Friday 29 June 2007

Shit happens

I was reading a friend's blog yesterday about waking up with a bad feeling and then wondering, when that bad thing happened, whether it was always meant to be or if it was a result of you expecting the worst.

You could go round and round in circles with that one.

What's worse is when you're not expecting anything at all. It's a regular day, the sun is finally shining a little and the weekend is closing in. Then you get a rather unexpected email telling you that a colleague was found dead in his home yesterday.

You don't know how to react because although in some ways you know him, really you don't know him very well at all. You're shaken and can't quite seem to stop thinking about it. But everyone else seems to be getting on with their day just fine. It's not that they don't care, it's just that it doesn't quite have a place in the day they had planned and no one's really sure what to do about it.

So, I think that shit just happens. You can change things from day to day, but other things are just meant to be. There's no point thinking about how you can't control them - you've just got to focus on those ways you actually can affect your little bit of the world.

Friday's weren't meant to be as hard as this - I need a drink.

Thursday 28 June 2007

See! This is easy!

Here's to living vicariously!

Booked two trips today

1. A train ride up north to see the family. I'm hoping that Mum & Dad will be able to come and visit me soon, but for now it's tea on the train ... At least I get a weekend out of town!

2. Flight to Oslo for the late summer bank holiday. My last overseas trip was the beginning of April and it's killing me! Oslo was never high up on my list of places to see, but now I'm all booked in it I'm starting to wonder why not!

So, different ends of the scale and yet I couldn't say which one I'm looking forward to more.

Welcome to Cohen!


Monday 28th saw the arrival of Cohen Roy Lovell.

Matt & Lib look pretty happy with themselves - well done guys :)


All the gory details can be found on their Perth Ponderings blog (there should be a nifty little link to the right of this blog).

I'm biased towards, well, babies in general, but he's quite a looker if you ask me!

Not so regular then ...

Seems I just can't dedicate myself to this blog business. I think I need to get over the idea that it needs to be important and get on with filling these pages with babble.

Or perhaps I could fill my blog with other people's news!

Oh I like this idea ...

Thursday 7 June 2007

One day in

I guess the worst thing about blogging is when you don't really have anything to say.

I can't even devote enough time to sorting out the layout and putting in a picture, let alone trying to think of something witty.


Methinks I'm going to have to rethink my plan to force myself to blog everyday.


Let's see - I'm going up north tonight for some time with the family. I'm showing my age when I realise just how happy that makes me.

Wednesday 6 June 2007

Starting Small

Actually, not really starting at all.

Just making sure there's something on screen if anyone should feel inclined to click on the link.

I'll be back.