Just good. I save the awesome for when I get home

It looks like I'm finally going to get my honeymoon. Its only over a year after the wedding but at this point it seems I'll be spending 10 nights in Phuket soaking up sun and cocktails in coconuts... I can't wait

Congratulations and Bon Voyage!


Where are you going to Phuket from Spiky? (That is if you don't mind sharing your point of origin)... I only say it because I'm from Australia (Australasia) and it's considered our backyard because it's near. Will you have a long flight? Or a happily brief one to get to those coconuts and cocktails? I could do with one of those right about now....(cocktails that is, not flights, though I love that booze is free on the international ones. Nothing like 5-15 mini bottles of vodka/bourbon to make the hours just fly by-though I expect they still would without the booze...fly, that is.)

-What would we do without puns? Or punes for that matter?


My news is that 3 months after moving into my very first Japartment, I will have a fridge and a washing machine! (Hand washing clothes in the tub is not nearly so fun as it looks.) Also, now that the weather has gotten warmer, I can't store my milk on the balcony anymore....so woohoo! Beers all around!

I'll be out of central Phuket on a small beach to the south called Rawai. I've been to Phuket before and thought that central Phuket was a hell hole. We got a good deal where we got 10 nights for the price of 5... On the down side to afford it at all we have to fly the cut priced JetStar... The booze isn't free and we have to pay extra to get food and entertainment but the truely annoying this is that it's extra for a blanket. A blanket for christs sake!!!

Oh and Gypsy I know about the hand washing, I spent a year with no washing machine. This was in the tropics so the washing piled up very quickly. The biggest pain is the sheets. Wringing out sheets by hand is ugly.

Hey everyone!

I am still working for the NHS, but not for very long now. I am doing nights this week and on Saturday I will go to Greece for my week off, see the family and move some stuff down.

I was asked about a month ago whether I would be interested in working for a couple of months more, I said yes, but i haven't heard from the Staffing Department yet.

I may just hop on a plane and come to America again. My next job is in Greece, in a paediatric hospital for a year. And I am really looking forward to it.

What I am also looking forward to is going home and having a good, solid broadband connection.

Congratulations, Doc. Just remember the people down south* on your next American tour.

*that probably just includes me, but hey, I'm somebody.

Well it was my department’s big move today. We where in our office and down to work by midday thanks to all the work 3 members of the team put in, I was one of them. We moved up stairs so I was in the lift (yes we have a lift) carting the computer chairs up so all you saw on the next floor up for 20 minutes where chairs appearing out of the lift. But we have to stay in our temporary accommodation an extra week so it means that I have to work there for 2 weeks instead of the one as I’m off on holiday for a week. Well that’s it back down to the borders tomorrow and I’m looking forward to it.

There is a possibility of a London visit in 2 weeks. If we can get a cheap flight.

yay

And I am off to see the wizar... err, no off to a wedding, in-laws side. Oh joy. The only thing about the coming weekend that I'm looking forward to is an indian meal with my mates. Mmm, cheese naan...

I have the gravy chips and as the people said: It is good

My little brother went to work with my dad and me today. He had a dentist appointment at one. My mom was going to pick him up. I called her around 12:30 to see where she was and to make sure she knew where to get him. She told me that Smudge, our cat that we had for eleven to twelve years, had been hit and killed a few houses down from the house.

Smudge was mom's cat. She would wait until dad left and would hop in bed with mom and curl up at her back. Mom was pretty devastated. She took the cat back to the house and then took John on to the appointment. I went by to bury Smudge around 6:30 this afternoon.

She showed me where she wanted her buried, so I dug a hole nice and big as well as pretty deep to keep other animals from digging her back up. It was extremely hot with no wind. The whole ground was covered in poison ivy. My shirt was soaked with sweat, as were my socks and my boxers (yes, I'm a boxers kinda guy).

I finally got everything finished a quarter after seven. Mom fed me some very good chicken and rice and I headed home.

I had only been home a short while when mom called. She then asked me, "Guess who just showed up?" Of course, Smudge. I had just buried someone else's cat in the back yard. Some poor soul is mourning the cat that ran away. They may be staying awake all night looking for the cat. But I seriously doubt that they find it.

These two cats were identical. The marking on both of them were so similar that one would have to see them side by side to tell the difference. Smudge does have a distinctive black mark across her nose that is not widely seen in many cats, but the cat that I buried had been hit in the face by a car, so I couldn't see if that cat had it or not. Oh well, I just sweated my ass off to bury someone's cat and they aren't even grateful for it. So typical.

Well, I'm sure the cat went to...wherever cats go (I always imagine that cats go to an egyptian heaven and are worshipped for eternity...i think they know it too, and that's why they're so smug).

It was probably sniggering away at you while you worked you know. Glad to know you still have Smudge to lord it over you with her cat-ness. (I like cats, they don't like me. I'm bitter ok?)

Geez, that's some story Red... oh well at least the cat got a decent loving burial, it may have just been left by the roadside, so that can only be better... and if it had owners, well, they can at least think that it may just have run off to have an adventure somewhere. Maybe it was Smudge's sibling if they looked that much alike? In that case I'm sure she appreciates your care...

My sister got rear ended yesterday. Everyone was fine except for the car which is unfixable without oodles of money. It broke down last week and we were in town picking it up from the shop. She was meeting me at a friends house and waiting to turn into the driveway when a mini van came up behind her and must have seen her at the last second and swerved crunching the right rear of my sister's car around the tire and going into the ditch herself. The cop who came out calls that curve in the road the Fatal Curve because so many people have accidents on it, although I don't think anyone has actually died on it except for roadkill, and my drivers training teacher called it the longest curve in the state but he may have been making that up. My friend has lived there for five years and her mom has been rear ended there and people have to swerve and go around her on the shoulder of the road all the time. My sister is at Warped Tour today with my car and I had plans to go see my boyfriend this weekend so I get to take my dad's car.

I agree with Gypsy about the cat heaven.And it is rightly thus; cats are the love stuff