Diary Entry

6.58 am I couldn't sleep. I kept having nightmares. I was dreaming that my ex-husband was chasing me on my wedding day, and Allan's ex-wife had stolen all my jewellery. After that I couldn't get back to sleep, even though I feel tired and have to go to work in a couple of hours. So I've just spent the past hour or so blogging. It's made up for a bit of lost time over the past few days when I have been busy with essays!

I think I'm going to settle down on the couch with my romance novel and relax for a bit until I have to get dressed. I'm taking my criminological theory books with me to work so I can start studying for my exam next week. There's no way I'm putting that off to the last minute! I'll probably need an evening in the library before the exam, too, so I'll have to convince Simon. No, not really. Actually if I said I needed to go to the library and when I planned to go, he wouldn't stop me. I just have to convince him that if it's a late night in the library, he has to be the one to go open the shop the next morning!

12.46 pm Crisis averted, I think. Pete decided to join the DC forum! Knowing how Simon feels about him, I didn't think that was a good idea, though I know Pete would have behaved himself. But he's very unpredictable and there's no telling what he might say that would set Simon off. He volunteered to let me ban him. In return I had to post something on his Fiction Express forum. That sounded like a good deal to me, especially since I planned to do that eventually anyway. Besides, while I love to write, Pete really isn't bothered about Formula One, even though he does watch it occasionally.

I had fun writing about the "Idiots of the Week" on my Scrambled Mind blog. I woke up at six this morning and couldn't get back to sleep, so I came up with that. I think I'll do it on Fridays from now on, but there were three such good idiots staring me in the face on the front of the Sky News website, I just couldn't resist!

And of course, being addicted to blogging as I am, I came up with a bonkers idea of having a "Site Blog" for the DC forum, where we can all contribute editorials, complaints, news and experiences. I'm just waiting to see what other people think before I start because I will probably end up doing it anyway! It will just be more fun as a group project.

5.46 pm I went and did it. The David Coulthard Fans United Blog is up and running, though doesn't have a single post on it yet. I'll have to rectify that shortly so people will come back and visit it.

I've felt really sick today. I nearly threw up in the shop, nearly fainted in the Co-op, and now I have a raging headache. If the boys would stop thudding around upstairs, I could lie down and have a nap. I think they're torturing the dog.

9.12 pm I'm really excited now! Simon has been getting fortnightly DVDs with the entire Stargate collection, and they've just come out with the same thing for CSI! I wasn't going to let that get past me, so I've ordered it. The first delivery comes with a mini digital camera. I'll bet it's crap, but I thought that about the free watch that Simon was supposed to get with his Stargates, and when it came it was a pretty good one!

I still feel pretty rough, but it's just a headache now. That's mostly due to the kids. They have been absolute monsters since Simon left to go to his dad's! Malorie suddenly decided to throw all the bread in the bin because it showed a best before date of the 3rd of January. She didn't bother to ask me about it. I've only just taken it out of the freezer! They sat at the table eating their dinner and arguing like they would never have a chance again so they better get it all out at once.

I've done no studying for my exam. I can see I'm going to have to make myself do it. I might spend Sunday in the library, that way I know I'll do it.

10.20 pm The DC forum has 20 members now! That was fast! It's only been going a few days! It would have had 21 if I'd kept Pete on the member list, but I just couldn't risk bad feelings popping up on the forum if he and Simon clashed. Always the peacekeeper ...

When Simon left to go to his dad's around six this evening, he said he wouldn't be gone long because he was starving. It's 20 past ten and now he's at Coke's house. He still says he won't be long, but I know better than that. He won't be home before midnight. And I've got his dinner in the oven. Typical.

I'm enjoying doing my shopping online with Tesco! It sure is easier than trying to go around the store when I'm tired, which is usually the case when I can find the time to go do the shopping! I'm going to save as many points as possible off my Clubcard for next Christmas. If they don't expire anyway. I'll have to work that one out. But it would be great to get like £50 worth of vouchers to put towards Christmas dinner!

It's too quiet around here. The kids are all asleep, and the money has run out in the television in the living room so I can't watch it while I'm in here. I could go up and watch in the bedroom, but I don't really feel like going to bed just yet. I guess I'll read more of my trashy romance novel.