Which would be more or less the case this weekend.
I think, having dealt with the whole work fiasco, stuck 5 days work into 4 working days and with my sleep pattern being somewhere on another planet I was probably due a break from, well everything really.
So, this weekend there was housework (when isn't there), a little light dash round the supermarket (seriously, I must remember not to do this (a) without at least one large coffee first and (b) at a time when small children will with zero manners will be being forced to shop with uninterested parents - cos I love being followed round by the little sods whilst they point and laugh), some laundry (with the bonus of being early enough to mother's with said laundry that she made me breakfast) and a whole lot of reading and falling asleep at inappropriate times at the kitchen table.
So whilst I felt like I had had a weekend and a break from work I had done, well, bugger all really...... except possibly buy more books for the Kindle... bad me!
I have the housework to do list from hell as I have less than 2 weeks before my friend and the half daughter invade (yes, invade, not come to stay, that implies having to be polite and make them cups of tea etc... invade is much better - the half daughter takes over the guest room and plans world domination with the cats whilst her other half mother (ok, well her real mother if you want to get technical) and I put the worlds to right over tea, pepsi max and possibly vodka whilst knitting, reading and writing....... we know how to have fun)
I also have a short story to write for the May photo prompt on the YA GLBT Goodreads group - the bunny has spoken and is now just waiting for me to get my finger out and write it...... I also want to see if I can plot out a possible adult M/M story - no idea how long - whose main character showed up in my head last week and refuses to go away.
Who knows, at some point, I may actually find something interesting to blog about....
Monday, 14 May 2012
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Attack of nerves......
It has been decided I am a professional whittler and fretter....... and neither of these jobs have anything to do with woodwork.
My LiAW story is being looked at by the proofing/editing team and there are "questions" ... which is fine, but I am now paranoid (oh yes, again) about how bad it is......... I have been given cyber reassurance by my beta readers (also known as a cyber slap upside the head and being told to pull myself together) ... but as I got notification that there were "questions" some 9 hours ago and I am still waiting for an e-mail with them I am driving myself nuts....
I wonder sometimes if I would cope at all if I wasn't worried about something?? It seems to be my ground state!
I think I shall go lie down in a darkened (well not that darkened I need to be able to read) room and try and chill out for a bit....... I'll probably be up at 1 am checking my e-mail.....
My LiAW story is being looked at by the proofing/editing team and there are "questions" ... which is fine, but I am now paranoid (oh yes, again) about how bad it is......... I have been given cyber reassurance by my beta readers (also known as a cyber slap upside the head and being told to pull myself together) ... but as I got notification that there were "questions" some 9 hours ago and I am still waiting for an e-mail with them I am driving myself nuts....
I wonder sometimes if I would cope at all if I wasn't worried about something?? It seems to be my ground state!
I think I shall go lie down in a darkened (well not that darkened I need to be able to read) room and try and chill out for a bit....... I'll probably be up at 1 am checking my e-mail.....
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Musical accompaniment for today...
So today hasn't gone to plan...... took mum into hospital for 7 am as requested, then at lunch she texted to say they were taking her down at 2pm... at 2.50pm she texted again to say she hadn't gone down and then at 5 pm she phoned to tell me that they'd overbooked the theatre and she was being bumped to a later date, currently unknown...... I was not amused.
So I donned my most lawyerly persona and my Court Room voice and headed off to collect her and, erm, possibly have a word or several with the hospital staff........ she's first on the surgery list for next Wednesday, so we get to do it all again.
Aside from that I have mangled myself....... ankle currently in cold compress after tripping over the cat - who says it's my own fault for not going fast enough with the food...... bruising and grazes all over knuckles of my right hand courtesy of misjudging the distance between the car door and the garden gate and getting my hand stuck in between........ sometimes I have to roll my eyes at myself!
So today's tune (as it's Wednesday and all that jazz) would be my "getting in the right frame of mind" song that I played in the car on the way to the hospital....
So I donned my most lawyerly persona and my Court Room voice and headed off to collect her and, erm, possibly have a word or several with the hospital staff........ she's first on the surgery list for next Wednesday, so we get to do it all again.
