Suspicious gatherings

I'm sitting here drinking a cup of Lemsip to try and get rid of the cold I woke up to this morning. My throat was a bit sore, so it's nice to have something soothing. Lemsip is like a liquid, lemony cough drop with some pain relief medicine stirred in. It's good :) For the moment it's doing the trick, so I'm happy, but I guess I'll have to wait until tomorrow to really know if it works.

Earlier tonight I took a walk down to the One Stop to pick up some stuff and on the way there I came across a gathering of people. They were all dressed in military green clothing, both men and women, standing in straight rows. It looked a bit suspicious, but I guess if you were acyually doing something genuinely suspicious you wouldn't choose a parking lot flooded with light to do it in...  I'm guessing they are a local volountary military corp or something like that.


I managed to sneak a really bad picture (feeling like a military spy!). Not expecting any calls from MI5 or MI6 any time soon....

Our laundry won't hang itself though... So I need to go do that.

You should all sleep well and dream sweet dreams!
Huggles xx
Saga

Take the bad with the good

Rob left this morning to drive to Scotland to work for a few days. On the down side I always miss him when he's gone because this is a little bit less of a home when he is not here. On the upside though (you have to find an upside) it gives us a couple of days apart which might be good once in a while, considering we live together and now we work in the same building as well. We spend a lot of time together as it is, so I think it's healthy for us to get to miss one another a little bit.

While Rob is in Scotland his colleague Angie is taking me to and from work and I really appreciate that. Gives us a chance to get to know each other, which is nice. She's a superstar Angie is, picking me up while Rob is out of town. We have started looking around for a car for me as I may have to travel in my job in the future, but we haven't found anything yet. So for now I am non-mobile!

Something I am really looking forward to as well is viewing a couple of flats this saturday! I made some calls yesterday and we're booked in to see two of the three flats we selected and then it's looking like there will be a beer and a curry with Dave in the evening :) So it's shaping up to be a pretty good weekend this week as well. I just hope the flats are what we are looking for (one has a really nice kitchen by the looks of it, so I really fancy that one). Fingers crossed :) If we like any of them we'll hopefully soon have a guest bedroom to offer my family and friends who are itching to visit :)

I think my new fringe went down well, by the way! My boss said "it makes the baby look even younger" (they call me the baby once in a while because I'm the newest employee and I'm also youngest in the office). By now I'm used to it. Only down side is that it needs some special attention in the morning with hair dryer, spray and curling iron to tame it (and that still doesn't always do the trick xD).

Anyway, I've just put some burgers in the grill, so need to go get my dinner sorted :) I am HUNGRY.
Huggles all <3
Saga

Great weekend

It's sunday night and I am knackered! Just had a bit of a nap for an hour which was nice :) We've had time to do a bit of everything (except shopping for groceries! The one thing we needed...) so I'm tired in a good way.

On saturday morning we went down town and had a nose around the stores and on our way home Rob asked me where I got my hair cut last time. We were just walking past the salon so we went in and made an appointment for the same afternoon. When I got there I had already decided to cut a fringe as I have thought about that for a while. I'm not very adventurous with my hair but a liiiittle bit of change might be healthy ;) So that's my new fringe! ---->

Work update :)

Now I've done my first two days at work and I'm really happy. Before I started I was really nervous because I have never worked in Claims before, I've done a bit of customer service but not a lot of administrative stuff. I feel like I'm catching up fine though. I entred and quantified some new claims today and of course it wasn't perfect, but Sue (colleague) told me I had done really well for a second day at work, so that made me really happy :)

Getting nervous xD

Tomorrow is my first day at work :D I am so very excited at the moment and also very nervous. I have already been informally introduced to the others who work in the office, so they sort of know who I am but I am looking forward to properly getting to know them :) I got the contract on Friday in a "Private & Confidential" envelope, so I have been reading that and signing and filling in forms. Need to finish that tonight so I can hand it over tomorrow morning. I'm really happy about having somewhere to go during the days now, as, just the other week (before I got the job offer) I had the saddest thought, though it was still kind of funny in a way. I thought if I'd get killed and the police suspected foul play they'd go to Rob and ask me if there was anyone around here with a reason to dislike me and they'd get the answer "No, she didn't know anyone". It just made me laugh that I don't even know enough people to have enemies around here ;) And I don't mean that in a disturbing way, it's just the kind of thought my mind likes to blindside me with when I'm out walking alone. Because that will really help... (!)

It's snowiiiiiing!! :D

It just started snowing outside :3 Not a lot, yet, but we're forcast to get about 30cm tonight. Hope poor Rob makes it unscathed to work if that forcast is correct (I think he got it from an iPhone though, so I have my doubts ;) ). I will take a picture of it tomorrow and show you what winter in England looks like. I should take a before picture as well, but seriously I can't be arsed... I have dinner to cook! A kitchen to clean!

