Trip to the docs (after many a person nagging me to)

So, I got up at 9am this morning because I needed to phone the doc. When I got out of bed I was literally moaning with pain. I was in agony, I somehow managed to get downstairs, my dad was watching the Grand Prix. I felt rather sick so I took a lie down on the sofa for a bit, trying to find a position were it didn't hurt. I eventually felt well enough to phone the Doctors. It took me a couple of attempts to get though, it's always busy on a Monday of course. But I got an appointment for 11:20. Not bad considering, as I waited, time took an absolute age to pass I read some more of The History Boys, a boring, unfunny play I have to read for my Uni course. Eventually the time came, I'm only a 10 minute walk from the doctors but since my dad was still around and walking was very painful, my dad gave me a lift and said to ring him when I wanted to be picked back up while he did some jobs that needed doing.

I went in, got my number, took my seat and started to read the rest of my book. I had to wait a fair bit but not too long, having something to read really helped take my mind off things too. The waiting room was full of old people and I was paranoid they were all thinking I was here because I thought I was pregnant! A stupid thing to think but I know what older people think of us teens these days! And I was the only young person there. Eventually I got called up as it were, it was with my usual doctor, she's very friendly and nice so I was happy. I told her I'd had a cold for over 2 weeks now and that I think I'd pulled a muscle as I was in agony this morning and it doesn't seem to be getting better, just worse. She took my temperature by sticking this thing in my ear. That was fine. Then she used her stethoscope (?) to listen to my breathing on my front and back. Then she lifted up my t-shirt and poked around to see where it hurt/was sore. It didn't hurt too much when she pressed it, which is good, means I haven't broken anything. Next she got my lie down on this bed and she poked around my tummy before concluding I was right, I'd probably pulled a ligament. She also asked if I've been coughing up stuff, I said yes, so I probably have some sort of chest infection. She prescribed me with anti-biotics and said I should take painkillers for the pain. She also said the anti-biotics would interfere with the pill but that's no biggy.

I walked out of the doctors, making my way towards the chemists across the road, as I walked down the road my dad appeared from the corner and said "ah ha!". He'd come to pick me up and I hadn't even rung him yet! Perfect timing. He waited around until I got my pills and laughed at the fact condoms are always under "family planning" when "if you've got one of those on, you're not planning to have a family!". Very true dad, very true. The lady gave me my tablets and a from to fill out. It's a booklet full of questions in order to get free meds. Because I'm in full time education I should be elegible but free stuff runs out once I've had my 19th birthday so I have to send of this form, great.

I got home and asked Alex if he was ready for some Resi action. He'd unexpectantly got the day off from work so it was time to complete vetran mode once and for all! We, of course, were amazing (most of the time) and did indeed complete the game and get the silver trophy! Yay! Now it was time for professional, we were doing okay until I accidently blew up a barrel when Alex was a little too close to it...oopsy! I loled :D. But we soon thereafter realised if you get hit, it's instant death! This is going to be impossible to complete! Well, very very hard, the zombies go down easy with our fully upgraded weapons it's just if you get hit, you die, you rarely even have time to save your partner! This may take a while...we got sick of dying a bajillion times so we played some mercenaries instead but I was failing Alex on that too. I'm usually better at it, honest! I think he got a little too excited when I played as sexy Jill though, haha! And he was jealous at the fact I had Wesker. Gotta help him unlock the extra characters sometime.

Taking some painkillers has helped the pain lots, it still hurts but no way near as much as this morning. I just have to remember to take my meds now. Got to take one 3 times a day. I always remember my pill though so I should be okay with these! It's a bit of a bummer though, I can't go out tomorrow night, for two reasons. One, I can't drink because I'm on medication and I know I could drink soft drinks but who wants to do that?! Two, I'd have to walk to the Reg and I cannot walk far, even with painkillers it's too painful. Oh well. I saw my friends the other night so it's not so bad really.

Aaaand today

Woke up, in pain, very sleepy but got up because it was 11. Dad went off to work early, mum and sister were supposed to be going for a walk but mums friend never woke up in time so they stayed in the house with me. Didn't do much all day until Alex text me and I suggested that we played some more Resi. So it was time to don the headsets and get down to it...err as it were. We pwned some zombies then he had to go because GF was coming home so I played mercenaries by myself until dinner was ready, my last roast dinner for a while! Yum.

