Year: 2001

Downward spiral. This week sucked. That’s the best way to put it. In this age of instant communication we are getting the sum amount of squat from our bosses. (Ohh and if any of you guys from work read this, feel free to point them here, I’ve said it so many times now I’m blue in the face). I feel defeated. I don’t feel like being ‘up for the challenge’. But maybe that’s just today (well this week..).

House moving is become stressful. The current tenant of the house was away so we couldn’t get in to measure for carpets. We wanted them down on Monday the 30th July. They take two weeks to order and they haven’t been measured up yet. You do the math. All in all not a very good week. I know I can control this, I know that next week will be better because I will make it so, but bottom line is… this week sucked.

Positives: nephew is better, parents had a good holiday, and Louise and I grow closer and more content every day. Focus on that, and life seems good. Well life is good, just not this week.

Wednesday. In two weeks time we will be fully moved into our new house. It can’t come soon enough. Everything that we disliked about our current lodgings, the decor, the lack of parking, the noise from the road, even the minor annoyances like the shower being too hot in the mornings, and that damn squeak in the bedroom floorboards, are becoming major bugbears. My propensity for swearing seems to be increasing in direct proportion to the falling number of days we have left (eh? aww you know what I mean). I’ve been trying to figure out why.

We never got this annoyed and hacked off before, and you’d think we should be saying: “Oh well, only a week or so to go and we’ll be out of it anyway…”. But we’re not. So I apologise to everyone if I seem to be in a bad mood for the next couple of weeks. That’s because I am.

Japanese Engrish Is this funny? Should we be laughing or offering to help? Or should we… ahh hell, it’s funny… go see it, and thanks AnnMarie!

Glasgow Fair Monday, there are small wispy clouds dotting the blue sky, it’s sunny and warm. I’m working. What is wrong with this picture?

Really need a holiday, and chance to re-focus and gather my thoughts. The last two months have been crazy, lots of change at work, lots of change at home (new house). So much going on. I’ve got a list of things I want to do on my desk. Basic routine stuff much of it, defrag my PC, clean it out at bit, install some new progs I’ve had sitting about for ages. Start work on a couple of projects, convert my CD database to a new format, etc etc. Unfortunately I’m having to be all grown up and take care of things like mortgages, life assurance, wills etc. I wish I didn’t have any responsibility, life would be so much easier, but I’m just not that selfish (Yes I am selfish but not THAT much..).

Do you wish you could be a kid again?

Weekend recap: sick nephew is getting better. That’s all that matters right now.

Don DeLillo’s Bum Luck – interesting article. I’ve still to finish Underworld, it’s one of those books I pick up and put down every couple of weeks, and I’ve probably spent more time re-reading it than anything else. Wonder if Caterina has read it…?