Peace.

Yesterday was a wild day at work, I was in just before 8.00 as always and things plodded along much as they usually do, until 08.30 and then it started, I barely saw my colleague for the rest of my shift, we didn't even get a chance for a break. Phew, what a day, I was so glad it was my short shift and I was supposed to finish at 2pm, note I say supposed, I was still there at 2.30, but was sat in the office in an impromptu meeting, which turned out quite beneficial. Did I mention we didn't even get a lunch break? I finally got a sandwich at 3pm.
I'm working a late shift today, so I don't start until 3pm, which means I'll hopefully get time in the office to do some much needed paperwork. It tends to be much quieter on the late shifts.
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So yesterday I did very little on the needles front, I did allow myself a little time after I had done some of my homework. Peace is on the way, I should be finished with this one just in time for Gail to release the next block.
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Homework? Remember that course I went on last week? It was part one of 6? Well I think I mentioned that I brought home half a tree to read. I spent what was left of my afternoon and the evening reading through all that paper and completing the exercises. Now I have to write a short essay. Some of the folks on the course were a little alarmed at that, but a 300 - 500 word essay is no problem. I used to write thousands of words for university, so 300- 500 is nothing. Though I may have problems squeezing it all in! LOL I'll be on that red eye flight again in two and a half weeks! I'll hand in my home work, discuss my findings, do the next tutor module and receive another tree and more homework! All this is going to make me a better manager. So they say.
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The knitting is coming along, I've completed the back panel, doesn't it look long and thin? It's curled under at the edges a little but still looks long. The front is in two panels and that's the first of them there just getting going. There is a pretty cable loop in the front panels, that will be nice to knit up after the fairly straight and boring back.

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I may snatch a few moments later to do something with the needles, but as usual there is stuff I must do first, like a trip to the post office. The laundry is already going around and around! It's not walking weather so I'll be paddling around the sitting room on the rowing machine. I hope I can find a good documentary to watch. I find it helps if I can loose myself in something good on the TV, a documentary or a movie, if I get engrossed in that I'm less likely to get fed up and bored with the rowing and I stay on longer and do more. Exciting movies with fast paced action and music make me row faster, quiet gentler movies keep me plodding along at a slower more sustainable pace, but always so long as it engages me, I'm there working away, burning calories and toning up.

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Time then to finish my cup of tea and get on with my day.

Gratitude's

1) Automatic washing machines.

2) A hot Cuppa

3) A morning off.