Moog's meanderings

Just perusing my blog showed me that I have done 3 personality type things this month (and it’s not over yet!). I wonder whether this means I am being introspective, or simply that when I see that someone else has done one of these I jump on the bandwagon and do mine aswell to see what comes up? There seem to be quite a few of these kinds of things (and a meme) going around at the moment. Perhaps it’s something to do with Autumn?

Anyway, I am still at the Uni. I am in a bit of a limbo at the moment. I have in fact been feeling as though I am in a bit of a wilderness over the last few weeks. I am now asking myself whether I should be doing something proactive and going out there and getting what I want.. The thing is, that means knowing what I want. I want lots of things, but they’re not all possible and some things are not forseeable. So how does one plan around the unknown? Do I just go with the flow and allow stuff to happen (makes me sound almost lazy – which isn’t the case even with the stuff that seems to be ‘just happening’ there’s a certain amount of proactivity involved, it’s just to a lesser extent than going out there to find something I might want). The world and all the possibilities seem to limitless when I think about different possible routes and directions, but it seems somehow irresponsible not to explore them. But then there’s all the other things I am already committed to which rather limit the time available to do the exploring. And then you end up doing something and wondering how you got there. I wonder where the next ’something’ will be for me, and whether when I look back, I will have ‘ended up’ there, or made it happen?

This evening I left Uni at 5pm and drove to see some family who live fairly close by me but who I don’t really see very often. I just went by and dropped in completely unannounced in order to invite them to a family gathering we’re having in December It was good to catch up and see how they were doing, and it resulted in not only a lovely cup of tea but also a nice meal with 4 of us. I really enjoyed seeing them and it was wonderful to spend an unplanned evening and not worry about going home to my empty house (what with Mr Moog working away as usual).
I think I had a load of stuff to do, but I don’t care and I haven’t bothered to look at my list. I am off to bed with a good book.
Goodnight!

Isn’t it always the way that when you have lots of stuff to blog about, you’re inevitably too busy doing it/dealing with it to post about it.
Mr Moog has a Birthday with a 0 in it this year. Most of you will probably be able to guess which one. We suffered a big disappointment this weekend when the venue cancelled our party (paintballing)… Mr Moog was gutted, and I have been running around arranging something else. It getting quite close to Christmas and all, it’s quite hard to find anything non-Christmas related to do for a Birthday, but it does all seem to be coming together now and Mr Moog seems happy. Also, as we had advised most people of the date about 6 months ago, people are still coming and most don’t seem to mind about it being different than expected.
Workwise things haven’t been moving for ages. Then things started to come to the surface again yesterday, I spent most of yesterday being frustrated and worrying about things (in between party-arranging), and today things are looking better. Blargh!! I wish we could just get on with it, the whole affair has been dragging on for what seems like ages. I need to feel as though I am doing something useful…
So I am dedicating a lot of time to my beloved institution. Tomorrow I am off to London ridiculously early, in meetings all day (in fact I think that I am in two at once for part of the day) and all evening, then most of Friday too. It’ll be nice to take it all out on the allotment on Saturday (note to self: post more photos).
It looks at though next week I actually manage to be working at work and living at home all week (save for one appointment, but at least that’s in Brum). Hooray! Maybe I’ll be able to use some of the time to do my Japanese homework? I missed last week’s class, have one tonight, and still haven’t done my homework from September… D’Oh!

This time it’s one in Scotland… I should really sort out what I need to pack because I’m going tomorrow. Somehow it seems less important than doing nothing/watching TV/going to bed. Hopefully I have time in the morning to do all the preparation I need before I get going (and make sure that I remember to take a good book – it’s a four and a half hour train journey…).

After two and a half years of umming and aahing about whether or not to get an allotment, and then 3 months of trying to contact the people in charge of the allotments, Mr Moog and I are now the proud tenants of an allotment!! We are both very excited about this. You will know from previous postings that we like to grow our own vegetables and things, and have been making do with very limited space in our relatively small garden just growing courgettes, runner beans, tomatoes and herbs. Now we’ll be able to do sooo much more!!! Yay!!

If you look closely you can see Mr Moog at the far end of the plot near a rake. As you can also see, there’s a lot of work to be done…. I enjoyed a hot bath last night after spending part of the afternoon with hubby digging a (lamentably small) patch of the plot. Hopefully over time we’ll get fitter and more efficient!!!

Well, a month has passed since I really understood that Research is not for me. I know this because the next Videoconference is tomorrow morning. I had thought that I’d be out of it by now, but am still around. The other thing is apparently going to happen, just going through the usual ‘processes’ that tend to hold these things up…

I know I haven’t blogged about Italy yet. Hubby has a load of pic’s on his camera which is away with him, so waiting to get them before telling you all about it with pictures!!

Thanks to Alice!

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