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:: tuesday 02 april 2002

I am sooo confused with the days at the moment. Bank holidays and the kids not being at school have thrown me totally out of sinc. I've been planning our day out tomorrow, to include the dentist, miscellaneous jobs, and then lunch. Only it's not tomorrow, it's on Thursday which I thought was tomorrow. Get a new brain girl.

Being muddled anyway, I made things more confusing by playing about with this Online Anagram Generator. I used it to get the April Fool/Pool Flair title yesterday. Just type in any name/word/phrase etc. and you'll be inundated with a huge selection of weird and wonderful anagrams. I put in my name [Ali Foxton] and got 219 results, tho' most of them are pretty useless - X is not a good letter to have in there. Useful for crosswords maybe?

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:: wednesday 03 april 2002

Aaaaarrrgh! I'm going totally mad here and getting sooooo frustrated AND going to the dentist tomorrow (but that's another post - be warned!) I've said it before and I'll say it again. "There aren't enough hours in my day." I've got four kids on holiday [top priority and the best thing going at the moment - if I could I'd turn my pc off and spend all my time with them.] Not a chance. Still working too many hours a day on regular stuff, PLUS trying to get enough content together to launch the new fun & funky site which is starting to become very UN-fun indeed. I know whinging here won't help [in fact everyone will think I'm just a miserable old[ish!] s**] but at 3am I need to vent somewhere and here is where I am, [bad English my only companion.] Ok. Deep breaths, calm thoughts, count my blessings.
Throw something.

Better. See ya tomorrow with tales from the crypt dentist.

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:: thursday 04 april 2002

Yup - you knew this was coming. The trip to the dentist went as expected. Everthing was fine [well done kids, tho' I'll never get Arty converted to Diet Coke now] until it came to my broken tooth [makes me sound like a pirate huh?] Actually it's a back one. I had an old filling replaced recently which badly cracked the tooth and it now needs capping.

Ok. I can cope with that: the pain, the misspent couple of hours, the humiliation of dribbling badly while trying to answer questions fired at you like you're on some tv quiz show, and the embarrassment of looking like a chipmunk for the rest of the day. [btw: Isn't it weird how although you can see what you're doing, without the sense of feeling it's really hard to put lipstick on?] That's all par for the course, but was then informed that my Dental Insurance £15/$23 pm [!] doesn't cover some of the work & I'll have to pay for the privilege. Same story as the [old] car. I hate those ******* insurance companies that try to wriggle out of everything. On a brighter note, I was asked by Sandra of Design In Reflection to help judge the Photo Impact Easter Competition which was fun. The winning entry [my first choice too!] was a fabulously sunny stained glass creation. Congratulations Rosie. Great work!

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:: friday 05 april 2002 Edith wondered if she could get away with a headache again tonight...

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:: saturday 06 april 2002

My first Friday Five - exciting or what!
I've been meaning to do this for ages but never got round to it.
(And yeah, I do know it's Saturday!)

1. What are the first things that you do in the morning to start your day?
Grab a cup of tea, get washed, clean my teeth, check my e-mail.
Then I'm just about able to talk to people.

2. What are the last things that you do at night before going to bed?
Grab a coffee, have a bath, clean my teeth, check my e-mail.

3. What daily routine have you recently added to your day?
Looking after Minnie (the dog.)

4. What routine do you wish you could get rid of?
Laundry. With up to four loads a day it's tiresome.

5. What's the one thing that makes you feel like something is missing if you don't do it some point within your day?
Check my e-mail!

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Haven't done one of these for a while: "I am one of the most popular flavours in the world. Subtle and smooth, I go reasonably with anyone, and rarely do anything to offend. I can be expected to be blending in in society." I think that means i'm boring...