h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Are genuinely nice.

Got given a load of free stuff, quietly, in Lush again - I.E., we only notice donce we'd got out of the store ; : I thought the twenty quid she charged us, seeme a bit low.... about £15 worth of free stuff, or stuff she'd just not charged for was in the bag, including a free gift, a bubble bar

o so hope they don't get in trubble for doing that.

then. in JL. so unhelpful. I'll never use JL again, now. they've been luseless the last few times I've been there.

(there was a logner version of this journal, but it vanished).

W here all day. shopping in town

Got sunglasses and sunscreen. no bed. lots of Lush, new conditioner (coconut of course), a few other bits, and some g gorcerys and I made us a dinner of pasta salad, with quiche (OK shop bought quiche but... a rahte r decent one)

W took a pic o me... being silly (its not an indecent immage, for once!) think you can see all the ribbons, including teh final white one, plus I've got the sunglasses on... aI am.... being rather silly hanging over the banister at the top of the top staircase on the top landing

its a link to twitter maybe, dunno... I don't really do photo sharing much, it may work;
http://t.co/liuH1S7s2G



going to go to gp tomorrow, book an appointment, and investigate some other furnature plaes, which might have beds they sell on display -JL didn't seem too

few other things to pick up tomorrow, too, probably from same area, as teh bigger out of town fur furnature shops so that oughta work out

Be soon I think. kinda tired. maybe. must go make some more peppermint tea though, first, of ourse

found the bed another wooden bed base, which I prefer, as it allows better air circulation I always think under the bed... but... a really decent one kinda ... rounded corners which is nice... and... one may have notice decent enough areas all over for... potentially if one say... wanted to attch things to it, or add O or D ring hooks to it pricey. but half price nice matress too which was also half price
going to go buy them later this week I think; if we get the same guy who we were tlaking to in store, who gave us a 'quote' written down, so we remembered which we were looking at, we get a free bunch of stuff too ; I entertained him, conversationally.... we talked of jellied eels, and the East end of London; though W ainly knows about East end of London, so helped out there

Also bought some pasta, and quiches, from a shop near furnature one and then went on to get cheese and bread, and things

Booked GP appointment for Friday did a lot of walking.... which has to be good.... kinda feel better when doing stuff, as it raises BP, but, then of course tires me but, its easy enough to deal with the fatigue, when its like that... I just ignore it and force myself to continue walking, etc, just often getting more light headed, and fainty feeling as I do so

No satin trousers. though. or saucepan

finally found number for computer recycling people, can finally wave goodbye to the lodger's junk in hall that's been there years, Wednesday, as they're coming to collect the old towers and monitors, and scanners and stuff need that space to have room to store before getting rid of, old bed, etc, so that should work fine
Dropped a lot later, in the day... energy wise but didn't try nap or anything I had to do stuff mopped kitchen, after sweeping and cleaning it

cleaned bath twice too, once before, and once after, another long hot bath - so achey. had to have the dragon's egg, and a couldren

were looking for a registration letter I may have had... with W... didn't find it... but found my building society book.... OK. thought I'd emptied that account, more or less, when I paid out the £7K forthe windows...
a rather plesent supprise to find £13K in it! also found old other building society book... something lurks in there, but not entirely sure what yet

if I can just be well again... maybe we can spend some money - despite all my spending recently, my current account keeps going up.... - I ust have spent more than I thought on cigs, and maybe beer too - so; I can justify spending even more at Lush! more dragon's eggs... and couldrens... and rose queens... and sex bombs... and space girl... and... Hmmm.... I'm getting a bit bath obsessed

but.

I ache all day, muscles, joints, cramp, bone pain. bathing. stops it. without my needing to process the sensations into colours, which, is kinda mentally taxing, sometimes

gona try get new bed and things sorted before rads get going; which can't be until some time after next clinic, which is.... week Wednesday (guess I've moed to radiation clinic now...)

what's up with the weather?!; keep having to have the heating on!; and I've checked, and its not just my dodgy temp regulation; my body is messed up temp wise... half the time I'm haivng a hot flush anyhow

did some more housework today. mopped kitchen, did some tidying and cleaning upstairs, plus normal multiple cleaing and sterlising kitchen of course

so ... kinda tired now... though... headachey too, but can't take paracetamol and stuff anyhow, as it could artifically lower my temp and hide an infection, so will just ignore headache not that I'm doing pain killers anyhow, so that doesn't matter I guess....

all eye drops and drugs duely taken... thikn I even got them like right, and at the right time, for once eggs and bacon on toast for breakfast. ham and cheese sandwichs for lunch.
Pasta salad, with quiche for dinner.
Toast, butter and smoked cheddar for first supper.
pork pie and scotch egg for 2nd supper (well, it settled my tummy down )

W went home earlier... err, back Wednesday i think depending on how early the collection people get here, to take the junk away, we may then go for tea with William's daughter

just... so tired now though.... maybe I do need some sleep.... time for a final cup of tea

Wow, I'm pleased to find 20 quid in an old handbag, but 13k in a building society? That's impressive!

