Hi y'all. Today's been better, much better than yesterday, up and down in parts, but on the whole I'm improving I think.

I woke up at five past eight, and headed straight to Janey to collect the overnight mails. Saw the boy's skype was up, also collected a skype chat, so thought he was up for a call. I rang, and after an appreciable interval he answered, complete with long pause to connect microphone. he'd had speakers up loud, so the skype classic ringtone had nearly scared the bejeepers out of him, ringing at top volume way after midnight, sounding like a burglar alarm and rousing the house, if not the dead! Still, he wasn't mad with me, and we had a nice little chat before he hit the pillow. Lessons to be learned from this amusing episode. Um, yes, Lulu, try chatting first? Like you tell other people to do before calling you? Duh!

Well, once I'd collected the mail I decided it really was a bit early to get up, so I went back to bed, turned on Red Dragon FM and the next thing I knew it was just aftr eleven! Disgraceful! I washed and dressed, got outside some coffee and toast, tidied the place up, and waited for the promised visit from Mum and geoff. They finally showed up at one-thirty.

We had lunch, Mum sorted mail and gave the house the once-over, and then we went into the question of what I should wear for her engagement and wedding parties. the first presented no problems, but my one good suit is two sizes too big for me now, and I'll have to go buy something new. Rar! I hate shopping for clothes, don't have the money, and if I did would want to spend it on a window-eyes upgrade, or maybe start saving for a trip somewheres. Wink. But, neither can I turn up to my one and only Mum's wedding in jeans. So it has to be done. Mum has definite ideas about things, including the length of my hair, the look of my clothes, and I'm feeling slightly stressedicated by the time they head out.

I head into VT where the old crowd is gathered. Great to see afro_thunder chiming_magic kwpodcast and the others who showed up during the course of the afternoon and evening! I spent quite a bit of time in vt today, Rob had stuff to do, but enjoyed my calls with him when they came. Also enjoyed the grilled cheese sandwich I cooked on the Baby George for tea, lovely squidgy cheese and red onion chutney, yumpsk! And it stayed down too, Freakin miracle! Hooray! Now I think there might be a bit more messaging and another game or two before bed. Not feeling sleepy yet.

And there ya go, all caught up for another day. Huge huggies to all my friends. 143 R E D, now and always. Smile. See y'all!

Hi, y'all. I thought today was going to be grizzly in the extreme, but due to the help of some good old friends, it's been, well I won't say good, but not too bad. Think Yay to friends!

Ok, I took an earlier than expected call from Rob last night, he had a lecture to go to, we talked for a while, then I hit the pillow. slept eleven hours straight, well more or less. Then I came in here and fired up Janey. I nerdled about some, talked to a friend or two, watched some movies and tried not to think too much. Still fet very down.

At three o'clock I called Rob and we talked for the last time til Monday. He was full of beans, all looking forward to his graduation and going home. We had fifteen lovely minutes. It's been a hard month for him, he hasn't always found it easy, the training, getting used to the new routines, but he's come through it with flying colours and I'm so proud of him. So, let's raise a virtual glass to the new partnership of Rob and Gildy. That's the proper spelling! I always spell it with an i so my screenreader pronounces it properly! Anyway, I hope they have many years together!

Well, after he'd gone to get on with his busy day, I felt as if melt down was imminent. Not good. So I jumped on to afro_thunder's vt server, and there I've stayed, with a great crowd of friends, most ever since. The beers, and in my case glasses of wine, have flowed, the guitars came out, and we've had a laugh, and it's taken my mind off things.

So, now, I'm off to bed, to get some more zees. I want my body clock to stay on track! off to lunch with my Grandma tomorrow. It'l be the last numbered day, as the R man will still be on the road. He'll get home early Monday morning. Will I be glad or what! Spect he will too, in fact I know he will! Man! These have been twenty-eight hard days! But we're still standing. Huge hugs to all my precious friends. You always come through for me when the chips are down. 143 R E D, now and always. Smiles. See y'all!

