Saturday snippets 29 November 2014

{playing} not playing, playing, not playing Candy Crush. There’s a reason I don’t install things like this on my phone etc, and it’s because I get addicted. Very quickly. I’d held out until Big put it on the iPad, and then I couldn’t resist any longer. 2 days later and I’ve uninstalled from the phone, but particularly while I was feeling *extremely* unwell yesterday (we won’t go into too much detail but ugh) it was all I could focus on.

{feeling} better than I did yesterday, thank you for asking. Was bizarre actually, had got up and run, felt fine, then spent rest of day not going too far from an important room. Yes. Well.

{reading} Snow like Ashes, which arrived this morning in the post, and is utterly gorgeous. I needed a fantasy read, it’s been too long.

{failing} at nano. Tomorrow is the last day, and given that I’m in London all day, I’m not going to knock off 42,000 words. Next year remind me that this doesn’t work well for me? And in December I’m going to pick up the 8000 words I did write, dust them down and build on them.

{wondering} why one of the children who is coming to London with me tomorrow at 7am is still up!

{realising} it’s been a bit of a nothing week. We’ve done some bits of crafts, some bits of reading, some bits of housework, but not an awful lot of anything much. Ah well, autumn has that effect on me sometimes. Got more planned over next couple of weeks anyway.

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Snapshots

Big surprised herself and churned out a very respectable essay over the last week following me throwing down the gauntlet a fortnight ago. An excellent first attempt. Small didn’t do quite so well with it, but learnt from the experience nevertheless. Smallest is in a writing phase, her name, my name, words no one can pronounce – I love watching it. Tigerboy can work netflix – came in to find him watching umi zoomi. Must explore kids controls 😉

Me: managed to restart running, but that’s about it on the positive side. And I daren’t even look at 101 list.


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