So tomorrow it is back to reality. It has been a great year off. Truly...while I have sometimes been so bored I make up things that need to be done, or have gone on crazy cleaning sprees, I have learned to chill out a little bit. As of tomorrow that will all be over. I officially go back to work...not as a teacher...but as a Morrison's sales assistant. In other words I will soon be working in a grocery store. Funny place when I sit here and type that out considering a year ago I had never really taken notice of one before. As a single lady living in the burbs I ate most of my meals out or over at my rents...so why would I need a grocery store. This year changed all of that. I actually know where things are in our grocery store, can cook, and actually ...yes...I admit it...clip coupons to use at the grocery store. I am not saying I will never go back to teaching, and I am not saying I will stay at Morrison's forever, but I wanted to try something new and not work the crazy hours that a school teacher does when I am still adjusting to life here and while Mark and I are still foot lose and fancy free. With school you have set vacation times and just the number of hours I wasn't will to commit to again. So now I have a job that I can leave when the day is over...take vacation when I want to...and best of all get a discount on my groceries for. So that is it. Tomorrow I start and we shall see how it goes. I am not sure what to expect nor if I will be able to handle how different it is from being in a classroom full of kids...but I will try and if worse comes to worse... the best part is...you can always quit mid way through unlike teaching. So here is to tomorrow...earning money...and a discount on my groceries which makes me smile.
Tell next week...
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Thursday, August 23, 2012
All quiet on the English front...
I have been telling myself for the last 2 weeks that I need to write on my blog....but honestly not that much has happened...and yet every time I think, "oh I'll write something now" I get side tracked and well you know the result. So really not that much is going on. I had 2 interviews a few weeks ago. The first one went well. I got offered the job...but lets just say I decided it probably wasn't worth it. It was a minimum of 6 hrs. a week with up to 15 and I think I might have driven myself mad with the way things seemed to run. My interview was entertaining to me...in fact I probably could have interviewed myself better than they did. They were quite young, which isn't a big deal to me...but when then ask questions like, "Do you think you can handle being busy?" and then follow it up after my long answer about teaching, coaching, and overall being a busy freak with, "Do you think you can multi task?" you have to ask yourself is this really where I want to be working? My second interview went really well and I am hoping for full time employment. I haven't officially got the job...but I have an offer pending my background check. Well, we all know that while I pretend to be tough, my background is as squeaky clean as well...my kitchen floor. lol
Yes, I have a bit of time on my hands in waiting for job two... so with Mark being on nights this week I have had to find things to do to keep me entertained. One of them was washing all of our floors on my hands and knees to make sure they were...you got it...squeaky clean. I am a bit obsessed with cleaning my house...it just looks so nice when it is all fresh and clean. I have a friend that comes over sometimes and keeps saying, "just wait till you have kids....it will all change." I don't know if she is trying to scare me off from the lil ones or what but I dread not having everything in its place...it looks so nice. lol
I know...see this is what happens when you live on your own for too long...get married late in life...get stuck in your habits...and then people say, lets just have some fun and through kids into the mix and toss everything planned, organized, carefree, and sharp edged out the window for a pooping, feeding, crying machine...and then wonder when I look at them like... Really? Really? You want me to give this all up? Now mom don't have a cow....I am not saying we won't have kids nor that I don't want them...I just am saying I am enjoying married, kid free life and thinking do we really want to rush changing this? Again...mom...and dad for that matter...keep calm....and as the queens says...carry on.
Speaking of kids and carrying on....we have these peacocks in our backyard or back garden as they say here. The lil one has grown so much since he first made his/her appearance on the scene. Kido is about the size of a duck now...growing fast. They are in our back yard just about everyday...while I love to watch them from behind my safe window viewing...they do my head in when it is time to go hang the laundry up outside....they come WAY to close! Way to close! The fact that mommas wing span is about the size of me standing up doesn't sit very well with the anti bird Shara.
Other than that...not much is new...hope all is well for those of you who read my ramblings... till later
...me
Yes, I have a bit of time on my hands in waiting for job two... so with Mark being on nights this week I have had to find things to do to keep me entertained. One of them was washing all of our floors on my hands and knees to make sure they were...you got it...squeaky clean. I am a bit obsessed with cleaning my house...it just looks so nice when it is all fresh and clean. I have a friend that comes over sometimes and keeps saying, "just wait till you have kids....it will all change." I don't know if she is trying to scare me off from the lil ones or what but I dread not having everything in its place...it looks so nice. lol
I know...see this is what happens when you live on your own for too long...get married late in life...get stuck in your habits...and then people say, lets just have some fun and through kids into the mix and toss everything planned, organized, carefree, and sharp edged out the window for a pooping, feeding, crying machine...and then wonder when I look at them like... Really? Really? You want me to give this all up? Now mom don't have a cow....I am not saying we won't have kids nor that I don't want them...I just am saying I am enjoying married, kid free life and thinking do we really want to rush changing this? Again...mom...and dad for that matter...keep calm....and as the queens says...carry on.
Speaking of kids and carrying on....we have these peacocks in our backyard or back garden as they say here. The lil one has grown so much since he first made his/her appearance on the scene. Kido is about the size of a duck now...growing fast. They are in our back yard just about everyday...while I love to watch them from behind my safe window viewing...they do my head in when it is time to go hang the laundry up outside....they come WAY to close! Way to close! The fact that mommas wing span is about the size of me standing up doesn't sit very well with the anti bird Shara.
Other than that...not much is new...hope all is well for those of you who read my ramblings... till later
...me
Friday, August 3, 2012
Wake up call...
