Grrr

Just spent half an hour writing and it got lost. Very cross. You won’t believe me but it was quite witty!

Technorati trouble

Is anyone else having a nightmare with Technorati at the moment? It seems about a week behind which is really frustrating. Is there an alternative because it keeps messing about and is doing my poor little head in?

Talking of my poor little head, I hit it on the corner of the bathroom cabinet yesterday and am now sporting a rather unattractive bump and ridiculous bruise - thank goodness for make up. The whole thing actually made me feel quite sick and I had to go for a little lie down. Although it’s still quite tender, I’m just after sympathy really!

Weekends

Why is it when you do the 9-5 (there’s a laugh), the weekend seems so important and invariably really doesn’t work out quite how you’ve planned? Ah well.

Vote - it’s the right thing to do

Go on, go on, go on…go and vote for Random Acts of Reality. You know it makes sense.

1996 and all that

This is an excellent - if slightly scary - post…where will we be in 2020?

Not a beautiful thing

This week I am being forced to look at this horribly freaky ad for Pioneer Kuro on the way to work. I don’t like it. In fact it makes me feel quite sicky.

Three beautiful things

Rather late in the day I know but I found threebeautifulthings last week on a random bit of technorati-ing (is it me or is technorati actually getting more and more annoying?). Anyway, I think this is a lovely idea and I’ve been trying to get in the habit of noticing beautiful things in a day. Rather sadly, I either haven’t been noticing them, or they are currently not in great abundance around me. Must try harder and hopefully I can make some of my own 3BT posts.

Smile

I have decided to try and be happy and have a generally more positive attitude. Of course this doesn’t mean that crap stuff doesn’t happen and you don’t worry about decidedly random and unpleasant things (especially at 4 in the morning when there’s no chance you can realistically do anything about them), but at least if I try to wake up, get out of the house and get to work in a happy frame of mind then things don’t seem quite as grim.

As part of this venture I am trying to be more committed to my morning meditation which has taken something of a backseat on these dark days when most of the time I just want to stay in the duvet and get jolly annoyed when the first song after the 7 o’clock news finishes (this is my cue to haul myself out of bed). I am actually a morning person but find getting up in the dark deeply disturbing. Anyway, because I still can’t bring myself to get out of bed before the 7 o’clock news, I thought I would give meditating on the tube a whirl.

Now I know what you’re thinking…how can you possibly mediate on the tube? Well I’ve done it twice - this morning in the relative peace and comfort of an emptyish carriage and a seat (from Kennington - most happy) and yesterday I even managed despite my battery chicken status. Okay this isn’t super duper transcendental meditation (leave that for the weekends) but I think this is actually better. This actually allows me to feel centred, calm and positive even though I am squished on a tube being breathed on people with poor oral hygiene and battered by their bags and briefcases. Hmmm…perhaps I should go and knit a nut roast as I am worrying myself!