quotes

“It’s not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It’s the hope I can’t stand.”

Name the film?

Blog isn’t about that though, that’s just the quote that springs to mind once a month when I’m hoping that my period won’t start. And then it does. Hohum. Going to make the whole charging round a field in Halifax so much more fun tomorrow, when really what I’m going to want to do is curl up in a ball and sleep. (There’s still time to sponsor me for that, see post below for details 😉 )

Let’s see, yesterday. Kids let me sleep in until I rose in a dazed state rather later than I’d anticipated. Wandered round being confused for a bit, then managed to locate a solicitor for the house purchase thing. To celebrate this we dashed off to the bank and the shops – paid in contribution from CPW and bought me some jogging pants for tomorrow. Was then going to take them to Sainsbury’s for lunch when I thought about it properly and asked them whether they wanted Sainsbury’s or McDs, and McDs it was. Just as well, or I couldn’t have had the surreal conversation of the day:

Me “what do you have that’s vegetarian?”

Her “Filet o’fish”

Me “No, vegetarian.”

Her “Oh, you mean vegan. Well, there’s the veggie melt, but that’s got cheese on it.”

Me. “that’s fine.”

!! No, I didn’t ask whether it was vegetarian cheese…have just explored their website though, and apparently it’s approved by the vegetarian society, so I’m guessing I was good to go. Shame that that information hasn’t filtered through to the staff really.

Anyway, while we were eating, I spotted a woman with poundworld bags. This was a new one on me, didn’t realise there was a pound shop there, so I told the kids that they could have a pound each, and a pound for M and A and we went off to explore. Small chose dinosaurs and more dinosaurs, then put the second dinosaurs back and went for tweenie wax crayons, then third time lucky, chose a car. Which went down well with M 🙂 Big chose pink girly tat, which went down very well with both her and A for the entire afternoon. I think two bits of the set are broken already, but that’s the way it goes. Oh, and I found bubbles, packs of 6 for a quid, so they got snaffled for party bags.

Dropped the kids off with Kirsty, along with a knitting magazine for her (so there’s no excuse, get crafting again!) and hared off to work for a very quiet shift, as it appeared most of the American clients left early for the holidays. Can’t complain – apart from about my computer. I was given a ‘new’ one a little while back, and finally moved all my kit on to it and started using it this week, to have it start shutting down at regular intervals. Sysadmin guy has fixed fans and so on, and it’s making no difference. So I’m back on the old machine, and spent about 4 hours just trying to get the code at a state where I could work on it 🙁

Home by 2 and Tim was still up, so got to burble at him for a bit. Which probably explains why we were both so late up. Tim’s dad rang to be celebratory with him, and the children played on the puter for a bit, and have now gone upstairs to clean their bedroom ??!! No, I don’t know what that is in aid of either. Shh, but I’ve just ordered Muzzy in Chinese for them so I’m hoping that will go down well. Should be amusing at the very least 🙂

And now it’s long past lunch time. So we’d better have lunch. 🙂