Friday 20 November 2009
I didn’t mention my two main birthday presents so thought I would now even though my birthday seems ages ago but was in fact four days! My daughters bought me a Nintendo DS and the Brain Training pack and Gordon bought me a new LG phone. I had such trouble with my last good phone that it ended going back to the shop almost a year after I’d bought it. It had a wonderful organiser and camera, it just had lousy reception and was constantly informing callers that the phone they’d dialled was turned off. It wasn’t of course since I am the mother of girls for goodness sake! Everyone knows you have to be constantly reachable when you have offspring, especially of the female variety.
Anyway, I digress – yes, again! This new phone has a great organiser, a great camera and has so far rung three times! It’s not that it doesn’t ring, it’s just that no-one has tried to contact me. The girls have corresponded via text messages – a little disappointing since I have a wonderful ringtone. But hey-ho.
The DS is something I’ve quietly been hankering after for a little while and already I find I’m totally addicted, so much so that I think I may have given myself something resembling arc-eye. That or I’m coming down with a severe cold and my eye is a warning sign. I’m kind of hoping it’s the cold because then I can carry on using the DS without permanent damage to my eyesight. In the meantime I’m wiping my eye with a tissue to keep it gunk-free.
Nothing much else has been going on around the farm this week. I’ve had a fairly quiet one, sorting, freecycling, clearing. I’m up-to-date with the accounts, all the correspondence and even the majority of the housework since the girls were both home at the weekend and helped me get the house ready for friends to visit on Saturday evening.
The tube on our TV went last week so we’ve ordered a new, all-singing, all-dancing flatscreen which won’t arrive for another week. In the meantime I’m using the lack of one to thoroughly tidy the room we euphemistically call ‘the study’ where it lives. It’s full of books we never read, videos we never watch, an old sewing machine, various bits of audio-visual equipment that don’t work and Gordon’s enormous speakers! Something has to go. When I suggested the speakers Gordon went into some strange denial thing that men do when you suggest getting rid of old familiar things.
“No”, he said. “There’s nothing wrong with those speakers – they’re very good ones. They cost a lot of money when they were new.”
“Yes”, I pointed out “but that was almost forty years ago now.”
“They’re aren’t that old” he said, affronted. “I bought them in the 70s.”
I rest my case.
I’ve had my DS awhile now but I have to keep hideing it or lend Robert and Peter the games! It becomes very addictive! I’m hopeing Father Christmas might bring me Pandoras Box – I have been a good girl, and I have completed Professor Layton four times! I have the same problem – what is it with men and speakers – “good” speakers I hasten to add……….. Is your mobile number still the same if not could you ring me and give me the new number?
I have a Nintendo DS and I love it! Mostly I play solitaire card games in the middle of the night when insomnia strikes – Husband thinks I am mad!