The week in retrospect
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rawneeOther than not having enough money for this and that, it was a pretty boring week. I really really want to change my name on here as everything I tried to register had already been used and I ended up using my own name...not very original and far too easy for the numpties to find me. (Not that there's anything here for them to see but you know how it is). Anyway, I have to wait until payday to buy my rename token, if I can be bothered...
Mother's Day and I had an appointment to see the optician about my contact lenses. I explained what was wrong, she nodded, smiled and asked me if I'd had a cold. Funnily enough, yes and this made me feel better as she wasn't dismissing out of hand that there was nothing wrong like the last bloke did. She said that basically I had a mild infection, my eye was very red and my eyelid hot and to get some anti-biotics. She gave me some new lenses to try that were a newer material but said to leave it at least a week and then go back to see how I was getting on! Not terribly impressed that I have to wear my glasses for a week but willling to do it if it means I can get my contact lenses back in. I hate glasses with a passion and simply don't suit them no matter what style I get but I've been playing on the Specsavers website with a picture of myself and a whole selection of glasses. Funnily enough, the only ones that seemed to suit me were the really expensive ones! No surprise there. I think they do it on purpose...let you buy cheap ones to start with that look OK when you first choose them but as soon as you walk out of the shop, they change and you look a t*t.
Anyway, got all that over and done with and went home to find my daughter there with a Mother's Day card and a lovely voucher for Debenhams. New bag anyone???
Monday was the usual 'first working day of the week' and nothing spectacular happened and so it continued until Tuesday.
We don't make a big fuss of things really but Paul really wanted a new graphics card and memory. We'd been in to the shop at the weekend to pick them up but the guy in the shop said they hadn't arrived and they were on back order...he would give us a ring when they were in, around Wednesday, so I gave Paul the money in case he rang. He didn't, so Paul's going to take his business elsewhere. Gem and Robbie gave him a voucher for HMV and bought him his birthday tea, Dominos pizza. He was really spoilt and loved it, even pointing out that his step-children had spent more than twice as much on his as his own father. No surprise there though really.
Told the doc I wasn't happy about doing the CBT thing just yet but hadn't dismissed it out of hand, she was OK with that and prescribed more Citalopram. Went on to tell her about the really crappy cold I'd had since forever and the fact that I now have a lovely cough and my asthma is bad again. Funnily enough, more steroids and a handful of anti-biotics should sort that out, so I'm hoping it sorts my eye out as well. I would hate to have a really serious illness and have to take a cocktail of pills and potions long term. It's enough taking 14 a day of the various 'make me better' fun stuff! Doing well this time though in that I'm actually remembering to take them.
Friday's never really a bad day cos it's manic in the mornings and then goes deathly quiet in the afternoons...gives me time to catch up on the odd jobs that aren't important enough to make a big deal of during the rest of the week and because I went in an hour earlier, I get to finish at 5 instead of 6. I had intended doing most of my housework on Friday but got sidetracked by the latest episode of Supernatural so I did most of it after we got back from town this morning. Paul didn't get his game because they'd upped the price by £20 and in doing so, lost themselves almost £100 sale as he was going to buy DVDs as well. He was so disgusted that they were asking so much for the game he wasn't willing to part with any of his money to them. He consoled himself with a visit to Subway and then we set off back home. So, now there isn't really much more going on other than I have to clean upstairs and doing the washing and ironing. How exciting can my life get? At least I have an extra day off this week and then I'm off for just over a week before Easter.
Mother's Day and I had an appointment to see the optician about my contact lenses. I explained what was wrong, she nodded, smiled and asked me if I'd had a cold. Funnily enough, yes and this made me feel better as she wasn't dismissing out of hand that there was nothing wrong like the last bloke did. She said that basically I had a mild infection, my eye was very red and my eyelid hot and to get some anti-biotics. She gave me some new lenses to try that were a newer material but said to leave it at least a week and then go back to see how I was getting on! Not terribly impressed that I have to wear my glasses for a week but willling to do it if it means I can get my contact lenses back in. I hate glasses with a passion and simply don't suit them no matter what style I get but I've been playing on the Specsavers website with a picture of myself and a whole selection of glasses. Funnily enough, the only ones that seemed to suit me were the really expensive ones! No surprise there. I think they do it on purpose...let you buy cheap ones to start with that look OK when you first choose them but as soon as you walk out of the shop, they change and you look a t*t.
Anyway, got all that over and done with and went home to find my daughter there with a Mother's Day card and a lovely voucher for Debenhams. New bag anyone???
Monday was the usual 'first working day of the week' and nothing spectacular happened and so it continued until Tuesday.
We don't make a big fuss of things really but Paul really wanted a new graphics card and memory. We'd been in to the shop at the weekend to pick them up but the guy in the shop said they hadn't arrived and they were on back order...he would give us a ring when they were in, around Wednesday, so I gave Paul the money in case he rang. He didn't, so Paul's going to take his business elsewhere. Gem and Robbie gave him a voucher for HMV and bought him his birthday tea, Dominos pizza. He was really spoilt and loved it, even pointing out that his step-children had spent more than twice as much on his as his own father. No surprise there though really.
Told the doc I wasn't happy about doing the CBT thing just yet but hadn't dismissed it out of hand, she was OK with that and prescribed more Citalopram. Went on to tell her about the really crappy cold I'd had since forever and the fact that I now have a lovely cough and my asthma is bad again. Funnily enough, more steroids and a handful of anti-biotics should sort that out, so I'm hoping it sorts my eye out as well. I would hate to have a really serious illness and have to take a cocktail of pills and potions long term. It's enough taking 14 a day of the various 'make me better' fun stuff! Doing well this time though in that I'm actually remembering to take them.
Friday's never really a bad day cos it's manic in the mornings and then goes deathly quiet in the afternoons...gives me time to catch up on the odd jobs that aren't important enough to make a big deal of during the rest of the week and because I went in an hour earlier, I get to finish at 5 instead of 6. I had intended doing most of my housework on Friday but got sidetracked by the latest episode of Supernatural so I did most of it after we got back from town this morning. Paul didn't get his game because they'd upped the price by £20 and in doing so, lost themselves almost £100 sale as he was going to buy DVDs as well. He was so disgusted that they were asking so much for the game he wasn't willing to part with any of his money to them. He consoled himself with a visit to Subway and then we set off back home. So, now there isn't really much more going on other than I have to clean upstairs and doing the washing and ironing. How exciting can my life get? At least I have an extra day off this week and then I'm off for just over a week before Easter.
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Date: 2009-03-29 06:07 pm (UTC)I keep forgetting we get the friday off. woo!
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Date: 2009-03-29 06:27 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-03-29 10:20 pm (UTC)CBT? I tried a couple of times for referrals and the doc here was always dismissive and besides the waiting list...
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Date: 2009-03-30 12:22 pm (UTC)Blimey, maybe you should change your doc. I hadn't even considered it as I didn't think I was that bad (which I'm not, turned out I'm 'borderline') and I only had to wait a couple of weeks for the initial appointment. I can't believe that, with what you're going through, you've been dismissed like that. Bloody hell, you're really going through it, aren't you?
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Date: 2009-04-10 01:20 pm (UTC)It's more a combination of inbuilt weaknesses made 1000x worse by the enforced isolation of the last few years.
OTOH the doc has a remarkably refreshing common sense PoV about anti depressants and doling out tabs for everything.
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Date: 2009-04-10 01:46 pm (UTC)