Thursday 31 January 2008

Hello.

Wonder what PST stands for. Oh well. Need to do English coursework, but the school network appears to have died as I can't get onto it. Humph. Of course, today had to be the day I forgot to take my pen drive again. Nearly wound up crying too in English. Still, I'm alive.

Wednesday 30 January 2008

Filled my bookcases (again)

My mum and dad went out to the Sue Ryder place kind of near us, kind of in the countryside, which has loads of nice, gentle walks. They got me a bunch of books, to add to the eight I got from WHSmiths the other day, one of which I've now read--it was fab and so now I want to go to the library and get the sequal out, but that won't be happening any time soon. My mum really doesn't look to well. She just called me in, and said that she spoke to Mrs Kosniki (no idea how to actually spell her name) and that I'll be able to get counselling at school if I want it. May try and do that. I just want someone to listen who doesn't know me and so won't judge me and say 'oh you'll be fine, your mum'll be fine, you need to concentrate on your studies'. Just been doing RE homework on prejudice. Hmm, swear people have prejudices about me, like 'oh, she's clever, we can mock her, she'll always do well at stuff, she should get good marks in everything'. I hate that. Just leave me a little margin of error, and I'll be fine I guess. I'll stop ranting now and go off and do some writing.

Happy now

RE with Mr Petts always makes me happy. So I'm happy now. And I'm at home, which is a plus, and I managed not to burst into tears right at the start of RE, before Mr Petts had made me laugh and grin. He's got talant that man. I can never, ever leave his lesson in a bad mood if he's there.

My whole world feels like it's falling apart.

Yeh. The conference on Monday was really good. I'll talk more about it when I feel like it. Right now though, I just feel like crying.
Until about a year ago, my life was pretty great, on the up and up. I was starting my GCSEs, I wasn't in the same classes as the people who used to bully me, and I didn't have to do Geography any more.
Then my dad started acting a bit wierd. Didn't think anything of it. People kept coming round to pray with him, but I pretty much had no idea what was going on until he stopped going to work. He was really strange for a while, kind of distant and sometimes he didn't have a clue what was going on. Turns out he was suffering from stress and depression or whatever you want to call it. Anyway, things that he did around the house--mending stuff for example--wasn't really getting done, he was acting strange, it was sometimes hard to be with him, but it never really affected me all that much. He travelled a lot, so I was used to him not being there, but it felt strange to have a dad who was there in presence but not really there in mind. Anyway, he was off for all of the summer and he's back at work now doing half days and still not right.
And then just recently my mum's not been feeling well, down to hormones and the menopause and all that lark. She was supposed to be going in yesterday to have a camera in her just to check, and then they were going to stick hormones in her so she'd be all right. The camera was just routine, nothing to worry about. It got moved to Monday when I was in London with my dad--he took me down and picked me up from the place, but he didn't stay with me. I found out yesterday morning when I was absolutely shattered to start with that the doctors had found something in her that shouldn't be there, and that she was going in for more tests this Thursday. Last night, I found out it's a tumour, and they're probably going to have to operate, and I can't believe it's happening to her. She's not even 50 until May, she's not that old. Surely she isn't old enough to have cancer. She told me that if she has the operation, she'll be not right for about three months.
How on earth are we supposed to cope without her for three months? It's not like we're a single parent family, my parents have a really strong marriage, but my dad's still not quite right, still only doing half days but he's going back to full ones soon. Anyway, he's great and all, but he doesn't really have much of a clue when it comes to all the domesticy stuff, my mum's always taken care of that. He can cook a bit, but he doesn't really know everything if that makes sense. he doesn't know how much to make, doesn't know whose stuff is whose, doesn't know who eats what. I'm trying to help out as best I can, but things aren't helped with this being the last few months before the exams and me having loads of coursework and whatever.
I just want someone I can talk to, but I don't know who. I don't want to tell my friends, they'll probably think I'm attention seeking or whatever, and I can hardly go to my mum 'oh yeh, you're not well, and it's really bugging me and I don't have a clue what I'm doing', and it's the same with my dad. If Mr D were here today to do communion (he's been off for a while and there was no one in the RE room so I figured it wasn't on), I'd have confided in him I guess, but I don't know. There's supposed to be some kind of counselling thing, but I don't want people to know, I just want to keep it quiet and stay pretty much the same as ever and not be suspected of anything wrong.
I feel like crying, people were just sort of talking and kind of semi having a go at me and normally I'd just be like yeh whatever, especially cos it was only Dolly, but I just feel like I might burst into tears all of a sudden and I don't want anyone here to see. Maybe the school library at dinner wasn't the best place to choose to update my blog with all of this stuff, all the stuff going wrong, but if I can't talk, this is the next best thing.

