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Hello. It's me. I am still online pretty regularly, it's just that between sleeping in most mornings, going with my mum into town a few times a week and helping look after my nephews some of the rest of the time, and attempting to get my Jobseeker's claim and bedroom something like, I never seem to have much time to make posts. The middle of the night seems to be my main opportunity, so I am taking this one.

I have been living at my parents' for almost three weeks now, and it's been fairly quiet. In between my dad yelling at me to get my bedroom sorted out and decide what I'm putting in loft because it won't fit, which if it were up to me would be nothing. And various arguments between my parents and my sister. The family drama has not really let up, but it's not all-consuming, which is nice. My grandmother's still in a care home doing physiotherapy, but she'll be back at home on Monday. She was meant to be back last Thursday, but she's unfortunately come down with shingles, so they put it off for a few days. But she's pretty much fine, and probably actually going home on Monday, which is good. She still has some memory problems, but the nurses and social services have assessed her and have got her a care package and don't seem too worried, so it seems alright. She's pretty ready to get out of that place, really, as I have picked up from my conversations with her over the last week or so.

Also I have been watching TV. Highlights included:

• Sue Perkins being on The Bubble, and then getting a show about brass bands in the North. When will they bring out Supersizers on DVD? When?



• The Bubble. I have watched it. I love it.



• My current favourite character on Emmerdale - I have mentioned him but you probably won't remember him - who was already a little mentally unstable, having a couple of breakdowns. The problem with soap fandoms is that by the time anything brilliant happens the plot is far too complicated to explain to anyone in a few paragraphs/five minutes. Essentially, he got mad and went round to the mother of his not-so-secret-anymore half-brother's house and tried to throw her out of the village, then had a breakdown and a bit of a heart-to-heart with her, then thought she was coming on to him and ended up attacking and almost sexually assaulting her, then when his not-so-secret-anymore half-brother (Ryan) came in, he started to laugh, crazily. Ryan threw him out and hit him, he (Nathan) went back to Home Farm and started acting normally again, until his mother (Natasha) came back, heard about the attacking and sexual assault business and decided to have a word with him, but found out that he was showing someone round the woods where unbeknownst to him his father's body was buried, even though she TOLD him not to, god!, and ran out to where he was and freaked out at him and the dude he was showing around. He tried to find out why she was so upset, asked if it was about his dad, and she ended up telling him that his dad was dead.
  
  Then she, having previously had my sympathy because Nathan's dad was a jerk, lied to him while 'coming clean', claiming that is was an accident, which it wasn't. He wandered out in a kind of a daze, stopping to smile at his little brother and put his hands on his face before walking on, to the woods where his father was buried and ended up digging in the mud with his bare hands. Before his mother stopped him and sort of told him to get a grip. She seemed sort of shocked that he was sort of upset about his dad being dead, and not even believing her lies about having killed his dad accidentally, and angry that he wasn't willing to help her. He decided to get his insanity/coldness in gear and said he didn't even care his dad was dead, his dad was rub, but he wasn't going to 'dirty his hands' by getting involved. So she told him that he either helped her cover up his dad's death/murder, or he should get out of the house and never come back. So he came back with some BLACKMAIL, he wanted his 'inheritance', every penny she had that wasn't in his dad's frozen accounts, or he would go to the police. She eventually agreed, just as he was on the point of apologising, but her own offer to pretend the whole thing had never happened and let him stay still involved him helping her cover up his dad's death, so naturally he wasn't too thrilled with it and decided to just take the money. But he wasn't going to leave! His brother and sister were in the house, why should he leave them behind? So his mother packed up his bags and pretended to his brother and sister that he had a new job in London, and he couldn't really say he didn't without revealing something weird was going on (even though I think he really could have, but whatever). So now he is gone. But only for a few months. Then he will come back to 'destroy' the real culprits. His half-brother Ryan and Ryan's mother! It is kind of brilliant and I can't really explain how brilliant and awful and beautiful the whole thing was. How crazy and broken Nathan was, and how alternately callous and kind of inappropriate Natasha was. I can't decide if just after you've killed your husband is the worst time to say slightly strange and incestuous-sounding things to your oldest son, or sort of the best. But either way, it was a bit great. I await his return quite eagerly.
  
