Very foggy here tonight, all of a sudden.
I kind of like the fog. I know that at this time of years it makes things seem colder and damper than they really are, and makes driving a nightmare, but I like walking in it. It's mysterious somehow, yes, but it seems to impart the same kind of peace that snow does. Whether it's physically possible or not I don't know but it seems to "deaden" sounds.
And talking of snow, they forecast that for here too, over the next few days. Pretty.
It seems strange tonight, not to have my Lady by my side.
Sometimes are easier than others, when she's not around. Tonight I'm not sad or miserable or morose or depressed or even especially lonely. I just miss her being in my arms.
It's Sunday again. I don't know why it is but I'm learning to thoroughly hate Sundays.
I'm not going to sit here and feel sorry for myself. I'm going to go for a walk, pick up a few bits of shopping, come home and have a late lunch, maybe watch a movie and then put together a plan for a permanent, full-time post that's arisen at work. It's not in the training sphere but it does give me a chance to flex my writing and editorial muscles again. Which would be nice.
It would also be regular hours of (I guess) 8.30 - 5.30ish. This is not only a matter of preference. The only buses that would get me out to the business park I work on are run by Skylink and their service is currently "suspended". This means that if I were to revert to my usual role at work and find myself on the early shift, starting at 7.00 in the morning, I'd be scratching around for a lift, paying for cabs or walking upwards of 5 miles. I don't like any of those options.
So I need to get this one, this time!
Although the weather last night wasn't especially inviting, it didn't seem to approach the biblical proportions that the forecasters had been warning of. As a particularly erudite woman noted..."there's an awful lots of ass-covering going on there".
I don't make a habit of blogging about work, so I'll just say that it was a bit of a challenging day for lots of people, for lots of reasons, and I'll leave it at that. Sure and it'll be grand!!
So I'm sat here at work waiting for my lovely lady and thought I'd take the opportunity to drop back in again. I'm rather pleased with myself after yesterday - loads of housework done. Largely ironing, and only because I'd remembered to buy hangers. I seem to have been accumulating shirts without hangers which is something I'm clearly going to have to watch in future.
I didn't mention it at all over the weekend but I had a thoroughly enjoyable Saturday afternoon in the local pub, watching two rugby games. It even included a pint "on the house" which can't be bad at all. It was nice to feel welcome.
I had rather a shock today. I learned that the bus company I use to get to work when I'm doing my "usual" job rather than my current interim post, have suspended their service for "10 to 12 weeks". This isn't Bus Éireann, it's a local firm that runs from the city centre out to the airport. They run earlier in the morning so that I'm able to be here for 7 o'clock when required. I'll confess to being a little concerned. If my interim role runs out before they start up again then there's no way that I'm going to be able to get in at that time of the morning without relying on someone's good auspices for a lift and I hate taking people out of their way. There'd be no earthly reason for my Lady to be going to work that early so it'd be a case of asking around other people who start at that kind of time. Or just warning my manager that I'm going to be consistently 5 minutes late. Or walking. I wonder how long 7 km or so would take me, uphill, in the depths of winter! I might have to give it a go one day, just to see.
It may not have been a complete cure for the Sunday blues but I managed to hold them slightly at bay by immersing myself in housework. I've laundered, ironed and washed up. I've hoovered, scrubbed and tidied. All in between bouts of eating (having been shopping recently), Facebooking and gazing at the weather. Ah yes, the weather.
There are Severe Weather Warnings in place for several coastal districts of Ireland, including Cork. It's one of those times that I'm glad I live at the top of a hill. I'm sat here on my bed and I can hear the rain roaring on the roof. By itself this isn't unusual but tonight it's gone on and on. With a high-tide due I'm also glad that I don't have to travel through the city to get to work. There are going to be floods by the morning, I'm fairly sure.
Luckily a certain lovely lady has offered to pick me up in the morning which will give me an extra hour at least in my lovely new bedding and save me a soaking! Add to that the fact that where I catch the bus is likely to be underwater and I'm even more grateful than usual for a ride into work.
Tomorrow I'm Training Assistant for another class of New Hires. That should be at least the next two weeks spoken for. I can't explain to you all how much I'm enjoying this training lark! But as I need to have a functioning brain in the morning, I guess I'd better be turning in. Goodnight all.
It's chilly today but I guess that's no surprise now it's November.
There is completely foul weather forecast for today so I'm not planning on going anywhere. I guess I have housework to do to keep me out of mischief and to try to keep "the Sunday feeling" at bay.Quite what it is about Sundays, I don't know but if I'm feeling cold, sad and lonely then it's a better than 1 in 7 chance that the day is a Sunday.