Saturday 26 January 2008

The park, glue, and a strange dragon.

Went to town this morning, got a set of eight books from WHSmiths, plus my amazon order arrived this morning, so I got Six Sacred Stones. I have never read a book with such a huge cliff hanger at the end, it being a literal cliff hanger, with him falling into an abyss, with a hostile force led by a father who tried to kill him at the top of the cliff and a suicidal Japanese terrorist falling with him.
This afternoon, went to Withy Trees new park with my brother. Would you believe that for all the amazing equipment they have, they don't actually have monkey bars? Humph, I say. Oh well. And then I hurt my ankle by squashing it under the see saw and when I bent down to check I wasn't about to die, James clonked me on the head with it. Never mind. They had a few pretty cool spinny things that you hang off and stuff, and a climbing wall which I couldn't do and a big rope climbing thing which I couldn't work out how to get on top of, although it was maybe a good thing seeing as I'm scared of heights. Random poles too, and I Have no idea what they were supposed to be for.
The glue is from me making part of a model airplane and nearly asphyxiating myself with the fumes. They smell nice though. I like the smell. And the smell of model paint.
As for the strange dragon. Well. This dragon was wierd enough on the first draft in my notebook written last night when I was shattered, just walking off after watching Tatharn kill her children, but now, now, she's asked to join his expedition thing, because she's curious about centaurs and Tuatha (kind of like people and the dominant species in my fantasy novel). Don't even ask what she's up to, because I really don't have a clue.

Friday 25 January 2008

Survived

I survived my French vocab test, got 11 out of 15, which isn't amazing, but it was a pass mark, so there you go. And because I missed half of physics, the remainder didn't kill me off, although it has to be said, it nearly did. Plus, Mrs Farrell wasn't here, and no substitute teacher showed up, so I read for pretty much the whole lesson, which was good. Played Cheat at lunch again, came second again. I'm not too bad at it considering I only learned it about a week or so ago. It's fun. I may post some of my story up here soon, but I'm not sure. We shall see. Maybe the final, final editted version (or what I hope will be that), but who knows.

Thursday 24 January 2008

School and stuff.

Yeh. Need to make Hazel's present. It's not finished, and I ought to give it her tomorrow probably, but I don't think she'd mind too much if she only got it Tuesday, which I think is probably going to happen. Oh well.
Missing double physics tomorrow, yes!!! Hate physics. Going to a newspaper meeting instead. Have a French test, hate French. She never tells us what words to learn, just says learn the vocab for whatever, and then I have to try and guess which words might be included. I have a list of 35 sat in front of me, and knowing my luck, she'll pick ones that aren't even on my list. Humph. Oh well. It's only French. I don't intend ever using it. I just hope I don't have to do a retest. I'm sick of that. And everyone'll laugh if I don't get a good mark and be like 'what are you doing?' and I'm sick at it. Just because I'm clever doesn't mean I never make mistakes. I can't spell to save my life and if she doesn't tell me what words I'm supposed to learn, how on earth am I supposed to do it? Grr. Going to do some more writing now.

Wednesday 23 January 2008

Hi.

Got a headache. Done my chemistry homework. May or may not go to housegroup tonight. Probably. Must print off my leaflet thing for John. Hmm. Don't know what else to write. I'll buzz off and do some more work on my story. Happy Endings it's called, but the ending is pretty much anything but. I guess for Shadow it is kind of a happy ending, and the same for Major Cat and Sophia and the cops and Robert, but it's really sad too.

Tuesday 22 January 2008

London next Monday, can't wait!

Yay. Day off school to go to London to a conference about Islam and Christianity and the law. Can't wait! And, Mrs Pitmen asked me and Jenny if we want to go on a trip to a conference for AS students (we're only GCSE at the moment) in Manchester on Lenin cos she thinks it'll be beneficial. Want to go.
Need to do French and Maths homework soon. Humph. Can't leave it till after tea either, cos I've got a clarinet lesson. Oh well. Must go, things to do, people to see, and all the rest of it.

