London Baby!

We went up to Londinium yesterday. We have this project at uni at the moment which entails some science research and looking at how people engage with science and various things. I didn't think I'd be well enough to go to London, but really wanted to because there's so much one could get out of this project. I was also still miserable about not being able to hit the galleries in our two weeks off.

As it was we didn't make it to the galleries, just the Science and Natural History Museum - both of which were awesome but exhausting. Worth a visit, I really want to go back to the Natural History Museum for a proper nose about.

I might have some photos, I don't know. Maybe I'll check the camera in a minute.

Anyway, huge step for me, and I survived. I'm not too tired today despite having to get up at 7am to go do a table top sale. I have to sell a lot of my unnecessary stuff simply because it's unused clutter - I didn't make too much today, but will be doing another sale in a few weeks. Hopefully do a bit better. :)

Money Money Money Money Mushroom Mushroom Money Money Money

I tend to read a lot of things on how to not procrastinate, life stuff, but usually fail at actually implementing anything etc.

I love Zen Habits - I tend to use it to procrastinate with - haha, completely the opposite of it's purpose, but you know, it's interesting.

Anyway, the author of Zen Habits did this thing where he tracked his expenses for a month and worked out what percentage of them were necessary.

My boyfriend and I thought we'd try it, for funsies. I'm going to document mine here, just because it's somewhere I always have access to. Although unlike Leo we're doing two weeks of normal spending and then two weeks of trying to cut down on the unnecessary expenses and then comparing. I do think though that documenting it alone will affect the first two weeks simply because we're more aware of what we're spending and more likely to think it through.

Also I won't be generalising food as groceries, otherwise I could buy eight packets of M&Ms and consider them necessary. I'm thinking healthy eating here - if I'm aware of how much money I spend on crap food I'm more likely to not spend it, and therefore it's more healthy. Woo.

1st March
None

2nd March
Ribena £1.10 - U

3rd March
Train Ticket £10.65 - N
Cake and Crisps £2 - U
Groceries...
Carrots £0.23 - N
Flour £0.31 - N
Loo Roll £1.69 - N
Lettuce £0.49 - N
Quorn Burgers £1.79 - N
Goats Cheese £1.35 - U
Sweetcorn £1.99 - N
Broccoli £0.54 - N
Cucumber £0.47 - N
White Rolls £0.20 - N
M&Ms £2 - U
Red Pepper £0.78 - N

4th March
Petrol £10.02 - N

Totals so far...
£35.61
Necessary - £29.16 81.89%
Unnecessary - £6.45 18.11%

Sing me a love song. Drop me a line. Suppose it's just a point of view, but they tell me I'm doing fine.

They diagnosed it as glandular fever on Monday. The second blood test is expected to be confirmation. At least it's out of the way right? I can't get this again. Not like this. Thank god. I don't think anything's ever messed up my life quite so much as this.

Ohnoes.

Glandular fever (mono, 'tever). Well. Whodathunkit. Worst timing ever to get this. Well, I suppose there's never really a good time to get something like this.

It's still not 100% confirmed. I have to have another blood test, but from the results of the last one, it looks like I have it. And also the fact that the antibiotics aren't touching the tonsillitis - because that's actually gotten worse over the last few days.

I've been ill two weeks now. Two weeks. I've missed two deadlines, I managed to make one other one but I'm not too happy about what I handed in. This was supposed to be our two weeks off to do things like visit Johnathan Creek's windmill, but nooo. I can't drive. Bah. There was so much else I wanted to do too, and I've already lost a week and still have that work to do when I feel well enough. I'm also bored of being stuck indoors - since last Tuesday the only places I've been are the doctors and the Co-Op (for Mars eggs, yeah, chocolate, so kill me) - and I'm used to galavanting many many miles cross country for uni, boyfriendness and various things, but, stuck here. Bah. :(

On the plus, I've been spoilt by my mother and my boyfriend and even J came to see me :) I have *flowers*. They so pretty :) :) :) Props go to those people for putting up with me being all ill and stuff. I can't imagine it's much fun for them either.

I've been listening to old Placebo music while I've been dozing, some of which I'd not listened to before - and I'm endlessly fascinated by how all their songs rhyme. What's up with that?

Also, happy Imbolc.

SLOW DOWN

Adbusters have announced 'Slow Down Week' (see the animation here). The premise being:

For one week, instead of running to catch the bus or zipping in and out of traffic, try walking to work. Instead of grabbing take-out on the way home, cook a meal with your family. Leave the TV and computer off, and play an old-fashioned board game, or just sit and catch up with family and friends. If possible, take a day off work — and then while it away with a long walk and an afternoon nap.

It sounds interesting, but then one has to have been going fast in the first place for that to work :P

I checked out the latest Adbusters in the liiiibary t'other day, it was a roundup of 2006 edition, which, as per usual, scared me senseless. It's very interesting though. Always worth reading.

Also, it being new year and all, I thought I'd share this link with you - yes everyone claims to have the secret to willpower, but this kind of thing I think would actually work if anyone actually tried it.

And now, I must go blitz my Play to Create project...........

ETA: I've been chocolateless since Sunday.... similar to last year I've given it up.

Some thoughts...

Time and memory fades all too quickly. All those amazing moments and experiences, gone, lost.

Is the fact that we're allowed to have those moments at all the reason we're not allowed to keep them all? Is that the price? Is that why we're told to live in the now? Is there only room in one's head to keep some of them? All of the above? I do hope not. I want them all.

If there's nothing to look back on, what do we have to look forward to? How would we know?

Sometimes people walk into your life, knock you off your feet for whatever reason, and you wonder what you did to deserve them. People are the most amazing things. They can also be the most annoying things, but that's ok. It makes the good ones that much more special.

If you can't be bothered to get out of bed in the morning, do it anyway. You never know what might happen.

Thanks for sharing my random moment.

Just a blog for bloggy things...

I just felt there should be a post here, before I trundle off to bed.

Right now, I want white chocolate spread on crumpets.