Well it's another day and I'm writing again! What a shock to everyone but especially me!
Today work has been much the same - I am persona non grata for daring to put something forward to my department which they did not approve of - even though it was approved by the managing director! Anyway they have to get used to it and that's it.
Otherwise nothing much is happening - still looking for a car, still waiting for Alfred's angiogram appointment and still waiting to move Departments - story of my life - waiting for things to happen.
Anyway yesterday was Mother's Day in the UK but I still can't get my head round the fact that it is in March and not in May so still prefer to celebrate it along with South Africa, America and Canada! Much easier to remember.
Well lunch time's almost over and I'd better get back to work!
Monday, March 23, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Time marches on . . .
It's over a year since I wrote on here and can't believe that so much time has passed.
Things have changed a lot for us in that year in that Nick and Natalie have now moved to Chicago so we are now Childless in England! It's a very weird feeling - especially at the moment as Alfred has to go into Addenbrookes for an angiogram and I suddenly realise how alone I am over here. We have lots of friends etc. but somehow it's just not the same. Anway we will get used to it.
Alfred has been experiencing angina again and has seen a consultant at Addenbrookes - this time round Bupa are saying they are not going to pay for us to go private until they've seen the results of the angiogram as angina was a pre-existing condition. So now we have to wait a couple of weeks for the angiogram and if anything needs to be done will be hoping he can go private again as this waiting game is not good. Also Addenbrookes is in Cambridge which is a bit of a nightmare for me to get to and park - I am sure it will all work out. Providing it works out timewise we are going to go down by train and ask a friend to pick us up afterwards. Too many things to think about all at once.
Everything seems to have been going wrong lately - my stress levels are through the roof - this all really started with all the drama with Alfred's mom and it just seems to have gone on from there - one thing after another - Nick and Natalie moving, my brand new washing machine breaking, had to have a mole removed and had allergic reaction to the plaster, loads of problems at work and Alfred's health - how much more? Oh yes, and I had to lodge a formal complaint against someone who I was actually quite fond of but it was a long time coming and I had always swept the problems under the carpet but this was too much. Anyway it's getting sorted slowly. One thing at a time but now I have new challenges as my job role is changing from this week - I am moving from my Department which I have built up from scratch - leaving my Deputy Manager in charge and taking all the accounts and banking stuff with me into a new role. I am going to be closely involved in the Spanish project and will probably be spending some time over there once Alfred is ok, training the staff there to use the program we use in the UK - this is going to be big challenge for me but I am sure it will be ok. It's all just a bit hectic at the moment.
I have had so much high drama at work that it will be nice just to get into something new. I am feeling rather betrayed and let down by my department with some of the things that have happened lately but at the end of the day I have done what I think is right and the end result is what I had hoped for. Just one more phase and it will be fine.
The other thing and next to Alfred's health is the most upsetting and that is that we had to postpone going over to see Marianne, Bob and Bayden - it's coming up for 2 years since we were all together and we miss them dreadfully and were really looking forward to seeing them again and having a cuddle with our beautiful grandson - but we just have to get Alfred right for travelling and this is just not the time - hopefully it will be later in the year.
I am also on the hunt for a new car and am having great difficulty in finding exactly what I want - so will now spend another day looking for that.
Anyway that's it for now - hopefully I will not take another 15 months to write on here.
Things have changed a lot for us in that year in that Nick and Natalie have now moved to Chicago so we are now Childless in England! It's a very weird feeling - especially at the moment as Alfred has to go into Addenbrookes for an angiogram and I suddenly realise how alone I am over here. We have lots of friends etc. but somehow it's just not the same. Anway we will get used to it.
Alfred has been experiencing angina again and has seen a consultant at Addenbrookes - this time round Bupa are saying they are not going to pay for us to go private until they've seen the results of the angiogram as angina was a pre-existing condition. So now we have to wait a couple of weeks for the angiogram and if anything needs to be done will be hoping he can go private again as this waiting game is not good. Also Addenbrookes is in Cambridge which is a bit of a nightmare for me to get to and park - I am sure it will all work out. Providing it works out timewise we are going to go down by train and ask a friend to pick us up afterwards. Too many things to think about all at once.
Everything seems to have been going wrong lately - my stress levels are through the roof - this all really started with all the drama with Alfred's mom and it just seems to have gone on from there - one thing after another - Nick and Natalie moving, my brand new washing machine breaking, had to have a mole removed and had allergic reaction to the plaster, loads of problems at work and Alfred's health - how much more? Oh yes, and I had to lodge a formal complaint against someone who I was actually quite fond of but it was a long time coming and I had always swept the problems under the carpet but this was too much. Anyway it's getting sorted slowly. One thing at a time but now I have new challenges as my job role is changing from this week - I am moving from my Department which I have built up from scratch - leaving my Deputy Manager in charge and taking all the accounts and banking stuff with me into a new role. I am going to be closely involved in the Spanish project and will probably be spending some time over there once Alfred is ok, training the staff there to use the program we use in the UK - this is going to be big challenge for me but I am sure it will be ok. It's all just a bit hectic at the moment.
I have had so much high drama at work that it will be nice just to get into something new. I am feeling rather betrayed and let down by my department with some of the things that have happened lately but at the end of the day I have done what I think is right and the end result is what I had hoped for. Just one more phase and it will be fine.
The other thing and next to Alfred's health is the most upsetting and that is that we had to postpone going over to see Marianne, Bob and Bayden - it's coming up for 2 years since we were all together and we miss them dreadfully and were really looking forward to seeing them again and having a cuddle with our beautiful grandson - but we just have to get Alfred right for travelling and this is just not the time - hopefully it will be later in the year.
I am also on the hunt for a new car and am having great difficulty in finding exactly what I want - so will now spend another day looking for that.
Anyway that's it for now - hopefully I will not take another 15 months to write on here.
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