Then after dinner I got a text from Iain asking around for MGO, I thought why not and I'm glad I did bother! We had 7 at the peak and I brought an Indy style fedora!!!! It's awesome. Jen got a wee bit jealous, she's going to buy one because it looks like her hat :D. Martyn said: "Smooth Criminal! You've been pwned by, you've been charmed by, a smooth minxical." I loled! We had some fantastic games. Me and M drew on SDM! And me and Iain had an awesome showdown too but he got me! Noooo lol.

That reminds me, this morning I woke up from the weirdest dream. I guess it was like the next minion meet up or something. All I remember was trying to find Alex and Holly because I was afraid Alex was going to tell Holly something. And Martyn said sorry to me (for the thing that happened a while ago) and we said I love you to each other and I jumped up and hugged him, with my legs wrapped round him! Very...disturbing lol! But I'm sure he would have enjoyed it!!!! Very, very odd dreams indeed :S.

Pain but no gain

Yesterday evening I popped round to Alices' after watching the X Factor, I'm glad I turned up 40 minutes later than she orginally said (to watch x-factor) because even when I got round there she was still cooking her dinner for herself and her brother. Her brother, funny and as nice as he is, has just come out of uni and is so damn lazy! It amazes me how his parents put up with him. Alice absoutly adores him though, I think it's a younger sibling thing, to adore your brother/sister, I'm not saying I don't love my sister but I'm no so...vocal about it? I spoke to her about a few things whilst she had dinner, I didn't mind, her brother then went out (don't blame him). So it was just me and Alice sat there talking. Bex and Marn were have supposed to turn up but an hour and half had past from the time she told them to turn up so I said "looks like it just me and you!". We then began talking about Marnie, saying how it was rude of her to say she'll come round, then not turn up. She also text Alice saying "Is jo and Bex coming?", which offended both me and Alice because it was like she was saying "I won't come unless so and so is there". Alice wondered why it mattered and I was annoyed she didn't ask after me.

Just as we were talking about her, the doorbell rang! We looked at each other, shocked and then Alice laughed and said it was probably Bex who said she "might" come, though she was tired from her last day of work. It was both Marn and Bex! Talk about talk of the devil.

My side was really hurting from walking to Alices' it's gotten even worse. I'm going to the doctor on Monday to see if anything needs doing about it. Maybe I have had a chest infection. I'm not sure but I suppose the doctor will either say, sorry there's nothing I can do or prescribe me with something. Oh well, we shall see. Bex needed a superhero costume so we were looking up characters for her to go as but there wasn't much success. She spoke about a lot of different things, Derren Brown, uni, people we used to know at school, etc. I was amazed to find out Marn and Alice both believed that Derren Brown had actually used automatic writing to guess the numbers...I mean I can imagine Marn believeing it but Alice...? Hmm odd. My only statement I need to make: Why did Derren Show us the balls before putting them in the sealed tube eh? That's all I'm saying on the matter. Bex didn't see Derren explaination but she kind of sided with me, funny that someone who believes in God can be so very sceptical on other matters!

I then decided to walk home at 11:30pm. I wouldn't have minded staying longer but I hadn't taken a key and the pain in my side was rather uncomfortable. Marnie was stressing about me walking home by myself because "she wouldn't want to". Jesus Christ you've never worried this much before. I rang my mum to let her know I was coming home so she said she'd take the dog and come and meet me half way. I said my goodbyes and Alice walked me to the door, as I was making my way Marn shouted something about going out tuesday night. For fucks sake, I'd arranged it with Alice! You don't need to act like you're controlling the situation because you're not! Grr. Alice just rolled her eyes at me and said "deep breath" because she was clearly getting irritated too. I said thanks and bye to Alice and left. My side was killing me as I walked down the road. Before it was only certain postitions that seemed to irritate it but now I was getting random twinges of pain. I held my side (like that would somehow help!) and I saw an old man, with long hair on the other side of the street. He was talking quite loudly though I couldn't make out what he was saying. I looked to see if he was talking to someone, either on the phone or with someone beside him. But no, he was having a full-blown conversation with himself! Scary. Though I'm used to it, I do live opposite a mental hospital. I met my mum at the end of the road and walked home with her.

