The Gallery - Faces

This week for the Gallery it's all about faces. I just want to celebrate one face. My husbands. We have been married for ten years tomorrow, so it's an ideal time to show him a little bit of love via the blog.

So this is him, my Paul.

He's gorgeous, and all of you that know him often tell me how lucky I am. 

He's a fab Dad.

A little bit beardy

He makes me laugh....

A great friend

And the bestest husband ever..

So this blog is dedicated to the one I love... I feel a song coming on....

The Gallery - My Blog

This is the picture that makes up the background of my blog. I like that there is a little spider hiding in the petal, I like that the flower is all white except the little pink edges, I like that the sun shining through makes the petals translucent. I like that every time I look at this photo I see something new.

Why does this represent my blog (apart from the bleedin'obvious!)? Because, I use this blog to show off some of my photo's and this is a good example of a photo I am proud of. Because, I don't really have a theme when I write, sometimes I am a mummy blogger, sometimes I am a grumpy blogger, but mostly I am talking about my feelings and all the different things that go on in my head. And, on the whole I am optimistic and hopeful, and for me, this picture represents that.

For more like this pop over to StickyFingers tomorrow, I am getting this in early as I am off to the challenging internet connection back end bit of beyond in sunny Ireland, where I try and forget about technology and chill out with the in-laws and the cows. See you in just over a week. 

To work or to blog..?

I have had a week off poorly from work, was it piggy flu? Possibly, I felt awful.

Second half of the week I realised that I was well enough to sit on the sofa, blanket over me with laptop intravenously attached so that I could feel back in the world.

I have had lovely time reading blogs &Twitter posts, so I could actually follow conversations. It is a great world of bloggy twitteriness out there, which usually work stops me from participating in properly. Silly work.

Then my children would get home, with husband from school and nursery and annoy me as I was engrossed in my laptop world. Silly Kids and Husband.

Hang on ...what is going on here, suddenly all day at home on computer and I am no longer able to socialise with my, right here in the real world, loved ones as I am too busy following twitter..Yikes!

And, my work is not silly, I finally have a job where I make a difference, I protect the public working for a regulator (that sounds rather grandiose, but it is basically true).

But I do love all this social networking, I chat to people I would never of chatted to before and hear interesting thoughts and opinions in blogs. It's kind of like starting college where I knew no one and had to make friends and hear new views and beliefs. I enjoy it because I am learning things from the many bloggers and twitterers out there, I am continuing to expand my mind.

So on Monday I am back to work (assuming I can get rid of this cough). I expect I will get my balance back then. Unfortunately,  there is never enough hours in the day. How do you manage your balance?