Monday 21 January 2008

Stupid surprise English test...

Mrs Farrell wasn't here today, so she kindly left us all a test to get on with. The dude sitting with us was wierd for a start, and for seconds he gave us an extra half hour to do it, so I wound up geting somewhat bored and writing twice as much as you're supposed to for the B1 description thing. It was about the January sales, and I think I did a pretty good piece.
Naomi had to go home really early today. There's flooding all over, cos it won't stop raining, and she lives on the other side of a bridge and the bridge was nearly completely flooded and it was still raining so her mum came and picked her up before she got stranded on the wrong side for her house.
We had an RE test too. Wasn't so bad, but I was a bit pushed for time. Textiles is pretty good now we're doing practical work, mines looking quite nice. I'll stick a picture up if I can work out how to do it. Oh yeh, sorry about the Brisingr picture, it wouldn't work for me, so I gave up.

Sunday 20 January 2008

Sorry, spelt it wrong.

Yeh, the new Eragon book. It's Brisingr, not Bsingr. I was confused. The cover's on the side.

Unh... Last night...

Yeh well. I went to this celebration praise evening last night, half for the hotpot, half because I thought it'd be a bit like Devoted (tonight, absolutely fantastic, lively, loud, fun), but it wasn't. I said to my mum on the way in "Where is it actually?" And she said: "Think it's at (can't remember what the church was called). Didn't actually check. We might walk in on a bereavement counselling session or an alcoholis anonimous meeting." We laughed, but it felt just like an alcoholic's anononimous meeting (not that I've been to one), with everyone giving their life stories and going 'oh, I can't tell you how much God has helped me through this awful time, and I just want to encourage you.' Ok, fair enough, testimony has its place and can be ok, but that was just pathetic, and the whole thing was boring, though not quite as bad as a C of E service. We didn't eat until after, so I had nothing until just after 9, which is really bad when I normally eat about half five, especially since I get used to eating about half one in the afternoon on school days and we ate at twelveish. Humph.
Well, the hotpot was very nice, I have to say. My dad reckons we're spoiled at Fresh Manna because it's such a great church, but there must be other churches like it out there, there must be. Nice, lively, family-feeling churches with about a hundred or so people who come, so fairly big, but not too big, small enough to feel like a family, big enough that you don't get bored of the same people all the time. It was pretty lively this morning, we were doing all the happy clappy songs and dancing and stuff. Twas good.
Naomi's coming soon, so we'll do some English revision and go on the trampoline if it dries out a bit, and then we're going to Devoted, which'll be good because I don't really know anyone there and she doesn't really have a church at the moment. So there you go, that's my life. Pretty much anyhow.

Saturday 19 January 2008

Eragon Book Three (Inheritance Cycle)

Yup. I know what it's called, I know what it's called. It's called: Bsingr, which means fire and is taken from the ancient language. It's the first word from the language that Eragon ever hears and the word through which he first uses magic. Apparently the meaning also has significance to the story. Glaedr, the golden dragon who's crippled that Eragon meets when he goest to the elves, is featured on the cover, as opposed to the green dragon (third one to hatch). I reckon the new Rider will be either Nasuada or Katrina.

Well, I'm ok as regards the whole computer thing.

Yup. Apparently, my brother and I are to be allowed up to eight hours on the computer per week, and as I averaged out at under an hour a day, I'm ok.

Friday 18 January 2008

Boringest day in the world

I hate Fridays. I know that sounds absurd, but it's true. For a start, I have choir, which now we've got Mr Tarney is nowhere near as good as it used to be. Then, English, which I spent reading Paddy Clarke Ha, Ha, Ha, which is just about the worst book ever. History, we were doing coursework in the computer room and I just could not concentrate at all. It was awful. Then I have prefect duty, which basically involves standing in a freezing cold corridor and watching the sixth form prefects do everything, sometimes including carrying out miscreants and dumping them outside. Physics is the most boringest lesson in the world, and I don't get electricity and that at all, which is really bad, so I'll have to get my dad to explain it to me cos he's an electrical engineer, so he should know what it's all about. At dinner, I had to go to a Duke of Edinburgh meeting, which was utterly pointless, because despite me asking and him saying it was for me as well and the English trip group (basically we're doing our final later than everyone else because we went on a trip to London on the day everyone else did their practice expedition), it really wasn't. We were there for half an hour, and the only information I got out of him was that we were to keep watching the noticeboard for more announcements, which we're doing anyway. Grr. Then French, which is nearly as bad as Physics, then finally got to come home. Hallellujah!
Oh yeh, there was a newspaper meeting this morning as well, and I've volunteered myself to do a story on choir, which could be interesting. I'll try not to be too negative about Mr Tarney, even if he is a prat, because he probably wouldn't appreciate that too much, and he's already mad at me in a way about missing wind band. That is, if he actually even knows what my name is.

