I’m finding everything really hard going at the moment. Just don’t seem to be able to focus the little grey cells into anything approaching action with visible results. I can’t really put my finger on what’s causing this blockage but it’s manifest in every area of my life - is it the weather?
Think I need to sit down for a long think and then do something approximating a ‘to do’ list.
It has arrived! My sandals are on and - according to the weather reports - they will remain on all week - hurrah!
Bank Holiday weekend was a nice little break. Went down to ye olde countryside and avoided turning into too much of a sneezing mess.
Watched I Am Legend which I had wanted to see when it came out but was scared off by the reviews and poor reports from people who had seen it but actually it was really rather good. Okay so the whole virus, zombie thing is not exactly a new format but it was a pretty good effort. The only thing that annoyed me was some fairly poor CGI.
My entire office has been blagging anti bacterial wipes from me all day thanks to the latest rehash of the dirty keyboard story.
Yes, I am sad enough to carry wet wipes around with me all the time - see my previous post about the contents of my mehusive bag (although positively tiny in comparison to a bag I saw a very small girl carrying this morning - it was so big she could have almost climbed in it!).
Having a bit of trouble getting going this afternoon:
Our office is without water thanks to local building work/pipe cutting issue - it’s going to start getting smelly soon.
The weather can’t decide if it’s spring or winter (it’s 1st May for heaven’s sake, please can we have some sunshine?).
I have a difficult client who is demonstrating particularly irritating behaviour this afternoon.
Oh and just everything seems a little bit annoying.
Please with the footie results this week - an all English final is a good thing. Certain members of my household are also rather delighted with the performance of Mr Terry and company and - despite copious germs at the moment - did a very good impression of a jumping jack last night.
Given I have a catgeory about weather you would have thought I would have blogged more about the recent inclement spells. However, I have become so bored with the media predicting and ‘reporting’ weather Armageddon that - for the time being - I have given up being interested in matters meteorological except when it affects my clothes’ choices.
I really am most determined to make 2008 happier than the past couple of years (which, let’s face it, shouldn’t be too difficult).
Getting up and back on the tube this morning was a but of a shock to the system but at least the snow has held off so travel chaos hasn’t kicked in…yet. I could be speaking far too soon of course and actually be snowed in at the office later today which would be very depressing.
Visited the Emerald Isle over new year for a wedding which was jolly lovely. The Beloved and I had been whingeing about the timing because going over was SO expensive - plus I think we were both dreading the whole ‘being on show’ element particularly seeing a couple of ‘friends’ who have been decidedly less than supportive in the past 18 months. Actually though it all went rather well. Spent a very quiet NYE as the wedding was the following day. In fact, we just had a couple of drinks and played Scrabble - oh we are wild aren’t we?! But it meant we were on good form for the wedding and not stumbling through the day in a headachey haze.
The wedding was held at Barberstown Castle and a jolly nice place it was too - a shame we were only there one night really as I would have liked to have spent much more time moving from the gorgeous bathroom with its complimentaty L’Occitane goodies to the deliciously comfortable four poster bed, all wrapped up in my snuggly dressing gown. Although one tiny criticism was the rather nouvelle cuisine sized Irish breakfast - Irish breakfasts should be huge at all times!
We really were frightfully well-behaved at the wedding too and in bed by about 1 - unlike some people who apparently didn’t go to bed till 6 (what is the point of actually going to bed at 6? Surely better just to stay up and have breakfast)! Unfortunately this abstemious behaviour didn’t mean we escaped the hangover. Well it wasn’t so much a hangover (ie thumping head and vomity tummy) more of a sleep deprivation issue (thanks in no small part to the party goers who were running up and down the corridor of the hotel at various points in the night - are they 10 years old?!) so we spent much of yesterday being very tired and quiet and wishing we were at home in our beds and not having to deal with driving, airports and trains. Despite this though, it was a jolly good way to start a new year.
The weather is now grey and depressing - not good for inducing a sunny disposition.
It’s all crispy and cool. I am feeling highly tempted to buy new snuggly clothes for the change in season but as I don’t have a job that would be a REALLY BAD IDEA.
Hmmm…spending far too much time on Facebook - kidding myself it’s just because my friend base is growing and ignoring the general addictive quality.
So my eight weeks out of the country have been highly successful in terms of my football predictions - this weekend I feel it may have all gone wrong. Tried to get interested in the rugby but I don’t understand it and am more interested in Lewis Hamilton tomorrow - keeping most things crossed.
Stomach still ridiculously sensitive and am struggling with non African food - isn’t it daft that you get all worked up that you might get ill whilst you’re away and don’t then the minute you return home you stomach rebels - joy!
Lights have gone in the dining room - okay the ambient lighting is very er…ambient but not much use if you actually want to see what’s on your plate and the problem is that decent electricians are so few and far between that mine is currently (no not a joke) ignoring my calls.
Quite delighted that I haven’t seen any of the auditions for X Factor so am decidedly not interested in the programme - hurrah, this is progress.
Went to my first recovery meeting since I came back today - so nice to know there are other fucked up people in the world. I had been feeling so well whilst I was away but my life here is so bloody toxic that it needs all the therapy it can get!
On a final note: I LOVE autumn. It’s all cool and chilly so you can get cosy toes but the sun still shines nicely and the leaves are perfect for kicking along (although I have to say in London you never quite know what you might accidentally kick underneath which always worries me).
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