Hi y'all! Boy o boy, I'm trashed! Ok, so I'm going to bed later than I should, not sleeping too well because I know I have to get up at six, then waking up for my totally necessary call, then crashing back out again! Least, that's what I did today. My sleep pattern! My poor brains! Lol! But, I'm a very bouncey happy zonked out wacko!

So, woke up at five-thirty, after a very disturbed night, and stumbled in Janey's general direction! Woot, the boy's skype's all ready up and waiting. We had a whole freakin hour! I mean, talk about luxury! So the news is, there's a new girl in his life, she's petite and black and her name's Gildi, and he's totally besotted with her! Lol! So, he's really jazzed, yay! We had such a lovely talk, then I crashed out back to bed. I had about four phone calls, man, I'm so glad I got that phone by the bed!

Well, I woke up properly around 2 and staggered back into the den. Chatted to a few folk on msn. looks like Jack's server is down, Waaaaah! Well I certainly won't be visiting any other servers that maybe around.

Got another five minute call, right out of the blue, about quarter to four, nearly made himself late for the bus! Heehee, apparently the little Princess is not behaving today! Oh dear! Anyway, apart from that, I've just done a bit of downloading, drunk a lot of coffee, talked to folk on msn, just nerdled about. My jukebox has just tossed up some River Dance! Yum! I'm feeling amazingly good today. Really really contented and at peace with the world. Even the teeny tiny Migraine hovering around the edge of things can't put the mockers on it. I can't wait for Sunday, it's going to be so cool. I'm going to have lunch with Dad and his lot, and then... No deadlines, just some real chill time. If he doesn't decide he'd rather take Gildi out to the movies! Lolol! Oh take no notice of me, just my goofball side coming to the fore again!

Ok, I'm out of here. Huge huggies to all my friends. 143 R E D, now and always. Big smile. See y'all!

Hi, Y'all! Well, today I've felt much more like my old self. The blues seem to have all gone, hooray! Let's hope they stay gone! Another part of my old self is back too, in that I now feel much more like spending lots more time with people, not being a recluise, and thanks to my new headset, I can do it in comfort.

So, woke up around eight-thirty, wandered into the den, as I call my big living area, read the mail, and then took a skype call from Rory. I hadn't spoken to him for an age, so we had a lot of catching up to do. Things are going really well for him, he's done his first studio session, and I'm thrilled to bits for him.

Anyway, after that I had a msn then a skype chat with Fleurette. Another person I'd neglected shockingly! Some more friends dinged at me while this was going on, and soon it was getting disgracefully late, and I needed to get in the shower! So I did, then got coffee and toast, then hit VT, with Lynn and Fleurette. We had a very nice afternoon. About three the niggly little headache I'd been bothered with all day began to get annoying, so I dropped off the chat circuit and took some painkilers. Then I got skyped by a friend of The Dream's, then by theDream himself, and so my little jaw's been flapping away busily ever since, with a break for some excellent Pasta with Carbonara sauce. A simple and very nice day, I've enjoyed every minute, so far!

And there you are, that's your slice of my life for today. Huge hugs to all my friends. Big smile. See y'all!

Hi, Y'all. Well, today I bought the thing that really made this place complete. I've had, for some time, a wireless keyboard, and this enables me to sit on the sofa, write lj entries, answer messages and so forth. But, I can't do voice chats, which means whenever I go on Skype or VT I have to plug in my headphones, and move to my excruciatingly uncomfortable desk chair. This has meant that, what with me being more than usually busy, and an unwillingness to give myself chronic bum ache, the amount of time I've spent chatting with my friends has decreased a lot. Of course, it isn't helping that my evenings are all taken up as well.

So, what to do about this problem? I found the answer in Curries today, when I went with Mum to buy a little microwave oven. The Cobalt one is way out of my price range, so I had to find the smallest, simplest to use one I could, for the least money. I picked one up, and then started looking at bluetooth headsets. Trouble was, I was sure the sound quality was going to be awful, and for a stereo set the prices were beyond me.

