So over the last couple of days I've been thinking about "having it all".

( a busy few days, recounted at tedious length )

38 weeks yesterday; Friday was my last day at work. ( finishing work, parental visits, garden, house, and how I'm doing generally... long rambly diary entry )

I took Friday and Monday off work with no more concrete plans than "catch up on sleep and chill out a bit". ( so how did that work out? )

This is not the thing I was going to post about today, but just for the record, I have had a productive day. I'm writing this down because it feels like I haven't had very many of those for a Very Long Time. Today I have ( Read more... )

I was hoping to get further than day 6 before dropping the ball, but yes, I totally forgot to post anything yesterday. We went to the shops (took some books to Oxfam, bought food for us & food for the birds), had friends round for tea & biscuits (& sparklers in the garden!), then went out for dinner with them (the friends, not the biscuits or ( Read more... )

Today my mum took me and addedentry to a garden centre and bought us an apple tree (a Worcester Pearmain), as well as some other smaller tasty plants (tomatoes, peppers, and blueberry bushes). Digging a hole big enough for even such a tiny tree takes a surprising amount of time and effort. We also planted the hazel sapling from my parents' garden; meanwhile ( Read more... )

Hey, I totally wasn't going to do the diary thing this month because I don't think that counts as Proper Blogging, but I had to get up ridiculously early this morning to get the 7:53 train to London for an excellent Perl course (with added badgers), got back to Oxford in time for another great Oxford Geek Night at the Jericho Tavern, drank some ( Read more... )

You may have noticed that the attempt to post something every day has gone the same way as pretty much everything else this month, viz., the way of EPIC FAIL ( Read more... )

Not a poem, just a list ( Read more... )

Today I have: managed to book Glasto tickets for me and my mum and EIGHT other people despite EPIC FAIL on the part of seetickets (amazingly there are STILL TICKETS LEFT after several HOURS); tidied the house (a bit); sorted out some stuff to go to charity shops; filed all the boring admin BORING BORING BORING; helped Owen pair A MILLION AND ONE ( Read more... )