Head From Hell

Now, yesterday can officially be put down as a Really Shit Day. It wasn't bad enough that every part of my body hurt, but around lunchtime, I started smelling things. Icky, nasty things that no one else could smell.

I had a migraine coming.

Now, sometimes it gets to the stinky-smell stage and hangs there or fades. However, yesterday, it rapidly went from stinky-smell stage into headache stage. And it built rapidly from there. By four in the afternoon, everything was too bright, everything was too loud, and I felt like shit.

Skip forwards to 11pm, and I'm laying in bed, headache still building, nothing touching it, and it progressed to the "being sick2 stage which I hate. After half an hour of being ill, I somehow stumbled into the lounge and collapsed on the sofa. No pillow, no covers, I just flaked. 6am, I wake up, no headache, back screaming, and made it back into bed.

Half one this afternoon I manage to wake up and get up. No headache, just lots of back and leg pain. But that I can deal with - I'm back on the sofa, armed with laptop and kids TV. I've even put the webcam on!

Thankfully, it was last night I felt rough - tonight, Jo's mum has the kids, and we're going to Ruths to have a boozey evening.

Yay to be adults for a change!

Edit: I think I'm being a bit thick, but I can't get my webcam to connect to the web on my main PC, so no cam :)

Webcam: Todays View

For anyone checking the webcam stream today, the camera is placed outside (shocking, I know) on the middle floor of the house. The view? Mostly, our road, Long Riding, and the traffic, but for a change of pace, we're undergoing Gas Pipe Maintenance!

Yep, it's non-stop thrills and spills on my street. You might even see *gasp* the top of Sally Dogs head.

Apologies for the white bars - that's the edge of our balcony. Of course, Tam has tried climbing over said-balcony several times, so you might get more action than bargained for.

Either that, or they will rupture the gas main! hehe

Boom!

Now all I have to do is watch the weather, or craft some kind of weather-proof hat for the camera! hehe

Lazy Sunday

We're off out tonight, Jaysen is staying with Ruth for the night, and we're collecting Tam when we're home. Off to see a Bon Jovi tribute band or somesuch. Not sure where or anything, as someone else did all the planning.

As such, we've done bugger all today. Well, that's a semi-lie. We've got someone over tomorrow which should be interesting, so I've been clearing up all morning, got to clean the floor later once the house is slightly quieter, generally playing housewife. Had a shower, and then just sort of sat all day which I never do.

Here's a warning. Never ever hire, borrow, buy, rent or otherwise get a hold of Date Movie. Holy pants and all that is pure, what a pile of Shite. With a capital S. We'd heard it was amusing, and Jo ordered it on Pay Per View. Once I've hidden her body, I'm going after the person that said it was funny.

The astute of you will see that on camera, it's gross weather outside. I've only just gotten dressed (at 3.30pm) and only just looked outside and see the rain, and now it's turning into a thunder storm. The very observant of you will spy the top-right of the camera has a Daddy Long Legs on it.

So, lazy day. I've watched more TV today than pretty much all of September.

On The Mend

So the headache is gone - finally - and I'm still not sure what caused it. I ended up drinking gallons of clear liquids yesterday and it helped, but I could hardly form a sentance or concentrate very much. Watch 24 Season One till almost 8pm, when Jo and the kids came back. Armed with her mums homemade soup which is the ultimate food. Faffed around for an hour then went back to bed.

I hate headaches. Usually none of my painkillers touch them and it's either suffer in silence, whine like an old woman (which is usually the case) or just go lay down.

But this morning I feel pretty good, so think a load of rest was what I needed.

Anyways, in answer to your question Laney, yes, the Space Worm song really IS my ringtone. I took the flash off the site, pulled the audio out of it and saved it as an mp3, which I then put onto my phone via Bluetooth. I trimmed it down so the tone stops when the camera pulls back, but then, if I don't answer it by then, the other person usually rings off.

Yes, I am a smarty pants.

And last, congrats to Cass for a good interview, even if the signs that morning pointed elsewhere.

I might point the cam somewhere INDOORS later today, but it might not be aimed at people. Rodent or Fish, maybe. I know that certain adults in here don't like to be on camera at the best of times, so don't hold your breath.

Edit: Forgot to mention - those of you that comment as "Me" - it turns out there are two, maybe three of you using that name, so I am getting confused!

Headache

OK, not funny. After messing around on WoW for something to happen - the only person that was talking to me had to go for a while - my head decided to start pounding. I'm not going to call it a migraine as I hate that word - people use it all the time without knowing what one is.

But anyways, I'm going back to bed. Cam is on for the world to see. Later

A Lay In!

For the first time in a very long time, I woke up at 10am. I can't even remember the last time I slept in so late. Granted, it probably helped that we didn't go to bed nearer one in the morning as we had Amber & Pete over. We pissed around, had a lot of laughs, and are sorting out playing D&D more regularly after people advised me it was something I should do.

You know who you are!

However, the downside? Well, it's 11am and I've only just gotten dressed, so I feel REALLY lazy. Added to this, I feel like I was up all night drinking, and have a pounding headache. Jo has acted on this, and is taking her and the kids out with her mum for a few hours so I can have peace and quiet. Her idea, not mine.

Those of you living around here - the rain at 2-3am was incredible. We have a flat roof upstairs, so the rain was hammering on there, feet above us in bed. Long Riding - as usual - disappeared under water for a while, but it was made more surreal by the fact I was on pain killers.

The cam is on and pointing out to the world once more. For those not seeing it, I am not sure WHY you're not seeing it. I suspect you're missing a plug-in of some kind, but can't figure what - if anyone can, please let me know.

As for the report of a virus being on my page somewhere, I've checked and double-checked the code this morning, and can't see anything malicious. Those of you that are technically-minded, could you have a quick peek if you have 5 minutes? I suspect it is the amount of Javascript running on the page that is causing it, but not sure why it would have started all of a sudden.

Still, with Jo off out, and me pushing this headache to the rear of my head, I am likely to jump on Warcraft today and mosh through a dungeon or something for laughs. I've discovered that if I play WoW, the camera and it have a fit over who-gets-the-most-memory, so the cam will go off when that happens.

The Outside World

For the enquiring minds...

The camera is pointing South, out onto Long Riding, facing the houses opposite us. There are two infant/junior schools and one senior school nearby, so from 8.15am-8.45am and 3pm-3.30pm there will be lots of kids walking outside. We're also on the main bus route in Basildon, the #8, which drives laps around the area. They should run every ten minutes in both directions, hence it looking like there are so many. We don't have proper school buses out here either, so you won't see them.

Emergency vehicles - the police are usually blue-and-white, while ambulances are green-and-yellow (there is one outside as I write this), and fire engines - well, you can't miss those.

Long Riding is a fairly long residential area with various shops and a pub dotted along this half of it - you can't drive the entire length as the middle is Buses and Emergency Vehicles only. The road has estates on either side of it, some council, some private, making it a fairly busy road. With this map, the red dot is pretty much our house.

You can view this at Google Maps here.

As for time zones and what-not, we're currently in British Summer Time (BST) for another 3-4 weeks, until the clocks go back. Generally, we're an hour behind most of europe, 10 hours behind Australia and 12 hours behind New Zealand. Americas, we're 5 hours ahead of the East Coast, and 8 hours ahead of the West Coast. No idea about you Central timezoners. I'm sure you can figure it out.

And yes, that IS the Blood-Red-House-Of-Hatred out there...

Other than that, welcome to my street!