So.
Some people are doing this thing where they update thier blog every day in November.
I totally missed day one, so have failed already - but that's never stopped me doing things in the past.

So....my day....

Wel'p, it started earlier than I'd have liked when my alarm woke me up. The cold creep of an early morning reminded me why central heating is awesome and I should get some.
I went to a meeting and then took the long way home in the car and god fuck, was the day beautiful at that point. The sun was shining, it was warm and I was speeding along; fag in one hand, steering wheel in the other, enjoying the radio. It's these little snatches of joy - the half hour of sun, the warm feeling of waking up under blankets - that keep me going through winter. I fucking hate winter, there is nothing good about it being dark and cold all the time. Winter makes me ill.

On a more positive-positive note (rather than a positive-negative as above) I had a wonderful Halloween this year. Went down to StHelen's to see the lovely Laura and Coops, to partake in some table top and "whatever I can find in my bag" costuming for Halloween. Got to meet the lovely Dave and Emily, and their adorable daughter (She's cute and blonde, so I can forgive her the waking me up crying!) Also got to see Alex, who was up from the wilds for some much-needed human contact (huur). Was good to chat on ^.^ Have had smile on face ever since ^.^

Startling revelation for today (and yesterday, since I failed)
1)I get Seasonal Affective Disorder.
2)I'm actually human under the armour.

(God, by day 28 I'm gonna be running low on startling revelations....)

Day three

This morning was less cold - mostly because I didn't get out of bed till I wanted to. I wonder if adults can get away with the trick of pulling your clothes under your duvet for ten minutes so they're warm when you put the on? I shall experiment.

Stole Freya's laptop and uploaded photos from the Pirate bar crawl (Feel free to tag them - I did not have the time) and the photos from Halloween, which were significantly less, so I had time to tag and caption them :D

Had lazy Tesco sushi for lunch and have chinese buns for supper (both savoury and sweet!) which I got in Newcastle yesterday.

Am now drinking hot chocolate, which sadly is making my throat and chest twinge a little. I'm going to have to seriously think about doing something like going to the doctors. It's been two weeks now of near-constant chest and throat pain when I eat anyhting that isn't either really bland or sushi, or drink anything that isn't water or sugar-free stuff, although generous applications of alcohol seem to help! I think TBH it's probably stress at being unemployed rather than anyhting real, it was nearly completely absent while I was in the stress-free environment of StHelen's.

Zoe made a fine point yesterday - startling revelations can be about almost anyhting really, so I shoud be able to manage a month of them.

Right, shower time then off to B&Q with Wol and Ias and later the Science Site with Freya :D

Startling revelation:
People often smell better than they think they do, or else don't smell as bad as they think they do.
(This fact totally unconnected to anything)