Happy Mondays: Sickness and achievements
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lizzie_and_ariHey kids!
1. Am having a good productive day today. have created a spreadsheet of all the important things I'm doing as I'm starting to loose track a tad. (I now have active and defined roles with The Skinny, Dr Sketchy's and The Actors' Kitchen as well as other bits and pieces and my Own Stuff, including NaNoWriMo. Lots going on.) We have music playing, Ari and I have a laptop each (at last!) and are both pootling - me at various things and she, currently on her novel. John is under the duvet in his room planning Thailand. Excellent day.
2. Have been sick this week - started on Friday and last night was still feeling icky. It's flu-ish but weird as it's not cold-y at all, just really bad headaches and feverish (although, weirdly, I never get actual high temperatures when I seem clearly to have a fever) but I think my remedy of sitting under a duvet and sleeping a lot seems to be working fairly well. Soon I will make beans for lunch.
3. Went up to Blair Atholl on Tuesday - John's parents were away and he needed to go and get some stuff, so he drove up (much more successfully than last time - it only took 2 1/4 hours, rather than 3 1/2. Epic wrong turns had happened due to him not being able to drive the motorway route). It was twinkly and beautiful and peaceful and we had chips. On the Wednesday morning, we took a walk around the village whilst John up-ended the house in his search for paperwork. We saw a red squirrel and came across a water mill/bakery that looked very similar to one we had visited with my Ma years ago. Very similar. Lots of the same features. It took us possibly a little too long to conclude that it was in fact the same one. Unfortunately it was shut (off season), but we will go back in the summer as I remember fantastic scones and jam.
4. We also visited House of Bruarwhilst we were there. Normally I find this a fun experience - overpriced cashmere and upper class comedy postcards. However, perusing said postcards, I realised that in the corner, in the 'background' was footage of a bear being shot. On closer inspection, this was advertising a series, Hunters Videos, showing footage of the most spectacular animals being shot in the head you've ever seen. Now, I know the ins and outs of hunting are not always as simple as saving the widdle fluffy animal, but a) showing videos of black bears being shot in the head where kids are fairly likely to be innocently meandering? Really? and b) one of the videos was of elephant hunting which I'd always thought was illegal. Now, a quick Google shows me that's not the case, but my sense of appallment stands. I actually felt a bit sick. I don't care if that makes me naive.
5. The baby is cute as ever, as is Toby. Toby is very cute and loving with him, actually, even if they can't be left in the same room at the same time together, so Emily's life resembles a giant version of the fox and chickens dilemma. I even fed the baby the other day which was damned exciting and brilliant.
6. Am getting on fairly ok with Nanowrimo - on about 11,700 words which is behind my original target of 2,000 a day but still on track for finishing on time. The story is, let's say, vague and I'm very much making it up as I go along. So far there are themes of feminism and Catholicism (which surprised me), and philosophy and mug collections. I suspect it will continue to make little sense, but it's fun and interesting as an exercise.
7. Saw Georgie this week for the first time in too long. She and Jonathan came round for tea and cake (and cheese) and then we went out to the pub with them, despite sickness, and drank ginger beer. We met a lovely man called Johnny who Jonathan used to work for. I had initial wonderingments as to whether he was in fact coming on to Ari, but turns out he's just a little bit intense (and also married). But, oddly, in a really nice way. Ari dispensed life advice and we talked about pheasants. He was cool. It'll be too long again before we see Georgie and this makes me sad. I miss her a lot.
8. Did my bit to fight The Man: I saw a nannying job advertised on Gumtree, paying £400 a month, for hours that added up to 42 hours a week. Even in a February, that's £2.38 an hour. So I checked up on the law and reported in on Gumtree as illegal. It is still deleted so assume my complaint was upheld. Of course, she's probably foundsome poor schmuck to do it anyway - 'English does not have to be your first language' was pretty telling.
9. Didn't get the job o' joy. Not a huge surprise but a let-down nonetheless. Still, even getting an interview, at which I was taken seriously, has boosted my confidence a wee bit so I think all in all it was a good exercise.
10. Discovered TeamViewer. I cannot recommend this highly enough to anyone with parents. it's a free (for personal use) programme which allows remote viewing of any other PC (with the programme also installed and with passwords etc), for tech support and file transfers. This means than the days of my Ma calling with a computer problem and my realising after 15 minutes that she's not even using the same program I think she is (a common one is MS word instead of her email editor, or vice versa) are over! Over! I can log onto her PC, fix what needs fixing, but also talk her through the process showing her what I'm doing. Fantastic.
11. I managed to get to the third Sunday night in a row where all the laundry was ironed and put away. I don't care if everyone finds this dull, it's a MASSIVE achievement, ok?
I think that's about the sum of my week. Have a good one, folks!
