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I went on holiday to south and a world without tv last saturday and stinky iplayer have already removed last saturdays Dr who. I know they were meant to do that on Friday but I had high hopes that I could avoid having to wait and wait and wait for it to appear on BBC3.
Anyway holiday in south was less stressy than I expected. I used to love canal boat holidays but stopped doing them many years ago as I found the confined space, many people combo no longer worked for me (or I stopped doing breakfast wine and suddenly the fun factor dropped). Last autumn I thought it was a tentative discussion then suddenly I was booked onto a boat holiday with people. I tried to ignore it till very recently. Anyway it turned out OK. The 2 people there I'd only met once before (and thought might be difficult) were absolutely lovely when they chilled and explained why she couldn't do locks etc. The person I thought I may kill didn't require killing and I could spend plenty time walking along towpaths so it all worked out fine. I will take more care not to have my arm twisted into holiday's I'm dubious about for valid reasons in future as I did get even worse preholiday nerves than usual over this one. I had worked out the trains to escape at many points (the Kennet and Avon Canal being in South so trains and busses would have been required).
What else has happened recently - not a lot really, was getting outfaced by work but hopefully my break has helped me put some perspective back. Was also finding the weekend relationship thing difficult but that's gone now and it's definitely made my relationship with work easier. I suprise myself with my fickle nature - how quickly I go from not imagining life without someone to not being able to imagine them in my life. Am glad to say I still have 2 cats - Loki gave up fighting so his infection spreading potential stopped, therefore he doesn't need putting down until he is actually ill. He just has CatAIDS manifesting itself in ways we can currently live with, so I'm probably a bit more attentive of him than I was.
When I opened a twitter account a couple of years ago I put what I thought was a feed from the culture vulture website on it. As a result I found it very difficult to wade through and I never really got into using it. A few weeks back I had another stab at it for work related reasons and that feed was almost gone and I started getting my head around it. Then as it turns out culturevulture is a person who came back off holiday and it was wall to wall comments that I found left me feeling "but I don't have time to do all this why am I so inadequate I can't hold down a job, go to 20 events a week and organise another 10?" Strangely enough now I have removed culture vulture from my twitter feed I've worked out that this person probably doesn't do all that, but just tweets alot. And I no longer feel like a failure as a human being. Twitter isn't really suited to how I access these things (once a day, rather than having it on all the time) but I have found a way of using it that is useful for me, and I find I hear about events in leeds a bit more as a result. So maybe at somepoint I might even enter the 21st century and get a smart phone of some description. Of course I do find that me being a bear of very little brain I don't tend to check LJ very often anymore so apologies if I've missed any momentus births marriages or deaths, Jobs or other news.
Anyway holiday in south was less stressy than I expected. I used to love canal boat holidays but stopped doing them many years ago as I found the confined space, many people combo no longer worked for me (or I stopped doing breakfast wine and suddenly the fun factor dropped). Last autumn I thought it was a tentative discussion then suddenly I was booked onto a boat holiday with people. I tried to ignore it till very recently. Anyway it turned out OK. The 2 people there I'd only met once before (and thought might be difficult) were absolutely lovely when they chilled and explained why she couldn't do locks etc. The person I thought I may kill didn't require killing and I could spend plenty time walking along towpaths so it all worked out fine. I will take more care not to have my arm twisted into holiday's I'm dubious about for valid reasons in future as I did get even worse preholiday nerves than usual over this one. I had worked out the trains to escape at many points (the Kennet and Avon Canal being in South so trains and busses would have been required).
What else has happened recently - not a lot really, was getting outfaced by work but hopefully my break has helped me put some perspective back. Was also finding the weekend relationship thing difficult but that's gone now and it's definitely made my relationship with work easier. I suprise myself with my fickle nature - how quickly I go from not imagining life without someone to not being able to imagine them in my life. Am glad to say I still have 2 cats - Loki gave up fighting so his infection spreading potential stopped, therefore he doesn't need putting down until he is actually ill. He just has CatAIDS manifesting itself in ways we can currently live with, so I'm probably a bit more attentive of him than I was.
When I opened a twitter account a couple of years ago I put what I thought was a feed from the culture vulture website on it. As a result I found it very difficult to wade through and I never really got into using it. A few weeks back I had another stab at it for work related reasons and that feed was almost gone and I started getting my head around it. Then as it turns out culturevulture is a person who came back off holiday and it was wall to wall comments that I found left me feeling "but I don't have time to do all this why am I so inadequate I can't hold down a job, go to 20 events a week and organise another 10?" Strangely enough now I have removed culture vulture from my twitter feed I've worked out that this person probably doesn't do all that, but just tweets alot. And I no longer feel like a failure as a human being. Twitter isn't really suited to how I access these things (once a day, rather than having it on all the time) but I have found a way of using it that is useful for me, and I find I hear about events in leeds a bit more as a result. So maybe at somepoint I might even enter the 21st century and get a smart phone of some description. Of course I do find that me being a bear of very little brain I don't tend to check LJ very often anymore so apologies if I've missed any momentus births marriages or deaths, Jobs or other news.