Part IA, Part UP

UP: Hubby had to be in London today and when he got home he brought me a surprise. A dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts!!! 

IA: No maple bars in there. 

UP: I've had two already and they were delicious!

IA: I feel sick now 

IA:  We're having a very expensive week...sent off a cheque for our baggage transfers (walking holiday in June), paid the balance of our English family holiday in July (the in-laws will reimburse us for this - thank goodness!!), expensive boiler repairs, and we're getting ready to book our airline tickets for the US for Sept/Oct.  Our bank account is really taking a beating - yikes! 

UP:  We're going to the US at the end of Sept!!!  ***Squeeee***  We haven't been since May 2009!  We're going to start in NYC, where neither of us has ever been!!!  And then my niece is getting married down in Maryland, where I'll see all the family!  And hoping to squeeze in some time to meet up with a couple of friends too!    (there really should be a jumping around all crazy like smiley)

IA: It's 6:25 and I've been up for over an hour and a half.

UP: I had leftover Chipotle for breakfast.

UP: I'm going to Peet's Coffee in a few minutes for a latte. 

UP: Landlady's brother brought by new furniture today to replace the falling-apart stuff we had.

IA: He didn't have time to put the furniture together, or take the falling-apart stuff away.

UP: New stuff is 99% done, so putting it together isn't a huge deal.

IA: Except one of the chest of drawers is missing the one part that needs assembly - the handles to put on the drawers. Not sure how to go about getting replacement handles, given that it was clearly all meant to be packaged together.

UP: At least the new stuff looks far sturdier (and a little bigger) than the old stuff.

IA: Aer Lingus' potential strike on Tuesday has me completely stressed out. There are a lot of things scheduled for the end of the week that we couldn't risk not getting on a flight before Friday. Not to mention, my sister and BIL are coming to pick us up and it's not right around the corner, so I don't want to inconvenience them with different days. DH wanted to wait it out, but I was really nervous that as soon as they announce that flights are going to be cancelled there would be a mad rush to change flights and we'd be screwed.

UP: DH relented and we've managed to get on the Monday evening flight. We'll stay in a hotel Monday night and they'll pick us up on Tuesday as they previously planned. We were scheduled to arrive at 1:15pm, so we won't have to wait around too long at the hotel.

IA: I had to call since we're travelling with our cat and she was previously booked on our same flight. I was on hold for-ever! The guy I finally spoke to was a bit cagey about what to do with her. He said there are no other pets booked on that flight and there's room, so we should just show up with the cat at the airport.

UP: I called back to have peace of mind and what are the odds, but I got the SAME GUY! Ugh! But, he reassured me that it will be fine. He said the main thing is that there is room and there is, so it should be fine. I feel a bit better, but not 100%.

Potential IA/UP: Getting a hotel room that accepts pets and finding a place close by that sells cat litter.

That's tough Bmore!  I hope it all works out and you, your dh, and your kitty have a smooth move and a safe flight.

That's tough Bmore!  I hope it all works out and you, your dh, and your kitty have a smooth move and a safe flight.

Thanks! We just booked a pet friendly hotel near the airport. Whew! Now I need to call my sister and tell her what's going on. DH confirmed that 7:30am is too early to call. 

Good luck Bmore!  I'll keep my fingers crossed for you everything goes smoothly!

UP for me, IA for my friend, I've managed to find some truly obnoxious items for her to wear on her thirtieth birthday which is coming up in 10 days time.     The delayed IA for me is that I turn thirty after her.   

Thanks! We just booked a pet friendly hotel near the airport. Whew! Now I need to call my sister and tell her what's going on. DH confirmed that 7:30am is too early to call. 

Hope all goes well. 

UP-While the 10 year old was getting ready for school today she turned and said to me 'I have a friend a school'.  May not sound like much, but trust me this is a big deal!  All of the children are nice to her, but she doesn't really have any friends-until now. 
IA-I received a call an hour ago about the 7 year old.  She had been stung by something (I think a wasp) on the upper eyelid during lunch.  I went to collect her.  She isn't in too much pain, but her poor eye is almost swollen shut.  This is the first time she has been stung.  Of all the places to be stung.....

Oh that's great news for the ten year old Red5!  And ouch for being stung in the eyelid for the 7 year old!

Proud of hubby, as ever, because...

UP:  He's going to be on a work secondment for awhile - doing a job that's sort of in between a lateral move & a level up.  Taking on the duties of his boss's "right hand man" so to speak, who is currently on paternity leave & will be returning assigned to one project only for awhile, so DH will be taking on that guy's role while probably a contractor will be brought in to help provide support with DH's regular job responsibilities.  It means some extra pay while he's on secondment (but not the car allowance), higher profile for DH in the company, and could lead to its being a permanent job change - although it's not certain if it would be permanent or only temporary, still the experience will look good for DH's CV if a similar permanent role becomes available in the future.  He's been a Senior Programmer quite happily for years & years (with the company for 11 years, doesn't really fancy people management) - but I think he's looking forward to a bit of a change.  

IA:  I'm worried it means he'll be working longer hours, for one.  Also, I'm not sure he's looking forward to the part about having to attend a lot more meetings.  And he'll probably have to be traveling away from home & down to Bristol for in-person meetings more.  

Congratulations to Mr. R! At least if he doesn't like it, it's only a temporary move.

My UP: Being bored at work, I dug out my iPod. I forgot I had downloaded the "Rule Britannia" CD featuring the Leeds Festival Chorus (Yay!) It's all the Last Night of the Proms stuff (no shouting though)

IA: I tend to sing along, especially to "Jerusalem" V. embarrassing 

IA: Rent on my house hasn't shown up. This is the May payment, so if there'd been a problem there's been plenty of time to let me know about it.

UP/IA: Turns out the property management company just forgot to write/send me a check. They're fixing that this week.