Monday 19th August, felt a bit rough again in the morning, firstly my back was a bit sore again and my glands and lymph system seemed all clogged up. At least the chemo had gave me a couple days reprieve. But as usual once I got up and about it seemed to settle things for me. Today Oblivion was released on DVD, I'd never bought a DVD on release day before but I enjoyed this film so much when it was in the cinema I just had to. The first time I went to see it was back in April with a girl I work with after one of the meetings and seen different parts of it numerous times since then, going in for screen checks as often as possible. It may not be everyone type of film, but is certainly my type of film. The mixed opinions of what people thought of it after was incredible, don't think I remember a film that had such extremes.
"Morning Bob"
Went out onto the bike for a bit in the afternoon and then as my "cool down" I'd walk to Tesco and the chemist, on the way there I bumped into an old friend I used to hang about with a bit when we were younger, haven't spoken to him in years... I fact the last time I did see him was a time when we seen an ass doing assey things, there were police, fire brigade and court involved after. All I was doing was getting cigarettes for a BIBG (beer in back garden). Giving a statement stinking of booze the next morning was interesting though.
At Tesco the glass recycling area was full of trolleys and trolleys full of bottles, seemed to me like some pub had just filled them and brought them down there rather than getting rid of them themselves. Once into Tesco I got my DVD and asked if I could take it to the self serve checkout, when I got there it was a restricted item but as soon as I pick it up to go find someone the machine starts beeping at me, ended up walking off with it grabbing the guy who scanned his badge and walked off. At least it stopped beeping. Paid and left. That was basically the highlight of the day.
The evening was spent watching Oblivion and listening to the Man City game. Sleep didn't come easy that night either a lot of tossing and turning, mostly because I was warm again.
Tuesday was something similar to yesterday where I didn't get up to much. My back was sore again in the morning, this probably wasn't helped by the fact that I woke up really early and lay around for about three hours before getting out of bed, nice daydreaming the day away. Glands have started to swell up more than they have been for the last few days but still nothing too bad. Morning went in fairly fast and it was soon lunchtime, but after lunch the whole day slowed down to an absolute grind, so much so while I was sitting at the computer a fly started buzzing around and was very easily able to catch it first go and threw it towards the window, but for some reason he decided to come back and this time he got squashed by a pinch in the air.
I felt as though I had way too much energy and at the time should have thought and maybe done something to try and burn it all off rather than just sitting around and letting it linger and build up. I had certainly developed a case of cabin fever by the end of it. Absolutely nothing I done had in any way entertained me. Made a friend today though, a spider jumped down and started walking up my arm, he must have seen I was an effective fly catcher and thought I could get him dinner. I declined and threw him out into the garden to find his own.
Started to watch Bridesmaids as a bit of comedy relief, didn't do the job at all, didn't think it was very good and gave it a pretty poor rating as well, was disappointed as a few people I know hype about it. The evening was spent watching Flight, this was also not quite as good as I was expecting. It really must just be the mood I'm in, but I felt that wasn't going to go away till I get out tomorrow for some fresh air and the lack of sleep is going to make that drag a fair bit as well. Which ended up being the case, was cheered up though talking a load of crap to a couple people before trying to get to sleep which took my mind off the mind numbing day and helped me get to sleep.