This week away from Crown Court was a combination of spending some time together and getting caught up with work, both of which aims I let myself down with today because I didn't wake up until half past four this afternoon. Mandi had taken Jack out this morning so at least she hadn't been working or else he would have been desperate to get out for the toilet, or he would have given up and done it in the house. He can't have been too angry with me though, as he was asleep next to me when I finally stirred. I was annoyed at myself for wasting a day and it took me a while to get my brain in gear. An energy drink and an hour on the park with Jack helped to de-fog my brain a little bit but I was in a funk for most of the evening. Luckily my New Years Resolution to do something creative and career orientated every day of the week and tick it off in my diary remained intact as I wrote a paragraph of script for The Record Store Day Video (working title) so that is my obligation to myself fulfilled. The worst thing in the world would be for the chain to be broken after I have done reasonably well to keep it going so far. Falling back on writing the blog isn't something I want to keep doing because I am in danger of eventually finding myself in the situation where I am only writing a blog with nothing to write about. A lot of my older blogs mention projects that never materialised or projects that are now in my box of abandoned ideas so I am always wary of that continuing to happen.
My next job is to find another person to help me bring these ideas to life, in particular the aforementioned Record Store Day thing and the Saturday Breakfast pilot, both of these projects are hanging around me like lead weights at the moment and once they are done and dusted I can move on to the next idea. My to-do list for this year isn't that big and intimidating to be honest, but some of the things on there will take a while to come to fruition.
I will write about it at length when this week is all over, (if I can be arsed), but we are glued to Eastenders this week as they are celebrating their thirtieth anniversary in style by bringing the 'who killed Lucy Beale' story to a climax and performing the show with live scenes building up to a totally live episode tomorrow. We are big fans of the show anyway so this week we have made a point of being in front of the television when it starts because this isn't something you can watch on demand later, unless you turn the Internet off so you can't see everyone else talking about it.
Listen to this week's edition of The Sunday Alternative here.
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February housekeeping
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