It's not just you, it's been really chilly lately. And my heating is broken Just need to find the time to be in for the plumber to fix it.

Deb

Its either an impressive level of forgetfulness, an impressive level of being so zen relaxed that 'what is £13 K to me, its only money, hippyness', or, I was very very drunk indeed round about the time I last used teh account, and had the new windows fited in the house... - hmm, actually, thinking about the date, I'm quite sure I was doing a lot more than just drinking heavily back then circa.... err 2007 or 2008 I think - I used to be such a bad boy but Now I'm just a good girl honst.... - I knew there was something in the account, but I'd kinda got into my head that I'd taken out the £7K or whatever it was, for the rediculsuly expensive windows, and left the account, with, I dunno... a few hundred, or maybe just a bit more

Oops.

I've been doing some tidying, and shifting about more junk. and I've found some unopened, brand new, poppers in jars.... I'm so guessing it'd be really really really bad an idea, just... to... see... but... but... it'd m aybe help me raise my blood pressure up a bit but... I'm so guessing it'd be a bad idea... <

having a sit down and a cup of tea, again now, having just moved a whole pile of vinyl about (yeh, five months ago, I'd have carried that much vinyl in one trip; that just took like 6 or 7 trips!; I'm so bluddy weak! which... is so not me )

Right... cuppa tea, then back to cleaning and tidying in bedroom so tired, and ching. and I've still got all the junk downstairs to do something with, before they come collect it tomorrow... or... I could be very very lazy, and just leave it as a massive pile all discorganised for them to figure out my arms are aching a bit, just from actual 'physical' activity of carrying the vinyl!; like not just aching from chemo rugs or anything - my muscles must be so damn weak I need to join a gym

If "poppers" wasn't a typo, and you mean the same thing I think of when you say "poppers", amyl nitate, then that would indeed be a VERY bad idea as they DROP your blood pressure, not raise it.

But if you meant "unopened, brand new, PEPPERS in jars", sure, go ahead. You know quite well what peppers can do.

ahh... poppers as in.... not peppers... err... thinggy nitrate arn't they? often... apparently used by certain people... for... some reasons I always thought they raised your heart rate and BP.... anyhow...

I am.

so good thesedays. so obedient. well behaved.

and. I did it all myself; thought about it. and. I decided, extra unneeded drugs inside, right now, is probably not a good idea. and, furthermore, I deduced, that, if and as its not a good idea, were I too do so, I.E., use them, then, I'd not only be doing something bad, but, be being naughty, and it'd not be something taht certain ... perople would want me to do... and it'd make them unhappy and cross with me, and I'd be in trubble and I'd be... it'd be such a bad idea. so. - I threw them away

I don't need no drugs.... not anymore. My minds reached a new zenith of weird, wehre the mental thought processes alone are capible to induce far better highs than chemically induced ones.... - having said which, given the various mix of cytotoxic agents, steroids and..... BoB- knows what in my blood stream, I'm hardly like an entirely clean state as goes drugs inside

Interesting tihing today;

I keep loosing flavours, for tea; so I've been moving through differnt teas; I totally lost the taste for Jasmine; and now I'm drinking it again;

Odd thing is; I can't taste it; but I can 'sense' it, in both colour (synethesisa), and scent, but, the taste is still way down

so. now I'm drinking tea, that I'm tasting, purely by its colour in my imagination, with just a little bit of taste, largely gien I think by its scent.

Really. kinda. awesome. and weird. of course.

I am my own drug. now. yeh man.

Just been lumping about speakers and hifi - its all gotten a lot heavier than I reacll! - amusing moment again, me balanced on one leg, with a turnatable in one hand, putting it on a high shelf... my balance is so shot, esp with the b blood pressure thing

but I bluddy did it! and didn't fall over.....

just gotta find somewhere to store the big speakers (put a smaller set up in the bedroom, to make a ton more room)

having a cup of tea now... for a break, whilst my BP realigns itself, and I stop feeling qtuie quite so faint then must get on... gotta clean bedroom after too... then think about a shower... unless I bath late again, or... soemthing... so tired...

