Hmm, glad to see I kept that up well then. Life has been a bit hectic over the last few months, hardly an excuse but it's my usual one. I almost forgot this was even here to be honest.

Yesterday I randomly discovered my brother's blog, which has been going for about a year. And I've definitely been on his website during that time, how did I manage to miss that? So I had a year's reading to catch up on. The main thing that struck me was how much fuller his life seems than mine. How depressing does that sound!

At the mo I'm busy revising for an exam on Monday, yuck. I've been off work all week but I still haven't done as much as I would have liked, it is so dull! And there are way too many distractions in the house / it's too hot. Excuses all the way again, at the end of the day I'm just not confident I'm going to pass. At all. I really want to, to get the qualification and get it out of the way once and for all, but when it comes down to doing the work, I just can't seem to motivate myself. Tomorrow I really have to think about nothing else, with the knowledge that by Monday lunchtime I can forget about it all again. Am I really that impatient to do other things that I can't cope with 36 hours of concerted concentration? A sad indictment if so...

I'm supposed to be training for the Great North Run too, but that's been on hold for the last couple of weeks, as I've been back and forth to the doc's and on various medications, and haven't really felt up to running. I wasn't exactly improving quickly either, so when I get myself sorted I'll basically be starting from scratch. And now I've found yet another problem for the doc - anyone would think I'm a hypochondriac, but I swear I'm not! - I think I have, or am developing, a frozen shoulder. Basically the movement in my left shoulder is restricted, and if say I try to raise it above horizontal it hurts. Not excessively, but it's getting more awkward. It's affecting my sleep too as I like to lie on my side with my arm cushioning my head, but as my left arm won't go that high I can only lie on my right side. Supposedly this condition affects mainly middle-aged people, and here I am not even 30. Does that mean my body is like that of a middle-aged person, or am I just exceptional?

Other topics I really should mention if this is going to be a proper update, but I need to go to bed so I'm fresh for more revision tomorrow so they're only going to be mentioned in passing for now (and judging on my past performance maybe ever) -
- selling our lovely car
- being a homeowner
- my cardmaking obsession
- how my job is going

That's all the major topics I can think of at any rate.

Beddy-byes calling, think A is already asleep on the sofa as usual...