About My Day

Today was the usual, work, work, work and more work type day. Except today, for a change, I had a little procrastination break with my mobile and its inbuilt camera. I took a couple of pics of the view from my desk, and about 50 pics of me! I was going to upload one of the pics of me, but they all need to be rotated in Photoshop, and to be honest I can't be bothered at this time of night, so you're getting the view from my desk instead. Exciting, huh?

Tonight I've spent several hours downloading my lost DSS kits, after Lori very kindly reset all the links for me. It's been a slow process because the download speed has been fluctuating between 1 and 54 meg, and it's seeming to take forever, but thankfully I think I'm done now! The last couple of weeks has been horrible, cos every time I've thought 'ooh, I know, I'll use xxxxxx on this layout' I go to open it up only to find that I don't have it. That's been very true of the DSS Scrap Stash kit in particular, it's a very versatile kit and I love love love it ... and I've really missed it.

On the pain front, things are not good. It has been nasty tonight, so I've mainly just sat in my armchair and rested up, which meant that Sean had to put Ethan to bed for me, because I was just in too much pain to get up the stairs and sort him out. I feel bad, but I am sure I can make it up to him when I'm feeling better. I'm also really cross because it's now gone midnight and Colin still isn't home from work. He has been out every night this week - working Monday, Wednesday and tonight, and out at his amateur radio thing on Tuesday, and hence I've spent another night in pain on my own with the kids. He should be here looking after me, I should be able to count on him being here to support me and help me. My Sean is a fabulous, wonderful, darling boy - he looks after me so so well, but it's not fair for a 13 year old to have to look after me when there are so many other things he could and should be doing. He's always been a little treasure though, he's the one person I know I can truly count on to help me when I need it, and I am so grateful for that. And I know I shouldn't complain about Colin, he only works such long hours because we need the money to pay off all the debt we've managed to accumulate (though the hours he's working recently are so that he has the money to buy all the amateur radio stuff he wants), but he has to understand that he can't work 24 hours a day. Plus, when he gets to the point where he's totally exhausted, he will get really stroppy and then there will be more rows, and so the vicious circle will start again.

Today during my procrastination break, I got myself a little notebook for my writing. The idea is that I will use it to jot down random thoughts that might inspire me at a later date, or quotes that I've come across etc. We had a drug company promotion thing come in the post today that was full of quite good quotes, so I copied them out into my notebook this afternoon and hopefully at some point I can be very arty farty and refer to the book when I'm in need of a creative push. The most likely scenario will be that it will sit in my handbag until I get sick of carting it around, when it'll end up in a pile of crap somewhere ...

I can't sit here and type forever. I should get some sleep, though I don't actually feel tired. Just sore! I think I might accidentally indulge in a bit of retail therapy - I spied a new kit over at NDISB that I just have to have (what can I say, it's on special at the moment and with the exchange rate still being so good it'll only cost me a couple of quid); and then I'm off to make the agonising decision of which fabulous kit I shall use this week to fulfil my DSS CT obligation ... it's bad enough when the designer I'm assigned to only has a couple of kits to choose from, but it's nearly impossible when they have pages and pages to choose from ... oh dear!

Okay, finishing off, my fellow CT member, Michelle, has tagged me, to play an '8 Random Things About Me' game:

Directions: List 8 random facts/habits about yourself in a blog post. List these directions in the post. At the end of the post, tag 8 people to complete the task. Leave the persons you’ve tagged a comment to tell them they’re tagged and refer them to your blog to read the directions.

Blimey, do I even know 8 people that I could tag? Yikes! Okay, let's get on with it:

1 I have lost around 4 stone in the past couple of years (but still have a long way to go).
2 Although I live in Birmingham, I am originally from Walthamstow in East London, and have a London accent. But I am not a cockney!
3 I used to own a paper scrapping supplies shop and website.
4 I've got two brothers and two sisters (I'm in the middle); and I was the sole surviving child of a twin pregnancy.
5 When I was a little girl, my Mum used to have to hook bungie cords around the fridge to stop me getting in there and eating all the cheese.
6 I am not ticklish.
7 I love buying nice clothes, but I hate to wear them because I don't want to spoil them, so they tend to sit in the wardrobe for ages.
8 I hate gold jewellery, and will only wear silver.

Blimey, it's nearly 1.00 am ... okay, I will tag some people tomorrow, I need to get some sleep (Colin is still not home).