Energy whereabouts unknown?

Nine shifts down and one to go!

Have to say I am pretty knackered and I really really don't like our new shift pattern!!

Haven't even had a chance to get in the Zone properly, so that is also stressing me out as I have loads of ideas to scrap. Not that I can use my new Scrapagogo kit yet co's of course the postie hasn't even attempted to deliver it. Got a funny feeling I'm a magazine awry too!!

Humph!

This week, when not at work I have to confess to doing nothing very exciting other than backing up the 12 thousand odd photos on my laptop! You are obviously aware of my keeness of photography, and I had a little problem when I uploaded the 'tap' set of pics in that I lost half of them. I realised my laptop memory was groaning under the weight of pics so have been a good girl and both backed them up and organised them onto USB dongle thingies. I had a slight crafty moment making fancy little tags for each dongle??!

Exciting huh?

As per the LO of BM when we went to Jersey for his birthday, (excuse the crappy photo) I'm kind of having a head scratchy moment in time in that I am soo busy I don't know if I'm coming or going or where to!!!

Roll on the weekend please!

xxxx

Hot and Cold!

That's how it goes in my line of work. 

All or nothing.

There is either too much to do or not much!

That's how it was today, after a slightly busy day yesterday, today was very quiet. 

Hurrah!

Although it did make the effort of getting up at silly o clock even harder and sitting in the office blogging on my iphone is obviously very tiresome!

It did mean though that I was able to get home on time and I even managed to get in the zone and produce a LO!!

As for the odd tap photo yesterday, no I wasn't going mad, but they are very posh taps and Grannywen's friend had used them in her cottage refurb. 

 So what!  You may say? 

  Well it just so happens that along with my recent discovery that one of the chaps who was in G4 is also my 4th cousin, the people who make these posh taps are also relations of ours too. When we saw the taps I just had to photograph them - they did make us smile!

 How do I know all this - well Grannywen loves digging up relatives, alive and dead in her quest for genealogical supremacy. She has traced our family back a very very long way.  

 I, of course have no interest in any of this unless there are exciting discoveries such as opera singers and tap makers - shallow I know!

 Sorry!

Am up early yet again tomorrow so off to bed soon.

Night night xxx

Weekend recap (part two)

Oh my gosh!

I can't believe it's the weekend again already?

Where did the week go?

Well today was certainly very different from last week, today I was at work - boo, but luckily it was not too eventful or too long a day!

Last Sunday after my yummy full English I drove down to visit Grannywen. She was home with some chums she went to school with. Every year they have a reunion and all meet up. They are a great bunch of gels and have some great stories from their time at boarding school over 50 years ago. It's lovely that they still get together.

Well, we chatted and laughed and drank some wine and chatted and laughed some more. I moaned about work and regailed them with stories from the changeover (which is still not going too well) and we laughed, and they oohed and aaghed sometimes with shock and horror!

On Monday we went to visit another chum/old gel who lives in a beautiful cottage which she and her hubby have transformed - I love it - I so want to live there and scrap and ride horses and not have to work ever again!!! We toured round her not so small garden and I snapped away at the view and the autumnal colours and had a whale of a time. Then we went indoors and I snapped away at the gels laughing together, (these I won't post - it wouldn't be fair!!!). We had a yummy lunch and looked at old school photos and then I had to embark on the return trip to London!

How lovely and civilised and what a warm cosy thing to do on a weekend - laugh with those you love!

I really really need to get some scrapping done soon though, all the ideas in my head will fall out if I don't!

Maybe if tomorrow is like today and I am not at work too long........................................?

Oh - and if you are wondering about the tap?

I will explain tomorrow!

xxx

Blogging on the move!

Well almost?

 I have been to Birmingham today for a focus group meeting and had some time to kill waiting for my return train. I had a mooch around the shops  and played with my new Iphone and the tilt shift app that I had downloaded onto it. These seem to be all the rage at the moment for that toy town feel, even CJ spent a fortune on a fancy tilt shift lens, but I think my app cost me about 59p!!

I love it! And I love my new Iphone too which I am slowly getting to grips with. I even tried to blog on the train home, but only managed to upload this picture. The text had to wait until I got home co's I kept mucking it up! OOh the fun I can now have?

P.S - Just found out about this AMAZING blog candy - check it out - HERE!!!

Weekend recap! (part one)

This is where the weekend started after my lie-in and a bacon sarnie.

Saturday night was party night, celebrating Nat's birthday with some lovely friends in Windsor. We had the most scrummy Thai food then hit the town and the vodka in a big way.

I don't think I have laughed so much in ages - we all got on so well even though some of us had only just met, and it was fab fab fab!

We danced our little socks off, well high heels and Bridget Jones pants in my case as I was the oldest there by about 8 years!! I even managed to climb up on a podium and show the young things how to really dance! I don't think I was too embarrassing, but I am sure there are some pics that will come back to haunt me at some point?!!

We managed to stagger home in the wee hours (I stayed at Nat's) and in the morning the lovely Graham cooked us the most amazing full English! How lucky were we?

Then I set off to visit Grannywen, but that's a tale for another day!

XXX

Social butterfly!

Hey there!

I haven't forgotten you all, but have had a crazy mad fun weekend and now back at crazy mad not-so-fun work!

There are pictures to follow and I will update further when I get a minute to myself.

Catch you all soon.

xxx

Workaholic, me?

Hurrah! 

It's Friday again!

What a week, I have certainly put in some hours and have had my head stressed and crammed full of things to remember, but now I can forget it all for three days and relax!

It's still crazy busy and I didn't finish until about 4.00am yesterday morning which reminded me that I had made this LO about the corridor to my office and how it looks in the wee hours - spooky isn't it? I know some of the girls have to sprint down it to go to the loo co's they are big scaredy cats!!

Today was hectic again and although I didn't finish on time I was only an hour late and managed to get home the same day I went to work - just! Am now sat with a nice cup of tea while the electric blanket warms up the bed for me. BM is on night duty so will probably wake me up with his cold limbs at silly o clock in the morning but at least I can go back to sleep again.

Ooooooh a lovely lie-in for me I think?

Laters taters xxx