Happy Valentines day!!
Not much going on here, daughter restarted her French lessons two weeks back and has been really enjoying it and choir also started back up too. She is doing well for the most part but is kind of waffling back and forth about how excited (or not) she is to go back. On one hand she can hardly wait to be nearer to family and loved ones but on the other she is really getting on with a number of kids at school. Only time will tell how she truly copes but what can be done to keep us here is being done, we just reiterate to her that it will be the next step in a new adventure. Daughter is also excited about having next week off.
Partner has been at usual hard at work, cracking on with her Ph.d thesis. She has just submitted several bits to her advisor/supervisor and is readying for an event this weekend that will put a few good notes on her CV. She recently received a copy of a publication she submitted to the Geographical Review. It reads really good and she was quite chuffed. Partner has also been partaking of Tai Chi classes weekly at my request. I always feel bad that she spends so much time at home (it is part of her job but still), she has had two now and is really enjoying them. She is also trying really hard (I guess she kind of has) to give up smoking and I of course hope for her success.
I have mostly just been working but have been working on some self improvement as well. I have been getting up a little earlier and not spending so much time on the computer for a start. I have tried to spend the time mostly either reading or learning to cook, which is going swimmingly. I have nearly finished an old copy of the Scarlet Letter that I got from a local charity shop. I am also reading an introduction to sociology and will soon be starting an intro to chemistry. I have also been improving my look so I have tidied up my beard and been buying nicer looking and better fitting clothes.
We are also planning a trip to Scotland in the near future, a stay at Loch Ness. Daughter has always been fascinated by Nessie and the like and it looks like a lovely time. Plus the area is gorgeous. I also told partner that I would like to go on a tour of Europe before we go but we have not decided if that would be done with or without daughter as it would be a long coach trip.
Peace...
Love
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Happy Holiday's
Well sadly the Christmas Holiday's are over and the New Year is fast approaching. Me and the family had a great time. Spent most of it in the house, had Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve. Turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy and greens and the rest. Christmas Day we got up at 5am to open gifts, Daughter was stoked. She got plenty of stuff, me and partner got some swank stuff too. Partner and I took a nap while Daughter hung out. Got back up around 10 and made the big English breakfast; bacon, sausage, tomato, mushroom, beans, eggs and toast. Then snacked the rest of the day. Got some Christmas money from my parents which provided the very nice home-made pre-Christmas dinner as well as a rib dinner the night before that.
Boxing Day we went to Staines to see Gulliver's Travels which was enjoyable and took the girls to breakfast and lunch. Got some Christmas money from the in-laws so got an awesome new Nintendo DS game. Also got some new outfit stuff, a handful of nice formal slacks and a few nice button ups. I also got a boss pair of new shoes, it all looks really nice together. The girls picked me out a new sweater vest. Daughter got herself some puzzle games.
The last two days of my holiday were just spent hanging out with the family and enjoying all our wonderful... everything.
Thanks to all my family.
Boxing Day we went to Staines to see Gulliver's Travels which was enjoyable and took the girls to breakfast and lunch. Got some Christmas money from the in-laws so got an awesome new Nintendo DS game. Also got some new outfit stuff, a handful of nice formal slacks and a few nice button ups. I also got a boss pair of new shoes, it all looks really nice together. The girls picked me out a new sweater vest. Daughter got herself some puzzle games.
The last two days of my holiday were just spent hanging out with the family and enjoying all our wonderful... everything.
Thanks to all my family.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Don't ask Don't tell
Is getting repealed, this makes me happy.
Result, since 1993 when the law was put in to place, at least 13,500 American Citizens who wanted to serve their country were booted out of the military by the archaic law. The fact that anyone in the "Nation of the Free" had to sacrifice a part of themselves just to be treated as equals has always been appalling. While people like McCain the "rogue" have stuck close to party lines by trying to claim that the repeal is some kind of liberal agenda, others (Republican and Democrat) have taken just one more step to removing a barrier to all American's being treated as equals.