Then the answer came. A neat little Logitech usb headset, with a long extension cord! Brilliant!

So now, it's all set up, thanks tosome timely help, and I'm on Skype, listening to The Dream do house stuff, as he does every day this time in the evening, and writing this. The other good thing that happened today is that my friend Clare, alias Fleurette, got VT today! Woot! Look forward to a talk on there soon.

Ok, well time has passed since I started writing this, it's now really late, so me is off to bed! Huge hugs, as usual, to all my friends, wherever you are. Sleepy Smile. See y'all!

Hi Y'all! Well, it's been a lovely quiet day today, after the rather stressful one yesterday. Woke up, had some breakfast, then spent the day choosing new stuff for the flat on the Argos website, and hanging on ventrillo with friends. Mum came home about six and made me a piece of salmon and salad for tea, boy it's nice to have my tea cooked for me just for a while!

This evening I hung on vt a bit more, got an unexpected call from the California dream, he is a pro keyboard player and gigs at the weekends, so I wasn't expecting him today! Big happy grins. I'm just sitting here reading stuff and listening to music, and I'm about to have an early night. Boy it's amazing to have no hassle from anyone!

And that's it! Huge huggles to all my friends! Smiles! See y'all!

Hey folks. Ok, I should have done this ages ago, but the last three days or so haven't been fun, and I'm tired and feeling too grungy to say much, but I've got to pass something on to you, so here's a sort of entry thingy.

Ok, since Tuesday night my stomach's been misbehaving, plus Migraine, plus hay fever, general Yuk yuk tripple yuk! I just thank heaven for great friends. Twitter's working properly now, so even if I can't get online, I can keep in touch from the mobile. If you twitter and don't already follow me, go look for lulukeel.

Today's the first day I've been up, I met the fundraising manager for the Northeast for the RNIB, and filled in forms which should enable me to become a public speaker for them. Apart from that, the usual good talk with good friends, and one other big thing. Klango.

You haven't tried it? Don't sit reading this crap, go right here, install the player which will take seconds, create an account which even I can do, you need to do it through the player itself, and get ready to be awed, cos I am!

So what is this thing? Anyone who knows, talk amongst yourselves here. It's a media player, networker, radio player, gaming device, and will be much much more. It's only just beginning, but it has so much to offer now. Audio books, more radio stations than I ever knew about, even a game or two, the ability to network with other users and meet new people. And the lovely thing is, it's all self voicing. If you have sapi voices, you can run it. It's blissfully simple to use, and fun, go see if I'm not right. I've converted gwennybird and afro_thunder today, and they both love it. Thanks so much to liamurven freakyfwoof who gave me the word on it at first, and finally to wordwizard1000 who convinced me what a cool program it is!

Ok, I'll leave you in peace now. One more thing to say before I go, no make that two things. bit of sad news today, seems like we'll be losing a friend in a few days. Well, Jack if the server has to come down, that's just the breaks, it's understandable,but it'll be missed, that's for sure! And while I'm talking about Jack, happy birthday, Cowboy! It's been a fun year of knowing you, here's to many more of them!

Ok, I'm off to bed, I'm bushed! Huggles to all my friends. Boyng boyng, ouch, no not a good idea! Lol! Night night y'all!

Hi, Peeps, how's folkies today? Well, me's a lot better. The Migraine has all gone away. Woot! Got up usual time this morning, breakfast, chores, then came online. Email still playing up, gurhrhrhrhrhrhr! Got on to Doctor Steve. He said nothing wrong with the server, so tried a router reboot, and a checkdisk, then tried Email again. Yay, it's fixed!

Rory is back from Colerado, and we have a talk on skype. Very nice and interesting. Then have some more skype chat, dingage, and finally VT with a lot of good friends until dinner time. Dinner was roast lamb and some nice red wine. Yumpsk! Now I'm doing this, and dinging with more friends. Today has been cool. Something else nice has happened, can't tell you what in case it doesn't work out, but if it does it'll solve a lot of problems in Lulu land!

