Day 167

Today's gonna be a good day. That's what I've told myself as I'm folding laundry, listening to country music, and cleaning my room. I'm still in a bit of pain, but I've also taken some pain killers, so I'll be ok.

I was right. My day is now over, and I really enjoyed myself. Finally. I had a lot of laughs, and have begun (a little late, but oh well) to make my room a little more...homey. I've put some pictures up, and will get some standing frames for them sometime this week.

Once I got ready today, I headed downstairs for some fruit. I grabbed it and came back upstairs to eat it. (I hadn't put any makeup on yet so I didn't want to be hanging out downstairs). Josh had about 6 friends over, John was on the couch, and I still had some stuff I wanted to get done. Tim came up and asked if I'd mind dropping him and John at the train station. At that point I still hadn't done my makeup so I asked him how long I had. His answer...10-15 minutes. I said ok, ran to do my teeth and then just managed to get some eyeshadow on when I decided it was time to go downstairs. Well...I could have finished my makeup by the time they were ready to head out the door. Oh well. I drove them up to Witham, and I found my way home just fine. Ok...there was one turn I missed, but that's cuz I wasn't paying attention, and as soon as I drove past the street, I knew I had gone too far so I found a place to turn around, and was back on track soon enough.

When I got back, I returned to my room for a little bit, until Heloise was getting ready to take all of the boys home. I went downstairs and helped Josh and Nathaniel with their homework while Zach watched TV. When Heloise got back, she took Nathaniel and Zach to a birthday party, Josh came up to my room to read, and I did some more cleaning. When he was finished, we headed out.

We parked close to the theatre, I bought us tickets to "Sherlock Holmes", and then we walked over to Starbucks. We had left later than I wanted to because Josh was told he had to read until just after 3, so we didn't have as much time at Starbucks as I wanted. This lead to me burning my tongue, and not enjoying my drink. The first one since Monday, and I didn't enjoy it. Sigh. Hopefully I'll get one tomorrow. It was nice speaking to Josh as usual though. We sat at a table and talked until he finished the drink I bought him. Then we walked back to the theatre. I got our popcorn, chocolate and drinks, and then we went to the guy taking tickets. The previous showing wasn't done yet, so we were asked to wait. We did...and as we did, the line began to build. It took them ages to clean the theatre. Josh was halfway through his popcorn by the time we got in. We got good seats which was nice. This time I'd be able to enjoy it without tilting my head through the whole thing. Unfortunately the people beside me didn't realize their talking in a movie theatre got on people's nerves...I enjoyed myself anyway though, and Josh says he did as well.

When we got home, I emptied the dishwasher, Josh had some dinner and we spoke with Heloise. I also got to speak to my parents on the phone. We put John's CD on and listened to a few tracks (I had put it on my computer earlier, and will have to listen to it more closely later). Tim and John got home and had Indian food with them. Heloise had asked if I wanted to get Chinese or something, and as much as my mind wanted to, I was soooo full. In fact, I still am. And I even got the smaller size popcorn at the theatre! Crazy! That reminds me...I'd really like some Canadian popcorn. Hot and with butter! This cold popcorn during a movie just isn't right...but it's the way they do it here.

I had one thing that I can't remember the name of...Popadom I think...and I shouldn't have even had that. Josh had gone up to bed by then, so the 4 of us sat around talking about John's life and having a laugh. I was more interested than anyone else I think. I could probably sit and listen to his stories for a very long time. For those of you who don't know, he's Tim's dad. He is famous in Russia and performs Frank Sinatra songs in sold out arenas. He's done a lot in his 70 years, and is a very interesting person. Despite what others might say. He's also the man who allowed me to go to South Africa and stay in his villa, plus gave me Man U tickets, and tickets to the England game this Wednesday. He's very generous, and fun to be around.

We talked for a while, and then I helped him set Yahoo Messenger up on his laptop so that he could speak to his girlfriend while he's away. He was so grateful and couldn't seem to believe how much I knew about computers. Some more talking, and I made some tea and coffee for everyone, then we watched a bit of the Office Christmas special. We were all really tired, and no one was admitting it. Tim was falling asleep on the couch, Heloise and I were yawning, and John was asking if anyone was going up to bed. Eventually Heloise gave in, and then the rest of us instantly caved. I'm sure the 3 of them are actually asleep right now though...where as I choose to, for some reason, fight it. I'm so sleepy, but I don't want to go to sleep. I wish I wasn't like that, but there's no changing it now. I will try to sleep soon though, so Good Night xx