Liz Going On

But, are the scallies feeling the squeeze?

I ask this because it is mid october, only two and a half weeks away from bonfire night and I’ve not heard many fireworks being set off at night (or during the day, for that matter). Normally Manchester sounds like a battlefield with fireworks being set off left, right, centre, up the back passage and down the street.

But this year there’s a distinct lack of explosives.

That reminds me, I must find a firework display to see, but I guess I’ll either be on call, or singing or some other busyness.

Swimming cheered me up. Well, actually it tired me out, as I was so annoyed at my lack of work I made myself swim a mile, without stopping. And as the clock in the pool wasn’t working so it wasn’t till the end that I realised I’d swum the mile in 42 minutes. But I managed to get some water in my left ear, and it stayed there till this morning, which was rather annoying.

Then I went to choir and had a jolly good sing. We’re doing some Russian piece, by Tchaikovsky which at first seems pleasing, except there’s one bit which sounds just like ‘Groovy Kind of Love’ so I’m struggling to take it seriously now Phil Collins has popped into my head.

Today I am mostly arguing with answer to MCQ questions. This is allegedly a good sign, but I’m yet to be convinced. But at least the work seems to be going a bit better, and its not many days till the exam. Phew.  But I’ve had so much leave (annual, study and post call days) that I think when I actually have to do some proper work I’ll get exhausted.

I miss my mum. She’s on holiday for a while. Please don’t burgle her house while she’s not there, if any of you know where it is and know where to find the spare keys…. Actually I lie about the spare keys, she’s not that daft and she’s not advertised her address on the internet, so I hope she’ll be fairly safe. She might not be safe on holiday, as she’s gone to South Africa, but I’m sure the nice people of SAGA will look after her. I don’t normally miss my mum when she goes away, but this time I do.  My mum is great!

Time to toddle back to the books. Actually I’m not moving anywhere, but I need to take the laptop off my legs.

Oh yes one last thing. Mortgage offer came through today and seems to be correct, phew! We may have a moving date soon…..

I lost all motivation yesterday. I did lots of questions and didn’t do very well in them (they are known as the difficult ones) so I got disheartened. I should have been a little less disheartened as they are from the difficult book, but it still upset me.

Today is going better. I’m off for a swim later then choir. And am reaching my targets. I’m not doing exceptionally amazing at the questions, but I’m doing ok, so need to keep positive and keep going.

Outside people are making a lot of noise. It sounds like they’re demolishing a house or something. To be honest I really wouldn’t be surprised if they were demolishing houses, nothing surprises me anymore in this street after the milk incident.

Hello readers, if there’s anyone out there…

I’ve been meaning to write for a while, but I keep getting distracted. I had all sorts of things to rant about, but they have escaped my mind at the moment. Which is probably a good thing as 1) you don’t want to hear me being grumy 2) space in my brain is at an all time premuim with exams in less than a week and 3) I was probably not being nice about someone in the process.

Does anyone know how to stop two bunny rabbits eating my back door?  They have pleanty of other things to eat, wood, the barbeque, walls, rabbit food, carrots, and a hosepipe, but they seem determined to gain entry to my house with their teeth.  I think if anyone is renting my house in future then they’ll like a back door.

House things are moving forward. I hope its all ok and that we can move next month.

I’m wearing two pairs of slippers at once! How clever am I?!? Well, one pair is stictly ’slipper socks’ to keep my feet warm and then on top of that I’ve got my slippers, to keep my feet warm. My slippers have worn out their inner fluff, but are otherwise perfect.  Result, I have warm feet.

I’ve sung, been to Liverpool 3 times, watched a concert, seen my mum twice, had people stay in my house but I didn’t see or hear them, give some anaesthetics, learnt lots of facts and eaten cake in Lyme park since I last wrote.  

Oh yes, and done over 50 short answer questions.  That’s a lot of writing, no wonder my hand hurts. I should really chill out a bit.

Here endeth the stream of conciousness from the mind of Liz.

Mind how you go.

Its gone chilly. It really feels like autumn.  Its a bit of a shame as I’m still really waiting for summer, but guess I’ll be waiting quite a bit longer.  I was pleased with my last gas bill, as it was very little but the next one will probably be quite big as heating is expensive.

I’ve had a fantastic 24 hours. It involved a lot of Alison and Cass and some Mahinda, Rosie, Kate, Simon, Paulog, Patrur, Andrew, Miranda, Steve, Matt and Ian. I need to revise now, as being nocturnal all week meant I didn’t do any.  I’m quite scared about the exam now. I really want to pass as I just can’t face working for longer and I’ve worked really really hard. I hope I have some luck.

Back to the books, under a blanket as its freezing!

I’m on nights this week. It upsets my constitution a lot.  I’m not looking forward to the turn around tomorrow. But I am pleased that there’s only 12 hours left.  I still am plagued by ExamStress. This mainly hurts my left shoulder.  I try to relax, but the muscle above my scapula has a different idea. Rubbish!

Exam is 21st October. That’s not far away. I’m trying to revise a lot, but nights are foiling me. But I did revise a lot last week, and for the three months before this, so I’m trying to keep confident.

Andrew and I appear to be buying a house. This is very nice, but also a little stressful, as its on then off then on then off. I’m hoping its all settled now, but we’ve not got a move date as yet. I fear this will be between my exams, but as I have to pass the first two to get the trip to London I’m not really worrying about these things as both have a lot that could go wrong.

Despite all this stuff going on I’m happy at the moment. I think a week at the seaside did me the world of good. There’s nothing like a bit of sea air to blow away the cobwebs.  Maybe I should be looking at cities by the sea with a decent choir again as was my dream a few years ago.

I would write more, as I’m quite enjoying talking to myself, but I have to get dressed or I’ll be late for work!