It has been a bit hectic of late, and I’ve not really felt like writing about it for some reason. My focus has moved away from blogging. All I seem to want to do now is watch River Cottage and add things to my wishlist. Never mind.

I’ve moved back to my Mum’s house for a bit of money saving, which is bizarre. It feels like I never left.

Having not been to work since the middle of February, I ended up getting signed off sick for 2 weeks. I then went back and got signed off for another 2 weeks, but in that time I managed to land myself an interview with a company called Rokk Media. Following the interview, I was offered the job of junior website developer, and happily took it. I am so very excited to get back into the website development industry, and have many, many plans for my future. Thankfully my sick note covered me up until the day I start with Rokk, so I don’t have to go back to SiTEL at all. Thank fuck. 6 weeks away from that place has been fantastic.

I have also stopped taking my anti-depressants. They helped me get through various things, and now I don’t feel like I need to be on them, and that I can tackle the rest of my problems by myself. Unfortunately the side effects of doing this have made me feel very dizzy and nauseous, which I’m not particularly fond of.

Anyway, there are lots of things I’d like to do, and one of them involves turning this website into a portfolio and moving my blog elsewhere. More to come. I need a new keyboard, this thing is awful.

I have recently been signed off of work by my doctor for two weeks because of my depression. The strength of my anti-depressants was also doubled. I haven’t actually been to work in close to a month, as I took two weeks off sick before getting signed off. Who knows what sort of mess I’m going to walk into when I go back, but right now I really can’t handle being there. It’s too stressful, and far too monotonous.

I have been keeping myself busy though. I’ve recently rekindled my joy for books, and reading. I decided to give up on the idea of the Ebook Reader, as, whilst it’s a good idea, too many publishers were avoiding the idea and therefore books by various authors weren’t available in digital format. Unfortunately a lot of my books have gone missing, so I’m going to have to re-buy them at some point. For now I’ve purchased the first of the Discworld books by Pratchett, bought the first two books from the new Darren Shan series, and read the first one (which was very good), and grabbed a copy of 1984 by Orwell, because it must be read.

Alongside that I’ve been spending less time at the computer, and have only really sat at it when I’ve got something to do, or for limited periods of entertainment, to watch something or chat to people, instead of all the time, which brings me to my next point. Website development.

I’ve always had a lot of website projects on the go, whether for personal reasons or for other people, but they’ve never really jumped on me this much. In the past two days I have designed and developed the Dissonance website (a friend’s band, who are very good), thrown together the Children’s Voices website, done more work on the two websites for my Dad (Wud Records and Explicit Music), and have begun to build an online shop for the Wud Records site, complete with encrypted links for MP3 files so that the various music on the site can be purchased and downloaded.

It’s all very crazy right now, and it feels like as soon as I scratch something off of the to-do list, more things are added on. I wonder what it feels like to have nothing to do?