What's that? Too late? Oh...

Happy new year!

What? Too late for that as well? Oh.

Well, Happy... Easter!

Ha.

I've kept meaning to do an entry, but have either been too busy, or resting, or, um, just doing something else...

So now, I shall bore you with things I have done, and stuff, since last time.

Well firstly I got a laptop. Not for Christmas or anything.. I thought exactly what you're most probably thinking now.. Something to do with buying myself a Christmas pressie.. or something.

See, I'm ill. Yes? I can't go out, too poorly.. So, stuck at home, what can I do? TV? Sure.. But watching telly all day every day is just crap. Even if I actually learnt something from it, it's still just lying and watching. I could listen to the radio all day, but that's the same as telly.

Not much else I can do really, so I spend far too long sitting at the computer.. Doing stuff sometimes, talking to people sometimes, whatever.. But actually doing stuff. Sitting still, using a tiny amount of brain energy, and typing. Not too bad. But I sat there too long, and just made myself worse.

We (Mum and I) remembered back to when R lent me his laptop for a while. At that time, generally, I was ill, in bed all the time. But I was in bed, part resting, part keeping myself occupied (shut up you dirty minded people/person [kat]) with the laptop, so I wasn't too bored. So while I was feeling ill in bed, when I did actually need to get up I found I had had enough rest to do stuff.

So, in theory, that should happen again. I hope so anyway. I don't like being ill.

And isn't that what DLA and stuff is for? Buying things that help you live, and get better? yes, I think so..

(good at justifying things, aren't i? ;) :P)

Oh oh! Most people know I'm doing the anti-candida diet, yus? Well the cook book thing, by Erica White, (has loads of stuff about candida at the start, then lots of recipies) has a test thing in the back, it's like a list of symptoms, and you score 1, 2 or 3 for each one you have, depending on how bad it is. The higher the result, the worse your candida.

So, I took this test when we first got the book and when I first started doing the diet properly, and was in the highest group. And last sunday, I did it again, and I'm in the lowest! Yay! Still like, highest bit of that group, cos it's something like 0 to 25, and I got 23.... or something like that anyway. So still got a little way to go, cos obviously, I'm still ill.. But yay! I hope that really does mean it's working.

Anyway, Christmas.

We didn't really do much, we had H(mum's bloke)'s mum here, so it was just the 4 of us. We had a nice day, mum got me a ridiculous amount of pressies, again!

She got me... a funky skirt thing, very alternative.. very funky :D and a top to go with it.. kinda stuff you'd need to wear on a very hot day on it's own, or over something else.

A black cardigan thing with fluffy bits round the collar and cuffs, and a red top with a shiney red tiger's face on it. I love tigers.

um... two guitar books, um.. oh, veeery cosy fleecey pjs... um... Pink hair dye! yay!

White stripes album, pink's album... creature comforts dvd :D

Basket things to put all my lush stuff in.. ;)

Lots of stuff I can't remember, and most probably have forgotten something vitally important... hmm.

So yes, that's all very funky.

I say that too much.

H's name was on most of those things.. ie, from mum and him rather than just mum.. But I know he didn't have much to do with buying most of it ;) He got me a pair of *coughs* funky (sorry) earrings.. Flashing santas! How rude. .. You turn them on... and they flash. Okay, that didn't help ;) There is a switch, on the back of them.. that you turn on.. (am I making things worse here?..) and they flash. as in, a red light, inside them, flashes..... yes.

Yay!

And I got looooads of stuff from you lot!

Shall I list them? If I forget someone then that will be crap.. I'll try tho.. If I do forget, feel free to hit me please.

Beanie - magic tree and a purple sugar mouse (mouse is sitting looking pretty, and not at all sugarry.. I'm pretending it's not sugar ;) and tree.. I haven't played with that yet.. will soon :D)

Cara - funky pink and black stripey socks with "wild child" written on them, bath confetti, glow stick (always wanted one of them ;) no, really!), and touchable bubbles!! How cool? After a while, I sensed that mum wasn't too happy with those, all over the lounge... ;) they're confined to my room, and any time I might go outside, they will come with me ;)

Jon - Yummy yummy body shop christmassy soaps :D

Kat - Lush Fairy Christmas gift box :D yay!

Lianne - very yummy body sprays

Livi - pampering set ;) pink things ;) thong, hairclip, and eye mask ;) and! Pink and black stripey toooooeeeeee soooooooccccccckkkkkksssss!! ahem.

Peter - High Fidelity book, looks good, can't wait to read it! I have a pile of books I need to read first tho damnit..

Rosa - The Pig Of Happiness! Funky little magnetty picturey framey thing, now lives on my radiator ;)

Thank you to eeeeeveryone who got me pressies, little things, big things, I love them all! Seriously, some christmasses, people might open pressies, and thank people and stuff, and at the end, not really have anything they actually really like.. but I was really chuffed at the amount of funky (sorry ;)) stuff I got this year! Thank you all!

