Missing Jumper, Healing Laptop

I lost my favourite vest-top/jumper this morning. I was a little confused as to where it could have gone because the last time I wore it was about two weeks ago. After checking through my cupboard, the pile of clothes I always leave on my chair and my chest of drawers, I decided to look in the only other place it might be. Sometimes my mother "accidently" puts other people's clothes in my younger sister's room. She doesn't actually but she says it's her fault if other people's clothes are found in my little sister's room. Unless she's on one of her kicks, and then the little sister is called a thief and all that nonesense. When I went into the room my little sister was in there. I told her what I was looking for but she said she hadn't seen it. Okay, yes, she often lies so I thought I'd better check myself. But she was on the phone (to her boyfriend, I think) and my presence in the room was suddenly a great discomfort. You'd swear she was making a deal of some kind to her pimp or drug dealer the way she carried on. Anyway, I didn't find the jumper. Didn't mean it wasn't in there, of course, just that I hadn't been quite brave enough to go through all the many layers of clothes that act as a carpet. You never quite know what you're going to find in there - old food gone green, etc. I went back into my room, began combing through my wet hair, panicking, wondering what the hell I could have done with my top. When I looked down and found it. Scrumbled up on the floor at the end of my bed. Then I remembered when I'd last worn it. And when it had quite quickly been taken off again, discarded on the floor and forgotten all about. So, panic over: the top has been found and the memory really made me smile.

Then I received a spectactularly nice letter from a publisher. I'd sent them some chapters of my book Soul Mates I: The Path To Destruction about two months ago. I hadn't heard anything back from them and so I assumed it was another no. Well, it was a no but it was a positive one. The lady said she totally agreed with me that there was a big market for such a story, she said she thought the story was good, that it was well-paced and she enjoyed it. Unfortunately the book was too big for their company because they only have about five books a year. My book too big a challenge! I was quite impressed with that. It was a no and I don't like the endless rejection letters you get - you know the deal: publisher's won't read your work unless you have an agent, an agent won't read your work unless you have a publisher - but it was very inspiring all the same. It really did make me smile. A lot.

And just last night I found out that my laptop wasn't quite as dead as I first thought. Yes, it is clearly not as good as it once was, but it may not be yet dying so quickly. Turns out the battery is upsetting it. So all I need is a new battery. What with Christmas round the corner I am quietly confident my baby will be back in full working order by January. Until then I've taken the battery out and am using it totally on mains power.

All this smiling really did cheer me up. Because yesterday I went back to see the doctor and she said that there is absolutely no reason why a girl my age, as a non-smoker, I should still have this chest infection. And she said if this new course of medicine doesn't work she's going to send me for chest x-rays! And a visit to the Asthma Clinic. I'm a little scared by the x-ray possibility, especially considering last time I was anywhere near a hospital I ended up moving in.

The only bad thing to have happened this morning actually is that my parents' male dog pissed on my bed! Thankfully, it wasn't all over the quilt (I have no idea how I'd have cleaned that up); he aimed it on the knitted blanket my Gran made. Even more annoying than that was my father's reaction: that it was my fault. I'm tempted to go and piss on my father's bed and see how he likes it...

Labels: dogs, family, illness, laptop, writing

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