Before I Forget

I've done so many things today and have really tired myself out. I went trampolining with my little sister again this morning, and managed to do my back in, which has been very painful since.

My Aunt, Uncle and baby cousin came down for the day. They're from the side of my family which I actually like so there were no problems with seeing them. My cousin Jack grows up more and more everytime I see him (which is about every few weeks). He was only born last year and he's so cute... I've never thought myself a sucker for tiny babies but he's just adorable.

My Uncle is one of the funniest people I know. He managed to lock himself in our bathroom.
"He locked himself in earlier," my Mum said when I came back from work.
"Yes... I was locked in... with the smell," said my Uncle, which I found pretty funny.

Work was very tiring too, but no change there. It was raining all day so despite my attempts at holding an umbrella up (it blew inside out and broke within seconds) I arrived at work with my hair and makeup all over the place. Luckily there were only about five customers though in total (the upside to the rain) so I finished my jobs early and got to go home on time. There's this boy that often comes into the shop that I think works around the corner. I remember him from school, although I don't think I ever spoke to him. He's very... nice. Very nice. He always comes in to buy stuff after work, and I always hide and overhear him tell my colleague that he works around the corner etc etc. I like to think that he's speaking loudly in the hope of me hearing. It makes me feel good to know other people find me interesting enough to go out of their way for. Makes me feel special. Anyway I saw him in his shop on the way home. He was lifting a table up. His work top is very tight...

I got verbally harrassed by two ten year olds on the way home though. Maybe it's bad karma for oogling the shop boy, who knows. I saw them shout something into a shop as I passed a then run off down one of the roads. Me being lazy, I always go down that road to avoid all of the traffic down the other end so even though they'd gone that way, I still went my usual route. I was probably asking for it really. One of them was smoking... at ten... which I thought was just wrong. I'm actually being kind saying that they're ten. They looked a lot younger. Anyway they ignored me until I passed, and I saw one boy get out his phone and I immediately thought "oh no, they better not try to happy slap me". I know everyone use to record it on their phones and stuff and since the beginning of time I've been paranoid about it happening to me (it never has but you can never be too careful). Anyway they started shouting all of this stuff at me and I put on my too-busy-lost-in-thought face to show that I didn't care. I wanted to turn around and punch them though when they started saying "I know you want it you horny bitch". How does that even come into it!??! I was just walking past! I almost laughed out of the fact that it was a pair of TEN YEAR OLDS saying it to me! At ten I didn't even know what any of those words meant.

What a messed up world. Thank God we have chocolate. My Uncle bought us all an Easter egg each, which I thought was nice of him.

I found some facts about the world on a website that I thought were worth posting. They're the sort of facts that you'll forget about until somebody asks a random stupid question like, "how many dots in a game of pacman?" and you'll be able to answer right away:

-Many sailors used to wear gold earrings so that they could afford a proper burial when they died.

-When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn't understand German.

-Born 4 January 1838, General Tom Thumb's growth slowed at the age of 6 months, at 5 years he was signed to the circus by P.T. Barnum, and at adulthood reached a height of only 1 metre.

-Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups.

-Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.

-Henry VII was the only British King to be crowned on the field of battle.

-Only 1 child in 20 are born on the day predicted by the doctor.

-It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.

-The childrens' nursery rhyme 'Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses' actually refers to the Black Death which killed about 30 million people in the fourteenth-century.

-The study of stupidity is called 'monology'.

-There are 240 white dots in a Pacman arcade game.

-Dublin is home of the Fairy Investigation Society.

-The two highest IQ's ever recorded (on a standard test) both belong to women.

For more useless facts: http://home.bitworks.co.nz/trivia/human.htm

I stumbled upon this...

What's So Special About This Number?

0 is the additive identity.
1 is the multiplicative identity.
2 is the only even prime.
3 is the number of spatial dimensions we live in.
4 is the smallest number of colors sufficient to color all planar maps.
5 is the number of Platonic solids.
6 is the smallest perfect number.
7 is the smallest number of faces of a regular polygon that is not constructible by straightedge and compass.
8 is the largest cube in the Fibonacci sequence.
9 is the maximum number of cubes that are needed to sum to any positive integer.
10 is the base of our number system.

There we have it. What can I say, I have a lot of spare time on my hands at the moment! It doesn't actually make any sense to me, but the website I found had numbers up to 10,000, with something "special" about each one. It's insane.

http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html

I'm struggling to come up with a reason as to why you would want a list like that...

Our family seems to be extremely unfortunate when it comes to animals. We're huge animal lovers, and in general animals seem to love us but the only problem is our own animals.

