All the characters were there courtesy of www.ukgarrison.com and their partner organisations and I have to say HUGE kudos to them.

Here are a couple of the pics!

“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!

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.

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

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.

It’s FIZZ! (in case you couldn’t tell)

moar funny pictures

I didn’t expect it to go any better this time but oddly it was very good. I’d decided already to accept some courses I had been offered – Confidence / Self-Esteem and also an Anxiety Management one. The last few times it had been brought up, I had panicked at the thought of having to go to an unfamiliar place and meet strangers and just couldn’t.

Just lately I feel I have been progressing again. I’ve been getting out and seeing friends again, been feeling the desire to get out too which I haven’t felt in a long time. Ok it’s only once or twice a week but better than once a month. My mood has been low but I have also been quite positive about things and that led me to the decision to see if I could gain some insight from these courses. Maybe deciding it for myself rather than it being pressed on me made the difference.

The psychiatrist thought about changing my medication since I was still getting these low moods but I honestly said that since they didn’t last any where near as long as they used to, I could cope with them and also felt that in general they kept me fairly stable. I felt he was listening to me and agreed to keep things the same as long as I felt I was ‘OK’.

We had a chat about Dysthymia in general and how having a positive outlook and be willing and accepting new things to try makes all the difference. I know the tablets won’t cure me but they will help me to have a quality of life I am relatively happy with.

I seem to have had a stair like progression throughout the years with my illness. I climb a step then have to wait a while, until I get used to it and then feel I can progress again. I really think I have taken another step.

Anyway, enough introspection, here’s a lolcat

So here is a Lolcat