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All is quiet…

January 20, 2012 | No comments | By Quinny

So this week has been quiet. Feels like I have been leasing out my boyfriend this week as I’ll not get a moment with him until Sunday night! It has been a busy week for him but a sweet FA week for me. Which has been good and bad.

Good, because I’ve had more time to get into Civilisation V and complete a nice chunk of it. It means I’ve got back to painting and finishing off what I’ve been starting. In that vein I created another blog. It’s on the free wordpress platform so it’s very limited in what can be done. Right now though it’s only for documenting my crafts and creations. Find it here at kingdomforastage.wordpress.com - Everything crafty will be based there and I’ll leave this for general meanderings. If I have a dedicated blog for crafts I will push myself to post there, meaning I have to give myself something TO post. Thus I actually finish crafts. Or that’s the plan.

Bad, it means I’ve been lazy this week. I’ve not had proper meals, I’ve just been playing computer games or I’ve been going to bed early. Essentially it doesn’t take me much to slip back into my single life ways. Which I don’t mind at all in some regards. I have a big thing against doing “stuff” on work nights. I have a few hours off during work days to concentrate on home and I’m not giving that up without a fight. The weekend is there for a reason and it should be used to concentrate on things away from home. So it blows when I’m really the only one AT home during the week.

Otherwise I have been filling my time with Sherlock, Castle, Fringe and Mythbusters. Can’t sit in silence!

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Happy New Year!

January 9, 2012 | No comments | By Quinny

So it’s 2012 and the end of the world is creeping up on everyone. This will be a fun year. Full of lots of changes for everyone around! First being two friends tying the knot this past Friday. It was beautiful, simple, small and sublime. It was a wonderful ceremony and the smallest I have ever been to! Both bride and groom were stunning and the bridesmaids were a sight to behold. It was perfect and tears were shed. I just wish I hadn’t inherited my mum’s lack of late nights tolerance and inability to stay up past 10pm. Really now.

I have only one resolution this year and that’s to stop chewing my fingers. I can do it but sometimes everything just piles on me and it’s the absent minded chewing that gets me through the day sometimes. The other thing I’m doing this year is a photo a day. Not so much to show my day in one picture but just one snapshot of the day. It’ll be a mixture of snaps from the phone and actual thought about photos. But you can catch it here.

This is my first full week back at work and I wonder if I can get through five days! Thanks to illness and random free days over the Christmas period I’ve been on three and four day weeks. It has been fun but I always feel spoiled when I don’t work a full week.

Got Jonathan kissing the Blarney Stone and I’ll report back when that gift of the gab kicks in. Also coming up in the calendar next is Rammstein. Have to say I’m ridiculously excited for this. I don’t know if it’s just to see the crowd, to see the pyrotechnics or to actually see the band perform. But I shall be deaf for a long time afterwards I’m sure. On the subject of music I’m hmm-ing and ahh-ing about iTunes Match. There is a 25,000 song limit and Jonathan would break that easily. And this was only really a way of getting his music across all my devices should we be somewhere and need a random song that he remembers. All my music is purchased iTunes and in the cloud any way with the exception of a few albums. That and Jonathan’s music is all protected WMA’s so there’s no easy way to import that into iTunes. All my Apple training will come in handy for this but at the end of the day there will have to be a lot of CD burning in the future. A nice Sunday of nothing but giving the CD drive on this computer a work out.

The best part of the New Year so far? I get to start using my 2012 Moleskine Diary. Wooo yeah!

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Settling In

January 3, 2012 | No comments | By Quinny

As many of you now know we have the internet. Hurrah! I’m going to have an article in the January print of Wildflower Magazine about that one. Let me tell you it’s a doozy!

When we first moved into the new house we just had a few priorities. The first one was of course the living areas. We had to make sure the kitchen was up and running, the bathroom that we would use most worked, the sitting room was comfortable and the bedroom was somewhere we could sleep. The bedroom, due to a slightly broken bed, took a little longer to sort out but within the first week we had those main rooms sorted. The few weeks following the move were all down to putting the rest of the stuff away. One room remains still in a packed state at that’s the craft room. Unfortunately that’s going to remain like that until Jonathan gets around to building a desk for it (which he’s super excited about starting). And lets face it, that room will be for his Lego crafting and every now and again painting for me, or sewing.

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The room that is getting nicely sorted is my study. And I love it. Firstly it’s right above the utility room so it’s super warm all the time. As well as that I have the opportunity to put more things on the walls as they’re not slope-y like the old house. I love being surrounded by inspiration and well, other bits and bobs. I really can spend all day in here, and while I was off sick I actually did on many occasions spend whole days in here. Something to do with the amazing office chair I bought.

There are photos, and you can see them here! Still don’t feel quite settled in yet, but that will come in time I’m sure. Especially when things calm down and we can start making the house a home.

In other news I am super excited. My awesome friend of awesome is officially coming to stay in March. Can’t wait to putz around Ireland for a week and a half showing off the sights and sounds! Going to be great fun! The tickets have been bought, all that’s left to do is plan the trip. Have I mentioned I’m excited?

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