Aside from that I have mangled myself....... ankle currently in cold compress after tripping over the cat - who says it's my own fault for not going fast enough with the food...... bruising and grazes all over knuckles of my right hand courtesy of misjudging the distance between the car door and the garden gate and getting my hand stuck in between........ sometimes I have to roll my eyes at myself!
So today's tune (as it's Wednesday and all that jazz) would be my "getting in the right frame of mind" song that I played in the car on the way to the hospital....
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
a round up type of post....
Today started with a minor panic as I glanced at the bedside clock and it read an hour later than I thought it should... cue the fastest shower, hair wash, dress and leg it out the door I've ever managed (20 minutes including changing cat litter, feeding cats and making beds) only to discover one of the little sods had stood on the clock and switched the time on an hour
Whilst on my way into work I picked up a stray character.... he just sort of sauntered into my head (they do that some time, then they refuse to tell me what they are there for)... this one has three stars of ascending size tattooed up the underside of his left forearm and is currently sat in an interview room in a police station..... I am hoping at some point he'll explain himself or vacate my head for someone else's imagination.....
Well I can finally draw a line under the work fiasco of the last week after a meeting with HR today... I am not best pleased at the outcome, but hey, time to move on.
Mum's surgery is tomorrow.... I am dropping her at the hospital at 7.00 am... I am sorely in need of distraction this evening or I am going to drive myself up the wall.... tomorrow I think is going to be a wash out as far as concentrating on anything is concerned.
In an effort to distract myself I may have bought several books for the SmutKindle and read, erm, two and a half so far today...... highlight is J L Merrow's Hard Tail... I appear to seriously get the author's sense of humour... oh and I've threatened the evil naked cats with a Wolverine of their own if they don't behave
I cannot go to bed yet... there is a spider hanging over it from the ceiling and I need it to move first......
Whilst on my way into work I picked up a stray character.... he just sort of sauntered into my head (they do that some time, then they refuse to tell me what they are there for)... this one has three stars of ascending size tattooed up the underside of his left forearm and is currently sat in an interview room in a police station..... I am hoping at some point he'll explain himself or vacate my head for someone else's imagination.....
Well I can finally draw a line under the work fiasco of the last week after a meeting with HR today... I am not best pleased at the outcome, but hey, time to move on.
Mum's surgery is tomorrow.... I am dropping her at the hospital at 7.00 am... I am sorely in need of distraction this evening or I am going to drive myself up the wall.... tomorrow I think is going to be a wash out as far as concentrating on anything is concerned.
In an effort to distract myself I may have bought several books for the SmutKindle and read, erm, two and a half so far today...... highlight is J L Merrow's Hard Tail... I appear to seriously get the author's sense of humour... oh and I've threatened the evil naked cats with a Wolverine of their own if they don't behave
I cannot go to bed yet... there is a spider hanging over it from the ceiling and I need it to move first......
Monday, 7 May 2012
May Day! May Day!
Ok, well it isn't really.... or at least not in the terms of it being May 1st..... however, erm, there might have been a minor SOS call this morning as my amazing powers of destruction surfaced again.
Why is it nearly always kitchen appliances? Is there a Goddess of Electrical Kitchen Appliances that I've seriously managed to piss off somehow??
My kettle was not that old, okay, it was I think almost got to a year, which in general terms isn't old (I think my sister's was a moving in present about 7 years ago). Then again, in terms of surviving in my kitchen well for an electrical item to get to almost a year is I suppose a minor miracle....
This morning it gave up the ghost, and for once I did nothing stupid (why yes, I have killed kettles with carelessness in the past with the whole - not awake, switch on kettle, bugger no water, hiss, bang - thing). I am not actually sure what happened this morning, save for the base, which houses the heating element thing that wasn't like a proper old fashioned heating element but rather a sort of well, anyway, I'm not sure exactly, but it kind of melted, and then when the water seeped through it shorted the electric bit and there was a bit of a fizzle and some smoke and a horrible smell........ and then the lights fused, the house alarm went off and the critters all dived for cover (the last part happens every time I manage to do so much as blow a light bulb mind)
I have been out and bought a new kettle - another value type one because I refuse to pay vast sums of money for things that keep exploding on me for no fault of my own - anyone want to place bets as to how long this one lasts.......
