Dos and Don'ts...

It's been an interesting couple of days, that's for sure. Things started off pretty badly on Thursday, what with there being nothing to eat for breakfast in the house and all. It got worse when I ironed my brand new trousers, and someone had managed to melt some dark blue plastic on the iron, which smeared all down the leg of my new work khakis. I was in a foul mood by the time that I arrived at work, having stopped at a shop on the way and purchased a low quality tuna sandwich for breakfast (the only thing I could find that didn't have meat in it). I have a meeting with my boss on Thursday mornings; the purpose of the meeting this week, it seems, was to tell me how badly I was doing. She had a list of about twenty things that I needed to change about what I was doing. I'm not going to go into all of it, because it's boring and unnecessary. Anyway, I didn't agree with all of it, some of it was misinformed, and I have already made an effort to sort out the rest. We're all good now. It didn't help my morning though.

The day was ok, with lots of work to do, and my collegue making me feel much better. Bethany also made a more than valiant effort, with voicemail messages and emails to cheer me up; I got a good one there. When I returned home my housemate had gone to pick up my new motherboard for me, so we put the computer back together. However, my new stick of RAM is the wrong type for my motherboard, so it's completely useless. I can't send it back either. Ho hum. Neither does this motherboard have a built in sound card like my last one, so I have to get one of those before I can use Skype to talk to Bethany on the internet. Not that I can do that at the moment anyway - the network card is causing all sorts of problems. It will only connect to the net for about ten minutes, after which I have to shut the machine down and restart it if I want to email or surf the web. Rubbish. I ended up taking my aggression out on the ice at Bradford Ice Rink. That, I have to say, was pretty good.

Yesterday started badly too, if I'm honest. I woke up in the morning feeling particularly rough; coughing and spluttering. I took the day off college, and stayed in bed till half nine. Then I got up and chilled out. In the end I headed into town, and bought some new work pants. I also purchased a shirt and some other clothes for work. I spent four hours shopping. And, as it turned out, I really needed that time. Not only was it retail therapy, but it was a valuable amount of time spent on my own. I've been very surrounded by people recently, and I think that I really appreciated the time spent just with myself. I love having people round me, but occasionally you just need space to think. That's what I needed yesterday.

The evening was also great. After a night of practising with the band, and feeling much more happy about our sound than I did after our show last week, we decided to head to the supermarket and get some ingredients for a crazy dessert. You can see a picture of it at the top of this post. You won't, however, understand how BIG the portions were. a generous serving would have been to split the thing between 6 people. We divided it between three of us. It was full of chocolate, and served with more whipped cream than was absolutely necessary. Ridiculously good. Agreed, it was 2am by the time we tucked into it, but it still felt like Friday.

So, I guess my point is this: My day on Thursday was awful, but, as Bethany said, it got SO MUCH BETTER yesterday. And none of it matters anymore, because when I went to bed on Thursday night, I left all that crap behind. And guess what? Today was awesome too. I wonder what tomorrow's going to be like...