I’ve been so busy this week, I haven’t had much time to be online. We always seem to lurch from one crisis to another at work and I have the misfortune of being able to do every job in my department which means I’ve been bouncing from one area to another the entire week. The good news is we finally got a new member of staff so once she is up and running, it will take the pressure of me a little. The bad news is we still have two members of staff who are nothing more than dead wood and we can’t do anything about it. We are literally screwed.

I’ve also had a lot of headaches this week due to the weird weather we are having. I get headaches with barometric pressure changes and we have had nothing but constant rain and grey skies for over a week now. I think the chances of us having any kind of late Summer are nil which means we have had no Summer at all this year. Since I’m not much of a sun person anyway, the lack of Summer doesn’t bother me but the constant humidity is killing me. I long for a heavy thunder storm to clear the air. Yesterday, it was so bad at work, most of us were yawning our heads off because we felt like our energy was being zapped.

I was looking forward to a good night’s sleep last night and a long lie this morning but my asshole of a neighbour decided this was the night he was going to pretend to be a teenager again. The idiot is in his fifties but has never grown up and has to be one of the ugliest men I’ve had the misfortune to meet. He used to hang around me when I was a teenager and he made me feel really creepy. Everyone else seemed to think it was hilariously funny and called him my boyfriend. Idiots. Thankfully, he has burned too many bridges with his anti-social behaviour and he doesn’t get passed the door of any of our other neighbours now. He’s never had a real job in his life but seems to manage to work round the benefits system which makes him a leech in my eyes when he is perfectly capable of working.

I finally got the design for Caledonia Heritage uploaded and launched the my new Scottish blog, albeit quietly. That’s where I will be talking about Scotland from now on, so I hope you will come and visit me.

A week today, my brother and his family will be moving back to our area and I’m excited because it means I’ll get to see more of the kids at last. We’re also getting the dubious pleasure of looking after my brother’s fish from Monday. He has a pretty small tank with about five little fishes. I’ve no idea what they are but I’ve already informed him I can’t be held responsible for any deaths which he found pretty funny. Honestly, it takes me to water plants, never mind remember to feed fish.

I’ve been a bit absent from the net this week because I bought S3 of Prison Break and just had to watch it. I feel a bit cheated though because it’s only half a season due to the writers’ strike and I’ve seen all the episodes now. I want more! I love Wentworth Miller - he is such an intense actor. A lot of people were disappointed with S3 but I still loved it. It’s very rare to get such a good cast with such good writing.

I’ve had another bitch of a week at work and my cheekbones and jawline hurt like hell. I have a bad habit of gritting my teeth when I’m stressed and I’ve been doing a lot of that lately. I’m thinking I need to try meditation or something before I go insane completely. On the outside, all the problems seem really petty but things like that tend to build up until you are near exploding point. I keep telling myself to keep everything in perspective and not to worry about things for which I’m not responsible. It’s so damn hard though and completely frustrating.

I’ve been reading more lately and it is so good just to escape into a different world.