Thanks for the positive vibes

Mum was released from Hospital on Thursday with clearance to fly this evening. Unbelievably she had the operation under local anesthetic - amazing considering what she was having done! Her comments were there was lots of drilling and banging :o Needless to say I will be pleased to have her back tonight.

Still no crafting on my part I'm afraid. It is the newton crop on thursday evening and I really need to decide what I am doing! I really need to start thinking about christmas cards but I just can't get my head around it all at the moment!

Positive thoughts please..

.. for my Mum. Her holiday has not gone so well since she took a fall yesterday morning and has been in hospital since. She was supposed to have an operation today to fix a badly broken arm but it is now happening tomorrow afternoon.

I am desperate to have her back in this country so that we can know what is going on and can speak to her and medical staff - I am finding it very hard!

It seems to be one thing after another at the moment and I hope good news comes along soon.

Again a Bad blogger

Apologies if you are popping by for updates and there aren't any.

Unfortunately there has been no crafting activities here (or many other activities to be honest!) and although I have a few ideas the actual get up and go to do stuff has got up and gone!

I've not been right since that nasty bug and I am rather fed up with my lack of energy. Hopefully things will improve soon and I can move on with making more plans for the exciting future I have ahead of me.

I now have all my dates with the company who have been employed to help us embrace the future and getting jobs once we get our redundancy. I have heard that they are very good so I am looking forward to this (of course it helps that that takes me away from my desk for a while too;):D) Apparently 80-90% of people they have seen from the office so far either have new jobs or have future plans setup i.e study/travel/setting up own business' so that is really positive. Not many people I know haven't got jobs that wanted them so it isn't all as bad as the media make out:D

This is where Mum and Dad travelled to yesterday - Lake Garda in Italy. Of all the places they have visited since Dad improved enough to travel after his accident, this is the first time I have been totally jealous! The Italian lakes in the summer is something I have always wanted to do (although Russ would prefer to go in the winter for skiing!) especially Lake Garda. Doesn't that picture just make you wish you were there. Apparently their hotel is in the forest so I think they will need to jump in the courtesy bus to get to the lake itself but that is not a bad thing if the temperatures continue to remain in the 30's like they were yesterday when they arrived :o

Well I must go and put the washing drying and hopefully I will be back with some more interesting news and pictures soon.

Finally the countdown starts!!

Today I was given the news I have been waiting for since June 08 - my redundancy date!!! The countdown starts now and I have 61 working days to go!! Officially I leave on 30th November but my last day will actually be 25th. I am also going to work 3 day weeks from the beginning of November which will be great.

When i leave it will be the start of a very different journey in my life and I just can't wait. I'm very excited - I know that isn't the reaction that people normally give when they get made redundant but I have had so long to get used to the idea and it is the right time to move on.

I am feeling much better today and have been eating more normally thank goodness. The Dr says it was a sickness bug that is going around and not the water infection that I was concerned it was.

Still no crafting pics as not up to it yet but thought as I am in a celebratory mood pictures of Mickey, Goofy & Donald showing us how to "Move it, shake it, celebrate it!" would fit the bill.

Sickness stops blogging

Apologies for no updates but I have been quite poorly over the last week and have not been able to or interested in sitting with a laptop or at a PC.

Hopefully I will be feeling better next week to do some updates.