The Day So Far

Yesterday it was so, so overcast, and today the sky is blue and clear and there's sunshine. It's making me quite happy. I woke up reeaally early, at about 2am (went to bed at 6 last night) and sat up for two hours reading my new book- Eat Pray Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert. All the hype it's getting is well deserved, I think. It really is a fantastic book. At 4am I tried to sleep again, but only dozed.

This morning I got up and showered, and talked to Mum on the phone, and then came upstairs (to the attic, which is always freezing cold) to go on Facebook and whatnot for a minute, and I was sitting on the chair waiting for the computer to start up and I notice the sunshine coming through the skylight. It really made me feel a lot better about being up so early and having had so little sleep, because for the last few days it's been so grey and overcast. Everything looks depressing and kind of morbid, like the town in Sleepy Hollow.

At 9.30 Papa drove me down the road to the school that my Aunty Naomi (Mum's half sister) manages and works at. I was there until 12pm, helping out with little kids (all around 3-5 years old). We made pinecone robins and practised the nativity play, and had story time and sang songs. They all wanted to sit on my lap :D It was so cute. This one little girl, Sicily, suddenly came up to me and gave me the biggest hug, just out of the blue. And another, Katie, gave me a story to read to her and as I read about four other kids joined in and all tried to sit on me, listening to me read.
We had to come home at 12 because I had to have lunch (scrambled eggs on toast) and the rest of the day will be quite lazy. I'll probably watch a movie or something. I have to stay awake until at least 8 o clock tonight so that I can set my sleeping clock right. Falling asleep at 5 or 6 pm and waking again at 2, and then not going back to sleep is really screwing with my head.

Tomorrow we're going to Truro, a big sort of town which has a beautiful church, and on Thursday and Friday it's supposed to snow. On Saturday night we're going to the pub for a music quiz ('50s-'90s). We might go to St Ives at some point, too, and Naomi says we're be going ice skating later... I don't expect to be too good at it, which is fine because apparently she's quite unbalanced and holds onto the side the entire time.

Okay, time to go watch a movie.
Will write again in a day or two xx