being able to walk
- today, I managed to not only do the walking without stick thing, I also managed to do it dragging the donkeyload of snoopy2 and suitcase full of unreasonably heavy course work to revise AND tonight I dared and dealt with some baby stairs without yelping, grimacing (much) or limping horribly afterwards
stuff your Oscars and Nobel prizes, I'm a winner in my own scrabble for a good life
good friends, good times, good music, good memories : not necessarily in that order but in any combination as often as you like
Weekend was top ; man liked his birthday presents, we liked each other's company even if the restaurant return visit wasn't nearly as good as the time before. We both liked drifting gently and pleasantly to very late o'clock, but I didn't much like waking at work o'clock some 3 or four hours later. Revision was done, poker was won, pub rendezvous was perfectly timed, film was watched sleep was had and Monday morning wasn't too painful on the getting to work front
Can't wait for Friday and the exam to be over; who would have thought I'd stress so much about a qualification I don't actually need?
Hotel is scrumptiously lush; a strange mixture of the £20m refurbishment and shabby aristocratic chic - like bits of old wood used as limiters on the sash windows and filthy paintwork on the windowsills.
They still have the ageing but comfortable chairs in the Tempus Bar, but I bought myself a bottle of plonko rosso at the spar down the road for less than the glass of rather very nice wine they sell in there
tired like a fish ; only another week till my holiday, next week full of birthday treats associated with my Libra connections, and a great desire to just chill
Wednesday 30 September 2009
Saturday 26 September 2009
recovery
Totally delighted to have re-established contact with my good friend Anne, and thought I should do a quick update before I go off for another weekend of drinking and decadence. It's Mark's birthday, and we're going out to dinner tonight, that fab Brazilian place, but my son warned me F1 is on so I don't feel guilty about leaving him to watch it in peace.
Corporate heaven arrangements failed miserably this week and I ended up stood on a street corner in Houndsditch waiting for them to find me an hotel room - ANY hotel room! That with the stick, and suitcase, and bag full of training course folder. GRRRR. At least the Premier Inn at Tower Bridge is on a bus route that stops right outside the hotel, and outside the office where the course was. Almost £140 a night room-only is sickeningly extortionate but at least I get to claim it back on expenses.
Dinner with P on Wednesday, just up the road in the boring warehouse All Bar One, thinking I was safe from alcoholic haze since whe wasn't drinking or doing carbs. We could have strolled down to Haz for a quieter atmosphere but P ordered a bottle of wine and we somehow managed to put another one away in the course of a long catch-up and gossip.
Feeling half-virtuous today, woke up at work o'clock and have managed to do some house stuff, some freecycle stuff, collect a parcel from the sorting office and see my favourite man, the short people and their mother: who has saved me a fortune by cutting my hair. Amazing.
Bit of a travelling circus for the next few days, (AH! just worked out why my screen had gone a strange shade of blueness, the connector was wobbly) - anyway; London tonight, hoping to stay over tomorrow night too so I don't have to get up at ludicrous o'clok to get back to Aldwych for 9am Monday; drive to bloody Telford on Tuesday, might have a meeting at Aston on the way back and then stupid morning o'clock for Aldwych at 9am on Wednesday. BAH! At least I get a couple of nights in
a different corporate heaven when I must, must do the revision for the exam on Friday. Wish me luck.
Must do the emails and get packed and on the train to town: options, options, options - love them
Corporate heaven arrangements failed miserably this week and I ended up stood on a street corner in Houndsditch waiting for them to find me an hotel room - ANY hotel room! That with the stick, and suitcase, and bag full of training course folder. GRRRR. At least the Premier Inn at Tower Bridge is on a bus route that stops right outside the hotel, and outside the office where the course was. Almost £140 a night room-only is sickeningly extortionate but at least I get to claim it back on expenses.
Dinner with P on Wednesday, just up the road in the boring warehouse All Bar One, thinking I was safe from alcoholic haze since whe wasn't drinking or doing carbs. We could have strolled down to Haz for a quieter atmosphere but P ordered a bottle of wine and we somehow managed to put another one away in the course of a long catch-up and gossip.
Feeling half-virtuous today, woke up at work o'clock and have managed to do some house stuff, some freecycle stuff, collect a parcel from the sorting office and see my favourite man, the short people and their mother: who has saved me a fortune by cutting my hair. Amazing.
