Let's be honest, I deserve a day like that. However, I'm finding it hard to switch off at the moment. There are so many projects swirling around in my head and written in Post-It notes (other sticky notes are available - they don't stick though, cheap rubbish) on my office wall that I need more than the allocated twenty hour hours each day. In series four of American Dad, in the episode Stan Time, Stan Smith brings home a pill that the CIA have developed that makes you feel as if you have had a full night of sleep, so that you can have the gift of extra time. That's what I need. I hit the nail on the head when I said to Mandi that part of the reason I can't relax and switch off from work is the fact that I'm aware of my age for the first time in my life. Not knowing how much time I have left is a really good incentive. I wasted so much time that I know that deep down I can't afford to waste any more. That's why I'm so grateful to Mandi for not standing in my way and letting me have a career, I should have always been with someone like that, someone who spurs me on and encourages me without being afraid to tell me that something I do isn't her bag. Of all my 'things', The Sunday Alternative is the only thing she's bothered about, and even then I would have had competition from Mr. Selfridge had I been in my old time slot.
Rather than sit up in my office on a Saturday, I sat in front of the telly with the laptop and did a few jobs that I'd been meaning to do. Nothing really work related, although I did a bit more writing on Moonage Daydream. After sending out a load of emails, I did a bit of a revamp on my blog. Originally, I wanted to switch the columns around so that there was one either side of the blog entry. This crammed everything up too much, and I then had a major ball ache trying to put it back together. Switching the layout around isn't a great idea as a lot of the formats available don't appeal to me. I like to have everything in boxes rather than messily shoved on the screen, which is why I can't get along with Wordpress. Before I started using the blog as my main website, I used Webs, which did what all good sites do and changed everything around and made itself unusable and messy. Another free website host didn't seem to exist, so I gave in. When Myspace was at the top of the social media food chain, people used to change their site on an almost weekly basis, changing the backgrounds and profile pictures, but I haven't really done that since. So after a lot of pratting about, I have only managed to make moderate changes to the blog. For some reason, I had another go at changing my picture on Twitter, but eventually gave up on that.
By the time I thought to do it, it was too late, but I should really have attempted to get the audio book version of the blog up to date. However, tea and Ant and Dec called. After that we watched the film Despicable Me on DVD. This film was taken from the 'borrowed DVDs that we should watch so we can give them back' pile. One day we might get onto the pile of DVDs that we bought but haven't even thought about watching. The DVD pile is a subconscious metaphor for my 'to-do' list.
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