mmm, delicious Easter egg... *gobble, gobble*

[baratron]

I'm in a very strange mood. Can't work out if I'm happy or sad, motivated or unmotivated, excited or apathetic. I'm excited about lots of potential things I want to do, but not sure if I have the energy to actually do any of them, if that makes sense.

It's so rare that I actually get a whole day off that I'm not sure what to do with it. The other problem is that everything I want to do involves me having a functioning back, and I'm not sure whether that'll be the case come tomorrow. I want to go to Thorpe Park, but that involves a) a train to the arse-end of nowhere (a.k.a. Staines) plus the Thorpe Park Happy Fun Bus from the town centre to the theme park (which comes once an hour on bank holidays, we discovered last year). Also, it is absolutely obligatory for my back to be feeling good for me to be able to stand around in queues for hours on end. (And yeah, I do realise that every rollercoaster in the whole world ever says you shouldn't go on it if you have a bad back. But I'm a coaster-riding expert & know exactly how to brace myself to avoid shocks. So :p ). The other thing I thought of was Coral Reef, but it's in another arse end of nowhere (aka Bracknell) and not really possible to get to without a car, and involves exposing me to high levels of chlorinated water, and the world to Richard's knees. Things to do at home include painting, wrecking the decking in the back garden, and removing large chunks of rubble from our garden. But we can't actually be arsed to do any of those.

Ah well. I'll spend tonight playing Pokemon Colosseum and swearing at it (it cheats, y'know), and see how I feel in the morning. Which'll come too early because of the clock change - whose stupid idea is that, anyway?!

Comments

[elfgeek.livejournal.com]

I once briefly contemplated seeing the ice hockey in Bracknell on a Sunday afternoon and even from Hampshire it's an arse-end to get to without a car, i.e. two train changes. :-/

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I can relate to the sentiment (although possibly not the degree). I have this issue with my left foot that flares up now and then (more often when I need to get new shoes, but my shoes are so expensive and are custom mail-ordered and I can't bring myself to it just yet). It makes it more or less impossible to walk (I actually crawled up all the stairs in our place to get to bed after a guest left and I stopped pretending to be functional yesterday) and is incredibly painful. I've also been so insanely busy for so long that I can't remember what to do with myself on a day off. However, I had a big chunk of today off and will have tomorrow off (I've been exempted from Easter activities because I shouldn't be walking). The weather is *gorgeous* out for the first time in millenia, to boot. However, I can't really do much of anything. I should be elevating my foot, which means I can spend only short lengths of time at the computer and I need to put ice on then remove it cyclically all day. And I'm not supposed to walk any more than absolutely necessary which means I can't go out, I can't cycle and I have to stay within short distance of the freezer.

Today I alternated between reading and playing Hot Shots Golf. Given how much I lament my lack of free time, it's weird to have a block of free time and not do any of the things I always wanted to do when I had it.

[chrismoose.livejournal.com]

I used to go to Coral Reef quite a lot... It's cool :-)

The adult bit with 3 different saunas and steam rooms etc is almost as good as all the slides etc...