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[jadesfire]

*waves weakly* Whoever's nicked my sleep quota, please return it asap. My eyelids feel like sandpaper and my vision keeps unfocussing. Which is tricky when my job is to stare at a computer screen all day. This should be fun.

After last week was a total disaster, mood-wise, I'm determined to do better this week, if only to restore my confidence in the idea that yes, I do have a brain after all. There's the usual 'more in hope than expectation' list under the cut, but I thought I'd resurrect my Things That Are Good list, since that cheered me up so much earlier in the year.

1. Our bedroom now looks like a bedroom-come-study, rather than the place old boxes go to die.

2. Lunch out with my mother at Brasserie Blanc yesterday. Wonderful food, fantastic service, and I have a new favourite restaurant in Oxford.

3. We got rid of two HUGE piles of boxes to parents yesterday, so that we're actually starting to be able to see the floor in the living room.

4. We've sold over 30 things on Ebay, and a dozen or so books to Blackwells, netting us a pretty good total, which should off-set all the meals out we had during the move...

5. major_jim, bless him, got up early to give me a lift to work this morning so I didn't get wet. Have I mentioned lately how awesome he is?

6. People read and liked my Big Bang! I haven't had much of a chance to read over the weekend, but hope to get down to it in my lunch hour today - it'll stop me going out and spending money and eating things I shouldn't.

7. After a truly awful start to the morning, weather-wise, the sun is now coming out.

8. I have some gorgeous, inspiring art for my artword fic, which I intend to get finished this week. I've also had reassurance that my top sekkrit fic doesn't suck, and that it's not the story that I've finally lost my marbles on (it's gonna happen some day...)

9. I'm taking next week as holiday, since I've got the days, I won't get paid for them and I don't want to work on my birthday. A week to sleep sounds like just what the doctor ordered.

10. I have already processed 4 books this morning, and it's not quite 10 o'clock. Hopefully I can keep up the pace, and more or less clear my shelves by the end of the week. Then I can tackle the other shelves, that still have problems on them that I inherited from the last person to do this job.

(bonus)11. WE GET INTERNET THIS WEEK! In theory at least. I'm not holding my breath, but I am letting myself hope...

That's not bad, is it? And I do feel better for it. Now, onto the to-do list:


- Bring Passport to work to photocopy
- Change address on loyalty cards
- Investigate CILIP fees
- Find a new phone contract
- Clear desk
- Ring council re: incomprehensible bill
- Read at least 1 Big Bang
- artword fic
- Finish Audiofic
- Leave/reply to comments
- Take books back to Worcester


How's everyone else? I know some of you had rotten weeks, and some of you had good ones. What went well? What's going to be better this week? Let's see if we can get Monday cheered up a bit, shall we?

Comments

[with-apostrophe.livejournal.com]

I will be reading your Big Bang fic. I've been looking forward to it, but want to finish the novel on my PDA before I transfer your story to it. Then again, the novel isn't very good, so I might abandon it.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*grin* yay! I hope you enjoy it! It all seems a bit of a blur now - it's coming for ages, then it's all over.

Have you read friendshipper and naye's yet? I'm only about halfway through, but it's absolutely brilliant. Not what I thought would be my thing at all, but I'm loving it :)

[with-apostrophe.livejournal.com]

I am really looking forward to it. Yes, I think I may not continue with that novel - the writer's style sucks, anyway!

I have not read Friendshipper and Naye's creation (nor any of the others). I'm not sure if I'll like the fantasy aspect. Other than Lord of the Rings, and Narnia, I don't really go for that kind of thing (never read or seen Harry Potter). I'll probably try it out, but it seems a bit too outlandish for me, sadly. (Yes, that's a bit of a contradiction considering I've written the guys as a boy band, and at other times planted them in fake Oxford with fake TV characters, and also turned them into otters, but there you go!) Anyway, yours is first on my list! Yeyeyey!

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

That was exactly my attitude - sounds really weird + slash /= my kind of thing at all. But I got sucked in by their John, and by the portrayal of magic and telepathy, which are two of my big things. If you're not that into fantasy, I guess that won't appeal so much :D

I have the biggest, silliest grin on my face now. And slight nerves, but mostly a grin :)

Heh, I used to feel terrible about giving up on novels before the end, but I'm now as impatient with them as I am with fanfic - if I'm not getting on with them by a few chapters in, I'm afraid I just give up. Lazy, yes, but I only read things I actually enjoy now!

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

Sun's coming out, yay! And a week off to relax! That's wonderful. Vacation holidays are great, but can be tiring, so I've always thought everybody should have at least two kinds of holidays - the kind where you go away, and the kind where you just get to stay home and catch up on sleep and life.

