Must admit i was down last night - probably cos i was exhausterd, emotional and worried about my tummy pinching feeling... i didnt sleep for long before i was wide awake, at what i thought was dawn but was 2.30am... by the end (5.30) of lying on the couch doing sudoku and listening to the closed down SBS CD of harp music, Rolf Harris's animal hospital show and American live footage of the space shuttle mending of the eggshell-like tiles, i got to sleep again til 7.45, but realised that 2 days left of holiday was still 2 days plus the weekend of anarchic do-as-you-will, and that i was going to enjoy it. In other words i wasn't down anymore.
Had an amazing stroke of luck today, well... I'd taken in a box of books to the first bookstore that would take them, and they rang up and said i had a credit of $20. Well I'd seen the latest Harry Potter for $27.99-ish at KMart, so had $10-15 ready to hand over for the balance, and was going to spend a rainy afternoon (yes the weather finally broke, all holiday it's been almost summery, yesterday a touch of balminess even) reading it; but he asked for $25. I nearly had a fit - $45 when i could buy it for $15 less down the road! Oh but that's the recommended retail price he said. He asked me if i wanted cash and i said yes, but the other guy on the counter said that i couldn't, even though i protested that i'd told the guy on the phone i wanted HP which is why i'd gotten credit. Bloody hell... they said it was valid for 6 months, but i was a bit miffed, and went looking for another book - me, whose trying to downsize possessions to the ultimate. I thought of a new street directory, and then started to realise i might be overstepping the free 15-minute car parking deal i'd pressed into the metre - and then found food combining for health - and it wasn't til i got home til i realised that it was the book i was after once i'd found that amazing doris grant bread recipe!!!! Wow, so it worked out after all, and i can still spend the afternoon reading except that i've gone off tv-watching so might leave it til then! I've just had a thai garlic prawns meal, with a juice and dark orange chocolate (haven't read the book yet), and honestly can't complain :-D
Had an amazing stroke of luck today, well... I'd taken in a box of books to the first bookstore that would take them, and they rang up and said i had a credit of $20. Well I'd seen the latest Harry Potter for $27.99-ish at KMart, so had $10-15 ready to hand over for the balance, and was going to spend a rainy afternoon (yes the weather finally broke, all holiday it's been almost summery, yesterday a touch of balminess even) reading it; but he asked for $25. I nearly had a fit - $45 when i could buy it for $15 less down the road! Oh but that's the recommended retail price he said. He asked me if i wanted cash and i said yes, but the other guy on the counter said that i couldn't, even though i protested that i'd told the guy on the phone i wanted HP which is why i'd gotten credit. Bloody hell... they said it was valid for 6 months, but i was a bit miffed, and went looking for another book - me, whose trying to downsize possessions to the ultimate. I thought of a new street directory, and then started to realise i might be overstepping the free 15-minute car parking deal i'd pressed into the metre - and then found food combining for health - and it wasn't til i got home til i realised that it was the book i was after once i'd found that amazing doris grant bread recipe!!!! Wow, so it worked out after all, and i can still spend the afternoon reading except that i've gone off tv-watching so might leave it til then! I've just had a thai garlic prawns meal, with a juice and dark orange chocolate (haven't read the book yet), and honestly can't complain :-D
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