Generally feeling quite tired, actually.
Which has lead to a strange quiet patch in terms of socialising.
Basically, I want quiet nights in to play with my new toys!

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* do not google that. That is not what I mean. I mean “doing stuff with my dog.” Wait, that sounds dodgy too…
** which has meant I’ve finally caught up with the rest of the world in a number of ways. A phone, with Teh Internet you say? Witchcraft!

I got asked to do some corporate headshots for a web site.
It was quite fun actually. Not so much the photo part, but the chatting and messing around part.

Last Friday I finished the biggest chunk of my biggest project on the go at the moment. I’m now waiting for feedback from the client.
It is as though a giant (php-, html-, css-shaped) weight has been lifted.
And it’s made me a little bit manic.
I keep interrupting people (including myself!) mid-sentence.
I am, however, being quite productive wrt personal, fun, projects. My notebook has been sitting there looking sad for a number of weeks, but it’s glowy now from the speed of the scribbling and page-turning that it’s being subjected to now.

I’m looking forward to the (very) long weekend and doing lots of fun stuff and reading lots and – squirrel!

Unfortunately, I spent all of Thursday on the couch, crashing with some kind of mini-flu.
We went for a quick walk along the Clifton beaches in the morning. It made my head spin, so *thunk* on the couch it was.

The rest of the week and end was full of great stuff: toddling around Kalk Bay and having brunch / lunch (Sirocco, the blue and white bit, makes a mean Long Island Iced Tea, and great food); watching Up in 3D at Canal Walk (fantastic movie. haven’t laughed so much in ages. “Squirrel!”); dinner at the Jewel Tavern (best Chinese food in CT, despite moving from scummy docks location to quite swanky location in town); wedding reception wotsit at Wild Fig (cool to see lots of people that I don’t see very often); lamb shanks by Sveno (huge, tasty, legs. ahem.); trip to the flea market (low on stalls and food due to weather, but german sausage lady and spring roll lady were still there – phew!).

Spent a lot of yesterday catching up on emails and things, and also organising dinners and theatre trips and stuff.
Crazybusysocial rating for this week: mentalist.
For next week: nutjob.
For the week after: bzzt (off to Cederberg for a week).

On top of all this, I’ve taken on a project, medium size, that’s got a two week deadline.
If you see me, expect me to look wild-eyed and loopcrunchable.

1. I like listening to music while I work. I do not find it distracting. I find it helpful in making me Do Stuff TM.
2. I do not like wearing headphones. I don’t like having stuff on my head. I don’t like being closed off from the sounds of the real world.
3. I’m at the TV office today, where I can’t reasonably use the ghetto-blaster-boombox that I have sitting on my desk.

A consequence:

• Foot tap, tap, tap, bounce, bounce, whistle, hum, tap, tap, bounce, tra la la

I had a look at a couple of web To Do wotsits and a play with the Lightning Add-on for Thunderbird over the weekend, and I’ve come to a conclusion.
I like paper.
I like writing stuff down (and I like crossing it out when it’s finished!).
So, I’m splitting my To Do stuff into today, this week, later and spreading them over my diary and my sketchbook. I seem to be carrying both with me most of the time, so this is good.

I have a vague plan to make my own diary, maybe for next year, that has a better day-per-page layout than my current one, and lots of note-making pages at the back for listy making.
To do this week (oh ho): research layout stuff for diarising.

Also over the weekend: finally finished changing Shop site to Not Shop Anymore site.
A little bit quick and dirty, but it will definitely do for now.
It’s been hanging around my head since the shop closed, and it feels great to have actually done it now.
I had webber’s block about it.
Now I’m feeling inspired and stuff again.
Shooting Peeps project: you’re next, beehatch!

I’m sort of half on holiday all the time.
I want to take some actual time off, a proper unplug, but it’s not quite feasible.
So instead I take slices of the day off as I trot along.

On the woo side, I will be getting a proper holiday soon – a few of us are off to Grahamstown for the festival, which I am predicting will be awesome.
Not so much the festival itself (although I expect awesome of that too), but my experience of it. I plan to be all creative with drawings and photos and things while I’m there. This will be tempered slightly by the legendary COLD. And possibly also by the vast amount of eating and drinking I plan to be doing.
Boing!