Bit of a travelling circus for the next few days, (AH! just worked out why my screen had gone a strange shade of blueness, the connector was wobbly) - anyway; London tonight, hoping to stay over tomorrow night too so I don't have to get up at ludicrous o'clok to get back to Aldwych for 9am Monday; drive to bloody Telford on Tuesday, might have a meeting at Aston on the way back and then stupid morning o'clock for Aldwych at 9am on Wednesday. BAH! At least I get a couple of nights in
a different corporate heaven when I must, must do the revision for the exam on Friday. Wish me luck.
Must do the emails and get packed and on the train to town: options, options, options - love them
Saturday 19 September 2009
overabundance of life
Apologies to the various for the long blank on here; life has been and still is a bit very busy and set fair to continue to be so for the next several months.
Current project is based in London, near Aldwych, and there IS a team there so I have a fixed base for a while and can find a desk easily even if I don't get one with my name on it. So far, a whole week! I've managed to work proper hours, and also been leaving the laptop in the office so there is no temptation to work in the evening.
Another advantage is the massive savings on cigs since the combination of office working, dodgy knee and no-smoking hotel room means my smoking is cut by about 90% - making up for it this weekend though.
Major domestic goddess stuff yesterday; several machine loads of washing (does anyone else have a 'red' wash?); couple of handwashing expeditions (I don't understand how I can have so much underwear and still never be able to find any of it when I get try to pack; bit of weeding in the garden, much watering of plants (I'm sure the world is turning inside out; there are plants growing way out of season; but I'm chuffed to bits that the evening primrose is back, even if it's now at least 2 feet away from where I expected it to grow.
So where have I been?
last week's corporate heaven
drinks on Tuesday
dinner on Wednesday
drinks and dinner and memorable afters on Thursday
Working, taking forever to get home on Friday and collapso vino with a good book
Irish Ceilidh on Saturday in a beautiful hall - my colours - even if I was wearing green at the time. There was an amazingly good irish dancer, Sister Bridget did her own bit of nifty footwork; dancing nuns, whatever next? It was somehow so much like a family wedding I was looking round for my aunties. Next time I might consider eating something before getting stuck into the wine, or not sandwich it in between scotch & cokes. Post-pub DVD had lots of alien beasties and no discernible storyline: did my head in since I couldn't tell if it was their horror-show faces moving or my brain twitching. So I retreated to bed.
next week's corporate heaven while I'm on a training course for a supposedly saleable ISTQB certification
Remembered to check my email having asked for a couple of uplighters on freecycle yesterday, and discovered I was 50 miles away when I should have been going to fetch them; good friends are a true blessing - cheers Sid!
Sunday dinner in the pub and another dose of R&R to set me up for the week coming. Bet I wake up late tomorrow!
Current project is based in London, near Aldwych, and there IS a team there so I have a fixed base for a while and can find a desk easily even if I don't get one with my name on it. So far, a whole week! I've managed to work proper hours, and also been leaving the laptop in the office so there is no temptation to work in the evening.
Another advantage is the massive savings on cigs since the combination of office working, dodgy knee and no-smoking hotel room means my smoking is cut by about 90% - making up for it this weekend though.
Major domestic goddess stuff yesterday; several machine loads of washing (does anyone else have a 'red' wash?); couple of handwashing expeditions (I don't understand how I can have so much underwear and still never be able to find any of it when I get try to pack; bit of weeding in the garden, much watering of plants (I'm sure the world is turning inside out; there are plants growing way out of season; but I'm chuffed to bits that the evening primrose is back, even if it's now at least 2 feet away from where I expected it to grow.
So where have I been?
last week's corporate heaven
drinks on Tuesday
dinner on Wednesday
drinks and dinner and memorable afters on Thursday
Working, taking forever to get home on Friday and collapso vino with a good book
Irish Ceilidh on Saturday in a beautiful hall - my colours - even if I was wearing green at the time. There was an amazingly good irish dancer, Sister Bridget did her own bit of nifty footwork; dancing nuns, whatever next? It was somehow so much like a family wedding I was looking round for my aunties. Next time I might consider eating something before getting stuck into the wine, or not sandwich it in between scotch & cokes. Post-pub DVD had lots of alien beasties and no discernible storyline: did my head in since I couldn't tell if it was their horror-show faces moving or my brain twitching. So I retreated to bed.
next week's corporate heaven while I'm on a training course for a supposedly saleable ISTQB certification
Remembered to check my email having asked for a couple of uplighters on freecycle yesterday, and discovered I was 50 miles away when I should have been going to fetch them; good friends are a true blessing - cheers Sid!
Sunday dinner in the pub and another dose of R&R to set me up for the week coming. Bet I wake up late tomorrow!
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