C'mon over to my place....

Some deep stuff going on over on Oprah today...sharing the love....
I could get into this...not!
Went to doc for a checkup today. BP is down to 116 over 80 (from 136/80), cankles are not cankles any more and my pee was a delightful shade....tmi again - sorry! So all is good and yes, the nurse knows best. She was positively gleeful at how right she was and has said I have to keep up the good work. So good news is no need for hospital...bad news (kinda) is that I can't go back to work - there really are some things I need to sort out, but am going to go in for two hours for mon, tue, wed and have warned everyone that that's how much time we are all going to have. I headed to the bookshop and bought about 50 quid worth of all manner of books - I shall share them with you and let you know what they are like:

Out of the Box, 101 ideas for thinking creatively by Rob Eastaway
Cat 'o nine Tails by Jeffrey Archer
Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
Tricks of the Mind by Derren Brown
Sons of Fortune by Jeffrey Archer

So I'm an Archer fan - to be honest I needed to pick quick and when I saw that there were some of his that I hadn't read - I just bought on impulse. I love short story books because you can leave them as you go and also wanted something fairly easy reading but not quite a chicklet. The other 3 are in the self-help/learning category.....but might be interesting. I've heard of De Bono's principals before so wanted to read a bit more about them. The creativity one was small and a 'fit in the handbag' book to dip in and out of. We liked the Tricks of the Mind tv series and so that's why I bought that.

Also headed to Hickeys for some serious wool buying. Still haven't posted that pic of the crocheted hats, but I will get to it over the weekend. I think this blog will be getting plenty of action in the next few weeks.....

I might even get some digi scrapping done....oh the joys!

Jailhouse Rock

Prison Break is on tonight tg.....ok I can't claim to know how it feels to be locked up in jail/gaol, but have been in confinement for the past 24 hours. Went for a checkup with nurse yesterday morning. Breezed in with a to do list written on my hand....and was told my bp was high, had protein in my urine (tmi sorry) and the two of those, in addition to the cankles I have had to live with for the past couple of weeks, means I need to take it easy.....really easy. She said if I could guarantee I would go home and not get off the couch/bed until friday she wouldn't send me to hospital.....what could I say? I had a tonne of things planned to do, including WORK until the end of the week, but decided I better take her advice or I'll end up trying to blog from my hospital bed for 2 weeks.....not fun.

So here I am - in fairness the ankles have gone down - I can't check urine or bp myself, but I probably was pushing it a bit....so now I have to sit and blog and watch Oprah and whatever other bits are on the telly. I did spend a few hours on the phone to the office and think they will be ok for a while but I really could do with another day or two in there to tidy up. Some good recipies on a show at the moment. So that's me....in confinement. I'm happy enough on my own at home, but really would have preferred for it to be on my own time...maybe it's all for the best though. Tg for laptops and blackberries and mobile phones, etc....there's plenty to occupy me on my bed, I think my main thing is that I don't actually feel bad iykwim. It's one thing being at home in bed with the flu and feeling rotten...although I wouldn't like that too much either I suppose.

Best go and ...... relax I suppose?!

Let me Sleep on it....

So I snore....or so I was told this morning. We had a bad night's sleep in general. Eilis woke at half two so Tony went in to her for a while and told me he nearly didn't come back in to our room because I was snoring so loudly - he could hear me from across the corridor....oh and you don't snore after a couple of pints on a Saturday night....pardon me and my whale-like proportions! I have a head cold, was so, so warm last night that the whole snoring thing only came up when I said I hadn't slept a wink all night - not so, it seems, because you can't snore when you are awake. Nearly there now....

We turned on the heat last Thursday....and will be turning it off again tonight. I nearly passed out this morning. Fair enough when the new baby gets home, the house can be a furnace and we'll all go around in shorts and t-shirts, but surely we don't need it yet? I'm sleeping in a vest & pj legs with no blanket/quilt or nothing over me...and it's October. This pregnancy thing is crazy. Am now totally sick of people asking 'when are you due?' Obviously I look like I could explode at any minute....I bite my tongue and say I have three weeks till my due date but was two weeks over with Eilis so it's anyone's guess. I might go down to the bookies at lunch and put some money on myself.

I haven't got any recent pregnancy photo and I suppose I should, but I am freakin massive. Tony's sis got a new camera at the weekend and someone took a photo of me slouched in a chair....I deleted immediately. I know it's nice to record the moment, but I am able to do 'hidden' journalling and photos and that's the only way I'd like these photos to be seen. Might take out the camera tomorrow and try something tasteful.....we'll see though...how the mood is!

I started crocheting last week. I'm only able to make circles, but it's amazing how even that is all you need. I've made a few hats, including a cute one for Eilis which she wore on Sunday, but wouldn't let me take a photo. I'll try and sneak one later and post this week....have got requests now from all the sisters wanting one..but don't have enough of the cute pink wool left. It's very relaxing though, I must say. Anyhoo, best do a bit of work - quiet office today so I have great plans.