Whilst I've been off I appear to have been particularly stupid and have forgotten to turn off my alarm that usually wakes me up at 7.15am for work. So this morning my alarm goes off, leaving me wide awake.... incredibly annoying when you haven't actually got to be anywhere for a few hours. Despite the fact that I have eaten my body weight at Saz's the night before I am absolutely starving.
Under any normal circumstances I would potter on downstairs and make some toast to take back to bed or raid the remaining Christmas chocs that we haven't already scoffed. However, this is not the case today as I am due to have my monthly blood test at the hospital and am therefore allowed to eat nothing! You can actually go down for blood to be taken from 8.15am-11am but I haven't arranged to meet Nicola for lunch until 12noon so I figure there's no point in me going into town only to come back again.... or even worse spend lots of time loitering around the shops and all my money with it. So I sit in bed watching whatever happens to be on E4.... luckily it's One Tree Hill, 90210 and Friends, all of which I love.
I soon decide that it's about time I got out of bed and get myself sorted to go down into town so to get my day started I whack a bit of Cee Lo Green on, the not so family version of Forget You is a belter to get a girl going in the morning! Once I'm ready, after a lot of faffing as I tend to forget that I'm supposed to be getting ready to go out and start watching TV again, I finally leave the house and trot on down at quite a pace to the hospital as by this time it's 10.30am and I only have half an hour before they won't take my blood anymore.
I get there with 10 minutes to spare. The weather seems to have warmed up a lot so by the time I arrive I am absolutely boiling and my once straight hair is sporting and windswept, wavy, weathered look that I can't even pass off as planned because of the good old British drizzle!
I soon get called into the nurses office for my test. Despite becoming a human pin cushion for the course of a week last year when I was ill, I don't think I will ever get used to needles. I have to look away as the nurse takes my blood, feeling just a sharp scratch and a sting as she takes the needle out.
I'm given my next prescription for my Roaccutane and I go on my way into town. The sensible girl that I am, I am carrying a huge handbag which in true Emma style is full of thing that I don't really need, I just seem to carry them around. I try to carry this in the hand of the arm which the blood has just been taken and then realise that this isn't a good idea quickly swapping to my right shoulder instead. My arm feels bruised and my left hand seems to have pins and needles so I wiggle my fingers to get the blood circulating again. I hate the after effect of blood tests.
I visit Mercury News to grab myself a chocolate bar and a bottle of water, as I still have another half an hour before I have to meet Nicola. I buy two bottles of Evian as they are two for £1 and a bar of Galaxy as by this time I am absolutely starving for 69p. Munching away on said chocolate bar I then head to Boots to get my prescription. The pharmacist there is super efficient and literally takes two seconds to put my prescription together. I pay the £7.20 and quickly leave before I start looking at makeup and lovely smellies!
Now, as I found out at Saz's yesterday, she already has the new Take That album Progress that I bought for her birthday so off to Sainsbury's I go to take it back. After waiting ages for anybody to serve me and being chatted up by a man who told me he was old enough to be my grandad at which I laugh politely and try to look in another direction, I get the £9.99 put back into my account (for the time being) and go for a quick wander around town before I go to meet Nic.
I don't buy a single thing yet again and head to Enigma to meet Nic. It's really lovely to see her and catch up over a spot of lunch. We both got for the chilli con carne on the two for £10 menu and I have an Appletiser and a glass of tap water to drink, so my bill comes to £6.30. We chat about Christmas, our plans for new year and 2011 in general which is lovely as we don't see each other often. Once we've finished our dinner we decide that it's a good idea to check out (for the second time for me) the Accessorize sale.
Again, all the beautiful accessories are sparkling away in front of me and I want to buy them all! My handbag is still in there too, but I resist the temptation as we decide that turquoise doesn't go with my coat. If I won the lottery I would own the entire shop.... but as this is still yet to happen I leave empty handed. I say goodbye to Nic and pop into Wilkinson to see my mum before I trot off home, as I am still not feeling very well.
The rest of the afternoon, which I had planned to be incredibly productive, is spent wrapped up in my IKEA blanket with a cup of tea watching The Devil Wears Prada in an attempt to feel better. What I thought yesterday was a bug on my chest has now turned into a very sore throat and a headache. By the time my folks return home I've pretty much lost my voice, something that they find hilarious!
I still manage in the evening to make it to Jo's which is only two minutes down the road with a selection of DVDs in tow where I find her, Stephen and Phil already sat watching season 1 of Miranda. It's the episode where Miranda goes on holiday to the local hotel in their town, absolutely hilarious! The episode finishes and they decide that they want to save the rest for another day so we watch The Ugly Truth, a film which I think is absolutely brilliant as I a) love Gerard Butler and b) am a child and appreciate a bit of toilet humour.
After the film has finished and we have finished perving on the rugged manliness of Gerard Butler (or Jo and I have, obviously Phil wasn't and Stephen fancied the Doctor bloke) we sit and have a wee bit of a chat while Friends plays in the background. At about 10.30pm we all realise that we're actually quite tired and decide to call it a night. So off I trot home, straight to bed to watch The Big Bang Theory in bed. I very quickly get bored of this and fall asleep listening to Jimmy Eat World's beautiful track Drugs or Me.
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