September 2, 2007, 3:58 am : 18. Donate Blood

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I’ve hit a bump in the road. I received a letter inviting me to a donor session, it came with a form, one of the questions on which asked if I’d received or think I’d recieved blood since 1st January 1980. Well I was born in ‘86 and had open heart surgery when I was a kid, so i acutally can’t donate at all.

That sucks!

August 12, 2007, 5:43 pm : PostSecret

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I’ve read PostSecret every Sunday for several months now. This week the PostSecret video has been posted, and as per Frank’s request I will link to it here.

I am tempted to send a card my self, hopefully I’ll get the courage someday.

August 12, 2007, 4:23 pm : I have the worlds CUTEST pets!

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I took this video a little while ago, I’m glad they all get along so well. (Sorry about the bad lighting.)

And last night I managed to get a pic of Shammy eating her hay, I love guinea noses!!

August 2, 2007, 11:00 am : In need of cute!

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Ahhh, that feels better.

August 2, 2007, 12:16 am : Cages

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Sometimes people at the art group I go to leave things for others to take, I’ve seen pots and pans and shampoo, all sorts really. For a few weeks there had been a hamster cage that no one had really paid much attention to. I asked about it and was told someone had shown an interest before me and I could have it if they said they didn’t. Last Friday I went in as was told that the other woman had decided against and it was all mine.

I got it home, worked out what was what and started setting it up, during which I realised the bottle that came with it had rust inside so I would have to use an old one I already had. Once all the straw was in and everything in place like the food bowl and house I picked up the water bottle to see where it fit and realised it was the wrong kind, even though it was exactly the same as the one it came with. The cage had come with a bottle that you bend a bit of wire around to hook to the cage, but the cage doesn’t have bars to hook on to, it’s all plastic with a barred door on the top. For the water there is a hole in one side so to attach a bottle it would nee suckers to stick to the plastic. So until I’m able to find and buy such a bottle the cage move will have to wait.

I also feel a bit guilty because, although there is more in this new cage, like a ramp to run up and down, it is a little smaller than the one Honey currently lives in and I feel a bit bad to put her in the smaller cage, of course my only other option is to buy a second hamster to fill the smaller cage, or maybe 2 smaller hamsters, like Chinese hamsters, but they could get out of the cage bars unless I bought a square of bars to place across it so the holes were too small for them to escape through. Or the final, less appealing option would be give the cage to my sisters friend, this is of course only less appealing because I want more hammies!!!!

July 31, 2007, 9:43 pm : Missing a friend

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One of my friends went to Australia for a month 3 weeks ago, she’ll be home soon but I’m really missing her a lot. If I heard right she is spending half her time counting birds nests and clearing weeds from swamps to protect rare orchids and the rest of the time doing the tourist thing, seeing the cities and wild life. She will be very welcome home, I can’t wait to give her a nice big hug. But for now I’ll have to wait and settle for a cuddly koala or two.

July 28, 2007, 2:06 am : 18. Donate blood

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I got my official organ donation card in the post yesterday. It’s not exactly the same as blood donation but it’s close, except the list is for things to do before I die whereas to donate my organs I will have to be dead. But never mind that, it’s a step in the right direction at least.

Also, I sent a lotto ticket to one of my friends (#63) last week, it lost, and I went swimming again yesterday(#61).

July 21, 2007, 12:39 am : 61. Start swimming again

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Done.

Went swimming after I found out the art group I go to was closed for the day. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep going. They only do a women only day on Friday at the same time as the art group, but I’m going to try to balance the two.

July 19, 2007, 11:22 pm : Home and rested at last

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From last Friday, until yesterday, I was yet again in London with my best friend, Robin. Of course I’ve barely had 2 minutes to myself when I’ve been awake enough and relaxed enough to settle back in. My week away was both fun and stressful. Robin and I met up with a few other friends on the Saturday. We pick them up from various stations and eventually had a few drinks in a pub just outside St. James park. Robin and I left early to take two others to their train home from Paddington. We then slept for most of Sunday. Monday we met with a few less of the same friends, we went all the way to Essex to meet up and then back in to London to pick up two of their suitcases. We had a couple more drinks before heading our own ways. We were supposed to meet up again on Tuesday before the last people went home but were both too tired to go out so spent another day resting.
The whole week was stinking hot (and I really mean stinking). The tube is not very fun in heat, and neither was the train ride home. Of course once the train got into Devon I started to notice the big black cloud following us.
My sister picked me up from the station and we chatted about the week, what we’d each been doing, how the pets were etc. At this point I was smelly and tired and just wanted a shower and a nap, but upon getting home I was told the boiler was broken, so no shower, and the mess in my room the rabbit left was so bad I couldn’t rest until I had cleaned it. I then had to unpack and take my washing downstairs (I generally leave unpacking for a few weeks but the case was bigger than normal and couldn’t just be stored). And after all that, when I could finally lie down, which is when my second wind kicked in, I was still exhausted, but just couldn’t settle to sleep. I tried to play a game with Robin but it wouldn’t connect, so we chatted on Skype for a bit until I could finally sleep.

As for today, I was meant to have an appointment with my social worker, but I didn’t get up soon enough to drive my sister to work so I could have the car for the day. So I missed that and had to rearrange for next month. I slept most of the day and as soon as I got up I had to sort out the cages and my room. I of course, being me, forgot I needed to go out for more sawdust and had the guinea and rabbit out of the cage and bagged all the old bedding before I remembered. I had to make a quick run to Tesco for an over priced bag and rush back again to finish cleaning out. Once I was done with the cages, I had to vacuum the floor, which is something I’ve done more regularly since bringing Franc home (straw gets everywhere while she’s out of the cage).

After all that I was able to have a nice hot shower and get rid of that horrible sticky feeling from the hot days.

So finally I am done, I can rest in my own clean room where I feel comfortable. Of course, I do wish I could still be at my friends house, his company is better than any.

July 17, 2007, 5:45 pm : Starting off

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Since I now have my list of 80 to-do’s, I had better keep tract of what I’ve already done or am planning.

From the top of the list down, I am hoping to go to Iceland for my birthday in November, so will hopefully see the Aurora then. (#1)
I have started a blog to keep track of how things are going with the old pets home project. (#2)
I called the people at the blood donor place awhile ago, I registered and they said I would be sent a sort of welcome pack, but that hasn’t come so I’ll get back on to them as soon as possible. (#18)
And I have taken a photo every day for the last 4 days on a disposible camera and will continue to do so until the camrea runs out after 39 pictures. (#44)

Will update again as soon as possible.