Hair today, gone tomorrow

It was decided that midnight Sunday was an excellent time to start doing my hair and, I was not so tired so didn't object. However! After the end result became visible it soon was obvious that some hair cutting was required because all the original blonde had melted and was coming off in sticky clumps.

I am sitting here now at 01:48 waiting for the toner to take hold and probably screw up the rest of the remaining hair.

Poor Deej still has his cough and is most unhappy about it. My hair not going according to plan has upset him too so it is not a good night for him :-(

Two of my oldest friends seem not to be talking to me now. I have tried both several email and text and no acknowledgement at all. I have no idea what I did to upset them but I would have thought I'd deserve more than to be blanked. Such is life, we move on.

Money doth dribble away

Yes, my money is escaping from every direction but, I hope, will recover OK and the things it is going on are generally worthwhile.

Tesco (bless them) have almost totally paid for a week in Gran Canaria for Pride next May, now that has to be a good deal. They will also pay for train tickets over to France in October and for ferry tickets for a trip Deej and I are taking to Disneyland in November. My timing of that one could have been better but I did not realise that the 'Tower of Terror' was opening as early as January!

Daisy is no longer with Sam but now with James. Fortunately I am already used to James coming around so don't have to get used to anyone new.

The car is still doing reasonably well with a first service being carried out next week after the engine rebuild.

There are staffing issues at the coach house so I am having t keep on top of things there and make sure it does not end up collapsing. Email to be written there.

I so need my eyes tested but am nervous about the cost of it all as I just know I need new glasses which generally come in at around £200+

Matt is being less than perfect going back on just about everything we agreed in order for him to stay here a little longer. He's making virtually no effort to get a full time job and, most worryingly, insisting he is in control of everything ... yeah, like anyone who knows him would believe that.

I bought a gadget to connect the PC's to the lounge TV, just hoping it will actually do what it says on the box.

I gotta go now, wanted to write more but out of time.

The one with no title

C'mon, it's early and I can't be arsed with thinking up witty titles!

The car is still running and, more important perhaps, outside my house! Yesterday I paid £230 to get the last bit of bodywork sorted out, just a windscreen repair to go and it's as good it its going to get. (It's only a small chip so shouldn't be a problem)

When I say that, about it being good as its going to get I mean until I get the parking sensors fitted of course and I go see a little man about those next week.

I spent quite a bit of last week fretting about my Dad and his wife coming over. I am 44 years old and what he thinks still gets to me. As far as I am aware there is not one thing I have done in my life for which he is proud of me so still I try to impress him even when I so know it'll never happen. John and me spent an age working on the garden. Kath still managed to be critical of the front though. She was also (or came across as) bitchy about the car wanting to know how I can afford a car like that? The implication seemed to me to be that someone like myself, scrounging off the state, shouldn't have a nice car.

As usual she refused my dinner. She also managed a game of one upmanship by comparing her grandson Max to Daisy saying how they are the same age yet Max has taken his GCSE's already. Dad said rather little as it happens, probably best.

Jermaine came over too and it was his best visit to date. There were loads of smiles and giggles and not a sign of anger.

Matt & Anne seemed to be having issues so came across as somewhat rude. Matt bit my head off when I called out to him his grandparents were leaving which wasn't very nice. Yesterday he bit my head off because I suggested I collect him from town 20 minutes earlier than I'd agreed because that was what fitted in with my plans. He's only managing to hand out 2-3 CV's each day and not following up leads he gets for jobs. He is so going to get himself in a lot of bother very soon and if he's messing me about and deliberately not doing anything to make sure he can stay here then it's so going to backfire on him because it's just totally disrespectful and what got us in this situation in the first place. As usual his social life is his #1 priority and all else is just meant to fall into place despite the overwhelming evidence that this is not what happens in life.

Robin is once again going through a spell of feeling down. I think we may have got to the root of it now and it is a very heavy situation. On the plus side, I think there is a resolution, something Robin can do which may well help end the cycle of depression but it is going to be really difficult to him as it means making some life changes. He knows deep down he is in the thoughts of many throughout hi life it is just difficult for him to accept that as he has such a low opinion of himself.

Did I mention I have a new car? ;-)

Oh, one interesting thing also ... we'd noticed that files we had on the network here seemed to be going missing and just couldn't work out what we'd done with them. It turned out that Zoey had decided she didn't want all these things cluttering up her laptop so was deleting them! Now I have the task of putting the collection back together again!

Zoey is at college now by the way, and she's really loving it. We can't see her for dust when she gets ready in the mornings.

This afternoon we should be getting our two new cats.

At long last!

Enough said!

No Jermaine

Wendy just called to say that Jermaine has had some seizures so won't be able to arrive today.

She's probably telling the truth but I am also concerned that maybe not enough effort is being made to take him out at all. I don't mean if he is genuinely having a bad day but rather on days when he's happy and well when they should be grasping the chance.

The other day I noticed they were very short staffed there. They were muddling through but they were clearly stressed. The other client they have there was obviously causing them some concern they actually said there were things he expected them to do which they'd agree to do which they could not do because they were short staffed.

I am hopeful that the staffing thing is a glitch because I know they are interviewing but even so, it doesn't account for the fact that Jermaine is not getting out.

Something else I also noticed was that they seem to be doing the cooking elsewhere as well and I hope that is not a move to communal living again whereby everyone has what is being prepared rather than each flat has it's own menu.

I shall be bringing these things up in the meeting we have shortly for sure.

On another note, Daisy is dating again (Sam)



It's quite amazing how much he reminds me of my first boyfriend (back when he was thin of course)

Matt and Annie are still together which has to be good.

Networks .... don't leave them open!

Just recently I have found it difficult to work out where some of my files have been going. Albums I thought I had were just not there any more and yesterday we noticed that over 70gb's of TV stuff was missing. On quizzing those in the house it turns out that Zoey has just been deleting anything she doesn't like not worrying just where it was stored.

So, thus far we have the entire series of Farscape gone alone with all of Doctor Who, the Star Trek movies, countless albums and heaven knows what else, much can be replaced (over a very long time) but she may have deleted stuff that is not replaceable and chances are it may be months before we realise it.

Oops .... I did it again!

Without a shadow of a doubt we are only getting one cat ... bugger!