Weekend wibblings...

[cybermule]

Gave the house a blitz on Saturday morning. I haven't touched it in about 6 weeks and it was filthy. So I've finally hoovered up the layer of cat hair, cleaned the bathroom and even dusted, which I tend to do somewhat irregularly.

Saturday night was "Kill Bill" with my brother and his GF. This cheered me up a bit - housework always makes me depressed, and together with certain work and emotional problems, I'd got myself into a bit of a mess by the time I went out. But the film was pretty good. Not great, IMO - it was a bit slow and predictable, but maybe that will change in the second volume. However, I really enjoyed the style, particularly the cartoon-y bit, and generally had a good time. Saw the trailer to the new Matrix film, and wish to state comperhensively that I will not be going to see that.

Ate pizza at my brother's place while watching his "pirates of the carribbean" DVD (don't ask!), then crawled home ridiculously late, with a sore throat and headache :( Still felt crappy on Sunday, so I took advantage of the fact that I didn't have to do Mom's shopping until Monday to get some provisions and spend the day wrapped up in my quilt, self-medicating and watching cartoons. Watched a neat documentary on Pompeii. Then had bad dreams about volcanoes :P

Monday was incredibly busy, which took it out of me again. Went walking very early in the morning. I saw a massive hawk dragging a rabbit along - gross, but fascinating. There's a cute little lake near my hometown, so I went wandering around that. It was so still and frosty... amazing. That kind of recharged my batteries (must do country walks more often!), which was good because I needed it for the day ahead :P

Got home, tidied up a little (my family are VERY messy - it's best to get ahead of yourself). Then my brother phoned and asked if I'd drop in with my mom. I wasn't sure, but then neither of them have a car, so I feel like I kind of have to. Went to get my mother and took her to the housing office, where I argued endlessly with a council officer. Net result - my mom has an extra 60 points and has shot up the waiting list. So at least I feel like I did something concrete. We then had to do some shopping (Mom always runs out of money conveniently just before I take her shopping *sigh*) and hang around for my brother for an hour or so. Nonetheless, I enjoyed spending a bit of time with my mom, and cheering her up a bit.

Saw bro for half an hour, had curry for tea, then took my mom home, came home myself, showered and collapsed in bed for 10 hours. Still have a sore throat :(

Actually had quite a good day at work - some entries on my friends page cheered me up, I patched up a couple of sticky situations with my colleagues and got through a lot of narky tasks. Even phoning two people, which I've been putting off for about a month. I'm going to spend the evening catching up on a huge backlog of emails and working on my new website. Oh, and maybe watching one or two cartoons :P

In short, after a really shitty couple of weeks, I start to feel some serenity returning :)

Comments

[fyatuk.livejournal.com]

that would be hard not to see it as a scary premonition

Actually I do have premonitions. Always about meaningless stuff (like the conversation I'll have over dinner in 3 weeks or something like that). Really frieks people out when you start saying exactly what their saying at exactly the same time...

Do you mean big goods vehicles or pickups

Sorry, pickup. To be specific a 1986 Dodge Ram longbed. Good farm truck (not so good in a large city. Can barely park the thing, but I love it).

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Actually I do have premonitions.

Hmm. I have occasionally, but not as a regular thing so I couldn't draw any useful conclusion as to whether I believed in them. You're really quite odd, aren't you? That's more of a compliment than an insult, BTW.

Sorry, pickup

Thanks. I thought you meant Heavy Goods Vehicles, but then you didn't seem like a truck driver :P We don't have to have special licenses for pickups. Maybe we should - they're a bit big for most English roads.

[fyatuk.livejournal.com]

You're really quite odd, aren't you? That's more of a compliment than an insult, BTW.

I've always relished in other people thinking I'm odd. I enjoy it. I remember bits and pieces from past lives, I abandoned Christianity, I have premonitions and almost always know my dreams are dreams when I'm dreaming. I try to exert control over my subconscious rather than the other way around. I just like to do things ways people never have.

I prefer the term weird or insane, and don't ever call me psycho, but other than that it doesn't matter. *cackle*

We don't have to have special licenses for pickups

We don't have to have a special license for pickups either. We have special licenses for Motorcycles, cars/pickups/vans, and commercial vehicles (trucks, buses, large vans, etc).

Course Texas does have special license plates for pickups. Don't know if any other state does...

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

I've always relished in other people thinking I'm odd.

Mmm. I quickly realised (once I started school) that there was no way I was ever really going to fit in, and after a short while I also decided that I didn't even want to. So from then on, I decided to be as strange as possible :)

I just like to do things ways people never have.

yeah - I understand that. I guess I just like being quietly awkward :)