So I haven't written in a week. There isn't really much incentive when you know that no one's reading it.

A recap of the past week then. Saw Morag and Stephen and Buko. Bought a lovely corsety top from Miss Selfridge. Ate lots of food. Saw Amelie and The Centre of the World. The first was wonderful; the second was a bit pants. Bought a pixie top at Afleck's Palace. Had a raspberry smoothie in Waterstones' cafe. Saw my nan twice. She isn't shaping up too well.
19:08

I know I haven't posted in a while but its not like anyone reads this anyway so it doesn't really matter. Anyway, life has been busy, things been happening. Rory comes to see me tonight, until Tuesday morning. We don't have too much planned yet. Two cinema visits and maybe Poptastic. Also we'll see Morag if she comes to Leeds this weekend. It depends on what her friend is going whether or not she'll come.

My nan's been on death's doorstep this week, especially last night I'm told, but apparantly today she's up and talking (well, mumbling, but that's due to the drugs). She just won't give up, will she? As much as I love her and things, it would be nicer just to have the story finished rather than hanging on by a thread adding new twists all the time. It gets tiring, wears you out after a while.

Some of the people at the support group I go to on a Tuesday are wanting to start a website, presumably to do with S.H.I.P. I offered my services, seeing as I love programming sites and I have nothing better to do with my time. They seemed rather happy about that. Yey. I like making people happy. Have no idea when the site will be finished though. I was told the design may take them up to a month or two to complete. But its not exactly as if I'm short of time.

I left my sign language class early last night. I was feeling terrible and knackered and couldn't cope with trying to give directions to the chocolate machine. I was mostly knackered because I had to be out of bed at half past eight as this was the designated day for getting the double glazing installed. It was horrible. I lasted about half an hour with all the banging and noise before I went into town to relax. They didn't go until quarter past five. I was worn out. Then dad came round and I had to put up with him and his "Get a grip" response to my phobias. I shouted at him. I expected him to walk out but he didn't. Maybe I'm finally getting through to him that this isn't something I have a lot of control over.
16:37

ARGH! I was writing a wonderful piece about how the people in my local area are trying to convince everyone we're surrounded by pedeophiles and perverts and what utter bollocks it all is when my fingers slipped and something happened and the whole lot disappeared. I am not a happy bunny.
16:56

I've been a busy bunny recently. Played pool with lesbians last night; picked up a parcel from the postal depot this morning which was the correct order from Vegan Store; doctors appointment yesterday afternoon; sign language class... I've been running around all over the place. And I'm too tired to tell you all about it. I had fun playing pool though and there was a gorgeous woman working at the pool place with long pink hair. Mmmm, I couldn't stop smiling she was so lovely.
13:38

Joy of joys, our government are planning to introduce detention without trial again. Read about it at the BBC.

I don't think I have to explain how bad this is, or do I?

I am very, very scared. This can't be allowed to happen. It's a violation of human rights, and not even that but the European Bill of Human Rights, it's bloody illegal! (Though the article points out that they will try to get this passed lawfully.)

If it goes through, it'll also give more fuel to Rory's belief the Queen should be beheaded.
00:08

Well I didn't get to see Inkubus Sukkubus. I went shopping Friday afternoon and as I was walking around town, my back gave way. I have this walking problem, see, where occassionally, because I don't walk properly (allegedly), it damages my back. It's going to gradually get worse as I get older. If you listen to my mum talk about it, I'll be in a wheelchair in 5 years, but it's not so bad. But it happened and I hurt my back and couldn't go out. I can't stand straight because it hurts too much and I can't lie on my back. Ususally though all the pain is gone within a couple of days.

Whilst in town, I bought an orange cardigan from Top Shop. I couldn't really afford it as it was Ł30 but I fell in love with it. I also bought some stripey gloves as the cold weather has really set in during the past week. I went to the health food shop in search of Simon's bread but they didn't have any again. I gave in and asked about it and the woman said they usually only have it on a Monday. They were selling vegan raspberry cheesecake though so I bought a slice. It was lovely. It had a piece of kiwi fruit in it too. I'm cautious around kiwi fruit because I can't stand them if they're not fully ripe or if they're over ripe (a bit like with most fruit) but this was perfect.

I was woken up at the unceremonious hour of quarter past seven this morning by a knocking on the door. I wasn't going to answer it but it was persistant so I changed my mind. It was a good job I did because the postman was standing there with my food parcel from Vegan Store. Once I managed to get past all the layers of packing tape, I found that they had sent me the wrong flavour fudge and the wrong cookie. Nevermind. Still more than edible :-) I wrote to complain though.

Also in the post was the list of activities planned for a group I contacted on Thursday, Leeds Lesbian Eccentric Socialising. They go drinking once a week plus other activities occassionally, such as cinema, bowling, bonfires, go karting or bingo. It sounds fun so I might see about going to play pool with them on Wednesday. I'm notoriously bad at pool. Whenever I've played with friends before, we didn't keep score of how many games we'd won, we noted how many times we managed to knock the white ball off the table, seeing as it was considerably more.

Rory has figured out an exercise routine for me to follow. Apparantly it's the one used by the US Army for university students who are planning on army careers. It increases your fitness very slowly and steadily, so I shouldn't have too many problems. Plus he's bribing me to do it - the more exercise I do, the more hippy clothes he'll buy me. Yey! Bribery's about the only thing that can get me exercising. It's nice to have found someone who understands my needs and the way I work and can act accordingly. It's where my parents have failed miserably. I feel very, very lucky to have Rory in my life. He does wonderful things for me.

