So it's early morning Tuesday, the day after a particularly bleak and wet August Bank Holiday Monday. I've just given Scarlett half her bottle and she seems to be torn between finishing it or returning to sleep.
It feels a bit like the end of summer, its another miserable looking day and people will soon be leaving for work knowing that that's it... no more holidays. I'm guessing the schools will be reopening any day and all the children will be going back - I remember how miserable I used to feel when the summer holidays were finished.
Personally I'll actually be glad to see the back of the summer, for me it's been one long hard struggle. Business has been pretty poor, summer always seems like a bad time for a designer. The work dries up, the phone stops ringing, projects seems to take twice as long to finish. I think its because people, businesses tend to wind down a bit in the summer, people go on holiday or spend more time at home with their children. Its perfectly understandable and i hope that next summer I can be in a position where i can afford to take some time off and not worry so much about work!
This summer has also been pretty bleak for a couple of other reasons, we just seemed to have a spell which lasted for a few weeks where nothing seemed to go right! Eric my dog had to have an operation on his knee, Suzie had to have an operation on her toe, the doctor thought I was diabetic (thankfully I'm not!) and Scarlett has really suffered with her teeth. There was a week or two where all four of us had medical appointments - it felt like we were living in a waiting room. On top of all that my main computer crashed, the hard drive had fried, so I had to have that replaced which took nearly a week - good job work was quiet!
So now things seem to be getting back to normal, the last week or so has actually been quite busy work wise and September is looking like it will be a busy month. I suppose not everything about this summer has been bad, I think I'm pretty lucky really and it's been brilliant watching Scarlett grow and develop over the last few months. I'm looking forward to next summer when hopefully we can go away for a few months and not worry about work. So I guess I better knuckle down, get some work done and make some money!
