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Mar 13 2013

Over the hump…. :)

 

Hey everyone 🙂 Hope you are all awesome. 

Wed already, boy this week has just flown by and I don’t know where it has gone. 

 

Well bar from my little incident at one of my stops yesterday. Getting locked in the toilet is definitely one of the funnier things that has happened to me at work. 

 

I am just thankful it was at 1pm rather than at 10am. Or my day would have been really messed up. I was only late for one of my calls. 

 

I think everyone in my local area has heard about it by now though 🙂 lol

 

So editing/reading is going well. Been spending a few hours doing it early afternoon before anything else gets in the way. 

 

This evening though due to bad weather our main pond pipes had frozen and the tap had split. Not good. Then the filter blocked with all the dead blanketweed from having been treated these last few weeks. 😦 

 

So although I’ve not done much tonight, I’m tired. We had a chippy tea. Because we’ve no food in the house. Shopping this next week… yey.. ughh no I hate shopping too. 

 

This was just a little update. Happy hump day 🙂 and speak soon. 

 

Dawn x x 

Mar 9 2013

Chilled :)

Well almost. 

 

Had a good few drinks last night went to bed late. But I was still awake at 6am… all through the week all I want to do is sleep in, the only days that I can… I can’t. dumb huh? 

 

So, I got up early caught up on some reading. Went outside to see the fish. I had the job of trying to catch the sanke today for a scrape and treat. 

 

He’s not looking so good. Defo kidney failure from something. Although no obvious pine coning like dropsy. His eyes aren’t bulging. But he’s a mark all white over on his head. Looks more tumerous to me.. scraped. No costia… so that is why he’s feeling better and eating. Although I don’t think he will survive. He could prove me wrong though. 

 

Gave him a salt dip…. 3oz per gallon. He keeled over after 4 mins. Breathing but on his side. They’re not supposed to be in salt. Simple. 

 

Back he went in the pond and he stayed on his side for a little bit. He’s swimming around now though so will keep a close eye on him. 

 

Going to try and scrape a few others tomorrow. Though they’re all looking fine. 🙂 I’m positive but not… if you know what I mean. 

 

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Writing wise. Been working on character arcs. And in the plotting of my whole novel. I’m picking up the pace. Just need to stop with the procrastination and get down to it. 

 

There are a few people asking for my time with projects. Although I’ve tried my best. I need to still concentrate on this. This is my big in. My chance. I know it. 

 

So, only looking to work on the projects which I’ve already dedicated too. And that is already a lot. 

 

Gotta keep it real. 

 

I’m about to head off for a couple of drinks and a film to chill out. I’m still here. If anyone needs anything. Shout. 🙂 

 

D x x

Mar 7 2013

Tough week!

Wow. This week has just flown by. 

I can’t really sort of catch up so this is a sort of a quick one. 

Koi…..

 

Panicked a little over the older ones acting up. But all seems much better, plenty of fresh water going in. They seem to have perked right up. Still planning on catching the sanke to see how he’s doing underneath. Although looks like swelling and scales have gone down so I’m positive. 

 

Babies all good 🙂 although a little colder than I wanted. No sulking no signs of anything after their ‘boiling ordeal’… 

 

Mortgage and the house. 

 

Well it is a shame, but there isn’t anything we can do at this moment in time. So we’ll have to wait and see what happens when the fixed term ends and see what the mortgage company say. Top and bottom of it is, if we start over paying then what we owe will come down. So, we’ll start there. 🙂 at least we have a plan. 

 

Writing 

 

Best Friends Ep 5 is being filmed. Some parts actually in L.A which is fab 🙂 and The Chronicles of Pandora has really taken a spurt on too. I’m so excited by both these projects. 

 

The Secret King – The Beginning is moving forward once more. I’ve learnt so much with my sessions with E.J that I now need to focus on and actually do the work now. On my own, with just the editing and the kick ass part of the process. I’m excited because we have a battle plan and I’m looking forward to getting this novel to the absolute best it can be. I don’t like to rush anything and it might take me a while longer but I’m still aiming for this year. 🙂 

So much to do, so little time. But I’m loving ever minute. Although I can’t shake this cold crap. 4 weeks now. I feel much better with how things are going. Some knowing and being able to plan things is better than nothing at all. It is the not knowing that kills me. 

I will speak to you soon. 🙂  Thank for stopping in. 

 

 

 

Feb 26 2013

Decidedly had enough…

I spent an hour in the bank yesterday. Trying to sort out the mess they’ve made. 

Their excuse we ‘the appointment was for the 23rd March’ 

 

No way. We wouldn’t have agreed to that… an 8 week wait… 

 

So after kicking off at my bank manager. She got me an emergency call back for today. I had a few issues in work because I’m so stressed out. I forgot to include something and my cash was out. Took 20 mins to find it with my manager. And then I was late home. They did ring me back however. A nice guy called Raj…. 