And Rosa, I haven't spoken to you yet, and I don't have your mobile number, so couldn't text you.. But thank you! (I texted everyone else ;) didn't I? I hope I did...)

And my two friends (how sad does that sound? I have two friends... will you just let me speak?!) who live round here (oh.. yes, I have more than two friends. It just happens, that because I am so crappy and ill, I don't exactly get to meet people. So two, I think, is fairly good going. thank you.).. One gave me a box of candles, and the other gave me a reeeeeally cute cuddly dog thing! *cuddles cute cuddly dog thing*

So yes, good pressies, thank you!

I spent most of Christmas day lying in front of the fire, in my tiger top, a skirt (not new one), and toe socks, blowing bubbles ;)

Anyway, so that was nice.

On the saturday, mum helped me dye my hair :D Most of you will have already seen.. but la la..

la la.

Sunday, H's step daughter (confused? good good.) came to see us, she rocks. I don't think she's been to see us on a time when I've been relitively lively damnit. She's just a tad (ha) lively herself, she's brilliant. She probably thinks I'm all quiet and stuff.. which I am, obviously....

Monday, yay, monday!

Brother, brother's wife, brother's 7yr old son (my nephew), brother and his wife's 2yr old daugher (my niece), and brother's wife's bump :D:D, other brother, and aunt and uncle.

I like seeing family.

um. No, I like seeing my brothers.

Seeing just any old family, that's not the same. These are my brothers. My generation. Okay so they're 14 and 17 years older than me, but still. These people have the same mum as me. Nobody else does!.. Usually, sad as it may sound, boohoo, I don't usually feel like I'm part of a family.. But being around them, and the kids too, I feel almost a part of something again. sob. ;)

So they stayed till tuesday. And that, was good.

Monday morning, I got up, strung a chair ([like rush seating.. type thing.. you know? no? it's like making the seat of the chair, out of string.. sort of.] as you do...), and wired up our old speakers and amp thing and cd player in the dining room (we have a dining room!! gasp. we have lived here, what, 2 and a half years? or 3 and a half? possibly 3.. um, and all this time, we have used the dining room as a cupboard. Seriously, when we moved here, everything got dumped in there, and gradually as we needed stuff, we'd find it in there, and put it where ever. Anything else stayed there. Quite a lot, then. But mum and H cleared it out! We have a dining room! [okay shut up now..] ok.). When I say old speakers, I mean, like really old. Really old to me, anyway. They have like little screws in the back that you stick the wires under, rather than plug anything in.. I'd never done that before.. After a short while of wiring it, turning it on, attempting to play my white stripes cd, going "urgh, that's not right.." I saw on the back of the amp thing, that the + and - things were sorta opposites.. blah.. yes, so I turned them round.. and it worked! yay! So proud of myself. small thing, maybe, but I did it. THEN, I got up and ready to see people and stuff.. Lying in the bath, I felt like this was the best day I'd had in ages, and it hadn't even started yet. I was right.

I managed to keep going most of the day, with a short rest whilst people were eating pudding. And I say 'keep going', I mean walking round, talking, eating, etc. More than I'd usually do in like a week. And on Tuesday, went over the road to the pond thing with people, because it was thinly frozen over, so my nephew and brother wanted to smash ice.. typical ;) So I walked around blowing bubbles.. ;)

Anyway, so that's about it really!

Oh.. New years..... yes.

Less exciting.. I thought I'd atleast be sitting downstairs with mum and H, joking about how pathetic we all were, watching the fireworks going off outside, going 'ooh..' and 'happy new year!' and cringing at them singing.

That would do, you know.

But no. Firstly, I was eating food (egg, chips and peas. at midnight? yes.). Seocondly, my dad rang at about 11:40pm.. Fair enough, new years eve, nothing to do, phone your daughter.

He rambled on about nothing, managed to keep me on the phone for at least 40 mins. Mum and H came up at something like 5 mins to midnight, with a wine glass full of fizzy water, ice, and a slice of lemon for me. Bless them ;)

So I started the year off, in bed, in my pjs, eating egg and chips, on the phone to my dad (and I'm sorry, but he was depressing me.), and putting up with H singing as loudly and badly as he could.

I didn't have a great day that day anyway, won't go into it, computery stuff.. wireless networky stuff.. not interesting.. I mean, even less interesting as this entry.. HOW long is it now? Must stop typing soon, my eyes are going funny.. but yes, that was all crap, I was in a less happy mood than I should have been in, blah..

But oh well. Got it working a couple of hours later, so not such a bad start after all :D

I have a good feeling about this year. I feel shit now, but it feels like things are falling together for me. I really hope it's true, because if it's not, that's just another thing for me to be disappointed about.

I hope everyone has a really good and much healthier new year.

La la la..

Okay, this entry took, um, an hour and a half to write :S

My fingers ache!

I'm sorry for writing so much, and well done if you actually got this far ;)

Night night!