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Cobbled Together
Nov 15th
So my totally awesome plan to finish catching up on the rest of your mind blowing blogs fell apart in a panicky stress-head-er of a day. I realised I had loads of things to do for Monday and then the day disappeared. I did, however, manage to watch Merlin – which was fantastic and something I really must cobble together some kind of a post for SnackieTeeVee which I would if I had any words left in my head (yes, Hilly, I know, I suck).
I also managed to load up my NaNoWriMo thing and look at it long enough for it to depress the ever living crap out of me (also known as about 2.6 seconds. I have been sitting and typing for so long now have a small rub mark where my arm meets the laptop. Yep, I am causing myself physical pain right now – that’s how much I love you all.
But one of the things I did was put together a new flyer for the Scout Group begging people for donations for the Christmas Fayre. I foresee a long night or ticketing prizes for the Tombola and wrapping presents for the kids when Santa comes a-calling! I can’t believe the damned event is only 3 weeks away… Sigh… Does anyone know how to build an indoors Grotto cheaply?
Reading
Nov 13th
So today I started, FINALLY, crawling out of my ‘tired lazy’ hole. I started reading my feeds and loving them – every last one. It was like reading my favourite book for the 900th time and discovering new pages had been written that only I could see. It was like getting to watch The West Wing all shiny and new. It was uplifting, invigorating and generally just cool as all hell.
And I’ve only got to the end of C. (you people in the top three letters rock so very very hard) Which means I have the blogs in the other 23 letters to enjoy… Giddy? Me? Oh hell yes. I will never leave it this long again.
I have tomorrow and then the weekend to read more.
Work, I fear, is ending and the search for another position begins again. Looking for work in the middle of a ‘economic downturn’ is a bloody nightmare and a lot scary. This potentially means having to cut my break to Northumberland short which is a horrible shame… But if the work is there that’s where I’ll be.
Yes, even if it is call centre work. I can become a phone monkey again for a while. I can afford to lose just a little but more of my soul.
Only a little bit mind.
When Did Writing Get This Hard?
Nov 12th
I have absolutely no idea where I am going with my NaNoWriMo thing. It was going quite well and then wall, road block, big canyon, horror horror horror.
I now have three different stories going on and am hoping in some odd way that they will fit together before I completely go insane.
Thank God, I have a week off at the end of November… so I will get all my writing done then.
Yes, cats and kittens, For 7 glorious days (from the 22nd – 28th November) I will be hanging out in the middle of no where. Lovely.
And I am only 50% sure I will be able to get online during that time – which scares me a huge amount – which is weird – considering how much I am not online at the moment.
Ugh, talk about repeating myself over and over.
One and Three
Nov 10th
It has now been three years since I started this magnificent thing we all call blogging. And I have not regretted a single post… actually, that’s a lie – there are quite a few I wish I could take back. And quite a few that I wish I had posted.
It has been a year since I started this blog. Which I like a lot but I have one regret. That I have been lazy. Very lazy. And for that I am sorry. At the end of days, both good and bad, instead of writing down my thoughts and feelings (to remind myself I have thoughts and feelings) I have merely mentioned how tired I am (like this is anything new) and signed off after a sentence or two.
In years to come when I read this instead of knowing how I felt I shall merely remember being tired instead of what I am… which is… see I can’t talk about it. I try to and then I remember that the things I need to talk about here I can’t. More regrets. Sigh.
But at least I have posted everyday. That’s something.
Thank you for putting up with me
NaNoWriMo Words: Still 7562
Sick Note
Nov 6th
Bec is calling in sick to her blog today.
She not only looks bad but sounds worse… a little like a bull frog (probably called Jeremiah) with a sore throat.
She is very sorry and hopes you all forgive her.
Thank you.
Words
Nov 2nd
Words
Words. Lots of words. Lots and lots of words.
Totally fresh and new.
And pouring out of me.
But not here.
Is this NaNoWriMo fever?
Word Count: 5,064
I Am I Am I Am
Nov 1st
I am, this year, going to do it.
November. It’s that month and I’ve already started.
Yes, I know I am so very very busy this month but if I don’t do it this year then…
I have to.