Okay, washing up first, je pense...
It may be easy to get out of the blogging habit but it appears to be fairly easy to slip back into it again (rawr).
If all goes well, I may have a computer again sooner than I'd hoped, which would be very, very cool. Looking at the Last.fm widget on the left of the page, it's now been 112 days since I've had a computer of my own. Strange to think that it's been that long.
Today was a day of surprises, mostly good ones. Someone was far nicer to me than I expected and I received a very nice official document from work. It appears that I may be in this role until the end of the year. This would be exceptionally good but I'm quite prepared to have that change at short notice. It's just been good to have the opportunity to spread my wings a little bit. And I don't think that I've let myself or anyone else down.
It's been nice to come home after a day at work and just relax, having "eaten out". It's getting back towards the time of year when bed is by far the warmest place in the house so just being able to snuggle into the warmth with some music on is divine! Stone floors are all very well in the summer months but at this time of year they turn the downstairs of the house into something resembling an ice box. Which may be a blessing in disguise, given the unreliability of the fridge.
This is already as many posts in November as I managed in September and October combined. I think that maybe some kind of a dam may have burst...
I discovered something today - it is actually possible to drink too much coffee. I'm sat here at work at the end of the day and I feel quite queasy at the thought of it. This is the problem with coffee being available for free. Maybe I should switch to tea tomorrow.
I got a letter today confirming me in my interim role and explaining the benefits, the most beneficial of which is the whole "not working shifts" thing! On an equally vaguely work related note, I guess I'd better take down the Hallowe'en decorations in the room at some point over the next couple of days. There'll be Christmas ones up soon.
I'm finding it hard to believe that it's November already. It really is kinda startling how quickly this year has gone.
I get to treat my lovely lady to a bag of chips, once she's finished work and am looking forward to the chips nearly as much as her company. I actually typed "loomking" instead of "looking" there - this conjures up some kind of peculiar pagan weaving ritual which ought to be made into a cult horror movie. Or perhaps that's just the coffee OD talking again. I hope so as that might explain the pulse I can feel in my right eyelid which is freaking me out more than a little bit.
For now, I'll leave you with this thought...
It's very easy to get out of the blogging habit when one doesn't have regular access to a computer. I wish I could blog properly using my phone but it's a genuine pain in the posterior.
I rediscovered the pleasure in a few things today. One is being able to transfer music to my iPod. I've had a couple of CDs sitting around that I've only been able to listen to on a borrowed laptop. While it's awesomely generous of my Lady to lend me a laptop when she can, it's not a hi-fi experience for listening to music. Today I was able to find a tiny program (about the size of one 3-minute mp3 song) which allowed me to put my new albums on my iPod and properly crank them out. Lovely.
I rediscovered how relaxing it is to fuss a dog's head. I was out for a walk in the rain this afternoon and met a fairly random hound out doing much the same thing. We exchanged a couple of pleasantries and I gently held my hand out for it to sniff. Encouraged by a wag, I ruffled it's head and was rewarded with a big doggy grin. So we communed for a while. Making a new doggy friend in the rain is not the worst way to spend some of a Sunday afternoon.
On the subject of pleasures, I am thoroughly enjoying my new interim post. Like any new job it's come with occasional ups and downs but it's far more the sort of thing I'd like to be doing - and it means I'm not working silly shifts. 8.30 to 5.30 Monday to Friday suits me pretty well.
I've also had the chance to spend a lovely amount of time with the woman I love. She stayed over last weekend and it was divine just to hang out together talking, reading, laughing, loving, going for walks and cuddling. A whole treefull of birds taking off at the same time is always going to make me smile now. We went to a works quiz for Hallowe'en on Friday night, after spending the day in fancy dress at work (we were both pirates!) and spent the night at the hotel it was hosted at. We had a couple of lovely people from outside work on our team and thoroughly enjoyed the evening, not least because we won! €200 split between the four us! Our share paid for the hotel room we'd booked, which was such a good idea by the way. As was the late check-out.
Any and all time spent with her is time well spent.
So I'm back to work in the morning. Another fantastic thing about the hours is that it pretty much matches the hours that my Lady works and she's being kind enough to come and pick me up in the mornings, which means I don't have to set my alarm for silly o'clock to get a bus out to work. Even so, it's past time I turned in for the night. I'll try to make the effort to get back here again soon. G'night all.
