flirting with disaster

[hathycol]

I spent most of Saturday in bed. Fifteen hours, to be precise, with a wee nap in the afternoon. I felt far more sane and healthy, until the moment I realised that my purse was not, in fact, in my house. After a brief moment of trying not to cry, I ripped my house to shreds, went to the police station, came home, cancelled all my cards, went out to a friend's house for pre-arranged pizza and DVDs.

Fortunately, my purse had been located in WH Smiths - which is where I left it after paying my gas and council tax on Friday night - and seemingly hasn't been touched, which is brilliant indeed. Cards remain cancelled, and I don't have internet banking, so I can't check my balance but I'm pretty confident it should be okay. Unfortunately, I do have all of £9.50 to live off until... well, hopefully no later than the end of the week. Curses. I wanted to go to the pub this week, but looks as though that's out of the balance. Luckily I did the food shop on Thursday, hurrah!

This week mostly feels like a continual series of near-misses, all things considered.

I haven't really updated properly. I have been to see Harry Potter, and I have some thoughts on it. loneraven phoned me yesterday, and we seemed to share similar feelings on it. They went as thus:

"WHERE IS MY WEREWOLF ANGST THAT IS THE ONLY REASON I CAME TO SEE THIS FILM?!"

Okay, not quite the only reason. And I was a bit biased against it anyway, as I was knackered when I went to see it and was surrounded by irritating teenage tourists who ruined the whole experience for me. However, other than minimal Remus involvement, it was the fact that the entire beautiful Tonks/Remus relationship, in all its fucked up misery, was boiled down to one line of "Come on, sweetheart." Fenrir Greyback wasn't even identified as a werewolf, for fuck's sake. And there was no battle in Hogwarts, which I would have loved to see.

There were brilliant touches - Ron and the chocolates, Fred and George just in general, Snape, etc - but, well, I felt horribly let down. And yes, my only Harry Potter icon is the one of sexy!Voldemort. Shhh.

So, to a week of tight budgeting. I have enough for bread and milk, which tends to be my only essentials. At least I found the bloody thing, and I do not seem to swine flu, or at least a nasty version of it. Small mercies. Let's hope next week is kinder.

Comments

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

It's the SUIT. You only think Voldemort is sexy because of the SUIT. What if we put DOBBY IN A SUIT, WHAT THEN.

NO I AM STILL NOT OVER THIS.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

It is NOT JUST THE SUIT. If Dobby was secretly Ralph Fiennes under the make-up with a suit on then MAYBE WE COULD TALK A BIT. But only a bit.

(it is a very nice suit.)

WE WILL NEVER BE OVER THIS I REALLY HOPE WE ARE NOT RIPPED OFF ON THE ANGST FRONT FOR THE NEXT FILM.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

RALPH FIENNES with SLIT RED EYES and a COMPLEXION LIKE A LIMESTONE QUARRY. Why.

Also: moar Remus plz! They be stealing my scruffy gay werewolf from me!

[mistressboy.livejournal.com]

I deffo agree with you on the sad lack of Remus time. He is my favourite (probably just because of fanfiction, but whatever, that's a totally legitimate reason!).

The best bit was this:

[kelemvor.livejournal.com]

This icon? This is what I did in the cinema, and again just now!

[mistressboy.livejournal.com]

Seriously! I laughed for about a million years. Pure win.

[emmysuze.livejournal.com]

Do you have a cheque book? Can you go into the bank and make out a cheque to cash? That's what I had to do when I lost mine on a drunken night out had mine stolen.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

That is... actually a really good idea. Am not sure if it works when it's not your bank but I shall try! (I have to go to Dundee to get to Natwest and that is in Dundee, and I am low on petrol and can't afford the bus.)

[emmysuze.livejournal.com]

They'll probably charge you some sort of handling fee. Maybe beg them and cry a little bit?

[hannahbassill.livejournal.com]

When my money got stolen (stupid cash machine tampering person) I cancelled my card and they said the new one would be a week... It turned up in 3days along with the money which had been nicked put bank in my account by the bank... And well, my account is actually with Nationwide Building Society, so if they can do it that quick a bank surely can, don't panic.

Harry Potter indeed.... My mate dragged me to see it for her birthday. The script was appauling, the acting was pretty pants, the pincers bit was funny but not that great and Dumbledore was acting all Lord Of The Rings... All in all I HATE JK Rowling and her stupid cobbling together of material written by other people. The only HP stuff I like is fanfic and PotterPuppetPals. I suppose Ron was pretty amusing though.