Things I'm Liking Today

1. The Ingrid Michaelson album Be Ok:



2. Starting my new job tomorrow.


3. Baking (gingerbread latte cupcakes: for my first day at work).

New Look - Hooray!

OK, so I've finally gotten around to updating the whole of my website. Yay! No more Christmas home page I hear you cheer :D

So, if you aren't seeing it you might need to refresh your page or clean out your cache.

Hopefully I should be posting more often again now. I had stopped because each time I wanted to post I just couldn't. Knowing my site needed updating just became a mental block and I didn't feel like I could post anything new until such time as I sorted it out. Well. Now I have. So, in theory, there should be no stopping me now.

It still needs a bit of work, tidying up, links sorted etc. but it's getting there.

Noah-ism #4

Tonight, Richard and Noah were talking during the bedtime routine. Talking, specifically, about Noah's 'list'. A list he keeps. A list of his friends.

Noah: I have to put down gently one of my friends and take her off the list.
Richard: Who's that Noah?
Noah: Ellie
Richard: Oh, why?
Noah: Due to technical difficulties.

Ahhh, the fickleness of young love. Ellie was his secret crush, the love of his life, the girl he was going to marry. And now she is reduced to being taken off his list, albeit gently, due to technical difficulties!

Overheard

Just this minute, by me, and uttered by Noah (who is sitting in the play room creating something on the computer):

"This is mediocre!"

Music I'm Loving

At the moment:

1. Supermassive Black Hole - Muse


2. You and I - Ingrid Michaelson


3. 7 Things - Miley Cyrus


4. Decode - Paramore


5. Mercy - Duffy

Hmmm, a mixed bag I feel. Very eclectic.

I go through phases with music. Bouts of music playing all the time, all day, never any silence. I set up a playlist in iTunes and just play the same mix of songs again, and again, over and over (obviously more than the 5 songs I've listed above!). Then I go cold turkey. No music playing whatsoever. Complete, utter silence.

I'm in a full on music stage at the moment :D

Wishing Everyone A Happy, Healthy, Peace-filled 2009

That's what I'm praying for us this year. I am so glad to see the back of 2008. Not. A. Good. Year.

So any resolutions for 2009? Mine? Firstly to stop living in fear and anxiety. Enough. Is. Enough. The last 6 months I have been plagued with fear and anxiety to the point where I haven't been sleeping well, I've had a constant sharp pain in my heart area and have just felt like I was living under a cloud. It increased exponentially a couple of weeks before Christmas. I know the why's (my brothers suicide in June [devastating] followed by the sudden death of my cousin shortly before Christmas) and my head knows it's ridiculous but trying to get my feelings to listen to my head is not easy at the best of times.

But, as I've said, enough is enough and I am going to make a conscious choice to not allow my feelings to get the better of me. What's the worse thing that can happen? If the most awful, terrible thing happened would worrying about it stop it? Would it make things/life up until that point better? In a word. No. So why waste time in worrying and being anxious? 

It seems to be working :D

I fell to sleep last night, as I usually do, praying, chatting over my day with 'Dad' and had the best nights sleep in a long time. Choice. It all comes down to the choices we make. Hoping, wishing and praying that we all make the right choices this year.

Merry Christmas To Everyone I Know...

and also to those of you who read this blog and I don't know :D