Jenny Lewis

Firstly, a BIG thanks to ali_ra for the package that arrived in the post this morning! Muslin squares for the win!

Secondly some things about being pregnant, (please ignore if this is boring to you, I don't know how to do one of those cool cut thingies and urasni isn't in):

*generally very cool - I hardly suffered from morning sickness earlier and now hardly suffer from any of the other icky symptoms often associated with all the massive changes going on. Slight case of anemia could be partly contributing to the whole tiredness thing (as could simply trying to carry on as normal whilst growing a new person - quite a tiring business anyway!) BAsicall, being pregnant is fab, I'm really loving it.

*Being kicked is (usually) amazing! I can now see her when she's doing a particularly strong movement, and it looks like you'd expcet - I'm about to have some kind of HR Giger alien burst forth - but it is sooo cool and just makes me giggle! (apart from when I'm eating - then it's midly offputting!)

* I no longer have an iny/outy belly button! I used to love my odd belly button that alternately freaked out or facinated anyone who saw it. Now I have a plain boring outy, sitting proud on a ever more bulging belly

* some scary things:
- Labour (still opting for the home birth if I can though)
- all the stuff you 'need'
- choosing a pram (there's such a huge choice and they range so much in price/funtion/weight etc)
- pink. I hate pink. especially powder pink. We've just been given 2 carrier bags full of really good quality baby clothes, and they're all pink. bang goes my anti-pink pledge to myself
- OMG what if she's early?
- OMFG what if she's late?!
- What if she is really a he and was hiding at the scan (it can happen) and ends up being called Zebulon by default cause it's the only boy's name that's stuck (with me safe in the knowledge she's a girl!)
- working to less than 3 weeks before hand
- all the work I've got to do before I go
- will I cope/be a good mum/love my little girl instantly/have everything ready on time/be able to support urasni through the mental gear change/be able to support myself through the mental gear change

And lastly:

We've been invited to go out to the Wendy house tonight ( a club night in Leeds) and I'm uming and ahhing about going, not because I can't drink, cause I often don't so that I can drive home. Not because I don't have anything to wear, cause I think I've sussed that (not a patch on my former extravegance, but black and comfortable whilst still being slighly interesting) but because people aren't even meeting until 9.30/10pm. Surely that's nearly bedtime? my, how my life has changed already!

Love to you all, with special mention to ali_ra, damo, Caroline and Gareth (whom I don't have LJ details for so have made this a public post...)

A contented little jen_ren

My portfolio went off by email just now.

Only one more essay to go then I've finished the course.

Horray!

in other news.. morning sickness has definately gone and despite lack of sleeep I'm feeling pretty good! Perhaps this pregnancy bloom isn't just a myth!

A real quick post cause I'm at work..but, to let you all know I'm back in the land of the living:

I'm feeling better after having cold-sick-snot-vomit-fest for the last two weeks. Man I felt sh*t last week!


After the stress of my last assignment I also got the results of that and my previous one back - and got distinctions for both! That's three for three!

-and- I got some christmas shopping done at teh weekend!

Hurrah!

Go Me.

I've just logged on to my google mail account. Those of you who have one will know that down the side there are adverts which are supposedly relevant.

Anyway I got an email from a friend about a party this weekend.. It's ok she said, they're larpers too if we all want to go to celebrate various birthdays.

From such innocent musings I got the weirdest and most disparate adverts:

1. Spit roast catering (ok.. relevant to a party I guess)
2. Wet lubricants 30% off (I'm worried now)
3. Shropshire hovercraft (?)
4. Phone number cleansing (??)

Ive finished sharing now, but my meme is: what's your googlemail advert?

When I met urasni 9 years ago he had two cats. We've still got one and she's as faithfull and soft as any dog. She really does dote on us and can never get enough attention.

Until tomorrow. Tommorow my mum is comming to visit (which is cool) but she's got no-one who can look after her two dogs, so she's bringing them with her (evil cat mum that I am I told her to as it was the only way she could come at all).

The Lakeland terrier will probably be ok. She's some kind of teddybear anyway. The border collie n the other hand, like chasing things, (must be that hearding instinct) and we all know cat=thing for dog to chase.

So poor old scamp is going to get the shock of her life tomorow! I'll try to keep them apart, and I've got plans in place to do so... but we all know what happens to plans...!

So: will she ever forgive me?

At 5.30 last night i got my car keys out of my handbag to go to my car to go home. I picked up my various bags, including, I thought, my handbag. I walked to the front door of the office. I walked back to my desk. I picked up some papers from my desk, and walked out ot the car. I put my bags in the car behind the drivers seat, as usual.

I drove to the co-op. I went to get my handbag out... and it wasn't there. I checked under the seat, and in the other two bags. Not there.

Muppet I thought to myself.. I must have put it down at work when I went back for the papers.

