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Date: 17 December 2008 08:38:19
I would tell you about the weekend, but Pants' monster impression scared me so much that I'm too much of a quivering wreck to hit the right keys ;)
The weekend went as well as could be expected. I can't really tell much about it here. The way dates panned out meant that the majority of the time was spent driving, actually, as my visit to eldest son was planned for the Saturday, followed by a visit to someone else important planned for Sunday afternoon on the way home..... but eldest son's welfare review then got scheduled for the Monday, meaning that we had to drive all the way back again on Sunday evening. I am beginning to be able to navigate that route with my eyes closed, which is maybe just as well as I slept most of the way. (No, don't worry - only joking.... I think!)
We were watching a DVD of The Human Body (remember, the brilliant Robert Winston one?) and at one point it showed you in buckets the quantity of tears shed by the average person in a lifetime. I think we may have filled the allocation for our family this weekend, one way and another. I came home to yet another blow - one that had been coming for some time and is better out in the open, but a devastating one nevertheless.
And with the announcement at work that more redundancies are on the way (however many more staff can a school lose and still be able to run?), I have a meeting this week with someone from Personnel to discuss my continuous service - I've been working for the LEA for 20 years but they reckon it's only six.
I have decided that, over the last five years in total, I am doing well in the "Stress Factor Bingo" game. You know that list of things causing stress? I reckon all I need now is