Italy was amazing. We stayed in a little hotel in Termini, and the first night went for a stroll and happened upon the Colisseum, some lovely ruins, and a pizzeria called That's Amore! which sums up the whole week really. We ate lovely food, and toured the Vatican museums and went up the Basilica (second time for me). It was about... 26-28 degrees ( Read more... )

I have basically the best week ever coming up; my parents are due to arrive here in an hour with Bracken, then they're leaving on Monday after we've been out/been for meals at nice places and so on, then on Tuesday we're going to Rome, coming back Friday then we have a whole other weekend before we go back to work... not only that, Mondays are ( Read more... )

So I had a bit of a shitty week - I was ill Monday and Tuesday with the cold and sinusitis, and then when I went back on Wednesday I discovered the business is cutting back our hours, and pay, by 20%. So it's gonna be a 4 day week for me, until September, starting asap ( Read more... )

I was off work today, as I caught Matt's cold from hell. He's not even here to nurse me, being in London for the night! I always feel a fraud being off on Mondays, when any sick days at all are rare for me, but it's one of those colds where you're fine laid in bed watching Win a Date With Tad Hamilton but as soon as you go downstairs to make a ( Read more... )

The Pellwood family has two new members - rats Gumshoe and Edgeworth came to live with us tonight. I shall take photos later!

Yay, long weekend! It's been sooo busy til now. Work has calmed down now and I'm feeling more "in control" of things, so to speak. I've been training the new German and Dutch staff this week on top of being Marketing's translator and looking after the French customer database so 4 days was long enough this week, thanks ( Read more... )

Squee. Sarah and I are off to Bath to shop in the sunshine. Hooray!

Oh and I am so ridiculously in love right now. Honestly.

More later.

It's my day off! I'm so happy. Today I plan to finish the gloss paint while watching One Tree Hill season 2, drink tea, then go to the doctors and walk back through town. Ahhh.
Sarah is coming down Friday and then I have another Monday off!

Phew. So I made it to the end of the week without any problems, which is good. I did rely on Rescue Remedy a fair bit though. My Friday Feeling is immense! Tonight we're having a posh meal with wine from the Tesco dine for £9 offer, steak diane with cheddar herb mash and veg, and then chocolate tarts. Tomorrow we're off to Bristol zoo and for a ( Read more... )

Work is SO hard at the moment. I'm coming to the realisation that I don't think my spoken French is good enough for this job and I shouldn't have agreed to do it - there's nothing worse than someone getting frustrated with you because you ask them to speak more slowly and/or you're not the actually French lady they spoke to last week. Wednesday ( Read more... )