So the next main thing that came up was going for my CT scan on the Thursday. The eye has settled a little bit but I still find it hard to adjust to the change of light and indoor/outdoor looking, it will take a while but will hopefully settle soon enough. I dropped my ESA forms into my doctor to get them filled in and will pick them up next week when I'm in to get my next chemo. The scan went ok, nothing out of the normal, sat around waiting while I took the drink and then in to get it and didn't take long. I decided to walk home as, with the traffic it would take longer to get the bus and the germs too there. It was so nice, the eyesight, being able to look into the distance and instead of things in the distance being blurs they were so clear and sharp and even looking up into the sky seeing the stars as points rather than blobs of lights. It has really added to it, so beautiful.
That evening I just ended up watching a couple of films and doing a bit of reading. But my diary is clear until next Friday for the chemo, which is good timing as the Black Friday deals are all going around next week so I'm sure I'll get a few bargains, best week of the year and I don't plan to do anything over the weekend with the eye just getting done, not going to take any chances.
Friday was another quiet day, just sat around reading and on the computer and went out with the telescope with my dad and Lewis for a bit to have a look at Venus, got some nice shots, not great ones but you can see that it looks like a very distant moon crescent shape. After watched the Ulster game and watched G.I. Joe Retaliation, was a good no brainer film with action, just what I was after.
Saturday morning I came down and had breakfast and was watching different sports on the sports channels including the basketball, American football and volleyball, they were all quite enjoyable and it fascinates me that the American college football get such a big crowd! Lewis seemed to enjoy it as well and then the Everton Liverpool game was on after, was a good game and the result worked out well for Arsenal again and right after that I put on the rugby league and seen the enthralling finish to the England New Zealand semi final, which New Zealand got a try to even the scores with the last play and got the conversion to win and get into the final against Australia. Went for a sleep in the afternoon. In the evening I was in the kitchen taking my tablets and heard a bit of a ruckus outside so went and had a look and there where a load of youths looking as if they were about to kick off, which they did and one kid got a bit of a hiding and then they all ran off different directions, yesterday I seen a load of school kids standing up in the park in a circle which looked like there was going to be a fight then, so it must be a bit of a thing at the moment. As long as they don't make a mess outside my house or keep me awake or do anything to bug me, I'll be happy enough but I'm sure it's just a phase and will pass.
Sunday was something similar to Saturday when I watched some random sports on TV starting off with American football, some NHL and then the Ireland match in the rugby union against New Zealand, Ireland were incredibly unlucky not to win it, but they did seem to get the run of the green in the first half, was still a bit heart breaking when it came to the end and they lost in the last minute. That evening I started organising things for the black Friday deals next week, having a look around to see if I could find different sites that are going to be taking part in it. But there was very little about it on most places, so I will just have to keep a better eye out during the week. Getting very excited about it and I'm sure it's going to cost me a bucket load. But at least I will save a massive amount, if I get in fast enough. And sure enough that evening a deal came up that was a £10 Amazon voucher for £5 so that was a good start even before the Monday came and got a pressie for my mum and dad to have before Christmas, half price and free delivery.
Monday morning and I had a look on the Amazon lightning deals to see which ones I would be interested in and the time that they would be up at, there were a few things and some I'd quite like so I made a note of how much I would be willing to spend and if they were below that I'd jump, which I did for a few things, can't mention some as they're Christmas pressies for people. One thing I had planned to do today was to go into town and see the Coca Cola lorry and to get my mum's watched fixed up, so that's exactly what I did, I didn't have any other deals coming up for a while so I should be back home in time for them. Got down to the lorry and the queue wasn't too long so hung around got a free tin of coke and got my picture taken with the lorry, felt like a big kid, was great and then went round a few shops to get the prices checked out to get the watch fixed up and ended up going back to the first place I went and got it sorted in a few minutes and headed home, ended up walking in and home, the eye wasn't too bad but still felt "wobbly" and hard to focus on things especially going in and out of shops. Got home just in time to get the deal I was after and was cheaper than I had expected it to be, good stuff. Further to note on the youths, there was a police car attacked by kids throwing bottles on Grand Parade, this might get things sorted a little and get them away for a while and tonight is also the last night that I have to wear my mask when sleeping, the glue hasn't been doing my skin any favours and has been drying it out, the heavy rubbing in the morning getting it all off is the main problem I guess, but can't wait till I can sleep a little more comfortably.
Tuesday morning I checked the total of how much I spent/saved so far on different deals and it's worked out at a saving of over 60% not too bad, hopefully that will increase as the week goes on. But the rest of the day was spent looking for deals and in the evening watched the Arsenal game, wasn't exactly a good game, but the result was what I was after, another 3 points.
Wednesday the first pile of stuff arrived, so it was like an early Christmas, getting to open all the stuff, always fun, most days this week will be like this and once again the only thing that was done today was looking for some good deals and a bit of reading, rechecking the saving from today added to the previous ones, it has now went up to 68.8% saved, going well. Thursday was basically the same as Wednesday with the opening of items delivered keeping an eye out for more deals some reading and trying to keep up to date with how ISON is coping near the sun, but it turns out that it's just a bit of dust now.