Ooh get me

 

This is the first post I have ever done from a mobile. Beware lots of unseen full stops and no capital letters.

If there is a photo with this post it's because I came back in to do it. Can't work out how at the moment.

The photo this week is of lambs. After seeing one born last week went on same walk yesterday and there were loads. Well about 86 as that's the highest number I saw sprayed on one.

The farmer was massively busy charging around on q quad bike with trailer. At one point he came past us at a million miles an hour with empty trailer. 3 mins later past us again but with dog in the back.

Where had dog been? Just mooching around?

Sadly saw some dead sheep. I guess they don't all survive lambing. So sad. Not loads, just a couple. Farmer had to collect them. Must have broken his heart (probably for financial reasons)!

Today I am posting from my mobile. I am off to the office. Usually a 3 hour drive. Today no traffic at all. I am picking somebody up from station at 9.00. But was looking like I would be there at 7.45!

I am parked up on the motorway (garage, not hard shoulder) killing time.

It's so strange. I get out so rarely now as I headed off I felt quite panicked. I am staying away tonight. Do I have what I need?

In my old job I commuted 3-6 hours a day (it sucked). I never even thought about it. Now it feels daring. Yesterday I even filled up, checked oil and added anti freeze. Before I would have checked mobile and purse and just gone.

Needless to say I had about an hours sleep last night. Worrying my alarm wouldn't go off. So strange how quickly normal changes.

Quiet weekend. Saw Saturday night friend for first time in ages as she and son had post covid cough that lasted about a month between them.

That was about it really.

This week I am spending time with a new team member bringing him up to speed. First time I have had opportunity to do this as all others joined when things more covidy.

On that subject the whole world in UK (including me) I'd just ignoring it now. I realise I  forgot a mask for work. Not even sure if I need one.

So anyway that's it for this week. I am very proud I did this on mobile. Down with the kids or WHAT.

Actually that isn't it for this week as here I am a few days later finally uploading the photograph.

Been a hugely busy week. Had a great time meeting the new team member, we got loads and loads done. Also managed to find a meeting room at work, which was exciting. I thought we'd be working in the garage as the whole building was being used for training. But one of the amazing trainers spotted they had a spare area at the end of the room and without even being asked the closed some doors on it to make an extra meeting room for me.

I was massively touched actually - I think that goes to show that in life I tend to have to fight for pretty much everything. The fact somebody did this out of the goodness of their heart is something I've not come across in the workplace before.

Though a lot of that will be the difference of where I used to work and where I work now. I used to work in the travel industry where literally everybody appeared to be in it for themselves and there were so many knives out to stab you in the back you had to go into work in a stab vest! (Can you tell how much I miss it).

My new work is much more about helping people - I want to keep it anonymous so I can speak freely, so excuse me being a bit ambiguous. But essentially during covid I re-evaluated - like many people did - and came out of that deciding to do nice stuff with good people for the rest of my working life (let's see if that lasts - nice and good doesn't pay very well and I'm still not convinced I can afford to be nice). 

Working changing others lives for the better does give you a sense of genuine pride (very poor genuine pride, but.....).

I think perhaps the simple act of creating me a room to work in may show the differences in personality (and I like that).

I am having quite a bit of fun with the hassle that the travel industry are having right now. The fact they made everybody redundant and now don't have enough staff to actually fly the aircraft. Even more amusing when I was a casualty (very happy casualty - I literally HATED my job and was about to resign when COVID happened).

In fact one of my new colleagues is also ex travel industry - though different company and we had a call with each other the other day where we just crowed about it and laughed a lot! You have to have these moments of victory in life and let's face it they are few and far between.

I mentioned I've been massively busy - trying to cram work into every second. Yesterday I quite excelled myself. I meant to start work at 06:45 so I could get some stuff done before loads of meetings happened. At 7.00 I let the dog into sons bedroom to wake him up (as per normal).  I made son breakfast and went back to work......

About half an hour later son said 'Mum, you do realise you woke me up at 6.00 don't you!'. So I was literally an hour ahead of myself and had started work at 05:45. HOW COMMITTED IS THAT.

I was just finishing work at 04.30 (which I felt was fair), when a colleague sent me a document to review. Whilst the document was full of really interesting information it was pretty much impossible to read because the blocks of text were half a page long with no fullstops etc.

Now this colleague has an amazing brain and the document itself was brilliant - I considered sending it back and suggesting they reformatted, but realised that this wasn't their skillset.

So, as I really like and respect this person, as I read through the document I reformatted it so it would be more engaging for the other people they sent it to.

Let's just say I was passing the Karma on from the meeting room situation.

Now I'm a little nervous in case they think I was meddling, but it was all done for the right reasons. So fingers crossed. But why am I telling you this? Simply because this meant that I ended up finishing work at 20:00 last night. Now that's a VERY long day. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Son starts doing water sports tomorrow at school. Canoe's, Kayaks etc. etc. I was surprised he chose that as an activity as I think he's going to HATE it. But as we live by the sea I think it's a great idea he does it.

However, suddenly yesterday the school sends us a huge long list of things they need. It was just like one of those moments when they are juniors and you get a letter saying they need to come in as a spaceman the next day!

So working from home (ie. not leaving house) somehow today I need to find, rash vest, wetsuit, swimming trunks (hope have these), water shoes and a wet bag! 

Basically for this week read that as: T-shirt, emergency blanket (yes I actually have one of those!), swimming trunks, old trainers and carrier bag (job done).

Oh and towel! I think I can stretch to that.

So final bit of this new and updated post is the fact that this morning I have lost my toothbrush. How do you lose a toothbrush - where is it - why wasn't I brushing my teeth in the bathroom - what did I do with it? Soooo many questions. It's not like I was drinking last night or anything.

I think I've just got so much going on my head - plus of course there's the menopausal moments on top of that. I bet I find it in the fridge later or something.

FOUND TOOTHBRUSH - By kitchen sink..... OBVS...

Husband just got up - that was a surprise. Normally he doesn't get up until I've started work, today I was in kitchen making Thursday breakfast. Thursday breakfast is a thing in our house now I've got time to make breakfast. Basically I use up what's left around. Today quite a haul I had about 10 mushrooms, some bacon and some eggs. Can you guess what we had.

Normally if I make breakfast I leave husbands on plate on top of toaster - so he can microwave it. Today I was in middle of cooking it when he arrived. Much confusion on my face.

Turns out he's not wfh today - it's his turn to get into the office. Aren't we the old fashioned couple this week.

Ironically we both do much longer hours and get much more done at home - when will the world realise this.

On which note. It's 07:22 and I really must sign off to start work.