Currently listening to: The film score dance band-Girl, you'll be a woman soon
"I love you so much can't count all the ways I'd die for girl and all they can say is...he's not your kind, they never get tired of putting me down and I never know when I come around...what I'm gunna find. Don't let them make up your mind, don't you know girl, you'll be a woman soon."
I LOVE this song, so much so it's my current ringtone. I heard it in Pulp Fiction when Mia Wallace (uma thurman) starts dancing to it before she ODs. Is one of my fav. songs.

Is there no magic in mystery?

I was speaking to Alice last night on MSN to see what was going on about friday night, as we were meant to be going out. Alice text Marnie to see what was going on, seems marnie hadn't bothered to plan anything, it was her idea! Alice text her back, suggesting we went to a pub because I had hurt myself and Alice wasn't up for clubbing. Marnies' reply wasn't very clear, she said it may be better to go out on a tuesday instead because places are cheap, she also suggested she didn't want to go to a pub. The problem we had was, Marnie was asking us where we wanted to go, and when we suggested something she "didn't quite fancy that". Alice was getting seriously pissed off and agreed that Marnie makes everything complicated! Fantastic! It's not just me being a bitch then, it's true! So I said to Alice, look, after all this we don't feel like going out, it's a little too late to plan anything, let's go to the Reg on tuesday for Crunch (cheap drinks night) and say whoever wants to come can join us. If Marnie wants to go clubbing, Bex can go with her then everyone is happy. So Alice told marnie that but marn was obviously pissed off. She didn't text back and when poor old Bex asked what was going on, Marn just said "ask alice". The cheek of it! As Alice said to me, she has no right to be pissed off, it was her idea, she didn't bother to sort anything out then didn't want to do what we wanted to do. End of. Hence why we are now using the technique "Me and X are going here, come along if you want" it's simple that way.

My mum and dads friends came round for dinner. They'd just came back from America and brought us a few gifts. I got a very odd gift, it was 12 coasters with quotes from Forrest Gump on. Strange but rather cool I suppose, though I'm not sure that I'll need 12 at uni! I also got a nightmare before xmas phone charm (i'll probably attach it to my bag instead) and a hello kitty notepad with the golden gate bridge on it. Odd gifts but very nice indeed. My sister got a rainbow tye dye top, so she looks like a hippie now! I told her she didn't want to be a hippie...We then had dinner together and when we'd finished we were talking about Uni and mum was making a joke about dodgy lecturers, I just laughed then Sooty took it even further talking about boys like I was 14 again or something. Going on about dodgy stuff at uni and all sorts, I was crying my eyes out with laughter! The conversation was so stupid! And Kelv was taking the piss out of what his wife was saying, she always thinks she knows best you see, she went to uni as a mature student. Oh dear. It was rather funny being educated in all things sexual, it's far, far too late for me guys. I am 18 y'know. So funny.

After that I jumped on the PS3 to play some MGO with the boys, I was 45 minutes late but we had some awesome games, one including me and alex in a nailbiting showdown! I had so much fun! I'm really going to miss it! Once most people had left, me and alex stuck our headsets on and played some Resi 5 for a bit. We aced a couple of levels before he had to go, it was damn good fun, we do make an awesome team. I LOVE my fully-upgraded Lightening Hawk, it's go powerful, one shot kills for the most pathetic enemies and not many more for the bigger guys! I've got unlimted ammo on it too so I never have to worry about running out of revolver bullets which can be quite hard to come by!

