| 10:17a |
The Dramatic World of the Drac
I came home from work last night (it's so nice to be able to say that again). I came home from work and was unlocking the door when I must have slightly turned around and noticed that something looked odd. Then it occured to me that a large chunk of our fir tree was lying right across our garden (and our rosebushes). It looks just like a big hedge or something. The trunk of the tree has split where this section has fallen down and the remainder of the tree looks non-too-stable right now.
I called the housing agency last night. They won't be able to get anyone out until Monday and they have to call the landlord first. I asked them to find out if there was anything we could do in the meantime. No phonecall back.
So I've just rang them again. This time the person was much more responsive and was asking questions to picture how bad it was. She's also going to get back to me. Hopefully she won't wait too long to reply. I need to go shopping this afternoon - whether gale force winds and rain or not.
Firstly I have to get birthday presents for Rachel - it's her birthday on Thursday. Secondly Rat wants to buy a rucksack and I want to get some kind of leather sachel. Oh, and I need healgrips.
I've booked myself a haircut. With a real stylist. I think I want something fairly short (although I want to be able to grow it out quickly if need be). I just want something where I won't be tempted to tie my hair up constantly, because my hair looks so much better down.
I'm feeling really tired this morning. Headachey and sick with it. I think I got up too early. I was far too tired to get up. But at the same time I was far too awake to stay in bed, as I'd have just tossed and turned and kept Rat awake. I got up for an hour and then went back to bed, but that hasn't particularly helped.
And my knees are really bad. We were tidying up the office yesterday (we're getting new furniture in on Thursday) and I managed to bugger up my knees. They haven't been so bad for ages. They're still not perfect this morning, so no heavy lifting for me today!
Saw two films last week. The first was Mona Lisa Smile which was good, and fortunately wasn't too "chick flick". There were a few things that didn't have the closure I'd have liked, and the "love interest" was a particularly odd character. Odd because some of the aspects of his character were superfluous to the plot and didn't really "fit".
The second film we saw last night and was Open Range. It too was fairly good. However it was (almost) worse that The Return Of The King for the far too long ending. The big gunfight is over, there are a few things to clear up, but over ten minutes of sentimental claptrap really spoilt the movie. The rest of the story was good, and the characters were cool. Not quite Dances With Wolves, but it's definitely better than Costner's other outings in the director's chair.
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