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I just remembered why my mobile phone is so damned cool. It has an alarm. I ended up stealing the spare one, in the end, which is really evil and made me remember why digital is just cool.

Gah.

Since I woke up an hour early, I pottered around the house and marvelled at the lack of muscular pain. I’m so pathetic, but I really love my bed. It’s warm and comfy and besides, I’ve had it since I was about three and I’m convinced the thing knows me or something by now.

I had to go to the optician this morning, for my yearly ritual of “one or two?” I’m pleased to report that there has been a little bit of change in it, though – now I get to look at coloured circles. Since I’m now at the age where I can sign all my own paperwork along the lines of “Yup, Tony Blair is still paying!” they took it upon themselves to explain why I am a freak. I always thought I had weird glasses because I was just blind. Apparently not. I am very shortsighted, but when that’s corrected I have super cool “FEAR ME!” type sight, which is useful, I suppose. I also have astigmatism, which I originally thought meant I was bleeding or had the Turin Shroud imprinted on my retina or something, but just means I have freaky shaped eyes. Fair enough. I hastily chose new glasses that I don’t currently like but will in the space of a week (that’s what always happens) and also enquired about contact lenses. Due to my freaky shaped eyes, they will cost me an arm and a leg. Nevertheless, I’ve been a good bunny and booked an appointment.

Hoo boy.

I also looked around most of Ormskirk in the search for Megan’s birthday present. Because I am a ~~cheap skank~~ on a budget amongst other things, I couldn’t find anything. What do you buy someone you barely know, dislike, and whose mood and attitude changes more often than her underwear? I did try this teeny little show called the “Fairy Wing Repair Shop” which is the closest thing we get to a magic shop. It’s quite nice, really, considering I’ve never been in before. Then I saw “The Lord Of The Rings Oracle” which proclaimed itself to be an “exciting new form of divination based upon Tolkien’s best seller…”

I backed out of the shop very hastily then in something of a panic, because I had this weird mental image of Trelawney avidly reading LOTR and proclaiming that the symbol of Orchrist means that Harry will die a violent death.

I still haven’t found anything for my sister, although I have invested in some red hair dye for myself. Well, if it goes wrong, I can hide in the house and wash it out.

Now I am going to go an do something useful and try and sort out the slooooow computer in between doing the washing. I also have a whole host of badges to sew onto my meal bag that I’ve meant to do since January.

~Hathy_Col~