Later on I watched how Derren Brown did the lottery prediction. Now of course, he didn't reveal the real way he did it but his program was extremly interesting, he is an amazing guy. The thing with the cups and the mouse? Just amazing. Now of course everyone is complaining about how he didn't spill on how he really did it. It's annoying the crap out of me, he's a magician, a magician never reveals his secrets! Also, if he'd just turned around and said "I used a split screen" people would have STILL gone up in uproar because it would have been too simple, too boring. The general public are never happy. They ignored the other cool things he did on the program, just negative, negative, negative as usual. Apparently, some people actually believe his explaination and are trying to use it to win the lottery! Haha, good luck to them I say! People are saying this is a bad thing because he's "decieving people", bullshit. People get tricked everyday, into buying shit via advertising, etc. People are genrally guilable. How do you think the goverment gets away with controlling people? They are like Derren Brown, they know the right things to say to get you to think the way they want you to. Even if more people do now enter the lottery, that's not bad thing, more money going towards charities and projects funded by the lottery. That's no bad thing at all! So stop your bitching and moaning and just enjoy the story ;)

Currently listening to: Lady Gaga- beautiful, dirty, rich
"Daddy I'm so sorry, I'm so so so sorry, yeah, we just like to party, like to p-p-party yeah. Bang, bang, we're beautiful and dirty rich."

Will it ever change?

My side is still painful, spoke to Jen about it, she said she cracked her rib from coughing! So just told me to take it easy, I'm supposed to be going out tonight, though no one has contacted me yet. I really don't want to. I can't go clubbing, there's no way I'd dance with this pain in my side. I'm hoping they cancel...though I know that won't happen. I'd much rather stay home and play MGO :'(. Does that make me a bad friend? Probably. Oh well. It's pubbing or nothing for me I think though. The thing is, my dad said "Are you going to say goodbye to your friends then?" and I almost don't see the point. It's weird. I just don't think I'll miss them, I mean, we have the internet to keep in contact, mobile phones, etc. So I don't see the need to miss them because I can speak to them anytime I want. Maybe I'll apprciate them more when I go away. I feel like a rotten thing for saying that :/. But it's how I feel.

Me and my dad went down town to meet mum from work and then do some shopping for uni. They brought shit loads of stuff for me, win! I got a pretty red lamp, some cutlery, a chopping board, some pens, loads of food stuff, etc. My dad is letting me take the gamecube along with 3 controllers and loads of games! Though the only problem is whether I'll have room for the TV in my uncles car! I hope so :(. My mum got a little angry that I was taking it but for goodness sake, it's a sociable thing, not anti-sociable! I can invite people round to play mario games! Win! My dad actually stood up for me for once and said it would be fine. Us gamers have to stick together, eh? ;)

My mum and dads friends are coming round tonight for dinner, they've just come back from America so I'm sure they'll have plenty of pics to show us too and gifts! They always spoil us with gifts. Winrar. Though it means we're having dinner "late" by late, I mean about 7:30, which isn't late but it's late for us. Alice has just text Marnie to see what's going on about tonight and that I'd much rather go to a pub, hint, hint, the Reg is cheaper than Albert road! Because you see, Alice wants to go to a pub too, not a club. I'm not going to club anyway, as I said, it would be too painful and pointless for me.

Currently listening to: Maroon 5- Not falling apart
"You destroyed me, I won't fall apart again. Take what you wanted, I will be just fine, you will be better off alone at night."

Yowzer!

Last night we (Me, Stew, Iain and JB) spent the night spamming Bens' status on facebook because a certain friend of his was a stupid bitch who couldn't take a joke so we had a hilarious time winding her up and spamming Ben into 200+ notifications...woops! He thought it was funny though, we knew he would. Before all this I noticed a pain developing in my rib area, on my right hand side. Iain made a joke about straining my "love muscle", I said "since when was that near my rib?! Yer, punch me in the ribs it really turns me on". We all loled :P. It got worse as the evening went on and when I woke up this morning (again, to a phonecall from Alex) it was painful to move that area, to sneeze, to breathe heavily and cough. It's still the same, I checked in the mirror for bruising and there is none so at least I haven't broken a rib! My dad thinks I've pulled a muscle through coughing, it's the most logical explaination because I spoke to a friend who said he'd put his back out for 3 weeks just from a cough! Mental the power of them sometimes! I've been told to go to the doctors but I really can't be bothered and I don't think there is anything I can do! My mum said to wait until monday and if it hasn't cleared up, then go. Seems fair enough. It has been two weeks of this cold now! Mental.