Others are calling into question how this might affect operations in Iraq or Afghanistan as well as the military in general. I do not see why it would, nor why it would cost anything or why it would take time. All that has to happen is for these countrymen not to be charged and/or booted out if they admitted they were gay, job done. Any of these servicemen/women would already know if the people in their respective units would be welcoming and would obviously act accordingly.
Bascially what I am saying is that this is a good thing. A Christmas gift for all to be sure.
Chris
Result, since 1993 when the law was put in to place, at least 13,500 American Citizens who wanted to serve their country were booted out of the military by the archaic law. The fact that anyone in the "Nation of the Free" had to sacrifice a part of themselves just to be treated as equals has always been appalling. While people like McCain the "rogue" have stuck close to party lines by trying to claim that the repeal is some kind of liberal agenda, others (Republican and Democrat) have taken just one more step to removing a barrier to all American's being treated as equals.
Others are calling into question how this might affect operations in Iraq or Afghanistan as well as the military in general. I do not see why it would, nor why it would cost anything or why it would take time. All that has to happen is for these countrymen not to be charged and/or booted out if they admitted they were gay, job done. Any of these servicemen/women would already know if the people in their respective units would be welcoming and would obviously act accordingly.
Bascially what I am saying is that this is a good thing. A Christmas gift for all to be sure.
Chris
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Just trying
to make sense of it.
Plenty to keep us busy lately. Daughter has been very poorly lately, this is following my being sick last week. Though she has been hit much harder. She started feeling it Friday night and has been quite rough ever since. She has hardly eaten since saturday and has been running fevers as high as 104 and coughing as well as more. Got her into the doctors but they said to just keep with the meds as it was not bacterial. She seems to be on the mend though. She is upset at being out so much.
Partner has not gotten much work done this month. Between being stuck handling most things last week because of my illness and since then because of daughter being sick. But regardless she was chosen for some pimp leadership class funded by the University of Westminster. While it is not a job, it will look good on a CV.
As I said earlier I spent a chunk of last week home sick and have one more day of anti-biotics to help finish it off. I have been trying to psych myself up for coming back to the states and think I have decided that I want to become a pharmacist.
Love...
Plenty to keep us busy lately. Daughter has been very poorly lately, this is following my being sick last week. Though she has been hit much harder. She started feeling it Friday night and has been quite rough ever since. She has hardly eaten since saturday and has been running fevers as high as 104 and coughing as well as more. Got her into the doctors but they said to just keep with the meds as it was not bacterial. She seems to be on the mend though. She is upset at being out so much.
Partner has not gotten much work done this month. Between being stuck handling most things last week because of my illness and since then because of daughter being sick. But regardless she was chosen for some pimp leadership class funded by the University of Westminster. While it is not a job, it will look good on a CV.
As I said earlier I spent a chunk of last week home sick and have one more day of anti-biotics to help finish it off. I have been trying to psych myself up for coming back to the states and think I have decided that I want to become a pharmacist.
Love...
Monday, December 6, 2010
All at once
the world can overwhelm you.
To any who read my post yesterday, do not think that I have any misconceptions about the return being about me, it is not. At the very most I am a third in the pie but most probably less.
Partners parents miss their grand-daughter terribly and partner feels bad having them so far apart. While partner misses her parents as well. I would be plenty happy to see my parents too. At the end of the day I just want my family to be happy, healthy and cared for. I know it would make them immensely happy to be nearer to their family so that is what it will be.
Peace... One Love
To any who read my post yesterday, do not think that I have any misconceptions about the return being about me, it is not. At the very most I am a third in the pie but most probably less.
Partners parents miss their grand-daughter terribly and partner feels bad having them so far apart. While partner misses her parents as well. I would be plenty happy to see my parents too. At the end of the day I just want my family to be happy, healthy and cared for. I know it would make them immensely happy to be nearer to their family so that is what it will be.
Peace... One Love
Sunday, December 5, 2010
times like these
What will be will be. Not a heck of a lot lately. Pretty much finished with my dispensing course, just a couple more items and it needs to be signed off on. We finally got a new manager and hopefully as he gets settled in things will start to smooth out. Been a bit crazy lately so it needs to happen.
