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Rain yay :D
Jul. 28th, 2013 01:03 pmI finally got around to changing my winter weight duvet for a summer weight one, just as it looks like the heat-wave is drawing to a close. I'm so organised.
The heat is making me sooooo sleepy. All I really want to do is hide in a nice shady living room and watch DVDs. Mostly it seems to be Disney films right now. Tangled was so cute, and Despicable Me (of which I've only seen half before I was too tired to stay awake of Friday evening) is hilarious and Agnes is so adorable.
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When I was much younger (tweens and early teens maybe) I used to love love love Piers Anthony's Xanth books. My mother (as she tends to, given the chance) got rid of my copies, thinking I couldn't possibly notice. Obviously I did, and I was feeling nostalgic so I got the first couple off eBay. I read the first one and was immediately shocked and saddened at how sexist it was. So, so disappointing. It was similar to the feeling of let-down I got when they finally released Into the Labyrinth on DVD (which I adored when I was in primary school) and I snapped it up, only to discover that it's just horribly made, horribly written, and horribly acted. I should have left it as a happy memory.
Thinking that the first Xanth book was a blip I thought I'd give the second one a go. I started it yesterday. So far things do not look promising. I'll persevere.
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Having just had to tell my mother for at least the 6th or 7th time about my trip to Scotland in September, I felt compelled to suggest to her she may want to go to the doctor to get her memory checked out (Clive had asked me to last time we spoke but I've been putting it off as I've done it lots over the last couple of years and it's upsetting when she just completely brushes it off). She countered by saying it had been ages since we last spoke (she actually said 'months') and how was she expected to remember over such a long time. When I said we'd had the same conversation last weekend she said 'oh, but it was at least a couple of months before that' which, no, it was a couple of weeks at most.
She said she'd make a note to discuss things with her doctor next times she sees her. She won't. She has no intention of doing so.
I just don't know what we can do. Clive said he was thinking of writing a letter to her. Maybe that'll work. Who knows.
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My fourth Sams overnight of the year is on Friday, and then I have another at the end of the month. I'm behind but I have a Plan (two months of 2 overnights, the rest with one. Simple).
We're getting weekly emails now telling us how short we are, and pressuring the people who haven't done enough to get on sign up for the shifts that don't have enough people. I can't do midweek though and there are enough retired people, students, and people who don't do a tradition Monday to Friday 9 to 5 kind of job that, so.
I don't know if I'll do my 10 this year. We shall see. It gets much harder coming towards Christmas. But it's looking more likely than last year.
The people I'm going to be on with are really nice so I'm kind of looking forward to it. Not looking forward to the lack of sleep though.
The heat is making me sooooo sleepy. All I really want to do is hide in a nice shady living room and watch DVDs. Mostly it seems to be Disney films right now. Tangled was so cute, and Despicable Me (of which I've only seen half before I was too tired to stay awake of Friday evening) is hilarious and Agnes is so adorable.
;;
When I was much younger (tweens and early teens maybe) I used to love love love Piers Anthony's Xanth books. My mother (as she tends to, given the chance) got rid of my copies, thinking I couldn't possibly notice. Obviously I did, and I was feeling nostalgic so I got the first couple off eBay. I read the first one and was immediately shocked and saddened at how sexist it was. So, so disappointing. It was similar to the feeling of let-down I got when they finally released Into the Labyrinth on DVD (which I adored when I was in primary school) and I snapped it up, only to discover that it's just horribly made, horribly written, and horribly acted. I should have left it as a happy memory.
Thinking that the first Xanth book was a blip I thought I'd give the second one a go. I started it yesterday. So far things do not look promising. I'll persevere.
;;
Having just had to tell my mother for at least the 6th or 7th time about my trip to Scotland in September, I felt compelled to suggest to her she may want to go to the doctor to get her memory checked out (Clive had asked me to last time we spoke but I've been putting it off as I've done it lots over the last couple of years and it's upsetting when she just completely brushes it off). She countered by saying it had been ages since we last spoke (she actually said 'months') and how was she expected to remember over such a long time. When I said we'd had the same conversation last weekend she said 'oh, but it was at least a couple of months before that' which, no, it was a couple of weeks at most.
She said she'd make a note to discuss things with her doctor next times she sees her. She won't. She has no intention of doing so.
I just don't know what we can do. Clive said he was thinking of writing a letter to her. Maybe that'll work. Who knows.
;;
My fourth Sams overnight of the year is on Friday, and then I have another at the end of the month. I'm behind but I have a Plan (two months of 2 overnights, the rest with one. Simple).
We're getting weekly emails now telling us how short we are, and pressuring the people who haven't done enough to get on sign up for the shifts that don't have enough people. I can't do midweek though and there are enough retired people, students, and people who don't do a tradition Monday to Friday 9 to 5 kind of job that, so.
I don't know if I'll do my 10 this year. We shall see. It gets much harder coming towards Christmas. But it's looking more likely than last year.
The people I'm going to be on with are really nice so I'm kind of looking forward to it. Not looking forward to the lack of sleep though.
