Things I Love Thursday

Back to reality again! I won’t lie, I long to be back doing interesting work, but it hasn’t been too hard a week. Despite my complete inability to build up the motivation to get out of bed in the morning at a reasonable hour, I’ve had quite a bit of energy this week – I’m hoping that this will continue as I have a log of work to do in the next few weeks, both in the “real world” and on this blog.

This week has been made a little sparklier thanks to:

* My new desk chair – It’s just a plain old blue office chair, bought from a second-hand shop that had lots of them from a business that had recently closed, but it’s amazing the difference being comfortable at my PC has made. I’m finding typing, watching movies and everything so much easier!

* Catching up on my Google Reader - I returned home to over 700 posts (I really don’t know how you ladies and gents who have that many per day manage!) and a good deal of my time was taken up reading them. I didn’t leave many comments, as I was in a hurry to get up to date, but there was some great writing in the blogosphere this week.

* Fruit-based snacks marketed to 4 year-olds – I went shopping for healthy things to nibble on whilst at work, so I’m not tempted by chocolate and other such fattening delights. I intended to buy fruit, but instead returned home with strawberry and pear fruit winders, strawberry juice jelly laces and dried sweet cherries also packaged for children. I can’t help it, kids get the best snack foods!

* Televisual Entertainment - Skins, Being Human, the pilot of Dollhouse and Lost (yes, I’m one of those weirdos who still watches it) have kept me thoroughly amused this week!

* Adding new books to my “To read” list – although it’s frustrating not being able to read them all at once, it’s also nice to have the potential there – to know that I’m not going to run out of exciting books to read any time soon!

* Being Lazy – I’ve spent much of the week watching TV, eating, going to bed early and generally relaxing. I possibly should not have done so quite so much, since I have mock exams this week (they’re posted to me at home, but I must do them under “exam conditions” for them to be useful to me) and I should be revising, but I needed the break.

* Websites that make me laugh - My latest favourite is “Not Always Right“, as linked to by Stephen Fry on Twitter, I know this should probably go in my roundup not TiLT, but it’s really made my week sparkle reading about all the customer complaints and stupidity. It makes me feel a little better about my own customers in the day job!

* Early Nights – Sometimes there’s nothing nicer than lying warm in bed just relaxing.

* Cadburys Creme Eggs –  Easter’s… not really what you’d call on the way just yet, but my favourite seasonal chocolate is already in the shops and I’ve found it hard to resist buying a couple whenever I’ve been shopping.

What”s added a little glitter to your days this week?