Can't Get No (Job) Satisfaction..

One week down.....five to go! It may still only be the beginning of a new half term but that doesn't stop me counting down on a daily basis to the next holiday......wishing my life away..... it's a terrible habit but one I don't seem able to break, even before one holiday is over I've usually worked out how many weeks, how many weekends, how many work days etc until the next break. It's not that I have a bad work ethic, I've never taken a sickie or bunked off work but I would always much rather be at home and have never had a job that I've enjoyed enough to look forward to. I suppose some people would say I'm unfulfilled but I don't see it like that - I'm probably too lazy for fulfillment. I look upon work as a necessary evil........or like sleeping - not very exciting but it has to be done! Tessa, on the other hand, is already stressing about her career path, scared that she'll end up in a job she doesn't like, worrying about her exams and what A levels she'll be able to do (she has her GCSE's this year). Sometimes I wonder whose daughter she is - surely not mine? All I wanted to do at her age was get a job (any old job) and earn enough money to keep me in records and shoes!


If I was feeling ever so slightly sorry for myself when I got up for work on Monday morning my self-pity didn't last long after I got there. Several of my work colleagues suffered much more severely than I did for a much longer duration, some of them spent virtually the whole holiday in bed and still returned to work looking and sounding a lot worse than I did. So, it would seem I got off lightly - perhaps there really is something to be said for drinking gallons of green tea each week.

The office, like everywhere else all week, has been f..f..f..freezing! Luckily my desk is closest to the radiator but when a building has been shut up with no heating for two weeks it takes a long time to thaw out and I've been grateful every day for my thermal underwear. But despite the cold office, the frost on the windscreen, the ice on the roads, the filthy salt on my car etc etc, I'm not looking forward to the warmer, wetter weather we have forecast for the next week. I wonder why we British so overly obsessed with weather? I've just decided my new challenge (ha, ha, that makes it sound like I'm always challenging myself when really the closest I usually get is persuading myself to wait another 10 5 minutes until I have that next chocolate bar!!) is to not blog about weather more than once a week ..... so far this year I've only managed to blog about once a week so if I keep up that record it's not going to be much of a challenge at all.

I'm trying hard to remember to take a camera with me wherever I go - this is okay as it goes except perhaps that my photo husbandry is just about as good as my laundry husbandry (rubbish!) so I may be needing an additional external hard drive before the year is out. Here's some stuff I saw this week.....


en route to the hairdressers......

and bird-watching?!