Lizzie xxxx
1. Am having a good productive day today. have created a spreadsheet of all the important things I'm doing as I'm starting to loose track a tad. (I now have active and defined roles with The Skinny, Dr Sketchy's and The Actors' Kitchen as well as other bits and pieces and my Own Stuff, including NaNoWriMo. Lots going on.) We have music playing, Ari and I have a laptop each (at last!) and are both pootling - me at various things and she, currently on her novel. John is under the duvet in his room planning Thailand. Excellent day.
2. Have been sick this week - started on Friday and last night was still feeling icky. It's flu-ish but weird as it's not cold-y at all, just really bad headaches and feverish (although, weirdly, I never get actual high temperatures when I seem clearly to have a fever) but I think my remedy of sitting under a duvet and sleeping a lot seems to be working fairly well. Soon I will make beans for lunch.
3. Went up to Blair Atholl on Tuesday - John's parents were away and he needed to go and get some stuff, so he drove up (much more successfully than last time - it only took 2 1/4 hours, rather than 3 1/2. Epic wrong turns had happened due to him not being able to drive the motorway route). It was twinkly and beautiful and peaceful and we had chips. On the Wednesday morning, we took a walk around the village whilst John up-ended the house in his search for paperwork. We saw a red squirrel and came across a water mill/bakery that looked very similar to one we had visited with my Ma years ago. Very similar. Lots of the same features. It took us possibly a little too long to conclude that it was in fact the same one. Unfortunately it was shut (off season), but we will go back in the summer as I remember fantastic scones and jam.
4. We also visited House of Bruarwhilst we were there. Normally I find this a fun experience - overpriced cashmere and upper class comedy postcards. However, perusing said postcards, I realised that in the corner, in the 'background' was footage of a bear being shot. On closer inspection, this was advertising a series, Hunters Videos, showing footage of the most spectacular animals being shot in the head you've ever seen. Now, I know the ins and outs of hunting are not always as simple as saving the widdle fluffy animal, but a) showing videos of black bears being shot in the head where kids are fairly likely to be innocently meandering? Really? and b) one of the videos was of elephant hunting which I'd always thought was illegal. Now, a quick Google shows me that's not the case, but my sense of appallment stands. I actually felt a bit sick. I don't care if that makes me naive.
5. The baby is cute as ever, as is Toby. Toby is very cute and loving with him, actually, even if they can't be left in the same room at the same time together, so Emily's life resembles a giant version of the fox and chickens dilemma. I even fed the baby the other day which was damned exciting and brilliant.
6. Am getting on fairly ok with Nanowrimo - on about 11,700 words which is behind my original target of 2,000 a day but still on track for finishing on time. The story is, let's say, vague and I'm very much making it up as I go along. So far there are themes of feminism and Catholicism (which surprised me), and philosophy and mug collections. I suspect it will continue to make little sense, but it's fun and interesting as an exercise.
7. Saw Georgie this week for the first time in too long. She and Jonathan came round for tea and cake (and cheese) and then we went out to the pub with them, despite sickness, and drank ginger beer. We met a lovely man called Johnny who Jonathan used to work for. I had initial wonderingments as to whether he was in fact coming on to Ari, but turns out he's just a little bit intense (and also married). But, oddly, in a really nice way. Ari dispensed life advice and we talked about pheasants. He was cool. It'll be too long again before we see Georgie and this makes me sad. I miss her a lot.
8. Did my bit to fight The Man: I saw a nannying job advertised on Gumtree, paying £400 a month, for hours that added up to 42 hours a week. Even in a February, that's £2.38 an hour. So I checked up on the law and reported in on Gumtree as illegal. It is still deleted so assume my complaint was upheld. Of course, she's probably foundsome poor schmuck to do it anyway - 'English does not have to be your first language' was pretty telling.
9. Didn't get the job o' joy. Not a huge surprise but a let-down nonetheless. Still, even getting an interview, at which I was taken seriously, has boosted my confidence a wee bit so I think all in all it was a good exercise.
10. Discovered TeamViewer. I cannot recommend this highly enough to anyone with parents. it's a free (for personal use) programme which allows remote viewing of any other PC (with the programme also installed and with passwords etc), for tech support and file transfers. This means than the days of my Ma calling with a computer problem and my realising after 15 minutes that she's not even using the same program I think she is (a common one is MS word instead of her email editor, or vice versa) are over! Over! I can log onto her PC, fix what needs fixing, but also talk her through the process showing her what I'm doing. Fantastic.
11. I managed to get to the third Sunday night in a row where all the laundry was ironed and put away. I don't care if everyone finds this dull, it's a MASSIVE achievement, ok?
I think that's about the sum of my week. Have a good one, folks!
Lizzie xxxx
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Date: 2010-11-08 03:35 pm (UTC)And well done for reporting the Gumtree Ad. Definitely the right thing to do.