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Better day today. Little car isn't quite as horrifically sick as they thought, so won't be quite as much damage to the bank account (although it's still pretty ouch). And wonderful parents have offered a loan if I need it in the meantime, so won't have to go juggling overdrafts and credit cards this month.
And finally got Flash behaving - made a mini flick book of illustrations tonight, and while it took a ridiculously long time and some distraught phonecalls to Kris, I think I've got it sussed now. Still a lot to do, but that's fine - it was the not being able to get it working that was getting me down. (Hate failing at anything, at all, ever...) From this point should be able to get the rest of the animations sorted pretty quickly, and get website fully live ASAP.
Ridiculously long list is now looking a bit more realistic. Especially since I decided I can wait a couple more days to get applications out, hair can stay long and misbehaved for Whitby, and I can sew the Little Red Riding outfit when I'm there. (It will inevitably end up being held together by a handful of safety pins and hope, as usual, so I may as well just call it punk and go with it...) And house will sort itself out as it always does.
Still not managed to get hold of brother, but have managed to get messages passed through Mum and Dad (whose uncanny knack, honed down the years, of phoning us during mealtimes meant they actually caught him during breakfast when he wasn't up to his eyeballs in work). Was getting stressed out because I fought for time off after Whitby so I could spend time with him and Alice, only to find they'd switched plans to visit me beforehand instead... but everything is now back on track :-) Going to do mad dash from Whitby to London to see them there (trains booked, and ridiculously cheap hostel FTW), then back up to Leeds on the Thursday and York on Friday.
(And paintballing Saturday. And karaeoke tomorrow and book club Thursday and it will be SO good to get away from a screen and see people. And when I get to Whitby I'm going to find a clifftop and lie on the grass and just stare at the sky. Even if it's raining.)
Still surfing too close to the exhausted mark, and very bruised and achy, but definitely a lot more positive.
(Sleep also helps. May even try proper food tomorrow...)
And finally got Flash behaving - made a mini flick book of illustrations tonight, and while it took a ridiculously long time and some distraught phonecalls to Kris, I think I've got it sussed now. Still a lot to do, but that's fine - it was the not being able to get it working that was getting me down. (Hate failing at anything, at all, ever...) From this point should be able to get the rest of the animations sorted pretty quickly, and get website fully live ASAP.
Ridiculously long list is now looking a bit more realistic. Especially since I decided I can wait a couple more days to get applications out, hair can stay long and misbehaved for Whitby, and I can sew the Little Red Riding outfit when I'm there. (It will inevitably end up being held together by a handful of safety pins and hope, as usual, so I may as well just call it punk and go with it...) And house will sort itself out as it always does.
Still not managed to get hold of brother, but have managed to get messages passed through Mum and Dad (whose uncanny knack, honed down the years, of phoning us during mealtimes meant they actually caught him during breakfast when he wasn't up to his eyeballs in work). Was getting stressed out because I fought for time off after Whitby so I could spend time with him and Alice, only to find they'd switched plans to visit me beforehand instead... but everything is now back on track :-) Going to do mad dash from Whitby to London to see them there (trains booked, and ridiculously cheap hostel FTW), then back up to Leeds on the Thursday and York on Friday.
(And paintballing Saturday. And karaeoke tomorrow and book club Thursday and it will be SO good to get away from a screen and see people. And when I get to Whitby I'm going to find a clifftop and lie on the grass and just stare at the sky. Even if it's raining.)
Still surfing too close to the exhausted mark, and very bruised and achy, but definitely a lot more positive.
(Sleep also helps. May even try proper food tomorrow...)
