Daffy's 'a nice cup of tea cheers you up' diary

Cheery_Daff

It WILL get to you at some point soon, I promise!

Messed around and avoided things for an hour Very nearly wimped out of conclusions and did some editing instead but forced myself to just do half an hour - and did an hour and a half I *think* I'm further on than I was, but it's difficult to know! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Still awake, so going to do a bit of editing now <yawn>

Cheery_Daff

Morning! :j :j

Gorgeously sunny here I've managed 8 hours sleep, and toast with pineapple curd and malibu (in the pineapple curd, not just a glug from the bottle!) for breakfast

Off up into the attic to do work now - working at home all day, PhD in the evening, this is getting a little tedious, but just think how EASY full time work will feel when I don't have to write in the evening too! :j :j :j I think these couple of weeks have been given to me so I don't have to complain about how difficult it is to work full time :rotfl: :rotfl:

Karmacat

Now thats what I call being positive! good for you - you certainly deserve malibu for breakfast for that :D:D

redsquirrel80

I'm so impressed by how you're fitting in PhD with full time work! It will be so lovely when you're finished and can relax a bit - any plans for how you're going to spend the extra time?

Cheery_Daff

Lots of plans Mostly involving things like gardening and sewing and baking and days out and a bit of voluntary work and cups of tea and more pancakes and visiting people I haven't seen for a while

EssexHebridean

Sounds like an excellent breakfast preserve to me! Well, people have marmalade with whisky don't they!

Very jealous of your sunny weather - it was grey and dreary here all day - I was hoping to get some eBay photos done but just too bad light unless I wanted to do it outside. Which I didn't.

Cheery_Daff

Quite right too EH Stop inside when the weather's grey I popped out to the shops at lunch time, it was glorious!

Had a productive morning's work, and a slightly less productive afternoon's arguing with compatibility software :rotfl: :rotfl: Still, if it's worked (and I'm not entirely convinced it has), it'll be worth it.

Have to stop now though and have something to eat, and resume calm mode, ready for a couple of hours of PhD <yawn> Then a shower and early night, I'm on the train to Blackpool at 8.45 in the morning (although given that I usually catch a train to work at 7.12, this seems like a lie in! :rotfl:)

Lemon_Tree

pinapple curd sounds yummy, i love lemon curd and pinapple jam. I wonder how you make pinapple curd, not that i've made either of the former before anyway.

Cheery_Daff

Same way as lemon curd I suspect, although I'm not sure about that either :rotfl: I suspect it involves quite a lot of butter??! Not going to enquire too much

Stopping for the evening now After being a bit gloomy about it at 9pm, I pulled my socks up and have myself a quick slap (oh, and Mr Daffs turned up with a cuppa and a Christmas cracker for me to pull :rotfl:), and set the timer for 15 minutes to just do some free writing about what needs to go into the conclusions. It's surprising how well that works for me! I think I'm pretty much there with the structure and content now - just need to write it :rotfl: Well, there's 9000+ words in there, so it must all actually be written already, just need to encourage the words into the right order - somewhat like herding cats I suspect :rotfl:

Anyway, just jumping in the second hand bath water to wash my hair (very MSE :rotfl:) then I'm all set! :T :T

What wolud I do without this place to waffle on?! Can't wait for the day when I get time to talk about money again :rotfl:

InaPickle

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

After being a bit gloomy about it at 9pm, I pulled my socks up and have myself a quick slap (oh, and Mr Daffs turned up with a cuppa and a Christmas cracker for me to pull :rotfl:)

Daffs, WHERE did you get a boyfriend like that? I want one! :rotfl:

I take it that was just a left over cracker from Christmas and that he doesn't just have a random selection for the year where he goes and gets one whenever you look down and need a laugh?

That's so funny and sweet.