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Feb 15 2012

Great news

Hey there,

 

So this might just be a bit of a post. I know I’ve been hiding in the bottom of a cupboard somewhere, but I haven’t really. Had a good few things to get out of the way and they’re done, well at least for a few days. 🙂

 

I got two lots of fab news today, but I can’t really say anything just yet. So I am going to have to be all excited all by myself. Crap hey, but possible. I am sure there are happy people out there for me, just because I am happy.

 

Not so much other news really. Work is just that, work. Very very slow week, so many people are off with the kids being on their half term break and yesterday even more were off due to Valantines day… It was my worst ever day since starting at the company. And I really mean bad.

 

But I can’t force people out their office doors to buy food off me, I just have to hope it will pick up, I think it will, I do.

 

Still  haven’t decided on a new phone yet. Going on Sat with my mum to pick one and then sign up for it all. Need something with a little more power, but I am not prepared to buy or pay anything extra for an iphone, when there are others just as good and a lot cheaper.

 

Will post details and stuff when things are more settled.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

 

Dawn

Feb 8 2012

Swimming :)

Boy it has been really cold today, it was colder than it has been for ages and I couldn’t get warm at work. Not surprising as I work outside most of the day. Pond temp is just under 6 deg…. baby pond is still at 12 as usual, but that is the easy one to heat.

I’ve had a rough day, but I am ‘chipper’ as they say.

Not doing much tonight, Paul just got home so we’re having a brew then going out for some swimming.   That will help me relax, and hopefully sleep tonight too, last night was awful.

I decided to enter REMS my short sci fi story into the sci fi comp on http://www.cirrcalit.com its one of my most polished pieces and I guess we’ll see the deadline is in 4 weeks. Other than that, not done too much writing wise, my heads been other places. I have 7 pages of the 10 required by Ryan, so I mailed him today and said I’d have it finished by the weekend. Then onto the other project, if my friend still wants me as a collaborator. Its tough to write with someone else when they’re the other side of the world and you work full time. But I’m willing to give it a good shot, it just takes a little longer than if I wasn’t working.

Hope everyone else is okay, speak soon.

Dawn

Feb 2 2012

Two posts one day….

I’ll explain why.

Just been to visit the doctors, routine as usual.But I had the nasty surprise of the nurse saying I needed to lose weight…. she didn’t even weigh me. But my blood pressure is up, borderline as she called it. 120 over 88… I’ve never been more than 110 over 60-70 before, and I always put that down to bad eating habits.

So I’m sot of stuck in a rock and a hard place… After chatting to mum on the way home from work about weight and stuff. After all I was really good with food and excersise after the Xmas hols and in 3 weeks I only lost a pound and a half… I would have to cut everything out for nearly twelve months to lose the amount of weight my nurse is asking of me.

NO WAY! I have to say this because I know what that will do to me. I could lose the weight in a few months, done it before, wouldn’ t be hard to let those inner thoughts take fore-front of my mind once more. Would it be easier, no, would I be healthier, no. I would still fit into the bracket of ‘over-weight’

I suffered with my eating disorder for 16 years. I went from over 20 stone to just 10 and in 2 years. For my over seas friends, that is 280lb to 140lb and for the most part stayed around 12 stone for many years. Which was classed as bad… I virtually didn’t eat for months to get it to the ‘healthy’ range… wasn’t so healthy when all my hair started to fall out, I couldn’t keep my concentration levels up, or I’d fall asleep at work…

I know I am a rounder person now, I don’t mind telling anyone I am 14 stone now. But, I am never going back there.

More swimming to get a little fitter and I might cut some more booze out. But the food… nope its staying. I am not changing it, I am not restricting.  I can’t. The fear of going backwards is too much.

Rant over…

Other fab news, casting call has just gone out for the short script I’ve been working on. So excited to see this come together. I will post more as soon as I can… YEY!!!

Jan 24 2012

writing and revising :)

So,

 

Today has had a little bit of bad news. The publication I was writing my story for has been postponed. Prob till June, I am not worried over it, it actually gives me more time to polish it and see where the characters take me. But I never work well without a deadline. 😦  sigh….  Tonight I decided to chill out and review instead. I’m reading a script from http://www.talentville.com for a lady who requested me too. I’m actually getting into it now, so it always makes a feature easier if you start to enjoy it.

 

As for other things I have my exam tomorrow for scuba diving. I am a little nervous, I hate failing at anything and I just feel really not sort of up to it, don’t know why. Probably just jan blues and too nervous. I want to know more and learn more so I’m comfortable. But it scares me too. Yikes… something I want to do frightens me so much, just doesn’t feel right.

 

Guinea pig,  still manages to scratch a little. I wonder now if he just does it because he’s stressed or upset. As he is on his own. Might see if putting him back with the other will help.

 

Had a bit of a nightmare with the baby pond and the big fish. Weather is so cold and the heaters are working overtime to try and cope with heating them. All the fish don’t like it and my husband is over feeding them. Not good.

 

I’m going to have dinner then revise for the exam. Hope you all have a fab evening. 🙂

 

Dawn

 

Jan 9 2012

09/01/12

Hey there,

 

Dragged myself to the docs, yep tonsillitis again. No way do I want it like last year, 12  weeks off and on. So strong course of antibiotics and hopefully it will be gone!!!

 

It is horrid, feels awful. Can’t swallow, don’t want to talk. YUK!

 

So not much to add to today. Work was okay, hard work though. Will be hard work tomorrow too. Just hope I can sleep tonight, as  it was just as bad last night as the night before.

 

Interesting thing came up today though, a director/producer is looking for a new short film. So, have some ideas floating around in my head over that.

 

Ryan, the other nice director from London contacted me over the ideas I sent him, so fingers crossed for me things might be looking up this year. Loads of work to do, just need to get some rest, get better so I can do some.

 

Taken loads of pills, now off to bed to relax.

 

Night….

 

D 🙂