adventures with nana and grandad...(and sidekick mummu)

friday

thank god. no really. i am still ill, and fin is ill again, and i have the worst hair ever. it is official. also, the house is being wrecked by a boy who wont eat off a spoon and likes to throw things!

this seasons look for the men in your life!

fin and grandma at the aquarium

bum week

I am having a bum week, and i find it cathartic to moan. here is why:

1- my work do not value me in any shape or form. I have no office space, no access to a computer, no where to do any marking or prep, or see students. I am reduced to sitting in the lobby, and made to feel (and look like) no one cares about my input or effort. do not get me started on the pay.

2- my phd is just going on and on and on. my supervisor didnt really rate the last chapter, but on the up side did give me some better feedback, so i can go about fixing it. but it is just dragging on.

3- our house if TINY! and i broke my favourite mirror. grrr

4- i have a stinking cold.

5- I need, but cannt afford a hair cut.

all of this is making me feel rubbish. I know i am veyr luck to have a husband, and a baby and a house, i am just lacking perspective this week. next time i post i will have pictures of rome and fin.

work.....

I am now back at work, yuck yuck! i am not enjoying it at all like i used too- jsut seemd like i spend the entire day planning how to get fin too/from nursery, or thinking about him while i am there.... in fact, todays seminqar was a total disaster- spome crazy person had stoled my photocopying, so i didnt have anything for them to do for the first 20 minutes. crap! i tell you, i wouldnt pay tuition fees for that lesson.

plau the boy is still really not well, he is off his food and has a hackinh 40 B & H a day cough- think i will take him to the doc this afternoon and demand that they make him better- hate it when hes ill. really then, so far, today has been rubbish. got to teach tonight 7-9 so i will be death on a stick tired- RUBBISH!

congratulations to adam and karen!

this morning my brother proposed to his lovely girlfriend live on our local radio station and she said yes!!! ahhhhhhhhhhh.

it was a lovely proposal and ity made me cry! ( and her afterwards- god women, we have more hormones sometimes than a womens rugby team!) but i am sooo happy for them...... and if they need a page boy....

I am writing this in Rome!

goddam me feet hurt! we must have been walking around for the last 3 days for miles and miles-...... ouch! but we have seen every church in the near and far, and ever site that the guide book thought was worthhile. and eaten a lot lot of food. david thinks the food has been a bit of a pricy letdown, but i have been scoffing mushroom pizzas and risotto.....mmmmmm......

i really think the only downside has been my ever hurting poor left foot )doctor said i probably broke the beckham bone a while agoand it is too late to fix!) and the gut wrenching missing the baby. although i know he is safe in the hand of nana and grandma, i still meep at every baby we see, and have been buying him a lot. so far he has aquaired: a lovely blue preppy outfit fro outside the vatican; a moblie with clouds; and a totally garish snow globe with teh trvui fountain in it! (which was bought under the influnce of wine at lunch today)

to be honest i am quite looking forward toi coming home, although this coming week i have my *gulp* first day back at work, teaching my C & C at soton.... and i have to leave my scrummy boy at nursery, i suspect i may cry then as well!

anyway, dave is on his way back with cake and wine, so i am going to enjoy my last grownup day- ciao!