Naturally of course, it takes us much longer to do anything that we planned. Parental units are still deciding where to move too (having narrowed it down to… Essex. I am investigating finding my own place (I intended to do so within 2 years anyway) but I’ve worked out the only place I can afford to live in this area is Colchester, which though lovely is a good 60 miles from where I’ll be doing my PhD, which is fine if said PhD has a high “work-from-home” quotient and not so fine if I’m working 9-5. So it’s all a bit up in the air currently. Best time to buy for me of course – no house to sell, prices almost rock bottom, and I’m particularly keen on Colchester for myself. I can’t see any of us moving before Christmas though.
Anywho, time is moving on apace and what was 2.5 months left to work is now a matter of weeks *whips out calendar* 38 days, 31 working days total. Work is particularly difficult at the moment as I’m being taken advantage of, but counting down helps. ’tis a shame – I like my job, but I hate being used. To compound matters the normal politics rubbish is in full swing at the moment as well, so even non-stressful days have little bite-sized portions of stress in them.
Like the new layout? I liked the old one, but I got a set of post-its with the phrase “Every life should have 9 cats” on it from Mum and Dad for my birthday and given that my new way of dealing with stress at work is to spend lunch with the hospital cats, I thought it sufficiently fitting to make a new layout to fit. All of our cats are featured. Ding will be able to tell which is which without reading this 😉 but for the benefits of others they are from left to right; Fe, Tigger (9 month old ginger boy run over when I was 11), Spock, Thom, Chill and Pumpkin. Not quite nine, but working towards it. When/if I move out I might leave Pumpkin with my parents as she prefers them (she loves my Dad) and of course take Spockie, which means he’ll get bored on his own and I may just have to get a kitten…
Birthday was good, Ding (and Dong) got me Wii My Sims which is very cute and has certainly kept me occupied, Mum and Dad got me a bunch of silly stationary items for my PhD (a tape dispenser with floating ladybirds inside it for example) and a voucher for Wii Fit, and AnM is taking me to the Dorchester for afternoon tea (after which I take her to a Queen concert for her birthday). We’ve been out for a couple of meals and such, so it’s all been very nice. Unfortunately my fed-up-ness today means my writing of it all is a bit lack lustre 😉
Christmas is coming – saw the first “seasonal products” in Tesco’s today – and we haven’t even had Hallowe’en yet O.o
Mope. I have no good reason to mope, but mope I shall. Mopety mope mope.
I love the new layout! It’s brilliant! And I could definately tell which cat was which, I particularly like the image of Thom!
Oo I love the new layout 🙂 Looks fab!