Today was my turn to feed the animals. Normally that’s a joy and pleasure. But today wasn’t too much fun.

On my way there I started feeling nauseous and dizzy. When I got there I had to spend a good while in the bathroom as mild dhiarrea set in. And as if that wasn’t enough I seemed to pull some muscle in my back or something, it hurt like hell. So I walked around half dizzy/tired and half in pain. Notalotta fun.

The animals are always great, though. So I just took it slow and it wasn’t too bad really.

Now, in the evening, I am feeling better physically. Spent most of the day in my bed or in the comfy chair. And it seemed to have helped my back a bit. Not feeling nauseous or dizzy either. I am, however, feeling a bit like I’m on an emotional rollercoaster. There is news from Desiree, you see. Her mother’s neighbour found a kitten. A little grey kitten with big blue eyes. Luna? I don’t know what to think. It seems so unlikely that she’d turn up when all the kittens disappeared like that. But on the other hand it seems unlikely that another little grey kitten would turn up in the same place. It is a little scary now. I want it to be Luna and I want to have her. It would be foolish to turn down a miracle. But on the other hand I am scared of building up hope and opening up my heart again, to be clichéd. I don’t want to get hurt again. But if it is Luna then I don’t have any choice, I couldn’t say no to her now.

It’s crazy though. Crazy. I don’t know what to think, at all.

I promise we will follow this story closely as it develops. Now back to Lois with the weather.

So, yesterday was supposed to have been the big laundry day. That did not quite come to pass. I overslept. On purpose, I guess. I’d been having some bad dreams and unrest and just didn’t feel up to the whole “get up and do stuff” thing. So when the alarm went off I said to myself: “nuts to this” and instead I slept some more. Oh well. Don’t judge me too harshly, I’m only a person. I still have plenty of clean clothes to last me a few more days.

It wasn’t a completely unproductive day, though. I managed to finish the TMU website. Actually a little thing has crept up that I need to fix over the weekend. But my version of their site is now live and working and they seem to be happy with it. So that’s really good. I am pleased with it. When I first said yes to it I thought it was going to be a 10 minute job, copy/paste text and that’s it. It ended up taking a lot longer and being quite a bit harder. Mainly due to the javascript menu and the jpg buttons. But I managed to edit the buttons and make a working non-java menu. It’s not the most elegant of codes, but it works. I should have been a webdesigner, I should. Actually that would be the perfect job for me. I love the intarweb, I love working with computers and I wouldn’t have to go out and feel miserable in the company of others. I wish I could be a webdesigner. But I’d probably have to learn java then. And what’s this fancy stylesheet thing I’m hearing about? No, the real problem is that I don’t have the creative spark when it comes to layouts. As you can see by my various online diaries, journals and websites. Pretty much all black text on white background. I am function over form to the extreme. I hate all those sites that use tons of unnecessary javascript and flash animation and fancy graphics. If it was up to me the entire internet would be black text on white background. Hence I’ll never be a webdesigner.

My “goats in books” streak continues. After the thought-provoking Slave, that I wholeheartedly recommend, I am now reading My Invented Country and much to my joy there was a mention of a goat as well. A goat that was bought to be served at a birthday feast but ended up dying of old age. Awesome!

(Okay, strictly speaking it’s not a streak because in between those books I read Per Vadmand’s Bag Døren and it had no goats. But 2 outta 3 ain’t bad).

The weather is very cold. Especially at night. The forecast said we’ll have frost soon. Maybe I’ll be able to build snowmen! I still haven’t turned on the heat in the appartment. Not once. There have been a couple of nights where I was sitting at the computer and literally freezing. But I just put on a sweater. I don’t know, I like the cold. And a sweater is cheaper. It’s funny, though. The first month in my appartment I had the two floor fans going round the clock, sometimes at night. Now they haven’t been turned on for the last month at all. I guess that’s good for the electricity bill.

What I save on the heat and electricity I probably spend on the showers. Long, warm showers.

Today Kurt came and dumped a bunch of apples on the bench that I was sitting on. Naturally I was immediately swarmed by goats. That was fun. The buck didn’t seem to know how to chew properly, though.

Kurt had to break open the apple for him to even get started. It seemed like he was trying to suck the apple instead of bite it. Kurt and I had a good laugh about it. It looked rather silly. Eventually the buck got a nice big piece in his mouth and went on to grind and grind it into a swallowable gel. Looked almost like an old pensionist with no teeth, chewing with the gums. Funnily enough he has no problems cracking hazelnuts.

Have I mentioned that I picked up Spirited Away on DVD for 30 kroners? 30 KRONERS! That’s insane. That’s like… two bottles of Coca Cola or something. If I recall correctly Spirited Away is the most wonderful animated movie and now I have it on DVD and that makes me happy. 30 kroners. What a bargain.

That’s all for today. Happy weekend to you alls.

PS. In case you don’t look at the comments, look at what Katrine linked up: Picture with the goatses. Beautiful.