17 May

everything old is new again

Just a heads up: I was bored yesterday so I started going through my archives, assigning categories to posts and making them public again. So far I’ve done March and April of 2009, right when this blog was fresh and new.

Most of them haven’t reappeared in my Google Reader but the odd one has so if that happens to you and you’re wondering WTF I’m talking about, then that’s why it’s happening and I apologise. Or it might be a good chance to revisit those days of yore. It’s amusing me to read them – it’s long enough ago that it’s like reading a whole new blog. It’s also not quite as much boring doom and gloom as I remembered when I decided to take them down; I figure that must only have kicked in with motherhood and the post-natal depression. There’s the old me, living in our old house back when there was just the two of us humans and only one budgie, complaining about trying to get my life under control and I’m laughing because HA! I had no idea what “feeling out of control” and “having no time” actually felt like. Oh, Past Me, you’ve got some adventures ahead of you. (It’s just a shame that you bailed out of writing about most of them.)

Not quite so funny is how the same themes are coming up. In the three years since then I’ve not made much progress at all and in some areas have gone backwards. Oh dear. Sorry, Past Me, but Future You has dropped the ball a bit, I’m afraid!

10 Feb

O hai

I’ve just discovered that since I turned off comments moderation, wordpress has stopped telling me when I have comments. I’m sorry! I don’t mean to ignore anyone and I’m really grateful for you taking the time to comment.

I’m sick of my theme and need to find a new one. (That tiny writing! Argh!) I think the ability to reply to comments definitely needs to be on the list of features.

As you were :-)

30 Apr

a day of little wins

We had a compulsory department meeting this afternoon and it was so interesting I added two full pages of things to my to-do list. One is full of finance-related things I need to sort out (from closing old UK bank accounts to working out what the hell my superannuation is worth now, if anything, to archiving MS-Money), and the other is organisation stuff for the house.

I’m pleased both because I don’t think there’s any duplication between this and my ‘official’ to-do list, and because I wrote stuff down without worrying about the ‘perfect’ order to do things in. And I wrote it so neatly! I’ll just add these pages to the notebook. Without rewriting. I tell you, this day is so full of wins. Oh! And at lunchtime I whizzed round and did four different errands, instead of getting all the way to one and deciding I can’t be bothered today.

I’ve come out of the meeting feeling all excited and it’s only partly due to the ra-ra pep talk we just had. Yay me!