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May 23, 2008

Wow (Shock Horror)

I was so surprised that Quizilla has fixed the edit button (I've taken to just pressing it every day and am perfectly used to it being broken) that I honestly fell over the coffee table. It hurt crazy lots.

But it doesn't even matter because the chapters that needed fixing have to be done again because the vast majority of the story had actually disappeared, it wasn't just hiding somewhere. So I will repost them in a few mins.

It's been a slightly odd couple of days for me. My Grandpa's not been well over the past couple of weeks and had to go to hospital and ended up having an operation and the doctors weren't hopeful about him recovering. But then earlier this week he seemed to be improving slightly. However on Wednesday morning I had been sleeping round a friend's house and my dad rang me to say Grandpa had gotten worse during the previous day and he was going up to my grandparents' because he wasn't likely to make it. He died later that day.

So I've been home alone for a few days but it's not been too bad. I'm less paranoid than most about all the strange noises in the house. And I'm sad about my grandpa but not really upset, I guess because it hasn't really affected me yet. We were never particularly close but when I think about my grandma and my aunt (who still lives in their house) at home together without him it just feels so strange to know that he's gone.

But yesterday I was able to cheer myself up doing a bit of gardening of all things. I've been growing some sunflowers but one was in a tiny pot and the other three were sharing one pot (I was a bit sceptical about them all growing, so I put three seeds in lol). So I re-potted them all into equal sized flower pots. Plus the shoots were getting too tall to support themselves so I found some bamboo cane and stuck it in the pots and tied the shoots to them. And I planted another one just for the fun of it though that one's going to be a couple of weeks behind the rest. Sometimes it's nice to be responsible for things :)

My mood says I'm sick but I actually just have some eff off headache (I can't believe Quizilla automatically censors our journals) so I think I'll sort out chapter three then go and lie in the garden and write the rest of chapter five by hand. Fresh air should do me some good.

xxx

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