 

But… 

 

 

After starting the whole process again. FIVE minutes into the conversation. And he asked. ‘Have any of you been made bankrupt or in an IVA’ so I answered as I did 2 weeks ago. 

 

Yes we’ve been in an IVA. It has been closed for nearly 3 years now. 

 

He turned about and said they wouldn’t offer us a mortgage anyway. Just on that answer. 

 

WHAT!!!! 

 

Why the hell didn’t the stupid woman we talked too two weeks ago, like, well mention this. She asked me. I said it had been closed and we’d got all the paper work. I was sat in the bank looking at it!!! 

 

He couldn’t understand why either so I basically told him how I felt. So let down by the whole company. 

 

One says one thing….. 

 

Another says another thing… 

 

NO ONE makes any sense. 

 

I give up with them… We have someone coming to the house on Thursday. Who set up the original mortgage and we’ll more than likely let him sort it all out. 

 

So fed up right now. 

 

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Koi…. 

 

After the trouble yesterday. I ended up treating the main pond. Took a dose and a half although not sure it was totally active for the full 4 hours as it was going dark. 

 

Pond has had a good water change today and will do again tomorrow and then will rescrape. 

 

All fish are swimming about. Temp is over 11d today. So heater is doing better. Even with the water changes. 

 

Fingers crossed. 🙂 

 

Love to ya all… 

 

D

Feb 24 2013

Weekend :(

 

Yeah, this weekend sucked just as much as the whole of last week did and the ones before it… all of them.

In fact all of 2013 altogether sucks.

I got up at 7am yesterday worked through all the paperwork ready for this ‘4 hour phone call’ from the bank.

I sat and waited.

And waited.

It never came.

I ended up ringing the bank up to try and track who was supposed to ring me. Seeing as our branch was closed I spoke to a gentleman on the phone and he couldn’t work out anything either. So I ran down to our bank and it was indeed closed.

All the time, I’m getting more and more frustrated with them.

Get’s back home and I rang the southport branch. I spoke to a lovely lady who tried her utmost to help me out. She got in touch with the mortgage advise team who couldn’t find this ‘supposed appointment’ and then when we started to go through the paperwork they wanted to deal with my mum and only my mum.

The whole idea behind going into the bank to start the ball rolling was so that the person who rang me would speak to me. As my mum had just finished 4 12 hour shifts and couldn’t foucs to talk to anyone.

So, I’m even more frustrated then, because the guy on the phone then can’t deal with the application as all the other opperatives and appointments were taken for the day. We would have to make another appointment where mum could deal with it all. And it wouldn’t be for another two weeks.

Now I’m getting beyond frustrated I am very angry now. And I tell him this isn’t on. We’ll have waited a whole month to start this. No way. So I basically said we’d talk about it and decide later. I said good bye.

The lovely lady from Southport rang me back in the afternoon to ask how it had gone. 🙂 I told her how dissapointed I was with the whole company and she promised she would try and get me an appointment to speak with their branch mortgage advisor this week. We’ll see she is going to ring me back tomorrow.

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In other news, the baby koi are coming around really well. But the big fish didn’t look so hot so in feeding them today. My best fish wouldn’t eat. Defo not like her.

Microscope out. Couldn’t get a scrape from the top of the fish, in turning it over noticed some raised scales and took a scrape from there.

Costia….

Again…..

Trying my best now to get the pond temp up so that I can treat them with meds. Not going to happen till Tues I don’t think.  Then might have to hit them again over the weekend. We’ll see how they deal with the pp this time around I know the sorogori didn’t like it so might have to isolate her and treat the others.

Will also have to keep an eye on the sanke and his raised scales. PP and then couple of salt baths will help there I think. There was no major redness but they were defo sticking out a bit. It will only get worse if left alone. And don’t want that.

I have been beaten down so much this last few weeks. I’m going to crack.

I have heartburn and acid indigestion all the time. I’m stressed to the hilt and it’s taking it’s toll on everything.

I told Paul last week that I was going to see the doctor about it. I am going to have to see the doctor about this overwhelming spit of depression that has lasted for 6 mths or more and isn’t lifting either.  I am going to request going back on anti-depressants for the time being.

I already asked in work could I possibly take a little time off to deal with the mortgage issue and appointments. Mum is off work Thurs and Fri so I am going to aim to get as much in then as possible. Including the docs.

This is a really testing time for me. I’ve not allowed myself too much time to process everything. And I’m on the brink of it really turning nasty.

I don’t want it too…

So, I’m making the steps so tackle it. Before it goes all pear shaped.

I won’t be beaten and I’ll bounce back. But I think I need a little help at the moment. I’m not afraid to ask, so I will.

Trying to edit at the moment is also like hitting my head against a brick wall. I know I am feeling bad when I lose the will to write or edit something that I love.

I was hoping this year was going to be a good one. It certainly hasn’t started off so great. sigh….

Catch you soon.

Dawn x x