I've been trying to update for a few weeks now - there are various notepad drafts saved in my email/on this computer/on my work computer, all to the effect that life is very much work & sleep and not much else currently.  (Though I have to modify this now, to say that I went out with Cat last saturday which was a welcome break from the routine I ( Read more... )

I have walked to the station and home every day this week (well, I wiil be walking tonight, so it counts!) and though my legs are a bit achey, I'm feeling much better for it and happy that I've stuck it out.  (*is thankful the rain has held off ( Read more... )

I have just returrned from this morning's course entitled 'Communicating Assertively & with Confidence'.

The course was really informative, though a little too theoretical - so i'm not sure whether i will be able to put much of what the guy was telling us into practise!  The thing is, the speaker had the most broad Chorley accent and one of the ( Read more... )

Hmm - it really would have been preferable to have polished my shoes over the weekend so I wasn't filled with embarassment at handing over the rather sad looking pair for re-heeling today.  I will try and keep this sense of shame up so as to potentially spur me into polishing my shoes when I get in tonight - but no guarantees ( Read more... )

It’s been so busy - the weeks are just flying by and I know once Christmas is passed, the time to do my first ‘seat swap’ will be upon me in a blink ( Read more... )

It’s really difficult to have a piece of work returned to you, and though the person tells you what you did was fine, their corrections have made it so the piece no longer resembles that which you gave them originally ( Read more... )

Today has seemed to take forever to pass ( Read more... )

Alan and I had a long discussion last night and are in the process of deciding whether the relationship has a future. The only certainty that has come out of it, is that it cannot carry on in the manner it is doing at the moment. The constant bickering is making both of us poorly and miserable, and although we may still love each other, we're ( Read more... )

Dad found an article in one of the Sunday Times supplements this week about people who worry too much, well, women in particular and it was really rather revealing. I know that i worry a lot, but i hadn't really thought until over the past few weeks that the extent to which i do so isn't, and i use the word reticently, normal ( Read more... )