<cool. got the big speakers to fit in the cupboard, where the smaller celestion speakers were being sotred; put the celestions up in the bedroom. finished sorted, tidied, swept, mopped, dusted, bedroom, then bathroom, spare room, landing, stairs, then just about fainted as I was finishing! but... didn't...

collapses with a cup of tea, and a choc bar, and had a breka, and finally got round to make dinner after cleaning then steralising kitchen, then I cleaned and steralised the kitchen after dinner, of course just need to sweep kitchen

must go rearrange unit in bedroom... sort of just decide where its gona go... not sure yet... and, then maybe either a bath, or a shower... - not sure I've concentration for a full bath... - and that'd involve cleanig the bath, of course, first, and then cleaning it again after - coul dod ... do... with.. just having a bit of a ... chlling out... kinda evening... maybe listen to usic, or potter on the net; still trying to find curtains taht will fit in the bedroom.; such a long drop

Decided current position of HiFi will do for now, and the unit its on... afterall; the room will be rearranged somewhat differntly when the new bed arrives. - I am banking on my still having my demon ability to erect/construct wooden bed bases - I'e done several before, but, the new one, its so much better designed, than ones I've had before... stronger proper wood too, and the construction from what I had a brief look at in teh shop, looks a lot better designed; the attachment/connecty bits, for teh sort of corners of the bed, plus the way they do the cross-slats, looks a lot more sensible and well-designed. - I will, of course, investigate how its constructed, carefully, in the shop, again, so I can hopefully recall that and remember how to put it together when it arrives Haven't done any DIY or construction furnature stuff for ages... - just hoping we measured up the space correctly in the bedroom; although, if not, I can add a few extra CM to the problamatic gap; I've a tennon saw, and skirting boards are no obsticle

May even go buy the bed and the matress tomorrow, just in case they disappear, given they're like reducted to half price from nearly £900 both together; and, anyhow, when we were in the shop last time, the cool guy we were talking too, sort of wrote us a 'quote' and, I think that's even including their delivery charge 0- he's also promised a free matress protector, if we try find him in the shop when we're there - have to say... just briefly trying out the matress in the shop... I do think perhaps mine is a bit more past it than I'd credited it with being - then I'll just need call red cross, charity shop, apparently they collect old beds, for free; guess they recycle or make money from them for the chairty or something; way cheaper than the rediculus rates the council charges, as they class matress plus bed base as two items damn fingers
W insists he's paying for half the bed/matress - must try source some suitable new linen bedding, and duck... or maybe goose duvet and pillows, I guess...

feeling kinda tired, must try for an early sleep; so I won't sit up until 4 or 5 AM, as I hae the past few nights. my sleeping has gotten weird. - keep staying up way too late. then not sleeping in as long as one would need to for it to make anything like a long enough sleep though, actually think I've just about clocked 8 hours, in two nights last night and the night before; sleep, lack of, is one of the things I've got to talk to GP about Friday. I'm starting to get a bit fed up with the inside of hospitals, surgerys, pharmacys TBH but, oddly, it'll be kinda odd, not having to visit the chemo day ward ever again.... <- well we'll have to make an excuss to visit it at some point, just to say hello to our receptionast friend, and some of the other nurses of course and I'll only be just down the cooridoor, for Radiology as far as I recall, not sure if it shares the same flebotamy bit or not, for bloods.... dunno

need to do some recabelling at the back of the HiFi, its such a mess, and I can shorten a bunch of cables now, just to make it ti tidier... - either tomorrow or Thurs, should head out to the shops including the one with the bed in (sort of out of town area, but not far a walk from here), and, going to go to the toy shop there too (no, not thatat* sort of toys.. like childrends toys ); need to get a hamock sorage system, or something, for the manageri of pets/teddys I have also, near there, a couple of clothing shops; still need to find myself a supurb pair of trousers... still thinking maybe velvet is the way to go... - its all my consultants fault. really... my consultant oncologist that is... not my consultant endochrinologist, or my consultant neurologist, or consultant haematologist, or my consultaant opthamaologist - damnit... no wonder I'm feeling fed up with hospitals

I might buy a new guitar. and get rid of...... three or four guitars. been thinking about it for ages... nothing too wildly expensive.... steel strung acoustic for a change, not had an acoustic for .... gosh... so long - having had the neuropathy; sort of mainly gone, and kinda not played really in years, and jus forgotten so much stuff, and things, about playing, is kinda useful; I've played, very briefly a few times, recently, and find I can play without some of my old bad habits, as I can't, basically, remember the bad habbits, also, a couple of things, I couldn't ever do well, foun I could somehow make my fingers do ; although, just so damn slow at playing ; some of the stuff I could recall how to play... just so slowely no sheedding err shredding for a while or ... anything else much fast

Really should think about bed soon. maybe a final cup of tea....... jasmine... nah... maybe not even peppermint, cammemile I think, for a final cup maybe