Coronavirus Diary

Day 35 21st April 2020

There's 2,728 cases in Northern Ireland, 124,743 in the UK and 15,652 in Ireland. I think it's good that Northern Ireland has the least amount of infections out of the UK and Ireland, but it's probably because we're smaller.

Today I got up and I asked my dad how he was and he said his throat was sore. He was taking the pills that the doctor sent him home with but they've made him feel sick.

I watched Impractical Jokers. They told secrets to strangers and they had to get the strangers to tell them a secret. It was funny because one of the people said they wanted to bang a girl in the shop.

There was another challenge where they had to get a photo of people and get their permission to put it on a made up blog. Most of them said yes to the picture being put on the blog.

Joe lost the episode and he was at the airport and he had to pat someone down and it was so funny. I'm sure it would've been really awkward. He also had to take a blow up doll from the conveyor belt and make it clear that it was his, which was pretty funny.

Then I watched a celebrity SAS training thing. In the first part they had to abseil. I thought it would've been alright but there was a part where they were fully dropping! 

I'm terrified of heights and I'm not sure if I could've done it. I went abseiling once and it wasn't as scary as I thought it would be. But I had full control. Whereas on the show they had to let go of the rope and put their hands on their head as they dropped.

Katy Price is on the show and she was really scared and the soldier guy was full on shouting at her and he grabbed her by the collar. I thought he was horrible to her!

They kept picking on Katie Price as well and complaining about her and I thought they were extremely mean and rude! I'll tell you now, if I was her I honestly think I'd swear right back at them. And I don't do well with mean people who aren't positive at all, to have motivation I need encouragement.

But probably the most horrendous part of the show was when they had the weaker people punching the strong ones. There were four celebrities who'd said they were the strongest and they had to defend themselves when they were being punched, they weren't allowed to fight back at all!

The worst bit was when they had literally the whole group attacking Tony Bellew! He's a professional boxer so the army people probably thought he could handle it, but I thought it was grossly unfair. Tony had a bit of an outburst and I think he punched someone, so the soldiers got everyone to stop punching him.

I honestly think the soldiers who are leading it seem horrible and getting everyone to attack each other was disgusting. I'm so glad I'm not on that show, I know I couldn't deal with it. I'd get way too pissed off and upset.

Those guys swear so much as well, one of them must've said fuck at least 5 times in the one sentence. I'm glad I don't know them, they seem way too tough and mean.

Although the show is entertaining and there's a few celebrities on it that I know, so I'll keep watching it. And I do love some drama and people to hate.

I suppose the other problem I have is that I'm a pacifist, so I don't think countries should get involved with conflicts in other countries. It'd be great if there wasn't a need for armies.

I know that Costa Rica doesn't have an army and it's meant to be one of the happiest countries. My sister did research over there and she loved it.

Then I watched House of Games and there was a question on it about the scientific name of a Llama. Three of the answers were made up by the other competitors and one was right. Three of the options seemed normal and one of them was llama glama and I said it was probably that one and I was right. It sounds ridiculous but it's actually the right answer.

There was another one about some kind of phobia and I got the answer right again. It was the fear of looking at yourself in the mirror. So I told my parents that I was only scared of that in the early hours of the morning because it was bright enough to see but not dark enough to need a light. The mirror in the bathroom freaked me out at that time because I thought I'd see some kind of demon in the mirror. 

They used to talk about Bloody Mary when I was in school, ever since I heard about that mirrors freaked me out a bit. I'm not really scared of them now, although I just turn on the light when it's early in the morning so that I don't get scared.

Then my dad was saying that years ago my sister's friends were talking about the bathroom upstairs being scary. But they never said why, my dad thinks it might be because the bathroom is so big. Plus there's a cupboard where someone could hide and you can't see it when you're on the toilet. So I'm not sure why they find that toilet scary.

My parents started talking about how they hear people walking about the house when no one is actually awake. The only time that happened to me was when I was in my room and my mum had just said good night to me. It sounded as if she'd gone upstairs to my sister's room (she was away at the time) and she was walking about up there. I stayed up late and never heard her come downstairs when her room is on the same level as mine. It wasn't my dad either because he was still downstairs watching TV. I asked mum the next day and she said she hadn't been upstairs so it kinda freaked me out.

One of the creepiest things is when the automatic lights outside my house come on. Sometimes I'll go downstairs in the middle of the night and I'll see the outside lights on and they only come on when there's movement. So it makes me kinda paranoid that someone is outside my house, thankfully there's never anyone there. My dad said it's because of the wind and bushes around the lights.

Another time I went downstairs after my parents had gone to bed and I heard a noise like a door closed, so I thought my dad was still awake. I went into the living room and the TV was turned on. My dad always turns the TV off so it freaked me out. Although he probably just forgot to turn the TV off.

I think one of the weirdest things to happen at my house was when the door to the conservatory opened. It had been fully shut when I came downstairs, all the windows were closed and the outside door was as well. There wasn't really an explanation for the door opening because there was no wind and the door had been fully shut. That kinda scared me.

My family ended up talking about these weird things occurring for a while. Then we continued with House of Games.

We watched The Stranger Beside Me which is a movie about Ted Bundy. He was a serial killer during the 70s. The movie had Billy Campbell in it and he played Ted Bundy, although I know the actor from Cardinal where he's the lead detective. So it was kinda funny seeing him in the complete opposite role, although he looked quite different since the movie was from 2003.

The movie showed how his friend reacted to what was going on and it showed different parts of Ted's life and some of the murders as well.

I thought it was a good movie, but it's probably only interesting if you like serial killer things.

Then I watched two episodes of Grey's Anatomy. Jo went and found her biological mother and it was so sad, she found out that her father had raped her mother. I felt so sorry for her and her mum didn't even seem nice at all. 

It's awful because I know that Jo goes into a depressive state and it's sad to see it happening. At the end of the episode Alex was asking what was wrong but she wouldn't tell him, although I thought she should've.

There was also a woman who was on and she'd been raped. I felt so sorry for her and the poor woman was terrified. She agreed to get swabs and it reminded me a bit of the time I had to get an STI test done. It's so uncomfortable and I could see that on the woman's face, it felt relatable to me. Especially since I had some trauma from my horrible ex, so the episode just reminded me of that bad time in my life.

The woman was scared of getting surgery because she was traumatised from what happened and she didn't want to see any men. It was so emotional because they got a whole load of female doctors and nurses to stand in the hallway to support the woman.

The woman reported to the police that she'd been raped and she told her husband at the end of the episode. I really hope things worked out for her, even though she's a fictional character.

That's all for today, I hope you're all safe.