I have been busy and have spent much less time sat at my computer. We decided to do some work on the garden and the sun has been out...we have made it look much nicer and bought new table and chairs. We have dismantled the old shed and today we are putting up a new one.
We found out that a neighbour of ours, whose son is a friend of our eldest, is a landscape gardener so we got a quote for the front garden and greed for it to be done. It took 4 days and was finished yesterday. It went from being really old falling apart crazy paving on one side and weeds and overgrown mess on the other - to the picture that I will post on here soon!. Made me realise that you can do all sorts of cool improvements if you have some money! Unfortunately we don't have the money to do everything we would want to do!
Work has been really busy and a little stressful but I suppose I like it like that - its just nice to have the occasional morning or afternoon where you can a chill-ax a little and I haven't been able to do that for a while. I move roles soon...I am just starting my 5 rest days, then I go back in for 2 days, have 2 days off then have 5 days training in Guildford, then I go back to my old department for a week, then do an attachment (or shadow ppl) with my new department, then go to EGYPT FOR TWO WEEKS (I would have that flashing in colour if I could) then I start in my new role properly. I am really worried that I wont like it as much as I like my current role...but I'll have to wait and see!
My twins left school yesterday...I am officially old!! All my children are no longer at school (my work here is done...) The twins still have revision and exams to do, but they don't have to go to school on a day to day basis any more. They both have places in different collages in September so that's gonna be a whole new load of stress I assume.
I decided to join weight-watchers on Wednesday - the on-line version I don't think I could stomach the group meetings, I've done it before and found them to be patronising and a money making scheme to sell as many weight-watchers products as possible. However, I needed a new incentive on my diet and I wasn't losing any weight and I have a personal trainer who weighs me every 4 weeks and its embarrassing when I don't lose anything! Plus I have just under 5 weeks until I go away and it would be good if I could lose 5-7lb or something (MORE) by the time I go away. However...I am STARVING.......it had better work for that reason alone.
My OH had laser eye surgery just over a week ago. It was traumatic! He has always had bad eye sight and has had to wear glasses since being a kid and its a pain in the butt. I am always worried about his glasses getting broken and him being blind (not literally) and when we go diving he cant wear them so that must be annoying for him, he cant just pick out sun glasses like I can etc. etc. So he was brave enough to go through with the laser eye surgery and it was pretty awful afterwards, he couldn't open his eyes and it was quite painful. The surgery was fine apparently - no pain or anything. Each day got a bit better and now he can see really well and manages without glasses but still has a bit of blurriness, but only because his eyes are still healing. It is amazing really - he had an eye test and has better than 20/20 vision! Cool!
Anyhow, I need food badly....until next time....
