Gotta Love Mondays

I knew there was a reason I don’t get into the office at 8am any more…. besides the pain of getting up at 6.30. I’m normally still there 10 hours later which is exactly what happened today.  Attempted to leave at 4pm but got caught up in emails.

Still, I can’t complain too much.  The day flew by and I’m now one day closer to the three day weekend I’ve decided to take next weekend.  It’s going to be a busy week so I think I deserve an extra day off at the end of it.  If I’m lucky the rest of the week will be just like it.

A Family Saturday

While July 4th means no fireworks for us here in the UK, what it does mean for me is a lot of family birthdays all rolled up into a short space of time.

Hence after a looooong (and what I think was a well deserved after a hard working week) lay in everyone (including some cousins I haven’t seen in 5 or so years!) pitched up at the pub for a family meal. It was good to see everyone sat around the same table because it doesn’t happen that often these days now we’re all off living our own lives. Plus the food wasn’t bad either! It’s been ages since I last had waffles but these were good! Wish more restaurants/pubs in the UK served them.  Actually there’s a lot of American food I wish was served in the UK but I think that’s for another post entirely some day.

Didn’t get up to anything too exciting in the evening. Catching up with podcasts (I’m about six months behind) and watching CSI. Problem is with the weekends is that they fly by all too quickly.

Another Week Gone

Next week is going to be a complete nightmare for me. The start of the new financial quarter means endless reports needing to be written regarding the quarter just gone.

I had psyched myself up to spend the beginning of next week running around like a crazy person as the deadlines loom for everyone to input their data into the system I support. I thought I was going to experience a quiet Friday… the calm before the storm.

Seems everyone else had other ideas though and for the first time in living memory they all decided their data had to be entered before the deadline. My quiet Friday disappeared very quickly… although luckily everyone only had minor queries and nothing went horribly wrong.  In the end I managed to drag myself into the weekend without too much hassle.  Finished up the week by seeing Ice Age 3 (see last post) and am now going to take the next couple of days to relax before things get crazy again.

Enjoy the weekend and finally Happy Independence Day to everyone in the US Enjoy your holiday weekend and your fireworks and if you’re working just make sure you don’t work too hard!

Review: Ice Age 3 – 3D

Went with the group last night to see Ice Age 3, which despite all the blockbusters our this summer was the only film so far this year that I have actually had to queue to get into.

What was good about it was that they didn’t overdo with 3D stuff.  Occasionally when you get movies like this they go all out with the effects and are using the technology more to show off. In this film though it seemed they were using it to enhance the graphics which were definitely the best I have ever seen in an animated film.

Overall the story line was good and the movie was funny. Simon Pegg did an awesome job with the character ‘Buck.’ I don’t feel like I wasted my money on this one like I did with ‘Year One’ last week.

Oh and the specs made everyone look really fashionable too!

An Anniversary… Just a Little Late

I only just realised today that this blog is over a year old. I started (if you can call it that) writing in it back in June 2008.

It’s probably been a bit neglected since then but hopefully I’m changing that. It’s really weird how time speeds by. It really doesn’t seem that long ago.

Becoming Cooler

Hopefully the hot weather the UK has been experiencing (I’m ignoring the laughter of my Texan friends at the moment) will be coming to an end tomorrow to be replaced by the all too familiar sight of British rain.  I have no idea what the temp was today but it definitely felt crazy hot as soon as I stepped out the front door today, and that was before 9am.

Luckily the heat didn’t seem to go to my head and the work day passed without any kind of incident.  I’m still a bit confused though as to why my mornings pass much quicker than my afternoons. Still, one more day and then it’s the weekend.  I’m looking forward to a lay in, in a room that hopefully isn’t at a temperature of 30C.

No plans at the moment except a trip to see Ice Age 3 tomorrow night. Not sure what to expect from it.

Getting Back Into It

I said I would try and start writing again and after some procrastination and some gentle pushing from some people I’m actually sitting down to write a full post again. Go me!  This would have been yesterday but sitting in the office until 7pm put pay to that idea as it sucked away all my free time for the evening.

The UK is currently in the middle of a heatwave.  Temperatures are pushing 30C which for a lot of the world is a hot spring day. For us it’s somewhat of a crisis since the British don’t cope with heat well.  The awesome thunderstorms this causes make it almost worth it but they have been somewhat lacking around MK recently.

Work is going well.  We’ve been busy recently but it’s slowly winding down for the summer when people are traditionally on leave and the office is a little quieter. I’m pushing for promotion (and the pay rise it brings) and have some work to complete in order to achieve that and prove my worthyness.  Hopefully I can have that done by the time Autumn comes around because….

…. In other news I am currently going through the process of buying a house.  The pay rise would come in handy for making the mortgage easier to pay.  So far the process hasn’t been too bad. There’s obviously been the inevitable drain on the bank account for legal fees etc and plenty of forms to fill in but nothing horribly complicated.  I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it continues like that. I would hate for anything to fall through right now.

I think I may now go and complain about the heat some more…. however as a cooling final thought, July 1st means we’re halfway to Christmas