I am no longer in awe of remote access. It used to be cool to have access to all the network folders of the office from my living room but I spent the last few weeks learning all about its limitations too. For example, I can only open one file on the network at any one time - not so great when my job requires me to compare multiple spreadsheets. ( Read more... )

Tim was finally allowed back into bed last night [hoorah!]. Having spent the last 4 nights watching him re-inflate the airbed, it was definitely good to see him deflate it indefinitely yesterday. We are now allowed to be within a metre of each other again and give one another hugs as well. Still no kissing or anything more for another 10 days but ( Read more... )

It’s a relief to know that I won’t need to take these for more than a period of 6 weeks, especially with the long list of possible side-effects these babies have been known to cause..

Indigestion

Stomach ulcers (with bleeding or perforation)

Bloating

Oesophageal (gullet) ulcer

Thrush

Inflammation of the pancreas

Muscle wasting of the upper ( Read more... )

So, Tim and I slept apart for the first time last night. I was lucky to have the whole bed to myself but the poor boy had to rough it out on the airbed on the floor. He claims the experience was very frustrating but I’m thankful at least we got to stay in the same room.

The main thing that’s hard to get used to for us is staying physically ( Read more... )

You may or may not have noticed that the title of my journal is now different. This will remain the case for the next 25 days as I find myself working from home and adhering to guidelines provided by the hospital after my radioiodine treatment this morning.

Tim had to stay outside in the lounge of the Medical Physics (Nuclear Medicine) ( Read more... )

I realised just this weekend that we’ve missed the Ocean’s Thirteen boat. I’ve been a huge fan of the Ocean’s movies ever since I first saw Ocean’s Eleven and have seen both Eleven and Twelve in cinemas. Unfortunately, we left the booking of Ocean’s Thirteen too late (as I discovered this weekend). Only a select few cinemas were still screening the ( Read more... )

It’s been a busy few weeks for me at work but at least today felt like it ended relatively better.

The process to enable me working from home for most of August has officially begun with the department PAs notifying Personnel of my situation, apart from also arranging for a laptop and phone for my use. So far, WWAV hasn’t really made a big deal ( Read more... )

1) THIEVES

Someone in our flat building has been stealing some of our mail. It first happened a month ago when Tim’s subscription magazine went missing. We didn’t do anything about it because it was a tricky situation - our mailbox is a communal one and we weren’t sure how to approach the situation. After all, accusing neighbours we’ve never ( Read more... )

I have never been known to desire having a meal at Pizza Hut but over the past few weeks, I somehow became a victim of subliminal TV advertising. Obviously I should know better (working for a media agency and all), but after weeks and weeks of unconsciously paying attention to the advertising for Pizza Hut’s new “Cheesy Bites”, I actually said to ( Read more... )

Stumbled across a recent ad created by Saatchi & Saatchi UK. It features the late Kurt Cobain in a pair of black Dr.Martens, which his widower Courtney Love is apparently not too happy about.


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