Filed under: Life, Music | Tags: Cruise Ships, Michael Jackson, Shopping, Southampton, Weather
Today… I didn’t do much again! Looking outside the window I saw that today happened to be one of the very few sunny days in these recent weeks. Unexpectedly it was actually a very warm and sunny day (huzzah!)!
The view from the window!
As I look outside as I write this, it’s again very cloudy and now dark… looks like the Mr Weather-system is ready to unleash the downpour for tomorrow! Damn this Jet Stream!!!
Maybe there should have been some sort of plan to do something but there wasn’t it’s a little difficult really cos my friends don’t really do ‘spontaneous’ very well. This is mainly ’cause most of them are working today! There is one person who decided to be conveniently busy this weekend and has gone in favour of floating in the Solent today (in his yacht) – well good luck to him when the weather turns! Other times they’re just a little lame.
Anyway here’s the sky when it was very blue – just as a fun reminder!
Blue Sky
Friend-less, I then decided to have another exciting wander around town. I started from my building and headed towards the High Street/Parks but I was intent on walking back past the waterfront/docks as there the four main cruise terminals were all occupied today – which is a slightly fancy occurrence! The Celebrity Equinox sat at City Cruise Terminal, whilst the Crown Princess (number 2) docked at the Mayflower Terminal. The Arcadia was being fancy at the Queen Elizabeth II Terminal and then there was the Ventura who was berthed at the new Ocean Terminal.
West Quay Retail Park with the Crown Princess in the background!
I then thought it was probably going to be a bit busier in town, but that wasn’t the case. It actually wasn’t that much different. I saw there seemed to be a lack of people in the shops today but I hazard a guess that most of the people had flocked to the beaches (i.e. Bournemouth) to catch as much sun as they could get!
Anyway, on my travels I was then starting to contemplate buying something, because I hadn’t bought anything in a whole month (really I shouldn’t have been buying anything… but oh well!). I was thinking of purchasing a DVD, either: “Marley & Me” or “Watchmen“. I arrived at HMV expecting a nice £11.99 DVD price however Marley was £16.99 and Watchmen was £14.99..! I thought it was a little steep especially they were only single disc (2 Disc Watchmen was £19.99!). I thought I’d be a little more money-savvy and head to ASDA and Tesco Home both of which didn’t really improve the price £13.99 and £14.49 – um, yay?
I kept going back and forth to the shops and I finally decided: I was gonna buy “Dangerous” and “Bad” by Michael Jackson! In ASDA it was 2 for £8! So it goes towards me completing his Discography (albums only). So all I have left to get is HIStory, Blood on the Dancefloor (HIStory in the Mix) and Invincible (and King of Pop, if I was going for both album & compilation – post-Motown era – completion!).
OK, so it probably wasn’t was I was initially going to buy, but it was actually because it seemed the most exciting alternative in comparison to the DVDs of which I will have to wait to buy when they depreciate in value (around next month or so). Actually, I almost bought HIStory, Blood on… & Invincible today but I stopped myself from going MJ-mad in my purchases. I haven’t even really listened to/appreciated “Off the Wall” and “Thriller” as albums yet so I thought I’ll just do that this week and also listen to “Bad” and “Dangerous” and then I can purchase the others in the next few months!
Little side note… After listening to each album (chronologically), here is my (current) little hierarchy of his albums, pre-HIStory:
1. Bad
2. Dangerous
3. Thriller
4. Off The Wall