We had a golden retriever once, who at 8 years old unexpectedly got a skin disease and had to be put down. Our second hamster got eaten by our one-year-old cat, who later died of some lack-of-calcium disorder after giving birth to four kittens (one of which died). All of our goldfish mysteriously pass away and my rabbit died a few years before the 'average rabbit age of death'.

I'm bringing this up because I'm worried about our dog at the moment. He's a mixed breed, with two very strong healthy parents (his mum was a Collie and his dad was a Springer Spaniel). He's always very upbeat, wagging his tail whenever anyone enters the room. We take him out regularly and he gets more than enough attention! But lately he's been really depressed, and today he was chasing after his ball when he suddenly cried out, froze and then lay down. He's been quiet since lunch time because of it. It's so unlike him. I think my mum's taking him up the vets tomorrow but I can't help but worry...

Some people have many many pets and all of them are fine. It's like a curse. Bad things just seem to happen to animals in our family....

I am loving this song at the moment.

I have (I have) you breathing down my neck (breathing down my neck)
I don't (don't know) what you could possibly expect under this condition so
I'll wait (I'll wait) for the ambulance to come (ambulance to come)
Pick us up off the floor
What did you possibly expect under this condition so

If you've ever been alone in the dark blue
If you've ever been alone you'll know (you'll know)

My cousins have all gone home. I had to leave to meet Jessica before they left so it was my job to go up to them and say goodbye. It was one of the most awkward experiences that I've had since Saturday (but I'll tell you all about that one later).

I walked into the room where they were playing table football and stood there in silence waiting for them to finish their game. Five minutes later, someone scored a goal and I spoke up quickly before it could go on any longer.
"I'm off now," I said, and they all froze and turned around. Silence.
"Oh ok," said my youngest cousin (I like her more, shes the youngest, early twenties I think).
"It was good to see you all."
"You too," they all said at the same time. And then more silence. I didn't really have anything else to say to them.
"Goodbye," I said, beginning to turn away but at exactly the same time my youngest cousin began to speak too. We both froze and there was this awkward silence where we were both waiting for each other to continue. I gave up in the end and ran from the room. Well... not ran, I actually just walked pretty quickly instead but it had the same effect.

But my embarrassing moment yesterday was far worse. I was hurrying to get ready for work, and in my hurry, whilst mentally checking that all of my family members were in bed, I began to change in the doorway of my bedroom. Halfway through changing, I heard a quiet creak and turned to see my brother's girlfriend creeping into the bathroom! She looked really embarrassed and I had to dive onto the floor to hide my shame. You see every other person in my house makes a lot of noise when they go up and down the stairs, so I wasn't expecting anyone to be there! Also, I didn't even know she'd stayed over. Ahh I was cringing all day because of it.

It was work that almost killed me. According to my colleague "it just wasn't my day". First off I sold an underheated steak pasty by accident (it's cooked already, but to warm it up it takes 30 minutes in the heater and I only left it in for 25... psht, big deal it probably won't give them food poisoning!) and then I made so many other mistakes, too many to remember. I was surprised that my colleague didn't tell my boss about it all, she just seemed to laugh it all off. Well laughed it off after yelling at me first.

After my six hour day at work I had to spend two hours on a trampoline with my sister, which probably almost killed me too but no, I stayed strong, bouncing through my pain (I don't sit down at work at all so my legs usually begin to ache after an hour or two).

I think it was my relatives coming to stay that finished me off. Three of them, all coming to visit from up-country. I can hear them now... laughing... being nice and friendly. After six hours standing up with it "just not being my day" followed by two hours of trampolining where my sister refused to let me rest, I think socialising is the very very very last thing that I want to be doing.

I slept really badly last night. I woke up to find my fattest cat and my dog asleep at the end of my bed. This was strange anyway since the cats get locked into the kitchen at night so he must have hidden under my bed to avoid my Dad. I had a debate with myself yesterday as to whether male cats have nipples (several in fact) or not because I'm growing suspicious that my cat may a girl....

There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was
blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He
was always there for her. She told her boyfriend, 'If I
could only see the world, I will marry you.'

One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the
bandages came off, she was able to see everything, including
her boyfriend.

He asked her, 'Now that you can see the world, will you
marry me?' The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that
he was blind. The sight of his closed eyelids shocked her.
She hadn't expected that. The thought of looking at them
the rest of her life led her to refuse to marry him.

Her boyfriend left in tears and days later wrote a note to
her saying: 'Take good care of your eyes, my dear, for
before they were yours, they were mine.'

This is how the human brain often works when our status
changes. Only a very few remember what life was like before,
and who was always by their side in the most painful
situations.

-Navigate53

I was blog-browsing and I stumbled upon this man's blog. I think he's a philosopher or something, but all the stories on his blog are very touching. Check it out, you never know, it might change your life.