*yawns*

[venetia_sassy]

 bsc_snark has solved a mystery for me! Sometimes I get little bits of dialogue or part of a scene stuck in my head. Ususally I can figure out where they come from pretty quickly but at some point last year, I had this memory flash into my mind of a book in which a kid (I thought a girl) was building a 'time machine' with a (possibly misspelled) flux capacitator wrapped in toilet paper.

Why this came to mind, I have no idea. I knew it wasn't a movie memoery and I didn't think it was Calvin & Hobbes because I was seeing it in words not drawings. Looking over the children's books still on my shelves, I couldn't get the memory any clearer but I thought it might be a BSC Little Sister book. But that still didn't seem quite right.

Every now and then the memory would pop up and annoy me again. Then the other night, I was reading a snark of Mary Anne's Makeover. My recollection of the book was that Mary Anne's dad was pretty great in it and all Mary Anne's so-called friends were utter shits.

These recollections were accurate. But it was the babysitting subplot that made me sit up. Carolyn Arnold was building a time machine. Necessary components?

Top Secret
Chek List for Time Mashin
Dr. Carolyn Arnold, Scientist

 Flux Capasitatter
Warp Consol
The Hands from A Brokened Clock
Unpluged Telephone
Old Blankit
Dish Towl
Some Toylet Paper
One Curtain Rod

Mystery solved! That was really a very cute subplot. I wonder what my brain will dredge up next?

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Last night involved a spectacular headache that lasted until well after dawn. Sleep was less than restful thanks to be woken up by the dogs greeting three visitors in quick succession (garden guy, pest control guy and neighbour from across the road who found and returned our cat's brand new collar and expensive tag. That's the second time he's lost a collar over there. He likes to visit and lord it over their cats.) Got up to take more headache pills, went back to bed, woke up around 5p.m., got up but had to go back to bed after an hour or so, had a nap while Mum went to aquarobics, got up again when she got back and I made dinner. And now I'll probably go back to bed soon and try for better sleep since I have an acupuncture appointment tomorrow.

*sigh* I really don't think it's helped. Or if it has, the effects don't last.

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I had something else to talk about. *draws a blank* 

P.S. Hah, I remembered one thing. Dee asked if I was okay with a local prayer group praying for my recovery. Um, yes? It's not something I believe but if people want to think good thoughts for me, that's very kind of them. I'm not going to say no.