Thursday 17 January 2008

Dream again.

Yeh. Had another interesting dream involving fighting and stuff, kind of mideavel (how on earth are you supposed to spell that??) but I can't really remember the details, only that I woke up and went 'that'd make a great story', but then my brother banged the shower door and made a racket and woke me up, and I thought my alarm clock had gone off and I was just going off back to sleep, but it was still ten minutes before it goes off, so I was annoyed and then I forgot the dream. Humph.

English revision sessions, band, and stuff.

Well. These English revision classes after school. I was going to one today. Absolutely shattered after PE (aerobics, we had a non-stop forty minute session, and I foolishly did the whole thing and didn't opt out part way through or for part of it), handed in my science book to Mr Benett, and then went off to English. There was a whole bunch of people waiting outside, people I kind of know for the most part, but none of my mates were there. They were all like 'what's she doing here? she doesn't need to revise.' and 'why's she come, now she'll make me look dumb'. I really, really hate that. I just wanted to do some revision in a group, but I came home instead, because there was no way I was going to stick myself in and be unwelcome. Should've just taken my clarinet and gone to band. Will do next week. Humph. Would've liked to go to band and all. It's kind of fun now I'm the only clarinet, and I've definately got better since I first started going, so it's not like it's way too hard for me.
I've got firefox now, seeing as my internet explorer kept crashing. I managed three times in a day, in just a few hours, which is pretty good (or bad) going really.
Why am I so clever? It's annoying sometimes, everyone starts looking at me for answers, and expects me to know everything and get everything right first time, but I can't always. Rachel was saying pretty much that in English about French, because half the class asks her for the answers. Hate French, mostly cos I'm sat on my bill on the opposite side of the classroom to everyone else. Grr.

Wednesday 16 January 2008

Dream from Last Night

Yeh, just sticking this on too. Thought it ought to go on a seperate thing.
Basically, I was this guy, kind of like a knight, but more like a Prince, and the castle became mine because my dad died or something, and I was going to basically sell it all and get whatever I could out of it, but I changed my mind at the last minute because the people needed me and then there were witches and stuff and I was fighting them off, along with all these other strange creatures, and one of them was made out of donuts. There you go. Strange dream.
And then, in another part of it, maybe before all that, maybe just a different dream, but kind of linked I think, I was talking with all the folks from the Harris under this shelter kind of thing that felt like indoors but was open on the sides. It was pretty cool. Can't remember what we were talking about.
Shall dissup from the blog and go to the forum now. I think. NaNoCoMo if you're interested. Good place, lots of nice people there.

Hi. Just a kind of rant/update/don't really know

Hello.
Ranting slightly. Why do I have to account for every second of my life? Why?! I'm annoyed. Other than that, why are there no monkey bars that are my size around here. Shall have to persuade parents to take me to Longridge, Naomi said there were some there. Haven't been on monkey bars for ages cos I'm too big.
Sick of being used as an answer book. Considering refusing to answer any questions pointed my way, or answer them wrong, but that wouldn't be very friendly. Oh well. Only a few more months to go, and then a new start, a new life, and a new bunch of friends. Hmm. Like to keep in touch with the old. Shall have to persuade us to have a collective blog type thing or something similar. Don't know.
Can I use *these* in English exams I wonder? Put them in my RE work today. Hmm. I wonder what Mrs Farrell would say. Probably something along the lines of 'humph, that's not proper English, disappointed in you'. She was disappointed in me for not liking Jane Eyre. Honestly, I've never read such absolute rubbish in my life. It's as bad as Paddy Clark, Ha, Ha, Ha, which is even more random and off on one than this, and this is allowed to be because it's just my randomness.
Rhea's starting a blog too. They've all had a look in IT. Probably one of the boringest subjects on the planet, down there with Physics, PE and French. Grr, why did I pick French? Why do I have to sit on my bill and turn round and work with Muneeb and Chloe when we do pair work? They absolutely do my head in. Chloe can be all right sometimes I guess, but Muneeb is just a prat and he ought to be shot and hung and whatever else. Maybe not very Christian, but how I feel.
There we go, update complete methinks. Can't be bothered rambling any more. And I don't like the other blog on LiveJournal, it's too complex. Think I'll abandon it and just stick to here and stick my dreams on here.