Why is it nearly always kitchen appliances? Is there a Goddess of Electrical Kitchen Appliances that I've seriously managed to piss off somehow??
My kettle was not that old, okay, it was I think almost got to a year, which in general terms isn't old (I think my sister's was a moving in present about 7 years ago). Then again, in terms of surviving in my kitchen well for an electrical item to get to almost a year is I suppose a minor miracle....
This morning it gave up the ghost, and for once I did nothing stupid (why yes, I have killed kettles with carelessness in the past with the whole - not awake, switch on kettle, bugger no water, hiss, bang - thing). I am not actually sure what happened this morning, save for the base, which houses the heating element thing that wasn't like a proper old fashioned heating element but rather a sort of well, anyway, I'm not sure exactly, but it kind of melted, and then when the water seeped through it shorted the electric bit and there was a bit of a fizzle and some smoke and a horrible smell........ and then the lights fused, the house alarm went off and the critters all dived for cover (the last part happens every time I manage to do so much as blow a light bulb mind)
I have been out and bought a new kettle - another value type one because I refuse to pay vast sums of money for things that keep exploding on me for no fault of my own - anyone want to place bets as to how long this one lasts.......
Saturday, 5 May 2012
Feline fun and games...
Let me introduce you to a fine fortnightly game that is played in this house
Felines v. Humans................ The Changing of the Bedding
(this game is best played with at least two very inquisitive felines against one human and a king size bed and bedding.... if the felines are very active and vocal and the human is at least partially incapacitated (whether through physical disability or drink) it makes it much more fun for the cat).....
Stage one - the stripping of the bedding - usually done in a morning, when the human is feeling bright and cheery, though the process can be speeded up if the felines which to throw up on the bed... remove all the old bedding and wash it....... felines will score extra points if they can (a) get tangled in the duvet (b) get themselves into the laundry basket under the bedding and have the human carry them halfway downstairs before they are noticed or (c) they can reduce the humans to hysterical laughter when running around inside a pillow case.... the human never gets additional points.
Stage two - putting on new bedding - usually done about an hour past the time the human meant to go to bed, and accompanied by lots of swearing because the human forgot about the bedding earlier.... firstly the human will need to locate the clean bedding (for example, in the airing cupboard - though points will be deducted from the human if they then shut either feline in the airing cupboard by mistake)... the next thing is to put the sheet on.... the felines will again get extra points if they can (a) unhook the fitted sheet corners as you are putting them on or (b) get themselves completely trapped under the sheet....... option (b) comes with additional bonus points for one cat getting trapped and the other cat then pouncing on it until the human gets so fed up that the sheet is ripped off the bed and the cats roundly cursed.
Stage two (a) - the duvet cover......... ok, at this stage it helps if the human is at least partly inebriated or drugged..... extra points for the Felines if they (a) can get inside the duvet cover without being noticed (b) attack the human through the duvet cover, or (c) completely cause the human to twist the duvet so no matter what it won't lie flat......... The human will forfeit the entire game and declare the felines have won if at any point the human finds themselves actually inside the duvet cover.
scoring...... don't bother, the felines will have won .... they always do!
Felines v. Humans................ The Changing of the Bedding
(this game is best played with at least two very inquisitive felines against one human and a king size bed and bedding.... if the felines are very active and vocal and the human is at least partially incapacitated (whether through physical disability or drink) it makes it much more fun for the cat).....
Stage one - the stripping of the bedding - usually done in a morning, when the human is feeling bright and cheery, though the process can be speeded up if the felines which to throw up on the bed... remove all the old bedding and wash it....... felines will score extra points if they can (a) get tangled in the duvet (b) get themselves into the laundry basket under the bedding and have the human carry them halfway downstairs before they are noticed or (c) they can reduce the humans to hysterical laughter when running around inside a pillow case.... the human never gets additional points.