Well, that's it for today. Huge, Squishy Eleroo huggles to all my friends. Boyng boyng boyng! See y'all!

Hi, Folkies! How's everyone today? Well, me's a lot better, back to my bouncy self, thank the lord! Hooray and woot and things like that.

So, what happened today then? Well, as the diary of a farmer's wife sometimes says, very good book, specially for them as like food, "today have bin a busy one!" Got up usual time, shower, breakfast, loads and piles and heaps of laundry to do. So I got the first lot on the go, then did some other chores, and then fired up Janey to pick up the mail.

There are few things I love more than when Janey comes online of a morning, and the screen lights up with messages from good friends, then I open my in-box, and find thre mails that need answers! Yeeeeeehaaaaaw! Well, that's what happened this morning, it's a great feeling. I feel so blessed to have such good friends.

Well, once I'd dealt with the important stuff, I tootled off to the supermarket, and got some much needed shopping in. Came home, unpacked it, then back online I came. I hit VT, and spent time hanging there, mostly with gwennybird we had a fun time. Later on I saw Fleurette come online, which was a nice surprise, as she had texted me to tell me her pc was down. I skyped her, and wordwizard1000 soon joined us, and the two of them were still nattering twenty to the dozen when I had to head off on the dinner trail.

So now, dinner over, more lovely mail answered, Friends' Page read, I'm now going to listen to freakyfwoof's new piano lesson, then I'm heading back to vt I think. And there might be a nice cold glass of wine in store for me later as well. the laundry's all done, so my jobs are all up-to-date, and Jay's in a good mood with me too. Life is good.

And that's your slice of it for today! Huge, squishy, Eleroo snuzzles to all my friends, wherever you are in the world. Boyng boyng boyng! See y'all!

Hi, peeps. Wow , I thought yesterday was going to be a stinker, but it was the coolest day I can remember for a long time! Even with the extraction of the dreaded tooth!

So, after I'd done my blog, I went off to the Dentist, and was duly deliverd into the chair of the Peach. Now, I had to have four injections, two around the tooth, and two in the roof of my mouth. With my last Dentist, this would have been really awful, but with the Peach, it wasn't bad at all! He has the gentlest hand with the needle, you can hardly feel it going in. He waited a few minutes between each jab, and talked to me. He really is lovely. One of the things I found out was that I actually named him the peach! Back in 2005, when he first came to work at the practice, I was his third patient, and I must have made my usual jokey remark in which I must have said, "oooo he's a peach!" and the name stuck! I don't remember saying it, but he and the nurse say I did!

Well, finally it came time to take out the mandible! Now usually the tooth is kind of wrenched out. But the peach just wobbled it till it came out gently. I won't say it was entirely painless, but it was heaps better than loads of other extractions I've had done!

Well, I came home with a frozen face, and fired up Janey. Had a short skypage with Fleurette, but really couldn't talk much cos of my face ache! So I spent the afternoon dinging, and having the most humungus skype chat with Rory. Toward the end of the afternoon we actually got to speak with voices for the first time! It was cooly!

After dinner, I went on VT, and there was a lovely crowd of people on there, we stayed all evening, till after midnight, hanging and chilling. I feel so blessed to have so many good friends around. There's an old saying says talk is cheap. Not in my book it ain't. Good talk with good friends is precious, in fact, in the right circumstances, it's priceless!

Ok, this morning's cloudy and drizzly again! I'm defrosting the fridge today! Oh joy! My face is gently aching, but it's not too bad! I'm hanging on vt with gwennybird and wordwizard1000 and Mart. We're just chatting and doing our different things.

And that's your slice of my life for today. Everything's good at the moment! Woot! Huge huggles to all my friends, wherever you are in the world! Boyng boyng boyng! Se y'all!