Monday 14 January 2008

Having to account for every second of my life...

Grr. Came home from school and my mum was like 'think you're spending too much time playing games on the computer, keep a note of when you go on and how long you're on for'. Turns out that includes updating this and my other blogs, and writing stories, and going on forums, and presumably checking e-mail, reading, doing my Distance Learning course, and pretty much my entire life. Argh!! Why can't they just leave me alone? This is good for me, means I can meet new people and stuff. Humph. I like blogging and posting on forums, and I am not going to stop doing that or writing, or reading, just because they think I'm spending too much time 'playing'. What else am I supposed to do? I've done all my homework, I'm not behind in anything, in most subjects I'm actually ahead where I can be (Textiles, English), History I'm so fast at typing I'll be done miles before everyone else, Maths is just maths, French is hard but I'm keeping on top of it, and everything else, just humph. I'm annoyed, as you can probably tell.

Well, I must update my other blog, so farewell and I hope your parents never spring anything as nasty and control freakish as this on you.

Saturday 12 January 2008

Oh yeh, forgot to say before...

A* in French speaking mock, yay! Now I just need to memorise all the rest of the ones we've still got to do. And properly memorise the others. Forgot some of the stuff, wound up saying things like 'I like history... um... because... um... I like history.' Oops. Obviously didn't matter all that much.

Christmas meal was good

Yep, that's right. Our church Christmas meal was last night. Good food, and lively company. Had a great time. Tired now, but I'm awake and can't get back to sleep. Humph.
Did you konw taht eevn thoguh tihs lokos bad, you can siltl udersntad it bceasue yuor barin deosn't raed the idinvdiaul ltetres but the wlohe wrod? Probably. I've seen this more times than I can remember, just randomly decided to post it on here.

Wednesday 9 January 2008

Writing Update, yay!

Finished One For Sorrow. Hopefully the editing I will have to do at some point - no story is perfect first time - is not too much. I'm chuffed. Ok, so it's the first in what will probably be a seven or eight book series, but let's not worry too much about the rest of it for now. That can come later, when I've written some more of the stuff on my list of goals. Maybe I'll bob over to my angel series and have a stab at one of those, either the first or the fourth I think. The new fourth that is. I still have like what? Ten minutes before I'm supposed to go to bed. Maybe I won't get any more done. Still. I'm chuffed.

Yo Folks. Writing update.

Hi. Ok, basically my writing update runs as follows:
* Two blogs. This one and http://nutmegangel.blogspot.com, which is a roleplay one where I'm writing as my main character in my main series.
* Happy Endings - A historical romance/action set in the 1920s in America involving prohibition, pilots, evil uncles, gangs and racism.
* Nutmeg Angel - My first story, going through what, fingers crossed, will be the final edit. I just need to add a scene and make another more important and I'm done.
* Fantasy, as yet untitled, provisionally Tokoyo's Story - A retelling of a Japanese legend and kind of some Celtic legends and kind of some other bits of Japanese legends too. It's basically a mix and match of every single legend that has caught my eye so far, but the main plot line follows a Tuatha De Denann (kind of replacing humans) and her search for her father who disappered from the Land of the Exiles. She's not the most adventurous of people, and she meets a whole host of strange creatures who help or hinder her on her journey, and force her not to give in.
* Seeking Truth, though the title may change - Sixth or seventh book in my series about Nutmeg, involving Scotland, metal arms, demons (of course), Sammy playing a big part, a girl called Cara (or something like that) who is sure she has something important to tell the people she was with before she died and was re-enstated in a different part of heaven, but has no idea how to go about doing it, and an orphan girl possibly. Depends whether I have room. The big battle looks like it may have to wait for the next book.
* Stolen Faith, the reason I'm not sure whether Seeking Truth is the sixth or seventh book - I really want to write this one about Sammy after the car crash and her disastrous marriage to Ben followed by a re-marriage to Red.
* One For Sorrow - the first book in a series about a young Birdie and his struggle for acceptance amongst Pures and his fight against Craig and his job as a cop and how that conflicts wiht his faith and his revolutionary sympathies.
* Winged Fire - Book two in my series about Nutmeg, needs editing.
* Broken Sky, Chain Heart, Twisting Fate - Books three, four and five in my series about Nutmeg, need typing up and editing.
* Sky Dancer - my nanowrimo (see http://www.nanowrimo.org) 07 novel, needs editing extensively.
* Dancing Flame - sequal to Sky Dancer, needs writing.
* A Crash Course In Landing - need to decide where on earth I'm going with that thing, or even if I'm going to continue it.
* Mateo and Ashnin's Story - needs typing up and completing at some point. It's not a bad story really, just very Brain Jacques'y.
Umm.... Think that's about it. If I come up with any more, I'll tell you.

