40 days and 40 nights

Or so it feels!

That's what I'm facing in terms of continuous activity and lack of down days from now on. So I had a day off from work on Saturday, now I have solid work until Bank Holiday Weekend and then from the 31st May through to the 20something of June is again solid work, so you may be thinking that the next 6 weeks are looking very bleak. Well let me expand your horizons on these matters....

Bank Holiday Weekend will be busy, but I won't be in work!! We are off to the Forces Festival in Amesbury, Wiltshire - travelling down there (via Southampton) on the Saturday and then attending the Festival all day (and night) on Sunday and then travelling back on the Sunday. In between these rather clean cut arrangements, we are - as I said above - popping in to Soton where I'd like to have a decent look around Ikea, with the hope of actually finding a display/shelving unit for my room.

We may get to see some other places/people, but it won't be a very long sojourn as it'll be something like a 3 hour journey each way without the added delays of Bank Holiday traffic (oh joy!).

I do love the idea of these little road trips! One I'm particularly looking forward to is the trip to Llandudno we have arranged for next year. I've never been to Wales before and we're planning on taking slightly scenic routes for both legs of the journey to fully be able to appreciate the journey and the National Park so close by. Mum and I are going to the 2012 National Conference of the Royal British Legion Women's Section.
I'm already very excited about the prospect of going on the cable car and seeing Snowdonia National Park and just going to and seeing somewhere completely different. Tis very exciting :-)

The other recent excitement is that the Eurovision Song Contest (aka Annual Europe-Wide Comedey Episode) happened at the weekend. Who would you have thought would win? Probably not a country most people have never heard of, fewer could locate and fewer still could spell: Azerbaijan. So see you all in Baku next year!!
The funniest thing has to be the Moldovans and in particular their choice of head gear and of course Jedward in general!
I am very proud of us geting 100 points and coming in 11th place and then getting points from so many different countries and not just the usual people voting for each other.

So yes...here I go in to my pretty much 40 days (odd) of solid work and flitting back and forth between 3 different places and roles. I'm really looking forward to the variety; something that can sometimes be the best and worst thing, especially when you get in to a routine and build a rapport with the people you work alongside and then have to head off somewhere else for 3 days.

Still, I know it won't totally kill me and therefore it is worth it, to - for once in my life - actually have a decent amount of money in the bank.
YAY!

So I suppose I ought to head off to bed as I'm in for my first day of invigilating tomorrow and also have to go to the Post Office for work.

I shall finish by quoting Dryden:

"Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today"

Hope you're all seizing the day too! Lovings.