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My words from smescrater

Running

Once upon a time I was a complete couch potato. I wasn’t a member of a gym, I didn’t own any lycra and didn’t know the ( Read more... )

So it sounds ideal doesn't it? January off work, my first break for 13 years, a complete change of scenery. Add to this a pot of money coming at the end of the month which will keep the wolves from the door for a while... all sounds idyllic doesn't it?

That is, until you look at what I've lost as well as my job. Firstly, as I mentioned in an earlier ( Read more... )

Have had to finally give back my work laptop today after my job ended on 31st December. Fortunately thanks to the wonders of smartphones I'm not internet-less, although I know hubby (smescrater but don't know how to do userlinks on my phone) would lend me his MacBook if I desperately needed a proper internet session. I really do struggle with using ( Read more... )

The idea of this list is borrowed from caffeine_fairy as I thought it was a good idea and isn't just a list of resolutions that I will break within the first week!

So, in no particular order:

- Get a new job (having been made redundant on 31st Dec 2010). This one probably does need to be at the top because earning money to do the rest of the stuff on this list ( Read more... )

... were the continual orders barked by Spencer Tunick as 500 naked volunteers (yes, I was one of them!) posed for the photo shoot to mark the 10th anniversary of the Lowry art gallery in Salford.

For some insane reason, smescrater  and I had signed up to do this a couple of months ago, but when the alarm went off at 1.30 this morning (now yesterday morning ( Read more... )

So this weekend, smescraterwanted an excuse to get out of Manchester for the weekend having sent the last few months studying for his Prince2 exam. The original plan was to spend a good chunk of time with thalinoviel  and
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This is extremely belated but thought I'd post about the rest of our Seattle trip - from what I can remember anyway. That'll teach me to leave it so long to blog stuff.

I think the three highlights from the remainder of the holiday were:

• Watching the sunset over Seattle - this was something I got to do by myself last year but this year I was able to ( Read more... )

Now I'm back and on my way to adjusting to UK time again - boy did I feel spaced out yesterday - I thought I'd post with a quick summary of our time in Seattle after GenCon.

Tuesday was a day of recuperation after GenCon. Actually slept in til about 10.30 or so, then had a chilled out morning, following by a trip to QFC (cross between Tesco and Asda ( Read more... )

So the last day of GenCon started with a hangover for me. Boy did I feel rough after the White Wolf party. Even painkillers, a mug of tea and a cooked breakfast did little to help. We did manage to get to the Exile Game booth at GenCon by about 9.45 but for a good couple of hours I was seriously wishing that I could just go back to bed and recover ( Read more... )