Doors open ... and doors close

So hello everyone!! I want to blog as I'm feeling quite good about life right now and can't allow March to elapse with only one entry in to this wonderful record of my life, so here I go. What good things can I share with thee?

1. Today was payday! Hooray for money being paid to me from Argos. The paid in column in my bank statement is always woefully empty :-)

2. The weather is nice and sometimes really, really nice. I've been able to go down to the seafront today, sit on a bench and just breathe in the sea air and look out to the horizon. Even the poor burnt out pier looked a lil better in the sunlight.

3. Its little and silly, I know but...every day I've been taking the stairs at work. This is 4.5 flights up to the office I work and 5.5 on Fridays to my job search. My legs used to be like jely and I had to stop half way up! Now my legs don't feel the effect anymore and I can go all the way up now without hardly being out of breath. Its an achievement for me.

4. The working relationships I have with the staff at my placement are just fantastic and has been the highlight of the two months I've spent there so far. I get realy sad when I think that it'll be over by Easter. I never realised how much I'd changed by sitting at home all day.

5. I have had some wonderful compliments from - and just conversations in general with - the people I work with. I've been fortunate that I've had the chance to work independantly on projects and basically prove myself. Its true you get out what you put in. They said that they would give me a job if they possibly could, but they themselves, can't be sure of their jobs. With that knowledge, I'm just happy to have the compliment... :-)

6. My life as a squaddie adopter is also going really well! I have 2, a man and a woman and had my first contact from one of them last week - truly the most exciting mail I've ever had from a total stranger! We have great fun shopping for the contents of the boxes and then doing them up; all the time trying to fit as much in as I can without exceeding the 2kg weight limit. Fun times. If it makes the lives of our boys & girls out there a bit easier, then I'm all for it!

7. Generally being able to dress in lighter, brighter clothes and not have to wrap up everytime you leave the house has had a great effect on my mood. Leaving the house in the morning with the sun shining, my ipod singing in my ears, to go to a job I love... Then to have the chance to go to the beach at lunchtime too is just great.

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In Disney news:

A. We should've heard from Yummy Jobs by mid-April, so in 2 weeks time. Interesting... There are a lot of people who have applied. A LOT. Watch this space...! Impatience and exhasperation are at an all time high on WDWIP!!

B. Vicky Pullan got off of the Waiting List today to do F&B 16th August. There is hope yet for the others!!!

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Other life news is that I'm applying for jobs all the time, but have had no luck as of yet... Still not sure where I'm going in life!

Jenny's no longer doing placement, she's been signed off by the Doctor, so I'll be flying solo from now on. Oh well, at least her baby has the best chance of being healthy, so that is all good.

27th March 2011 was census day! We filled ours out and returned it - and I hope you did too!?!? I like the idea that in 100 or 200 years time, my decendants will be able to look at it and see me and my mum etc!! Its the third census I've been included on - only 70 years until I can see myself on the census :-)

Thus it is all rosy in the garden. I 've sold a few things on ebay this week and the great thing about it being nearly April is that boot sales will soon get under way again. I love boot sales because they help my household in 2 major ways: we get money and we get rid of junk we don't need/want/use/like anymore!!!

Of course the clocks went forward one hour on Saturday night, so I lost an hour's valuable sleeping time, but it does mean that were are now officially in British Summer Time! Whhop whoop, sunny days all the way! Of course if you happen to be lucky enough to be in Florida, or unlucky enough to be in Helmand Province, its about 30C!!!

That's all for now! Oh and hello to Charlotte who just got back from China yesterday. I hope to hear lots of exciting stories from her time there!

Have fun in the sun people.