ANOTHER WEEK BEGINS

Well here we are back at the begining of another week! This week looks like it might be quieter although work is pretty hectic, last week didn't spend much time at home!! This week I hope to have some early nights!! This probably won't happen mind you!!

Had a fantastic week caching up with loads of friends!! And getting to know new ones better!!

START AS WE MEAN TO GO ON!

As usual the day never quite goes how you expect it! I arrived at work today on time and with the thought of all the work that I have to do! When I arrived I was greeted by one of my colleagues who was standing outside which was strange in itself! Turned out that someone had put glue in our key locks and we couldn't get in! We had to call the locksmith and so until now I have been sitting in the coffee shop across the road waiting!!!! Now I am all over the place don't know where to start! Time frmaes are out the window!

DON'T LOOK BACK!

Last week after seeing all my colleagues at the funeral I felt quite sad and wondered if I had made the right choice to leave them all? Of course it was the right choice, seeing some of them for drinks last night, they call me the one that got out, so maybe I'm one of the lucky ones who managed to get out before you've been somewhere so long there is no way out! Mind you 5 years is quite a long time to get to know everyone and I think that's what I miss!!

My job is completely bonkers at the moment and I am just about keeping my head above water! Not really because of me, but because myself and another colleague are covering for the girl who took over my old role after Christmas! Yesterday I spent the whole day going through a file which should be dealt with on a weekly basis, to find that she had done virtually nothing so I had to do it, on top of my own work!!!

It is all quite tiring and this whole thing of not knowing about Pete's job is stressing me out abit! He says that we can just about manage with him on part time for one month!! But really why should we have to live like that, just about managing, when we both work really hard and are loyal employees?

Anyway that's enough rambling as have a pile of work waiting from yesterday to finish or start as the case may be!!

LET IT SNOW!

I hope it snow's, as the whole world looks all sparkly and beautiful! (Even Acton!)

LIFE IS A ROLLERCOASTER

I am sooooo tired as in the words of Ronan Keating, "Life is a rollercoaster". I feel like for the last week, I could go either way emotionally! At church on Sunday I just kept wanting to weep! (Not coz the sermon was bad! (It was excellent Carl!!)) There is just so much going on everywhere at the moment, both in my life and the life of others! There is so much of God that we can not comprehend and so much we never will until we meet face to face! However, even though we know that, we so often seek to understand the things that go on around us, so that our human minds can reconcile things.
Why is there so much suffering? Why does God let people die, who have so much more of life to live? Why do we feel like we are doing what God wants, and yet so many circumstances stand against us?

On a happier note, I did feel better yesterday evening when we attended the Baptism of our good friend Jenny Radford. It was a great time of celebration of what God has done and will do in the future.
Anyway I'm tired of thinking and now I have to do some work, which does not enthuse me at all!!!

A STRANGE DAY!

Yesterday was a strange day, when so many parts of my life seemed to be interwoven! I was at work as usual and then I went to a funeral at Ealing Abbey where so many of my old colleagues were.
The funeral was very sad and I forgot that at Catholic funerals they have communion. There were probably 200 people there mostly in their 30's, mostly of catholic background. Everyone knew what to do and say and yet it all seemed so empty and lacking in hope.
The priest said a lot of things, I'm not sure I fully agreed with, however he also said alot that were spot on!
He did say "At the end of all suffering there is always peace", which really struck me. We are all searching for peace in this life, but surely we will only fully experience peace when our sufferings on this earth are over. (Not that life on earth is always that bad!)

Seeing my old colleagues was strange, as that was 5 years if my life!

AND SLEEP!

Why is it so hard to get up and out of bed in the morning! It seems to me I get later and later and all I achieve is getting myself into a flap and rushing around! I never have breakfast, but in my dream world, I would like to get up have brekkie with my husband and have time to just sit before I leave for work!!! This never happens! I don't know how these people find the time to go to the gym or for a run in the morning? Every night I do go to bed with the intention of getting up earlier, but i never manage it!

Had excellent cell group last night!!

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY!

Being someone who really can't do maths at any level, this thought for the day on my calendar at work made me smile!

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings

So true I think!

Quizzical mind

A group of us went to a local pub quiz last Sunday night. We had a great time and were only 5 points off the winning score!! We will be there again this week with the view to winning!

WORKING!!!

Well it's Saturday and here I am sat at work!!!! I really hate working Saturday's and I am already tired thinking about the week ahead! However on the plus side the boss isn't here and my colleague has just gone on an appointment and to do the bacon sandwich round!!!! Also I have a ton of work to do, so in that sense I should get it all cleared to start a groovy new week next week!! Our black and white printer has gone mental - it has printed about 100 pages of one line computer gobbledygook! We have tried everything but it still seems to be mental!!!

Tonight I am going to the ballet, an annual event which brings a warm fuzzy feeling to the heart when thought about!!!!! It takes me back to when I was young and my 10 years of ballet lessons and dance shows! I loved it and often think of joining an adult ballet class! It's great for fitness and discipline!

Got a text message from my Mum yesterday it started with: "Your Dad is lucky to be alive!" I couldn't work out if she had, had a moment of madness and attacked him of if something less serious had occurred! Once I telephoned them, it transpired that the garage door had completely come off and fallen on him. He managed to catch it, rather then it crushing him! I think he was in a bit of shock and I have told him to go to the doc's today and just get checked over!!!! Anyway, when I called my parents they were in the pub celebrating life!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Just as blogging was getting exciting, the computers went down at work, they only started working again yesterday! Our office did consider it may have been due to all 7 of us play solitare at the same time!!
Had a great Christmas and New Year and realised how much I really wish I did not have to go to work everyday!
All my colleagues are now officially late and I have been the only one her for 35 mins! (At the moment I am the only one here!!!!!!)