Possible incoherent rambling

I'm waiting for the painkillers to kick in so that I can get some sleep. Hydrotherapy made me a little achey. Hopefully that's a sign that it's doing what it should *g*

Tomorrow is another lazy-ish day. I've stupidly committed to making pancakes for all for breakfast. Daft me. But pancakes and maple syrup just seems like such a nice, indulgent, holiday-ish thing to do and I'm itching to try out the Aunt Jemima's mix that mom bought me. 'Cos it's *really* crazy to expect me to make the things without that kind of aid.

Then we're going to a horse rescue place so that I my aunt can look at horsies. We can pat them and feed them Polos. And I wanna see the cute little Shetland ponies.

Possibly we could have a girlie movie night afterwards.

I have made a decision this week. Next month, on the 17th, I'm going to reactivate my profile on the job websites. I won't start actively looking yet, but if people happen to find me and offer me interviews I won't refuse them. 'Cos I feel relaxed and happy for the first time in months and I know that it's my job that's been getting me down. Yes, the whole 'being in massive pain all the time' thing ain't helping, but I'd be a little less crabby about it if I were actually a little happier in my work. And that means location as well as company and job type - I want something closer to home, not in retail and more programming less data anaylst. Because I'm a damn good programmer and it's time that I allowed myself to believe it. This current job was never going to be ideal, but the combination of factors is making it way, way below ideal. If it was closer, I could cope with the retail crap and not doing stuff that I really enjoy, if it was a job and company that I liked then I could cope with the commute. But having both elements suck is...well, I'm going to make myself available again. I said that I'd stick it out for a year before re-thinking, but I really can't. So, six months is my marker. I'll see how long after that I last before I start doing the active looking thing.

I think the drugs are starting to kick in...

An announcement and Holiday Day 5 report

First, the big announcement. After months of slogging away at designing, building and then transfering the reviews, Haven Reviews is finally transformed into its new, database driven self.

There are even some new reviews up, including Blakes 7, Atlantis and Harry Potter fics. These are part of my drive to make a dent in the backlogged reviews - I've put up 14 new reviews and have around 55 left to put up. I'll be spacing these out in batches over the next few weeks along with whatever new stuff comes in.

But the important bit is that Haven Reviews is back in business :-)

Feel free to cross-post this around iffen you please.


Day 5 of my holiday was lovely. I actually managed to construct edible pancakes (my first ever attempt!) which we consumed with maple syrup for a lovely breakfast. This afternoon was a trip to the home for retired horses because my aunt loves horses and I have a soft spot for Shetland ponies. It was great fun :-) Although the horses seemed to like me rather too much and kept slobbering on me. But there was one old, black gelding who was very docile and just wanted me to scratch his nose. I might have fallen a little bit in love with Max. He had beautiful brown eyes.

A girly afternoon of videos (with my lying flat on my back - apparently I've been too active for my back to tolerate today) followed so we had a lovely relaxing day. I managed the final fiddling on the reviews site, so I even feel as though I've been productive. Darn, why do I have to return to the worky thing?