I'm in hell.  I'm trying to pack.  Trying to suss out what to wear every day until Sunday is just way too much hard work.  I've got a sensible-sized suitcase which took about half an hour to choose a few weeks ago.  Why didn't I buy the big-as-a-house suitcase?????  Dammit.  I'm doing that rolling-everything-up thing that I've been told to do by so many.  WHY?  It's not like it's greatly increasing the size of my case now is it? 

I bought some trousers on Saturday but when I tried them on again this morning I realised that I had convinced myself that they had fitted.  Where was my head on Saturday?  Er.  They were HUGE!!!  What planet was I on?  Did I look in a magic mirror which convinced me to purchase these items?  I was seduced by the "oooh you can wear your new heels with these trousers..... the length is perfect....forget the fact that you could fit several of you in the waistband....".  Clearly I was seduced by the length.  Not for the first time.   Ehem.  So, I stomped back to town this morning and got a refund.  The shop did in fact try to give me an extra £3 but I foolishly said "oh, sorry, don't you want the student discount you gave me back?".  Er.  WHY did I do that?  I could have bought, say, a nice sudoku book for that extra £3 for when I'm bored and lonely in my hotel room...!  (That was a joke.  I'd much rather a mixed puzzle book.... but that's by the by).  I then went straight into Boots and promptly spent the refund cash on make up and travel accessories.  You know those dinky little bottles you can buy?  HAD to have a couple (and a nice shower sponge that I simply couldn't have done without.  Yeah, right).  And that was the point of this little ramble.  My washbag appears to take up half of my suitcase...!  Good job I bought those little bottles or the situation would have been dire.  And, of course, I needed some nice new mascara for 'extra super luscious lashes' or something...?  Like I have a clue how to obtain these marvellous results when applying said muck.  But it'll make me feel grown up right?!  The mascara is "Brown Black" so I'll just look like I've smeared poo from a well fed animal on my lashes... in fact, that idea is certainly cheaper!!!

I predict a minor suitcase crisis.....  my nice new dressing gown which I simply HAD to purchase (well, I have to maintain modesty if the fire alarm goes off - I'm sounding more like my mother every day - plus I want to swish it around, whilst wearing it, in my room to feel superior - it's the small things that count) mightn't fit in the case.  Is it a sacrifice I'll be willing to take?  It's a tough tough world.

Ok ok.  So I'm just putting on the inevitable.  I'll get back to it now. 

After a cuppa and a slice of toast.  Don't want to be all stressed out now after all....!!! I wonder if there's an afternoon film on.....!

xxx

p.s. my horoscope today says.:

To make up one's own mind is never an easy task. For you, dear Virgo, it is particularly difficult. Today, something in the air will enable you to unify your thoughts. You will be able to make decisions fairly easily. But if you can't make up your mind on a certain subject, feel free to think a bit longer before you decide. There is no need to rush into anything.

Well in that case I think I'll DEFINATELY have a cuppa....! x

Hurrah!  It's bank holiday weekend!  Woohoo!  Sooooooooooo much to do.  Obviously I won't pack until right at the last minute on Monday because it's a tradition I have whenever I go away!  If you leave it to the last minute then you don't have time to change your mind about what you've put in your case!  That's my theory and I'm sticking to it!  I'm shockingly lazy.  I emptied my tank of living things when, Tuesday?  And I've STILL not emptied it of water!!  Was ill on Wednesday (lesson learned that's for sure!) and yesterday I just felt like snoozing as soon as I got in.  What's my excuse today?  That I've got to wait in tomorrow for a delivery so I ought to have something to do.... not that I've got to clean the flat from top to bottom, finish this Sage course, start my new OU course, visit the library (almost forgot that one...oh poo, hope the delivery arrives early)... yawn.  I'm tired just thinking about it.

I think I'll have a snooze in preparation...

Blimey, I'm going to miss this Windows Live Writer thingie.  Need to find me a laptop to take with me quick.  Severing my access to the Internet for longer than a day will be a shock to the system.....it doesn't bear thinking about. 

Oh, incidentally, would anyone like a spider plant?  I have a spider plant which, once I discovered it would grow if I watered it, has had a trillion babies.  Ok, more like 14.  But it seems to be going for it!  I can't chop them off and throw them away because that'd be murder!  (No, I'm not being dramatic.  Much.  Get this - I've even begun to chuck teeny tiny spiders out of the window instead of squishing them....  That's it!  Chuck the spider plant babies out of the window!  Sorted!  Now that's logic for you).

It was with a heavy heart that I had to say goodbye to my last remaining fish and two shrimp.  Ah, ok, so I wasn't sad really.  I've donated them to my boss - there's no point me running a fish tank if I'm hardly going to be home to actually feed the little blighters. 

I keep eyeing up my suitcase and wonder "how on earth am I going to pack everything I need in there?!"...  I swear, it's going to be an interesting challenge.

Well, I suppose I'd better get on with sorting out my flat and emptying the tank... yawn....

It's been a week of firsts!  Ok, so we had the high heels the other day and I'm still recovering (I think walking up the hill to work in them after lunch was not the thing to do).... but I will not be defeated dammit!  So anyway, today we have another premier..... For the first time in my life...as in the first time EVER in all my years of, um, being me.... I actually ordered a salad for lunch.  Yes.  You have read that correctly.  Me of the "salad is just pointless you may as well go outside and eat grass" school of thought.  But fear not - I am not on some silly diet which requires you to eat like a rabbit (or gerbil/hamster/guinea pig - delete as appropriate).  Oh no!  For some reason completely unknown to me I just 'fancied' a chicken and bacon salad (with honey and mustard dressing)....  Shocker?  I did leave the cherry tomatoes however.  They are just wrong.  Tomatoes are evil.  Fact.

Ok.  My cooking skills reached a new low this evening.  I overcooked my jacket potato in the microwave and it was, well, totally inedible.  Had to throw it away.  Oops :-s  Still, the runner beans I cooked were vaguely ok so all was not entirely lost...

Woah!  I just dealt with a spider without freaking out!  Progress!!!