Two blog posts in a week, wow I am on a roll.. Hmm, maybe not. But everything's relative. Anyway, I'm just saying hello and I'm ok. Pretty much. This may have something to do with the fact I have one day of work left, then a holiday :) To Canada for a couple of weeks with the parents :D This amazing trip was booked over a year ago now (I think, it feels like a long time) and after holding out for a while 'in case I got a job' (so we'd know something about the best time/holidays etc) we went for it. And then I got a job. Well, not quite that soon, but anyway. They have to let me go, even mid-newting, cos its booked! Hoorah!
So, we're flying on Thursday, to Toronto, and then getting on a little (but rather impressive sounding) train that takes us all the way into Jasper, Alberta, where we then spend some time looking round, and going on trips up to pretty lakes and walking on glaciers and so on. Then we go on a bit further west and into a couple of other national parks before ending up in Vancouver for a couple of days. So when people have said where in Canada are you going, there's not really a short answer!
I'm actually looking forward to it now. Which hadn't happened up untill an hour or so when I started packing.. before then it didn't quite seem real, all it was was a time when I wasn't working. I've been too busy and shattered to think about it more than that. But now its starting to be real. I've got my stuff (more or less) packed. And found my passport. And when I finish work tomorrow I get to drive home. It will be lovely to see my parents and get to spend some actual time with them when we're not all really busy, which we don't get a lot of these days.
The only downside is due to my new job starting part way through the holiday year, I only have enough days for this holiday, and not really anything else. I've managed to swing a day off for Chris' graduation :) but we had to cancel our trip to Scotland which was a shame. But I don't think there's any danger of us not managing to get up there sometime. The more places I see, the longer the list of places I want to see seems to get. Maybe its easier to say where I don't want to go. That wouldn't take long!
Well, I might manage to pop in sometime while I'm away, but if not, I'll see you in June!
Has it really only been a month since I blogged last? It feels like at least two. But here I am. I'm still alive at least.
I've meant to blog, but somehow not quite known what to say. And when I have, and have wanted to write, I haven't had the time to stop by a computer long enough. Life here is busy. Very busy. This time of year is 'newt season', which is when we have to complete any surveys for Great Crested Newts (heavily protected species in the UK) which we've recommended be carried out. Don't ask, its complicated, but they have to be done pretty much now. So I've been thrown into heaps of evening working, not getting back till late, and still more or less having to work in the day as well. So you can see why there's not really been a lot of blogging time.
As well as things being busy, its very hard being here and feeling quite this alone. Its one thing getting used to living on my own, which in itself I quite like. Its another thing to be somewhere where there is absolutely no one I know, and the only people I see are those I work with, cos I haven't got the free evenings right now to go out and do anything else. So for now, its just me. And sometimes I'm ok and sometimes not.
Feeling very isolated isn't helped by having to cope with Chris being (what feels like) very far away too. Long distance isn't a fun thing. And there isn't anything we can do about it for the time being. There are lots of things we just don't know about at the moment, and I have to learn to be patient. I'm trying to be better at dealing with uncertainty, but thats never really been one of my strengths!
I didn't want to start blogging from here with quite so much doom and gloom. I'm doing ok, its just hard sometimes. I spose thats all I wanted to say. I'll be back, hopefully feeling a bit more upbeat.
Ramblin\' Folkie 
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