So I have signed up at NaNoWriMo and I am on my way.
Word count: 1,775
Pounding
Oct 19th
Wow, so this is becoming a bit more monotonous than usual. I mean, honestly, how the hell can I write that all I did today was read (and BTW finish another book in the Twilight saga) and however much I enjoyed it (and oh yes I loved it) there was so much more I could have been doing today.
I haven’t opened my feedreader in a while and I feel guilty about it. Also, a little apprehensive. Oh bugger it. I’ll open, download and take to work with me tomorrow. And I’ll find some time when I’m not reading the book to read some posts. I will. I feel really bad about not reading everyone else’s blogs. And it’s mostly because I am nosey and need to know about everyone else’s lives, particularly when everyone else’s lives are more exciting than mine… one would assume…
Anywho. There has just been a plane that screamed over the top of the house. The house rattled and the world seemed to slow down. I just stopped and gazed at the sky where the lights had disappeared behind the house opposite me and waited to see the orange fireball and hear the boom.
Of course there was no sound other than my heart pounding. What the hell is wrong with me?
I Forgot
Oct 6th
Actually I fell asleep.
But when I woke up for two minutes at about 3 am and remembered that there was seomthing I had forgotten… I couldn’t remember that it was my post for the night.
And now I have remembered.
And yes, I have backdated this to keep with my one post a day for Blog 365 (the time is really Oct 7th, 18.03…)
I’m sorry.
I am, at the moment, rather craply, writing this at work on IE (which has already crashed 9678 times today) and am not going to write any more until I get home.
So, until later.
Sorry
It’s All Me… Apparently
Sep 13th
I honestly think the universe is out to get me. Yes, I am that important.
No, out to get me is the wrong sentiment. Out to make me feel like crap. Yes, that’s more like it.
You may think this is me just whinging but oh-ho bear with me.
Yesterday I wrote the post that I have received a number of emails about – one calling me a ‘fucking bitch’ and telling me I ‘must be one of those rich fuckers that can go on holiday whenever the fuck I want’ and that I ‘obviously have no fucking idea how the world works’; the next telling me that I should stop being so ‘snobby and let people talk and write however they want’. The same email told me that it was people like me that stopped the writer getting anywhere in school (well skool as the writer spelled it. No comment.)
That was first thing this morning. I went back to bed. I know. Lazy cow.
I woke up at 2 this afternoon and felt sick so my plan of going through everything I own to try and find things for the Table Top Sale the scout group is having next weekend went completely to pot. I now have to do this tomorrow because oh right news! I have a temp job starting on Monday for a couple of weeks, meaning I am going to be quite the more tired individual.
The tiredness. Oh holy crap it sucks so much. I could sleep all day everyday. I can’t wait for my blood tests in 3 weeks. PLEASE let them show something that can be fixed. I will take more pills, anything! I am still on the referral list for the councillor and waiting patiently but I need a quick fix to get me through the current time before everything else starts to work.
Sigh.
These evening Last NIght of the Proms was on. I love this, it’s a huge tradition for me. I watch it every year without fail. It’s unashamedly patriotic and it makes me believe for a couple of hours that this country has a hope, that it isn’t going to hell, that we really are GREAT Britain. Tonight, I was watching it with my mum and brother and I felt guilty for singing along and feeling something.
There was a commissioned piece played composed by Anna Meredith called ‘froms’ that was performed musicians joined together from the four Proms in the Park and the Royal Albert Hall over the satellite feeds. It was brash and loud and confusing and wonderful and throbbing and oh… I was in tears. It was magnificent. I loved it. My mum and brother, however, hated it. They talked through it or started to and then must hae caught the murderous look in my eyes.
At the end of the performance they played Jerusalem and the natioanl anthem which are almost religious experiences for me. I sing them both full throated and with no shame… usually… but after all the sighing and grumbling I felt shamed into almost whispering them. I cried because of the lack of emotion in the room. The Proms for me are like most pieces of music – all about emotion. They give me a chance to feel something more than the horrible blah that I usually go through.
I don’t know what to do. All I do know is that I… know nothing about how the world works.
