Catch up!

Well, its been a while so should give you a quick catch up!

I have finished uni, ended up with a really good 2:1, chuffed to bits with myself!

and the really big news is that I have a little bun cooking in the oven! New baby is due in january. So, I am still going to do my masters next year, lots of concern from family re is I can manage it, but I am very determined and the liklihood of anyone giving me a job while I am pregnant is remote.

I am off to centre parks in a couple of weeks just for the weekend, to meet some of my Ukscrappers team mates. I am really looking forward to it. Not sure what I will be able to join in with. Cant do the saunas, and cant afford the spas!

Will let you know how we get on!!

just a quickie!

Just a quickie, battery is low on laptop and the plug is over a meter away across the room!!

Well, had a hard week. Did a pregnancy test last weekend getting all excited, the line was really fate but everyone I mentioned it too said it was a positive result. Only problem is I have been bleeding since so not sure whats happening. Just have to wait and see I suppose.

Feel a bit gutted, I know it wa early on but cant help getting my hopes up. Its been a bit hard to concentrate on uni work with all this spinning around my head.

Will let you know when I have an update.

Back to Uni

It seems like I have been off for ages, now I feel even further behind and still as tired!
Mind you, without not working now I should be able to fit more reading in.
I have been trying to do my buttock clenches as requested by my lovley physio but I dont feel any different and very self concious!

Have managed to fit a bit more scrapping in. I have completed my last CJ entry and it should arrive on the lucky ladies doorstep this morning. When I have my trader rating I can then host the CJ for my ukscrappers team, cant wait!
My Robo is churning out some good work, finished a LO and was very pleased with the result. I have invited Mom and Sis round next sunday for a scrappy day and am off to the crop at eh end of the month. Yeah Me!!

Goodbye 2007

Well, I cant say I am sad to see the back of it.

Although it has been the first full year of Dave and I living together it has been a hard year for my family. I have lost my Nan and two great Aunts, I have been diagnosed with possible fibromyalgia, I have started to have physio on my knees. All this along with the general money worried that some along with being a third year under grad student trying to support a home and a family.

I am pleased to say that I have worked hard and earned enough money to get us through christmas and I have now handed my notice in at work. I have enjoyed working but I dont feel like I have stopped since october!!

At lease with the extra time I can concentrate on uni and hopefully fit a bit more scrapping in. I really miss it and now I have my Robo I am itching to go! Now I am not working sundays I am even be able to go to the crops again, hadnt thought of that, really cheered up now!

Off to a family do tonight so planning on being very tipsy by midnight!

Happy new year!!

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!!

Plodding on

Nearly through the summer holidays and although I love spending so much time with my daughter I feel like my brain is turning to mush!
I cant wait to get back to university and start using my brain again. Mind you, saying that, I have loads to do ready for my dissertation but my enthusiam is vanishing rapidly. I have stacks of reading but I always try and find other things to do!

I have rediscovered the playstation 2 and Harry Potter, the trouble is I feel like I should finish it asap!! I keep getting stuck, I think I am getting too old for gaming, either that or I am too normal!

So now I feel like I am wading through mud getting towards a really busy time and I know I should be doing something to easy the rush! My daughter starts school in september, she loves nursery and I know she will be just fine but I want to get her started and settled. She is also starting swimming lessons in septmeber, which I know she will love too! Onwards and upwards!

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!!!

My life

Hi guys,

Its not very often I get to sit down long enough to collect me thoughts, so this is a rare moment for me!
My life is normally so hectic I feel I am slightly starting to loose my grip. But, never mind. Here we are, making a few comments on the life around me.
When I first started my uni course I have to admit, I had no real views on people or their behaviour but now I have looked at things a bit closer I can confidently say, people are the strangest things!
No one really says what they think and when they do speak their minds its so outrageous its un real. Where do they come from??!!