I'm doing a Nervousness exchange with an Austrailian woman. In return for sending me some things of Austrailia's answer to hodgehegs, she wants me to send me things for her daughter who is interested in Egypt and animals and for her son who likes dinosaurs. I went to Leeds Art Gallery who were selling minature statues of Egyptian gods, though they only seemed to have Thoth, and purchased one. However for the life of me I couln't find a single suitable dinosaur item. The only thing I could find was a dinosaur sticker book, minus the stickers. *sigh*.
23:54

Nothing really worth telling the world about is happening. Inkubus Sukkubus gig tomorrow night; dad's decided to buy me double glazing; I ate a loaf of bread in 24 hours; it hasn't snowed yet.
19:45

Remember, remember, the 5th of November
Gunpowder treason and plot
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot.

I quite agree with the rhyme, however not for the usual reasons. I think what Guy Fawkes was trying to do was the right thing, it was for the greater good, cos, let's face it, James was evil and more than slightly loopy into the bargain. We would have been much better off if the Plotters had succeeded, in my opinion.
19:57

I spent yesterday evening at the theatre in the company of my family. We'd booked the tickets late and so couldn't get four seats together, we had two sets of twos. I found this layout to be superior as it meant I didn't have dad repeatedly leaning over me to see if mum had fallen asleep and poking at me trying to get me to wake her up when she was.

The play was called "Horse and Carriage" and starred Griff Rhys Jones. It was set in the 1850's so the women were all wearing corsets, to my joy. The plot had some potential - an young women is marrying a man over twice her age at her mother's persuassion. Her boyfriend is overcome by this and turns suicidal. Due to an error by the drunken court clerk, the man ends up married instead to his bride's mother, who he detests. This is bad enough in itself but then the mother recieves a telegram that her previous husband, who was presumed dead at sea, is actually alive, and thus she is actually a bigamist. As you can tell, this was a bit of a farce. However the characters were all stereotyped to hell. The women were either annoying or inoffensive, the men were over the top and petty. It offered few jokes and what there was were dragged out and seemed to last an eternity. It was pretty dire. I don't want to waste any more energy on it, just let me say that it should be avoided.

Afterwards we went for a meal in Headingley to Salvos, a nice Italian place. I was worried because this was to be my first vegan meal in a restaurant. Luckily there was things for me to eat, and I ended up having the same meal as I had the previous time we were there. I started with what was essentially roasted vegetables on toast, and for my main I had stuffed vegetables. Both were lovely. There wasn't a dessert I could eat but I didn't really mind as I'm trying to lose weight anyway. Robert ordered the Mars bar fondue for dessert and I ate most of the strawberries from that.

Today my dad finished painting my living room. It looks a hell of a lot better. He's still deciding about what to do regarding the windows but when he does decide, I might actually get some curtain rails that are securely fastened to the wall, unlike what I have now. Hmm.
16:35

20 Questions Ask Jeeves Can't Answer is good for a bit of a chuckle. Other places on the site include the ever-popular quizzes. My results follow.

I have been declared a 56% aging hypocrite. However some of the questions I never said I'd do anyway, so I don't feel I'm as hypocritical as it makes out. What's your score?

In the lesbian test, I scored 155. I don't know what out of but I think around 180. They said:
"The lesbianity is strong in this one. You love the ladies. Either that or you just like cats and bad music. I bet you've got a good collection of baseball caps. Or are they scalps from your sexual conquests? Oh, no. They're baseball caps (sorry 'bout that)." How lesbian are you?

I scored 46% on their big sex test. Interestingly, the average score is 141%. Somehow. Anyway, here's what it said about me:
"You're aware that there are other ways to have sex than the missionary position, but you can't quite work out how to do them. The Eighties heavy metal videos you see on MTV get you wondering about bondage, but you'd be scared to try it. You accidentally kissed your same-sex friend's face once, but you thought it tasted weird. You think vanilla sex means licking vanilla ice-cream off your partner's body, and you think this is the sexiest idea you've ever heard."
Boy are they wrong on *that* one
18:52

Things like this make me feel ill. The actions described have no part in modern witchcraft and should not be labelled as such. It only leads to hysteria and prejudice against those of us who use the term for their spiritual path. It's the BBC's job as a responsible national multimedia company to point out what is considered witchcraft in Malaysia is not what is considered so here. "...in a black-magic ritual." Where is the magic involved? There isn't any. I'm a bit disgusted to be honest. My Paganism and Witchcraft Section features information slightly less misleading.

I was gonna mention the Scientology Personality Test but in comparion to this news, I don't see the point. However if you wish to see my result, follow this link.
00:30

I'm a little pissed off. I had been writing about the fabulous and wierd things to be found at VeganStore.co.uk when my fingers slipped and somehow I managed to close down the browser window Blogger was open in. So I lost my wonderfully witty comments and my deranged droolings and I'm going to bed to sulk.
00:04

I've still got Running Girl on repeat. It's been a week now.

But I'm not here to tell you about that, just this: German Teletext Babes. It's quite wierd and very, very scary. You'd think some people would have better things to do with their time.
20:38