Woke up yesterday in terrible pain, God knows what I've done, but my back is killing me! I can't think of a time I've strained myself picking anything up last week, and I have no idea what could've brought it on at all :( It still hurts like crazy today, hardly slept a wink :( Couldn't sleep on my back at all, only seems to stop hurting when I'm either on my side or propped up on 4 pillows lol.

The clocks went forward last night, so lost an hour sleep, which I probably wouldn't've noticed anyway. *sigh*

Had to go out yesterday to Crawley to get a present and a card for Mother's Day which is today!

I got my mum a book on astronomy called Sky Watching, and Dan got her a 3-piece astronomy pack with a star chart, mini-guide and a planisphere. So now when my mum is in Portugal she can tell what stars she's looking at through her telescope (that she got for her 50th birthday). She was very pleased with both gifts :)

Another long week over. Hooray!

Em and I had a good talk last night, about how I've spent so much money on her, and how she feels like should should repay me but can't. I have never expected to be repaid, and never wanted to be either. I spend money on Em because she deserves being treated well, and I know it hasn't been easy for her. I know it's hard... one minute being treated like shit, the next being treated like a queen. Em is an amazing young woman, and I love her to bits! :) The bestest friend you could ever wish for :)

Ugh, bloody Americans. They shot down one of our fighters with a fucking Patriot! Are they completely incompetent? Can they not tell the difference between one of our planes and a scud missile?

So far we have lost more men through friendly fire and accidents than any other side in conflict. It's pathetic really.

Makes you so mad.

In other news, my parents and I went up to the Purley Way in Croydon looking for a new stand to put the VCR, Sky DigiBox, Plasma screen tuner, Sony cinema sound system and DVD player on. It's turning out to be an impossible task.

There is so much bloody tat out there. We'll probably end up having to build one to spec, as nothing even comes close to what we're after. We went to four stores, nothing once caught my eye. All crap. *sigh*

Woo, it's Friday! It's the weekend baby!!

Em went to take her G2 driving test today, I hope she's passed. She should do, she is a fantastic driver. I felt so safe with her when I was there for two weeks :) I know Em was really nervous but I did my best to boost her confidence in her own abilities. :) GOOD LUCK HUN!!

My brother should be coming home from Uni tomorrow, I haven't seen him since the end of January. It'll be nice to see him again, maybe we can get some LAN games going :) It's so boring playing computer games by yourself!

Watching the footage on the news about the war... it's quite staggering. The amount of explosions and flashes of light knocking out the cameras for a second in the dark. Pretty amazing. I'm going to try to keep as up to date as possible with this war after missing almost all of the Gulf War back in '91.

Being in boarding school back then made it very hard to keep up with anything going on in the outside world. We had hardly any access to TV, although we did get newspapers - but everything was a day out of date by then! What about the internet? What internet? There was no world wide web back then... well there was, but it only had a handful of sites considering TBL had only invented it in 1989-1990!

Before the bombing started, I was against the war - not serious enough about it to protest against it... but I felt that giving the Iraqis time to disarm would probably have been the best route to take. But now the war is started, I am behind my country. I am hoping that British losses will not be too great... we lost 8 Royal Marines today, which was a bit of a shock. They weren't even in combat at the time... which is the worst bit. Like Klingons, they should've died fighting with honour, but they died in a helicopter crash. Doesn't seem right somehow :/

My thoughts are with the Iraqi civilians right now. With the pounding that Baghdad is getting tonight, there's bound to be casualties. I hope they aren't too great, I have absolutely nothing against the Iraqi people. They are an opressed nation, and deserve freedom. They don't deserve to die in crossfire or by American bombs.

After all that, I think we deserve some humour, so here is a song: Let's Bomb Iraq.

Yay! It's Sunday again, and that means at 10PM tonight on BBC2 is the best show currently on TV. 24 - Day Two. I love watching Jack's exploits every week, it's so captivating. It's so hard not to get involved and find it impossible to take your eyes off the screen for 50 minutes.

I have already seen tonight's episode as I watched it last week on BBC3, but I wasn't paying too much attention so I will be watching intently tonight. I dunno if I'll go and watch next week's tonight, guess I'll decide at the time.