Coffee @ Haricots - 5th November 2010

Friday was shaping up to be a pretty busy day: Pea's (my best friend of 5yrs, pea being the latest nickname) boyfriend was arriving in the afternoon,this meant that the mandatory straightening of the hair was going to occur and so i had spent the better part of thursday night burning my hands with a GHD. Added to this i was recieving the exam marking i was required to do and so now actually had to earn my salary instead of just spending hours on facebook, we had also organised to go for coffee with friends B and Ren at haricots to give Ren her belated birthday present, after that we had a birthday party to attend at the Rat and Parrot for a collegue of mine.Primrose our cleaning lady was due to make another apperance and that always made fridays interesting as she mangaed every week to do the exact same task in a different way meaning that when i got home and expected to find all my clothes folded on my bed as she had done last week now they could very well be in pea's cupboard . . . just for our amusement ;) With all this planned for the day when i finally got to bed on thursday night after cursing the GHD, Pea and her want for straight hair and generrally just the fact that our hands could burn rather than just being heat resistant i was exhausted and dozed off pretty quickly. Friday started of pretty well i was just about to jump into the bath when i heard one of my favourite sounds; primrose knocking on our door . . . today my room would be clean again :) anyway i had quickly to wrap a towel around my waist and run down stairs no sweat i was used to her arriving just as i had undressed. the mornign went smoothly got my marking started and was so bored with in half an hour i would rather have been burning my hands with that damned GHD again. I was waiting for 12:00 to roll around as i could then take lunch and go and find out how Shan (my younger sister) had done in her exam that day. For this to mean anythin i have to explain that she has been freaking out to the point that i felt it best to just drug her and so had early that week gone to the chemist to get her rescue, i had planned to steal a few tablets but the only had the drops, anyway i arrived at her digs to find what looked in comparison to what i had seen earlier that week at completely stoned shan: wide tied eyes that seemed to react 30secs late. I'm getting off track but needless to say although she thought the exam was not great her emotions, now controlled by the rescue, seemed to scream i am so fine with that !! Went home for lunch to find primrose was busy hiding my stuff all over the house again but at least it would be clean poped back to work for half an hour and then picked up Pea for coffee at harricots. In the mean time it had started raining which now left Peaand so by consequence me as the hair straightner in a pickle and the slightest moisture and Pea's hair would go home (return to its natural curl for those of you who dont have the title of Official Hair Straightener). What this all meant is that when we arrived outside harricots it was a wild dash to the door,look out bolt here comes Pea, so that Pea's hair remained in tact, there was a synchronised count down  . . . and on one Pea flung her door open and ran i follwed behind. In considering the rain and the best possible attack on the door to avoid the deadly rain drops we forgot the entire reason we came in the car and seeing as how i now had the super power of being immune to rain i was tasked with fetching the present from the car. The time at harricots was filled with lots of laughs one particular example being the "Chocolate Salami". Every time i had been to harricots previous i had wanted to try what they called "Chocolate Salami" i beg to differ as it tasted neither like chocolate nor salami it was the ugliest thing i have ever eaten and i preceeded to tell this to the waitress, very politely, but still my friend found this hillarious. Now you may be thinking "well if you order chocolate salami, you deserve what you get" but if i put it like this salami . . . mmmm... delicious and melt in your mouth aero bubbles then how could a combo of these to master peices be disgusting, but it was and so needless to say will never try chocolate salami again. The waitress obviously feeling something i have not yet understood decided not to put the choloclate salami on our bill, this only meaning that i now had to ask her to put it on so that i could pay for it this only leading to more laughter from my friends. After tea we parted ways Pea and I home to get ready and B and Ren to Rat for dinner, we had saidf that we may bimp into eachother but nothing could have prepared me for the eventual meet up. Standing outside Rat shortly after we arrived were none other than B and Ren who had now somehow acquired a semi stray dog (as its owner may have been in the rat) that they had called the S.P.C.A to come and fetch. They had a small tuppaware of water which the dog was not at all interested in however when the waitress brought out a steak that would have made your mouth water the dog no longer looked so sorry for itself, as it gulfed down the steak. It was still raining and so as we chatted to them outside Pea was still trying to protect her hair by standing under an awening. We left them with the dog and said goodbye to the crazy scenario that was unfolding outside as people walking past noticed the dog, after a few more drinks it was time to head home hope into bed and kiss the back of a well lived friday goodbye. hope your friday was as eventful . . . till next time live like there is no tomorrow