Happy Anniversary

I was reading a blog this morning and the owner had recently posted about how his blog was about to be 1 year old and what should he do to mark the occasion. Well this got me thinking about how old my blog is.... 4 yrs, 1 wk and 2 days since the first post.

I remember what started it. Jamie had been blogging for a while and was constantly trying to convince me that I should do it too. I couldn't see a reason for this, what would I write about? I mean Jamie has his techie thing and he spends his life on the internet so he always finds weird and interesting articles to show people. I don't really do that; and as soon as I start to think about writing about anything that's happened to me, it suddenly doesn't look/sound interesting enough to put out there. Also, I thought it was just for geeks (am i wrong?). Anyway for my 26th birthday Jamie got me a digital camera (he's great, really!) and told me that I could take pictures wherever I went and then blog about the pictures. As it turned out I don't take much pictures, hence you haven't seen alot of them. Plus the 'Photos' section is down (Jamie!) so I can't point out any of the few pictures I did take. But still, here we are!

And how has it been? Well it can't have been much fun for you. I've read some old entries, no I have never checked my spelling before I publish! Plus what can be of interest in the life of a woman whose most interesting coversation of the day is with the two border collies she walked at lunch time? You know probably the most interesting thing to happen here is that some crazy kids kept mistaking me for Hilary Duff. And that could only be becuase the photo section is down!

I always say I will blog more/better but it never happens. So i'm not even going to try to say that now. What I can promise is that entries will continue to be irregular and of little interest to anyone. That way, no pressure on me to write it and no pressure on you to read it. See we're all happy with the status quo!

Manic Monday

It's not really a Manic Monday but I saw the Bangles song listed on a naff 80's compilation album in Virgin at the weekend and now I have it in my head. It is actually quite a dull Monday.

Jamie headed off for his first day of his new job this morning, understandably a little nervous. Since PhDs don't count as work (sorry to all the PhD people I know) Jamie hasn't held a real job in 3 and half years. Actually, because Jamie doesn't consider his time in MLE a real job, he's counting it as 5 and a half years. It's going to be tough for him to settle into the routine but I'm sure he'll soon come to hate it as much of the rest of us .

Work for me is quiet today (watch: I've just jinxed myself and I'm going to be up to my neck in it in about 4 minutes). This is the first time I've been in the house totally alone since I started working from home. It's weird, I always work better when there is background noise - total silence distracts me. I am forcing myself to stay in my office, and occassionally actually sit at my desk ;-)

Feelin' Blue

As many of you will now be aware we have moved to Ireland. This was about 7 weeks so it is really old news.

However, in the last 7 weeks Jamie has found a job and found a place for us to live. This is great news, but unforunately I was not present for either occurence. I was out of the country when Jamie got his job and away again when he found our new place. I find it a little depressing to have missed out on some of the major changes in our life but I was lucky enough to keep my job when we left England.

It's a bit of a mixed blessing. On the one hand we still have one salary while Jamie was looking fora job and we set ourselves up. On the other hand the travelling part of the job keeps me away alot and I am missing out on all the good stuff that is happening.

I guess it's cos we're newly married that I feel it's more important that we do these things together. But I don't think that anyone (except Jamie) sees that it is so hard to be away so much, when there is so much changing at home.