Categories: random
Tags: chocolate, phone, friends, baby
Date: 09 April 2009 17:47:57
I went to visit a friend this afternoon who had a new shiny baby yesterday (some of you from the Ship will know who I mean). She was very lovely, and it was great to see another new life as we head up to celebrating Easter. I'm sure I've pontificated on "God give me a parking space" prayers before (as a general rule I disapprove, unless I need a parking space of course, when it's different!). This time I didn't pray, but was very grateful that as I pulled into the (large and very very very very full with other people who were there for visiting hour) car park and wondered how long I was going to have to spend fruitlessly driving around in the hope that I'd be in the right place at the right time to catch someone who was just leaving, someone just, well, left. Right in front of me. It was literally the first space in the car park. Hooray! :)
In other news, thanks for the phone advice. I have a new SIM card, idiot-proof (I hope!) instructions on how to transfer my old number to the new SIM card, and didn't have to put up with a salesperson trying to sell me something I didn't want (though the woman at Virgin didn't seem too impressed with me transferring, but unfortunately for her she couldn't compete with my free handset, and she wasn't *too* pushy). I have charged up the old phone so I am still contactable (due to the Easter holiday it might be the middle of next week before the new phone has my old number), plus I have a few pounds of credit to use up. I've just made sure not to put the back on the old phone, as one of the many problems with it was that it was impossible to take the back off it. The only time I'd ever managed it before was when I accidentally dropped it, and I was a bit squeamish about doing that deliberately! Anyway, hooray about that too.
In other other news, we are away for the weekend. Count Your Blessings posts will still appear until Sunday, and I'll be back in Glasgow at some point on Monday. We will be staying with some good friends, also meeting up with the outlaws on Saturday who are on holiday in the same area. I expect lots of food to happen. (I've bought Easter eggs. I can't tell you how tempted I've been the last day or two, having not really thought about chocolate at all for most of Lent and not having missed it much. Roll on Sunday breakfast!). It will do us good to get away. I hope that the new life and resurrection represented by Easter will be reflected in our luck (specifically HD's work situation and my thesis, sigh. Am getting a bit fed up with it all).