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So, my week has once again been incredibly busy-seeming, without me actually seeming to get anything done. Monday was basically recovering from Halloween/the weekend, Tuesday I was getting ready for the CBT group and Jobcentre appointment/interview I had pretty close to one another (read: I filled in some forms and washed my hair), and it was also the day I came on my period. Thursday I woke up with massive stomach cramps, and then my mum brought my youngest nephew over as usual, and then let me know that she was working a night shift that night, so she wouldn't be back after taking him home. Then yesterday I got up and remembered, as I'd only done occasionally throughout the week, that not only was it Bonfire Night, it was also my dad's birthday. So I rushed out to town to get him a card before the shops shut and just managed to meet up with my mother to get a lift home with her and my oldest nephew. When we got back my dad was there, so we gave him his cards and we agreed that he could take my nephew and me to my nephew's karate lesson while mum put some shopping away, then we came back, my nephew got changed, and we all went round to my sister's to go to a bonfire near her house. Eventually we got back and watched the soaps and The Event until pretty late into the night. Then today I basically slept in, got up, had lunch, checked the internet, ordered pizza with my mum because in all the rushing around yesterday she didn't really get a chance to buy any food for the weekend, watched Strictly, watched Casualty, watched most of the Armstrong and Miller show, and am now here. Tomorrow we're going out for Sunday lunch, and then having my sister and two nephews and my grandma over for cake and sparklers for dad's birthday. Yay.

The bonfire was good, aside from my taking my two nephews on the teacups ride at the little fair they had and managing to bash my youngest nephew's lip, twice, moving him around the ride. But in between those two time, he seemed to be enjoying himself. Um. Anyway. It's quite a big do, at a pub, so the fireworks display is usually good, and the fire - when we could get to it - was pretty big. However, the flying burning debris and embers from the fire told us we were probably a bit too close to it, so we went back a bit again. But the kids had a good time (I think), and we had a good time, so it was pretty good all round.

Anyway. In the mean time, these are the things that have happened to me:

• I went to the second week of my CBT therapy group, as I said. We had to/were asked to do a questionnaire thing in the first meeting, to bring to the second, to see if we really had OCD. When we got there, in the second meeting, the women leading it said that a score of over 40 on that questionnaire was generally taken as you having OCD. It turned out I'd added mine up wrong, but when I did it right, it turned out I had a score of 90. So I'd say I probably have it. Yeah.



• It turned out that the way to get me to buy almost anything lately is to sell it on the internet and claim it is the "Last Chance" to buy it. In the past two weeks I have bought a print you can no longer see on the website from Scary Go Round and this t-shirt based on that principle. Basically all Jon Burgerman needs to do is declare it is my last chance to buy everything on his website, and I am financially screwed.



• Although on the bright side, I ordered that t-shirt apparently from Canada, and I placed the order on 26th October and it arrived last Wednesday. Beating any order I ever made from Threadless by about three weeks. Score one for Canada, my friends.



• I want to buy a new winter coat. I'm thinking of this one from New Look. But there's quite a lot of things I've been thinking about buying or doing lately, and I have only a finite amount of money, so it's going under advisement.



• I found two new webcomics I like: No Rest For The Wicked, which is based on fairytales, and is GREAT, I LOVE IT. I love Red, and I love November, and I even kind of love Perrault. Oh God. And the other is Snowflakes, which I don't like as much as some of the others I read, and which is a bit weird once you find out that the orphanage is meant to be set in some mountains in the Andes and yet pretty much all of the characters are white, but which has kind of sucked me in nonetheless. I LOVE PRITI. OH MY GOD. I LOVE HER. I get the feeling from the comments and stuff that a lot of people love Wray (who is also quite great) the best. They are idiots. PRITI IS CLEARLY BEST.



• Also, Irregular Choice apparently hate me. Every year it seems to be the same. It's not enough that I've already fallen in love with a number of pairs of shoes that I couldn't afford and have now sold out. They have to now put out these. And these. And these. And these. And these. And these. Do they hate me? I'VE DONE NOTHING TO THEM!



• I continue to be floored by how pretty a lot of the women on Hollyoaks are nowadays, and how amazingly they dress. Oh my god.



• Nathan Wylde is leaving Emmerdale sometime in the next few weeks, and it sounds like it goes pretty badly for him before he leaves. Even worse, or at least as well as, being kidnapped for a few days and then tortured by his sister, which he recently was. And he is going to be kind of a dick, apparently, and is probably going to be tricked into something he doesn't want. It mostly all I am thinking about these days. That and porn. I am trying to decide what they won't do to him. ( Sort of spoiler )
  . But what else will they do to him? They can't utterly destroy him or how could he ever come back? I can't picture anything worse happening to him and him not having a complete emotional breakdown and going into catatonic shock, perhaps. Unless that is what they're doing, and should he ever return that will be when he sort of comes out of it, to WREAK HIS VENGEANCE UPON THE WORLD. Sometimes I wish Emmerdale was that sort of show. I have been comforting myself lately by imagining him being completely destroyed and losing everything before leaving Emmerdale, and then turning up again a few years later as a super-rich super-businessman, and being all "By the way everyone, I've bought up all the land in town and am going to turn it into a strip mine! Ciao, fuckers." OR, I wish it was the kind of show where eventually SOMETHING/SOMEONE MUCH WORSE would come along and threaten the town, and they would be all "God. They are the terrible. To beat them, we are going to need the worst human being, and best liar, we know" "..." All together: "Nathan!" And then they go and track him down, and maybe he's come good, or maybe he just still hates them, and they have to convince him to come back and help them somehow, and they kind of fall in love with how great he is. With Declan sort of leading the charge both times, obviously. Probably it won't be anything like that. Probably it will just be AWFUL. Oh God.

And now, having had both Halloween and Bonfire Night, we are basically into the Christmas season. Somehow. Great.