26.12.98 (Boxing Day)- Avoiding excess and planning for the New Year

I didn't wake up until almost midday today. I didn't think I was particularly tired but maybe I had missed out on a lot of sleep in the week and my body just decided that it had to catch up, and now was as good a time as any. I pottered around for a long time getting ready and then went downstairs to find out that my Grandma had been ill during the night. She thinks that it was due to eating too much or just eating the wrong sorts of things. I felt really bad for her because she is very rarely ill and we had all sort of encouraged her to eat that stuff. She has been out of action almost all of today and once she finally got out of bed at around 2 or 3pm she just sat in her room watching TV for the rest of the time. The dog is still farting left, right and centre although not as bad as yesterday I think. He hasn't been given as many 'titbits' today and I think that helped a bit.

I stayed in all of today and avoided the temptation to go to any Boxing Day sales. The only places that have sales today anyway are usually furniture stored and DIY places and as I don't have my own place I don't feel the need to go to any of those sort of places ever! No doubt I will go into town tomorrow. I think my Mum and sister are planning to take a walk into the town centre and nose around the shops for a while. I got £50 in cash from my Grandma as a Christmas present (WAY too generous for someone on a pension) so I will be able to spend that but I think I may wait until I can get into London next because I might get myself something from GAP. I thought I would get an item of clothing for Christmas this year but because everyone clubbed together and got me the one present I didn't get anything else. Can you believe? About five years ago I would have been horrified at the thought of getting clothes for Christmas and now I am actually wanting them!

I just filled out the insurance form for my mobile phone. I read the original agreement too and it looks like I only signed up for a year on the contract which means I can cancel it if I want and start with a new service. I think I may just do that but it will get a little complicated if I try and do it now I think... plus people still have my existing number and may have left messages or be trying to call me!

I was chatting briefly to my friend Mark from Atlanta online, earlier today. I had phoned him yesterday and he was pleasantly surprised by my call. It's nice that he was so pleased and because I have met him twice now in real life and spent a week at his house in Atlanta I feel its easier to talk to him for real. Online chatting and real conversation are two very different things and if you've been keeping up with my journal you'll know that online communication has been a real bug bear with me lately. I should just stop using the thing altogether but then I have quite a few friends who I would not be able to communicate with as effectively if I did that. I could just stick to e-mail I suppose but its not quite the same somehow and it has its limitations (although Mark and I kept an e-mail friendship going for over a year before we met in real life and without online 'chatting').

I'm still trying to figure out what I am going to do about New Year's Eve. I so desperately want to be out in a big crowd of partying people when the clock strikes midnight but I can't seem to get together with a friend and arrange it so I can be in London with them at that time. I don't really want to go on my own because if nobody talks to me I will have miserable time and I'd rather usher the New Year in with at least one person I know as opposed to a group of strangers. My friend Sri had the lamest excuse of all and I can't believe he'd rather spend the night with a group of old farts playing bridge than partying with me in the West End! James hasn't contacted me in a while and I am wondering if he has in fact gone home for Christmas and New Year after all or whether he just doesn't feel like talking to me at the moment. Kevin is on holiday so I can't meet up with him and Peter has a friend coming from Canada who is staying at his place and I don't think he'll want me hanging around. Ugh! Where are all my friends when I need them? Damn it! They're all busy or live in another freakin' country!

There is a special episode of 'French & Saunders' on TV in a short while where they do a spoof on the making of "Titanic" and I want to go watch that so I am finishing here. Nothing like a good laugh.... and perhaps another vodka to finish the day. Hehe.

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