9th November, 2008 (1:20 pm)
The Day With The Return
O HAI interwebs!
Ah, man, it’s been so long, hasn’t it? I suck donkey balls: you know it, I know it. A gazillion things have happened, some good, some not so good, some middling it with a meh, but the upshot is I’m still alive - give me a woo and a hoo - and the bad gunky - whilst not completely abated - is definitely on the retreat.
It would take far more time than I actually have available right now to update you on everything, so I’m going to be lame and do a quick bullet list. Yeah, that’s right. I suck and I’m lazy.
- We went to Disneyland Paris! (I know - it’s old news because the photo already gave that away but play along). I will report on this properly for prosperity, but suffice to say the trip was glorious and helped to de-gunkify me, as well as restore my faith in friendship. Those of you who have been reading here for some time may recall that we went to Majorca with ‘friends’ when S had just turned two years old. BIG. MISTAKE. My advice continues to be that you should NEVER go on holiday with friends if you’d actually wish to remain friends - trust me, I learned this the hard way. That said, our friends in France insisted that we meet up and do the trip together and I’m so, so glad that we did. Their son is BFF with little S, so it meant that they had each other when we hit the parks, and then the Mummies and Daddies had each other for drinks and laughter when the boys went to sleep. :) It was perfect and I loved every single second of it from seeing S actually cry with joy when he met Pooh bear to watching Jack and Sally from the Nightmare Before Christmas lead the Halloween Parade to seeing M’s face the first time he stepped off Space Mountain. Only down sides were the ridiculously hideous Tower of Terror ride (wtf? HATED IT), my riproaringly sore feet and the fact that I came home with the flu.
- Yes, I had the flu. Not a head cold or the sniffles but the real flu, the flu with the shaking and the sweats and fever and complete inability to get warm. Thought I was going to fucking die at one point. I was out of commission for over a week and felt like death for most of that time.
- M’s employers are asshats. Those of you who follow me on Twitter and had intermittent updates during my absence will already know that, but since being promoted in September and moving to a new section, they’ve changed his shift pattern three times. This is beyond frustrating when you have a kidlet to organise and another household job to juggle and has meant we had to reschedule/miss/have him take leave to do things we’d booked months and months ago - like our Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon tickets, for example, and also the Christening of our BFFs’ (we’re BFFs with both my friend from University and her husband hence the seemingly misplaced apostrophe :)) two kids. They seem completely oblivious of the havoc it causes. It also means that we’ll be M-less on Christmas Eve day, Christmas Day day, Boxing Day night and New Year’s Eve day. Harrumph. :( (An aside: he did his first ‘proper’ night shift last night, coming in today at 8am. He didn’t fall asleep as much as trip into bed and pass out. Bless).
- This is incredibly remiss of me, but I bought an iPhone about two months ago and failed to tell you. My bad. *hangs head* Grax convinced me with his vlog summary, and I haven’t been disappointed with my purchase. The battery life is pants (although marginally improved by fiddling about with the settings like brightness, 3G etc.), it’s crap that you can’t send or receive picture messages direct to the phone (have to go via email instead) and the fact you have to manually import Contacts (can’t save anything to SIM - everything’s kept on the phone, which is a pain in the ass if, like me, you swap cards to a cheaper phone when you’re out on the beer in case you lose the phone in a drunken stupor) is bollocks but other than all that, it rocks. I’m saving about £15-£20 a month from my old package on Vodafone, and I’m able to browse online a lot more. Score.
- Dead Space arrived. I didn’t get a freebie copy like everyone else on the Community Day did (clearly they didn’t like me - sob :() so I had to buy it. That said, it rocks - even though I am only an hour or so in but am already running low on fucking health and ammo. Maybe the fact I suck at the game is why EA didn’t send me a copy?
- I’ve started about three million new layouts for this place and all are shit. My angel hasn’t had new clothes since late 2006, which is a crazy long time to go without a facelift considering I used to change layouts here as frequently as my underwear. Yet nothing looks right. I did come up with something and then found a frighteningly similar layout at Perfection. That person clearly did theirs before mine so I do not call shenanigans, but ffs, that was the only layout that seemed okay! So back to the designing board I do go.
- I hate 5th November. I loathe fireworks. I say it every single year but I do HATE the fucking things. M was working so I ended up having to fulfill his promise to our son and take S to an organised fireworks display on Friday night. I spent the evening trying not to cry each time they BANGED and avoiding the sweet but decidedly odd little eight-year-old who took a distinct shine to me.
- My writing has stalled again. Am perpetually procrastinating. The way I’m going this book will only be published posthumously - and only then if someone much better than I finishes the fucking thing.
- Finally, S sat with me again and observed the Armistice Day two minute silence. I’m so proud of the boy he’s becoming.
That’ll have to do. My fingers are cramping from the hitherto lack of keyboard use and I think I’m boring myself, which means I’m definitely boring you. To close, I have to wish Val a happy pregnancy, Tanya a happy wedding and Teesee a belated happy birthday. There’s probably someone or something I’ve forgotten so if so, please congratulate/link yourself in my comments and we’ll pretend that it’s from me, mmkay?
Finally: how’s you? What you been up to?
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Comment by Claire — 9 November, 2008 @ 3:47 pm
Hey Stranger,
Thought I might have to call out an online search party. ;) Glad to see you back and feeling more like your old self despite life’s big, swinging, bollocks.
Squishes,
Cx
Comment by Vixx — 9 November, 2008 @ 4:39 pm
You can talk! We’ve both been uncharacteristically quiet lately …
Good to feel missed though. :)
V xx
Comment by Claire — 9 November, 2008 @ 4:46 pm
I know, at least I’ve been posting though - even if they are just pictures :P
You’ve definitely been missed :)
Comment by Grax — 10 November, 2008 @ 12:46 am
Mwah ha ha haaa, another satisfied customer. ^_^
I’m trying to find useful free app for me iPhone. So far I’ve got Fring (an all in one IM chat and VoIP app), Last.fm, Facebook, and this cool little Motion X dice app, which allows you to roll dice by shaking the iPhone.
Have you found any app nuggets on it yet?
Comment by Charmarie — 10 November, 2008 @ 2:22 am
Well I’m glad your feeling better though, the flu sucks. Sometimes we need time away and don’t worry about Dead Space…I’m feeling the same about Fallout 3 that’s why i swear by the guides and developer notes.
Comment by sharon — 10 November, 2008 @ 12:29 pm
Welcome back. Missed ya :(
Comment by starrynite — 10 November, 2008 @ 6:14 pm
Welcome back and glad things are improving, if only slowly/somewhat. xx
Comment by Vixx — 10 November, 2008 @ 8:00 pm
Grax - will post up my thoughts in another post, methinks (well, gives me something to blog about!)
Thanks for the welcome backs, guys - nice to know someone has even noticed I was gone. :p
V xx
Comment by Ashley — 11 November, 2008 @ 10:41 am
Welcome back! :)
Comment by valerie — 11 November, 2008 @ 5:53 pm
Wow, so much going on! Glad you’re back and healthy again and that your vacation turned out to be the opposite of disaster. :) I hope M’s schedule eventually evens out, too, we had a lot of that type of thing with my dad when I was growing up, especially in later high school, where he was gone on holidays. It sucks. Now we’re working around the working holidays of all my siblings and all my siblings-in-law.
And thank you so much, Sweetie, I appreciate it :)