By Slanted Light

I know I've whinged about this before, and I know it's my own fault for knowingly renting somewhere the landlords said was only going to be temporary (even if everyone else said they'd been saying that for five years or so...), but... my landlords had the valuers in the other day! They've been told the market is good! I'm going to have to move house agaaaaaaaaaain.... and in the next few months. *sniffs* Used to be I'd look on this as a challenge and an adventure, but now I'm looking around at all my stuff, and just wondering if I have the energy... Plus the market might be good for people selling (especially, I suspect, rural areas with gardens that people can lockdown more spaciously in) but it doesn't seem to be that great for renters, especially when they want to rent in a relatively small village...

I know it'll be okay (cos it has to be, right?), but I'm feeling a bit glum about it today. I'm trying to remind myself that moving might mean:
- no damp damaging my books
- warmth in winter!
- a potentially more energy-efficient building/house
- the possibility of a bit more space to move around in
- the possibility of a separate room for an office (if I can work out that paying a bit more is doable)
- the possibility of views from windows
-... a freezer - even one of those tiny bits at the top of the fridge!
- places do come up in the village, and there's no reason one of them shouldn't be perfect
- if I have to move from the village, then it will be an adventure, not a pain
- if I have to move from the village, then I could go anywhere, right? Seaside, hills, forests...

I can do this...

Despite having quite a nice, relaxed weekend, I woke up again this morning with a head/eye/faceache. Waaaaah! On the bright side, I did do something yesterday which I've not done in recent days without a headache - had vintage cheese in my sandwich and had yoghurt in my dinner. So... maybe it's that, so all I'd need to do was try to avoid dairy like the plague... which is a bit of a bugger, to be honest, but I would really like to never have this headache again, cos ow!

Also - work. Of course. I must work, with this headache, which is making me very fed up indeed. There's only one thing for it.

Random picspam with our lads.

Other days... Although looking at the pic on the left, I'm wondering if Doyle might take up the violin now that they've retired to the Half Moon... *g*

Love them sharing coffee... it's the little things. *g* One of my favourite scenes is actually in No Stone at the end, where they trade the cup of coffee back and forth so naturally...

Suppose I'd better get back to work now... both corporate-sodding-business type docs today... *sighs* I miss Friday.

...I'm feeling in need, though I shouldn't be... stoopid life...

I had to take my car to the garage today (they don't have points any more, they have pricey coils... *headdesk*) - on the bright side, it's right by a train station, so I could get within half an hour's walk of work this morning, and not be too late. On the other bright side, I drove towards the sunrise, and the fields were misty - I drove under strands of mist at one point! - and the sunrise was red, red red. It actually looks comparatively orange on this pic, taken from the station when it had died down a bit in intensity. It'll be interesting to see whether shepherds (or sailors) need to take warning though... It's looking blue-skyed and gorgeous so far, and it was frosty-cold...


I've been trawling for Wonderful Things, but it must be Monday everywhere, because I'm not coming up with much... And boss is being irritating again, and I have other-work that I should have started by now, and Things To Do, and just no motivation... What I did find was a few sites suggesting we ask the question What's good right now? I've got to admit, I'm struggling with that a little bit today too - stoopid me, cos there's lots of good things! The sky is still gorgeously blue, and there's interesting chat at ci5hq's new Beta Central feature. There!

What about you, happy flist - what's good right now? Cheer, please! *g*

Is it really only Wednesday? Eep... Better have a random picture of amazingness.

It's NASA's astronomy picture of today, though I fiddled with it a little - it's slightly cropped and autobrightened, cos it looked very dark on my screen and I wanted light... It also features the Twelve Apostles etc from the Great Ocean Road that was a holiday-ish part my childhood and my recent return to Aus. Mostly I love it for the colour though - I don't know about you, but I'm needing some colour right now! The second week of the year is always a bit blargh I suppose - not quite the optimistic first week, cos you've settled back far enough into life to know that nothing's changed or magic about the new year after all... Yet. *g*

I've still to work out what I'm going to do with 2012, which is odd... or at least my current plans are quiet practical ones, which need expanding into gorgeousness and joy as soon as possible... Has anyone got plans and expectations for 2012? Please inspire me!

Or maybe I should just pull myself together and get on with something! *g*

Well, I had started out like this...

Today was the traditional Boxing Day Visit to Bodmin Gaol - the old old one which is now all shiny with Christmas decorations around the Execution shed, and where foxcat74 and I spent the night last year (no - the year before!) in the hunt for ghosties... *g*

And there were gonna be pics, but...

Christmas disaster - my gorgeous laptop has died! It has the black screen of death, and cannot even restore back to an earlier version... My poor baby... So I might be off-line-ish for a while, though at least I have Whizzy Phone...

But - pictures! And we're going to visit my favourite James Brooke today... And Dartmoor, and... Just.... I was going to sort all my photos and do palelyloitering, and... and... and I can't even try to fix poor babe until I get home, but then it's New Year, and... and... *sobs a wee bit*...