Good news

Ok so after posting last night, I texted the friend just to say that if he got the message to give me a call or something cos we were worried about not hearing from him for so long. This morning I got a text off him...I was cheering out loud before I even read the damned thing...but all seems to be well...the hospital staff kept him in a bit longer than expected because of some slight complications, but the op was a success and all is good now I think. He should be out of hospital and back with us by friday, so we can stop panicking and thinking the worst now. I am so relived and happy that he's ok!

Worrying

I might be being paranoid, I may be letting my overactive imagination get the better of me, but I can't help thinking about stuff. I still haven't heard from my friend, and being an internet friend I have no way of finding out how he is except by email or text/phoning his mobile. I keep telling myself he's just been kept in longer in hospital than he thought he would, but I can't help wondering if he's really ok. If he is seriously ill, or God forbid, if he didn't make it through the op, we, his friends have no way of finding out. I know inside that I'm being a bit fatalistic and paranoid and alarmist, it is in my nature to be that way, but it makes me realise what a tentative thread holds us together, especially the friends I have from the internet....if something happens to any one of them, I might not ever know about it. The words on the screen that I take for granted, and the occasional meets we have... they mean a lot to me, they are good friends, and no less good for being internet people lol. maybe I should explain what I mean... we get so many warnings about people... never trust people you meet on the internet, they're all wierdoes. But I'm an internet person, I'm not a wierdo (please refrain from commenting on that), logic tells us that not everyone on the internet is a wierdo, and experience shows us that it's true. The friends I've met and met up with have all been amazing, wonderful people (apart from the odd one who weren't exactly wierdoes, at least not axe wielding ones). And how is meeting someone on the internet any worse than meeting up with a stranger in a night club? Thats where I met my boyfriend, and I am sure more women and men are attacked by people they met in a nightclub than they are by people they met from the internet. But I have digressed slightly. My point is that at any moment, any one of us could just disappear from the internet altogether, and the bonds and friendships that have been built over the months and often years of internet chat would just be left hanging, friends left wondering and ignorant of where they went and what has happened.
AH fuck, I'm just depressing myself more...there's nothing I can do about it after all, short of giving everyone I know all the numbers and email addresses of everyone I know with instructions to contact everyone just in case something happens to me. And I seriously doubt whether anyone else would consider doing the same. Its just not feasible or sensible. I'll just have to trust to good fortune and hope it extends to everyone in my circle of friends...Long life and good communications...

My brother and his fiancee 

Me and Pete  

Heather and Lizzy  

Armadillo's and Weddings

The Armadillo song.

Is there a shop that sells armadillos?
Every night I'm munching my pillow.
I need to buy a crisp armadillo
For my tea - I'm hungry

Nah nah nah ne nah ne nah nah nah
Nah nah nah ne nah ne nah nah nah
Nah nah nah ne nah ne nah nah nah
For my Tea - I'm hungry

Is there a shop that sells arfmadillos?
I have tried but you can't eat willow
I need to find a sweet armadillo
For my Tea - I'm hungry

Sooo, that came about last night after the wedding...it was stuck in my head, so I re wrote the words lol. The wedding was good, and as predicted I did end up dancing with my mum, but only because Pete was to miserable to dance!
Heather looked beautiful, and I have a few good pictures of her, and of family which I might get around to posting up if I can get Hello to work. I am on the laptop at the mo and it's not installed on here yet so I may have to do that first as the PC is being arsey again.
Haven't heard from my friend yet. Hopefully he's ok, have texted him a couple of times but no reply, so presumably he's still in hospital. I hope all has gone well, I'm a bit worried cos he said he'd be out by friday, but my head keeps telling me that a week is not really long enough, and being diabetic they are more likely to keep him in longer to make sure he's ok before letting him out. Wait and see again...I hate waiting.

Bad News

I found out today that a friend of mine has cancer. It's not public knowledge so I won't mention names as I know a few people that he might not want to know might read this. I'm worried about him. He's a nice guy, and he doesn't deserve this. Also he's known for a month and didn't tell me...another friend told me tonight that he'd gone into hospital for an operation to remove it. I wish he'd told me. But on the other hand I can understand why he didn't. I wouldn't want that conversation either, and there's other stuff that happened not long ago that might have made him think twice. Still, I wish I'd have known, if only so I could give him support and sympathy. Hopefully the operation will be a success, and it won't have spread. I have my fingers crossed and he's in my thoughts.

Meet the Parents

Just got back from dinner at Pete's with his mum and her new boyfriend, Phil. It was good, and Phil seems a really nice bloke. I don't think I have seen Marian look so happy since I have known her, which can only be a good thing.we watched Ocean's Eleven after dinner, which I've seen before, but it's a good film. Phil gave me a lift home, as he was going my way anyway...