do first things first

Only very slightly hungover after a rather wonderful night at Leopard’s! And I got home injury-free!

• GYM – intervals + 1K swim, had to get out of an otherwise empty pool to go
• Wedding dress shopping as part of bridesmaid duties – dress has been decided on and we had a good laugh so that was all worthwhile!
• Shopping – moisturiser, bras, goggles, swimsuit (after trying 6 on in the shop which I think has to be a record!)

• order shopping for tomorrow
• update Progress Journal
• laundry & sort gymkit
• update/charge ipod

• sit and update 43T/journal for a while and watch the rain falling outside the window
• start work on the song arrangement for T’s wedding

DONE Off for most of the day to a colour workshop: hope to learn loads about colour theory.

Slept a lot better last night. Maybe things are getting better. Fortunately this meant that DH got a good night’s sleep too.

Still some things Bt/fwd on my list – but best to pace myself as I heal properly. Everything is such a big effort to achieve right now, and my right leg is impossible to get comfortable.

• Home accounts. I transferred some money over yesterday and paid the CC bills – but I still need to do the reconciliations, and update the spend. At least the CC people will not be charging interest and the bank account is not overdrawn even if I have no idea how things stand yet.

• Attempt to have a shower and wash my hair – not sure how I can do this yet, and whether upstairs shower or downstairs shower will be the easiest, but I will certainly feel a lot better if I can manage it. Worst case scenario is that I have becomed very skilled at sliding about on my bum, so I can sit on the shower floor, as long as DH can get me upright afterwards :)

• rest and recoup after all the above exertion.

Baby steps!!

Fab evening last night, despite slight identity crisis (i.e. Moose stealing the computer) and I have Cheery Tulips to look at this morning!

• coffee, leisurely surf done!
• serious food shopping: HR Higgins and the Ginger Pig done!
• take stuff to recycling and do boring other food shopping done!
• make 5 hour lamb for this evening it’s in the oven
• nice things: piano, reading etc. doing!
• premier cru night with G

up bright and early this morning and WELL SUPEXITED!

• listen to Mohsin Hamid on World Book Club (ace!) while washing up and making big pot of ratatouille-like mush done
• chap 4 notes done
• chap 5
• GB invoice
• gah, buy printer cartridge written, but out of toner. gah.
• running done! first long lap of the park for ages. feels good. lovely light and i could really have run in just a t-shirt!
• healthinessfulllllllllllllllllllllllllness
• tidy mess on desk
• JO translation
• EDITORS gig!!!
• buy new t-shirt (what am i, if not an editor?)

OMG I so totally did not make a list this morning!! That is completely representative of the type of day it has been (:SILLY).

Saw Pudsey at the station this morning. Wonder if he’s been hanging out with the Fat Controller? (I do hope not!)

• stretches
• MP
• GYM – intervals + 1K swim, feels like about a year ago!

• Huge pile of randmin
• check accounts
• meeting prep + actual meeting
• phhhhnaaaaaaarr – doing

• get out and journal at lunchtime

• It was a Dark and Stormy Night…. or at least it will be! Can’t wait!

I seem to be slipping into a routine…

- Take painkillers, wait for them to work while have cup of tea in bed, then hop to bathroom to get washed, dressed and presentable.
- Hop across landing to my office (which has added obstacle of two steps down) taking care not to slip downstairs en route
- Have breakfast at my desk (courtesy of DH)
- Spend the morning surfing and Getting Things Done, with as few bathroom trips as I can manage due to the aforementioned two steps.
- Have lunch at my desk (courtesy of DH)
- Hop back to bedroom and have some resty time on the bed snoozing and reading until workforce go home at 5pm
- get downstairs (assisted by DH and the HP brothers) by using the sliding down on bum method.
- Hop to sitting room and sit, watch TV, have dinner (thanks to DH again), and again minimising bathroom breaks due to tricky step between sitting room and hall
- About 10ish start the process of getting back upstairs to bed (which takes some time)

So I only have he GTD window in the mornings of a few hours to progess stuff.

• Bt/fwd – Call builder
• Change hosp appt, of all the days for my follow up it happens to be the one day DH has a meeting. Grrrr.
• Home accounts
• Orchestra admin

yay, yesterday was so ace! nearly wimped out of K’s book launch, but am so glad i didn’t. missed half of the readings, but was there for the postlaunch “hang around with groovy people drinking €1 beer in a bookshop and talk about festivals” bit. and then the four of us trannies went off for another beer… made it home at 2am, so slow getting going today.

• 3 from the help-yourself-and-make-a-donation pile at chbg library while picking up the bicycle thieves
• 3 library books from stglz library before georgina harding reading
• 1 new signed g harding book (but that’s a present)
• 1 copy of K’s newly launched book (ditto)
• 4 2nd hand books of plays

• another 6. all slim volumes, including plays and poetry and folk songs, but…

hmm, 18 books in 2 days, clearly the addiction is worsening. i’m afraid it’s all a bit symbolic apart from anything else. how long will it be until i have too much to read in my lifetime on my TBR pile? am probably nearly there.

right, today.

• ring MR in lux done, jeez, what a silly cow
• move arse to office done. ooooh, the sun’s shining and people are sitting outside cafés! in november!
• MO app done
• finish RK-Abrechnung done
• MK trans more done
• JO trans
• watch some alan ayckbourn done: table manners, v ace. cackled into my knitting.
• healthinessfulllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllness not really, no

Radio silence from me til Monday – have great weekends!

Dark and Stormy night tonight hurrah! The ice is in the freezer and the Gosling’s Black Seal rum, Fever Tree ginger beer and limes are ready for action – can’t wait!

But have to get through the day first…

• find AB’s second FB account and request friendship done! hurrah!
• coffee! done!
• work: a nice quiet day clearing up more ancient rubbish on the system done!
• come home and clean manically :) argh! I should be doing this!
• D&S Night with Moose!