I started in January 2008, so it’s taken two years (I’ve been too distracted by curling to post this for the past couple of weeks).

50.22 / 50kg (100%)

44.96 / 50kg (90%)

42.30 / 50kg (85%)

Nearly there now!

40.53 / 50kg (81%)

The last one of these I did was in December when I was 58% of the way through. I hadn’t realised I’d left it so long!

36.81 / 50kg (74%)

I had a good weekend – well, half a good weekend. I went to High Wycombe to drop off some knickers and other stuff for Knickers 4 Africa and go to selenay936’s ex-local bookshop. Where I saw her parents and spent £17 on books – that was being restrained. I’m still working through the books I got from my mum and grandmother for my birthday yet.

It was a good day and we somehow managed to avoid the worst of the weather. I was really tired when I got home, which I expected. What I didn’t expect was how dizzy I felt Sunday. All I ended up doing on Sunday is lying on the sofa reading and watching tennis because I wasn’t capable of doing anything else. Fortunately, there was tennis on – exhibition matches under the new Centre Court roof at Wimbledon and I enjoyed them, although I could have done without the camera moving so much. I didn’t even feel like I’d done that much either. I’m less dizzy now but back to going to bed at 10pm.

But on Friday I’m going to see if I feel well enough after work to go and see In the Loop, which wasn’t at the cinema walking distance from where I live now. But it is at the cinema walking distance from work on Friday and Saturday. Then it is at least a three day weekend, although I plan to do things with it – not least find a place for all these books to live…

Also, in the unlikely event that there’s anyone left who doesn’t have a Dreamwidth account that wants one, I have four invites. And, it turns out, Trillian Astra invites, since it’s now in beta. And probably has been for a while, I’ve just failed to notice, just gave them money…

Because I haven’t got the energy for anything more substantial.
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28.87 / 50kg (58%)

I finally managed to get myself out of holiday mode and cleaned the house yesterday. It’s hard to motivate myself to do it when I know I’m going to be moving out of it, but I’ll be even less motivated when I’m not living in it, and the dirtier it is then, the worse it’s going to be to clean. But it does all look so much better now I have cleaned it.

I also finished the book I started while I was away and it felt never-ending. I’m now a third of the way through The Graveyard book. I have two piles of books from the ones I bought in Canada and the Pratchett I finished just before I went. They’re just the right size to fit my laptop on in front of the TV, so I can plug the TV into it. Now I’ve changed the books the two piles are more level too.

I made the mistake, when I got back, of watching all four Spooks episodes, which included the one from BBC3. So although I put it on last Monday because I was too tired to take it in much the first time, it’s not the same as watching it new. So now I am back on watching them on Mondays because Monday needs something to look forward to, since I only watch SJA every other week. Suffice to say I enjoyed tonight’s, even if I spent most of it wondering where I knew the bad guy from. Turns out it was one of the recent Poirots.

And just to make all the other people doing Yuletide jealous: I have a first draft of mine. At 1200 words I’m doing better than last year where I managed 1006 (but any padding to that one would have been just that, padding). I’m aiming to get it finished by the end of the week and hopefully writing every night will get me back into it and who knows, I might even get round to the requests I asked for back in June that are sitting in my inbox…

It’s gone up 1% since last time!

23.19 / 50kg (46%)

Thank you to all the people who made suggestions for book swapping websites. I registered on bookmooch and readitswapit.co.uk. At the moment I don’t want any more books, because then that’ll be more to move. So I put ten on bookmooch and have had requests for three already. So I’ll see how that goes and maybe try readitswapit.co.uk later too.

Having taken those ten books out of my to charity bag I can now lift it!

I have a bag of books that’s sitting in my room waiting for me to add to it, then I’ll take them to the charity shop. Although by charity shop I mean one of the five in town. But I think some of them are a bit unlikely to sell in this town. And I know a lot of people keep talking about book swapping sites, so I thought I’d maybe investigate them since maybe it would lead to me buying fewer books.

So which ones do people use? Bearing in mind I have to be able to swap with people in Britain – I’m not planning on sending any overseas because that’ll just be more expensive than buying them.

I haven’t done an update for so long I’ve almost forgotten what I think of these books…

22.264 / 50kg (45%)

19.745 / 50kg (39%)

17.745 / 50kg (35.5%)

After reading loads of Chalet School books and then coming across Can Any Mother Help Me? I got interested in this whole idea in the 1930s of married women not being allowed to work.

I’ve discovered it’s because of the Depression, which makes a lot of sense, but what I want is a book, if one exists, that tells me more about how it came about, how it affected people (men as well as women) and how it ended.

I’ve looked in Borders, in the history section, and found nothing. But a google search has various books listed in Women and Feminism sections, which makes me think I was looking in the wrong place. However, what I can’t yet find are descriptions of any books that give me any idea of whether they’ll tell me what I want to know.

So, anyone know anything useful?

16.948 / 50kg (33.9%)

I got the fright of my life watching Torchwood tonight, for which Torchwood itself was only indirectly responsible. While I waited for it to start, as it was a few minutes late again, I checked on my satnav where I’m going to my Rotaract meeting tomorrow night. But it couldn’t find get a satellite, so I put it on the windowsill, which tends to help it. But since it didn’t find one quickly I left it there till it did. And then forgot about it until 9.45pm when Tom Baker, in a very loud voice, suddenly said, “Turn right and then turn left.”

I have finally started my TARDIS Big Bang fic! I have to have the minimum 20,000 first draft done by mid-March, so it was about time. I was just prevented from starting sooner by getting ill, then the past two days by everything else. But I have written two chapters of the 26 and have 2000 words. But since each chapter will be at least 1000 words I don’t think the word count will be a problem, thankfully.

2 / 26 chapters (7.6%)

I have also decided to read my weight in books this year. I’ve recently read two trilogies:
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I’ve been meaning to write a post about this for ages. With the stuff I watch or read, I keep finding parent & child relationships where they’re not actually related (or at least, don’t have that direct relationship) fascinating. I’ve got a perfectly normal family going on, so there’s no psychological reason like that, I just like it.

melliyna asked:
1. In your fandom(s), what are your favourite parent/child relationships? (biological or non biological parents and children) Why?
so I thought I’d answer here, rather than in a comment.
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This post isn’t about the play, it’s about names and what people call each other.
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