Journal

Slipping through my fingers…

Okay, there’s a reason I haven’t been posting much recently. My relationship with Fliss – probably the most important thing to me in the world, has been on rocky ground over the last couple of weeks. Although it’s nothing I don’t believe we cant fix if we are patient and put some effort into it, it has been extremely hard emotionally.

When the one constant in your life over the last, well, four years almost, becomes an uncertain glance at something you most fear, it can really take it out on you.

I sit here with the beginnings of a throat infection, coughing away and sucking on losenges that got sickening after the first taste. Worst of all, I sit here alone, since Fliss has gone to stay with her friend until the weekend.

A couple of months ago, living in a large house seemed like a great idea. Now it seems so empty and hollow, to go along with how I feel myself at the moment. I’m almost scared of being alone with my own thoughts. I think a lot – sometimes too much, I’ve been told, and right now there are a lot of doubts, uncertainties and fears just zooming around in my mind so quickly it’s almost deafening.

The speed of this transformation has been frightening – a month ago I could not have been happier with my life and the way things were going. In just a few short weeks I feel like I’ve been cheated of that happiness due things I cant control. That’s what’s so frustrating about the situation and what makes me feel so helpless.

Right now I’d trade anything to feel the way I did a month or so ago – blissfully unaware that my whole world was so delicately balanced.

Sure, things might turn around and I’ll be able to thank my lucky stars that we’re on the right track again.

But then there’s that nagging doubt that my luck might just have run out. Time will tell, and it will heal too. For now it’s just the present that hurts.

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Oops… I did it again.

Last night, for the second (and probably last) time, we went to Costco to buy some household stuff, like toilet roll, in bulk in order to cut down costs.

We failed miserably… same as last time.

With the state of my bank account, I couldn’t really afford to kiss goodbye to ?90 on stuff we didn’t really need, but somehow it happened anyway. Three containers of shower gel, six cartons of cotton buds, a box of Space Raiders crisps – and I mean a box here; 48 packets, along with 48 cans of coke, 12 bottles of mineral water, the list goes on.

Okay, so we’ll use the mineral water and the coke and getting them in bulk does kind of help reduce the cost in the long term. But if our cupboard didn’t have any coke in it… and if it didn’t have any mineral water…? well, we would live, I’m pretty sure of that.

So grabbing all this stuff in the heat of the moment was a silly thing to do even if it will save us a few pounds over the span of two months. Anyhow, at least the lesson is definately learned this time – just because it’s there and it’s cheaper than normal, doesn’t mean you have to buy it.

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Game On

Battlefield 1942

Looking forward to picking this title up on its due date of Friday 20th September. Over the last month the demo has proved immensely popular at work; there’s something about the level of immersion that makes every lunchtime an essential step back in time to WWII.

Surprizingly for me, it’s the first time I’ve looked forward to a PC release in… well, ever, really!

Fingers crossed the full game is even better than the demo – that and it works over my poxy dial up connection too.

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