Draining Complete

I've been running around like a headless chicken today. I had to leap out of bed when the room inspectors arrived. I was just pulling my trousers on when they started letting themselves in, even though I'd yelled "just a second!" The curtains were drawn so they couldn't see that the window is clinging to its frame for dear life. They took one look and left saying the room was fine. Unfortunately the rest of the house didn't fare so well. It was all stuff that I'd had nothing to do with mind: The cooker wasn't very clean (a bit harsh that, in my opinion. People still have to cook, we can't not eat just because there's an inspection on...) and the fridge was grim (fair play, it really was) and the bathroom downstairs (which I don't use because it is grim) was grim. But they were fair, they gave us an hour and a half to clean the place up.

So after an hour of frantic cleaning I went to vote. Only problem was that I had no idea where the polling station was. I wandered around until eventually I found it. They had one sign outside of it... You'd have thought they could have put one or two further down the road. After voting I went to the COOP to get some odds and ends and got stuck in a queue behind the frailest living person I've ever seen. Seriously, this woman must have been about 200 years old. It took her about 10 minutes to walk from the checkout to a seat about 2 metres away.

When I got home I then had to head back out for badminton. I wanted to give blood, but I also wanted to play badminton and I knew there was no way I'd be able to play afterwards, so I decided to go to badminton first and then give blood. I got completely thrashed at badminton and then came home and went to give blood.

For some reason when I got there I had it in my head that I might have had a blood transfusion as a baby, but then when I spoke to my mum (they wouldn't let me give blood without checking - even though I've given blood before) she said I've never had a transfusion so it was all okay.

This time it bloody hurt when they took the sample from my finger. Last time it didn't hurt at all. Weird. Hopefully I won't spend the next 2 days feeling half dead like I did last time.

Now I must go drink lots of fluids.