Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts

Sunday, December 4, 2011

cut to dec 2011

which is now.
and it's a different world, ladies and gentlemen.
where i routinely put in 10 hour days at the office and often have spent an hour or so finishing emails even before dawn.
where all the above is perfectly normal and not even worth mentioning.

one morning i was up and finishing work and shooting off emails just after 5 am. so one of the emails i had written was to my boss and i hit 'send' around 5:28 am. carried on with a few more emails till my inbox showed a new message. from my boss. in reply to my 5:28 am email, i had a reply at 5:34 am. and no he was not in another time zone where it was a more sensible time of day.
and there's another senior colleague who regularly replies to all her email only after 11pm. not on principle, she just does not have the time during the day.
i think we need to get a life.

one thing that has not changed is that mine is still a long-distance marriage. and that i still don't like the idea of it. and that there still isn't much i can do about it.

Monday, March 28, 2011

summertime and the living is easy

easy is not the word to use when you talk of living in a city that has temperatures of 37 degrees celsius in the middle of the day. but i'm just hoping the positive thinking may make things better. i can dream right?

so in news, daughter's back home!! for two action-packed months.
she got back home just yesterday and we've already completed one shopping trip, one argument and one 'let's raid mom's wardrobe' session. today i am at work, i expect it is 'let's try on all of mom's footwear' in session at home. now sleepovers and meeting friends are on the cards for her.

i love having her home.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

maternal mush


have had a rather weepy couple of days.

daughter's gone back to school on sunday and every time i see something of hers lying around at home, the tears well up and i remember how much i miss her. so far, one stuffed pink poodle, a watercolour painting about 3" x 4", my own dog wagging her tail, a letter, a ratty old tee shirt, her bicycle, a framed photograph by my bedside have all triggered the waterworks.

today i have not cried at all. this is good. i hope she's coping much better.