working hard and stirring it up. feels good. need to do it more often, bloody inertia!

home is starting to get back to normal. need to do some organizing of cupboards now.

OK. Really haven't done much this weekend. Supposed to file CDs and polish my shoes, I've done neither. I've cooked. Veal ragu for Friday and wild mallard for Saturday. Wife liked neither. Scallops with chorizo and butter beans were a hit tonight. Anyway. I've done nothing else, and really as anxious as I am about it, I kinda don't care ( Read more... )

As usual, we went away together for our anniversary rather than exchange gifts. Much better to celebrate our marriage making memories with one another rather than scrambling for a trinket as a token of our love.

Starting with a day at the cricket on Friday. Third day of the third test against India, with a couple of momentous achievements. Cook ( Read more... )

Right, so for a while we've been looking at all our friends and how crazy they all are. Maybe not proper crazy -- save one or two -- but you know, one spends money as if she weren't £60k in debt, another is fiendishly self-centered, a few are lushes or sluts or both, etc. So just the little character flaws we all have that make us human. Anyway ( Read more... )

The whole vanity thing has calmed down a bit since I've last mentioned it (a year or so ago?) Thankfully. I'm not getting any younger! I do, however, need some new casual clothes. I do still want to look cool.... for 35. I've asked a well-dress friend of mine to take me shopping this summer to Primark. He seems to be able to work the cheap ( Read more... )

Will hopefully get my objectives and PDP agreed today. I feel like a total waster doing them. Mostly I feel useless and ineffective. Pretty much have done most of my life, on and off. I know I can be better, and I know it's only me holding myself back ( Read more... )

Well, 2011 has arrived. The Official start of the new decade, btw ( Read more... )

I had sketches of a couple posts in my head, which have now almost evaporated ( Read more... )

I need to stop wallowing in my own inactivity and guilt, put on a brave face, and be good company to all my friends who are supportive.

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I turn 35 today. That puts me in a new demographic in most segmentations, no longer grouped in with the twenty-somethings ( Read more... )