So yesterday morning I had quite the surprise when I woke up. There was a nice big "friendly" spider looking at me from my bed post. Now this was all of about 6 inches away from my face so I had to blink a few times for me to be sure that A. I wasn't still sleeping/dreaming. B. Holy cow what do I do now there is a spider this close to me! Lets just say I panicked. Instant sweating and adrenaline running through me body! I got of bed on the other side...the right side obviously that day...and went to get something to kill my lil "friend". Now I will admit I do always feel bad about killing things but this one I couldn't let live that close to my bed...nor carry outside cause it was too big! So when I got back to smash the thing I missed in my panicked state and he dropped to the floor. Screaming begins...I freaked out. I really don't like spiders and now he was ANYWHERE on my floor...but maybe on me bed...maybe on me...AHHHHHHHHH!!!! Well eventually I saw him and he for sure was a goner this time around. Needless to say it was a rather entertaining start to my day.
This past week has gone by so fast! Last weekend Mark and I went away for one night to a cute little town, Richmond, to celebrate our one year anniversary! Crazy right! It seems like yesterday...ok well like a month or a few ago that we got married, not a whole year! All the planning was done a year ago and I still have nightmares about it. (Tehe not really but well maybe a few here and there ;) We both feel so blessed that so many people were there for us on our big day and that really marriage has gone really smoothly so far. And for that we are both REALLY thankful! The whole being on the same continent thing is still such a wonderful thing that maybe this year it will finally sink in that neither one of us has to eventually leave.
I put a lot of resumes out last week as well to try and find a shop job...something simple to keep me busy and bring some money in for us. I mean I went to like 15-20 different places...I was on a mission. Well that mission has paid off. I have two interviews for next week which I am super excited about, so you can pray that those go well for me. Now we are not talking about anything career orientated here...these are jobs at a grocery store and a catalog store...but money is money and I am not to proud to work for it just about anywhere....so here is to working along side kids I could have taught if I was back in the states and I am sure will have some entertaining stories to tell because of it.
Mark and I have been watching the Olympics....well me more like screaming go USA at the tv and Mark shaking his head. He doesn't get the sports crazy me quite yet....especially when we watch sports I use to coach. He keeps reminding me that we are not in the USA anymore and that they can't hear me but obviously I just can't help it. It is fun to watch it all live here and well I can honestly say I get a lil lump in my throat every time I sing the national anthem as we win gold. So proud...so proud. Go USA!
Not so proud to have Romney over here last week making us all look stupid. There is not one Brit that I saw who heard my accent in the past week who didn't make some comment to me about his insulting remarks toward the Brits and how they were "doing" the Olympics. I really don't care about politics...I don't. I like history but politicians I hate. I don't care what "side" you are on...but please when you are overseas don't make the rest of us normal....level headed...not arrogant Americans look bad....some of us have to live where you travel to even after you go home. So embarrassing...so embarrassing. Just think before you speak...is it really that hard. Lets just say Romney lost all of my respect...what was there in the first place...and lets just say the Brits really don't like him.
So that is all my friends...another week down. Hopefully next week this time I will have some good news about being hired for sure somewhere. Until then have a wonderful weekend and enjoy summer. I will just add that I am writing this in pants and a sweatshirt...so really....really...enjoy summer for me! I miss it! Adios. Go USA!!!
This past week has gone by so fast! Last weekend Mark and I went away for one night to a cute little town, Richmond, to celebrate our one year anniversary! Crazy right! It seems like yesterday...ok well like a month or a few ago that we got married, not a whole year! All the planning was done a year ago and I still have nightmares about it. (Tehe not really but well maybe a few here and there ;) We both feel so blessed that so many people were there for us on our big day and that really marriage has gone really smoothly so far. And for that we are both REALLY thankful! The whole being on the same continent thing is still such a wonderful thing that maybe this year it will finally sink in that neither one of us has to eventually leave.
I put a lot of resumes out last week as well to try and find a shop job...something simple to keep me busy and bring some money in for us. I mean I went to like 15-20 different places...I was on a mission. Well that mission has paid off. I have two interviews for next week which I am super excited about, so you can pray that those go well for me. Now we are not talking about anything career orientated here...these are jobs at a grocery store and a catalog store...but money is money and I am not to proud to work for it just about anywhere....so here is to working along side kids I could have taught if I was back in the states and I am sure will have some entertaining stories to tell because of it.
Mark and I have been watching the Olympics....well me more like screaming go USA at the tv and Mark shaking his head. He doesn't get the sports crazy me quite yet....especially when we watch sports I use to coach. He keeps reminding me that we are not in the USA anymore and that they can't hear me but obviously I just can't help it. It is fun to watch it all live here and well I can honestly say I get a lil lump in my throat every time I sing the national anthem as we win gold. So proud...so proud. Go USA!
Not so proud to have Romney over here last week making us all look stupid. There is not one Brit that I saw who heard my accent in the past week who didn't make some comment to me about his insulting remarks toward the Brits and how they were "doing" the Olympics. I really don't care about politics...I don't. I like history but politicians I hate. I don't care what "side" you are on...but please when you are overseas don't make the rest of us normal....level headed...not arrogant Americans look bad....some of us have to live where you travel to even after you go home. So embarrassing...so embarrassing. Just think before you speak...is it really that hard. Lets just say Romney lost all of my respect...what was there in the first place...and lets just say the Brits really don't like him.
So that is all my friends...another week down. Hopefully next week this time I will have some good news about being hired for sure somewhere. Until then have a wonderful weekend and enjoy summer. I will just add that I am writing this in pants and a sweatshirt...so really....really...enjoy summer for me! I miss it! Adios. Go USA!!!
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