The final chapter in the laptop saga... hopefully.

[blood_winged]

The fact that my 'leave a comment' link is now cut in half is bugging me. Does anyone with any HTML knowledge want to check through my layout code and see if there's any way to fix it? :T I've looked myself but my HTML know-how is very limited and I have absolutely no clue what I'm looking at.

The faulty laptop that I've spent the past week trying to return has now gone. The courier came for it yesterday, and I would have posted about it then but for some reason that I don't understand I was up all night and too tired to put together my thoughts to type up an entry. I have a receipt, but hopefully that's the end of it and I can get my refund then give dad the money I owe HIM for getting me a laptop that actually works. I'd love to know what happened to that one that it managed to break like that. I have the feeling it might have been roughed up a bit in the van when it was being delivered.

On Monday, I went to Bolton with mum and Amy to see a play, and managed to fall over within two minutes of getting out of the car. The most awful part wasn't the hitting the ground, or the entire right side of my jeans being soaked with ice-cold water, or my sore hip, it was feeling my foot go out from under me and knowing I was going to fall. I hate that feeling. I suppose I was lucky, I could have smacked my head off the floor or broken a bone, but as it was I was just wet and cold and embarrassed. I'm thinking though that I might have fallen a bit harder than I first thought, since my shoulder has been aching since yesterday and the side of my hand keeps twinging. I can still bend my fingers so it's probably not serious, but still. Muh.

I hate falling over.

Mum, John and Amy went to see the new Sherlock film last night. I didn't, because I'm not really that interested, and they didn't seem very taken with it. Amy was getting bored before it finished. I've not really been that impressed with any modern adaptations of Sherlock Holmes though, so I'm not really surprised.

I got a nice surprise in the mail yesterday, too! A letter from ishilde, which I have duly written a reply to and I will be sending that off as soon as I can find a stamp. Hopefully the Xmas post won't slow it up too much :T I love getting letters. I also have my Xmas present from iiluov, which is a long-since retired TY Beanie Baby that I had as a kid and managed to lose somehow, probably in one of my mum's clear-outs. It might be silly for a 23 year old to miss a toy but I don't care :T

I'm staying in my room today. My stomach hasn't been quite right since last night and I still feel a bit icky. Bluh.

Comments

[corvyie.livejournal.com]

GLAD TO KNOW IT'S OVER!! /PARTY Well, for now. Hopefully nothing more will happen.

I know plurk is all a fuddle with LJ business, so I'll check for you around there, but I'm probably hopeless myself at HTML. 8D;

And ow - my mum fell over Sunday. Her bum hurt until today, I think. You both fell on slippery surfaces, ironically. I hope it feels better. I know I'm always more shocked when I fall over then actually hurt. And then that progresses into amusement or anger depending on whom I'm with.

AWWW - XMAS GIFTS!! I think I'll have yours posted out tomorrow or something (if... I can figure out this postal system /in the netherlands ;;).

ALSO HOPING YOU FEEL BETTER!! ;;

[blood-winged.livejournal.com]

Hopefully it's over, 'cause I can't take any more of this =~=

Aw, thanks, that's nice of you <3 :3

And owie.. my mum fell over at the weekend too! Her knee is all bruised. I wasn't there, but my sister was. She laughed. :T

MY BACK IS ACTUALLY MORE SORE NOW it is not cool. x.x

[corvyie.livejournal.com]

*Sends consoling thoughts!* I hope so as well, just hearing about it makes me a little upset. :< I don't put a lot of trust in these corporations. xD;

Pffft, my brother laughed at my mum too! How coincidental!

;a; NOOO. Get better back, get better!

[blood-winged.livejournal.com]

I will be sending a strongly worded letter :1 I don't need this kind of stress. Not that I expect anything to come of it.

Maybe I should try taking some painkillers =o=

[corvyie.livejournal.com]

Good luck! I always mean to send letters, but usually I just snap at customer service when they ask how my service was. *Horrible* I hope they at least improve in the future!

Perhaps~ I know those always help my headaches and muscle pains. c:

[blood-winged.livejournal.com]

I fully intend to write one. It's not the people I'm annoyed at, everyone I spoke to was really pleasant, but obviously their system is messed up. It shouldn't take two days to answer an email, I was never notified the first time I had an order coming (when I thought it wasn't) and then when they do try to send me a replacement it's one I don't want and never asked for.

[corvyie.livejournal.com]

This is true! It's either the system that is messed up, causing severe miscommunication issues amongst the employee's or some employee's fault because of a great deal of miscommunication amongst them. I hope either way, they find a better way of dealing with it!

[blood-winged.livejournal.com]

It's actually as if they've never had to deal with someone returning an item before. Pretty shocking really.

[corvyie.livejournal.com]

... I would honestly be dumbstruck if that were true! :c Maybe the employee's just never dealt with it (or the ones you worked with).

[blood-winged.livejournal.com]

All five of them? :I

[corvyie.livejournal.com]

... it'd be amazing, but possible!? They need better training if that's the case. :c