Selling 30 things on eBay sounds like a lot of work (what with the packing up and shipping), but the money *would* tend to make it worthwhile - congratulations. :)

Good things here: nobody else is awake yet, I've got my windows open, the windchimes are chiming softly and the curtains are fluttering. I start school again on
Thursday, but fall schedule is much kinder than summer schedule. :)

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I really, really need the week, just to sleep and put my head together a little. As you say, everyone needs two types of holiday, and I definitely need the second type at the moment!

major_jim did most of the Ebay work (he's had a lot of practice) and we're so chuffed with the results!

That sounds like a lovely morning for you. And hopeful for the next few months - September is usually lovely in Oxford, and I'm actually looking forward to it for the first time in a long time :)

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

yay for all those accomplishments! That whole getting your place more in order is bound to make a huge difference. boxes are not restful for the brain or body! and yay major_jim! *gives him prize of awesome*

*sends you the sleep fairies*

good luck with the ticklist, sweetie. *hugs*

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*grin* I shall give J the prize when I see him.

Oh boy, if ever I needed the sleep fairies, it's right now. but my boss approved next week as a holiday, and I intend to do nothing but sleep, write and unpack boxes. Bliss :)

*hugs back* It's pathetic how excited I get about crossing things off, but hey, I'm happy!

[crystalshard.livejournal.com]

*waves as is blown past at high speed*

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*waves in your general direction*

[with-apostrophe.livejournal.com]

I will be reading your Big Bang fic. I've been looking forward to it, but want to finish the novel on my PDA before I transfer your story to it. Then again, the novel isn't very good, so I might abandon it.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*grin* yay! I hope you enjoy it! It all seems a bit of a blur now - it's coming for ages, then it's all over.

Have you read friendshipper and naye's yet? I'm only about halfway through, but it's absolutely brilliant. Not what I thought would be my thing at all, but I'm loving it :)

[with-apostrophe.livejournal.com]

I am really looking forward to it. Yes, I think I may not continue with that novel - the writer's style sucks, anyway!

I have not read Friendshipper and Naye's creation (nor any of the others). I'm not sure if I'll like the fantasy aspect. Other than Lord of the Rings, and Narnia, I don't really go for that kind of thing (never read or seen Harry Potter). I'll probably try it out, but it seems a bit too outlandish for me, sadly. (Yes, that's a bit of a contradiction considering I've written the guys as a boy band, and at other times planted them in fake Oxford with fake TV characters, and also turned them into otters, but there you go!) Anyway, yours is first on my list! Yeyeyey!

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

That was exactly my attitude - sounds really weird + slash /= my kind of thing at all. But I got sucked in by their John, and by the portrayal of magic and telepathy, which are two of my big things. If you're not that into fantasy, I guess that won't appeal so much :D

I have the biggest, silliest grin on my face now. And slight nerves, but mostly a grin :)

Heh, I used to feel terrible about giving up on novels before the end, but I'm now as impatient with them as I am with fanfic - if I'm not getting on with them by a few chapters in, I'm afraid I just give up. Lazy, yes, but I only read things I actually enjoy now!

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

Sun's coming out, yay! And a week off to relax! That's wonderful. Vacation holidays are great, but can be tiring, so I've always thought everybody should have at least two kinds of holidays - the kind where you go away, and the kind where you just get to stay home and catch up on sleep and life.

Selling 30 things on eBay sounds like a lot of work (what with the packing up and shipping), but the money *would* tend to make it worthwhile - congratulations. :)

Good things here: nobody else is awake yet, I've got my windows open, the windchimes are chiming softly and the curtains are fluttering. I start school again on
Thursday, but fall schedule is much kinder than summer schedule. :)

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I really, really need the week, just to sleep and put my head together a little. As you say, everyone needs two types of holiday, and I definitely need the second type at the moment!

major_jim did most of the Ebay work (he's had a lot of practice) and we're so chuffed with the results!

That sounds like a lovely morning for you. And hopeful for the next few months - September is usually lovely in Oxford, and I'm actually looking forward to it for the first time in a long time :)

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

yay for all those accomplishments! That whole getting your place more in order is bound to make a huge difference. boxes are not restful for the brain or body! and yay major_jim! *gives him prize of awesome*

*sends you the sleep fairies*

good luck with the ticklist, sweetie. *hugs*

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*grin* I shall give J the prize when I see him.

Oh boy, if ever I needed the sleep fairies, it's right now. but my boss approved next week as a holiday, and I intend to do nothing but sleep, write and unpack boxes. Bliss :)

*hugs back* It's pathetic how excited I get about crossing things off, but hey, I'm happy!

[crystalshard.livejournal.com]

*waves as is blown past at high speed*

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*waves in your general direction*