Hi Peeps. I don't know what date will be on this post, cos I started writing this last night, Sunday night, but got sidetracked, didn't finish it, and now it's monday morning, so here's the bit I wrote last night, then I'll finish off!

Well, it was a long old night last night, cos for hours and hours I couldn't sleep. I read Harry Potter with my headies on, and eventually just started to feel tired, so snuggled up and drifted off.

Woke up quite late this morning, made our usual Sunday pancake breakfast. Cleared up and then came online. Had some nice dingage, then came on vt. Was playing Superdog's Bone Hunt, and made some absolutely wowmungus scores! In four consecutive games, I made 82, 82, 80 and then 84! I mean, the best ever, ever!

I came off later, to talk to wordwizard1000 and Fleurette on Skype, and tuned into afro_thunder's show on The Phoenix while we were nattering. At about half four I headed back to the crowd on VT where I stayed till time to make dinner.

Ok, that's as far as I got last night. Yesterday evening was a bit fraught, especially for poor Lynn, who had PC issues. We all tried to help in our different ways, the best I could do was just to help her try to stay calm. It's mega scary when you think your pooter's picked up some kind of vicious nasty which is quietly deleting all your precious data!

I had some nice chat on vt, and also askype chat with Rory, who was on his way to a Dixie Land jam, which I'm hoping to be able to hear a bit of at some point. Then I flopped into bed about midnight.

This morning I got up the usual time, made breakfast, did some chores, and now I's here! Just had a bit of dingage, and as soon as I've done this I'll head for vt and see who's around. Jay's off to see the peach today, he's got to have a tooth out. Poor him, it's my turn tomorrow, so we'll both be living on slop for a day or two! Hahaha!

Ok, that's me all done for now. Huge, squishy, Eleroo snuzzles to all my friends, wherever you are in the world! Boyng boyng boyng! See y'all!

It's an old saying that you don't appreciate something till it isn't there. Well, I've always known it to be so, but I really found it out to be doubly true today.

So, let's do this in order. Got up the usual time, had breakfast, did some chores, had a quick look at the mail before shooting off shopping. Then, when everything was unpacked and put away, I fired up Janey, did a bit of dinging and headed for Jack's VT server, except it wasn't there. No moan intended here, before I go any further, just the oposite actually. Now until recently this server hasn't been getting much use, but since I got back here in April it seems to have become very busy again, the time delay factor has improved vastly, and in every other respect it has Skype beaten into a cocked hat! We can come in and out without arranging who's going to host a conference call, all that damn knocking and mucking about with menus is a thing of the past, the place is like a house, full of good mates. We can even have concerts and play music over the net without the sound getting killed! There are private places to go for one on one chats, a dedicated gaming room, it's a good place to be! We've been lucky enough to be using it for a while now, and it's easy enough to take what's free for granted, I've been guilty of it myself, but no more!

Today, we were back to skype again, and Man! Didn't we feel the difference! For one thing, wordwizard1000 can't play games over skype without her computer overheating, so that nice passtime was out for us. Then, as soon as we started a call, the line broke up and started bubbling for no apparent reason. We were able to have a nice chat eventually, I introduced Lynn to Fleurette, and they got on as well as I knew they would, but then Skype decided to break completely, so that Lynn could hear Fleurette, but not the other way round! Stupid program!

I'd gone by this time, because one of my teeth decided to start aching like hell, and I didn't feel much like talking tilll the painkiller had kicked in! Anyway, the purpose of all this ramble is to say that quite a few of us can't wait for VT to be back up, and I'd like to thank afro_thunder and, I see from my friends page chiming_magic for putting the server back for us to use, when it comes up.

It's been a cold day again, with quite a lot of rain. I'm having to have the fire on in here to stop me from freezing! I think there might be some more skypage this evening, gwennybird wants me to give her some Super Egg Hunt lessons. Should be fun! So now you're up-to-date. Huge Eleroo snuzzles to all my friends. Boyng boyng boyng! I'm outa here! See y'all!

