Cabin Feverish

January 8, 2010 8:11 PM

Another day with us all at home. The snow is still on the ground, the temperature hasn't risen much above zero and to be honest it's perhaps becoming a little tiresome!

I'm only being grumpy as I think I've got a bit of cabin fever - even though I spend every day at home I usually manage to break the day up by running errands here and there which is great as I get an airing, but I've been in the house for 7 solid days now and it's starting to show. Maybe tomorrow I'll go out and do something, anything in fact just to get a bit of daylight and fresh air.

I make a considerable bit of progress with my sandwich website today spending a great deal of time practicing with my graphics tablet, though I need to realise there is a fine line between quentin blake style hand drawn stuff and stuff just looking crap!

I give up working at around 6 and make a start on dinner - roast chicken tonight, something nice to warm the cockles...

Whilst I'm cooking dinner Phil decides to have a go on the xbox only to be presented with the ring of death... of all the times for it to go when we could do with all the forms of entertainment we can muster! This will be the second xbox we've had as the previous one suffered in exactly the same way. With nothing to loose we you-tubed to see if anyone had a fix for the problem, and we tried out the one where by you overheat the unit for 20 minutes whilst it's upside down and then stick it in the fridge for 20 minutes upside down - long shot I know and it didn't work. What did work however was Phil repeatedly dropping the xbox on the floor in sheer anger. Sure enough it worked just fine after that! (I wouldn't suggest anyone tries this unless they have completely given up hope and do not require an additional door stop).

After dinner I manage to get a bit more knitting done, so much so in fact the 2nd of my sampler squares is now complete and I get to choose a different style to try out - cool! So whilst I knit, Phil watches Silent Witness - I find it hard to concentrate on doing knitting and staring at the goggle box especially when the sequence of stitches are quite complicated... I suspect practice will ease the difficulty somewhat!