woah-k tired

It feels so weird to be sitting down to write this now. For the past two days I have been out on the go with my mother, taking full advantage of Andy being gone on a 4 day school trip. Yesterday we got up early, and grabbed the bus to Oxford, because I've stayed there three times and my mom had never seen it, so we decided that could be fun. On the bus the lady behind I us had one of the five pound notes where the serial numbers rub off, and we had to tell her that it was okay, that the bank would still tke it, and that it's worth up to £40 if she sells it. She didn't really believe us, but I think that was mostly because the driver got her into a really foul mood.

In Oxford we hit the museum first because it decided to start pouring rain. It was a surprising big museum, and the exhibitions of Roman marbles and the one on ancient Egypt were really good, the musical instruments and European paintings were okay, and the coinage exhibition was dreadfully boring. After that we walked around and saw two of the colleges where I had stayed (St Annes and Keble colleges) and had lunch. At some point we ended up at a special 'History of Oxford' presentation which was nothing more than a sicking promotional package. Then we walked down to the High Street, saw Merton College where I applied, and ended up having a coffee, served by a Canadian waitress. It doesn't sound too busy but we saw a lot and walked even more. I was so tired that I fell asleep on the bus home (which was very difficult considering the man opposite us kept yelling into the mobile about directions from Victoria Station to Heathrow).

Today it was up again early to drive out to Costco, because usually it's much quiter during the early morning, although today with the long jubilee weekend, there were loads of extra people stocking up for trips out. I didn't get much. I got a 4-port USB hub for my computer because I have 5 regularly used cables and two ports. However, I old have two power sockets and the hub needs one too so I'll have to go buy a plug extention tomorrow. I also picked up three books (Planet of the Apes (Boulle), K - Pax (Brewer) and the Salmon of Doubt (Adams)) which should be fun and 16 pots of flowers that resemble daisies but are either white with blue centres or purple with black centers. Althought I haven't seen the old Planet of the Apes withe Charlton Heston, and despite being disappointed with the newest one, the book is sufficiently different from the movie as to be more believable so far.

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Argh. I can be such a idiot. I saved half, came back to edit, wrote a whole big section more and then refreshed. I'm starting not to trust myself to write entries late at night.

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After we got back I went out grocery shopping with my mother. Andy has a hockey tournament in Bracknell this weekend so he and my parents will be out until late each day so I'll be in charge of food. Yeah! That and we got to use my 'bug money'. Last Friday we returned the cookie bug (mysteriously named Georgie) to Tescos who seemed quite shocked. Well the deputy manager did. The bakery manager, after hearing over the phone what it was about refused to come over to see us. They said they were sending the bug off to be tested, and that they'd contact me. Today I got a letter of apology saying they didn't know how it ended up inbetween my cookies and that they would like to give me a £10 gift voucher for their groceries.

Then it was planting all those flowers, but I realised I should have gotten some other ones too because the flowers in the hanging baskets and in the pots out the front of my house were all dead. So it was out again to the nursery to buy some more. Must have been my luck that today was a one day sale of 10% off everythink. I ended up also buying two plants for my room; a spikey one, and a venus fly trap. Not that I have flies, but I thought it was neat to have sitting in my window ledge. I'll take pictures tomorrow when the light is better.

Now I'm off to bed because I am dead tired. I'll be glad when the long weekend is over because things will have settled down, my friends will be back from the graduation trip, and I'll be able to have some down times (Yeah lazy summer!).

Laura | 22:51