do first things first

Breakfast music: I’ve got ham but I’m not a hamster (sorry, bad Bill Bailey joke).

• coffee! done!
• work – remain cheery & productive done!
• email AM done!
• wine tasting!

Feeling so much better than this time yesterday.

• 20 min intervals done! can’t remember the last time I was there at 7.00
• coffee! done!
• work – get a/cs finished almost
• take PB out for boozy lunch with chiefy’s blessing :) done!
• sleep at desk all afternoon… must suggest office hammock done!
• quiet night in – piano, reading etc.

What’s that coming over the hill?

Focusing on the positive today!

• coffee! mmmmm done!
• work – be as cheery as possible and uber-productive done!
• email bro about his birthday done!
• med group (huq!) done!
• clear up carnage from last night done!
• relax, continue reading Rings of Saturn

Managed to go to sleep without taking my contact lenses out _{I wasn’t even drunk} so it’s eye-gunk central here this morning!

Have One More Chance going through my head so that can be breakfast music today.

• coffee, leisurely surf, see if next ep of The Thick of It is on iplayer done!
• gym done!
• fun afternoon doing fun things: piano, drawing, reading done!
• call AB in Sweden done!
• weekly review done!
• cheery dinner with G to stave off the Sunday night blues done!
• remember that I don’t hate my job as much as some people hate theirs doing!

It looks like a lovely day out there!

• coffee, leisurely surf done!
• walk over to Oxford St and then Marylebone done!
• take stuff to recycling done!
• make terrine version 2! done!
• piano, reading etc. (finished Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes last night so am planning to re-read Sebald’s the Rings of Saturn now, important to do that while Suffolk is still fresh in my mind)
• see G depending when he gets back done!
• go to St Albans for dinner with old school friends D and M – the second meet-up – feeling much more relaxed about it this time!

Has to be better than yesterday!

Snortday breakfast music – a guilty pleasure, especially the Top of the Pops version :) Baby I Don’t Care

Ah, that’s cheered me up!

• coffee!
• work: need to have meeting with troops but otherwise head down and crack on with balance sheet
• breathe and smile
• piano if I feel like it
• continue reading more Sherlock Holmes, I’m enjoying escaping into Victorian batchelorville

Not looking forward to today but whatever happens, I’ll handle it.

• coffee! done!
• post bonfire night drawing for Z done!
• work argh argh argh get through it done!
• breathe, smile… done!
• dinner with Danger Girl done!

Day off today! We’re going up Big Ben which am supexited about, although as Silvie has just reminded me, I must remember to take my emergency corkscrew out of my bag after what happened last time ;)

• get rudely awoken by v. important text message done!
• coffee! doing!
• food shopping done!
• meet la famille at Westminster done!
• go up Big Ben! done!
• lunch avec la famille done!
• various bits and bobs if time and/or inclination some done
• email M about Sat done!

Tuesday. Bring it on!

• watch snakes on a plane_{honey I’m going to make it out alive}
• coffee! done!
• work blah blah done!
• breathe, smile, and where necessary, huq it :) done!
• other stuff not done
• piano done!
• work out what to read now
• see G?

Slept well, it’s sunny and I’m Ready to go yeah!

• coffee! done!
• work – be cheery and productive done!
• med group done!
• short weights session done!
• piano done!
• continue reading Sherlock Holmes doing!