Today I’m taking down the tree and packing away Xmas. It’s such a sad job. But I had a wonderful Xmas so that helps get the job done.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

About 15 minutes before I was due to leave work and go home it started to really poor down with rain. It looked like it wasn’t going to stop for ages either meaning a very wet walk home from the bus stop.

Then the printer jammed and I couldn’t leave till I had finished my printing coz I can’t print my stuff at the place I’m going to be working at tomorrow so I needed to have them ready to take with me today.

I did not manage to finish printing till way past my usual going home time. However just as the bus drove up my road the rain miraculously stopped and the sun came out. I got to walk home in lovely sunshine. So you see… every cloud does have a silver lining.

What’s become of my life? Here I am on K Road meeting up with a friend for a few drinks on a school night 🙂

And I walked all the way up here from work. The beer however is well worth the effort.

There is something wonderful about the bus service I use to get to work on each day. It’s the feeling of good old fashioned SERVICE.

It starts from way before you even get on the bus. If you see your bus coming, but you aren’t at your stop yet, you can still signal it and the driver will stop and let you on.

Then a wonderful thing happens, the driver smiles at you and says: “Good Morning” and clips your ticket. (The whole ticket thing and not a machine still amuses me.)

The driver will then wait for you to sit down before taking off.

All of this I’m sure is what then inspires all the passengers to actually say: “Thank you” to the driver as they get off the bus.

I have been meaning to take a photo of these two for a while, so the friend who gave them to me could see how much they are loving being in my garden, especially pride of place by the door, under the maple tree.

My second day back at work today and it was just too hot. It was too hot when I woke up, it was too hot on the bus and I was too hot to work… I felt sick!

At work we discovered why it seemed so hot… there was 98% humidity.

When I got home I checked the temperature in my lounge and it said 33 degrees. OMG I don’t cope once the temp goes over 28 degrees and usually it’s 29 degrees in the lounge when I get home!!!

A friend came round after work today (yes I’m back at work) and picked me up to go out for dinner. She has the coolest car, I’ve wanted to go for a ride in one of these cars for years.

It was so cool to see my friend again and it was so cool to get to go out for dinner in that car (it is sexy red AND the roof folds back) so we were driving round with the top down… Awesome!