a whole month putting it off, and then some

Categories: france, gloria, work, hols, my-beloved

Date: 10 March 2009 10:31:17

You'd think that seeing as I'm looking for work I'd take time to stop and write a few blog entries once in a while :) You should be so lucky... And that's in spite of Fabrice's efforts to encourage me to get round to it. He's been reminding me and making jokes about me not writing since before we went away.

Fabrice took us both on holiday to Strasbourg first week of February and I still haven't got round to saying anything about the lovely week we had in one of the most picturesque areas of France.

I'm still looking for a job and it's looking like a long haul because everywhere either says 'No, you haven't got the qualification' or ' No, but we'll keep your CV in case something comes up'. I do prefer the second answer by far but it has no consequence short term.

I'm low on agency work this week so far and I've caught a cold/sore throat so I'm happilly staying in to carry on decorating the entrance hall and catching up a little on the job-searching I didn't get time to do last week. It's been long enough I haven't done many hours per week that last week's 32h killed me dead! I was so tired by Friday, it became a joke and i forgot loads of things I was meant to do. This week's main missions are as follows: this afternoon I get ID photos taken and put in the application for my French Carte d'Identité, tomorrow evening we go and get a French mobile and SIM (has to be on a prepaid contract cos you don't have cheap pay&go options here!) and finally I have to take the odd form I got from the UK expats social services/national insurance dept and give it to the French equivalent office, hoping that what the form contains is what the CAF need to know, fact of which I am really very unsure.

Oh, a little news on Guy, who is still back in the hospital and seems to be doing nearly ok. He's been given some info by a protected housing co in the Midlands and has to think about it. The social worker and hospital still seem to find it impossible to keep Maman informed and I'm not sure Dad knows much more either. Maman got this news from Guy when she last rang him. I think she's been trying to get in touch with sw or hospital to complete the picture but it's not an easy task.

Well well, I've got a cup of coffee going cold and it needs some attention :)