Today was totally normal until Matt left at about 5pm. Then this happened ( Read more... )

I thoroughly overdid it at the gym last night and today have an achy, achy back. I made a plan with Tracy to try to get as much lifting in to 2 days a week as I did with 3 days a week, so hopefully the fact that I only signed up for two days at the gym this term won't affect me so much. All that said, I was intending to go to my work gym this ( Read more... )

Partially for my reference, this is the a-maz-ing soup I made today, mostly from leftovers.

( Butternut squash, sweet potato, bacon & lentil soup thingy )

I was meant to be out with hollowfulofhat right now at a comedy evening in Stoke Newington, but I'm not :-( I got up at 6am and I had a really horrible stressful day, and all I wanted to do this evening was curl up and hide from the world. So I am ( Read more... )

Last night I went to Buttoned Down Disco which would have been totally awesome if it wasn't for some cnut stealing jennywooyay's coat ( Read more... )

So my housemate moves in tomorrow. this is going to be really weird. With the exception of when I had Chris living with me in my old flat (which lasted less than a year IIRC) I've lived alone since 2001 and I've not had housemates since my second year of University. I've also never lived with a man I wasn't going out with (with the exception of my ( Read more... )

Finally kicked off the long-awaited Excel / SpreadsheetML / OOXML project at work today. I have 3 weeks-less-one-day to get it into a demoable state for AIIMExpo on March 3rd ( Read more... )

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OK, so my handyguy is very persuasive. Instead if just getting a quote for repairing the kitchen ceiling and painting the ceiling & walls, I now have a quote for that and also for ( Read more... )

This evening, while sitting on my arse doing nothing, I somehow miraculously managed to make a batch of a-maz-ing peanut butter cookies. I haven't baked for ages (and not in the crappy oven in my new house) and it was curiously satisfying. As was stuffing my face with cookies afterwards.


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