New shoes

Well, yeah, I know.. haven't been writing for ages.. don't really know what about but since Marije asked me if she could link to my blog I was reminded about it again :)

So.. yeah.. I've been busy, first been to our department 'do' which meant that I had to fly to Southampton, 'work' for 1 day, had the do all Tuesday and 'worked' again on Wednesday when I flew back again.

Well.. that was exciting!!
There was some sort of communication disruption (BT they said) on Southampton and they cancelled all !!! flights!

In itself minor crisis, I mean .. BAC pays for my flights and hotels so that was covered, BUT ,it turned into major crisis because the next morning I was supposed to fly to Amsterdam to be part of Kevins birthday! (My OLD kid is now 21 and officially a grown up!)

Anyway.. .it is was definitely a case of adopting the great BAC adagio of 'how am I going to project manage my way out of this one!!'

So... put down the strategic model of :

Current situation vs Wanted situation hampered by what helped by what.

(Did you know hot shots earn thousands by milking this model?)

It was easy to determine what hampered me getting to my wanted situation of getting my butt into Glasgow ASAP - Bloody Southampton Airport.

Luckily I had my mobile and the phone number of my favorite colleague and he directed me to the train where I found out how to get to Heathrow while he booked a ticket with BA to Glasgow for the pricely sum of 191.10 pounds! Dear me! So glad I didn't have to pick that bill up myself!

So, after 3o minutes train, an hour in a hot bus, a 2 hour wait on Heathrow and an hour flight to Glasgow I arrived home at 23:30.

Only to leave again on the Prestwick bus the next day at 13:09

How is that for having a pitstop!

Then.. Holland.....

Kevin was over the MOON with his present (notice the birthday hat that I specially brought for him) and all the attention and I am so glad I went after all, we had a brilliant evening.. I must say.. loads of wine went through my system lately!
So now.. I am trying to get used to living a stable less exciting life which is a bit weird after all this excitement!

The weather is threatening to get bad here for days now but it has been nothing than holiday weather and my system has enormous trouble accepting that I need to work!

How one suffers!