Daughter had her first private French lesson Thursday past, and loved it. She did brilliantly as well. If the French goes well we may start her on Spanish at the New Year. She has been doing well in school and choir especially is going well for her. She is doing a bit of caroling over the next few weeks, a couple care homes and the local Proctor and Gamble R/D office. And in January her group is doing some kind of performance at the O2 Arena. That is wicked!
Partner has been working her butt off. Rough finished a couple chapters, started some stuff and planned out a few conferences. She has also reworked her thesis to lessen the work load.
As well I have been practicing my cooking and have been following and even improvising a few recipies, though with my partner and daughters help.
On a more... somber (?) note, we have begun planning to return to the US. While nearly a year away, the likelihood of us being able to stay on is becoming slimmer and slimmer. Regardless of any inherent difficulty in being picked for the necessary grant thanks to usual academic competition, higher rates of joblessness has driven the difficulty up. Add to that the fact that the government here has recently issued massive cuts to higher education just worsens it. So while partner is trying her damnedest, in the end it may just not be meant to be. Staying on has been a major driving reason in me pursuing higher paying employment. While the three of us will be saddened, I will be extremely so... I really like it here. I miss my family and all but do not miss where I lived when in the US. I will deal with it as I have to and will strive to improve myself when I return to the States as I really feel that if I had educated myself years ago, like my partner strongly suggested, it would have increased the chances of us to stay.
I really doubt the fact has settled in for daughter. She has spent the last two years making friends and it will be hard for her. She is really starting to come in to her own and the school she goes to is really good if frustrating sometimes.
Peace... One Love
Daughter had her first private French lesson Thursday past, and loved it. She did brilliantly as well. If the French goes well we may start her on Spanish at the New Year. She has been doing well in school and choir especially is going well for her. She is doing a bit of caroling over the next few weeks, a couple care homes and the local Proctor and Gamble R/D office. And in January her group is doing some kind of performance at the O2 Arena. That is wicked!
Partner has been working her butt off. Rough finished a couple chapters, started some stuff and planned out a few conferences. She has also reworked her thesis to lessen the work load.
As well I have been practicing my cooking and have been following and even improvising a few recipies, though with my partner and daughters help.
On a more... somber (?) note, we have begun planning to return to the US. While nearly a year away, the likelihood of us being able to stay on is becoming slimmer and slimmer. Regardless of any inherent difficulty in being picked for the necessary grant thanks to usual academic competition, higher rates of joblessness has driven the difficulty up. Add to that the fact that the government here has recently issued massive cuts to higher education just worsens it. So while partner is trying her damnedest, in the end it may just not be meant to be. Staying on has been a major driving reason in me pursuing higher paying employment. While the three of us will be saddened, I will be extremely so... I really like it here. I miss my family and all but do not miss where I lived when in the US. I will deal with it as I have to and will strive to improve myself when I return to the States as I really feel that if I had educated myself years ago, like my partner strongly suggested, it would have increased the chances of us to stay.
I really doubt the fact has settled in for daughter. She has spent the last two years making friends and it will be hard for her. She is really starting to come in to her own and the school she goes to is really good if frustrating sometimes.
Peace... One Love
Saturday, October 9, 2010
sooooooooo
not much of a title I know but.... it is what it is
Went to the fair last weekend and spent more money than necessary but daughter and I had a good time, did some bumper cars and the other rides. She won tonnes of stuff and we had a blast. This weekend she decided to come down with the common cold so we are putting off our already rescheduled trip to the Sherlock Holmes museum. We are quite excited about it, however, and will get there sometime this month.
Partner has been hard at work, after an incredibly promising meeting with the professor of another university, and has submitted her part of the paper they are working together on. She has now also started to work on her grant proposal to extend our stay.
I have been working, not much else. Doing my dispenser course as well but with the evening pharmacist who is training me leaving on maternity at the end of the month I may have trouble finishing. The shop is not doing so great either since my manager resigned, she was not happy. We have not only been left managerless but we have been short staffed for awhile as well so....
I will have a few reviews up on my other site as well, a couple GI Joes, a Marvel Universe figure and one of the Transformers on my top five list but first there is going to be another one of my lovely rants.
Peace...
Chris
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