so close I can smell it....

we're pretty close to signing the contract, just need to know that our buyer has a mortgage. he'd better bloody have it sorted since he's had the longest time to sort it out. grrr.

can't see us being in by easter which is a shame as I'd love the long weekend to get the place in shape but at this rate I will be dragging paul around the shops looking at the easter bargains and packing.

I achieved loads this morning, cleared out the shed and boxed things up, mowed the lawn, chatted with the neighbour and then hit the shops with Liz. Now I am absolutely SHATTERED and need to lie on the sofa. Overachieving in the morning is clearly not a good option.

still no date but, as paul says its only one month gone. but we've got no plans this weekend so it's going to be a day of sorting things in the shed and the roof. at least we will feel like we are doing something worthwhile. also going to see the house again at 12 so we can do some measuring and check out the results of the survey.

i love weekends :-)

oops

I just made a BIG cock up but hopefully will get away with it. :-(

roll on the weekend

its only Wednesday but I am truly hanging on for the weekend, not for any particular reason as we have nothing planned. Actually that IS the reason, after a couple of busy weekends I am really excited about the prospect of having no plans at all, having a long lie in and basically answering to no-one. Depending on the state of house-things we may start to "sort" some stuff, but in all honesty, that may be avoided too! :-)

delegate or abdicate

I'm not a brilliant boss, but I'm told I'm pretty good. I am a little soft perhaps, and maybe don't push people along as much as I could, preferring to beleive they have their own ability to motivte themselves unless I am proved wrong. I've not had an amazing year in this new job, circumstances have meant that I haven't achieved anywhere near what i would have liked to had the role been what it was intended to be. instead of a big fish in a little pond I'm now a small fish in a bloody swimming pool and that is naturally frustrating. But I guess what i'm really hating is having a boss here in the UK. I had expected to be the "boss" and I'm not always the best employee - being a stubborn old cow at times.

Today was a classic example of why i hate not being the boss, in that I was "delegated" a task that had been sat with my boss for nearly 2 weeks, and I now have less than 2 days to do it. to me, thats not delegation, but abdication. if I ever do that to anyone, shoot me.

cycling...

spent yesterday on a bike on the Tissington Trail in the Peaks. Good company and lots of fresh air remind you what life is all about. It was seriously blustery but the sun kind-of shone and we ended up in a nice cafe with bacon sandwiches - yum.

Bailed on the last section and joined the walkers up the hill rather than walk, but we probably ended up cycling about 13 miles which isn't bad for a slacker like me.

Got home late and lay on sofa shattered!

Today was a day with Paul's family celebrating his parents 40th wedding anniversary. We've very lucky to have such great roles models for marriage in both out sets of parents. They are very different in how their marriages work and in their dynamics, but they are both great partnerships in their own way, and 40 years is something to seriously celebrate.

shattered

Met up with some sagga-ites in the Peaks today and did a little cycling. It was brilliant to see people again, met Ben and Charlie for the first time, caught up on the gossip, got some fresh air and exercise and basically had a bloody good day. Home late, have sat on sofa and will be heading off to bed after finishing this entry, I'm pooped.

Progress...?

Well things are SLOWLY ticking along with the house, mortgage offers in, surveys taking place etc etc. we had the guy over to survey our place, which took 6 whole minutes. Wow now there's a job I want!

I'm driving paul up the wall with my over-optimism in terms of dates etc. The slowly slowly man is desperately trying to temper my enthusiasm as always, and, as always, I ignore him :-)

american idol

I LOVE it.... my predictions....
Alexis, Alison, Danny, Jasmine... maybe Megan


goodnight all, I;m drunk..... x

things are moving along with the house-purchase, lots of form filling, photocopying, rummaging through boxes of crap to find old paperwork. One of P's colleagues got gazumped on their purchase which is always a worry, but there's nowt you can do about that sort of thing just hope it doesn't happen to us. given that the person buying our property is buying it for his son, and the property we are buying is empty, if all goes well we could be in there without too much delay. It would be great, as I'm chomping at the bit to get in.