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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
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6:31p - I must have a star on my door
Thanks for the emails from those of you wondering how I am.
I'm a bit of a zombie to be honest. Lots of work on in the start of the week, then on Thursday and Friday I took ill and spent a lot of time in bed (albeit with my laptop when I was awake) - with an upset stomach, fatigue and I kept flicking from hot to cold. Not fun. I didn't eat much but I did drink lemonade and juice. My neighbour rang to see how I was, and brought me round a couple of bananas. That was appreciated.
I thought I'd catch up on work over the weekend, but all I've really caught up is sleep. Yesterday I slept until about half five (in the afternoon), and then again from around midnight. I did eat a proper meal though (the first since Wednesday). Today I got up to feed the dog and went back to bed... until Mike woke me at quarter to four.
I've been awake for nearly two hours now and I feel like a complete zombie. Still I need to catch up on work. I hate that part of being self-employed, the feeling that I need to be doing stuff. Hope I feel more awake tomorrow.
During all this illness and sleep I've not been keeping up with my regular meds (pregabalin) - I feel like they don't do a lot because I still ache and hurt a lot of the time, but I really noticed their absence over the weekend, my knee hurt terribly last night. I'm catching up with the pills and slowly losing the pains.
I feel like a crumpled garment. I just need someone to pick me up by the head and shake the aches out of me.
I wonder if all this sleep is because my body's putting energy into healing my finger. The damaged bit's much blacker now but still warm and attached, so I guess it's ok.
Pllleeeeease... let me slleeeeeeeep...
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7:26p - I've got a little list
I've been using Last FM for a while now, thanks to a recommendation from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) aardvark179, and doing so has encouraged me to add proper tags to my ripped CD tracks.
My profile tells me that my favourite artists are:- Nine Inch Nails
- Pink Floyd
- Leonard Cohen
- Paradise Lost
- Placebo
- Michael Hutchence
- Joy Division
- James Taylor
- Rachid Taha
- Howard Jones
- Supertramp
- Peter Gabriel
- Enigma
- Rammstein
- Deep Forest
Hmm, that's a fair summary. I had thought I was tending to pick playlists from the start of my list - i.e. alphabetically highest - and that seems broadly true. I will have to pay more attention to the lower end of the alphabet for a week or two. It seems that the last week has been nearly all Floyd.
My "recently loved" tracks are more interesting because they pull out songs that I've really enjoyed; I use the "love" facility to remind myself of them when making a new mix playlist:
New Dawn Fades (Moby), Letter from God to Man (Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip), Music: Response (Chemical Brothers), I Second That Emotion (Japan), Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton), Foqt Foqt (Rachid Taha), Back to Black (Amy Winehouse), Altus Silva (Joseph Arthur) and Get Down Make Love (Nine Inch Nails).
Does anyone know if there's a way to list all "loved" tracks?
[E2A - thanks to chiselwright I now have my list]
Which tracks are you loving at the moment, and why?
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9:20p - Help!
I have to get a present for my niece, who will be 5 next month.
(I also have to get one for my husband, who will be 35 next month, and that's even trickier!)
So, my niece likes princesses, pink, disney, and also quite likes ballerinas but is growing out of fairies.
Dressing up and videos are covered already, and she's the kind of kid who has got everything.
So... meep. I will get something online, so it's not going to match gifts she's getting from the high street. I am thinking about maybe a princess secrets box but I don't know how well she can write or whether that interests her. Pink Heaven looks like a great site but doesn't indicate the age ranges for each gift so I have no idea what's suitable. Maybe pink wellies that you decorate? But then I don't know her foot size.
Anyone with experience of children, please help!
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