Adelaide "Addie" Banges

Learn from yesterday,
live for today,
hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is
not to stop questioning.( Read more... )

Friends and good manners
will carry you
where money won't go.( Read more... )

WARDED TO FRIENDS:

Holy shite What? We went to school with him. I know he wasn't the most pleasant person or anything, but I just figured he was a jerk, you know? That time and stuff would calm that down.

Do you really think that he was a Death Eater?

WARDED TO VICTOR KETTERIDGE:

Hey boss, sorry to bother you on the network and without much notice, but I was wondering if I could sort of work my schedule this Saturday so that I could be off after 3. One of my friend's, her mother was killed in the Inferi attack on Diagon Alley a while back and she's not been doing so good. She just suggested we all go to see a film at a theatre near her house, and I want to be able to be there for her. I know Saturdays are busy days, but the week day during lunch rush seems to be the busiest time.

Would it be possible at all to work an early shift? I'll even pick up an extra day.

Feels good to be a job that's busy. Not sure I like smelling like tacos when I go home just yet, but I guess we'll see how Gwen feels about it when she gets back.

WARDED PRIVATE:

It's not Quidditch pitch, but it'll do in a pinch. I wish we had a place we could do some small pick-up matches, but then that sort of defeats the whole purpose of disbanding Quidditch in the first place. I can't say that I really understand why they disbanded it. Other things are going on, like the theatre and concerts. Why not Quidditch?

Then again, that's why I'm not in politics or the Ministruy. I don't really get that sort of stuff.

I just have to hold out hope that they put Quidditch back on some time before I can't play anymore.

WARDED TO FRIENDS:

I just quit my job at the shop. Felicity kept yammering on about everything I was doing wrong there & then bragging about how she was getting married and no one was ever going to want to marry a "butch Quidditch player." Da didn't even say anything, just sort of sat back. I get why he did, but it just made me so bloody angry that I just snapped and yelled that I quit.

So now I have no job.

I've got money, so it's not like I'm going to be out on my rear end or anything, but it's not unlimited, and I freak out when it goes below a certain balance. And the boredom. We're going to have the best cleaning, best smelling, most food having place in Hogsmeade at this rate.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a job? Or know of a place hiring right now?

WARDED PRIVATE:

You know how I know I'm going batty over here? When Felicity's wedding drama is more interesting than anything I've got on my plate. I do not know how Gwen's brother does it; I would have called the whole thing off before it got this bad. She doesn't usually get on my nerves, and I am trying to be tolerant, but if I have to hear about tulips or gardenias one more time, I might just flip my lid and give her a piece of my mind.

'Course, all of this might not have hit me so bad if it wasn't so slow at the shop. It's like everyone has decided they don't need anything repaired - which is usually NEVER this slow. It's to the point I wish I had HOMEWORK to deal with. Or better still, I want to go back to my usual job. I worked really hard to get that spot on the Pride's team. I may not have been a starter yet, but I was in from time to time, and I got to fly for ten hours a day. I just feel so cooped up, and brushing out Loki & Thor and taking them for rides just isn't quite cutting it. Which makes me sadder than anything, because I KNOW it's just because there's Death Eaters everywhere and I'm unhappy otherwise. Loki snapped me with his tail, and I just wanted to yell and yell until I was hoarse.(Not to be confused with horse)

Which means it's probably that time of the week for me to head into church and pray for a little patience.

I really, REALLY need something to occupy my time. There's only so much gardening or tending to animals you have to do. Didn't I hear something about a book club?

ETA AFTER THIS:
WARDED TO FRIENDS MINUS DANTE:

Don't suppose there's a way we could get everyone together to go to the circus tonight to surprise Dante for his birthday, do you?

I know it's last minute, but I didn't even know his birthday was today.

WARDED TO CERYS:

I know that you're in hospital right now, and that really, really sucks. I don

I am praying for you and your family. Much love and I hope we'll hear good news soon.

WARDED TO GRETA:

If you need anything, please say the word. Your family's in my prayers.

