Phew! What a week!
It's been a hectic week or so, what with one thing or another.
Things seem to be well on track for the move up north. I start my new job on the 4th September and I'll be joined by Mike on the 7th October up in the Elgin area.
I can't thank my parents, Dave and Chris, enough for their continued support and encouragement. And their generosity. Not only are they helping us move, putting me up for 5 weeks before Mike can join me, and looking keeping me sane through our daily conversations, they are offering Mike and our two pussy cats a home for the couple of weeks before we can move into our new home. It's moments like these where I realise just how lucky I am to have such wonderful parents!
At the moment we're waiting to finalise the details of our new home - which will hopefully be only a field away from my parents cottage. Two holiday cottages along the road have become available for long term let and at the moment things are looking very promising for me and Mike moving in around the 21st October. I can't tell you how excited I am about the prospect of living back in Roseilse... the place I was brought up... just a few minutes from my parents house. It's a dream come true. I think I can safely say though - if you don't ask, you don't get...it was by pure chance that I sent an email to the owners enquiring as to whether they might be interested in leasing us the property. What luck! But then I know a lot of people who know me will be sure that it was all meant to be right from the start.
So - now we need to find Mike a job and we're all set.
I spent the night in hospital on Sunday evening attending a sleep clinic. Not that a don't sleep well - completely the opposite... I sleep a little too well and have great difficulty waking up, especially if I'm experiencing vivid dreams. So I spent most of a 24 hours period with enough electrodes stuck to my face and head to light up Blackpool Tower. Needless to say I felt a little silly walking around the hospital so spent most of the day hiding in the ward...although I convinced myself that if anyone did ask I would tell them I was so clever that the hospital wanted to measure my amazing brain activity!
I'll won't get my results for some time but it'll be worth it if they can get to the bottom of the problem... and no... I'm not just a lazy cow!
Finally - just a little thought on the subject of Trolls.
For those of you not in the know, 'Trolls' are mischievous little buggers who prowl the internet for bloggers, like you and me, to torment and annoy. They enjoy baiting people into needless debates, offending writers with their biogtry and general rudeness and bascially getting up to no good. The internet seems to be a breeding ground for them - especially in today's unsympathetic climate. Unfortunately there doesn't appear to a cure for the troll infestation, at the moment; however, we have found the following remedies to work temporarily until a more permanent cure can be found.
1. Spray them with a little disdain - although this may aggrovate them at first, with time and patience this will reduce their annoying activity.
2. Trolls thrive on emotions - therefore we advise that, should you engage in 'conversation' with a troll, do not give them the satisfaction of 'rising to the bait'. We often find that if the disdain option doesn't work - ignoring a troll will. Troll's have a short attention span and will often loose interest in their prey should they come to the conclusion they are being ignored.
3. Trolls are stupid. It's a fact - no matter how important they make themselves sound, words they use or facts they produce. They are sad little creatures who feel the need to belittle others in order to make themselves feel more intelligent. Treat them as such.
4. If a troll gets out of hand contact your internet provider and advise them of the situation. Also contact the administrators of the site through which you are receiving the troll's attention. Internet harrassment is illegal and can be dealt with very swiftly and severely by the authorities.
Things seem to be well on track for the move up north. I start my new job on the 4th September and I'll be joined by Mike on the 7th October up in the Elgin area.
I can't thank my parents, Dave and Chris, enough for their continued support and encouragement. And their generosity. Not only are they helping us move, putting me up for 5 weeks before Mike can join me, and looking keeping me sane through our daily conversations, they are offering Mike and our two pussy cats a home for the couple of weeks before we can move into our new home. It's moments like these where I realise just how lucky I am to have such wonderful parents!
At the moment we're waiting to finalise the details of our new home - which will hopefully be only a field away from my parents cottage. Two holiday cottages along the road have become available for long term let and at the moment things are looking very promising for me and Mike moving in around the 21st October. I can't tell you how excited I am about the prospect of living back in Roseilse... the place I was brought up... just a few minutes from my parents house. It's a dream come true. I think I can safely say though - if you don't ask, you don't get...it was by pure chance that I sent an email to the owners enquiring as to whether they might be interested in leasing us the property. What luck! But then I know a lot of people who know me will be sure that it was all meant to be right from the start.
So - now we need to find Mike a job and we're all set.
I spent the night in hospital on Sunday evening attending a sleep clinic. Not that a don't sleep well - completely the opposite... I sleep a little too well and have great difficulty waking up, especially if I'm experiencing vivid dreams. So I spent most of a 24 hours period with enough electrodes stuck to my face and head to light up Blackpool Tower. Needless to say I felt a little silly walking around the hospital so spent most of the day hiding in the ward...although I convinced myself that if anyone did ask I would tell them I was so clever that the hospital wanted to measure my amazing brain activity!
I'll won't get my results for some time but it'll be worth it if they can get to the bottom of the problem... and no... I'm not just a lazy cow!
Finally - just a little thought on the subject of Trolls.
For those of you not in the know, 'Trolls' are mischievous little buggers who prowl the internet for bloggers, like you and me, to torment and annoy. They enjoy baiting people into needless debates, offending writers with their biogtry and general rudeness and bascially getting up to no good. The internet seems to be a breeding ground for them - especially in today's unsympathetic climate. Unfortunately there doesn't appear to a cure for the troll infestation, at the moment; however, we have found the following remedies to work temporarily until a more permanent cure can be found.
1. Spray them with a little disdain - although this may aggrovate them at first, with time and patience this will reduce their annoying activity.
2. Trolls thrive on emotions - therefore we advise that, should you engage in 'conversation' with a troll, do not give them the satisfaction of 'rising to the bait'. We often find that if the disdain option doesn't work - ignoring a troll will. Troll's have a short attention span and will often loose interest in their prey should they come to the conclusion they are being ignored.
3. Trolls are stupid. It's a fact - no matter how important they make themselves sound, words they use or facts they produce. They are sad little creatures who feel the need to belittle others in order to make themselves feel more intelligent. Treat them as such.
4. If a troll gets out of hand contact your internet provider and advise them of the situation. Also contact the administrators of the site through which you are receiving the troll's attention. Internet harrassment is illegal and can be dealt with very swiftly and severely by the authorities.
posted by Rachel at 6:28 AM
2 Comments:
Hi Rachel, hope you get the sleep thing sorted, it must be horrible finding it so difficult to get going in the mornings,
hope all goes well with the move,
take care,
Helen.
Thanks Helen
Fingers crossed we'll get to the bottom of it eventually.
About the move - to be honest I wish I could fast forward all the the waiting, and packing, and worrying, and planning and just get to the good stuff.
But it'll all happen in it's own time I guess.
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