With friends like these...

The Good News:

I got a promotion (of sorts) at work on Monday, which means that I can now use all of the functions on the till and no longer need to call upstairs if I cock up or if someone needs to return something. I am very pleased with this. Kurtis was less than pleased as he's been working in the store since before Christmas and is still on the lower level, but Kurtis is nice enough, but he's a ditzy sod and Michelle doesn't trust him with the higher till functions when he's still messing up the lower ones.

I'm also being trusted to put the Gift Aid takings in pretty much every day I work unless Sue is counting up the till because for some reason she always nicks off with the form and takes it upstairs. I'm not sure why she does that because I'm perfectly capable of adding it up myself xD

My shark swim is in three weeks! Doesn't feel that long ago that I booked it, so yaaay.

Also I found a voucher that my sister and bought last September for a photography session. It's up on the 22nd of this month, but I emailed the place anyway, and they told me that fortunately they can extend it and they're going to call me to arrange a session, so that should be fun! They ask for £50 deposit to make sure you turn up, but you can get that back at the end, or use it to buy some of the photos they take.

Ben has finally stopped trying to chew his feet off. We had to get a cone for him eventually, which he didn't approve of, but it stopped the licking/biting habit for long enough that his paws could properly heal and now he isn't doing it anymore. He's currently asleep on my bed, the little sweetie.

The Not So Good News:

I got news back from my job interview, and unfortunately I didn't get the job. The same usual stuff about the quality of applicants being very high and unfortunately I was one of the ones they dropped. Mum thinks I should ring up and ask where I went wrong but I don't really want to, I'm just going to chalk it up to experience and move on. I think she was more miffed about it than I was to be honest! Oh well. Keep calm, carry on and all that.

Starting to lose a lot of enthusiasm with this whole job search thing.

Other Stuff:

A few days ago, I put down Game of Thrones in order to read Good Omens, as a number of my friends have been raving about it lately. I might give a full review when I'm done, but at the moment (and at the risk of being lynched), I have to say it's nothing special. Yes, it's funny, I'll give it that, but the narrative trips over itself at times and sometimes drags, and I don't really think it utilises the best of both of the authors. I do adore Aziraphale and Crowley, though, and their interactions definitely make it worth reading.

In other news, I bought a TARDIS for my goldfish. I kid you not. Here, look.



Check that bad boy out, how cool is that? I found it for £1.50 in the charity shop where I work, and I wasn't sure what it was for at first, but as soon as I realised I just had to buy it. His usual castle can get a bit of a break.

Lastly, we have a mouse living in our kitchen. It's decided to live in the back of the cooker and I'm not sure where exactly it's living in there, or how it's not boiling alive when the oven is on. We've caught three and think this is the last one, but it is so devilishly smart that it keeps avoiding the traps and getting the better of us at every turn. It comes out in the evening, when we're all still up, and I've seen it several times now (and almost caught it once!), as it's run across the windowsill or counter when the light's been turned on.

Today, I was in the kitchen when I heard an odd noise, like gnawing. I eventually located it. The mouse was inside the toaster. I got my stepdad to listen, and he tried to arrange the various traps we have to catch it, then moved the toaster. It shot out, and avoided all of the traps, and went back down behind the cooker again. People keep telling me we should get a specialist to sort it, but I don't know what a specialist could do that we haven't done, at this point.

I don't want to end up killing it, it's not as if it's there to be malicious, but it's a mouse, and they carry diseases, so it can't stay in the house =|

I don't usually work Tuesdays, but I went in today with my sister because she's doing two mornings a week. We were there from 10am until 1pm, and I probably should have worked harder than I did but hey I wasn't meant to be there anyway.

While I was upstairs, I saw a book that I recognised the title of - Game of Thrones. I've heard a lot about this book so I picked it up to have a look, then under it I saw another one by the same author - the third book (part one, paperback). After a bit more digging I found...



I got all of these for £1.50 each, and the latter four don't even appear to have been read. The spines are completely undamaged. The fifth book comes out in paperback on March 15th and I will hopefully have finished this pile of dead tree and ink by then. I still have The Time Traveller's Wife to read, as well as another book I picked up called The Last Templar. I spent £10 on six books. I love charity shops.

In other news, I've finally booked the shark dive that my dad bought me for my birthday. Yes, you read right - shark dive. It's booked for the sixth of April, and it is going to be awesome. It's been so long since I used SCUBA gear, I hope I didn't forget how to breathe properly.

Also this.

GT: But my thought process sort of went like this.
GT: Hes been my best friend forever and ive always liked him a lot as a bro.
GT: And years ago i used to joke around with him that we would probably be totally into each other if he was a girl.
GT: But of course that was before i started to realize he was probably serious about those feelings for me regardless.
GT: Heheh come to think of it maybe that was unwittingly poor form on my part kind of leading him on or something?
GG: Whoops!!
GT: But then...
GT: Later i started thinking.
GT: Maybe i was being kind of unfair to him in the first place?
GT: I mean by saying we would be a good match only if he was a girl.
GT: Like is that last condition there really all THAT important?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!

I finished a book! Must be the first I've read in months. The first Sookie Stackhouse book =D

This pleases me.

Dear T - I don't understand you. What happened? We used to be so close and now... now I don't know what we are. I still love you. I love you so much but I don't know how much longer I can put up with these double standards that you seem to have. I can't disappear for more than a day without questions but you've been offline almost a week without word, and I know your phone is turned off. It has been for over a fortnight. But of course, when you come back I'll be overjoyed. I suppose you're just having time with your cousins before they move away. I hope that's the case, because you're still one of my best friends... and I don't know if I can stand to lose any more.

Dear M - I guess I don't understand you, either. Haha. We used to be such good friends... falling out over a boy? What happened? I wish I knew. I want my best friend back, but I'm too scared to ask. I'm too scared of what you'll say. I don't want it to hurt any more than it already does. I miss you.

Dear A - Who would have guessed you'd mature into such a sweetie? I hope we can meet one day, and go to a sushi bar like you said we would =)

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I've got some new books recently. After watching Inkheart I looked it up, and found that it's actually a trilogy of books that were originally in German. So I bought them all for less than £15 on play.com, expecting for the price for them to be quite slim books. Turns out each of them is nearly two inches thick. I can't say I have a problem with that but with my current (ehem) 'lifestyle' I don't know how long it's going to take me to get through them all. Hopefully not long. Hopefully I can do what I used to do and just curl up and read. I miss doing that. I'm not sure why I don't anymore and I think it's having an effect on my writing ability. I haven't written more than a few lines in weeks, and that isn't like me at all. Sigh. I want to go back to university but I fear that with the situation between me and my 'friends' I won't enjoy this year as much as I have the others. As if the hour long bus ride doesn't make it enough of a challenge to get there.

I also bought 'The Vampire Genevieve', which is a Warhammer book. It looks neat, but it'll have to wait until I've gone through the three Inkheart books.

I've been back in touch with a couple of people recently, that I hadn't heard from in about two years. One has changed so much I barely recognise him from the person I knew before. A change for the better, definitely. The other... not so much, but he's tolerable. The first, I now speak to every day and though it's not been to long since we 'met' again I feel like I've known him for ages. I like it when that happens.

I've been drawing a little too. I guess I need to work myself back into my hobbies but it feels like... I don't know. It's been so long since I've really done anything that any motivation I could have summoned has slipped through my fingers. Time just sort of drifts by, as anyone who spends most of their life sat at a computer will understand. Half the time I don't even know what day it is.

I'm also hungry. =/