Yesterday was one of the funnest (that totally is a word, shut up) days that I have had in a long time.

First of all, I took George and all his Xbox stuff up to the Norris' so we could all play RockBand together. I went and picked up Beccy, and then Jo turned up a bit later as well. I started off singing, which, remarkably, I am not that bad at, and then we swapped around and I had a go at drums and guitar as well. We got really far, and it was so much fun. It is literally the most antisocial game in the world, though. Not only does it make a ton of racket so everyone within a 2 mile radius can hear "thud thud tap tap", but we're all sat there staring at a screen, not talking to each other for hours on end. Haha. But it is ridiculously fun.

So then I took Beccy home and had to go to work for 3. We left it a bit late so I rang the Co-Op and Linda answered, and was fine with me being a few minutes late. Work was boring, obviously, but Dominic decided he wanted to go on the till so at least I didn't have to talk to anyone.

I was irritated by customers yesterday, though: the News of the World had the pregnant man, Thomas Beatie, on the front cover and literally everyone who saw it said something like "eww, what a freak" or "that is sick". It just made me so angry. How is it sick!? I just cannot understand it. I think it's actually beautiful, although I'm not really a fan of how much media attention the couple are trying to get. But whatever, because he's completely entitled to have a baby if he wants. He's not a freak, he's not a sicko, and he's not "some man-woman hybrid". So I got really defensive. Linda said "it's sick, isn't it?" obviously expecting me to agree, but I said "no, I think it's beautiful. The only thing that isn't beautiful is how they are using the baby to bring attention to their cause" (which is a good cause, obviously, but it's not fair on the baby if she grows up feeling that she only exists because her parents wanted attention). Anyway, Linda looked all flustered and said "I see what you mean, do what you want in your own home but the whole world doesn't want to know about it", which isn't really what I meant, but at least she didn't start arguing and calling him a freak. Not that she would, she's the lovliest person ever. But anyway.

So then after work I came home and got ready to go bowling for Dan's leaving-do thingy. I even cleaned out my car so that it would be acceptable for people to ride in it. Turned out that not everyone came, so I didn't need to drive. Dan brought along his fiancée, Ros, and her friend Rose who used to work at the Dulverton Co-Op. Emma drove Gary and I and Dan drove Ros, Rose, Alison and Moira. Anyway, it was so much fun! At first I didn't have the sides up and I was being absolutely useless. Emma and Gary were the best even though Emma just basically drops the ball down the lane and doesn't even try, haha! Dan was also quite rubbish After a while I put the side things up because I was being pants, and then I got a little bit better. I came second to last in the first game, and then in the second I won and got the highest score of the night. Go me. OMG I totally embarrassed myself at one point by throwing the ball backwards by accident. It almost hit this really scary looking, chavvy man and his girlfriend. They just glared at me and I apologised about 30 times, but all the Co-Op lot were just laughing at me. It was funny, but I did think I was going to get beaten up, haha. I really got into the game though, and it was a lot of fun. After the second game, Ros, Rose and I played in the arcade on the dance machine and the crane things, trying to win cuddly toys. No-one did though, and we just wasted all our money. Then we went and watched Dan and Gary play snooker/pool or something, and then went home. It was a really good night and I'm going to try and make my friends go bowling next Friday, because I'm swapping with Emma this week because she has exams.

I handed in my application form to Tesco, so fingers crossed. I want to work nights, even just once or twice a week would be good, so that I have at least a little bit of money saved up for uni. I have completely run out this month, again, and had to get the credit card from Dad. I am so completely AWFUL at budgeting. I just bid 25€ for a DVD boxset of The L Word season 2, on eBay. Where I will get that kind of money from, I have no idea. There you go.

Tonight I have to babysit Daniel while Kathy goes to play tennis. I think he will still be awake when I get there which will probably be really annoying because I can't be bothered to entertain him. Haha no that's mean. It'll be fine, I just have a rental DVD of some lesbian movie that I want to watch and I'm pretty sure that Kathy won't want me to watch it with him.

I have my appointment at Silverlea tomorrow. I lost the letter so spent about an hour this morning looking for it, because I couldn't remember what time I booked. I found it down the side of my bed, and then time is 10am. I probably won't sleep but if I do I'll need to get up early. I'm nervous. I don't know where to go, for one thing, and I also don't want to talk to this "Julie Agar" person. I thought about asking Beccy to come with me for moral support but that would involve telling her things. So looks like I'm going it alone, as always.
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