I get into work this morning.. and it's not here.

Bugger. Where's it gone?

Edit: so how the hell did it get from behind the drivers seat to underneath the passenger seat? my colleagues say I must be some kind of rally driver.
*feeling foolish but relieved*

I can't do it. Simple as.

The subject is way too broad, I could write a dissertation on it. I don't know how to narrow it down and I don't know what they want. I'm only supposed to do 1500 - 2000 words, but I've got to do an audit before hand ( I guess to put in appendicees, otherwise I've missed the wordcount already)

And my tutor is no help, I can't get hold of him and he hasn't even sent me back the results of the last assignment I submitted at the end of August.

And it's due to be handed in on Saturday.

Grr!

Rant over.

Today is urasni's birthday.

Here is a picture of him playing on his new toy!






(I hope this works, I've never uploaded a picture before!)

Since my slightily cagy entry on Tuesday we've been able to get our event officially 'pencilled in' for sanctioning, so here are the details:

We're having a joint event with the bank where people will be able to come and trade stuff before the spring campaigns, book in make slots with armourers, access their bank accounts, hit stuff, eat stuff, drink stuff and gernerally be merry.

It'll be held in Mauritania, but with guild neutrality covering procedings.

And I'm reaslly excited about it!


Boring bit:
Joint Armourers/Bank event "tools of the trade - The Arms Fayre 1108" (name tbc)
23 February 2008 12pm - 2am 1 nighter at Fox Coverts, Leicestershire

Ticket price £18/£20/£23 depending on when booked, which will include an evening meal.

There will be a social evening on the Friday night, at an additional charge of £5 pp

Fliers will be availible form the Armourers guild and bank websites in the next week.

Firstly, Cheers again to everyone who turned up, players and monsters alike!

Stuff:

1) Totally knackered!(and a bit broken!)
2) Take on board parts about walking. Cheers for the feedback. We had fully intended to have you all closer to the OOC camp on Saturday evening, but the location we origionally chose had to be scrapped cause it was very exposed and you wold have all freezed to death. Sorry Guys.
3) I didn't realise there was an NPC in the body pile, and if I had it wouldn't have made the blindest bit of difference to me! Players successfully pulled back from the fight and sent a group up to negitiate, offered teh bad guy an exchange he was happy with and screwed him in the process. Nice work!
4) Learnt loads about running out monsters this weekend.
5) Learnt loads about running an event. Any other (constructive) critisism gratefully received)
6) Glad people (mainly) had a good time

Thanks guys!

So after feeling shit and sorry for myself for a week and then being on a lousy two day training course in Birmingham things are finally begining to look up!

Got Jo (jojo-jojo) coming up this weekend to do girly stuff (yes, really, we can when the need arrises) for the wedding - specifically we're going wedding and Bridesmaid dress shopping *excited*

Also it's Susie Watsons, Ian's wife (yes, yes, she does exist) 30th birthday partyon Saturday so I'm looking forward to that as well!

In a bit of a dilema about next weekend. I was going ot go to the Jackals whilst Tim played Footie. When he realised he doesn't have a game next weekend we thought excellent, we can both go to the Jackles.

BUT, and it's a big But - It did occur to me that we've been trying to get a weekend away together, just the two of us Since CHRISYTMAS and have failed miserably. I'd identified a free Saturday night in Novemberwhen we could go away, but not the whole weekend cause of footie. So now I think we could do with missing the Jackals and just spending some of that almost mythical quality time together!

So we're blowing out the Jackals (which sounded rude in my head - it's that friday feeling!)

Off to an evening meeting now. Blasted teenagers - don't they have better things to do on a Friday night than meet an old fart like me! ;)

Happy thoughts to you all.

well, I spent the morning in bed. Then I looked out the window and the weather was great so I decided to finally finish painting my railings (this is an ongoing forth (sp?) bridge epic). So now covered in gold paint and feeling vaguely satisfied I'm going back to bed. Tired myself out and my stomach is screaming.

At least I have accomplished something with my day off tho. Rubbish being ill, even more rubbish being ill on holiday time!

Incidentally, painting is very relaxing. I'd recommend it as a cure for stress. A pot of paint, some nice, relaxing music (may I humbly suggest Nina Simone) and a couple of hours of repetitive boredom with a feeling of accomplishment at the end. Winnar.

Thanks to everyone who posted lovely messages yesterday/earlier. You guys a great.

*hugs*

off to bed now....

second time in 3 months that my body has decided to break down on me. Fed up, scared, upset and feel useless/pathetic. Silly excuse for a woman. Plus, mainly cause of this, had to let down a really good friend who's in a much worse state than me.

