ffox

fri-yay! 

what a book that was. 4/5 stars, makes such a big difference to read something that is written by someone who can write well! really warm hearted, engaging read. i have rediscovered audiobooks with a fervour. hurrah, now i can sew and read at the same time instead of wondering how to split my hobbies, and then i can take my kindle up to bed and pick up where i left off with the audiobook. i am currently listening to / reading the lies of locke lamora, and woweeee it is so good. like if oliver twist and oceans eleven had a baby that happened to be george r r martin. i can see me finishing it this weekend. 

work was fine, lots of CBTs that i finished quite quickly, and therefore was able to do some sewing. i can't believe training finishes on monday! i have finally found out where i am going.... its to retirement quotes! i have never been so pleased. i really loved doing retirements in my last job, so i hope i enjoy them as much as i did. i am so relieved to not be doing transfers. i suppose i should brush up on my GMP knowledge though, as it is currently non existent. and it doesn't look like anyone else from my training team will be doing the same thing as me. oh well. 

chris is very poorly with the man flu. i handled it much better than he has, he has barely got out of bed all day! i had to go out to co-op to get more meds and some bread for tomorrow. laura also needed new school shoes as hers have a hole in the bottom - they lasted almost four months this time around though! i found some on amazon for 12.99, i hope they fit her. unfortunately not a no spend day, but a low spend day. i had an email from vinted to say i earned £613 on there last year. i should probably make around the same this year with any luck. every little helps. 

got lots of sewing done, my fox now has a head. unfortunately for me, i had a cup of tea after 9pm so i will be awake half the night. i will never learn. 

currently reading: the lies of locke lamora
pages read so far this year: 3,698

 finished reading empire of pain around 11pm. there was a statistic in there that i am going to paraphrase. it said that after they released the "tamper proof" pill, that out of everyone that died from heroin overdoses in the following years 4 out of 5 of them started their drug abuse and additction with prescription painkillers. wild. prescription drug abuse is such a weird thing that nobody really talks about. it must be fine because its come from a doctor! but its not, and it can and does ruin lives. 

finished all my work training pretty quickly today so i caught up on some youtube. i really enjoy videos by morgan evelyn cook, diaries of tay and project no buy. i thought about doing a no buy, but a) i've already messed it up and b) i don't really buy much anyway. i should probably put a self imposed ban on shopping on vinted though. or maybe just allow myself one purchase a month. now i WFH most of my day to day outfits are going to be leggings and a warm hoody, rather than any of the cute dresses in my wardrobe. 

i don't think chris slept very well last night due to me not being able to breathe so i hope he is asleep when i go upstairs. i called off going to dog training because i feel so rough and i have done no practice with moose all week. i had the bookswaps meeting at 6pm and i joined via phone rather than give people the lurgy. hannah being pregnant etc i can't think of anything worse than making her ill. i am pretty sure reading a mirror crack'd from side to side by agatha christie traumatised me and i know i haven't got german measles but i don't want to be the cause of anything going wrong! 

one random person has joined our book club on fable - i hope they are prepared for the level of snarkiness that has been going on. so far i am not loving the series. but our next read is set up and it is assassins blade. i have never known novellas be over 450 pages. 

currently reading: assassin's blade
currently grateful for: clean pyjamas and hot water bottles