But I’ll say it anyway! 😉
A good morning, I finished my 3 CVs on a deadline for today and just as I emailed them across the post arrived with a further six in it 🙂 So hurrah for work!
Ady’s presentation was today and went very well, he impressed the people he need to impress and was all bouncy and happy about it. 🙂
My Mum (the other person who’s ‘work’ I had helped with) also had her training session which went well too. She’s been tasked with some crazy hypothetical taking on the renovation of a delapidated hotel with a budget of £0.6m next which I imagine I will get called in for assisting with. I think someone at her workplace has been watching too much The Apprentice tbh!
I told the children I would do something with them this afternoon if they let me work in peace this morning so they did some geomags, some drawing and I got out a kit for making 3D pictures by colouring in the background and then adding die cut animals using little cardboard tabs. Davies did well on it but was after constant cheerleading which was slightly wearing when I was trying to get into the mind of a 23 year old who wants a career in the music industry on the basis of 3 years unemployment after a 3 year career as a kitchen porter but did a week’s work experience in a record company when he was 15 🙄 Crazy thing is he’d probably do well and earn more than I ever did. Had a freaky moment too when I recognised the name of the consultant who’d assisted the candidate in completing the application form only to realise this was because I’d written her CV for her 6 months ago. I looked it up and discovered she’d had personnel experience so she obviously got taken on by the Working Links people as a result of going there looking for work.
We walked round the shop to buy milk and I read Scarlett a Poppy Cat book about six times (luckily a board book with only five pages!) but I never did really do much with them today as I got sucked back into making a head start on the next batch of CVs. I also had a very lengthy phonecall with the lady who is starting a load of lessons and bought in tutors of HE children locally. Julie is getting involved and although I have said it is not our thing I had agreed she could contact me to talk through some of the information I got last year about fundraising and grant applications. It was a long phonecall and she is inspirational in her belief in what she is doing and her full on committment to her children and their education. I’m not entirely sure I agree with all she was saying, particularly in relation to autonomy but she was so passionate it would have been crazy to debate it with her really. And she is not wrong, she is just not saying the exact replica of what I believe. She did make me feel slightly guilty about not being very available today though, particularly as D was desperate for me to do drawing with him and I didn’t. I’m torn between wanting to offer the best to the children and not wanting to sit on the floor ‘playing’ with them all day either, infact rarely if at all! I amjust not a sitting on the floor playing kind of person. Anyway…
This evening I went with my Mum to a Health & Beauty evening at the big conference centre along the road from them. It was really good actually, cheap entrance of 3 quid which included a goody bag with loads of trial size beauty stuff and a free ‘relaxing Clarins hand treatment’. Mum talked to the people on every single stand and booked a chiropractor appointment adn everything. I enjoyed being too poor to be tempted into expensive make up and body creams, crystals and tarot card readings etc and just soaked up the girlieness of the atmosphere and the man playing the harp (I kid you not!), oh and the glass of wine Mum bought me when we had a mid point sit down. 🙂 I got stopped by two people who knew me, one from school (was it really 17 years ago!!!!) and one I worked with about 10 years ago which was kind of nice, kind of sad that I am still in the same town and kind of odd as I would never go up and tap someone on the shoulder after 17 years and say ‘Hello, do you remember me?’ but there you go.
Tomorrow we are going over to Ali’s for naked spacehoppering and lentils aplenty and in the late afternoon / early evening we have a first for the Goddard’s planned in the way of a ‘Family Film Night’ – we’re planning to go and rejoin Blockbusters – I have a card but it is very old and in my maiden name, to show Davies that it is true about places with even more dvds than the library, get a film or two out, get a KFC bargain bucket, pop some popcorn and watch films together. Then the children have begged for a sleepover in D’s room so we plan to see how that goes too. So I may well not be blogging and hidden under a pile of Kentucky Fried Grease watching Mrs Doubtfire or Bambi or something. If I’m not back by Saturday send a St Bernard! 😉
Family Film Night sounds good, should be a lovely end to a good week by the sound of it. Great that the CVs are coming in more of a steady flow – I guess there’s a bit of a transitional phase to go through in terms of juggling work and time with D and S – I know I’m still not getting it right all the time, but have somehow ceased to feel guilty. You’ll find a new balance, I bet.
Was just about to warn you that we have no lentils, then remembered we have lots of dried ones left, just not the luxury tinned kind (yes, you can have luxury in lentil form!).
Comment by Ali — 30 March 2006 @ 11:23 pm
One dog named Rufus at the ready 🙂
Comment by Merry — 31 March 2006 @ 12:12 am
as long as he’s not called Cujo 😉
Comment by Nic — 31 March 2006 @ 8:37 am
I read that comment before re-reading the post and had forgotten my closing sentence Merry. So I googled and got a very strange e book http://books.google.co.uk/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN1411647238&id=HNDI3Iw2BS0C&dq=a+dog+named+rufus&lpg=PA3&pg=PA3&sig=K1MSlhsYb30Qbk_Phi9_0iQlFb0
Comment by Nic — 31 March 2006 @ 8:38 am
Aw 🙂 You have a nice evening spending your earnings 🙂
Comment by Alison — 31 March 2006 @ 12:21 pm