I think I should have gone back to sleep after Alex called me because I had breakfast, got changed then ended up sleeping for a little bit on the sofa before playing some more of the cat game. Nothing much exciting happened today really. Looked up my uni housing again and man alive it looks beautiful! I'm right by a river (not the Thames, no) where there are ducks and swans! Plenty of parking too which is always handy eh? ;) It's a week until I go and I can't wait! I was nervous but now I'm more excited! Still need to give my uni my bank details for my rent, woops! They said I could do that when I get there though. I'm so glad my place is so nice, after all, I am paying £100 a week!!!! Really, really can't wait yay!!!!!

Went on Home for a bit too, they have Resi 5 costumes now but you have to pay for them and they only had sheva...I want to be Jill! Boo cats. Met up with Stew and JB for a bit before we got bored and went our seperate ways.

Later in the evening me and Alex decided to play some Resi 5, we eventually got a game set up with headsets, was good fun, got Alex some more treasures and BSAA emblems. Having unlimited ammo in my weapons make everything so much easier I love it! Beating the troll on hard took a fucking age and Alexs' headset ran out of battery half way through but we did it in the end!!!! Then in the next chapter I got kicked from the game, Alex had to go make dinner anyway so we ended it there. My parents arrived home at that point, my dad had taken mum out for dinner, mum fell asleep on the sofa whilst watching Watchdog, haha. Good news is dad is going to let me take the Xbox to uni! So at least I'll have something to play! Yay!!!! Today, despite the pain has been a damn good day! As I said to Martyn, I smile no matter what :). Life is good at the moment, I feel partically adored, I'm going to uni soon, new life, new friends, new experiences. It's scary but it's good. Change is good. Life is good. Happeh faec.

These tents are on fiiiiire!

Not much has really happened today to talk about. I got woken up at 9:15am by Alex, calling me. He was walking to some training session and wanted some company so I spoke to him for a bit then got myself out of bed. My parents were heading out for a few hours to pick up their friends, Sue and Kelv from the airport, they've been trekking across America for a couple of weeks, lucky things. So that left the house to myself for a bit. I had a horrid headache yet again! Don't know what the fuck is wrong with me to be honest! It wasn't as bad as yesterdays thank God, I think it's just my sinuses, they're still blocked up from the cold so it's affecting my head. I had a shower, sang Nightwish whilst in the shower, got dressed and went downstairs. There was some sort of bee or wasp hovering around in the front room so I decided not to sit in there! (I magically disappeared later on!). I did some house-hold chores my parents wanted doing before playing Resi 5 for a little bit.

Because the rest of my day is incrediably boring, I'd like to discuss something my friend brought up yesterday. Alice came back from Reading festival about a week ago now, she loved it, she went last year and she was telling us of some funny things that had happened. It always goes a bit crazy on Sundays, the last day of the festival, but this year it got out of hand. She was telling us (while smiling/laughing) that her camp got completly burnt down, this often happens, but this year it got out of control. Their stuff was fine because they moved it to another camp and the others in their group thought "fuck this" and went home.

Marnie was absolutly horrified, of course but to be honest, I was a little surprised how laid back Alice was about the whole situation. Alice said her friend Sadie, almost got hit on the foot by a gas canister, now if they're throwing stuff like that into a massive fire, people are going to get hurt. It's seriously stupid and dangerous. I know they always burn their abandoned tents, that seems fine to me but someone was still in their tent when they were burning purple camp! They lifted up the tent, tipped the person out inside then threw all their stuff into a fire! One girl was shouting "My stuff is in there!" and a fireman asked her if she had aerosoles in there, of course she did, so he started shouting "Everybody get back!". I felt sorry for that girl. But Alice kept on saying, you know stuff like that is going to happen so you don't take valuables, etc. This was an obvious point but I said, I bet, if it happened to you, you'd be very pissed off or upset. It's put me off Reading for life! Not that I was ever that desperate to go.

One day, when someone gets hurt or even killed by riots like those, Reading will get closed down! They almost banned it because of bottling one year. I don't why people can't just get on with things and enjoy the music without starting fights or pissing on other peoples tents, etc. Call me crazy but I do not see the appeal at all.