Though I lack your power, I will still persist.

I'd like to say that my lack of entries here over the last 5 months have been because I was busy, but I really haven't. I just haven't felt like there was anything going on that was worth writing about (or other people reading about).

That said, I am doing okay. ( Well, ish. )But apart from that, I'm doing good.

Cramps, coughing fits, loss of voice... When it happens to me, it happens all at once XD Of course, I could be on for the next two months AGAIN, stupid PCOS symptoms -_-

But let's not talk about that!

I have got to stop saying "I've found screencaps!" and then having my storage media of choice break ten seconds later. I mean, honestly. Epsecially when I want oh so badly to have Muppet icons. Which reminds me, does anyone have any happy music that they could send me on CD? Because I desperately need some new music. 3 months with no new music makes me very sad ;_;

Going back to Huddersfield was good, even if just for a day, but now I remember how much I miss my mum and stepdad and the kids. Teaching 8 year old Becky how to play poker was suspiciously easy, even if it was just that version on Mario. And me and my mum and stepdad were swapping movie quotes and shouting "Alan Rickman" at each other all day (honestly, if you ever play the Harry Potter Scene It game, the answer will be Alan Rickman 99% of the time). And Eddie Izzard quotes while playing Lego Star Wars ("I am Darth Vader, I do not need a tray. I could kill you with a thought!") and finding a copy of "Armageddon: The Musical" at a charity shop, and getting "But it's made of honey!"* into conversations along with "Don't you know, you should always choose the lesser of two weevils!"**...

I miss all THAT. My film-geek family, I miss them so. All the quotes I know are wasted on my grandad, who tends to start singing folk songs when I'm talking to him, or decides that the dog is better to talk to than me. I guess my family is why fandom isn't such a big deal to me - I've been doing it for years.

Anyways, gtg, the internet time is over for today.



BTW kiltedmonkey/musicaldiscord: I've been in the library for over an hour with THAT bag now, and there's been no giggles or anything. Honestly.


* If anyone knows where that's from, well done!
** This one's alot easier.

So, last night, fun! And interesting!

One of the kids, the older one, has changed dramatically since the last time I saw him. His mum recently left and the whole family's had a hard time of it since, but he's really risen up to the challenge. He's now someone I can actually talk to without feeling like he's trying to show off. He even let me play on his Nintendo DS, and gave me actual hints instead of doing everything for me. He tidied up. He asked me how things were going and why I wasn't at uni, and when I said I'd had a breakdown, he understood and didn't ask any more about it.

The I'm-better-than-you attitude he's had for pretty much the whole nearly-14 years I've known him is gone. And his dad is so proud of him. And I'm proud to have him as part of my (extended) family.

Oh and I played that Metroid Prime game on the Wii, ate pizza, and had to tell the younger kid (who happens to be SEVEN) that she couldn't watch the previews on Playboy TV. Or Gay TV either.

That and we had about a minute of snow straight after a night of heavy rain. So I've finally got hold of some Christmassy songs (Fairytale Of New York FTW!)

So, today = fun.

I went up to the Cedar Court Hotel (which is like a big posh thing that I get nervous just going into because it's all posh and I'm not) to go to a screening of a documentary that my sort-of employment agency was involved in. My main consultant at the agency seemed vaguely impressed with me turning up but one of her coworkers, Zara, was all "congratuWELLDONE!" and then started telling me about how another coworker, Derek, is going back into training, but not before being Santa at the local shopping centre XD So I like to think I did myself proud just getting myself to go there - but wait, there's more!

Before the screening I didn't really talk to anyone, but during the lunch afterwards I ended up talking to a lot of older men and women (who were representatives of people who want to work with the agency) and actually impressing them, even if they all thought I was about 23/24 (which is the nearest guess I've had in a while I have to say). And one guy on another table got discreetly slapped for staring at me for too long XD And me and this one guy forwent dessert to keep going back for more paninnis at the buffet, because there were loads of them and there were serious amounts of nom.

So I have learnt from that that I may have a superpower - I can make everyone aged 50+ love me in minutes. What a fun superpower.

Oh, and before the meeting, a guy going to another meeting on the same floor offered to let me go up the stairs first, but I just smiled at him and said he could go first, and he tripped over the first step. And then, on the way home, I got waved at by guys in three different cars, got let across a crossing by a guy in a van only to have a guy in the taxi behind it smile and nod at me, watched one guy at a junction try to turn his head to look at me when I crossed the road behind him, and got 8 guys and one woman trying to turn their heads 180 while going past me.

From this a conclude that I must have looked like some sort of freak, even with my best attempts at dressing pretty.

Oh and my older sister Carol and her husband Grant came over for tea and had the following exchange:

( Not safe for work? I'll cut it to be safe. )

He meant that it would have been rude not to go back for seconds, obviously.

Having been awake for over four hours already while everyone else is sleeping off last night, I have no idea what to write.

Ummm...

Last night was fun. I was expecting it to be painful tbh. 15 relatives around a table, including both sets of parents (who ended up sat near each other without the world ending), and a birthday banana split with a candle in it. I kept the candle (hope the restaurant didn't notice).

And then this morning I've been spending money on people. Yes, already.

Oh, and I got an Eeyore!

( Cut to save your layout! )

Anyway, breakfast time methinks. Jam and toast, huzzah!