reality check - the achey shoulder edition.r in summer 2014 is a creepin' in.

WHERE: I'm still in bed - I woke up at 3.30, after 5 hours sleep and my shoulder hurts, I must have been lying in a strange position. But I couldn't get back to sleep. It's 5.30 now and I'm starting to feel tired!

WEARING: my usual except without the rings. I took them off yesterday when we were making cookies so that we could knead the cookie dough and I haven't put them back on. Oh, and I have new earrings! Two tiny gold studs in the upper part of my ear and small gold hearts in the other holes.

FITNESS UPDATE: I have plantar fasciitis feelings again :-( lots of stretching and golf ball massages. I know what did it, we hired a bouncy castle for Lila's birthday and I could feel it while I was bouncing but I didn't want to stop!

IN THE NEWS: another aircraft has crashed. Locally, two girls have been grabbed by the same man on their way to/from school. I know both girls involved as they are friends of Nia's, and I'm friends with the mum of one of them. Having allowed my girls a little more freedom this summer - they've been out on scooters, roller blades and bikes on the footpath behind the house and been allowed to play at the football field at the back of the street - I've had to tell them to stick to the back garden for the time being.

READING: I've just finished Wild by Cheryl Strayed which was a travelogue about her walk along the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995. It was very good. I'm planning on the The Dragon Business by Kevin K Anderson next.

ACTIVITIES TODAY: as usual, it's Friday. I plan to go to toy library. School finished yesterday so I'll have Tally, Lila, Lyf and Libby with me. It's Lyf's last day with me today, after four years! I also need to go to a computer repair shop to visit my poor sick laptop. The other day Talaia wanted to use it, I was trying to put the password in while she was talking to me. The other kids were making a racket and I put the password in wrong three times. Because this was Rich's laptop when he worked at Woolworths, it still thinks it's on Woolworths' domain and locked me out. Now Woolworths' administrator needs to unlock it.

Woolworths doesn't have an administrator because it went out of business in 2009! The repair shop can't get into the computer but have downloaded all my data... But they're planning to charge me £80 for an external hard drive upon which to place the aforementioned data... on top of the fee for downloading it, which will be £90! So I need to go in and tell them what they can delete so that it can fit on a memory stick. A lot of it is backed up, but not all of it. Eff, eff Jeff.

THINKING ABOUT: all the goodbyes. There were Cal and KJ on Wednesday as well as volunteer school, yesterday was a boy that I don't think I've mentioned here, no point in giving him a name really though! Today it will be Lyf and Nia, then Libby has two more weeks. It's like a huge eraser is moving slowly down my current life, leaving a blank screen for the next part of my life...

PLANNING: lots of chilling! Did I mention that SCHOOL'S OUT FOR SUMMER!?