You need to change your bookmarks!
While I am still catching up and updating it (categorising, biznitches*!), you can now find my rambles, and the whole back catalogue, over at:
http://katinedinburgh.com
I'm not entirely sure what I'll do with hummingalong.com but it'll take new form soon.
You also may get a whole bunch of old posts in the RSS but hey, my blog is awesome, so enjoy the nostalgia.
Yay!
*I am obviously feeling a bit gangsta today.
Just keep humming along
Monday, June 18, 2012
Thursday, June 07, 2012
Radio silence.
Please bear with me - I'm in the process of migrating Humming Along over to Wordpress. So I will link you there soon and we can get all caught up.
Meanwhile, enjoy this happy monkey:
Meanwhile, enjoy this happy monkey:
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Weeks Twenty & Twenty-One
Blogsy keeps eating things. My post disappeared, so here is another double photo post.
Sunday: 134
Eddie's Figaro.
Monday: 135
Loving the fridge mount!
Tuesday: 136
Love my thistle.
Wednesday: 137
Postcard from Sarah-Rose.
Thursday: 138
Salad goodness.
Friday: 139
13 years of driving and it's my first flat tyre.
Saturday: 140
I performed at yet another tribute to Leonard Cohen.
and...
(oops - no self-portrait!)
Sunday: 141
Hearts parade!
Monday: 142
Busted out the shorts after work!
Tuesday: 143
I decorated the desk of my German colleague for her birthday.
Wednesday: 144
More time in the sun after work (it has been a glorious week!)
Thursday: 145
My only free evening in the week was spent multitasking online over 2 devices.
Friday: 146
Waiting on the tyre.
Saturday: 147
We spent a few hours at the beach in North Berwick. Stunning.
and...
At the parade.
Labels:
2012,
photos,
project 365
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Thursday's child has far to go.

I’m not sure if this is happened to anyone else, and if they can relate, but I kinda feel... like this is a good age for me. I’ve been 28 for 3 weeks but it feels great. It’s the first time in a long time a change in age has felt like a shift in feeling.
I’m not sure how to
explain it. I feel like I have woken up
in a way and life is finally making sense and coming together.
I think focussing so
much on being positive this year has meant that even in my toughest times, I
have tried to remember the good, and it has rubbed off in a way; lingered and
moved into the rest of my life.
It’s a baked
potatoes, super noodles and toasted sandwiches kinda week, but I don’t seem to
really care that we’re broke as hell. I
know in a few weeks when I get paid we’ll be right as rain again and life will
go on swimmingly. Dave has one more
hurdle to jump and then we might actually have some paperwork to sign, and a
date for him to start. He can stop temping
and start training.
I feel like I’ve been
working really hard at the gym (well April anyway, I’ve only been twice this
month!) and spending time growing my hair out again, and it’s at a shade of
blonde that I really like, and easy enough to do myself. I’ve got my eyelash extensions (which I
haven’t written about yet I guess!) which make my eyes big and dare I say it,
pretty, and I feel like my figure is finally becoming what I want it to be. (I may write another post purely about how
ridiculous and mind-boggling it is that my body is finally slowly becoming the
one I want).
I have this
confidence again that I think was lacking for so long, and it is not only because
things are working, but I think also in a way helping things to work better. A positive circle of events for once. I’m never going to agree with visualisation or
“The Secret” nonsense, but I think living positively can enable positive things
in the same way that being negative all the time is only going to bring out the
negative in life.
I’m also doing two
Fringe shows this year. And not “sway in
the back” roles, either. A duet in one,
a lead role in the other.
And I just feel strong.
I know exactly who I am, what I want out of my life and holy shit, I
feel I have far to go, like my line in the name poem says. But I take that both ways. I know I can go far and have an amazing life,
but I also know I have far to go yet.
Thank god I wasn’t
born on a Wednesday (sorry Chris).
Labels:
happy,
really deep thoughts
Monday, May 14, 2012
Weans and bairns.
I think it is partly
influenced by all the blogs I read but I am having a lot of baby dreams lately. I am either in a garden with a happy, fat,
squishy baby, or in bed waiting for Dave to come and feel a kick in my pregnant
belly, or a rocking chair with a small, wide-eyed child.
I always wake up
feeling so sad and like something is missing.
I know it’s not for
everyone, but I truly feel I will be incomplete until I have my children and
have all these moments as I become a mother.
And I know it’s a biological, evolutionary ingrained thing for me to
yearn and long and dream of babies, but some (read: most) days I just want to
have a little one in my arms.
I know so much about
pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting it’s slightly frightening (for one without
children). Partly this is because I have
three nieces, and have been hands-on and involved since they were born, but
partly it kinda makes sense to me in a way to do so. If you are wanting a career and aiming and
planning to do and be something (and have a learning mind like mine), you research. Dave has researched not only the Police in
general, but our local force. I have
lived in, been confused by, and studied the entertainment industry most of my
life. I have researched HR, Training and
Digital careers and practices because I have had roles involving all of these
things. So I find myself naturally
gravitating towards parenting/”Mommy” blogs and websites like Kveller (Jewish
parenting) and articles about slings. I mean, seriously.
But I know somewhere
in my heart and soul that I am meant to do this, to be this, and feel (and
hope) that I will be really rather good at it.
It does not frighten me at all. I
know it will be scary at times and so very very hard, but I also know I will
take so much joy and pleasure out of it, even the crying and the nappies and
the sleeplessness. (I am so used to
sleeplessness). And I imagine when
others rush to go back to work from maternity leave, I will be thinking of when
my next baby will be and how on earth will I manage more than one?
But for now, despite
all of this longing, I will ignore it and enjoy what I hope will be my last
years of being selfish, of sleeping in, drinking and going out late. Of movies
and concerts, plays and parties. Of travel and living according to my own
schedule.
Because while I want
to (and will do) all of those things,
it obviously will be harder. I hate it
when people tell you your life is over
when you have kids, because it’s just. not. true. Life is more complicated, on a different
schedule, and it’s a big crazy ride, but you can do whatever you want to do and
go wherever you want to go. Don't let anyone tell you differently. A new adventure begins and you just have to do things another way.
It’s going to be amazing.
Labels:
know me,
me,
really deep thoughts
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Weeks Eighteen & Nineteen
Catching up with two weeks at once...
Sunday: 120
New Aztec leggings (that Dave hates, by the way).
Monday: 121
Birthday desk decorations.
Tuesday: 122
Quiet in the morning.
Wednesday: 123
A definite weather improvement!
Thursday: 124
Burkes arrived!
Friday: 125
Waiting in The Clamshell for a deep-fried mars bar.
Saturday: 126
The Falkirk wheel.
and...
About to go collect the Burkes.
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Sunday: 127
A cheating after-midnight shot of Sarah-Rose sorting the box she left with me in 2008! (slept most of actual Sunday!)
Monday: 128
"The Works" hot chocolate at the tea house in Stirling!
Tuesday: 129
New candle holders.
Wednesday: 130
Part of my short commute.
Thursday: 131
Dave's home-made pizza, overseen by Moray the squirrel.
Friday: 132
My colleague Rachael's ridiculously-good cookies (there are Oreos inside!)
Saturday: 133
Our cute kitchen pots.
and...
Duvet day Saturday.
Labels:
2012,
photos,
project 365
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Gosh.
Life has been so super busy and crazy and there are so many posts to write (and no I haven't forgotten last week's photo post). Will get to it all tomorrow/Friday!
(Life is good, by the way).
(Life is good, by the way).
Labels:
happy,
super busy
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