Christmas is coming.........

and the goose is getting fat!!

Its nearly here, dont seem to have that christmassy feeling yet.
Was writing my christmas cards yesterday when my Mom rang to say my great Auntie had passed away. She had been poorly for a little while and it was expected. I got all upset writing the cards, I only have one great uncle left now, my grandparents generation is almost gone. Starting to feel very old.

Its Faith and Sophies birthdays on the 19th (yes, both on the same day!)Doing a party for Faith, bit worried not many will come because its so close to christmas, got about 15 so far.

Apart from that still feeling very stretched and hectic. I am up to date with coursework but wanted to get a few more out the way to concentrate on dissertaion stuff. Will keep plodding on.

No time for scrapping though, managing to keep up with CJ but mine has gone missing!Well, when I say its missing, we know where it is but for some reason the team member hasnt posted them on and isnt responding to emails and texts. Typical its mine! Two others are with it. We are all going to redo the pages and post them on to the owners (when we can fit them in!)

Help!!!

Have that slow sinking feeling when you just know you are trying to cope with too much!

My house needs so much doing, the ironing pile is taking on a life of its own and the garden needs three weeks of ground force treatment!

I am tring to keep up with uni work, have started collecting data for the pilot of my research, but have so many other bits of coursework to get started on. Its like that horrible conversation you have after an exam....
"what did you put for question 5?".....
"really? thats not what I put".....

Only now its a case off....
"what question are ypu answering for forensic psychology coursework?"
"oh, you havent started it yet? I am half way though"

NNNOOOOOOO!!
How can I be so far behind in the first month??

On the other hand, the part time job is ok. sometimes it can be mind numbingly boring and all I can think about is what else I could be doing with the time but I suppose I will think differnetly when the first wage slip comes in.

On the plus side, Nan's funeral went ok. I found it a lot harder than I though (hence leaving it till last to talk about). But, there were no family fights and my Mom was amazing. She arranged everything and read out a beautiful poem she had written for Nan's 80th birthday. I was really proud of her.

Back to Uni....

.....with a bump!

First day back I was there till six in lectures, which is a bit harsh for a monday. Its been such a busy week, I dont know if I'm coming or going! Coursework is being handed out already, so we can manage our time with our dissertations, and its cyber crop weekend!

I have had a second interview for a part time job, it sound fine but I am so limited on the hours I can do I am not sure if they will be able to offer me anything. Which will not be a bad thing. I dont really want to have to work, I am worried my uni stuff will suffer, but money is so tight I feel to have a nice christmas, a few extra pounds will be essential. I suppose its out of my hands, if they offer me the job at the hours I am free I will take it and see how I go.

Its that time of year I have to start asking Dave to pull his wait with the house work. Which is never a pleasant sight. He goes from one extreme to the other. Either sitting doing nothing, letting me get on with it, to having a massive surge of enthusiam and cleaning everything in sight , making me feel I do a pretty crap job! I suppose he cant win really!!

Its friday

Morning,
Its friday, my favorite day of the week.
We are going away to visit the in-laws for a few days this weekend. I'm looking forward to it but I need to do the ironing and packing (left it to the last minute as usual!)

I managed to do a bit of scrapping yesterday but still have two classes I want to do, unfortunatley, cant find where they have been moved to on the website!

Need to make a start on my dissertation for next year. I really wanted to make a big dent in the research before I went back in october. Havent really done much yet, other things keep cropping up that seem more tempting! I didnt want to get to that panicky stage where you are up till all hours trying to read everything! I was talking to a student last year who was doing her dissertation, she had collected the data and the report was due in the following week but she hadnt even decided how to analyse the results!! sometimes I wonder how some people pass.
I work so hard and put in loads of effort to get this far and some stumble their way through and still manage just fine, its very frustrating!!!