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Feb. 12th, 2018 11:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
turpsSince last I posted.
It was Corey's birthday yesterday. He's part of a Dungeons and Dragons group on Sundays so couldn't see us yesterday -- especially so as no doubt he was mega hanging after the night before, too -- but we met up on Saturday. We also met his girlfriend for the first time. It was their year anniversary of starting to date the week before, and she was very nice. They also looked very cute strolling through Newcastle holding hands.
It's nanna's birthday tomorrow. I still miss her, very much so, but it does help she was ready to go. Plus, she would have been 98, and that feels wrong as she was so adamant she wouldn't live longer than 97.
Mam was really sick for a while. I was thankful we live so close as I was up there loads, and kept nipping up in my pjs on a night because I was so worried about her. I've never been so relieved when I went up one morning and she was sitting up.
It didn't help that Kayleigh and her gf were due to have a mini break to Barcelona around that time. It was touch and go if they'd cancel for a while, but they did go, and hated it. She was counting the minutes to come home in the end, which was a shame.
On that theme. I'm waiting in for my passport to be delivered today. It's been such a rush getting it done, only a fortnight since I sent in the forms and I've had an interview in that time. I was a bit nervous about that at the time, but it was nothing in the end. There's a chance I could be in Amsterdam over my birthday, which is so weird to think about. Just a mini break with only a day in Amsterdam and two nights on the ferry, but even so, I'm going to leave the country.
James took some annual leave so he could be off over Corey's birthday, so we've been to the cinema multiple times, and been to see Shrek the musical at the theatre. I enjoyed that loads, and Laura Main who plays Shelagh in Call the Midwife was fabulous as Princess Fiona.
I've got a weird eye again. The nerve under my right eye keeps jumping, it looked like a pulse at one point so I went to check it out. First at the opticians who said my sight was fine so should get checked at the doctors, and then the doctors who looked it up and said I had this unusual thing that should settle down eventually on its own, but until then I could wear dark glasses if I wanted to hide the twitching. Personally I thought that would draw more attention, so didn't take that advice. Thankfully it seems to be slowing twitch wise, so hopefully will stop soon. And most important at all, wasn't the start of getting Bells Palsy again, which I was worried about.
It's been a really busy few weeks but I think those are the main things. Now catching up while I wait for this delivery.
And just as I went to post this it arrived!
It was Corey's birthday yesterday. He's part of a Dungeons and Dragons group on Sundays so couldn't see us yesterday -- especially so as no doubt he was mega hanging after the night before, too -- but we met up on Saturday. We also met his girlfriend for the first time. It was their year anniversary of starting to date the week before, and she was very nice. They also looked very cute strolling through Newcastle holding hands.
It's nanna's birthday tomorrow. I still miss her, very much so, but it does help she was ready to go. Plus, she would have been 98, and that feels wrong as she was so adamant she wouldn't live longer than 97.
Mam was really sick for a while. I was thankful we live so close as I was up there loads, and kept nipping up in my pjs on a night because I was so worried about her. I've never been so relieved when I went up one morning and she was sitting up.
It didn't help that Kayleigh and her gf were due to have a mini break to Barcelona around that time. It was touch and go if they'd cancel for a while, but they did go, and hated it. She was counting the minutes to come home in the end, which was a shame.
On that theme. I'm waiting in for my passport to be delivered today. It's been such a rush getting it done, only a fortnight since I sent in the forms and I've had an interview in that time. I was a bit nervous about that at the time, but it was nothing in the end. There's a chance I could be in Amsterdam over my birthday, which is so weird to think about. Just a mini break with only a day in Amsterdam and two nights on the ferry, but even so, I'm going to leave the country.
James took some annual leave so he could be off over Corey's birthday, so we've been to the cinema multiple times, and been to see Shrek the musical at the theatre. I enjoyed that loads, and Laura Main who plays Shelagh in Call the Midwife was fabulous as Princess Fiona.
I've got a weird eye again. The nerve under my right eye keeps jumping, it looked like a pulse at one point so I went to check it out. First at the opticians who said my sight was fine so should get checked at the doctors, and then the doctors who looked it up and said I had this unusual thing that should settle down eventually on its own, but until then I could wear dark glasses if I wanted to hide the twitching. Personally I thought that would draw more attention, so didn't take that advice. Thankfully it seems to be slowing twitch wise, so hopefully will stop soon. And most important at all, wasn't the start of getting Bells Palsy again, which I was worried about.
It's been a really busy few weeks but I think those are the main things. Now catching up while I wait for this delivery.
And just as I went to post this it arrived!
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Date: 2018-02-12 11:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-02-12 04:21 pm (UTC)I'm looking forward to my trip. Fingers crossed it won't be a fail, too.
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Date: 2018-02-14 08:35 am (UTC)I hope your eye does improve soon, and that your trip goes awesome! And also that your grieving walks lightly with you.
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Date: 2018-02-15 09:44 am (UTC)Thank you.
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Date: 2018-02-14 04:57 pm (UTC)*hugs you a lot*
Good to hear your mam is better again.
You need to be interviewed to get a passport?! What on earth for? Here in Sweden they just take your photo and make you prove that you're you and let you wait for a month until it's handed out. But how fun that you might go to Amsterdam on your birthday! I hope you'll have lots of fun! Amsterdam is supposed to be very pretty.
It must be such a relief that the eye twitching isn't anything serious. I'll keep everything crossed it will settled down very soon.
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Date: 2018-02-15 09:44 am (UTC)They're ridiculously cute together. When the waiting staff sang happy birthday and Corey got so embarrassed she kept stroking his face and smiling at him. It was ridiculously endearing.
She's much better. Not well, but considering how she was a week or so ago, a vast improvement.
Apparently, every first-time passport application comes along with an interview now. I think they're just trying to see if you're really who you say you are. I suspect the interviewer is trained in body language, as none of the questions were hard, and included things like describe how my house looks inside. But, I have it now and we've tickets booked to go to Amsterdam on Monday. We tried for my actual birthday but they were double the price then. So a day after it was.
My eye is still twitching away, slower but I'm ready for it to stop now.