The last 48 hours can only be described as manic from my end. Everything has changed from the last time I have written an full blog entry, but it has all been for the better.
Checking my emails and statistics for her I noted that Terry 1954 had kindly nominated me for a sister hood of the world blogger award, which I feel very humbled by. As anyone who reds my blog on a regular basis will know that I have the utmost respect for this women, and she is an inspiration to us all. My thoughts in relation to her can be found at my entry Thanks for doing your jobs, as a result of this a nomination coming from her means a lot to me and I feel very humbled by it.
Even more than this, on Tuesday I got the news I have been waiting for, I have secured a permanent position and job at the company I was hoping to be able to work, but was not sure if I would be quite the right fit, as my experience was a little below what they needed. However, I obviously did something right, as they offered my the role and I start a week on Monday. I am so excited by the opportunity and chance to work with this company that I spent most of the last 48 hours in shock and shaking and giggling hysterically as a result of this. Too many this may seem like an over-reaction, however to put it into context, I have wanted to work for this company since before I left University which is a miserly 15 years ago, but have never had neither the confidence or skills set to apply for a role until now. The chance is also a real chance to get my career well and truly off the ground within a specialised defined space and grow. I am so looking forward to the challenges and the opportunities that this role will bring, I am counting the days until I start. So what is the name of this company that has got me so excited, well that would be Thomson Reuters, one of the biggest Media Moguls and suppliers of information in the world.
My new line manager seems lovely and we have already had a couple of e-mail conversations including inviting me to the works Christmas party in 4 weeks time. Everything about this role, this company makes me feel all warm and lovely inside, and I just cannot wait to start.
Then to back all this up I managed to surpass eventually my total from last year at Nanowrimo. My new target is to write another 4k to break the 10k barrier
All of a sudden I feel like I have a spring back in my step, the world seems brighter even if it is colder. However the best thing about all this is that the dreams my partner and I have can now start to turn into realities. More importantly we can look at booking our honeymoon, from our wedding earlier on in the year from March. In all honesty this is not likely to take place until next year, and possible around our one year anniversary – but what a way to celebrate.
Anyway enough of my bounciness, if I want to break that 10k barrier I need to get writing as it is not going to break itself
Well I had intended to go away and do some writing this afternoon. The frustrating thing is, I know what I want to write, but writing it on paper seems forced and contrived some how. It seems to be lacking the ease and the fluidity of the earlier 3.5k words that I have written and so now I am writing and scratching things out and trying to write the next sentence 5 times now without any success.
45 minutes later the last part of this section is now complete- almost. But at least the sentence flows more naturally than the other previous efforts.
Thank you Word Press for giving me a less detailed distraction to allow me to complete my struggling sentence structure and so the story continues
The sentence which caused me so many problems is:
James then reached over to pick up the second frame that had fallen onto his desk. As his thumb slipped under the front of the frame where the glass covering was, it caught itself against something sharp. The frame was hardly up from the surface at a forty five degree angle before he re-dropped it with the shock of the intrusion.
Not a difficult few sentences but a lot of pain has been caused by it ….
Well what more can I say than the title already expresses.
Today is launch day for one of the biggest game releases this year. Yes that is Right an ancient evil re-awakens and its time to face the Promthens and the Fore-Runners emerge with vengeance onto the screen. I suspect there will be lots of swearing lots of frustrations at this more intelligent AI set in this game. So my treat for when I return from my meeting this afternoon is HALO 4.
Why a NANO fail? We are currently on day 6 I am 7k behind count already not boding well but the idea is there and I still have some to type up but it feels like everything is going drastically slow. On the positive I am only a mere 2k behind where I managed to get to last year. So I am hoping for a semi win and to try to catch up the writing shortly.
I just need to get a concentrated burst on it and I will be fine. In fact if I can manage to write 2k words in 90 minutes catching up on my missing 7k should not be such a mountain to climb – last fateful words.
At this moment in time, hubby is loading HALO 4 onto the X-BOX. I am completing the job searching and then getting ready for interview stage one with agent for a procurement role
All go in Maidment Towers again today, when will the twirling stop it really is starting to make me feel quite dizzy.