Stage two - putting on new bedding - usually done about an hour past the time the human meant to go to bed, and accompanied by lots of swearing because the human forgot about the bedding earlier.... firstly the human will need to locate the clean bedding (for example, in the airing cupboard - though points will be deducted from the human if they then shut either feline in the airing cupboard by mistake)... the next thing is to put the sheet on.... the felines will again get extra points if they can (a) unhook the fitted sheet corners as you are putting them on or (b) get themselves completely trapped under the sheet....... option (b) comes with additional bonus points for one cat getting trapped and the other cat then pouncing on it until the human gets so fed up that the sheet is ripped off the bed and the cats roundly cursed.
Stage two (a) - the duvet cover......... ok, at this stage it helps if the human is at least partly inebriated or drugged..... extra points for the Felines if they (a) can get inside the duvet cover without being noticed (b) attack the human through the duvet cover, or (c) completely cause the human to twist the duvet so no matter what it won't lie flat......... The human will forfeit the entire game and declare the felines have won if at any point the human finds themselves actually inside the duvet cover.
scoring...... don't bother, the felines will have won .... they always do!
Friday, 4 May 2012
Long, lazy weekend....
Well thank goodness that this week, as far as working goes, is safely at an end..... I don't think I've ever been more pleased to see 4 pm on a Friday arrive as I was this afternoon. I have a formal meeting to tie up some loose ends of the whole fiasco on Tuesday - when I fully intend to have my 5 minutes to get my side of things on record - after which I intend to put the lot behind me and move on.
So, we have a bank holiday weekend this weekend.... and of course the weather is forecast to be miserable - highs of 6C and lows of -1C... with potential winter showers.. great! I fear that this will result in one or two things happening this weekend.... there will be a major outbreak of domesticity and, shock horror, the overdue assignments might actually get done.
Now, the first is more than a definite possibility as so far this evening I have made a chilli for tomorrow in the slow cooker and baked bread rolls and cookies (chocolate and ginger one). Aside from the boring things that happen every weekend (laundry, housework etc) I am in the mood to bake...... which means that I will either go mad and fill the freezer or I will blow something up with the first thing I bake and give it all up as a bad idea.
The assignments I really need to get done....... but I am really not feeling the love for the joys of family law right now...... actually I am not sure that it's a subject I will ever come to love....... Mind you, the criminal law assignment gave me a plot bunny that is currently refusing to go away and a couple of potential characters keep jumping up and down just in my field of vision whilst waving their arms about and shouting at me... humm, that might make for more interesting writing than the assignments.....
Right, I am now going to go undertake the most dangerous and challenging domestic task that it's possible to do in this house........... yes, I am going to, with the aide of Gina and Hugo...... try and change the king size duvet cover....... wish me luck!
So, we have a bank holiday weekend this weekend.... and of course the weather is forecast to be miserable - highs of 6C and lows of -1C... with potential winter showers.. great! I fear that this will result in one or two things happening this weekend.... there will be a major outbreak of domesticity and, shock horror, the overdue assignments might actually get done.
Now, the first is more than a definite possibility as so far this evening I have made a chilli for tomorrow in the slow cooker and baked bread rolls and cookies (chocolate and ginger one). Aside from the boring things that happen every weekend (laundry, housework etc) I am in the mood to bake...... which means that I will either go mad and fill the freezer or I will blow something up with the first thing I bake and give it all up as a bad idea.
The assignments I really need to get done....... but I am really not feeling the love for the joys of family law right now...... actually I am not sure that it's a subject I will ever come to love....... Mind you, the criminal law assignment gave me a plot bunny that is currently refusing to go away and a couple of potential characters keep jumping up and down just in my field of vision whilst waving their arms about and shouting at me... humm, that might make for more interesting writing than the assignments.....
Right, I am now going to go undertake the most dangerous and challenging domestic task that it's possible to do in this house........... yes, I am going to, with the aide of Gina and Hugo...... try and change the king size duvet cover....... wish me luck!
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