Well I'm quite convinced that if I stopped blogging and tweeting noone would even notice, much less care. My last tweet was a week ago and only two people commented - my brother and a friend who doesn't have a twitter account. I considered stopping blogging/tweeting altogether. I considered going somewhere else and starting again or going totally private. But I have to keep coming back to the only real reason I blog - it's just too good a diary not to. The years before I started blogging are almost like the dark ages, where I don't really know what I was doing from day to day. I love the chronicle, and going back to find out when I did things. And all the photos. And occasionally reading a random month or search results and reading stuff I'd completely forgotten about. Twitter is a supplement to the blog, and records stuff that doesn't seem blogworthy enough for a whole post. It's crap as an online archive, but regular backups mean I still have an offline record. So as much as I'd like to wait around for someone to miss me, I doubt that'll happen any time soon, and not blogging is hurting me more than anyone else.
So we got back from
Japan and the UK on Saturday morning. Managed to survive most of the day before collapsing at 4pm for a couple of hours. Slept ok Saturday night and was basically fine on Sunday. Although did stay up waaaayyy too late on Sunday night. Whoops. Monday was more recovery from Sunday than from jetlag heh.
The holiday was decent enough. The biggest downer was the weather. It was grey most of the time. Rainy a lot. Very little sunlight. Which is pretty depressing as a photographer. And Legoland was closed the last two days we were there, which is when we were planning to go. I, of course, was devastated. It was supposed to be one good thing to finish the trip off on, and instead it was the biggest let down. It really soured my mood about the whole trip and harder to think of the highlights. Which included our first day in London, Harry Potter filming locations, some lovely cathedrals and Scotland. We also missed quite a few things I wanted to see because we didn't have the time. And the things we did see were rushed. But I'm not planning to go back any time soon (except maybe to Edinburgh, and Legoland if I can face it) as there's too many other places in the world to see. I took around 12000 photos (haven't got an exact count yet). I still haven't seen most of them.
Our weeping cherry tree was nice enough to wait til late September to flower this year. It made me very happy to come home and see it in full bloom.
In the afternoon there was a cool rainbow
Tonight there were storms south of us, and Mt Ainslie was all black, the sky was dark, but it was sunny on the foreground. Made for some cool lighting conditions.
Although this spider freaked me out by coming up next to me while I was taking photos out the window.
I spent some time on the weekend building this model of Tower Bridge I picked up in London. It was quite fun to build, but not really a puzzle, as all the pieces are numbered and there's instructions. But a pretty cool result.
And even cooler? An email from Lego on the weekend with a
Lego version!!
This of course I must have. The Lego version doesn't have the other piers on the ends, so I'll probably get some extra bricks off BrickLink and make up my own.
For reference, the real thing -
So it was back to work today. I had planned to spend an easy day getting back into things, reading emails etc. And mostly that's what I did. Took til around mid afternoon to get through five weeks of emails. I did get given two projects, both of which are fairly urgent. One will be significantly easier than the other though. And also got caught up in *problems* which are just painful and suck time like you have it to spare.
Epic win of the day was an incorrect shelf price at Toys R Us, which meant I got the Toy Story garbage truck in Lego (RRP $99.99 and $109.99 normally at Toys R Us) for $65.99 !! Epic win!! Only one more Toy Story set to go now. And the new Imperial Shuttle. And the new Diagon Alley. And the Eiffel Tower.
With daylight savings, and a beautiful warm afternoon/evening, it felt like summer. Had a walk, dusting done and two episodes of Survivor watched before 8pm. And the sweetie cooked dinner :)