Well I had inked into my diary that today was solely to carry out my necessary job hunts and do the research needed for my interview on Monday. So far nothing has happened in either of these directions. Why? I had a phone call last night from an agent needing for me to go into meet with them about a particularly interesting procurement management role, which had popped up on Twitter yesterday afternoon. Not expecting to get feedback let alone an initial meet, all plans for today went out of the window. The meeting was scheduled for 11am, which meant that my morning was now gone, but it was for a productive cause? Right? Another opportunity. another chance of securing a new role. As it happened it was not an opportunity wasted, as not only does the role sound great, but I also already know somebody who works there in the Staines office, so all information and data in putted into the recruitment agents head and it is now all guns blazing and fingers crossed. However because I have an hours plus travelling each way to get into the city and back out again, it meant that I was not back home until nearly 2pm.
Despite all this, I opted to put this travelling to some good use. On the way into the city, I managed to write 10 pages of my NANOWRIMO, helping me to complete yesterdays target and needing only another 1500 today to reach today’s target. With the advantage that at the moment the story has its own momentum it seems to be carrying things forward under its own esteem, which is always a blessing and help keep things moving along nicely for now at least. However there is still something rather disconcerting, when you look at the NANOWRIMO projected completion date and it gives you a date of January 2013. This too is a great incentive, especially if you’re competitive like me and you don’t do failing very well. However to be honest my main target is to get past the 6000 mark which is what I managed last year. Not a particularly valiant effort even I have to admit that. Unfortunately the writing stopped there and the story is still sat in ideas mode without much more in the way of progression or way forwards.
I am now frantically trying to pull together all emails and complete today’s job hunting, so I can do the original task of the day which is to prepare for Monday, and so on that note I guess I should really remove myself for WP and move back to the emails and tasks in hand
Have a fizzing Friday everyone and see you all next week
Well Halloween has been and gone and today is All Hallows Day or All Saints Day, depending on how you want to reflect on it. For me it is November which means a couple of things. My life goes into or what feels like manic overdrive why:
It is my birthday in 2 days time
It is 5 days until Halo 4 Is released yeah geek out time
There are 54 days to christmas yeah big grins, which means there are 30 days until Lottie and Tim put up the tree and Lottie and I ignite his christmas spirit – not literally of course but maybe it would be fun to do to ….. mischievous grin
There are 22 days until it will be 4 years to the day I lost my mum it was also the day that my local hockey team won their first game that season, which led to promotion
So I have now committed myself to one of the two big events going on in November. If people don’t know the second it is called Movember, where men grow moustaches in support of testicular cancer, many earning sponsorship for doing so. A truly worthy cause. A condition my family has been inflicted with twice, once with my own father and once with my uncle and in this instance, my father is still here, my uncle last his fight last year. What was the difference, one was caught earlier enough the other there was complexions due to existing health issues of diabetes which affected the working medication of the drugs.
However I am not going to dwell on this dreary and morbid part of the month but focus on the positives. This month I have set myself a target of writing 50,000 and finish editing a book of poems which is 42 pages long, maybe longer if I add additional to them. In addition to carrying out my usual load of job applications and preparation for interviews.
OMG – I think I must be mental or something…..
For those who know me no comment is needed for the above statement 😎
Right with all those tasks in hand. I guess I should place a temporary pause in my scribblings here and continue with my other scribblings of job hunting
Where am I?
Where am I?
When I look at you,
Your gaze transforms me into another you.
We are not in our flat.
We are not by the sea.
As far as I can see it is only you and me.
And we are walking side by side
My feet are not there,
I am not touching the ground,
I am gliding above it cushioned on air.
You’ve taken me over.
So I am no longer there.
You have possessed me.
Do you agree?
The glint in your eyes tells me this love is for real.
However I am not sure I can rest and take my eye of things that need to be done
I still need to prepare for my interview on Monday, why have I not done this yet? Well I had another interview to prepare for this afternoon, had several conversations with agents concerning other roles and done my normal job hunting on top as well. With the lack of sleep as noted by my earlier post today ‘The one where they don’t sleep all night‘. I can only say that I am feeling somewhat drained.
