Enough

Midnight.

Title - check!

Introduction - check!

Aims and Objectives - check!

Literature Review - check!

Proposed Research Strategy - awaiting blather!

Proposed Research Method - check!

Research Participants - half check!

Ethical Issues - check!

Proposed Analysis of Data - not yet started - eeek!!

Information Sheet - check!

Questionnaire - check!

Consent Form - check!

Deadline missed by 7hrs and counting.

Thank god our postal service is so unreliable at times :-)

Hooky

I am shamelessly skiving today! It's not something I do very often but every now and then I just need some time completely to myself - house empty, phone off, kids away. Time to catch up, focus, regroup from the everyday hassle and struggle of kids, money, work, life.

I should have had a weekend to myself (well half, Y was here) this weekend, as X was due to go to her Dad's for both Friday and Saturday night, and I was looking forward to peace and quiet and cracking on with my research proposal, which is not going at the moment. However, the best laid plans and all that - come 6pm Friday when I went to collect her from afterschool club (late!) she felt poorly. Headache, shivery, fever, etc. So I rang her Dad and said she was unwell, took her home, dosed her with paracetamol, comfy blankets, cosy pyjamas and cuddles before putting her to bed and resigning myself to a one night alone only weekend.

Saturday morning dawned bright and breezy, as did she, so I text to see what time he would be picking her up, only for him to decide that as he can't afford time off work she better not come until she's fully better! Oh, the luxury of stepping out of parenting when it doesn't quite fit!! So, bang went the weekend of studying in peace.

I had pretty much decided before I went to bed last night that I would have today and tomorrow off work, as my assignment is due Wednesday, however, as I opened my extension paperwork today to realise I've been given until 10th for my assignment, I now have the peace, the quiet and no motivation to finish. Instead, I have spent the morning catching up on paperwork, putting the bills back in order that had lapsed over Christmas and updating a finance spreadsheet to help me bring down the debt! I'm currently paying nearly £500 a month in debt - just think what I could do with that money if it was all paid off!?

So, today I am relaxing! And I don't care! Let the study commence tomorrow.

Bits and bobs

Well, my throat is feeling much better. The whole lumpy feeling started to go down from Tues night/Wed morning so thats good. I got my blood test results Thursday, the receptionist informed me that my ESR is abnormal but the Dr had put "to be expected - no further action" and that the rests of my bloods were normal - no further action. I'm pleased, but at the same time not, as the more I've read about underactive thyroid the more I feel it may be a possibility. I am just so bloody knackered all the time just lately, I could literally go back to bed every morning I wake up! And obviously its not something like anaemia or that would have shown up. So, I have booked another appointment with the doctor, for him to explain my 'abnormal - to be expected - no further action results' and also for him to go through exactly what tests were done, as a lot of stuff I've read says its often undetected through normal blood tests.

In good news, and I'm not sure if I've mentioned this before but I'm studying my Masters in Applied Health Studies, and have just completed my second module - the onerous, godawful, simply hateful, dull, dull, dull research module! Sometime this week, post came, which I finally opened this evening to discover that I passed with 60%!!! Which, somewhat laughably, is my best Masters assignment mark so far. The bad news is that the next assignment, a research proposal of 3000 words is due on Wednesday and I haven't even started it yet. In fact, I have no idea what I want to do a research proposal on!! Ho hum.