In which I worry

I feel rather jumbly in the head today. Feel as if I should be blogging about something but I'm not sure what. I am full of worry and horribly scared for one of my best friends. I don't want to go into details but it's not good news (could potentially be awful news) and we won't know much more for another 6 weeks. I have been feeling physically sick for most of today because of it.

I tried to take my mind off things...

I spent a while wondering why at least three people today have told me I remind them of Adam Ant. Still unsure whether this is a good thing. He's a bit before my time - are they telling me I look splendiferously 80's or like an ageing pop star, minus the face paint? Maybe they just covet my waistcoat. Who knows?

I got cross with Paypal. I hate Paypal with a vengeance at the moment. I bought two things from etsy - it worked fine. I bought something from ebay - transaction unauthorised, account blocked, emails ticking me off, big scary red font on the website. Can I get it unauthorised? No I can't. Apparently it has to be done over the phone and they won't accept a mobile (why let me enter it as an option then?) and my work phone keypad isn't compatible with their systems. I find modern life immensely tiring sometimes. Just for once, it would be nice to be the sort of person for whom technology worked in a straightforward way and didn't constantly throw up pointless and frustrating barriers to getting things done.

I went to watch The Kids Are Alright which was very good and took my mind off things for a little while. Quite a bit of nudey Mark Ruffalo too - always a good thing.

I went to work off my rage with the world by swimming. I was all prepared to get extremely narky with the teenage idiots who frequent my local pool. It's a lane swim you twerps, GET OUT OF MY WAY and sod off to the kids pool if you want to spend half an hour doing handstands in the water. I have lengths to swim. It's important business. But I was the only person in the pool tonight. WOO! I took pleasure in the fact that I was clearly annoying the lifeguards by being there - they so wanted to go home early and I was thwarting their plans. Ha.

I got a very nice email from a man at DotComGiftShop telling me that my blog has mentioned on their site as part of the article Vintage Blogs We Love. How fab is that?! I'm in very august company as part of that list - feel v. honoured! Plus, I'm always interested to know what other people think of the blog and they've been kind.

"Alex enjoys incorporating older accessories into outfits or going for a complete vintage look, and her blog examines her successes and failures with her vintage fascination."

Hopefully not too many failures...

I got an ebay parcel through the post - always a good thing. Especially when it's an entirely frivolous (but inexpensive) vivid vintage dressing gown. Awesome, yes?


I had a bacon butty.

I have the day off work tomorrow.

I'm still feeling ill with worry. None of it seems to have helped.