Bwuh.

Considering that LJ decided to delete my post the one time I actually wanted it to ask me to restore from a saved draft, I'll start this again. Though I had been picking at that post for four days so I suppose it's just as well that it got nuked.

I have a new television. I've been after one for a while, although the one that I had worked just fine - I've been hankering for a HD TV since they first started becoming reasonably affordable and now I have one >o<; I decided on this one, because the price was excellent for what I was getting. Having an Xbox 360 I wouldn't have ordinarily bothered with a DVD player but when I try marathoning DVDs on my Xbox it tends to start disliking it and starts vibrating and making a buzzing sound. It doesn't seem to affect the DVD but the noise is alarming, and at least this way I'm not fiddling around with buttons to swap the connections over to my Xbox when I want to put a DVD on.

I've started playing Minecraft. Why? I'm not entirely sure. Call it curiosity combined with boredom. It's proving to be quite fun so far, though I'm not entirely sure where I'm going with it so it's more of a way to pass the time. I managed to fall in lava three times today before I realised that I didn't even know why I was mining obsidian, I was just doing it. I haven't been brave enough to turn the monsters on, but one odd thing has happened. I spawned in the Taiga biome, and got pretty lucky with where I decided to dig in. My rather large underground fortress (which I fondly nicknamed the Mines of Moria) is attached to a wellspring on one side and a very, very large carvern on the other which still has some bits that need exploring. I had to signpost it so I wouldn't forget the way out. Since it's cold enough outside that the water freezes, I have a sugar cane farm in my cave, and the oddest thing that has happened in there was my coming to harvest and seeing a strange black shape moving around in the water. I had no idea what it might be, and just about freaked out when I saw this flopping about.



A squid. A squid. Indoors. In one of my sugar cane pools.

What else what else... My sleeping pattern is buggered to all hell again, I got up at gone 6pm today to some dirty looks off my mother and a demand to know what was wrong with me. Nothing is wrong with me I just happen to enjoy staying up all night. It's not as if I'm missing anything during the day anyway.

I'll be using my alertness tonight to finally catch up on all the writing I have to do, because the deadline for the aph_fluffathon fics I need to do is closer than I thought it was. I also have four RPs to reply to. Erk.

Oww..

I should have known that Mother Nature wouldn't take it easy on me forever. Right now, I feel as if my uterus is trying to claw its way out of my stomach. I said, the next time that this happened, I was going to go to the doctor and ask if there was anything that she could do for me, because seriously.. it hurts so much I nearly threw up a couple of hours ago. Someone's made off with the painkillers and I'm trying green tea which sometimes works but it would be rather nice if this never happened. So I think, tomorrow, I will call the doctor and see when I can get an appointment. Even being on the pill would be better than this. I think mum is finally (FINALLY) starting to take me seriously on how much pain I'm in, after so long of acting as if I'm exaggerating, and she's being nice to me about it and offered to cook me some food. Pity that I don't really want to eat right now.

Last night I got two RP posts done, since my brain kept trolling me and suddenly being tired whenever I tried to start writing. I'm going to try to finish the rest tonight, since I think that my tiredness is being caused by those lovely out-of-control hormones and not my actually being tired.

It's been very windy today. Apparently the UK is catching the back end of Hurricane Katia, and the lovely little lady has brought us gusts of up to 80mph, enough to knock trees down in some areas. They're also warning of possible flooding in some areas because of the heavy rain that's been brought over too, though I haven't seen any of that. It's nothing to panic about, just a bit noisy since my bedroom is in the roof of the dormer bungalow that I live in.

As far as I can tell it's not causing damage around where I live but I can't say the same for the plants - it managed to knock my tree over (my three and a half foot tall Scots pine tree in a pot that must weigh about 15lbs) - so the tree and mum's tomato plants have had to be tucked away into a corner of the garden where the wind can't get at them.