We bought pizza from tesco (along with a lot of other stuff) to cover us until Monday while Tracey is here so we don’t need to go shopping.
And then got pizza delivered instead.
It’s just that. much. better.
I think I just ate half the European jalapeño mountain.
So, I’m off work for two weeks! Other than being prodded by the NHS, no real plans. It’s been a rough three weeks at work, covering a lot of call out, being the person in the office who gets asked all the questions you don’t want to get asked, but I survived, just. It seems to be a common issue in March with lots of people taking holiday. Last year was similar I remember.
It’ll take me a few days to get over it all and really relax. The oddest thing happens first though – I get really down and pretty angry with the whole world, which is where I am today. I’m lucky that Grete understands and doesn’t get too pissed off at me.
So a few days of this feeling and then I’ll be able to enjoy not being at work.
Got my letter this morning saying the blood test results are in, but doesn’t list what they are. I may find out at the nurse appointment or I may need to ring the doctor. I’m sort of hoping the bit where it said ‘this appointment is non-urgent’ means they don’t think my medication needs reviewing and hence the results are okay, but that may just be wishful thinking.
I really am not a nice person to be around when I’m in this kind of mood, I think Tracey may regret her choice of weekend for visiting. Ah well.
While I’m moaning – why the hell did the previous owners of this house put different light bulbs in every damn room, I know I’ve moaned about that before. The kitchen lights are really pissing me off though – 50w halogen spotlights, two sets of 4 (we run them with 1 or 2 in a most) and the lamps last about 8 weeks before popping. They blow the old fashioned ceramic fuse wire in the old fashioned fuse box, and we have to power the whole house down and re-wrap 3amp fuse wire in the dark.
Yes, one went again this evening.
So, I need to 1. replace those damn lights, the sooner the better and 2. see if I can find a resettable fuse thing to replace the cermic ones. I need to go to B&Q.
My birthday is in March, and the NHS gets me the same thing every year – a set of annual diabetic check-ups. I get some retinopathy checks (they dilate your pupils and then photograph the back of your eyes). I can’t see very well for a while after that because everything is too bright. I get a visit to the nurse who checks my feet to make sure I can still feel them and that I didn’t cut a toe off without noticing, she tends to also nag me about not losing weight, having high blood pressure, and then asks me if I’m depressed. Before all that I also have to have a blood test and provide a urine sample, did those today. Bled pretty easily, was awkward last time but the nurse suggested it was because I hadn’t had a good breakfast. This time I made sure I ate early and I sprayed the inside of the two tubes quite happily when she stuck the needle in.
Then I get to wait and see how my average blood sugar was over the last three months. I’m not expecting a good result this time – I’ve had bouts of being ill on and off which messes with my control and emotionally I’ve not been strong enough to exert enough control either, so I suspect I’ll be having a talk with the doctor. I’ll resist attempts to change my meds – I can control my sugar when I’m strong and I just need another kick up the arse. I guess his concern will be that after too many kicks I’ll be blind and missing a foot.
Criminal Minds is finally back on in the UK this week on Living! Normally I don’t look forward to TV programs this much but CM is just excellent. Really looking forward to the opening episode after the cliffhanger at the end of last series.
Feels like it’s ages since it rained, where-as when we first moved to Nottingham it rained for almost the whole of February and most of March, non-stop. Personally I don’t mind a bit of rain although the cats clearly disagree, but I think it’ll be good for the garden and the water table.
I picked up a book earlier and nearly made it into the lounge to do some reading, when on a complete whim and mostly because the sun was out, I dragged my lumbering body outside and pruned our two biggest trees. By pruned of course, I mean heavily chopped back. And by heavily chopped back I mean massacred. They do look a lot better though – hopefully I got them before they expended too much energy waiting for spring and they’ll survive. I suspect they will since the huge tree at the bottom of the garden was ‘removed’ and it still manages to grow back each year. Grabbed some photo’s of the trees, the pile of wood we now have to get rid of and our troll, who’s settled into the garden nicely. Click for full size pictures.
I started writing a blog post a month or so ago entitled “The Zombies are Coming” (hey! like this one!) in a faux-serious style, explaining that all the signs indicated an imminent zombie invasion and we should prepare. I was going to link to a load of internet sites discussing zombies and zombie attacks and suggest they were likewise serious and could offer information on how to survive the inevitable invasion.
However, I wasn’t up to the task of making it funny so it got canned. But I was thinking about it again today, and musing to myself that if emerging and enduring themes in roleplaying games, movies, gaming miniatures, board games, card games, computer games and entertainment in general are any indication of future events (which clearly they’re not) – then a zombie infestation really can’t be that far away.
Survival Horror really has gripped us tightly in the last few years, with a slew of games, movies and other entertainment media. Clearly we’re not looking at a new phenomenon, zombie movies have been around nearly as long as movies themselves, but the reason it struck me lately is mainly the number of 28mm miniatures dedicated to zombie games (both zombies and zombie hunters / survivors). Here’s a selection (sometimes it’s not clear if the online store is selling their own models, or someone elses, but I’ll try and be clear).
and on, and on and on.
Face it folks, the zombies are coming, you better be (next link not safe for work and very gory) prepared.
Is it me, or is spring already arriving in the UK? The last few days have been very spring-like, drizzly rain, bright days, very mild considering the previous few weeks (it was 13C yesterday). I guess nature will laugh at my presumption and tomorrow we’ll be neck deep in snow and hail or something.
The garden is certainly gearing up, snow drops in the front and the grass is looking pretty green after that batch of snow.
No work for me today (or tomorrow, or Friday). Yay.