More Results...

Yup. A* in French speaking mock, which was the one I was most worried about. Guess I don't really have all that much to worry about :). I had a strange dream, but can't remember it now. Oh well.

Tuesday 8 January 2008

Whooo!

Got an A* in my History mock, yay! Now I've just the French results to wait for. Hope I did ok on the speaking. We shall see.
Struck by an interesting idea last night in a dream. It involved kamikazee planes but they weren't quite planes, they were like my wasps in a different story (powered hang glider type things), and it was also a little like the gladiator contests in the Roman Empire. Hmm.... Shall write more of my dreams on here I think. It's as good a place as any for them.

Sunday 6 January 2008

Back to school :(

No.... School again tomorrow. Oops about the History homework, which I forgot to properly write down and so I don't have a clue what I'm supposed to do, but oh well, I'll ask Rhea tomorrow. Or Liv. Or somebody, anybody, who might have a vague idea of what we were supposed to do. I'm pretty sure it was research on something, but I'm not entirely sure what we're supposed to have been researching.
Found some other homework this morning -- Short Course RE. Oops about that as well, but it's done now. It's wierd, but I've had way more homework from short course than from long course. As in, other than catching up and revision I don't think I've had any RE since Febuary.
Oh well. I suppose I'll survive. It's not as though I have all that much school left now. Well, I finish early cos of GCSE's, so I reckon we'll be all done with school after the end of May, exams and all. Then I just have to go in and get my results. Then I'll start at college. Ooh, scary. I hope I get into Cardinal Newman. It's so pretty, all covered in ivy and stuff. I'm setting part of the story after this one (think it's probably going to be called Dark Light or possibly Seeking Truth or maybe Crashing Clouds, but it'll be book... 8 I would've thought. Assuming I get on and write Sammy's story that needs writing, which'll go in between the current books 3 and 4. I think I'm going to be forced on a walk soon. Hope not. Maybe I can wiggle out of it somehow or other. Need an excuse. Um... Ate too much for lunch. Um... Back ache.... Didn't sleep well?? Never mind. I'll survive. I hope. If there aren't any more posts on here, you'll know it's becasue I died.

Thursday 3 January 2008

Word count hmm...

so far this year, my average daily word count is 7146 words, which I reckon is pretty impressive. There are a few rants in the middle of stuff, but for the most part it's all relevant and good and whatever. I'm addicted to thirty minute word wars though. I will get over 2000 in one, I will...

Wednesday 2 January 2008

Hey folks!

I managed over 10000 words yesterday!!! Good start to the year. Now I just need to do some work on my correspondance course.
We managed Liverpool on the 31st. It was so quiet! Hardly anyone about, though it did start getting a little busier after 2. Spent pretty much all of my Christmas money now. Still, I did get a CD, book and some clothes, so I didn't do too bad. I love Mathew Reilly's books, they're absolutely great. And Mika's top! Love the CD. Now I've just got to figure out how to use iTunes store and download a bunch of stuff.

Tuesday 1 January 2008

Happy New Year!

Well folks, this is it. Let's see if I can keep this blog up to date along with all the school stuff that needs doing. Wonder how many words it's possible to write in a day. I'm working on One For Sorrow at the moment, and I managed about 7000 on Sunday, and I didn't even use the whole day then. See if I can manage 10000 for the first time ever, maybe even more than that. We shall have to wait and see, shan't we?