Bad timing
I am sick. Hard to say exactly what with, but it's been getting steadily getting worse over the past few days. Wednesday I had a bit of a sore throat. By Thursday, my voice had dropped half an octave, and I had a blocked right ear. By Friday, I was sounding like a bass in a male voice choir, my ear was so blocked it was making me dizzy and I was feeling generally muggy so I stayed home. Today, I'm properly growling every time I talk with a tickly cough, my head feels stuffed with cotton wool and I'm all shivery...
All of this is very bad timing as I'm supposed to be playing for Surrey in a county match against Somerset at the Oval tomorrow. Boo hiss to being sick.
Wow...and oops!
Well, it's been 3 weeks or so since my last blog entry...that's what the cricket season does for you! I've been away so long, 20six has had a complete redesign!! I like it...although I'm not sure about the cheesy cartoon characters in the header!
So what have I been up to? I've done the lighting for a show, and although my design wasn't as good as I'd hoped, the director seemed happy enough. It was sort of a nothing show to light really, no spectacular effects or scenes to light. I've been dodging rain showers trying to play cricket - scored 40 in the first game and took 5 wickets, and scored 46 yesterday and took 2 wickets and a catch...not bad. Still not playing as well as I should be...oh well.
And the rest of the time has been spent at work...boo! Oh, and we went to a wedding on Saturday, and booked our next holiday in Florida...woo hoo! Just got to save up lots of money to spend!! So all in all, you've not really missed much while I've been away....
Same tiredness, different reasons
Today, I am tired because:
a)We moved office yesterday, without the aid of removers. Lugging desks about can make you ache
2)I went to London last night to see a (dreadful) rehearsal of a show I'm lighting next month, and got home around half 11
c) The stupid f*cking w*anker eejit next door was playing loud music until 4am - I even went round and knocked on the door and asked him to turn it down, which he did for 5 minutes, then turned it back up again. We had to de-camp to the spare room, which meant I was making up the spare bed at 3.30am! Not surprisingly, we overslept.
GRRRRRRR, HUMPH and other grumpy tired-out noises. Today, I am mostly what my mother would call "cross-patch"...
Drained
This week has been oddly tiring. I'm not entirely sure why. Probably a hangover from the wedding we went to last Saturday in Cambridge.
We got back late Sunday night after my cricket training in Guildford, and we got home to find the garden under about 3 inches of snow. It was still on the ground Monday morning when I got on my bike to cycle to work. Fortunately, I managed to get to work and home again without falling off this time, but boy was it chilly!!
Wednesday morning I went to work and was quite frantically busy, as I was leaving the office at 1pm, to go to a funeral. When I was younger, I did a lot of amateur dramatics (on stage as opposed to the behind-th-scenes stuff I do now), and the man who died was a key member of the society I belonged to. I'd known him since before I can remember, and probably wouldn't be here without him - when I was nearly 2, I tried to get a football out of the middle of a pond that was covered over with green slime, so much so that you couldn't tell it was a pond. I fell in, and fortunately Ted saw me go, and fished me out by my ankle!
It was a strange occasion. In one way, it was a sort of reunion of the society, and the cricket club Ted and my Dad were involved with a lot, but at the same time obviously it was a very sad occasion. I was tearful as soon as the music started, but I felt like a sort of impostor because I hadn't seen him for years, so what right did I have to cry?
The rest of the week has sort of been a bit blurry. I've been to work twice, and made some pages of a mate's website live that I've been working on intermittently since January - not heard anything back from her yet!! We're also moving offices at work this week/next Wednesday, so I spent this afternoon lifting and carrying things from our old office to the new one - we're not moving far!
So all in all, I'm a bit tired out and melancholy. The two are definitely related. Looking forward to a lazy-ish day at home tomorrow. The wood-burning stove is doing a cracking job, so we might need to go and scrounge some old pallets from the local garden centre to dry out and burn! No, stop it. Stop making plans to do things - just have a day off for a change!!!
Smells like...
Yay! They're cutting the grass outside my office again this morning, and this time there's no-one else in the office to pollute it with burger smells!
Could almost be time for cricket....until it snows this weekend!!
Little achievements
I made it up the b*s*a*d hill this morning on my bike!! YAY! (I've only made it three times in the 20 months we've lived there). It may not seem like a lot to most people, but it sure as hell felt good once I'd got my breath back!!
Updates
Since my last blog post:
- we've shopped at Waitrose, and nearly had an argument about the price of a pack of butter;
- I've turned 26 - my parents can't believe it. Maybe they weren't expecting me to last this long....when I was little, I had a habit of holding my breath til I passed out if I didn't get my own way. Memorable incidents include falling into an orchestra pit, and going over the handlebars of my bike due to said breath-holding;
- We've installed a wood-burning stove (photos to follow when we get them off the camera)...FIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRREEE!!!;
- I've joined the iPod revolution, thanks to Ma and Pa - 160GB iPod classic to be exact...of course I can work and watch films at the same time...I'm female, we can multi-task;
- I've painted the cement blotches on the outside of the house from where we had cavity wall insulation, painted the shed door and inside ready for hanging the bike hooks, painted the walls in the living room (where the men who put the stove in had left sooty fingerprints), bought the wood to make GG's planter for the garden, dropped a garden fork on my ankle and;
- Been left to my own devices this week as my boss is in Slovakia!
So all in all, I think I've been quite busy and productive in the last couple of weeks....am ignoring the constant tiredness and hoping it will go away. We're going to a wedding in Cambridge this weekend, in between trips to Guildford for cricket, so it doesn't look like I'll be having a rest any time soon! Ho hum, ticking along....if only the weather was better.....