On the 14th Jan I came down with a bit of a cold that lasted only 48 hours, thank god.
On Sunday 16th Jan I got an early morning phone call off James who said he was coming to visit me that day. I didn't believe him at first and thought it was all a dream or some sort of wind up. I did however start to believe it when he phoned me from the bus station in Glasgow where he had gotten his ticket to come down that day. He had to sit around for a few hours waiting on his bus down.
I was in such a panic as the house was a compete tip asI hadn't been keeping up with the house work. So I had to set about a serious clean up of the house. It was like an early spring clean as I spent about five hours cleaning the house that day. Even the dog got a bath as he badly needed one.
James' coach was due in at nearly midnight so we changed his ticket so he could get off at Bolton and get a Train into Blackburn more than two hours before he was due in on the coach.
I had to walk down to Blackburn train station with the dog to go and meet him off the train as he has NEVER been to Blackburn before and also didn't have enough money to get a taxi to my house. I hated walking down through the town as there was hardly anyone around. Then I ended up getting to the train station ten minutes before his train was due in and then his train was late so I was stood there freezing as it was a very cold night and I had a skirt on which I now know was a foolish thing to do as my legs were freezing.
Anyway he finally arrived and I was really shy around him. I don't know why I was that was but I was. I just became shy all of a sudden but the ice got broken a little when we crossed the road from the train station and he asked for a hug. It was nice to see him as I hadn't seen him since September.
Walking home with James was a surreal experience as I felt like it wasn't really happening and that any minute I was going to wake up from my dream.
It was nice to get back to my house in the warm where I made him a chicken breast sandwich and I had a nice sausage sandwich.
It was nice him being here, it really was.
The next morning my cold had seemed to have returned and I felt like crap and didn't want to do anything except lie in bed. James wanted to go out and I couldn't even get up as I felt so ill. So he went out a couple of times himself. He went to the papershop to get a newspaper and then came back and then at 1pm he went up to a take away to get some lunch. When he got back with the lunch I had made an effort and managed to get up out of bed and eat it. I did really feel dreadful and I wanted to sleep but because he had come all that way and traveled all those hours to see me the least I could do was get up.
We sat and chatted and watched TV till about 5pm when I finally got washed and dressed. He then finally convinced me to go out for a walk with him so we walked up to the shop up on the main road and got a few snacks. It was so cold outside and I really felt it with being ill. I was so glad to get back home in the warmth.
I then cooked dinner for me, my dad and James. We all had different things. And then me and James sat and watched TV and chatted till about 9:30 when me and my dad took him down to the train station to get his train. This time I wrapped up even more than before as I was going to have to stand with him and wait for his train. It was freezing on that train track waiting for the train. We both wanted to stand and hug but couldn't as everytime we both took our hands out of our pockets we got too cold. Maybe we need to buy some gloves? His train came after a few minutes so we had a quick hug and off I went to have James shout after me and for me to turn round to see him waving like a mad loney at the side of the train. I then hurried down to my dad to get in the car and warm up. It was sad to see James go but the whole visit did feel like a dream to me.
I was so ill the night and an hour after returning home and a dose of nightnurse I was in bed and fast to sleep.
The next day I woke up feeling great without a cold which made me happy.
Thursday 20th Jan. Today is my mums birthday. She is 5
I got her a really nice picture (silver) frame from H Samuels. I had the hardest time picking her a birthday present as she has lots of things and there isn't much that she doen't need or want. I was like that at Christmas, I was thinking for months of what to get her and I still wasn't 100% happy with all that I got her in the end but I just couldn't think of what else to get her. She said that she loved her xmas presents so it seems as though I got something right.
Anyway she said she really liked her picture frame and I also liked it and I would also like something like that as a gift. I only have one picture frame and that's small and I haven't got a picture the right size for it.
By 10pm I was starting to feel ill. I was really thirsty and I was getting a blocked noce. I thought it was because I was sat in a stuffy room so I didn't think anything of it and went to bed.
The next morning I woke up with a col. I felt terrible and was so unhappy as I had only just had a cold the previous week. As the day went on I started to feel worse and knew that it was going to be a heavier cold than the week before.
When I woke up on Saturday afternoon I felt town times worse than the day before. I didn't even come on here as I will too ill and was in bed by 10pm. The next day I felt just as bad but not worse witch was good.
Monday I was getting better and even managed an hour on here just before I went to bed.
Yesterday I woke up feeling the best I have felt since last Friday. But I have a horrible cough that has been keeping me awake. Yesterday I only took one pain killer as I want my body to start to heal itself and me not to dose myself up on painkillers and night nurse, if I did feel any worse than I do I would take pain killers as I do feel shitty.
Today I feel a little better than yesterday but with less sleep as I couldn't get comfy and have a headache and my cough is really getting to me but I'm hoping by the beginning of next week that I am back to full health. I did take pain killers today but I am in pain from the coughing. I think an early night isin order for me tonight.
So that was the past 13 days. I spent most of it sick and in pain but the 24 hours I spent with James have to be my highlight.
Next week I will be starting my new course and as I have been ill I haven't even looked at it yet. As I haven't done any proper study since 2003 I am dreading it a little and I know it will take me a while to get into it. I just hope my concentration levels can cope with it now as I haven't been able to go into it a bit at a time before it starts and the first week I am hoping to do two hours a day six days a week. I only do six days a week as I like to have one really lazy day a week where I do nothing at all.
I do know that this course is going to be really hard for me but I am going to give it my all and work really hard on it. I just wish that I had done this course last Feb instead of doing T171 as I hated that course and it wasn't really a study academic course like A207. I just hope I can do it.
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