Happy 2013

Another New Year's resolution to write more often. I don't feel like I do anything interesting enough to write about, so I'm going to note the boring stuff. ;-)

More time please

I have a list. Places I'd like to visit. Activities I want to try. Experiences that seem like fun. What I feel lacking in is time.
Like many people, I have a job that accounts for at least eight hours each day (often eight & a half and sometimes as many as 12). I try to sleep for about eight. Then even if you take out a few hours for eating, washing & relaxing I should have about four hours each day to do something new. Where do these hours go?
I'd like to claim that some strange creature eats the hours for breakfast but that's just silly. Time flies when you're having fun or not paying attention.
Maybe I'll try to pay more attention... I'd like to learn something new. Or even just update this more regularly. We'll see how it goes.

A day off

I don't have to do anything today. I'm not at home so I can't do house-stuff. I don't have my computer so I can't spend the day on the web. There's nowhere I have to be and nothing I have to do. It's a bit strange.

I'm sitting in a garden watching the duckies clean themselves & wishing my new shoes hadn't given me blisters. Not the most exciting morning but somehow it's good.

Enforced relaxation time. Is that possible?

Working weekends

It's Sunday and I've had a working weekend. It seems that the kind of work I do always has 'occasional weekend or evening work required'. I get time in lieu for working on a weekend, but only hour for hour - no extra time for giving up time I could have spent with friends.

I think that's the biggest drag about working weekends - losing socialising time. Sure I get a day off sometime in the week - but no one else has that time off. Too often I end up spending my day at home doing house stuff. I'd rather go exploring but it's not that fun alone.
I wonder if I'll ever have a job where I don't have to work weekends...

Public transport? Call it snail.

For the second day in a row there's been problems & delays with trains. The most expensive public transport system in Europe (I expect) & yet it has so many issues.

It should only take me 35 minutes to get to work from my place.   Yesterday it took 50. Today's looking similar.  It's extremely frustrating.

I don't think I'd be as annoyed if it didn't cost so damn much. Lift your game, Transport for London.

That's life..

A great evening catching up with friends. A happy gingerbread man and a coffee. A stroll followed by tasty thai food. Another coffee to finish the evening & I foolishly forgot my umbrella. It's still at the little cafe, near the seat the dog piddled on. Dammit! Everything was going so well! I guess that's just life. It's only 'stuff' anyway. The conversation was worth more.

I want some Bendigo-time

I'm back in London & already it feels like I never left.

Work has fast-approaching deadlines & ongoing administration. Home is in boxes & has deadlines of its own.

I'm glad I got to spend so much time at home with Mum & wouldn't change that. I just wish I could bring some Bendigo-time with me and not feel so rushed.