After a couple of busy previous weekends I was due for a quiet one. For some reason my mind woke up on Friday morning with the instruction ‘ this weekend is Iron Maiden weekend’. Not willing to argue with instructions from the depths of my subconscious, I decided to revisit my heavy metal youth.
Let the games commence!
My Iron Maiden Weekend

bitvacuous is to blame for posting this quiz on her LJ. Sheep like I felt the urge to complete it myself and hurtle into the abyss of……
Politics

I’m not going to dwell upon this, because life is too short, but I do believe I found a new pet peeve.

People with Laptops on trains

Here’s Five reasons why.

Lately life has been so busy.

A couple of weeks ago realised that I had been at my job for six months and being on a 12 month contract , guess what!!! Yup six months to milk the system and get a better paid more groovy gig for Mr Newt. So being good (or passable on a bad day)at my job is no longer an option and I’ve been stepping up a gear.

Also despite February being traditionally sleepy, cold and pennyless I’ve been away most weekends thus far. Off to a wedding in Derby this weekend 🙂
March is clear so far, except for the inevitable Mothers Day/Father’s Birthday trip.

This has actually been up and running for a week or so, but its time to unveil it to an uncaring world.

Welcome to the world of Newt

Whoa, today has been such a fast moving set of wobblers* that Mr Newt stood on the brink of losing his sense of humour.

Thankfully the world has come to a stop now. A quick cup of coffee and I’ll be on my way to my exercise class, to return home dead late tired and sweaty.

Life got to love it 🙂

*events that put you not just off balance but positively wobbly

I love my job. No I really do 🙂

But I hate the commute to Manchester. Every two or three weeks it reaches a peak and I’m at that stage now. I’m fighting through with a happy smile, but this morning the train stood still for ONE HOUR TEN MINUTES just outside Manchester.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

One for keefybabe and anyone else who is interested

Matrix online beta testers this week

I’ve already signed up, just waiting to see what happens……

Well this morning my body broke. Woke up after a restless night of cats waking me and Rach up, feeling well spaced out. Not in a nice way I might add. So seeing this as a sign that the cold that has been knocking on the door for the a last couple of weeks had finally caught up with me, prompty rang in sick. The rationale being that I really need to recharge the batteries in light of all the meetings I have this week (one per day, phase 2 of web site redevelopment).

Caught up with my kip, then surfed the net and played some Counter-strike. Then Rach got back from Uni and whizzed me off to Crown Point. More prints of the Wedding Photos (which Rach reckons we have 500 photos of!!!) plus I put in some of my negatives from the last 10 years (oh yes tremble mortals, coming to my webspace mucho soon)

To be cont

……renewed and revitalised, and with my sense of humour returned.

How I lost my sense of humour and what I learnt