May19

Watch this space

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You know, that Friday after Thursday nightshift? when your child comes home from school with this note in her Diary

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now we all know how hard our teachers work and, well I have the skills. So mad rush Saturday to lindcraft, not my favourite shop for fabric needs, they’re better for yarn and floss and well the nearest spotlight is extremely biased towards quilting. The child needed Jammies socks and undies anyway (Just stop growing so fast will you) and all of the good family Clothing shops are in the same centre

and we have us some supplies

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I have Wednesday off hopefully they aren’t planning to film within the week and I’ll have it done

May6

Organising

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we’ve been here over a year and still there were boxes of stuff floating around and stuff that was dumped out of boxes and never touched again

so this weekends plan was to start organising the loft/bedroom/craft space
mostly the craft space because the floordrobe is simply too hard to consider

first thing first, drag everything downstairs and start sorting, rubbish from good, want from need, stashed because its cheep/leftover from stashed because I has plans for it.

and so we have this load of stuff

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which over twoish days was slowly sorted through. projects placed in their own labelled boxes/bags floor vacuumed, table cleaned and all arranged back in its place

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I’m pretty happy with it though now I need to think about that floordrobe, at least I now have a clear space of floor upstairs to work on that now

May2

Finally the school starts again

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Two and a half weeks she’s been home, what do you do with a child for 2 and a half weeks when you have no holiday plans?

Well basically, we let her do as she pleased, which unfortunately despite much argument saw her spending many, many hours in front of the TV playing Mario Kart or Wii Party, Don’t judge us we need peace and quiet

we had a visit and sleepover from Poppy, our fantastic neighbour took her shopping for the day when the boy started is new job (the joys of immediate start)

on my days off we went to the movies. “The Croods” in 3D

this week there were 2 staff development days, the usual start of term one they always have and one for intro to national curriculum unfortunately for me this week is night shift Monday, was spent on a play date, Tuesday, I crawled into bed around 9am, was woken at 1059 with “have you had enough sleep yet mum?” then every half hour over that with a small body laying next to me waffling about stuff that is important to her, guess she’s lonely, she spent Wednesday morning asking if it was time to go to school yet massive relief all round

Apr26

Just shoot me

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or bad mummy moment 825

sitting on the lounge, watching sunrise not really paying attention, when miss come out and asks “what are the woools of our house?”
my first thought walls there there and there
“No the Woooooooools”
“like at the swimming pool”
insert blank look, the what
“the WOOOLS”
woods?
“Wooooooooooos”
is there and L in it?
“I don’t know”
put it in a sentence
“I don’t know how to spell it”
*mental faceplam while making more coffee*
no how would you use the word with other words, you know like if I was saying something about a basket I’d say I took the basket to the shops

“no that’s not it”insert sympathetic look
“um, what are the wooooools of our house?”
sigh
“um you spell it rrrr ooooo lll ssss”
*bang head against kitchen bench*
Rules?
“yeah that what I’ve been saying wooools!”

*sigh*

Apr15

Books!

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For as long as I can remember I’ve loved reading. I spent much of my Teens immersing myself in series after series of Novels, sometimes reading 3 or 4 books at the same time, usually they were Fantasy or Science fiction/Fantasy,

my favorite Author was Anne McCaffery Allowing Her dragons to take me to that special place Known as Pern, Seeking adventure I’ve read 19 of her books, mostly borrowed from the school library, at one stage I had a good collection of them, reading some for the 3rd or fourth time. but space and money issues saw me sell them, keeping only a couple

 

then there was the Tomorrow when the War began series, hanging out for each book to be released, more action and adventure (I refuse to go see the movie as I’m sure I’ll find things to pick at) then Devouring them as soon Is I got my hands on them

 

Lately my “thing” has been Paranormal Romance.

now I’ve never really read normal romance so I can’t really compare it, but……

Long before twilight, (which is a nice series on its own), I discovered Christine Feehan’s Carpathian novels ok so technically not vampire but vampire are involved, but the biggest thing that grabs me I think is the Fantasy/Action factor, I never really thought of Romance involving Action before ( by action I mean, adventure, hunts, battles, fights for life etc)

Anyway as with the dragon books, space or lack there of means I can’t keep the books for too long or collect them as I’d like to……… then I discovered iBooks…… :-O ….. Mind blown! I can keep my entire book collection in my pocket!

so with two Carpathian novels yet to be read, I went shopping, the biggest reason I hadn’t bothered buying that way before was that iBooks was only new and very few authors were actually publishing in that  format last time I looked

in my looking at the next Dark book I wanted to buy, I noticed the “related titles” section, there were a number of free books available, figuring why not, I downloaded a few, A short story about a witch helping a werewolf find his mate, the first in a series of were wolf romances, something that sounds rather magical and in-depth (from reading the first few pages), and an alien romance

I believe I’ve found myself a new author in Nicky Charles, Love me a good series, now I have 4 books to catch up on before hanging out for the next books in two series, and perhaps looking for the dragon books and the rest of those

Apr12

Ever wondered where the world is taking you?

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Right now, my head is not the nicest of places to be. Aside from the touch of flu floating around, clogging everything up, making it hard to see let alone think.

There is that ever present Hormonal element. the demons that are always there waiting to strike, that dark cold lonely place ready to open up and swallow me where no one can reach to bring warmth, no amount of tears and holding can even take the edge off. the constant drive to just curl up in a ball and somehow disappear.

In that little hole I work hard at keeping it all together. The simplest things lead me down a path of self loathing and hate at the world and those around me. a poorly worded message with good intentions. An act that leaves me even more empty (if that’s possible) than before, holding back useless tears.

and then as the wave passes, the sun is shining again, my view on those little things that caused me rage is unchanged, but the weight is gone, I’m still upset but I no longer feel the need to drive my fist into a wall (or someone’s face), that urge to find a physical release of that inner pain is easing, I can breath again, relax, feel, the drain has stopped. we are back at square one, life is ok (not great just ok), things are enjoyable, going outside is a consideration, talking is possible, exhaustion is there, rest is a must.

Mar29

Busy busy busy

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It’s been a while, again, Life seems to get always from me. Lately it seems all I do is go to work come home eat and sleep, and weekends well after all that going and coming and whatever, I want to be at home and do nothing, which really doesn’t help the situation at all because then its back to work sleep work sleep

anyway, I’ve been trying to squeeze in Stitched in color‘s Hand stitched course, lucky I entered the premium one which gives me a PDF of the course to catch up with as the course has now ended and I’m still working on the 2nd and 3rd round (there are 5 rounds), I did enjoy it though, some nice little tips and patterns in there

Heres some of what I’ve been working on
Progress on embroiderypatchwork squares
first storm at sea set up
in the mean time 3 more BOM blocks have arrived, I bought a new computer (OMG The Sims actually can run smoothly) 
and a copy of Photoshop and re started my slight interest in digital scrap booking, mostly with a lean to Project Life which I got the templates to for to use in Photoshop, I’m sure I can get away with blaming this lovely lady, or this one for putting such ideas in my head

So heres one page I completed for a challenge at mymemories.com I need to do some work on it still, the text need a plain colour behind it but all in all not bad for squeezing back into it