10/2010

A little bed-time reading.......

365/2010

I'm joining my friend Judith on her quest to post a picture for everyday of 2010.

Judith blogs here

and her 365/2010 is here.

I'm very pleased to have found my blogging friend again after I left the blogsphere for a while and I'm hoping this challenge will produce some interesting pictures.

So as I'm playing catch up here are a few from the first week of 2010:

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My home made strawberry yogurt made with my nice shiny new yogurt maker!

2/365

This is razor saying hello. We got them a Fogger for Christmas which has increased the humidity and they are loving it. :)

7/365

I had to put some snow pics in there. had to. This is the view from my window.

Unfortunately I don't have any pictures for between those days. :(

I'll make up for it though.

Lx

Website

I knew making my own website would be hard. I knew it would require me to learn fast and be super creative but I never thought it would consume me like this.

I only wanted something little. Something to stick on the end of a bio in a mag. Something that laid the foundations for my future self promotion (not really needed yet as I'm doing sod all writing)

But I'm obsessed. The administrator thingy is open on my computer practically all day. I'm stirring my wok full of lemon chicken and I'm dashing off upstairs because I've thought of something I want to add.
I'ts naff at the moment. Very basic and to be honest I'm not doing enough in the writing world to make a decent website about it.

but hay.... I own leahebdon.com. how cool is that?

Happy New Year!

New year always makes me think of the things I never got around to doing in the last 12 months. This year is no different.

I'm back to making lists..... all the things I'm GOING to finish this year.

I hope 2010 is a successful, happy and life changing year for all. :)

Hamsters!!!

I'm just here to introduce to you my new little friends....

This is Pax...

And this is Kosh....

See if you can guess where their names came from..... he he

out of touch.

I feel very removed from the things I want in my life.

I started in Sainsburys because I wanted a part-t

ime job to get some money which I was doing my PGCE (Which is going very well btw, I will elaborate below). But now I'm finding it's taking up far too much of my time and emotional energy. Because my store isn't open yet I'm being thrown all over the place, training here there and everywhere. They are sending me to Bridgend on tuesday - I have never driven there and it is the same day I teach GCSE English as an evening class. I'm going to be shattered. The thing that is not my priority is taking over and damaging the thing that is most definitely top of my list.

This displeases me.

The PGCE is excellent! Very interesting. Teaching this GCSE class is going to be such an eye-opener. They are doing Under Milk Wood, which I had not read before but I am enjoying quite a lot.

It's going to be hard though. Especially with work putting the pressure on. I've not written a thing since I left Uni. I'm just fried. I can't carry on like this for much longer. Something's got to give.

Well. what a whirlwind.

I went along to my first GCSE English class yesterday. I'll be teaching the rabble that sat before me by about late oct, so not long really. :S

They are going to be doing 'Under Milk Wood' which has made me very happy.

I can't believe how much I was itching when I was sat 'observing' the class. I felt such an urge to say something. Help the ones having difficulties. I never realised it would feel like that. I felt like a teacher. It was strange how I seemed to change the way I was acting just because I'm going to be on the other side of the desk.

I can't wait to get my teeth stuck in.

The problem is, this has really excited me. So much so that Saiaburys seems so mundain in contrast. It just reinforces that it is most definately not where I want to be.

But the way things are at the moment I should be greatful I have a job. Is it so bad that I'm not?

Lx

Time flies....

When your doing too much. Just a quick one to ease me back into the Blogosphere.

Work is crazy. I've been covering for someone in another store for the last two weeks FULL TIME and it has just been mad. Glad to say, I'm back to my part time hours next week.

Well, not much has happened in the world of Leah, apart from I may have my first little publication in an independent mag - I'll update you when it's confirmed.

Start my Teaching course next week. rather excited.

Update you sooooon. Lx

Here I am, making a boob of myself in a silly hat. I managed to get through the entire thing without falling over or indecently exposing myself. I spent 3 hours convinced a fly was buzzing around my head and pulling m shirt down because the hood kept pulling it up.

BUT the rain held off, everyone was smiling and I am now a Graduate! :)

Now------ What's next?

It's Official...

I have had my first rejection letter. I am now officially a writer. :)

It was rather nice to be honest - not to painful, very polite, very gentle.
Perfect way to pop my 'you're not good enough' Cherry.

I'm going to go and write something now.
Lx