:-(


Got tomorrow and Friday off as holiday, but since I'm not going to brighton now, don't know whether to go in. got loadds of work on (as per...) so ought to go. could do with the time off to do stuf for the wedding. could do wityh going in so I can take monday off so I can try to get Monday off instead so i can go to brighton if I can drive that far by then (stupid pain). spose i'll just have to see how I feel when I wake up. Atleast I won't have any meetings and can stay sitting down most of the day if i do go in.


On the bright side I've been looking at hotels for Tim and my night away next month, and am looking forward to the weekend. Going to London for a tabletop rp extraveganza with some lovely people. Can't wait. *grin*

sorry for the moan. just letting off steam, no need to respond.

Ok, after at least 2 years persuasion Jo (with a bit of help from her accomplices...er I mean friends...)finally convinced me to go to Maelstrom.

It wasn't that I didn't think I'd enjoy it, in fact I thought I probably would. Just that I don't have nearly enough free weekends to take on another system.But having taken the dreaded 'N'at LT I finally agreed (at about 9pm on Thursday night) that I'd pop along, you know, see how it went.

Well I had a great time. Apart from the people who wanted to talk to me about LT OSP skills 10 minutes after I got on to site everyone was great! It was relaxing, fun, interesting, quite spectacular and just enjoyable. Made triply so cause my group and associated people made me feel really welcome, kept me busy, gave me plenty of opportunities for roleplay and generally let me chill out.

Cheers guys!

and yes, I'll be back in black sometime soon...;0)

addendum: If anyone has any photos I'd love to see them!

Just missed getting something in a bidding war by about 6 seconds

Bugger.

Off in a bit to have a meeting with a bunch of 14 - 20 year olds on a really rough estate to find out what they want to see done.

Already had them sugest they want
a) a drugs den
b) a drink shed
c) a brothal.

Hopefully I'll geet the sillyness out of the way early on and get them talking sensibly later.

On an unrelated note I'm off to the Wendy house tomorrow night - am really looking forward to it as I've not been for ages

well here's the dilema:
Been feeling crappy and in pain all day. Didn't go into work cause really couldn't cope with rushing around like a headless chicken answering people's stupid F*cking questions and generally getting stressed = more pain.

But. Been at home all day feeling sorry for myself. got up for 2 hours at lunchtime. did some odd bits of housework and phoned a couple of people re weddings. promptly went back to bed as I'd tired myself out.

So having been at home all day feeling sorry for myself do I:

a) stay at home feeling sorry for myself and lonely but not feeling guilty about work or:
b) get some cloths on and go into town to meet up with tim. I'd then have company but I'd feel guilty cause pub = why not work. the simple answer is pub = sitting down and drinkin orange juice for 2 hours and work = 8 hours of strees, sit down stand up sit down stand up etc etc etc.

Stil feel sorry for myself. Then I think about my friend who can't even get out the house at all at the moment and I feel guilty for whinging.

Still feel like whinging tho!

jeeez I'm a bundle of laughs at the moment. No wonder Tim's gone down the pub! ;-)

'bout time I actually talked aboutwhat's going on atm rather than rubish and memes.

Work:

Seem to be doing loads of financial crap atm, boring boring boring. On the bright side scored a major victory on one of my projects. We did a memorial planing day in a new park I've been working to get up and running for 2 years now and that is nearly finished. Got loads of press coverage and therefore loads of cudos at work - press means happy funders. Anyway so one of the main parts of what i do is getting people involved in the regeneration of their areas so that they're more likely to give a shit and actually look after them. We had loads of kids and quite a few adults turn out for the planting day, but we also had a couple of tossers threaten to rip everything out (grown men I might add, in their 30's, not your steriotypical ASBO wielding hoody wearing 'youths' (god that generalisation pisses me off!) )

Anyway so the garden lasted over the easter bank holiday, but I got a call the other moring to say that a load of plants had been ripped out the night before. Oh great thinks I, after all our hard work. Anyway I go out to inspect the damage only to discover that everything looked relatively ok! Why? because the loal residents, god bless their cottons, had been out till midnight replanting the plants that had been ripped up.

Now _thats_ what I call community ownership! Great!

Weddings:

So I've found a couple more possible venues. I have a question I need to figure out tho: If we want to party all night I've found a great place: Only problem is there is only accomodation for the bride and groom on site. They will, however, allow people to camp there alternatively there are 6 hotels within a mile. SO would people accept that as a wedding idea if they either had to camp or get back to a hotel (I suppose we could provide a minibus for the evening?)Need to go see the place really.

Plot:

Ok, so had a few extra ideas come out of the weekend, just putting off writing them up. Submission is off though. Stillbneed to think up a couple more bits and am stuck for inspiration, hense livejournal rather than plot!


Anyway, if you're wondering about the userpic, it's mine and jojo_jojo 's entry for stuff on my cat. Too cool! Can you tell we're going to be mad old cat women together?