Brrrrrr a chilly morning finds me sat by the radiator and with the gas fire on. Dylan is recovering from his first wash and brush up at an English dog groomers. No more standing in the sun on a table getting a wash and trim, its out in an English garden in somebody's converted shed ( a very nice shed). We can now give him a cuddle and a pat both of which we have avoided doing for the last month because he smelt so bad and we had to wash our hands straightaway afterwards.
Max is settling into his new school and seems much happier being a day boy. I am now into the routine of early rising and making scrambled egg on toast before I drive him to catch the school bus. I notice it is slightly lighter in the evenings now at six o'clock when i collect him - so this MUST mean that spring is around the corner. Snowdrops are gradually taking over the borders in the garden and new buds can be seen on plants that I thought would never survive after all the snow.
I had a major disaster last week when my external hard drive crashed and died for no reason, with all my photographs on it. Nobody could save it and after a very stressful couple of days and emails flying back and forth to America ( my photography pals) I managed to find some raw files on my hard drive so all was not lost. I have now taken the expensive step of changing my system and have bought a 27"imac and a Drobo hard drive for storage. At present I am waiting for the delivery and am so excited at the thought of a 27".
Halfterm next week and I am intending to sleep till I wake and no alarm bells are going to be set. Oh Joy. My insomnia is only under control because of the Dormadina pills that Alistair brings me over from Spain, and if I don't take them in the week I lie staring at the ceiling. I know I shouldn't take them so often but i can't sleep without them. I am now reworking my photograph filing system in Lightroom 3 which will take me awhile, but it needed doing anyway, so subjects can be found quicker and I can feel organised again. I intend working on some B/W photo's for a competition I am going to enter, my first one, so I don't hold out much hope, but would like to make entering competitions a regular thing to get my work out there a bit. The new website needs to be addressed sooner rather than later, and it hanging over my head like a dark cloud - I just can't decide on the exact look.
Well I am off to buy a new firewire cable for transferring everything from my laptop onto my new imac. I am really getting toooo geeky