Time Out

Just taking a quick time out from the mad rush to update my blog. House cleaning continues apace, although maybe not quite as fast or as well as I'd hoped - I feel I'm sinking fast and I'm definitely running out of time big style. Tomorrow I'm working at home, but have a full day's work to do (got loads to get finished before I go on holiday) plus have to get my hair cut (definitely badly needed after missing the last appointment 'cos of tooth extraction problems), get my nails done, get to Bluewater to return unwanted clothes before the exchange date runs out, clean the fridge, defrost the freezer and sort, tidy & clean the kitchen - oh yes the lounge still needs doing as well, as does cleaning the bathroom. And on top of that I still have to pack properly as well.

One good piece of news is that the security restriction has been lifted on hand luggage. Having got used to the idea of no hand luggage I am sure I can travel light (no really I can!)- although I will probably take a bag now (so what happened to travelling light then?), but wonderfully, it means that I can take my MP3 player. The idea of not having it for this flight, and more especially for the flight to New Orleans later in the year was distressing me considerably. I just hope they don't change the rules again this week, or before I go to the USA.

I'm in a funny situation - desperate to get away to somewhere lovely and warm (temp is in the 30s), especially with the crappy almost wintery weather we have here and really wanting to be finished with work, whilst at the same time wishing there was a bit more time so I can get everything finished that I need to get done. I'll need a holiday to get over all this rushing around!

Unfortunately there had to be casualties with this lack of time and that's my ATCs and a CJ that should have been posted tomorrow. Fortunately, the CJ belongs to my friend Dolly, so she is cool about it being late - good news really as I have no time to dress up as a clown and scan my head before I go away! Not so good on the ATC front though. I missed last month's batch as I was too busy with work and life to get round to them and missing a second month when I had only done 1 batch out of 3 previously is unlikely to go down well. I think I have no choice but to drop out of the group - a shame as they are the most talented ATC makers in the world and I felt very honoured (and quite frankly a bit out of my depth sometimes) to be a member of the group. I just hope that I'll still get access to the gallery as it is always wonderful seeing the creations, although of course not as good as seeing them in real life.

So I now have only 1 last shift at the pub tonight and then I'm outta there for 3 whole glorious weeks - will I want to go back? I doubt it, but I'm sure I will, if for no other reason than to annoy Iain. I know of 2 more complaints that have been sent to Spirit in the last week, but I'm betting they'll have as little effect as the previous ones. Just need to hope that my lift to the airport has been sorted out, as that's looking in jeopardy at the moment. Hopefully good news on that later today otherwise it's going to have to be a taxi.