Having also committed myself to a girlie night on Saturday I think Sunday will be time for Hubby and I to spend together. We may even open a bottle of wine tonight, stick on a DVD and chill. It has been a while since we have not really had time to spend with each other.
We are very much used to having some concentrated time with each other regardless of how busy our week has been. This week has thrown us both into complete dis-array with the lack of time we have had. Partially because of how busy I have been on the job fronts, with conversations and interviews, but also because he has been busy on his own individual projects and tasks.
I was hoping at some point today to be able to do some more work on my poetry that I have been working on. However has of yet this has not materialised, I think I may have to set my task to complete my editing by the end of November, rather than starting another project for NANOWRIMO. Not entirely the object of the month but it will force me to do some work each day on it, if nothing else. Then if I manage to finalize it, then start work on the intended project and deadlines and see how far I can manifest the story through.
The premise for the Jellied man is as follows
A man tries to keep both his marriage and his business together after his partner disappears and his wife has an affair. Can his business, marriage and himself, come away from this unscathed? or will he lose everything in the process?
Twists
The man his wife had an affair with was his business partner
The business partner is not entirely human
The opening paragraph
James sat at his kitchen table reading the morning newspapers. His glass of freshly squeezed juice sat next to him. Baby Thomas was sat in his high chair playing with his toast. J. , James’ wife, supplied a fresh round of toast to the table along with a freshly brewed cafetière and went back to making the tradition Monday morning breakfast of Scrambled Eggs, with a Benedict sauce.
“How did you sleep?” asked James
“Well, all things considered. I just find the bed a little large for ….” James looked up from the paper and frowned, which stopped her mid-sentence. Her demeanour and position sagged as she continued to prepare the breakfast. The mood of the morning now darkened. James ignored the change of posture in his wife’s stature and returned to his newspaper has if nothing had passed between them. He continued to turn the pages of the newspaper, in a very nonchalantly manner of those early in the morning, scanning for some interesting tit-bit but not really focussing on what was there in front of him.
James suddenly jumped up from the breakfast table in a state of mild panic and unruly excitement for this time of the morning. “I’ve got to go”, he said curtly to J as he kissed Thomas tenderly on the forehead.
“What’s up?”
“Page 26” was his only response, before gathering together the paper, and those scattered around the table. He grabbed his jacket from the back of the chair and took the slice of un-buttered toast from his breakfast plate, before slamming the front door firmly shut behind him and making his way in the office.
Feedback on what you think would be appreciated
Have a good weekend and images of girls on the toon will appear shortly
Earlier on today I asked what people’s’ secret Ambition, vice, guilty pleasure was. Me its writing. If I could do anything in the world it would be, be a dive instructor during the day and a writer at night or if not then diving during the day and come home to see what my partner had written during the day.
Both of us are creative in different ways. He has a knack with artistry that I lack, but his use of words are exemplary too and he is currently working on his first novel. Me I have several drafted ideas and plot lines but nothing without any great consequence or substance to them. However saying that some are over 5k in length at the moment. Although in the grand scheme of things this is nowhere near to a required novel length. Most of those drafts are free flow and no editing included. So lots of work to do. I guess this leads onto the notion of what I am currently doing. Which is trying to draft out and edit my poetry work for e-publication which will be called Secrets, Dreams and Fears. I wide array of poems occurring at different times and reflecting different moods and ambience. Included in this collection is the poem which was used on my wedding day.
A copy of which is replicated below
Indefinitely
From early sun
To late full moon
From early dew
To twinkling stars
From budding flower
To full-grown tree
Our love will grow indefinitely
Like the bow after the rain
The clear sky preceding the storm
You light my way
And give me hope
My strength, My rock
My guiding light
Our love will grow indefinitely
From there to now
A golden light
A burning ring
A solid stance
A growing flame
A tender glance
Our love will grow indefinitely
You take my hand
You guide the way
You show your love
You hide your hurt
Your anger fuels
Your desires burn
And all for our love
To grow indefinitely
Something simply and at least has had some basic editing already carried out in it
I hope you enjoy and some of the emotions resonate with you
Well the weekend was much as expected, slow and relaxed. I suspect next weekend will be less so. With Lottie Sandstorm arriving late on Friday after a day trip to Belgium and Flanders. Then going to visit her cousin on the Saturday in Fancy dress for a premature Halloween bash and fun and catch-up. Sunday will become a day of collapsed bodies and exhaustion.
