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Today our toilet had a big puddle of liquid at the base of it, on the floor. For a few weeks now I've been noticing an odd damp outline around the bottom of it, where it joins the floor, but my dad insisted it must be condensation - even when there wasn't any on the toilet - because there was no other way water could get out. Today he's saying it was probably because my MN was at our house - he seems to think none of my nephews have the ability to aim. My MN has never done anything like that when he's stayed over before, but the toilet hasn't been leaking since. I am still unconvinced though.

Apart from anything, we're having a problem with the toilet because it's got this tendency to run after you flush it, so you have to jiggle the lid about before the cistern will fill up properly and allow you to flush it again. This has been a problem for at least a year, but this last week it's just been running and running, and no amount of jiggling could reliably fix it. I don't like that stupid toilet. I'm also pretty sure I'm about to start, or have already somewhat started my period, and I don't think that's going to be enjoyable with our main toilet broken.

Also it is Mother's Day tomorrow and my mother has taken off. She will not be up waiting for my card from Clintons or harriedly selected gift tomorrow morning when I get up, because she is off on a spa day, and will be staying there until after lunch. So Mother's Day has become a bit haphazard. Also because mum thought she WOULD be back for lunch, so didn't get my dad and I anything to eat in her absence - dad suggested going out, and I had to point out it would be Mother's Day, and that would probably be a nightmare.

So somehow today turned out to be needlessly aggravating. On the other hand, the Hospice have offered me shifts every Saturday, rather than just alternate Saturdays, which will make getting a regular routine going a little easier. And I thought I'd be working those shifts alone, but it turns out they're hiring a paid receptionist to do admin work over the weekends and man the station if people need toilet breaks and stuff, so I'll even have some form of company. So that's turned out quite nicely actually.

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Although having said that, I did go down to the post office to pick up a package that had failed to be delivered yesterday because of a customs charge - and while I was at the desk showing my ID, another postman walked in, heard my name, and gave me another package he'd also just failed to deliver. And that is the story of how I didn't have to go back to the post office to collect a package twice in as many working days. It is also the story of how I finally got the Handsome Jack plush I bought, and the Band Vs Band book and Turpentine plush I Kickstarted nearly a year ago. Hurrah.