I have a new laptop!!!!!!  \o/

I spent AGES trying to make sure I got the right one, reading all the specs, checking out computing magazines etc, then ended up getting the EXACT same laptop as we bought our daughter for Christmas.

Oh well at least I know how it works...

Of course, they look identical so I had to go and buy skins for them.  She has the TARDIS; I have gorgeous luminescent Angel wings:


I wonder where I got the idea for the wings...  *whistling innocently**

Oy.  Had a nasty asthma attack yesterday, I could NOT stop wheezing.  Phoned the doc after my usual meds didn't work, I'm now on oral steroids plus a horrible inhaler that gives me tremors.  Plus side: they worked.  Minus: I have to stay on them for five days.  Yay.

We did finally get my dad his birthday dinner, made him a fab cake and the whole restaurant sang happy birthday to him.  It was worth the wait.

.... no, not the kind Sam broke.

We went on a boat yesterday to see the seals!  OoooOOO they were gorgeous.  A whole bunch (colony?  pack? wtf do you call a load of seals?)  It was FREEZING out there, but we circled just off the beach for nearly an hour and took loads of photos, and a seal hit the water and came up to LOOK AT US CRAZY HOOMANS.

And there was one itty bitty baby on the beach, waaay up there hiding behind Mom.  It was cute in the extreme but I couldn't get a decent close-up shot because the boat was pitching.

SEALS FTW!!!!!!!!!

Aaaand now I'm waiting for my friend to get back from the dentist, and we are going to sit down with coffee and chocolate and watch Sam, Interrupted, which I have to download and burn to DVD and watch DAYS after y'all because, you know, our TV SUCKS and is only just starting to show the FIRST EP OF SEASON 5.  Which also means I have to avoid my flist from Thursday til Monday because I don't wanna be spoiled.

Grr.

"Dear UK TV,

Get with the program.  BUY THE DAMN SERIES STRAIGHT AWAY, NOT SIX MONTHS LATE.

Yours irritatedly,

Lorin."

BTW, did you know that if you call the radio station whilst en route to the beach to get on a Seal Trip boat, and tell them it's your daughter's 12th birthday and the trip is a treat for her, and they then ANNOUNCE THIS including her full name and wish her a happy birthday ON AIR and also send you a personal text wishing you a great time and hoping you don't fall in (!), apparently this is NOT COOL and said daughter will be in a huff all day.

Hahahahahaha.  I WIN.

... or rather, Labyrinthitis. 

Is

Not

Fun.

I woke up yesterday and the room was spinning.  The doc diagnosed inflammation of the inner ear, so basically my whole balance is out of whack and I feel permanently drunk, without the fun of actually drinking.

To add insult to injury, the doc gave me anti-nausea tablets (it's actually an anti-psychotic drug, so apparently I'll be relatively sane while taking it, always a bonus) and said NO ALCOHOL while taking the tablets.  So not only do I feel drunk, I can't even have a shot of scotch to make me feel better about feeling drunk...

And she banned me from driving for at least a week. 

In other news, my cat Bailey has either a mild infection or an allergy which makes him sneeze.  And sneeze.  And sneeze.  Apparently he's swallowed a squeaky toy at some point, because every sneeze is preceded by a squeak.  I am not laughing at him at all, nuh-huh. 

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Sadly I got this right away.  Didn't even struggle.  What does that say about me?  I need to go play in the snow now.  YAY SNOW!!!

Happy New Year!  I would have posted yesterday but I was in a post-NewYearsEveParty coma.  You know, too much food, too much dancing, too little sleep.  Where were we for this wild time?  At my parent's house!  In their 70's but they know how to throw a party!  Go them!

I did emerge for a bit, at least for an hour or so - bye bye David, hello Matt!  I did get a bit teary-eyed, I have to admit.  Of course, I've been a fan since the Tom Baker days, so I've seen a fair few Doctors come and go, but I think Ten's been my favourite by a long way. 

My sister-in-law in America can't watch until tonight, so she rang me begging for the Entire Story With Nothing Left Out.  Tell me everything, she said.  So I did.  At least, I gave her the edited highlights:

( I would say there are spoilers under here but - really there aren't... )

 

Apparently I am an evil, evil person.  She is going to phone me after tonight's episode to tell me this.  It will be approximately 1:00am for me.  I love my sister-in-law.

I'm having my laser eye surgery today.  I'll be getting my SPN 5:03 download around - oh, lunchtime-ish.  Right when I'll be in the middle of my surgery.

I'll be home a couple of hours later, and can't watch my shiny new show. 

whimpers

I'll be listening to it, with my friend describing the action...

not quite the same, is it?

I just booked laser eye surgery for the 28th.

Laser.

Surgery.

On my eyes.

OMG.

So, we bought a house. Moved in at the start of May. Aaaaand - it's August, almost September, and the last four months have been one big ugly blur. Jeez, the amount of work it takes to fix up a house!!!

( Yellow and green and pink oh my... )

Still, the house is starting to look good, and we finally have some time 'off' to do family-type things (so I can wear out lil'un and put her to bed early and read SPN porn till the early hours, got my priorities straight, uh-huh). 

Except we have to head out tonight for my mum's birthday celebration tomorrow followed by mine on Tuesday, so I will likely be in a drunken stupor for the next four days.  

Ah well, such is life    *g*

WE GOT OUR HOUSE!!!

\o/ \o/ \o/

Just got off the phone with the lawyers; we complete on Friday - ONE WEEK FROM TODAY WE MOVE IN!

OMG I'm so excited, this is going to be OURS - first time we've owned a real house, we can PAINT and REDECORATE and KNOCK WALLS DOWN and we don't have to ask anyone's permission to do it!

I have SO much packing to do...

I need a \o/ icon! I don't have one for SQUEEEEE! Anybody... pretty please??