On being OMFG busy

As opposed to just the regular kind of busy.

As I said to my good friends Jon and Ells not too long ago, ‘Heading for a breakdown is actually a good thing, because it means I’m not actually having one’. It’s a bit of an exaggeration, but the statement still stands to some extent. I’ve half written two or three blog posts for Blossom over the past couple of weeks, but they’re steadily gathering dust. I’m determined that this one will be published tonight. Determined.

That doesn’t mean it’ll be interesting though, more of a collection of rambling sentences with no real structure. But it’s the thought that counts, right?

• Bridesmaid dress shopping. Not going well. My friend is getting married later on this year and she’s said she doesn’t mind what we wear. You’d think that would be perfect for me as I’m such a control freak, but instead I’m actually quite stressed out about it. Especially as the one dress I’ve seen that I like seems to be from a website with a ton of negative reviews.
• It’s freezing. Up until last week or so, the winter had been surprisingly mild, but now it’s freezing. Freezing cold. Brrr.
• I’m going to Web Fuelled Business tomorrow with Joe on a last-minute ticket. Whilst it’s not specifically aimed at us, we’re going to network. I think it’ll be really interesting to see how the basics are pitched to businesses as well, and hopefully pick up some ideas for blog posts. Joe is also heading to a talk on selling creative services next week which I would love to go to but unfortunately can’t make.
• Client work. It’s going well, a little too well because I’ve taken on a lot of work at the moment and I’m conscious of needing to get everything done. Preferably within a 60 hour week. That would be nice. I’ve totally given up on the concepts of ‘work’ and ‘not work’, so I’m actually beyond counting how many hours a week I’m doing. There’s an advert on TV at the moment which says that people spend 13 hours a week on the internet on average. Try 13 hours a day for me – and that’s just weekdays.
• Had a meeting with some lovely people from Serif today. It reminded me how many different levels of geek there are, and whilst I’m not considered geeky compared to some, I’m definitely geeky compared to most. But that’s not a bad thing.
• Playing Zelda. I finally ‘bonded’ with Skyward Sword and managed to get in a good hour and a half of gameplay. Not great going since I bought the game in November (where is the time going??) but at least I’ve left Skyloft now…and got used to the controls.
• The cats have been driving me crazy recently. Chief keeps waking me up around 4am. I sleep with my bedroom door shut, and try to ignore the cats if they try to get my attention at stupid times, but she keeps scratching at my door and throwing herself against it. Strangely enough, she knows that when I open the door and go back to bed that she should let me sleep (she sits on my bedside table and stares at me, or cuddles up next to me). But if she can’t see me, then she insists on being let in. Gah.

Halo, on the other hand, gets my attention by pawing at my face, and this morning I was woken up by what felt like someone brushing my hair. It turned out to be Halo clawing through my hair with his paw at about the same spot where my nose usually is (I was lying on my other side). I can only assume that he tried biffing me with his paw – which wakes me up straight away as he normally hits my nose repeatedly – and it had no effect. I fell asleep again, and when I woke up later, rolled over to find that Halo was sitting next to me in his classic sulky pose (stiff back, hunched shoulders, deliberately facing in the opposite direction). I don’t think he quite understood that me facing the other way and being asleep meant that his sulky pose had no effect. Cats.

Typical breakfast time in our house – kitties ready to make the rush downstairs to be fed.

Halo doing his best innocent face.

Sleeping in the chair next to mine as I write this – even though there’s a sofa and fleece cat basket a few steps away – because he wants to be close to me. The reason why I can forgive him for waking me up at crazy times.

(You have to love phones…even though I’m so busy, I still have time to put more cats on the internet thanks to the beauty of Facebook and Bluetooth).