Shimelles September Class 2011.

I have my pages 8 – 14 to share with you today. I am back to work today, goodness knows what will happen to the project then!

I think my journalling here is fairly private. If you can read it, that’s fine but I haven’t printed it here to read. Does that make sense?

I was so touched to receive this card in the post this morning. I knew the boys loved their birthday books, but this was unexpected and lovely. In my experience brothers are not good at putting pen to paper, especially to say thank you.
Today I am thankful for the warm thoughts of my family, the coffee and tea my husband makes for me all day long, the way he tries to keep cheerful when I know he is worrying. The laughter of my son even when it’s at my expense and mostly for the time I have to myself. And then this e-mail came in:
To my wonderful family
Thank you for filling my birthday weekend with such wonderful memories. In a mad sort of way I can’t wait to turn 27!!!
Love to you all
Alan
xxx
(ha ha, 27? in your dreams boy)

I learned or at least confirmed it again: I am rubbish at computer filing. I never plan ahead, I always think that what I am doing today will be the only thing, just drop it in documents, or Shimelle, or LSDN, or Blog stuff!! I had to purge i photo, it wasn’t working, it has taken 2 whole days, mind you it was lovely to look at all the photo’s and I feel so organized now! Tomorrow I am clearing and sorting my documents folder!

I got my documents files sorted: it is so tidy I probably won’t be able to find anything now. I packed away the bits on the summer tree on the patio and felt a bit sad that we had such little summer. We didn’t get the patio lights out again this year. Other than the weekend we put the gazebo up when it was also blowing a gale.
I collected in some of the lanterns and candles so that they won’t blow all over the garden when the storm hits us. I feel so organized. I even cooked a beautiful Chili Con Carne for our meal this evening.
Today’s weather. Beautiful sunshine, fluffy white clouds
The calm before the storm which is forecast for this evening.

Today I learned that my washing machine is a ‘relic’ Honestly it’s 14 years old! It was made in the days when things could be repaired, it has had most parts replaced so I think only the outer casing is the ‘relic’. Would I like to buy a new one for £500.00 from the repair man? “Can you fix the one I’ve got?” Says I, “Yes” says he, “I probably have the part in my stock”. How much? About £80.00. Guess what I’m not having shiny and new???
Oh am I glad I am on leave. The great storm has blown in. The wind is huge, the dog is hiding, I have the windows closed (unusual for us) as the wind was rattling the doors in the house and I am cosy in my room.

Shimelles prompt talks about routine. Is the weekend different to the week?
I live by my diary. Appointments, meetings, in and out of my car. Monday through Friday I have to be somewhere on time sometimes 4 or 5 different places throughout the day.
At the weekend I switch off. I just want to stop moving. I love to have a day with nothing in my diary. I can stay in and play. I can craft, blog, cook, watch a film garden, all of them, or none of them.
Routine is what keeps my week moving.

I have woken up terribly unhappy and with a sore throat. I have had a night filled with bad dreams, I was screaming and shouting, my poor husband tried so hard to wake me…nothing doing! I have fleeting glimpses but no detail. Thank goodness! the problem is, I remember the feeling in the dream and the way I am left feeling: a terrible sense of inadequacy, as if nothing I do is good enough, everything is in a muddle in my head. I looked in my LSDN book for this day last year! OMG! just the same. Oh well, I survived to tell the tale, tidy the desk, it is a mess (bad habit) put things away, (bad habit). Keep learning, keep busy, dreams are transient, let it go…The sun is shining, the birds are singing. I have a family that loves me and some paper crafting I want to do!

This wonderful picture is by Pat Kumicich,The Artful Diva and is called “When will the terror end ”When I saw it yesterday I thought ‘that is me! that’s howI feel today’. Pat kindly said I could use it for my page today. Pat makes amazing art, you can see it here

Thanks for looking and I’m still rubbish on the forum x