Hi, Peeps, Well, here I am again, over the latest Migraine, but not one hundred per cent for some reason, feeling a bit grungy and out of sorts.

So, today, got up, had breakfast, did some housework, fired up Janey. Shes not being good at the moment. She wanted to do update, but once I'd clicked the install button, she refused to restart properly, and I had to do a checkdisk. I think she's ok now. I hope. Anyway, had a short Skype call with Fleurette. and a skype chat from Rory, good luck with the gig tonight! Then I went on VT and I've been here all afternoon.

Man, this weather is mad! At the beginning of the week it was boiling us to death, now I can hardly type cos it's freezing cold! I think it's also wet, it was earlier. I've been playing a lot of super egg hunt today, but now my hands are so stiff I can hardly manipulate the arrow keys. I dunno! Moan, moan, moan, whinge, whine, growl! Hahahahaha! Least my head ain't aching today, and I'm in the company of some top notch friends.

Right, before I drive myself cmpletely off what remains of my chump, I'll bounce out of here. Huge, squishy eleroo huggles to all my friens. Boyng boyng boyng! See y'all!

Hi, Peeps, well I aint blogged since Sunday, bad me! I had an excuse for today, but, oh well let's get y'all caught up.

Monday was a strange day. I woke up feeling awful, no Migraine, just dizzy and groggy and with a weird feeling in my head as if I had a real bad cold. When I went downstairs I understood why! It was a sizzling hot day, and the pollen count was way up, and before I'd finished making breakfast my eyes were running and I was sneezing up a storm.

Well, after we'd eaten and I'd done some chores I fired up Janey and nerdled about for a while. No one much around, combination of heat lethargia and wanting to be out in the garden! Later on in the morning when people had showed up we started to have a nice vt. afro_thunder has changed the house around, and I think it works much better now. then my damn head decided it really didn't like me, and I had to put the juke box on and go curl up on the sofa for a while.

Next thing I knew J had come back from town and was shaking me. I must have fallen fast asleep! Well, I spent the rest of the afternoon on msn then VT, and the same in the evening. gwennybird thanks so much for that lovely chat we had.

So today, woke up to find Mr. Migraine here yet again! Managed to get online to pick up the mail once, but part from that I've just been sleeping it off all day. Now it's gone, whether temporarily or permanently I'm not sure, hopefully the latter. Course, I've been asleep all day, so now am wide awake. Thought I'd come down here and get this done, and maybe have a game or summat till I feel like going back to bed again.

And that's it. Huge, squishy, Eleroo huggles to all my friends, wherever you are in the world. Well done to my friend Rory for getting a radio show and gigs this week, go go go go! Boyng boyng boyng, I'm out! See y'all!

Man, it's hot out there! Hi peeps, yuh, I know, nowt much has happened so far today, but I'm at a loose end here, hardly anyone's around much, so have an entry, go on, you know you want one!

Last night was tops on VT. There was a lot of music and laughter, I love it that we can play music and sing over it, and the sound is damn near perfect, it don't get whited out like used to happen on Skype. Ok, it's not so perfect that Jack could play and I could sing, that would be asking too much, but near enough! I managed to do one of my a capella numbers, the Scotish Lullabye, and they seemed to like it Jack and Ris were amaaaaaaaaaaaazing! Only thing is, my damn head hates it when the accordions come out! I love to hear them, but I have to turn my master volume down to 497 of 500 to stop my head from ringing, stupid damn thing! Still, if that's what has to happen, that's what'll be done! Noot, bring me a new head, please!

Well, today will be the same kind of jive as usual I guess! Looking forward to friends on vT and the Sunday Session at three. It's so suny out there, it makes me want to go out and lie in it, but I know what'll happen if I do! Buzzer and Sunburn City! Oops!