However between now and then I have the DHSS to address on my usual Wednesday appointment, I have an unexpected tax bill to pay and more jobs to track down and apply for. As of yet I have yet to manage to do some work for NANOWRIMO which is drawing on close to the start with still little work started. I have still to start on Christmas presents and am having to leave a majority of the bulk buying to my partner. Writing and thinking of all this is already getting me in a bit of a tizz about the whole thing.
Hubby is currently cooking dinner of Chicken and Pasta for our tea. Always good when I don’t have to cook. There is also that chance he will actually eat something. Not that my cooking is particularly bad we just have very different styles of cooking. To the point this weekend we talked about putting together our cook book of recipes and achievements of cooking on a budget.
This weekend resulted in an unexpected visit to the cinema to see Looper. An intriguing and interesting version on the sci-fi notion of time travel. It consisted of little of the usually Hollywood contrite way of doing moves and left the watcher having to think. Parts which made me flinch and close my eyes at times. Yet enthralling, entertaining and very brain active. This is not a movie you can go to and switch your brain off. There is too much happening, that co-insides with each other and will definitely need another watch when it comes out on DVD. In addition to this I managed to get my first glimpse of Skyfall the new Bond movie which is released on the 26th. OMG I cannot wait to see that either.
Life I feel is suddenly about to get very interesting. I have the nervous anticipation of not, that tells of fast joyous moments are soon to be upon us and life changing events are coming. When 3- 6 months tends to be the normal time scales when things like this happen. Last time I lost my job. Moved to Switzerland. Got engaged tot he man I married earlier this year. All in the space of 7 months for the sake of accuracy. Although we got together within 6 months and engaged by the 7th. I love this feeling as I know things are going to work out all right. Faith is all that is needed to make sure that it happens
Dinner is soon to be served. So I am going to end this blog now and wish you all to enjoy the rest of your Sunday and say have faith, live life and enjoy it, whatever it throws your way, as you never know where it will lead
It’s that day before the weekend arrives, for many of us there are a few working hours left and then the fun really starts. For me it is a chance to stop thinking about finding a job and time to spend with the family and friends. This weekend consists purely of me and hubby and no concrete plans in place. I suspect a chillin’ one will be the tone of the weekend. There will be lots of reading, writing, playing computer games and potentially some trips out and about somewhere if we can decide on where to go and what to do.
However, before then, I still have some loose ends to tie up from last week; including following up on some job applications and the speculative calls I made on people at RHP UK earlier on this week. Once this has been done I suspect the course of action will be to remove myself from a PC for a few hours and continue to read The Map, by TS Lerner. I am sure at some point I will find myself on SSX or my t’other half on mine craft. I will endeavor to try and do some preparation this weekend for NANOWRIMO which is now looming on the horizon.
In addition to this I must do some research on eateries as per the instruction from my darling friend NeekiO, as to where we should go for my looming birthday in about 3 weeks – shivers at the thought. Me and birthdays not pleasant thoughts. Mainly due to being let down by people repeatedly in relation to them in the past. I need to clarify what days do she wants me to look at the eateries for. As I have a couple of options for either a Friday Night or Saturday afternoon as to what can be done and this will dictate eating locations. This year my birthday weekend is with my wonderful step-daughter Lottie Sandstorm so the day is guaranteed to be filled with dry humor lots of fun and giggles and winding up her father, my husband, in vast quantities with the same returned double to both of us.
Husband on the other hand is planning other things and I can smell plotting afoot which always makes me nervous. I still have to acquire presents for him for Christmas but I have plans aplenty for that too, and I short walk to the fridge – aka Tesco- should resolve part of that problem a little later on.
However none of this is helping with the imminent problem of tying up my current loose ends. So I guess I should stop my waffles and go tidy up so the weekend can really get started
Hope you all have a good weekend and let me know how it goes? or What your plans are?
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