soulstar | In general news... (Reply)

Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh, hayfever.

On Saturday evening, my Mum tripped over the ironing board (which was in exactly the same place it's been at any time during at least the last 30 years, whenever there's been ironing to be done), and landed on her face on the kitchen floor. .......Ouch. My brother and his girlfriend were actually in the kitchen at the time, but didn't have time to catch her, obviously. They all spent the evening in A&E. Luckily, her nose isn't broken, just badly bruised and stuff. Because she was wearing her glasses when she fell, they got jammed back onto her face, so now she has two black eyes and nasty bruises across the bridge of her nose. M says the swelling has gone down when I saw it yesterday to what it had been on Saturday, but of course now the bruise colouring is showing more. Trouble is, of course, she can't wear her glasses without it hurting, but if she doesn't wear them, she can't see. D'oh! I took her a gel eye-mask thingie I have that you put in the fridge (it helped, which is good), so now she has a choice of looking like a panda or a highwayman. Yay!

So, earthquake, huh? We're too far away to have felt owt, but M's girlfriend's family did (E was on the bus on the way over here, so missed it herself.) Apparently their experience of it went something like this:
Earth: *quakes*
E's House: *is shaken*
E's Mum: *is freaked out* What was that? *runs downstairs*
E's sister: *runs out of her room* OMG, Mum, did you feel that? What was it?
E's Mum: I don't know! E's Dad, what do you think it was?
E's Dad: What? *oblivious* Hey, the power's gone down. Did something happen?

Not sure if my aunt in Dymchurch was bothered by it. I spose she'd have told us if she was. Er. Or if her dog was, more likely.

Last weekend was my Mum's birthday. And a good time was had by all! Not that we did much - mainly just familial hanging out and watching telleh. On Monday, which was her actual birthday, my brother was busy in the evening - he had a lecture - so I went over and had dinner with Mum, and then when M got back we all watched Miss Potter. Which reminded me a lot of Neverland, and was generally a very Mum kind of film.

Not that Mum's is the only birthday around this time of year. Did I mention that I embarrassed myself (well, sort of) by wishing one of my best friends Happy Birthday a month early? That has to be a first for me! And now it's given me time to work on her present, hoorah! However, I'm more usually kind of crap and late at the birthday wishes thing, especially when it's like now and I'm behind on LJ and all that. So, a big, if belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the lovely and gorgeous dioxin, arithil and lunamorgan. *mwah!*

And then there's anniversaries. Maybe only two people on my flist know what I'm talking about with this (megolas is t'other one) but last Friday the 27th was mine and Noxie's "hobbandish" anniversary. Wheeee! I can't believe that was five whole years ago. :-) Mind you, it's amazing to think that there are a good number of people on my flist that I've considered friends for a good nine years (Noxie and Megs included, of course). Yay fandom. Yay internets!

I've been generally somewhat LJ-absent for the last little while, as you may or may not have noticed. I've been sporadically on and off, but only reading a small filter mostly. So I'm not going to get to catch up on my flist, much as I'd like to. Please do tell me if there's something I should go check out on your journal, though - anything important, or fun, or that I might want to see. I will be making a start on catching up with the old LJ comments, though, so don't be surprised when you suddenly get a reply to something from weeks ago.

I came across this post called Six tips for tackling a dreaded task, which in my overwhelming procrastinate-iness seemed like a good thing to check out. And yup, it's a good one. Particularly, the doing a regular task every day. It's made me think that maybe I should change the exercise thing to daily, so I either go to a class or the gym every day of the week (except Sunday when I physically can't for lack of transport - which is annoying cos there's a class I'd really like to do on Sunday mornings!). And also, I want to post here more often... so I'm going to make this the start of my own personal Post Every Day Week! (Which will then hopefully translate into post every day for pretty much ever) I didn't get a chance to join in when lazlet did this a little while back, but I had fun with it when badgermonkey first came up with the idea.

So, I think I'll go for it again. Anybody want to join me? Feel free! (Tell me if you are, and we can egg each other on *g*) The 'ethos' of the thing is in that post I've linked just above, but if you can't be bothered to click, then really, it's just what it says on the tin. Post something, anything, every day for a week. Grab the icon for it (credit to badgermonkey) if you like. Or don't. Just post!

Also, I'm going to try and spend more time (any time at all will be an improvement!) on the blog. It needs a bit of prodding as well as some actual posting. And I want to update LibraryThing so I can put the widget in the sidebar. Plus, I've signed up for Bookmooch and LastFM, so there's time to be spent on those. Huh, did I say I was going to go to the gym every day as well? I've got to get organised. But then again, that is the overall plan!