If I could program an environment, you know, make a special place for myself to be, like you could program the hollodecks on Star Trek, I'd make a beautiful exotic island, with lovely gardens, a summer house so you could go somewhere cool, a still inland lake for safe swimming, and of course lots of sandy beach to run on and calm blue sea to splash in. There would be birds, animals, fruit on the trees, tables in clearings with food on them whenever you felt hungry, long frosted glasses full of something cold and delicious, and probably lethal! The sun would be warm but not uncomfortably hot, it would never burn you. If you got lost there'd always be someone around to help you, who'd discreetly disappear again afterwards. There'd be beautiful scented flowers to make the breezes smell gorgeous, and most importantly of all, no insects! None at all! Oooo, just thinking about it makes me feel more peaceful! Wouldn't that be a good place for us all to meet up and party! Dreams and wishes are wonderful things.

Well, I've talked quite enough drivel for one morning! Guess I'll trot off now and find something to do. Boyng boyng boyng, See y'all laters.

That's been my stock reply when asked how I am today. feeling more like myself. It's been quite a nice day in most respects. Not all easy, but I expect things will get easier as time goes on.

So, let's see, woke up, late, with a splitting head, but had to get up. Had breakfast, did some chores, collected the mail, had a nice skypage with Fleurette and shot the breeze over msn with the gang. Then I went out shopping and got lovely things to eat, before coming back and going on vt with my friends. On the whole we had a lovely time. Lots of chat, music from various people and laughter. Just before tea I met Lynn for a super egg hunt match, and we had three games, two of which I won. Yay!

Now I'm back on vt with Ezzie, Lynn, Neana and Mart! Woot! Later we'll hopefully be joined by Jack and Kay when they get back, and I'm hoping Mouse and possibly Dan will come back too, it's great to have all my friends around!

And that's about it. I'm just listening to everyone chatting while I do this. Later I shall have a nice cold glass of wine. the world's an ok place. Lynn told me something interesting today. Wuzzles don't hug, they snuzzle. For those who don't know, Eleroo's a wuzzle, a cartoon character, part elephant, part kangaroo. Suits me rather well! So, huge, squishy, Eleroo snuzzles to all my friends. Boyng boyng boyng! See y'all!

Hi, Peeps. Well, today's been better on all counts. Last night was another stinkerooney! I got my old paranoia thing of thinking I'd offended or annoyed someone, and it kept me awake half the night! I also was taking the last of my pills, so I still felt really really sick! Never mind, they're all gone now, thank God!

Woke up this morning, rather late. Got up, had breakfast, did a few jobs, saw to the washing and such, and fired up Janey. Lots of mail, but not the one I'd been dreading to say that my card was playing up, so Louise must have her present, though nobody's done the courtesy of letting me know. Ah well.

Had some nice dingage, and went on VT with wordwizard1000 and kwpodcast and we just spent the day there, playing games and nerdling about. Just before I had to leave we were joined by afro_thunder so I got the chance to say a quick verbal hello. Then I did a bit of reading while dinner was cooking. Now I'm just waiting to see what's going to happen next. So no, not a hugely exciting day, but I feel heaps better, Jay's been all right today, well as all right as he ever is, and everything's ok.

One thing that will happen this evening is that I will enjoy my one glass of wine, which I've had to forgo while on those damn pills! Woot! Lead me to it! Huge hugs to all my friends, as ever! Boyng boyng boyng! See y'all!

My old Nan used to say that, whenever someone poured her a healthy shot of the scotch she was partial to! I've been thinking of it today, As I've spent quite a bit of it getting liberally splattered with virtual mud! Oh no, you groan, but oh yes, I crow, the silly old cow's got a new game! What's she going to bore us with this time, you ask? Well, just hold your horses a wee while and You'll find out, won't you!

This has been a very very quiet day. I woke up late feeling decidedly groggy, dragged myself up, got breakfast and came on Janey. Hardly anyone was around. I tuned into a bit of Jack's show, but Winamp, or my internet connection or both weren't having any and I kept buffering like hell and losing the stream, so eventually had to give up.

So, what to do. Ah yes, there's always games, but I'm bored out my face with all the old ones, so I jumped on this wonderful site here, where they've got everything you could ever want if you're a blind gamehead!

