Snowed In
Well an enforced snow day seems as good a one as any to catch up here.
Life has been beyond hectic for the past few months, I can’t believe that the last time I blogged was July! So much has happened in that time and I have thought about blogging so often yet somehow life, events and mental state have conspired against me!
Not long after my new post I found out that the temp job that I had since this time last year wasn’t going to be made permenant. I was distraught, I really enjoyed my job there and the people but the economy being what it was a permenant job just simply wasn’t in the offing and given the lack of stability that a temp has I didn’t feel it would be wise to remain indefinately. So I dusted off the old cv again and put myself back out there. After the rounds of the various agencies and a couple of months of looking someone finally said that my cv was too diverse, which basically meant dumb it down. I got the first job I applied for with what I had termed “the idiot cv”.
I started a week later and my word it has been a learning curve, hectic, stressful and I’m still not sure how I feel about it. I’m there for the foreseeable future though. In the main because of a decision G and I made back in August.
As the picture says, Gareth (G) and I are finally getting married! I thought six months was plenty of time to plan a wedding, with just over three months to go I am now wondering if that is in fact true!
The date is set though and March 19th next year, nine years after we first met, six years after we got engaged we will be an old married couple. (Even though to all intents and purposes we have been for years!) A small wedding of forty people, those who are important and who have seen us through the horrid patches of death, two redundancies, a teaching degree and a variety of other traumas. Once everyone we told got over the shock they all seem rather pleased about it too!
Congratulations to you both! And I think you’re wise to have a tight schedule for the wedding planning – they seem to expand to fill the time available. But lovely news to hear.
Congratulations to you. Wishing you a marriage that is long and joyous.
Hope you are enjoying the wedding planning, sorry you have been having a stressful time with jobs etc though.
Lovely snow pic!
Congratulations on setting the date – bet you are glad you didn’t choose *that* date in late April!
Yippety skippety! You are back! And getting married! So excited!
Congratulations, that’s a momentous decision. The best of luck with all your planning. I’m sure that wedding plans fillthe amount of time you have available for them no matter what ;-)
Nice to see you back!
How wonderful! Can’t wait to follow this great happening.Congratulations.
Congratulations to you both. If my own (so many years ago, I know) is anything to go by, that sounds like plenty of time to plan a wedding. Hope to hear more.
Congratulations! I hope you both are very happy.
I also hope the job turns out to be better than you expected. It’s so hard to find and keep a job you love.
Congratulations Gemma, on your up and coming wedding and new job! And well a Happy New Year now too!
Glad to catch up with you after a break on both our sides! Congratulations on forthcoming nuptials and a job, and post again soon. How’s the planning going?
Hi Gemma. I’m very late in commenting on this but just wanted to say congrats on deciding to get married. I can thoroughly recommend March as a month to get married. We married on March 7th the year before last. Hope all your preparations are going well. We only had 6 months to plan ours as well and it was fine. I look forward to reading how it all goes. Fiona x