mostly in the new (outside) office, and since large chunks of it were two desktops and a server it's a pretty unpleasant heap of job. I've never had to deal with a server before so I'm fumbling my way through setting it up, along with all sorts of phone line and cabling issues.

haven't really done anything at all at home, except move things out to the new office, which is pretty good. To be fair though, I went through a bit of a cleaning phase last week and some serious junk got tossed. With the remains of the office stuff moving over by the end of next week I expect a few more things will get tossed. Then maybe I will have room on my desk for school papers and personal stuff, like I used to have. My office desk has two monitors, two keyboards and two mice on it, with a desktop and server underneath, an all-in-one printer and a fancy new phone off to one side plus an 8 port switch and a broadband hub. Between all that I have cables just about everywhere because until we know the order it's all just temporary, and we're not entirely sure where the server will end up yet!

DD is off to a farm for a week as of tomorrow morning. That means DS had a little crying session on my lap earlier, but he wasn't really crying over his horrible big sister so much as the fact that he wouldn't have anyone to play with next week, particularly since two of his best friends are also her best friends and will be off to the farm too! We have a local food festival this weekend and a judo competition - DS' first since starting it, and ironic that DD won't be around since she was the one who started it. If he does well he might get graded too, but there's another grading in November anyway, so plenty more chances to win some tabs for me to sew onto his belt!

I got my tax forms done - YAY! They were due in by Saturday and they went in the post on Monday so that's a huge weight off my mind. Unfortunately I now need to settle to sorting out the VAT for the last quarter which I haven't done before, so that promises to be thoroughly terrifying. This is the time it's good to have a best friend who's an accountant - I'm arranging for her to come up to generally look over our accounts, advise a bit on VAT and have a good meal. If she brings the rest of her family I get to pay with some babysitting!

we also started taking a quick look at houses again last weekend, new ones for now. Found some nice layouts in bad locations and one lovely location with a less than great layout (but it was overlooking a conservation area with great crested newts!). We need to know which of the two nearby towns has good housing for us because we need to pick a school for DD by the end of October!!! ARGH! I think I still know which school, but as always I'm bothered by what happens if the preference isn't met, since we're a long way out of the catchment area.

Honey - get a flamethrower and take the easy route on that bedroom of yours. OR get realistic and learn to decorate round the clutter. OR find something you love for that room, start saving for it, and promise yourself you'll only buy it once you have a gorgeously tidy room to put it in.

Kerri.