Categories: translation, trials
Date: 03 January 2010 18:15:13
that have appeared before the year is yet three full days old..
The first lesson of the year is one your correspondent has noted several times before but one which she is yet to fully learn, it would appear.
In writing the long list of lovely things she would like to achieve/learn/explore/experience this year (which includes many things carried over from several, er, decades), she has this afternoon been reminded of why so many of these things remain on her wish list of life.
Mrs Translating Tiggywinkle would like to share with her long-suffering readers that achieving objectives does not only require writing them down and getting on and doing them but also removing the obstacles from their being achieved.
Today, while it was still light (it is now pitch black), was a bright, sunny yet frosty day - just perfect for a walk. Mrs Tigg thought this would be an admirable way of starting out in the way she means to go on this year in the way of taking in an increase of exercise. Until, that is, that she remembered with horror that despite having told her customers that she was unavailable until January 4, she had in fact cracked on December 30th and promised to translate about 5 hours' worth of press releases for tomorrow. Tomorrow is going to roll around, well, tomorrow and the evil has had to be faced. Poo and piddle.
As previously mentioned, it is now pitch black outside and below freezing. Not really conducive to a pleasant, bracing walk.
It's a bit of a dilemma: not to take on the work would mean less income in a period which has been a bit draughty on the pecuniary side but taking on work when friends and family are relaxing means that Mrs Tigg has fewer opportunities to socialise and do those things that she would actually *like* to do.
I must resolve to tease a resolution out of this. But right now I must go back and proofread the press releases that are attempting to persuade consumers to part with their cash to buy wallpaper.