Barmy Blue's Bland Blog

So. I have a small update.
And no. It's not an update on that sister thing. My nails are to long again so it's a little uncomfortable to type.

I've finally got a letter about my ultrasound appointment.

It's next Wednesday at a different hospital. I've Google mapped it so I feel a little more comfortable about going to a strange place. I think I should be okay with it. I think. I was a little worried it might possibly coincide with "that time" but I've looked that up too. It should me fine at any point of the menstrual cycle so there's no need to worry about having to suddenly cancel because of it or something silly like that.
I'll need to drink two pints of water an hour before. I'm not sure how necessary that is for me really since I always seem to need to pee. Then again there's probably a big difference between having a full bladder and thinking that you have a full bladder. I do drink quite a bit if water but I also ingest an awful lot of sugar.

Some of you might have noticed that I posted two games a couple of days ago. I'm not quite sure why. I just kind of felt like it. I don't like it when I suddenly decided to do something out of the blue. It's usually another sign that "that" is due, with the hormonal changes messing with my brain and such. Being impulsive doesn't usually work for me. I usually end up buying something I shouldn't and then never using it. So I try to reign in my impulsive tendencies, with limited success. Talking too much is another impulsive problem, then I divulge more than anyone really wanted to know.

In recent news. I went to the pharmacy. Going outside to do anything other than the weekly shop or walk the dog is pretty much unheard of for me. I had a little list of things I wanted to get, mainly a kind of knee supporting bandage for mum. (Tesco only sell sizes small and medium. I'm not even a medium. I've measured mum's knee. It's just below 23". I measured it so that I could explain to the staff at the pharmacy what kind of size the knee bandage would have to be capable of, of being both a bit above and a bit below 23". You know. Because the thigh is wider than the knee and the knee is wider than the calf.) Unfortunately, despite having them online, they didn't have them in store. I'd say the website lied to me but I know and fully understand that the store I went to, although part of a big chain, is just a very small local pharmacy. So, other than dealing out prescriptions, they can only really stock what most people commonly need or want. Cold medicine, first aid, painkillers and all that general stuff. It wasn't a total loss though. Even though they didn't have anything on my list they did have a brand of feminine talc-like powder that mum likes but can never find these days. They re-branded. So I got that for her. I was running the risk of feeling the need to buy something just because. Since I'd taken the effort to get out of the house and go somewhere I would need something to show for it. I was fighting this reasonably well but still checking every shelf just in case they did have what I was after in another part of the store. It was while I was aimlessly browsing the shelves, while waiting for a member of staff to become available, that I noticed the powder. So I felt relieved that, even if they didn't have anything on the list, it wouldn't have been a wasted journey and that I would be getting something useful that would be well received.

I think I'm going through some very minor personality changes at the moment. Only very minor. But still. I think I'm ever so slightly starting to become a slightly better and more normal person. I don't know how far I will go with these tiny changes but, at the moment, I kind of hope I keep them and don't lose interest once my hormones balance out again.

Today I plan to bake a pie. I got some meat last week to make burgers but changed my mind. But I had the meat by then. I've also been obsessing about making a pie for a while. So I got some pastry and pie dishes (annoyingly they come in a set of five) with the idea of using leftover meat to make a pie. Granted, there wouldn't be much leftover meat but never mind. Oddly enough I want to make a meat an pickle pie. Is that weird? Well. I guess it's not weird for me.
Anyway. Decided against the burgers so now I have a lot of meat to put in the pie. The burger recipe calls for a mixture of beef and pork mince, which is why there's quite a bit to eat. It only had a day or two before it went out of date so I cooked it all up last night. I did about a quarter to a third unseasoned for Yuki and then seasoned the rest for us. I'm hoping to put it all together tonight (the meat, pickles and pie that it, not mix the two lots of meat together).
So. I think that's about it for now. Started working on my blanket again. And mum's back at work this week so I exercise routine is back on. We'll see how we go.

Oh. And also. I got out my air dry clay again. It's something like a year old now isn't it? It's still good. A little dry but still usable. Probably because of how tightly I wrapped it up in Clingfilm. I made a tiny gargoyle....Actually it's not a gargoyle. I had to look this up for my Mad Scientist Project. It's a chimera or a grotesque. Purely decorative. A gargoyle is kind of like a decorative water spout really. Well. That's how I put it anyway.
So. I made a little, Thing. His name is Percy. And because I had a little extra I also made a little star. I forgot to put ears on Percy. He looks a bit funny without ears. And his winds are very flimsy.

Well. That's all.
Just found out that mum might not be free to drive me to the hospital. Typical. Were I blessed with the gift of foresight I would've leapt at the appointment they offered me on the phone as mum had the day off then, it turned out. Why do I always make the wrong decision in a pinch? Then again, there's no guarantee that taking it would've been the right decision either.
Ever wish you had a crystal ball? That showed you the future, not just as a decorative item. Why do I suddenly want a decorative crystal ball now? I'm very strange.

Bluebiird out.