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Like a Train in the Night
Aug. 25th, 2009 10:19 amit's been a while since I've updated - think I've been to wrapped up in my own little world. Still not found my DS or developed any concept of where and when I could have lost it. I'm now worried that the second I buy another one it'll show up. ah well. I've been using a colleagues lime green one (yak!) - he's interested in selling it as he doesn't use it - I tend to get uncomfortable with the concept of buying things off people I know - the whole haggling and negotiating thing really leaves me cold - I always worry about offending people by offering too little and being a mug if I offer too much because I don't want to offer too little! if he sells it to CEX he'd get £27-9 for it and it'd cost me £55-58 to buy it. which would suggest a figure in between (well £42.25 if I'm being anal about it... which I often am...) but his comes more brain training (and possibly professor layton which I've nearly finished not anyway) which the CEX ones might not but the CEX ones come with a 12 month guarantee... so - what to offer him...? This is the sort of thing that causes me to be paralysed by indescision! welcome to the sticky insides of my brain :P
DJing at sheep was somewhat scuppered by the CD player not liking my cds - thankfully I managed to cobble together most of my set from Paul's collection and Neal's I-pod (I'm not sure which one of the two of us should be more worried about that Neal...?) but I did lose a couple of my choices and leave the club in utter silence for a while as I scrabbled around. "Think of England" by IAMX and "My Lovely Horse" by the Divine Comedy were sadly missed victims but thankfully Paul had "Love on your Side" by the Thompson Twins so I still got to inflict that upon the world :)
Went to visit the other half of my tiny family last Friday. My aunt Carol, cousins Debbie and Jen, uncle Alan and my Irish grandma. It was about 10 years since I'd last seen most of them and I was utterly shocked by the state of my grandma. She was physically unrecogniseable as the same person. I know 10 years isn't kind when you're in your 80s but she was tiny and gaunt and so frail. I was used to her being the glamourous, arsey one of my grandmas and was still in high heeled mules, make up and had dyed hair last time I saw her. Only her voice is the same. More shockingly though is that she now has senile dementia which means her lucidity varies and was very lacking by the end of the night. I feel very sorry for Carol as she's tied to the house 24*7 unless one of my cousins agree to baby sit Nana. And at 19 and 23 they have imporant stuff of their own to be doing. Also the only personality traits she's really retained are the sharp tongue and various other unpleasant elements. physically she's not too bad all things considered despite weighing only 5.5 stone and can still do stairs and get around no problem - which of course is another pain for Carol as she occasionally tries to escape. She refuses to go to day care to give Carol a break (by stating loudly that Carol's fine and it's her that needs a break) but I suspect the time is coming where they're going to have to put her in a home for all of their sanity's sake. Sad stuff. It was lovely to see them though and Carol is just as lovely as I remember and Debbie and Jen have grown into nice people (even it Jen's a bit of an Emo :P ) Hopefully I won't leave it so long next time!
anyhoo - I'll update further later - long posts get ignored and this one is already way too long.
DJing at sheep was somewhat scuppered by the CD player not liking my cds - thankfully I managed to cobble together most of my set from Paul's collection and Neal's I-pod (I'm not sure which one of the two of us should be more worried about that Neal...?) but I did lose a couple of my choices and leave the club in utter silence for a while as I scrabbled around. "Think of England" by IAMX and "My Lovely Horse" by the Divine Comedy were sadly missed victims but thankfully Paul had "Love on your Side" by the Thompson Twins so I still got to inflict that upon the world :)
Went to visit the other half of my tiny family last Friday. My aunt Carol, cousins Debbie and Jen, uncle Alan and my Irish grandma. It was about 10 years since I'd last seen most of them and I was utterly shocked by the state of my grandma. She was physically unrecogniseable as the same person. I know 10 years isn't kind when you're in your 80s but she was tiny and gaunt and so frail. I was used to her being the glamourous, arsey one of my grandmas and was still in high heeled mules, make up and had dyed hair last time I saw her. Only her voice is the same. More shockingly though is that she now has senile dementia which means her lucidity varies and was very lacking by the end of the night. I feel very sorry for Carol as she's tied to the house 24*7 unless one of my cousins agree to baby sit Nana. And at 19 and 23 they have imporant stuff of their own to be doing. Also the only personality traits she's really retained are the sharp tongue and various other unpleasant elements. physically she's not too bad all things considered despite weighing only 5.5 stone and can still do stairs and get around no problem - which of course is another pain for Carol as she occasionally tries to escape. She refuses to go to day care to give Carol a break (by stating loudly that Carol's fine and it's her that needs a break) but I suspect the time is coming where they're going to have to put her in a home for all of their sanity's sake. Sad stuff. It was lovely to see them though and Carol is just as lovely as I remember and Debbie and Jen have grown into nice people (even it Jen's a bit of an Emo :P ) Hopefully I won't leave it so long next time!
anyhoo - I'll update further later - long posts get ignored and this one is already way too long.