On Monday I had a call from Alison at The Insurance Partnership to offer me the position of Claims Technician that I applied for just before Christmas. I was over the moon! I even did my happy dance ;) There is no video, as I was home alone, but check YouTube for "Snoopy happy dance" and you will get the general idea ;D The big day is on Monday, so I'm getting kind of nervous :) It's getting closer! But I am looking forward to it though. Nice chance to meet some new people and get to do something productive. It'll mean a whole new quality of life for me and Rob as well, both physically and mentally. I have to admit I have been looking at dishwashers already, lol. Can' wait to get one of those!

Speaking of which.... I need to go do the dishes and get started on dinner.
Huggles <3
Saga

Snow and settees

We had a really nice day today. Took a trip to DFS sofas in Cannock just for the sake of being nosy. They had a few sofas I really liked :) I think we realised we have certain differences when it comes to taste in furniture but we found two or three we both liked. Now all we need is a second income and a good sitting room to put a sofa in ^^, After DFS we swung by KFC for lunch and then we headed to a cinema in Cannock to see The Hobbit.

I have to say this was the most interesting visit to the cinema I can remember. It looked quite small from outside, but the actuall screen room was huge! It felt a little bit like walking into one of those tents they have in Harry Potter which are bigger on the inside than on the outside. The hallway up to the screen room was a long slope and when we walked in I could see the ceiling was vaulted and about 5-6 meters high. It was proper old style cinema. Rob told me it looked exactly the same as when he last visited it ca 1986! Before the film started we got to see them adjusting the projector and sound. It was a bit unusual and odd, but in a nice way! I did enjoy it. Just after commercials it said "Today's presentation:" or something like that, just before the film burned off and something started beeping in the projector room behind us. They put the lights back on while they were working to fix it and 15 minutes later they got it back up and running :)
There were no problems during the film itself and we got a 10 minute intermission (how funny is that!). What really got to me though was that we only paid £5 per person!

On our way back to the car I saw my first flakes of English snow, albeit small :) Tomorrow there may be snow on the ground when I wake up. I have mixed feelings about it though as I'd love to see some snow here but at the same time Rob will be out driving on it in tyres that are not quite ideal on snow and ice. He's a good driver though, that makes me feel a lot better :)

All in all it's been a good day. I'm looking forward to a new week :)
Hope all of you do as well.
Now I'm going to watch "Most Evil" on Quest.
Huggles and Nighty night <3
Saga

Lazy day

Todays mission is to go hand in papers at the bank so I can open an account. I will need one sooner or later, especially as I have paid about £30-40 in fees to my Swedish bank while I've been taking out money last year. I can't do that this year as well and should I get a job I need somewhere to deposit a salary. So it really, really needs to be done. The problem is I'm in a really lazy mood at the moment. I've done two machines of laundry and I'm going to hang them in a few minutes and after that I miiiiiight just feel like going down to the bank. It needs to be done.

Rob said something yesterday aboutpossibly getting some snow next weekend. I highly doubt it and to be honest I got my fill of snow while I was in Sweden. We got a nice white Christmas, so I'm happy now :) I'm looking forward to spring now and maybe it'll arrive a bit earlier here than in Sweden? I hope so. The milder weather here is nice, so fingers crossed we get a really nice spring/summer this year. 

Yesterday I looked at trips abroad. Not because we're actually going anywhere but because I'm a bit starved of sun. Think I had better take one of those vitamin D tablets I got from Dad. See if they cheer me up!

Anyway... I really need to try and get down the bank..
Here goes!
Huggles
Saga

Back in the UK

After ten days in Sweden me and Rob have been back in the UK for about a week. In a way it's sad, as we had to leave everyone and at the same time it's nice to be back. My aunt asked me before we left if I was looking forward to going back and I said I was. It's just nice to get back to some sort of routine and normality. While we were there I had this strange feeling though. As I lived with Nan before I moved and we stayed with her this holiday it felt weird to be back because it felt like maybe England never happened? That feeling will go away when I get a job though so I have something to fill my days with and new people to meet. I still don't know anyone here and to be honest I'm stumped for ideas on how to meet people. Once I meet people I am fine and I can be very social, it's just the meeting in itself that's the problem.

Before we went to Sweden I gave Rob his first christmas gift :) It was too big to go in the bags with us to Sweden, so he got it in advance. It was a pop corn maker :D I know he loves pop corns, so I thought we might as well be able to make them at home instead of buying bags. I have a feeling he loved it ^^ We tried it out that same evening and it started making popcorn, and then it made some more....

And then it made some more...