The Importance of Being Idle

Seasick On Dry Land!

Well, the past couple of days haven't been super eventful, but I've been doing my best to actually GET THINGS DONE, and I have been marginally succesful.
I washed the curtains in my bedroom, and that was nice. It was certainly something that had needed doin' for a long while, but the way I did it left something to be desired... in so much as I shoulda just gone to the laundrette as was planned, rather than deciding it was a nice day and that they'd dry outside in the weak spring sunshine. So it came to pass that last night I slept without curtains in the bedroom, and I have to say that was surprisingly cool. I don't know about you, but there's always this odd, childish fear about something looking in windows at night, but last night it didn't bother me at all, and I slept calmly and happily, occasionally waking to see the moon smiling down at me... It was a good nights sleep!
Today my new glasses were finally ready! Of course, nothing was immediately straightforward, cos I'd called Specsavers in the morning and asked them if my glasses were ready, and they'd said nope, not until early next week. So it was a bit of a surprise when a few hours later Specsavers called me to tell me that my glasses were ready! I think they're pretty swish and that I look good in them, but oh boy are they weird! Apparently cos the lenses are so thin they're made of an extra dense material and the light takes a fraction longer to pass through them, leading to a slight delay between when your brain is expecting visual information, and when it actually GETS that information. The practical upshot of which is that I feel VERY dizzy. I'm sure I'll get used to it (in fact I BETTER get used to it) but right now wearing these glasses is not a pleasant experience!
Ronnie is coming over this evening (YAY!), and we don't have a lot of money again (when will this poverty end!), so I think we're staying in, drinking wine and watching a movie (or two!). Apparently we're not watching The House of a 1000 Corpses, or The Devil's Rejects, and to be honest, I wasn't expecting us to. They just (finally!) came this morning, which was a surprise. I think I ordered them sometime just into the new year, hell, it might even have been just after Christmas, all I know is that I'd pretty much forgotten about them, so it was a nice surprise to find them this morning! Anyway, the point was I wasn't expecting us to watch them this evening, I suspect we'll go for something in a comedy or rom-com vein, but only time will tell!

posted by BadMonkey @ 7:22 PM