It took me a while, as most of the freeware games I've either got, or don't want cos they're boring things like cards and stuff, but I did find something that made me laugh and occupied the rest of my afternoon and all my evening, apart from the time wordwizard1000 and I spent desultorily chatting on vt while we did our seprate things.

The game is called Mudsplat. It's realy a kid's game, which is just my level, but I find it funny. It's easy enough for me to be good at, and hard enough, especially towards the end that I haven't got bored yet. The premise is that mud slinging monsters are terorising the city, and have stolen the five sonixes, the town's greatest treasures. You have to go through five levels of five different environments, when you hear monsters you shoot them with your water pistol before they splat you with mud, cos otherwise you lose a life. There's bonus objects to get, and bonus levels, the monsters come in three sizes some being much harder to hit than others. Yuh, I know, it's totally daft sounding, but if you think it's easy trying to neutralise a bouncing object with missiles flying all around, then just you try it! I can think of one person I know who would like it, they even have it available in French, if she'd prefer! To download it, it's free, click right here!

And no, I don't work on commission! Giggle! Well, that's your slice of my ridiculous life for today. Ooooh, thanks to Mousey for the dingage, Yay! And I had four nice Emails today, double Yay! Big huggles to all my friends. Boyng boyng boyng! Kersplaaaaaaaat! Damn! He got me! Se y'all!

Just a quickie. was awake half the night last night, antibiotics made me feel so sick I thought I was gonna vom, but didn't. Finally got to sleep when the birds had started up. Woke up this morning with the killer Migraine from hell! So I'm just curled up in bed, reading Harry Potter and waiting for it to go away. On the bright side, my bad tooth is a lot better already. Hopefully feel back to normal tomorrow. Had some good racing on vt last night with Jack, Kris and Florida Sarah. Also some more S E H with Lynn, managed to win three games! Woot! Ok, off back to bed now. Huggles as usual to all my friends. Boyng boyng ouch! See y'all!

Hi Peeps. Not much to report so far today, except that, thank Goodness, the sun is out again. I am very relieved at this, as I hate being down in the dumps.

Last night was good. I went on VT with wordwizard1000 and we had a great laugh and a lot of games of Super Egg Hunt. She thrashed the bejeepers out of me, partly due to my slow reactions, and partly due to the two glasses of wine I drank during the evening. By the time we went to bed I felt a heap better.
I had a horible, and very vivid nightmare. I was walking up Station Road, and went to cross over the zebra. Two middle-aged and very posh women offered to help me across, but instead of helping me, one produced a huge kitchen knife, and forced me into a car. As the older one drove off, the younger and higher voiced one made me take off my jewelery and hand over my money and cash card.

They drove me some distance, talking casually about redecorating their dining-room. I was crying over losing my engagement ring, the only thing of value I had on me. The lower voiced one told me to "Shut up, duckie" she called everyone duckie! Anyway, they got to an atm and made me give them my pin by threatening me with the knife. Then they drew out all my savings. then they drove me back to station road and dumped me.

I vaguely remember telling police stuff, but I woke up soon after. It was a horible dream, really, because it was so sort of undramatic, and so real. In real life, of course, they'd have just taken my stuff and gone, and they wouldn't have been able to get all my savings in cash cos there's limits to what you can draw in a day, but I wonder whether I'd give them my pin. Suppose I would, if it was that or a slit throat, there's more important things than money, but I can remember in the dream how desolate I felt at a year's savings getting into their paws. Hope it ain't a premonition! Grin!

Got up about nine this morning. Felt the awful weight of blackness was lifting away, hooray! Had breakfast, fired up Janey. Had a little dingage with chiming_magic and kwpodcast also dannie_r came in for a minute. After that, played a lot of games, then took a very nice phone call. Now wordwizard1000 is online and waiting for me in the madhouse, so I better split. Huge huggles to my friends, and a special one for gwennybird and another for Lynn. Boyng boyng boyng! See y'all later.