I worked today. It’s a funny feeling being so close to leaving somewhere, particularly when I have such an unusual reason for leaving. Before I have left jobs to have babies, to change career, due to promotion or in one memorable instance because they asked me to go and called me a taxi to speed …
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And the rain came down in torrents
The kids woke me up far too early this morning playing a loud game. As it happened I’d gone to bed fairly early (for me) so I didn’t mind too much. Dealt with chickens etc. and bunged some cinnamon rolls in the oven (I’d made a double batch of dough a couple of days ago) …
I love monkeys
My last Wednesday shift today and my last working with a couple of colleagues too. They are both coming to my leaving meal next week but we had cuddles anyway 🙂 Frazer came to look after Davies and Scarlett as he is not working at the moment. The kids were thrilled to see him and …
All about the consoles
Last night before I went to bed I’d stuck on some cinnamon roll dough. I was late to bed (about 2am) so decided to make them and leave them to prove overnight rather than making them up and waiting for them to second rise this morning. It didn’t really work so I won’t do it …
Insurance, dentist, chucking money at things…
Poor Scarlett was awake in the night with nightmares, one of those horrid ones that remains clear and continues to haunt you through the day. Reading back over my blog she tends to have the odd episode like this every so often. Yesterday both kids were tired after two very late nights in a row, …
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Boxing
Kirsty & James arrived around midnight, shunted kids into bed and we had a very nice couple of hours catching up, chatting and maybe drinking beer. Saturday morning I went off to work for my last Saturday shift. It was Save Our Libraries day and whilst we did have various people coming in and taking …
Davids all round and rocket science
Dad came over this morning, ostensibly to drop off some post that we’d already redirected to his address, but he then stayed until about 3pm :). I’d had another ‘you need to come and collect something from the post office’ card (I’m a regular in there this week) so Dad ran me round there and …
The last of the penultimates
Work all day for me today. I went to the post office before work to collect a parcel we’d missed yesterday which turned out to be the Mifi from Three. Had a quick play to check it all works okay and am very pleased with it 🙂 The broadband here gets turned off on 14th …
To every season
We’d arranged to meet Julie & co at some local ornamental gardens that we have visited together many times over the years since we had toddlers in pushchairs to watch the changing of the seasons with. Before we went I spent some time Proper Googling to understand what Candlemas / Imbolc / Groundhog Day are …
House-i-versary
1st February 1994 was the day we moved into this house. 17 years. Blimey. We didn’t have a lot really, I’d only ‘left home’ 7 months previously so aside from clothes, clock radio and stereo I didn’t really own much anyway. Ady had always rented furnished flats so he had very little too. Our car …
Boxes
It’s all still a bit ‘limbo’ round here. The van is still at the garage so I can’t start packing stuff into it and gathering stuff in one area to move into the van feels a bit ‘for the sake of it’ rather than actually useful. I thought about boxing up dvds and games but …
Administration Online
Ady wanted to paint the garage and a garden wall today. To me these are unimportant tasks; they won’t affect the price or whether we get a tenant now but I guess plotting hosts on a google map could be viewed the same way and I really wanted to do that, so we all got …
For Kirsty :)
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Can’t come up with a title Saturday
Scarlett brought me a cup of tea in bed this morning 🙂 I’d been awake a while listening to the others watching Pirates of the Carribbean 3 on dvd. Dad appeared first thing and ended up staying all morning and having breakfast and lunch with us. It was great to see him 🙂 I’m going …
Further penultimatingness
Today was my penultimate penultimate at work in that I have now done my penultimate Wednesday, Friday and Saturday shifts and now just have a penultimate Thursday shift to go before I am on Last Shifts. Ady took Davies and Scarlett off with him for the day, they went Ramgate way I think and had …
Slacking and swinging
I had a lie in this morning, it’s been quite a week! 😉 Ady went off to the office to print off his resignation letter and hand it in. Although he was handing it in to the MD who already knew having been told by Miranda he was still really nervous. He said when he …
Penultimating
Work for me this morning so Ady took Davies and Scarlett over to Julie’s for the morning and then collected them and brought them home again arriving about 5 minutes after I got home. I had a nice morning at work, it was really busy so it went quick. Several more people asking whether our …
Signing off and saying goodbye
Monday I have a job list for each of the remaining three weeks and I’ve already more or less finished this weeks :). Yesterday I spent the morning making phonecalls to notify various places of our moving date. I’ve cancelled Sky, broadband, BT, council tax, water, house insurance, TV licence, got quotes for landlord insurance …
Practising
I put dough on for cinnamon rolls last night so this morning I made a huge batch and we all had a late breakfast. I’d had a night full of very strange dreams including having a huge fall out with my Mum on the phone as she only wanted to look after Davies and not …
Candyfloss
Work for me this morning. Lots of squeeeeing from work colleagues as they learnt we have tenants lined up and I have handed my notice in. I put a poster in the staff room for a leaving meal so we’ll see just how genuine their affection is 😉 I had a nice morning, with 2.5 …