The Importance of Being Idle

Fast Forward: Friday To Sunday

Friday night was Ronnie's office Christmas party, so me and Archie were left to our own devices again for much of the evening. I don't recall anything of significance, except that a freak gust of wind blew the kitchen door to and poor Archie was stuck outside in the rain. I don't know how long he was out there to be honest, although it can't have been too long. He probably could've opened the door if he'd tried, but it might've been too heavy for him and he always pushes in the middle anyway, just to make things harder. Anyway when I found him he was huddled under the kitchen window and was incredibly happy to see me. Poor little fuzz bag was all wet, and he spent the rest of the night sitting right next to me and refused to let me out of his sight!
Saturday we went on a trip into Spalding. We had shopping and whatnot to do, but it just seemed easier than going into Peterborough (given what time of year it is and all), and neither of us had been there before. It was a really nice quaint little place, it had all the right shops and banks and stuff and a few more odd things beside. We ended up going to Baytree and Springfields too, continuing our never ending quest for glass icicles to decorate the Christmas tree. We've both had them in the past, which makes it odd that they seem to be next door to impossible to track down. Still, we found lots of other exciting things to decorate the tree with, so that was good. While we were at Springfields we went into GAME there, and sadly they seemed to have lots and lots of copies of Twilight Princess for the 'Cube. Admittedly they were being GAME and charging a fortune for it, but it was there, sitting on shelves just waiting to be bought. On top of that, they also had lots of good second hand 'Cube games and to make matters worse they were even selling the Superman Returns Xbox game at half price! Now everything I've read makes me believe that it isn't the best game ever made, hell I doubt it's even barely competent, but dammit I want to be Superman and sometimes wanting to like the material is all you need to see past the bugs, mistakes, design flaws and general screw-ups. Needless to say I could've spent a LOT of money in there, but I don't have any money, let alone a lot of it, so we purchased nothing (at least nothing for me). When we got home Ronnie was exhausted, so she had a sleep and I tried to make sure she had everything she needed to get ready for work in the evening. I know it's not much, running baths and cooking and ironing shirts, but it's all I can do. She's the important one, and I do what I can to keep her running! Shame she had such a shitty night though, I swear the people she works for have had some sort of operation to remove any sort of basic competency removed entirely from their bodies. She was shattered and pissed off when she got home, and it was getting on for 2am at that point.
This morning she had to go back to work again. Hopefully her shift is over now and she'll be back home soon. There's some talk of going to the movies tonight, so let's hope she's not too tired: it'd be fun, we haven't been to the movies since Dead Man's Chest came out, and it'd make a nice change to do something normal again. Speaking of which, after the way this week started, I have actually felt surprisingly normal today, so much so that my internal narrator even stopped to comment on it while I was out emptying the bins. On the other hand I'm still really tired (I fell asleep watching Smallville this afternoon, and not because it's boring), but it's nice to think that at long last I'm starting to get better overall. I'm gonna have to get a new sick note sorted out this week, 'cos the old one runs out on Thursday (of all days!), but maybe (just maybe) it'll be the last one I need and next month (okay, next YEAR, but next month narrows it down a little) I'll finally be able to rejoin the world!
That'd be good, wouldn't it?

posted by BadMonkey @ 4:56 PM