Skip to main content

Back to work


Chilling on a Saturday morning
Ah, nerves biting before the big day of new job even though I was in for 2 days last week (all of which went well). A little bit of adrenaline is no bad thing though so will worry less about that and more about the fact that it will be sad to say goodbye to the freedom I've had over the past month.

The things I will miss most are:
- breakfast with the kids before walking them to school
- easy time with Glenn where we can potter about together at home with no agenda
- time to exercise in the middle of the day where I have the energy to do it well
- time spent outside in daylight!
- time to catch up with family and friends without having to cram it into the weekends

It's interesting to reflect on my list. My favourite things are not material possessions or going out to fancy places but time to do the things I want to, when I want to. Worth remembering that, albeit I recognise that all of the above are made much nicer by the fact that we have a lovely house, cars that run well and the money to do the things we want to.... and this of course is all made possible by my doing the job I do.

This weekend has been one of 2 halves. Saturday was my perfect day - lovely early morning walk with the dogs, followed by a peaceful breakfast, then the normal noise of making pancakes for the girls, a fab yoga class then home to spend the afternoon in the garden while everyone pottered around doing the things they wanted to do. Abi was in town with friends for most of the day, Izzy helped me sort out her garden pod so that it was tidy and she could see the floor again and Glenn got on with building Abi's new shed (which is looking so good that I have designs on it myself!). We all came back together for tea, after which Abi, Izzy and I settled down in a heap with the dogs to watch a film and Glenn watched something blokey on the kitchen TV. The weather was beautiful and it was everything I want from my weekend. Today was a complete turnaround - it has poured all day with the wind getting up this afternoon - ugh. I completely lost any enthusiasm for my normal Sunday long run (last week was 12.5 miles in bright sunshine and felt easy given the lovely spring day) and ended up doing 10 miles on the treadmill - not very inspiring. Oh well, at least the whole weekend wasn't like that. It also meant that Glenn couldn't do too much which was a good thing - his knee is very sore and he needs to rest it - not something he is very good at!

So early bed tonight for me and a deep breath for the week ahead. At least I now have visibility of my diary and I know what's in store - turns out one of my biggest anxieties is not having control of my own diary - who knew!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Busy, busy, busy

Full English brunch for these two! Life is VERY busy and I don't feel like we have stopped for weeks (or is that months?) It seems like the 'to-do' list is endless and while I know we don't have to do it all at once, I have taken on the unenviable task of trying to get the Muppet to finish all the work he promised / we have paid for and that has been like pushing a mountain of water up a very steep hill. We've got to the point where I think we have got all of what we are likely to get and the rest we'd rather finish ourselves anyway. The electric gates are clearly a work of his imagination based on the gates / the electric cables he spec'd and the cheapo motor mechanism - there is no way they'll work so we have decided to not bother and source proper gates that do the job and look better as well. Knowing that we are almost at a point where we sever the ties feels very liberating. Looking back this last 6 months has been incredibly stressful and just didn...
Post a Comment
Read more

Bank Holiday sunshine

Off to meet FiFi and Grumps for a walk  (and yes, she is on the seat) Finally after weeks of rain and cold weather, the tide has turned and we have glorious sunshine for the bank holiday weekend and half term - hooray, it's about time.  Also just in time is half term as the kids were definitely ready for a break. They have both done brilliantly settling into the school, making new friends and finding their feet in an unfamiliar environment. Izzy has just had her exam week and felt it went OK given she hadn't covered all of the syllabus, and Abi's exams start as soon as she is back next week. I hope she's done some revision as she left for Devon with Claire, Adam and Mia today and isn't back until Saturday. There is talk of looking at some of her notes but who knows. My view is that a bit of R&R will probably be at least as beneficial if not more so than cramming all week so she should take the time to relax and have some fun - she deserves it. So we packed Abi o...
Post a Comment
Read more

Half term

Whatever happened to half term?? It seems to have disappeared in a flash, do doubt partly as I was working having had 3 days off the previous week for Kerrie and Ryan's wedding. The plan was to not have a plan - both girls have exam week coming up and so our major intent was for them to spend at least half an hour a day or so doing a bit of revision. This has sort of worked - we only had one day where I got an irate message from Glenn that Izzy knows 'absolutely nothing' about her maths... we'll see. With half term comes effort grades and if they genuinely know nothing, it's not for a lack of effort. Abi did really well, keeping up her average and getting a 6 (top grade) in French again. Izzy, who we always worry is apt to cruise if allowed, got the first 5.0 average grade we've seen from either of them and 3 6's in French, English and DT - well done Izzy! I tend to assume all the kids work hard but it seems not - according to Abi "all the boys always...
Post a Comment
Read more