This week has been a mixed bag weather-wise. We’ve gone from days of lovely
sunshine to torrential downpours, sometimes in the course of a few hours.
Yesterday we got up and took Tara for a walk, making it home just a little bit
before it started spotting with rain. By the time we left to go to town for me
to get my hair cut it was absolutely chucking it down.
I actually quite like these summer rainstorms. Sure you get a lot of surface
water on the roads and it washes all sorts of things onto the paths. But there’s
something quite nice and refreshing about being out when it’s still relatively
warm, getting splashed with big fat raindrops. That said, it’s slightly less fun
when you’ve just had your hair cut and styled and you’re dashing for the
car.
Yep, finally got around to getting my hair cut. Something I’ve been
desperately in need of for a good few weeks now. I normally run my hair
straighteners over my hair before work but it was getting so long that I’d even
given up most pretence of trying to do anything with it. Plus my side parting
had randomly started to migrate back to the centre of my head. Thankfully the
hairdresser got it all back to normal and hopefully I’ll look slightly more
presentable at work this week.
Other goings-on this week have included a massive amount of time spent
sitting on the bathroom floor (the most rat-proofed room in the house) playing
with Yoda and Wicket. They’re getting really hand tame now and, aside from being
slightly put out when they’re picked up, we’re getting on great. They’re getting
huge now and I’m planning on moving them into their grown-up rat cage next
weekend. It’s a bit awkward for getting them out of so I want to be confident
that they’ll come when they’re called rather than having to try chasing them all
over the place in the thing.
I did make the discovery that Wicket will do almost anything for a piece of
sweetcorn. Seriously, it’s like ratty crack! I plan to use this knowledge to my
advantage!
I’ve not been home a huge amount in the evenings this week so we’ve not
watched very much Criminal Minds. On Friday night we decided (simultaneously, on
the spur of the moment) to order Chinese and a Dixie Chicks documentary that Mr
Click ordered me had arrived so we watched that. We did catch up on a bit of
Criminal Minds yesterday and are all set to watch the last two episodes of the
third series this week.
We’ve nearly finished The Two Ronnies; we’re just watching the Christmas
specials at the moment. There’s nothing quite so strange as watching Christmas
stuff at the beginning of June. It’s a bit weird. I might have to dig out some
of these to watch in the run up to Christmas at the end of the year, I might
appreciate them a wee bit more then!
After finishing Sean Astin’s There and Back Again, An Actor’s Tale
last week I moved on to a beautiful copy of Jabberwocky, a
collection of Lewis Carroll’s poetry. I loved reading his poetry as a child (I
still have my Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll on my bookshelf). I
don’t read a lot of poetry and reading this is making me wonder why because I do
enjoy it. If a novel is like a birthday cake that you look forward to reading
and devour over a period of time, a book of poetry is like a platter of cupcakes
which you can dip into and keep going back to again and again.
Now I've finished I’m going back to Harry Potter and reading Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I’m holding off reading books on my Kindle
at the moment, just because I’ve got a whole bunch of book-books that deserve my
attention. I thought I’d give the ebooks a break for a little while and then
return to them in a month or so.
Speaking of books, I’ve finally worked out how to reorganise my Book Lists on
my blog. It’s very much a work in progress as it’s involving me going through my
book journals (I have three, not counting the one I started for this year) as
well as looking up posts on this blog. I’ll have to make sure I’m religious
about updating it too, but hopefully it’ll make it easier to keep track of what
I’ve said about the books I’ve read (as well as looking back to see how my
thoughts have changed on rereads).
And as for the upcoming week?
Well, I’ve got more evenings to myself so I plan to do a lot more reading, a
lot more rat entertaining, a lot more blog organising, and hopefully will get to
watch quite a bit of Criminal Minds!
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