Catching up

In recent news:

* Olivia died on the way home from work on Friday. Panic stations all round! Fortunately it was near home, but I had no idea what the problem was - and if it was something I hadn't learnt about yet, I was scared I wouldn't know how to solve it. Fortunately the symptoms sounded familiar... and I thought I'd better check that my fuel guage and fuel tank were on the same wavelength. Um - no, they weren't. Unfortunately, the one thing I wasn't carrying was a jerrycan. But I phoned the kid, who walked over with one, got some fuel nearby and made it home. Today I filled the tank (and got a tyre repaired), so we're good to go again. I'm really starting to enjoy driving the big old lady. Slow - yes. Heavy on fuel - yes. Driving up hills tires me out - yes (I find my entire body straining forward in an effort to urge her on). But she's great, and puttering around is very cool.

* I have no reason to be (at all!!!), but suddenly today was struck with an intense feeling of loneliness. Still struggling to get past it, and I don't know why. I'm kicking myself, 'cos it's really stupid (hormonal dip?). And I hate looking stupid, more than most things (there's a secret spilled for you).

* For the first time since January, I missed writing in my offline journal last night. This from someone who simply couldn't face putting things on paper with a real pen for many many years (loooong story) - then dived straight into journalling when a good friend gave me a beautiful blank journal to fill at the beginning of the year. Why did I miss writing? Well around 9 last night I got into the mood to read. So I hauled out of my many Readers Digest Condensed Books, crawled under an extra duvet and got stuck in. Half an hour later I couldn't keep my eyes open! Random calls for hotdrink from the kid kept waking me up, but I was unresponsive and he eventually came to see what was up. At which point he decided it was bedtime, and I had to haul my butt out of bed to both say goodnight and get into my pyjamas. So no journalling! And little blogging too.. :-)

* My roller mouse is on the blink. I plugged in a second one I had lying around, and have just remembered why I wasn't using it. It has kicked me off of the internet and attempted to shut the computer down by getting "stuck" in click-mode, randomly opening windows. Thankfully the "new" Blogger saves drafts, or I'd have gotten so frustrated at losing everything I've just typed that you'd see none of this. Tomorrow I go shopping for a mouse with genitals that work!

* I still think I need a holiday.

* I have just received spam to both "enlarge my p*nis" and "lose weight quickly" - I wonder if they're related, a simple matter of shifting mass? :-) Unfortunately I don't plan on testing either.