Things you can do at home when you do not have house guests:

• be naked/partially clothed
• leave the bathroom door open
• ignore everyone and everything without feeling guilty
• do whatever you want to do without worrying about what others might want to do
• make no plans
• eat cheese for dinner and call it good

Mish arrived on Thursday. It was very hot. So very hot. I pretty much drained myself walking to the station and back. Thankfully I wasn’t required as she and Weasel headed down to London for a feminist meeting. Weasel got very drunk and Mish very kindly got her home safely. I think they had a great time.

We all slept badly thanks to the heat, drunkenness and coughing fits. Friday Mish and I went shopping to get things so we could have chimichangas for dinner. They were lovely. The heat made us all sluggish and slow witted. Before dinner we played games which were very fun. Dinner was great then we went for a walk in the cool night air. Saturday Weasel kindly took some things up to the Post Office for me. We played more games. I adore board games and I don’t have any to play with usually so it was novel having someone. Scrabble, Fluxx, Trivial Pursuit and Nertz! all made an appearance. Saturday we got pizza.

Other things we did but I can’t remember when: played Mario Kart twice, watched the Futurama movie which I totally predicted, Sweeney Todd and Yugio the abridged series and there was probably more eating. I made some oat strawberry thingies that are yummy.

I think it would have been much much better if it hadn’t been so fucking hot. I couldn’t breathe very well at all, the humidity was all crazy like. I think Mish enjoyed herself, she is fairly reserved so it was hard to tell. Plus I slept badly the entire time so I’m sure I wasn’t as much fun as I could have been. All in all, a success.

I got the letter today, my next lung dilation is 15th August! Yay! I get my hearing aids on Wednesday. I’m very excited for both these things. I can’t help but think that once I can hear and breathe everything will just be roses.

Remember my backwards clock that stopped working? I figured out it was the glass pressing on the hands stopping them from moving. I ordered new hands thinking I’d just be able to swap them over and everything would be fine! Unfortunately, the hands didn’t fit. So I put some band aids under the glass and now the clock works fine and all is well.

Remember the oscillating fan that stopped oscillating and we did some fan juggling? When we went to the same store to get something else it turned out they had our nice remote control black fan with nature setting there – and half price! Score! I had a momentary temptation to pack the old one in the box and give it back to them but I didn’t. So now we have four fans, and thank god because did I mention it is really fucking hot?

My sister has had some more bad news. Everything sucks right now. What we need is good news. Something happy. So if anyone has any please share.