Weekend

Yesterday I did nothing - well as close to nothing as one can do whilst still spending hours awake. I am not one that does nothing very often and you know what.... IT WAS FABULOUS. John (the man) and I just watched BBC America and saw the ending of about 5 movies but no beginnings (just how it seemed to work out).

Other good things about the weekend:

I found Lebkuchen in the supermarket and have been reveling in their gingerbready goodness ever since (if you are not acquainted with Lebkuchen then google the term and you shalt learn).

John's passport arrived! HUZZAH! We are now all ready to go to England in a few weeks. very exciting.

We went to a pre-thanksgiving meal and had lots of yummy food (John a little bit too much) and even more wonderful company.

I am sure there was more goodness but I am waaaaay behind on a knitting project for a baby that is threatening to arrive any day (and mother to be is hoping it is sooner rather than later) and so I must pick up the needles once more and knit, knit, knit.

Depodging tool of choice

This is my nice little exercise machine (of sorts). I would love to say it is new but I have had it a few months now but thanks to the broken foot it has sat gathering dust. It actually arrived the day I was put into my cast, talk about timing! Anyway I have started to use it this weekend and it is hitting home just how out of shape I am... which is VERY, in case you were wondering. For those of you who are looking at the picture and wondering what the heck it is, it is a baby elliptical thing. I wanted an elliptical machine but realised in my flat I could really have a sofa or a full-size elliptical - see previous post for my love of the sofa. This fits in perfectly. It sits next to the sofa and taunts me as I sit in comfort on my ever expanding rear end - eventually to shut it up I get on it for a bit. The upside to this is that it is getting bloody cold in my flat and this is a good way to warm up - alas the wearing 5 jumpers approach just makes it hard to maneuver myself around (mitchelin man style - do they have the mitchelin man in America? Hmmmmm).

Weekend thoughts

1. I like men in uniform - particularly my man who was wearing his lovely navy winter blues this morning (he has drill this weekend).

2. The leaf situation outside is reaching near crisis point. I think I may wake up tomorrow to find I cannot get out of the door as the house will be buried. However, the leaf collectors are supposed to come this week (but they are quite elusive little beggars) so I think the Joness (my landlords who live in the main house, I am in a basement apartment) may try and fight the good fight to get all the leaves on the curb over the weekend.

3. I need to get off the sofa and do some cooking. I am trying to take my lunches into work now (I have been a bit bad since moving here about eating well). I need to lose some podge, de-podging is a priority.

4. My sofa is comfortable.

5. Oooh laundry is done... dryer here I come.

First post block

So I have been meaning to write the first post here for a while, but for some reason I have been unable to - I have even not written other blog entries because of it. Urgh. Today I am going to get over this imaginary hump and in the words of Nike advertising 'just do it.' Let us go over the most obvious point here:

MY BLOG HAS MOVED!!!!!!

Why oh why have you moved your blog Rhiannon, some of you may ask. Well the answer is relatively simple. The old blog format was great in that I had ultimate control over it. Mwu-ha-ha!!!!! However, it was taking forever to upload and had to be written from my laptop and both of these factors were a bit of a pain and made me less inclined to update. Moving it here means I can update wherever I want (well clearly I still need a computer, it is not telepathy-enabled ... yet) and that I no longer have to password it - before it was an offshoot of the work website and I felt that it was best.

You will note that there are blog entries prior to this - I am slowly but surely uploading all old blog entries, including the old blogsome one and then I will move onto my dotmac one. Therefore, all my blogs should eventually be here in one place. This has to be a gradual process because I tried to upload lots and lots all in one and google thought I was a spammer and it took me a while to convince them I am not... well that and uploading lots in one go takes effort and I am a lazy so and so.

Anyway.... welcome. Enjoy. All that good stuff....

New location... same old stuff

Give me time and I shall blog.

(First post on the blog when it was on the mac website)

I need an automatic updater

I feel I am neglecting my blog… blame facebook as it takes away much of my pootling about on the internet time (well that and the fact I have no news to blog about). So……. Archibald died. I am sad but I knew it was going to happen. He had not been acting right for a week and on Saturday he was very out of sorts indeed. I blame the fish grrrrrrrrrrr. I think they kept him from eating and they bullied him. Luckily I am getting rid of them, and not in the mafia sense as I don’t have the heart to do that (although I have thought about it, but then I feel guilty for thinking it). My friend is going to take them as she had an aquarium craving (odd girl but we like her anyways). I shall then get two frogs so they have company and NO PESKY FISH and hopefully that will be more successful.

In other news… I have been working late oh and I got a dynamic brace for my arm. It is scary and the amount they want you to pay for it is, quite frankly, absurd - thankfully I am renting it and even then it is a hefty fee even with insurance paying the majority. I have been wearing it over the weekend to build up the length of time I can wear it and now it is somethng I wear at night. It is hard to sleep in but well it is even harder to type in so sacrifices must be made. Oh and in case anyone does not know what a dynamic brace is go here (mine is the first one):

http://www.dynasplint.com/wrist2.html (I could not be bothered to write the html to make this a fancy link so you will all have to do with simple, reliable cut and paste)

The idea is that it holds you in a permanent stretch and then every few days you crank it up, thereby getting more movement. We like more movement. Doctor just thought I probably was not going to get there on my own. This helps with bending the wrist back, known as extension (a more useful movement). The flexion (bending it forwards) will have to come on its own I guess. I am all worried I got extension and flexion backwards, oh well. Anyways that is probably about it. I will try and be better at writing when anything interesting happens.

Today has been..

pants!