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I have:

• Booked a hotel room and a day off work for the trip to the Shire Horse Show. Well, technically my mum found the room, but only after I called up some B&Bs and got directed to the nearby Premier Inn, and then the Premier Inn website told me they were both fully booked on the night I wanted it. Somehow mum, on a tablet downstairs, found a room that they weren't advertising to me. I'm a little worried we're going to get there and find out we booked a room for March 2021, but I've checked the booking a lot and it all looks right. So we're going to the Shire Horse Show! Hopefully it will be Good. I'm going to miss the fillies and mares, because they're on Sunday. But hopefully it will still be Good.



• Chosen a TV. After a week or two of always wondering at work if when I got home I'd find my dad had messed with the broken TV in my room, and my gaming set-up, he finally did it on Saturday. When I'd been into town for literally an hour - I told him I was going, and I told him I wouldn't be long - I got home to find he'd removed the TV and unplugged basically every wire he could think of and dragged the rest of them up from the dusty back of my drawers. He seemed to think this was my fault for having a rat's nest of wires, and not his for waiting (not very long) for the person who understand all the wires and how to keep them sorted and where they should go. Anyway, I sorted them all out, after that. I had no choice. He did not offer to help or learn about any of the wires. Then he told me once again about the TV he'd picked out for me. It was 32-inch, instead of the 22-inch I'd had before. And it was full HD, because I shouldn't get 'HD ready', the screen was bad and it's just a con. And it was a Smart TV, which means something I don't care about I'm sure. And it was £200, and he would just go get it, go get it whenever I wanted to stop wasting time. I have found a 22-inch screen that is full HD in Argos, that has all the connections I want (the one useful thing about him unplugging all my wires, although I still think I could have learned it if he'd unplugged them while I was there, is that I learned you can have a small-ish TV with two HDMI ports), and it is only £140. I told him to butt out more or less, and he lamented his life of no-one ever listening to him and not being appreciated. I'm planning to just go get that TV on Friday.



• Watched some Coronation Street. Another storyline about Carla suffering miserably, yay! Another potentially psychotic love interest for Eileen, yay!

Our dog is going to get clipped tomorrow, after about four months of not having been done. I suppose it was winter and a thick coat might have been nice for him, but I didn't understand how he could see most of the time. We always laugh at him when he comes back from the clippers, because he goes from looking like a cotton wool ball to a long black stick. I can't imagine what it'll be like tomorrow. Amazing I'm sure.

I've been looking at what films are coming out this year. There's more or less nothing I want to see. Nothing that looks fun. What is happening to media? I don't care about Marvel films or Disney live-action remakes, and that's leaving me with very little. I'm looking forward to Godzilla King of the Monsters because it has Mothra in it, and this looks like it might be good, and I'm looking forward to Spider-Man: Far From Home just for the sheer possibility of more Michael Keaton. Other than that there is nothing.

I did find this lovely story about a woman and a dog today though (tw for mentions of sexual harassment). Enjoy it.