock is all messed up and I'm going to find it hard getting up in the morning, but I also know that when I slip into bed at a ridiculously late hour, I'm not going to be able to put down the new book I'm reading (it's called Sickened). Last night I read it for an hour and a half while Russ chatted to me. As I wasn't really listening to him, I just made a few "mmmmn" noises every now and then but I don't think he noticed cos he was slightly inebriated when he came home.
Jordan is now song-writing with Nic (the percussionist in the band) and next week he is meeting with Steve Craddock (Ocean Colour Scene) to discuss writing together. I'm so happy for him. Everything is starting to come together now. He's been on the road for 7 years with his band. He's done the hardest bit, now he just needs to get on the first rung of the ladder. All of us have supported him from the beginning and in all that time probably only missed a handful of gigs. He's so talented. Whenever I tell people this, they always think I'm just saying it cos I'm his sister, but when they hear him play, they are always blown away. He plays piano better than Jools Holland and Jerry Lee Lewis put together. He sings like a 20 stone 50 year old soul singer and he writes all his own songs (which, by the way, are all capable of being No 1 hits). The supporters that come to all the gigs know all the words to his songs and I get goosebumps when I hear them sing them back to him when he pauses in a song. I just know he's going to astound people when he hits the scene. Plus, it doesn't hurt having Paul Weller and Steve Craddock on your side, when you're a real musician!
Lauren has just left to do marking and Sarah is now on her way over. It's like my mates do shifts! One leaves as another arrives! Ha ha. I love it though. I hate my own company and luckily my mates are the same. No point us all sitting on our own in our own houses when we could just all be together. I love the conveyor belt of mates.......
I had better be off. I've got a chocolate sponge pudding and custard waiting to be cooked and my mum will have a fit if I don't do my receipts in the next hour. Sarah will now have the joy of ticking them back against bank statements to check we've got them all. Filth. This is going to be the most boring night in the world! Although, that said, we'll still find something silly to do or laugh at in between. We always do. I won't write again now til tomorrow night cos of long photo-shoot and ridiculous pick-up time (I haven't seen 6am in a long time, let alone had to be showered and ready by then), unless of course there is a computer at the studio and I get a lunch break (very unlikely). So, take care everyone, keep laughing (Wesley Snips is still making us laugh out loud at least twice a day) and I'll speak to you very soon.
Lots of love and laughter
Jodie
xxxx
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