A very good day.

Two major things today, aside from the sun which is still shining over London.

First of:  I’ve got a job! On Monday I start in the interactive team at British Gas, as Programme Office Manager — woo-hoo!  My first couple of days will be from home, and then I’ll have to start the daily commute to the Staines massive, aaaai.  So, this is back to permanent employment for me, and very soon I’m going to have to deal with administrative the shebang of wrapping up the limited company.  After four intense months of job searching, I can say I am incredibly pleased to have secured a role in a new team, and I look forward to tackling  the job.

Now for personal projects:  sewing project number one, now officially called “the summer skirt”, is done!  Below, a picture of my masterpiece.  Next, I am considering a pair of cool print cotton pyjamas, seeing as I am now haunting floor 4 of John Lewis, a paradise of buttons and trims…  Oh dear.

the skirt!

the skirt!

Not much of a performance on my daily run today, with my time beaten by 1 minute on the Millenium-Bridge-and-back loop, but a series of stitches and the feeling of being as heavy as a truck.  Ugh.  Some training needed there!  But with my sweet man with me and the sun shining, it was still the right way to kick start what ended up being a mighty good day!

Giant G & Ts, and the point of Twitter.

Just a quick post tonight.   I just found a couple of links that I reckon some of you may enjoy.  I found them both on a blog called Masochistic Microbus.

First, did you know that in London, the many exciting things you can do include stepping inside a giant cocktail glass and breathing in (not drinking) a gin & tonic?  Now that is kinda fly.

The second link is here as a nod to Arnaud’s question about the point of Twitter:  does society really need Twitter?  I get the point really, even though I do like to think that writing obscure twittering double-entendres is oddly enjoyable.  Actually the really good thing for me is the fact that I can update my status (and then automatically feed it into Facebook and this blog) remotely from my antediluvian mobile (which is not, let us be perfectly clear, web enabled) via SMS,  as and when the action takes place.  Ah, live updates!

I feel I also have very good news to share tonight, but it is a little soon to announce them, so I will keep my enthusiasm for myself :)   More soooon.

Clothes, running and work

So here we are, on WordPress, and attempting to create post number one — unless the previous taco-related one counts as a first?

A bit about this week:  it has been filled with bits and bobs.  I won’t talk about the details of my job search, but I will say that things are going well and I am looking forward to, er, be like my friends (!) again, and go to work.  It has been an intense effort so far, full of learnings about myself along the way.  But now, I am looking forward to making a difference in a great organisation and impress a new boss.  Bring it on, people!

Taking advantage of my free time over the past 4 months has been harder than expected, because I discovered that I didn’t have that much of it.  For that reason, the recent break to Canada with Stephen was a very, very welcome pause.

This week I have been afflicted by jet lag and a rather nasty cold, which kept me indoors most of the time, except for a little outing yesterday and one today, to shop for essential tools in view of two projects:  one, to start running again, and two, to sew some clothes!

I had not run much since the Bath Half, aside from a 20-minute jog a couple of weeks ago.  Truly I was being lazy and busy at the same time, but also I needed to acquire a new pair of shoes, after spending roughly a month recovering from 6 nasty blisters and blackened toes.   This should now be a thing of the past, as I have acquired my new training shoes — experimenting with Brooks for a change, to see if they do the trick with my flat feet and over-pronation issues.  And for races, I am lusting over a pair of truly fly little beauties.  Possibly one way to reward myself once the new job is secured on paper – yay!

On the other hand, I was also lusting today over a pair of tailoring shears (I know, this may sound odd).  Inspired by my lovely sister in law, I purchased a couple of beginners’ sewing books and got some of the necessary tools to complement the mid-seventies sewing machine my mum got me.  The project:  a white ruffle cotton skirt.  Today I was experimenting with the machine’s settings on an old tea towel while the fabric I bought was going through its first washing cycle (cotton shrinks).  The tea towel is no more.

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