The new year has begun and yet I've hardly noticed. Barring one (fun but ill-advised) jaunt to the O2 to take our neice and nephew to see Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel*, I have been largely bedridden.
I am not a good patient. Much to Matthew's chagrin, rather than get some rest I am more inclined to decide that feeling a smidge better gives me leave to start dancing, sewing, cracking on with my thesis and generally gadding about, only to collapse a couple of hours later complaining bitterly that I'm all snotty and achy and wondering naively why it won't go away. Finally on New Year's Eve I succumbed and spent most of the day in bed. Yesterday I spent 17 of 24 hours sleeping. Today Matthew's up in Birmingham and though I had grand sneaky plans to sew up a few bags, ponder over some spy fiction and get a head start on a freelance project due back next week, I think I might stay in bed and watch Pride and Prejudice.
However, it is a new year and for that I am truy grateful. 2010 isn't just a new decade in the Judeo-Christian calendar, it's also a new decade for me! This is the year I turn 30. Exciting, no? Exciting, yes!
I've spent a great deal of time in the last months feeling simultaneously stilted and restless and as a result I've decided to begin implementing some changes round here that will invigorate and motivate, beginning with The Spy Project. I've always been quite a firm believer that you should start as you mean to go on, and I suppose in this case I mean to go on an insomniac, but at least I'll be a productive insomniac. I'm hoping to post twice a week with book reviews, analyses and other meanderings, and in so doing that I will continue to remember just why I wanted to do another degree in the first place. The other thing I'm going to do is go into the Financial Services department once it's open again and find out how to get a loan. I really hate that I'm doing it, but for fuck's sake I'm never going to get anywhere if I keep on the way I am.
Fortunately, my other goals for 2010 are somewhat less lofty and a great deal more relaxing. Thank goodness for Loumms.
* In a nutshell (snort): pretty appalling, but funny in a 'they're not going to do that -- I can't believe they actually did that -- and they did it again -- whoa nelly' lather-rinse-repeat kind of way.
Sometimes my neck gets really messed up and my husband gets mad if I sew or knit, thinking it contributes. I feel like a criminal trying to sneak off to sew when he leaves the house for a bit! Hope you feel better soon!
Posted by: Robyn | January 04, 2010 at 04:19 AM
Happy New Year! I fully support your plan for book reviews, etc., and intend to pester you for them if you think that'll help. I also fully support the begin-as-you-mean-to-go-on paradigm; I'm often crap at it, but it's a great place from which to start an adventure!
Get better soon, darling! Mwah!
P.S. - Love the new look to the blog. :D
Posted by: Tikabelle | January 03, 2010 at 08:09 PM
I do hope you get better soon, and that 2010 is filled with many lovely, crafty things for you!
Posted by: Drop Stitches Not Bombs | January 03, 2010 at 04:29 PM
Happy new year - and get well soon! A day of Pride and Prejudice sounds too great to pass up, you must do it!
Posted by: jane | January 03, 2010 at 12:26 PM
Happy New Year! Sorry to hear you're not well, hope you get better soon.
Posted by: Anna | January 03, 2010 at 12:03 PM