It's been a busy day today. First the BT man came round to fix the phone. He stayed for a bit, then I went back to work and he used the box outside. When I got back I had a voicetext, so Tom Baker told me my line was now fixed, which is the funniest thing I have ever heard.

And then my landlady and her boyfriend came round. She gave me her number as doing things direct through them got it done much quicker. He fixed the washing machine, so I am now not going to run out of clothes, yay! He's coming back on Saturday to fix the hall light, which is simple. And it turns out there's a trick to the shower but it also requires something to hold the knob up, so he's going to sort that too.

And while I was out with the BT man, my freeview PVR turned up. The manual is 86 pages long because it does so many things. I'm going to have to rearrange everything to work out where to put it. Although I did realise I still have my old DVD remote control out whereas the DVD itself is in the box. There's nothing on till Doctor Who on Sunday, so I might be playing with that later because...

...my broadband is up! I rang Pipex yesterday, and although I rang them on 18th December to get it turned back on, which was the earliest they would let me, for some strange reason my file said I had requested it to be on on 4th January. Whereas in reality I wanted it on on 17th December. But it is on now. Not noticeably faster yet but then I had been getting used to dial-up, so it's harder to tell.

I had a letter this morning dated 29th December from Barclaycard to say they couldn't sort out getting me a refund for the bed until it hadn't been delivered for 30 days, and I needed to contact them by 3rd January if it had turned up. Which goes a long way towards explaining why the bed people rang me yesterday to try and tell me they'd had delivery problems. Which of course explains why they hadn't answered their phones for three weeks. They said they'd refund me and Barclaycard are too, so we'll have to see what happens and how many times I get refunded.

Although my magnetic pinboard has no way of attaching it to the wall, despite saying it came with fittings, so I'll have to ring them up to get that sorted.

I think the first day back at work after Christmas is always the most depressing day of the year. Before Christmas everyone is happy and jolly, and not really caring about work. Today they're still not caring, but also depressed due to having to get up early. And be at work.

It was so nice, being at home, doing whatever I wanted all day, with broadband and all the home comforts. And not having to be grown up - I didn't have to clean, do the washing, cook etc. Even drying up seemed less bad, for some reason. At the end of SJA Sarah said how much she doesn't feel grown up - I keep feeling like I should, and I do grown up things like living on my own and having a car but I think I'd rather not be, some of the time.

Specially as my internet has now regressed to having no dial tone. At all. Thank goodness for mobile phones, and living ten minutes from work and having a key. I'm hoping it means my broadband is on its way.

I really enjoyed all the Doctor Who over Christmas. The Runaway Bride was funny and sad and cool, and I loved Donna. Blood of the Daleks was interesting, but difficult to tell how good as it was only the first half. I miss Charley though. SJA I really enjoyed, except for the odd bit, mostly her mooning over the Doctor. I hope they explain where some of that stuff came from when we start the series proper. The first episode of Torchwood I loved, the second I wasn't so keen on.

I will probably write more about the Doctor Whos and the spin-offs but it's cold at work due to no heating being on and I need to go soon to get my computer started up in time to watch The Thick of It.

I have just noticed, though, that the reason why some of my words are being underlined is because I upgraded to Firefox 2.0 and it's spell checking them as I write. Which is great! Although I'm now thinking I need to find out if there's a way to add things to the dictionary, like Torchwood for example...

Upstairs listen to their TV so loud I can hear every word of it - I hope they turn it off before I go to bed. My washing machine turns out to have horrible, smelly water in it and won't drain. I still have no shower. I still have no hall light. I can see my lounge, yay! But I still have no broadband. Which is bad.