So, I had a week off work. I was meant to go to Bath with my mum, but my dodgy knee basically scuppered that. So a staycation it was.
Was it productive? Not really. But I did go shopping, re-watched a season and a half of Roswell, finally had the doctors appointment for the dodgy knee (it only took two months of agony - I'm that good at procrastinating), was referred for physiotherapy and bought a fridge (hence tomorrow is an extra day off for me! Maybe I will get all the writing I had planned done...).
Also, on Saturday I attended the St Albans Crown Court Open Day. Whoo. I couldn't take any pictures, but I can now say I have been in a prison van and in court and in a cell block. Without the messy getting arrested part. it's a shame the mock court case was a sentencing for a minor drinking driving charge and not a juicy murder, but you can't have everything.
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Staycation
September 12th, 2011
2011-09-12 08:23 pm (UTC)
I have come home to bills/things I'm going to have to query with the council. But also my big laptop and a real mouse. It's a trade-off...
2011-09-12 08:29 pm (UTC)
I really meant productive in a creative sense, alas.
2011-09-12 08:32 pm (UTC)
Ah, yes... But sometimes it's much easier to be creative when you have other things to occupy yourself, I find, like work or whatever; staycations (or in my case, weeks when I happen to be in a sludge) aren't always the best for producing things, even if you do have lots of time.
2011-09-12 08:36 pm (UTC)
2011-09-12 09:12 pm (UTC)
2011-09-12 09:18 pm (UTC)
I don't want loads of money, but I'd love to be able to afford a cleaner.
2011-09-12 09:23 pm (UTC)
Yeah, I know what you mean; my parents have a cleaner and on weeks like this last week (when she's been on holiday) you can really see how much she does. How far are you off being able to afford someone?
2011-09-12 09:47 pm (UTC)
2011-09-12 09:52 pm (UTC)
2011-09-12 10:06 pm (UTC)
I was hoping to pounce one day when a friend is down on their luck. I not sure I want a stranger rooting through the Barbie and horse collections...
2011-09-12 10:14 pm (UTC)
Heh; I'm not sure I'd want a friend going through my stuff... But unless you've got the horses in a charming display cabinet, I'd have thought a cleaner would leave them alone. And as you always say about the hotel for WCUK, they've probably seen worse. (Heck, I've watched Come Dine with Me and I've seen worse!)
2011-09-12 10:30 pm (UTC)
It's bad enough I'm letting the delivery men in tomorrow!
2011-09-12 10:33 pm (UTC)
2011-09-12 11:11 pm (UTC)
2011-09-13 12:03 am (UTC)
No BW at the moment, but a half built Fool for Love one.
2011-09-12 08:50 pm (UTC)
I am puzzled by your choice of things to do on your hols.
2011-09-12 09:08 pm (UTC)
I think the Roswell re-watch is fic avoidance.
2011-09-13 08:07 pm (UTC)
2011-09-13 09:14 pm (UTC)
I don't know what I've done to it, but my mum thinks it's arthritis, as the symptoms seem similar to hers. She suffered terribly with it in her 30s too. The thing is, it's both knees, it's just one comes and goes and the other is agony all the time.