Random Witterings!

This morning Tony asked me…

“Is this how you would expect zombie intestines to look?”

He was asking about one of his miniatures he’d painted which was superb, but still… not a question I ever thought I’d be asked 

He’s keeping a diary of painting on his blog here - it’s well worth checking out!

Happy New Year everyone, I hope 2009 will be especially good to you!

A couple of photos of the progress - it doesn’t look like much but it was quite a lot of work honest :)  I like the last one the best as you can start to see the picture forming.

Mistake corrected and design continued

End of next session

And end of today’s session!

I’m getting faster at the hooking (that just sounds wrong!) which I’m pleased about and it is very relaxing.  Will post more pics as they come

So every year, our lovely families ask what we want for christmas and every year we say “book tokens please!”.  The rest of the conversation is usually taken up by trying to get across just how much we love book tokens and they aren’t boring at all to us.  We don’t just say it because we can’t think of anything else but because we genuinely love them. I do understand they seem a little boring tho

I read…. a LOT.  That will come as no surprise to anyone who has seen our library*cough* spare room.  I think people might have nightmares about books when they have to sleep in that room

So amongst the other brilliant presents this christmas we also received some book tokens yay!  And this morning we ventured out into Nottingham and spent them.  I’m such a sad bunny that I get very excited at the prospect and there is much anticipating and feeling like a kid in a sweet shop.  I love it

So we came away with several books and I love them so much I will list them all here.  You didn’t have anything better to do did you?

Jim Butcher - Captain’s Fury
Jim Butcher - The Dresden Files - Welcome to the Jungle (Graphic Novel)
Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel’s Justice
Simon R Green - Haunting the Nightside
Simon R Green - Into the Nightside
Simon R Green - The Dark Heart of the Nightside
Sherrilyn Kenyon - Knight of Darkness
Sherrilyn Kenyon - Sword of Darkness
Karen MacInerney - On the Prowl
Kevin Smith - Tales from the Clerks (Graphic Novel)

I best get started, so much to read, so little time *grin*

A very Merry Christmas!

Santa was very good to me this year - I got Buffy and Angel comics, book tokens, some smellies, a couple of DVD boxsets, a pair of cute PJ’s amongst other things but the most amazing present I received was from Tony and I totally love them.  I opened up one box and inside were an exquisite pair of silver celtic drop earrings which were beautiful and to top that, another box contained a delicate silver celtic necklace with an amethyst gem.  I was actually speechless and may have cried a little… don’t tell anyone tho!

And yes I might have worn my pink PJ’s and the jewellery all day ;)  So classy!

Thankyou so much Tony, I don’t know how I got so lucky to be your wife but I am happy about it every day

Fizz had a whale of a time playing with the wrapping paper and made us laugh by picking her way carefully into the middle of the pile and making herself comfortable.

Bubbles felt it was all beneath her and took up residence on one of Tony’s toolboxes.

After finishing my latest cross-stitch project (Lady and Unicorn - I will get some pics up soon) I was wondering what to do.  Sometimes It gets a bit much jumping from one cross-stitch to another, so I wanted to do something different in between.

I’d bought a latch-hook rug kit a couple of years ago but it had languished in my overflowing project wardrobe ever since and while I was going through my options, Tony took it down (I’m a short arse and it was up high!) and suggested it.

It’s by The Craft Collection Ltd and is the Cats and Mice Rug Kit and it is really cute :)  I suspect it will become the cats rug once finished but that’s OK, I like to make things to be used!

I realised after I’d finished about 6 lines up the side that I’d used the wrong colours for the mice so had to take out the wrong colour and put the right ones back in.  I’ve done the two bottom ones so far and still need to do the two top.  Doh!

Will take another picture the next time I work on it

So today I popped into the Doctors to pick up the prescription for my regular drugs (repeat prescriptions) that I requested last week.  Most of the time it’s a very easy process, I just ask for it and if it’s there and ready, it gets handed over.  Every now and again I have to have a drug review and most of the time I see it’s coming and can arrange an appointment with my Doctor.

Unfortunately I didn’t spot it this time and when I turned up to get the prescription, I find there is no prescription and a note saying I need a review. Great.

Usually I have no problem with the receptionists - they are just doing their job and they aren’t medical professionals.  Most of the time they are friendly.  Occasionally they can be also be bolshy and unhelpful and today was my unlucky day.

I asked if there were any appointments available for my Doctor but was told she was on holiday and there were no pre-bookable appointments left until after christmas.  No further help offered.  Fantastic.

One of the drugs I have to regularly take are Anti-depressants because I suffer from Dysthymic Disorder.  Aside from the depression, another major facet of Dysthymia I particularly suffer with is low self esteem and lack of confidence and at that point I had an overwhelming desire to just walk away and hide.  Where would that leave me tho?

So I grit my teeth and ask if the review could be done by phone (they offer phone consultations which I find usually fantastic) but was told they no longer do reviews by phone.  No further help offered.  Fantastic.

I have to psyche myself up to actually go into the surgery in the first place.  My Doctor is fantastic but it took me a long time to find her and I’d seen a few of the other doctors in the practice before and not got on with them (another story).  So I had to psyche myself up even to go in and pick up the prescription and the thought of having to do it again to go back and actually see someone who wasn’t my regular doctor and who I have no trust with makes me feel panicky and exhausted.

I pathetically asked “so what do I do?” and was told call after such and such a time to get an appointment for the next day with any of the doctors.

By the time I had rushed back to the car I was crying and hyperventilating, and feeling disgusted with myself.  Then I was annoyed at them.

I understand they are doing their job but they also have a duty of care to patients and need to have an understanding that when someone comes into the surgery, it’s not because they are well and happy and a lot of people may be in a fragile state of mind.  It felt like pulling teeth getting the final answer of ‘ring at such and such a time’ when they could have easily stated that after the first question.  If I’d followed the overwhelming desire to get out of there I would have been left with no antidepressants and would have felt that there would be no option to get any until the New Year which would not have been good.

I feel angry on behalf of the people who might be in the same state I was before I was diagnosed because there would be no way I could have continued asking questions or tried to be even minorly assertive.

I’m annoyed at myself for not spotting the review was coming up but equally annoyed that to get to the point to rectify the situation has left me feeling panicky, depressed and tearful.  A little help would have gone a long way.

Ugh.

What do you get a cat that has everything?

I haz a box!

It took Fizz about 5 seconds of me putting the box on the floor, to set up shop and she stayed there for quite a while looking very proud of herself

Too. Cute.

So it’s been a while!  How have you all been?

If I could blog straight from my brain I would have loads of posts…. of course none of them would have made any sense and would be rather surreal - but you take what you can get.

I love blogging, I just don’t seem to manage to get round to it enough or I think of something to write then get distracted by something shiny and it goes out of my head.  Tony thinks I should blog more so I shall try and we shall see what we get.  You can blame thank him, really

Hope you like the new place and look

TTFN!

So Tony surprised me with a Bamboo One Wacom Tablet - something I wanted to mess around with for ages. I don’t have any drawing ability but had messed around with cat cartoons since I was a kid and decided it would be the perfect thing to try. Here it is!

Thankyou Tony!!!

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