another day missed

So obviously there was no bloggage post yesterday.

Hopefully the reasons are pretty obvious.  Having had very little sleep on the Tuesday night, Wednesday was a bit of a right off, so stuff got pushed forward to Thursday.  I also had two meetings on Thursday, so they sucked up loads of time too.

And of course I was still pretty tired on Thursday, so I pretty much went straight to bed when I got home.  I certainly wasn't up for writing my blog post in the evening.

So work has been horrible just recently.  It feels a lot like I'm just managing to keep my nose bobbing above the water as the flood comes pouring in.  Luckily I've not had to sacrifice any other weekends, but if any more stuff comes in for me to do I'm really going to struggle.  And it's pretty fortunate that one of my colleagues is now back in the office and she's super competent and has helped by picking a load of stuff up that I might have had to be more involved in.

But what else has happened?

Well, I lost another pound at the last weekend, which was a very nice surprise.  However, my guess is I'll have put it back on, as I've really been eating badly this week.  I'm not beating myself up too much, though, because with work being really heavy and the whole lack of sleep it's probably a natural (but obviously not desirable) knock-on effect.

Also there was the Spa Grand Prix last weekend, which I've not really talked about.

It was okay.  I have to confess I was a bit disappointed with the outcome, and for some reason the latter half of the race was a bit dull.  If I'm honest, though, I was a bit distracted when I watched it.  As I mentioned before I'd watched loads of telly and I think I was reaching overload by the time I sat down to watch the race itself.

The biggest disappointment, though, was Lewis, who managed to crash into Kamui Kobayashi.  IT looked like he basically wasn't paying enough attention and thought he was fully past Kobayashi.  However, he wasn't so he essentially drove into him.  It happened right at the end of one of the fastest straights, so was a big accident and took him out of the race.

It's a cleaning weekend coming up.  I'm not entirely sure if do the cleaning myself is really saving me money.  The problem is that I'm pretty sure the machines in the local laundrette are more expensive than those where I used to go, so where I save in some ways, I loose out in others.

I think long term there'll be a saving, but it's not going to represent a massive windfall of cash.

And I could do with one of those - I got a letter the other day that my electricity is going up by 11%, which is an enormous price hike.  Yay for capitalism, right?