Cats in my carpets
I finally made it back into my routine this week. I’ve gone to work Monday and Tuesday and today I went to the gym, mowed the lawn, did the laundry, made some bread, had a bath, finished a book and watched a pile of Simpsons.
I’d forgotten how tiring my routine was. I’d also forgotten how satisfying it was. Looking out the window at my nicely trimmed lawn was so nice. I think I’ll have time to tackle some indoor messes on Friday. I’ve got a few exciting days coming up. Working until 3 tomorrow, then home to rest a bit before Immi in London. Doodle is staying the night and Friday and Saturday are all about the cleaning and prime Weasel time with some fun things for us. I really need to finish my party plans too. Sunday Doodle is coming over fairly early and we’re going to have band practice then we’ll all go off to see Depeche Mode. Two excellent gigs in one weekend! Only draw back in the travel, but not unbearable.
Keep trying to figure out what I want to do about the forum. I’m not sure if I miss it or not. I guess my main thought at the moment is that I don’t think the contributions I’ve made had any impact. I suspect that I could never go back and the only thing they’d notice, after a few months, would be the lack of meets. I love meets so I don’t mind planning them. In fact, I’ve already suggested the date for the next Ice Cream Tour of London… but do I need to check the forum every day to plan meets? Guess the big question is: am I getting any happiness from it still? And if so I should go back when I’m ready and if not, then I need to not go back. Horatio is a moderator on the forum, he can remove the Ice Cream Tour from the diary for me.
I think I’m just feeling very detached from everyone at the moment. Perhaps my birthday party will help reconnect me.
Routine is so very vital to me!
Before this job, breaks from uni would seriously mess me up. I’d have no real reason to get up early, no structure to my week. But now thanks to working on a helpdesk, I’m finding this easter to actually be nicer than term time… but that could just be the money
Forums are… interesting… things, really. On the one hand, they allow you another form of social contact. On the other, they can be either incidious time eaters, or feel like you can’t join in unless you let them be that. I don’t really have the time or inclination to be properly active on any forum at the moment, and many just don’t have the right feel to them.
One of the problems to a certain extent with UKA for you may have been a serious/silly divide. Certainly, I always made a point of reading your posts, because generally they added to the debate and made good points. If that wasn’t the case, I wouldn’t have bothered – so feel complimented
However different friend groups (cliques?) in forums tend to stay seperate, leading the quiet-but-meaningful posters to feel left out.
Personally, I’m just seeing how I feel, posting on the various old haunts of mine as I feel like it.
And yes, I know the disconnection feeling – and from experience, the party will help