Getting on with life

Tuesday, 20th April 2010

Well today is one of best friends birthdays.  Today I want to surprise her and have decided, even if it kills me that I will going to her Birthday tea and the local Chinese restaurant. I know I will pay for it Wednesday but it is for a good cause.
Phoned my friend and told her about my surprise and she is over the moon that I can join her. She has said if by the time they arrive I have changed my mind then not to worry.
Well I glammed up and was mistaken by some as Annie Lennox, I am sorry to Annie  as I think she looks fab and am only a pale imitation.  Still who would know what I am going through if I can look that good.
We had a great night with good conversation and a lovely meal.  At one point I did think of asking for the ice cream to be mircowaved as it was too cold for me.

Wednesday, 21st April 2010
As foretold I was not that clever on Wednesday but I had to get myself down to my local GP to get my 'fit'note and other forms. She was pleased to see me and thought that I looked really well.  Will people learn that I am going though some strange stuff and I am not supposed to look well.

The rest of the day was spent lying on the bed and listening to Classic FM, it has been my regular listing for a while but I am now addicted.  I know some purists will not enjoy the fact that they only play excerpts but as of an evening they do play the full works.

Thursday, 22nd April 2010
As the weather has been really nice I had transferred my arrangements from the lounge to the conservatory. I can still watch DVDs or listen to CDs but I can do it in the warmth of the sun. I also get company from the cat that has adopted us.
I had a visitor today in the form of a girl from work. It was really nice to have a good chat and talk about other things that what is going in my world. She is due to leave work soon to have a baby and so we talked about that and the fact that we are going to Stratford in July to see Romeo & Juliet.
Today is Toastmasters and I do feel a little guilty that I am not going, but you can not do everything and you have to selective about your invitations.

Friday, 23rd April 2010
I am now feeling a lot better today and could even pass as human.  Well I definitely think that being off work is going to cost us a fortune! I have just found another fantastic programme on the BBC called Cracking Antiques. They take a room and put in High Street mock antiques and show that person what they can do if money was no object, the current episode showed a lounge and it cost over £13,000, they only have £2,000 to spend.  They did it and was actually under budget if you excluded the curtains. The big thing for me was they took a £90.00 Chesterfield sofa and recovered it for just under £600 and it looked fab.  I mentioned this to Ivan in the morning and by the afternoon a local upholsterer had visited us and given us a quote for out suite.  I also had a glazing company visit for a new garage door, which Ivan broke the other weekend. So by the end of the day I had spent big!!!!
My last visitor of the afternoon was my shopping.  I have now decided it is best to do online shopping that way we do not get side tracked into buying all sorts of things we don't want.  I still managed to order stuff that we didn't want or need on reflection.
Now that all my scheduled visitors had left the building I have decided that the idea of going into Manchester to see my ex-work colleagues from the local paper was a little too much at this time. Maybe next time.