WARDED TO NIC & GWEN:

I'm going to church tonight to pray for Greta and Cerys. You're welcome to come along, if you want.

WARDED TO CLOSE FRIENDS:

Okay. So. I know I probably should have said something before now, but I wasn't even sure if it was a big enough deal to bother.

Last month, Dante said something at the party that kind of threw me off. I guess because I wasn't expecting him to - I don't know, flirt with me. And then he warded me last week, asking if I would say no to a bunch of fun-sounding options. For research purposes.

I guess what I'm asking is - we're friends and all, and he's fit, for sure. But do you think it's worth messing up a friendship to SAY something about the flirting? And I don't mean in a bad way. You know me, I'll try almost anything once. It's just... it's not so easy these days to just date someone and go back to being friends like it was in school. You know what I mean?

WARDED PRIVATE:

No disrespect meant to anyone, but how is the Order going to help a man being held down by the Death Eaters? They've already killed him, and they can't bring him back. Everything they've done has been reactionary, they haven't really stopped anyone from dying. And if they have, maybe they could take some credit for the good things they've done. I want to believe in themso BADLY.

WARDED TO FRIENDS:

Gwen, Nic, and I were talking about the state of things. With the Fergusons having lived in Hogsmeade and all the vampires and werewolf stuff, we weren't sure if we should go ahead with our party. We sort of thought maybe it would be heartless or that people wouldn't feel comfortable since it's in Hogsmeade and all. After some discussion, we decided to leave it up to you lot.

If you'd still like us to hold the party, we're still willing to. If you'd rather not because of the circumstances, we completely stand behind you. What would you like us to do?

WARDED TO FRIENDS & FAMILY:

Friday! FRIDAY! FRIDAY! FRIDAY!

I am so excited for our house-warming party. I've so much shopping I want to do for it today. It's so weird how you move into a place and you realise you have this or that or some other thing that you need to get because you took it for granted at my parents' house. I keep finding little things I need to buy. Did you know that all the glasses in my mum's kitchen AREN'T ours? I had no clue till I went to get a cup for tea. Thankfully, we sell ever-warming tea cups (tea will never get cold!) so I bought a bunch of them. At cost! Thank you, mum & dad! I need extra sheets, and I wish I'd been better at Transfiguration. Anyone really good at it & wouldn't mind coming earlier to help me make some extra seating?

And I actually found a demo of that song I really liked by that band, Nic! I'm going into Basildon at lunch time to pick it up.

WARDED TO FRIENDS:

Did you lot see the posters around town - Hogsmeade - today? I was walking to work and they were not the lost dog and cat posters that I remembered seeing last night when I was coming back from Nic's.

Do you reckon that's the Order of the Phoenix trying to recruit?

WARDED TO GWEN & NIC:

All right. The Musgroves have a few things to handle this afternoon, but they said they'd be around at 3pm for us to look at the cottage.

Would you two be available then?

I've got the list of things we wanted in a place tucked in my pocket so really all you need to bring is yourselves!

WARDED TO NIC MASON & GWEN DERVISH:

SO, Gwen and I talked today about the possibility of us all moving in together, and we're definitely FOR it! I thought we could get the ball rolling on what we'd like in a place and that sort of thing. I saw that there was a place at the end of the High Street in Hogsmeade that's for rent. I thought I could go check it out tomorrow morning and see if it's remotely close to something we'd be keen on before presenting it to you two. Or, if either of you are off in the morning tomorrow, the pair (or all if we're lucky!) could go and see. Is there anything else we should talk about? I've never done this before or even had to look so I don't even know what sorts of things we'd have to be on the look-out for.

This is so exciting!

Merlin's beard, I don't usually care about celebrity gossip, but when it comes to Quidditch players, I can't get enough of it. Rose Day is pregnant?? Judging by the silence coming from hers, Owen O'Neill's and Jacques Debois's camps, I'm going to take that as a yes.

Guess they figured out what to do in the off-time.