  So. That was quite concise, I think.



• Meanwhile on Coronation Street, Gail Platt has been charged with the murder of her dead husband, and sent to jail. David is not coping well. His brother Nick is there, but Nick is kind of a git and David hates him, so it's not much consolation. He spent tonight mostly asking his ex-girlfriend (Gail's dead husband's daughter) if she really believed his mum was a murderer, looking incredibly hurt and betrayed when she said she dead, and wandering away clutching his sleeves. And then going into the factory to actually talk to his brother about their mum, and how he couldn't sleep without seeing her in prison, and how no he didn't want to go to the pub and get drunk, and they had to do something, while Nick was all 'You are getting in the way of my work, David, my work!'. Then Nick tried putting his hands on David's shoulders and talking nicely to him, and giving him some money, causing David to look at Nick like he hated him, and leave. It was also a bit brilliant. I will admit that soaps are a bit rubbish or boring sometimes, but sometimes they are incredible. INCREDIBLE.



• Anyway. Besides that. Lambing Live! I love lambs. And sheep. It was a great show to watch if love both those things. Mostly I feel that next year Nathan from Emmerdale should be forced to take part in the lambing that goes on at the farm on the land his family owns. I think it would probably go some way to healing all of his psychological scars.



• Much like a couple of things on the Mighty Boosh, I never expected to find a middle-aged comedian I don't know dancing to Fight For This Love in a red military jacket, wig and cap kind of sexy. But then Rufus Hound proved me wrong.



• Due to making a change from terrestrial TV to Sky while moving from Nottingham to my parents', the only thing I've seen so far from the current series of Skins is the rather grim last two episodes. With a cliffhanger that is apparently not going to be resolved next series, or at least not with the current cast. Well.



• I saw an episode of Shameless because my parents watch it, when I never really have. I fell quite in love with one of the characters, at least, and some of the writing. Hurrah.



• I also ended up watching Dancing on Ice again, because my mother does, and was treated to another actor I kind of like from Hollyoaks doing a routine to the Pink Panther, and then last week to a Freddie Mercury song and him pretending to be a rockstar. Both of which were great. Soon there will be proper skating on, apparently, according to the Eurosport channel. Yay.



• And a bunch of other stuff probably, but I can't remember it now.

Other things:

• I know it's a mistake generally to look at jewellery, but how much do I want this stuff? A whole lot.



• I have also started sort of shopping for clothes, mostly because there's a New Look in my town centre, which has few enough other clothes shops for me to notice it. Also because New Look has some sort of nice stuff in at the moment. Mostly all it's doing is making me even more annoyed by stock rotation, though.



• I've done a live transfer of my Jobseekers claim, and they've at last written to me today telling me what I'll be receiving (I think). They don't really say anything about the live transfer, but there's not really any other reason to send me a letter telling what allowance I'll be getting, a few weeks after I've moved. But at least it seems to be sorted. And I need to start job-hunting now.



• I still do look for Tiana/Faciler things and fic sometimes, but to be honest, I'm not really that desperate to find anything, because I can't really imagine it being better than the Magic Dance video.



• Even though there were quite a few problems with Wanted, and I hear that the comic book by Mark Millar that it was based on was even worse really, I'm still kind of looking forward to the new adaptation of another Mark Millar book, Kick-Ass. I don't know. Rubbish superheroes are kind of my favourite superheroes. Also, Mark Strong! Hurray.

I think that's pretty much it. Next week it's my birthday, and the week after it's Eastercon. Both of which I'm quite looking forward to. Hurrah.