rookin

Well today i went back at work, feeling 95% better and had a great weekend. I spent most of Friday in bed sick, filling myself with as much meds as i could safely take. I got a phone call from pollen saying that she will miss her connection due to the train being late and if I felt well enough could i pick her up at Cosham. I thought this would be a good idea as I had spent most of the week stuck in the house so going for a short drive and getting some fresh air wasn't going to kill me. I got in the car and turned the engine on. The car went bang and a cloud of black smoke pored out the back. hmmmm? That doesn't look good. That's the exhaust screwed, as I drove off with a roar and a pop. Driving though the Chichester streets at 30mph was not a problem; it was only when I got on the dual carriageway that I noticed that the car just wouldn't go. It had no power. Lucky for me there was a lorry going slow and I just sat behind that doing 55/60mph. I arrived at the train station late with more roaring and banging. Collected Bee and drove back to Chichester. Bee was actually quiet happy that we could only drive slow. I knew that the car had to be seen by a mechanic sooner rather than later, so I thought I would get as much out of the car as I could before sending it to a garage, so I drove to Tescos to do the weekly food shop, as it's something that I would need the car for, as it would be almost impossible to do such a large shop by foot. One of the aisles we stopped off at was for Wii games. I noticed a box for Wii Fit sat on the shelf. I picked up the box. This doesn't make sense? Wii Fit's are like gold dust at the moment, you can't get one anywhere. However here I am holding the box for one right now? This must be a mistake? They must have left it out by accident? The lady next to me told me the same story, you can't get them anywhere. She had been all over the county looking for them. Everywhere is sold out. I have not been that bothered by buying one for that reason. I'm not going to join a waiting list or spend twice the price for one, but I thought I would take it to the electronics counter anyway. If it was in stock, great! I would buy it. If it's not, I would hand the box in because leaving it out to taunt people just wasn't fair. I handed the box to the girl behind the counter and asked her if it was in stock. She said it was, and went back to get it. How great was that. If you don't try and get one, it ends up in your lap. :-)

The next day I was feeling a bit better. I phoned up a lot of garages to see how soon and how much it would cost to repair. Most of them didn't have a free slot for over a week so I took the car to 'kwik fit' which i normally avoid like the plague since the last time I went they fitted a faulty part to my car and it did even more damage and cost me even more to get it fixed somewhere else. However to me this was an emergency, as I would need my car on Monday as I have no other way of getting to work. So 'kwik fit' it was. The car was fixed in just over an hour and cost under 100. During that time Bee and I popped into town, and when we got back I had a go on the wii fit and watched some movies including Night Watch.

Sunday we went to meet some friends in town. Three members of 'Jo(e) Club' were there, Joey, Jo, and JoJo, as well as Miffy, Liam and Kayliegh. JoJo had bought me a Flight of the Conchords T-shirt from her time in America, It was funny because I have dark hair and glasses, it means I look a little bit like Jermaine, and it's a Jermaine T-shirt. We spent some time playing connect 4 and thinking of baby names for Miffy. She didn't seem impressed by Liam's suggestion of calling the baby 'Heineken' after the beer, or Zeus after the god. Kayleigh ended up locking herself out (again) and as time went by, people came and went. It was great to just sit on sofas, have a few beers and start to feel normal again after a week of feeling rough. When we finally got home we watched Day Watch, which I have to say wasn't as good at Night Watch. I love the visual style and look of the film I just didn't really understand what was going on. Well not really I didn't understand what was going on, I just didn't really understand half of the characters motives. Also if the 'chalk of fate' was so important why did no one seem that fussed about it? I guess you have to be Russian to truly understand it. After the film, I cooked dinner and got attacked by the largest Moth I have ever seen. It dive bombed me and almost landed in one of the pans I was cooking the food in. However it hit the stove and must of fried itself a bit as when it hit there was a sound of sizzling. The next think I knew it was floating in the sink. I tried to then just pour all the water out of the bowl with the moth included however its body just sat on top of the plug hole being too big to go down it. I don't know what happened to it after that. Bee said she got rid of it. I don't know what she did but both options make be feel a bit sick. In the evening JoJo stayed over we spent the night playing on the Wii. It was fun, we all got into our PJ's, and I watched JoJo and Bee play a very tense game of Super Mario Bros. 3 till the early hours of the morning. It's great that JoJo is back. I had really missed her while she was away, and now she is back it's everything else has gone back to normal again.