Summer pours in

Well its nearly the summer and school finishes, with all the toing and froing this year I haven't noticed time passing so it feels like Easter still but Traylan finished school this last week and hes got some tough offers to uni and a much nicer one to college in Thurso, so i get to hold onto the apron strings a bit longer!!!

Work is odd all out of step and I have the 14th as my interview date, think of me then! I hope to know before if there is competition, but cant ask yet :-) next week, we shall see.

Internet has been on and off today and every time it crashed I went back to bed (never said I was mature!) so still in my PJ's and spent over and hour playing with the kittens in bed and later slept with momma cat while kittens raced round outside bedroom! They are currently crashed out on my bed while Splodge and I bask in sunshine through the front windows.

Midnight is the oldest and is the darker Kitten, while Smokey is a tabby with torty over tones, hence the odd ginger tabby leg and both have pristine white paws which are so cute even when hanging by claws from bare skin!

Passing Time

I had hoped I was improving on the blogging front but it seems I must not back slide.. well often.

I plan to do the Na no wri mo this year and am getting characters and ideas ready, I must do my research now and a bit at a time, so when I write I am not having to delve back and for to the books for times and dates, some of it will be historical, while the rest present day, and I hope to write about a vampire who hasn't got any angst and isn't in school and doesn't lust after blood/teens/understanding, sorry all too cliche, I know some of this is good because cliche is good but really, I am fed up with angst vampires!!!
Had a meeting for work which has helped the work situation, no definite but lots of possible and maybe which is as close as we get to yes your okay, these days.

Sadly kept going all week until I had meeting last Thursday then crashed and ill all weekend, and still poorly Monday and sat keeping track but little doing, and today still rough at edges... mind you good time to unpick my knitting that went wrong last week, lost all sense of happiness when I found mistake and tried to fix higher up! blah, so I am unpicking, nearly done then happy again, knitting doesn't define me but is my happiness measure...

Finally joined the twitter world as biblios shall put link in when I am doing it next and hope to link to here as well...

Must get on and sort, more unpicking yet and then some CFE work!

Twilight Zone

What a strange week, and now I feel as if I have entered the Twilight Zone! the word came officially about my job and what ever is to replace it has to go to full council to ratify, time will pass.

Ate out so many times last week I am stuffed and happy, even work took us out to Mackay's for lunch on Friday and I ate well...

Didn't get done what I planned for work but got other things done which was more useful and fun :-D

Great Stitch and Bleather yesterday, did loads, chatted a storm, knitted and relaxed. Oddly I didn't feel complete when I left, which it often does make me feel. Then again it has been an odd week and until I know what is happening about work, and other things I shall feel as if I am waiting.

My kids are playing words and we are trying to alliterate and not get it right, my fave was pseudo ptarmigan, with 2 silent p's.

I can't even settle to type, but I need to write some every day if I am to improve and maybe by November try the Nanowrimo? I shall plan...

Waiting

I am waiting my sons return form Italy and I just waiting, also waiting to hear what is happening about jobs, and have bloods due which I will be waiting on the results of and all I seem to do is wait! in my waiting I have set up a twitter under the name of biblios, feel free to find me, I may be there often or not, just waiting...

Unsettling Times

Well after a few days of strange and unsettling happenings I can lay some of the ghosts, I spoke to those who could help and made a few changes to my life which will help me and what I cant change or find out about yet I shall endure, I have got to a no/low worry point and hope after yoga tonight I shall sleep well and wake refreshed as opposed to late and grumpy which has been the note for this week. I am looking forward to the week long break that only I have to work, and only 6 school days until I get there.
mean while back at the ranch my youngest is due to go skiing for the first time and has his head in the clouds... la la la nothing to worry about, he goes 5am Saturday, whats the betting that Friday night is chaos! I want to be past and get him back already! but we have to get him packed and away first.
Have a lovely new book to read called the winter of my disconnect, which is fab and I am looking forward to it. also have full kindle to read and heaps of knitting! so busy old weekend for me :-D.

Work and Rest

Odd day today with us all doing things, husband did garden and trees, daughter did fence painting and played with the bonfire hubby built, oldest son did wood work and sorting dishes and I cleaned kitchens and washing and laundry and paperwork, the cats ran around the garden as if they had never seen it before and climbed trees and walls and generally went nuts. while youngest sat in bedroom and watch DVDs so not a perfect house of work!

Now of course we have a cat fight to finish my night off...

I woke up this morning with a feeling I wanted my long hair, which I sat and worked out that I didn't want long hair again just the world more than 12 months ago when my hair was long and my world was more stable, my job secure and money not so tight... sadly you can only go forwards in time and while money will get sorted, my job cant be decided yet and work stress is just passing I am feeling nostalgic, but it isn't as good as it used to be ;-)

I was wondering if our economy is dead or alive and if by some trick of Schrodinger it isn't dead or alive until we look, like the cat... so if it is either or both can we pretend it is alive and move on please, and that way we don't have to know if we killed it with the banks and their past ideas and present bonuses when most have no job or will be losing it, How many Libraries can we save with the money currently being paid to bankers which should be going back to the public purse, has it been paid back? If I borrowed money or had to be bailed out, and then as soon as I had funds just treated myself for being there? I would expect someone to call me on it and punish me, esp if the money wasn't paid back yet... but then banks don't seem to count, may be I should start using my mattress to save, it would have similar bonuses and less chance someone could lose it for me...

ack an out of sorts day, not gloomy just reflective.

out walking last week on Scrabster beach at dusk and saw these waterfalls...

just burns on the beach but with the rain and melt water making them epic...

Fruit Loops Rule or is that drool?

My daft cat is just too silly, last night she was so wound up she even bounced off her mum, who wasn't having any of it and slapped her down, usually she only bothers her mum when she wants a fight, but last night I don't think she even noticed her until the paws hit her face! she spun so fast at one point she bounced her face of a table leg and later ran head first into a stool! Her birth had been hard and her sister didn't survive, she has a kink in her tail which comes and goes when she is tired and she carries her tail off to one side. My favourite bit is when she gets cold or wet, or best the snow, she dashes into the garden and stops up to her belly in snow, and looks down in shock! bounces a about a bit trying to get out of the white stuff, then dashes in and sulks. best of all she can do this every 2 or 3 hours! as she has forgotten about the cold wet stuff by then :-).Her mum our first cat is still her own sweet self, and they now wear colours in different colours, blue for the baby who is over one now and red for mum who is nearly 3 as a warning, you loose fingers with her! she hasn't mellowed and tolerates her kitten, even now she may settle to clean or be cleaned and sleep for a while with her, but half the time it ends with a cat fight... I hate to think what is would have been like to introduce a cat to her rather than keep a kitten! mind you the only other surviving kitten who is a giant ginger tom went to live with his granny and uncle and aunt and comes round to sit in the garden sometimes.The picture is of the kittens last January very small and cute, the ginger on the outside and smudge the fruit loop inside... if it uploads... Found the problem and It makes me the fruit loop too :-D uploaded this to the wrong blog (Gromit) so will try again.