Lacking inspiration!

Hi!  I'm not feeling very inspired to write my blog tonight.  Which is strange, as for the first time in a few days, I actually have something to talk about!  Oh dear!  I'll blame the remnants of the cold that are still stalking me.  Although as previously mentioned, this cold (thank goodness) has definintely hit me much lighter than the one I had at the start of December, and I am bouncing back much quicker.  I'm all but over it now.  Just a hint of lingering tiredness and bunged-upness. 

After all my waffling last night about what to do today, I didn't really do any of it.  I didn't get up early enough to have my bath and hair wash session, I did drop my brother off, and then I decided to get pro-active about sorting my car out.  Unfortunately, it's that time of year again, when the ol' MOT is due.  And last year, when I had Ernie serviced they mentioned his back tyres were looking rather worn, and could do with being changed, but when I got a second opinion, they said they wouldn't bother if it were their car, so being the skint student that I am, I didn't.  But I have been aware of it all year, thinking all along that once I was working and had a steady income, I would sort it.  But that plan went south along with all the others that started with "when I start working properly and have proper money, I'll..."  So since my MOT was due later this week (booked for Wednesday, and dreading it, been stung too much in the past to have any other emotion about it!) I decided I'd get a jump start on things and sort out the tyres in my own time rather than being told and kinda forced into it due to a failed MOT.  Turns out they did need doing (shocker!) and the silly garage seemed to think they could take advantage of me (even bigger shocker!) - "we don't have any budget ones (this being a nationwide chain that advertises budget tires from £20),  we've run out, the ONLY ones we have would be £56... each."  To which I pulled a huge face and got up to leave, genuinely shocked, and determined I could get them cheaper elsewhere.  Then he shuffles around papers on his desk and goes "no wait, I've just remembered (mmmm, yeah right!) that we had a delivery earlier (are you kidding me?!?  It's a Bank holiday, I doubt you'd have recieved a delivery on a Bank holiday!) and I do have some budget ones, but they're the best quality of the budget ones, and would be £81, including the fitting and alignment"  This was somewhat better, so I gave in in the end, I tried the attempt to leave again thing, but this bargaining technique had apparently being exhausted!

After all this dirty, scamming, masculating stuff, I decided I needed some retail therapy, even if it was just in the browsing form, so, went and spent sometime at the nearest shop that sells wool.  (Yes, before you try and say anything, we have already established that I have a problem!)  I was very impressed with the fact that I didn't buy anything, the combined logic of (a) tight finances (b) stupid queues (c) absolutely no actual need and (d) a relatively poor selection, outweighed my rash impulses of "oooh, but there's 10% off in the sale!".  I feel this shows strength and progress!

Then I came and had a lovely bonding afternoon of watching Merlin on telly with my dad whilst he ironed and I knitted.  Hehe!  Such quality father/daughter time!  And then I headed round to the Clarks for a lovely evening of dinner, playing with the kids' toys (oh man, I do just sometimes wish I had a kid so I would have an excuse to play with toys and do random fun crafts and activities that would otherwise just be frowned upon!), reading great books - Sarah has great taste and finds fantastic books for her girls (another reason I wish I had a kid sometimes, to have the excuse to be enchanted and charmed by such beautiful books!) and playing on the Wii once the girls had gone to bed.  Hehe, I suck at Mario Kart, but I have given Morgan (age 3) a brain weight of over 1400g on Brain Academy, which I think is my biggest ever score, damn, and now a three year old gets the credit... ooooooh well! Hehehe!

Wow, considering how I started this post, I did find inspiration somewhere along the way.  Cool!