All change.... again!

Two weeks on.... and everything has changed! Well nearly everything anyway! So the job hunt was relatively short I suppose, I was applying for anything that I thought I could deal with doing, although none of those jobs were anything like what I actually would enjoy doing for work. I know that some people have this odd idea that you don't need to necessarily enjoy your work as long as you are enjoying your free time.... that is not how I like to live! If I'm going to have to spend over 20% of my week doing a specific thing, then I really hope to enjoy it, or at least have an interest in it!

Well anyway, at the start of last week I was offered a job 18 hours a week, and minimum wage.... nowhere near what I need to earn to be able to live, but I took it regardless thinking I can always get a second job. (And by this point I'm really bored and just wanted something to do!! haha) I then called my old boss just for a chat and to tell her about what I was doing, and I asked her if she needed any help for the rest of the week before I started my exciting new £5.93 per hour job .... to which she replied yes please!

So off I pootle to Cirencester in my little green car to do 3 days work for Nutrition Centre. On my second day I get a bombshell dropped on me.... "Donna I've got a position available at Nutrition Centre, and I wanted to offer it to you before I offer it to anyone else.... " aaaaahhhh what?!?! - was my initial internal response! Hahaha!

Luckily 15 minutes later my very good friend and confidant Dan turned up to take me out for lunch. No joke, I was shaking! I knew that I wanted to take the job.... but I live in Sheffield? How on earth was this going to work!? After an hour long chat and a very nice caesar salad I felt a little calmer. After the rest of my day and a chat with Sam I was even calmer than that.... after accepting the job and returning to Sheffield, and knowing that this is how it was all supposed to work out anyway, I felt my shoulders relax for the first time in what has felt like a long time.

I start in a week... my working week will be spent in Gloucestershire and my weekends will be spent in South Yorkshire, and for all of you who think I must be mad - I'm actually looking forward to it?! I get to spend my week working for an independent company that I love, surrounded by the Cotswolds and all my old friends - and my weekends with my man in a city, which is fun and a stones throw from the Peak District!

Much Love x x

The hunt gets serious!

No no no, i'm not talking about hunting animals, or people for that matter!! I'm talking about the hunt for employment! Lets face it, looking for a job is a rubbish task, and it's even more rubbish because when you are doing it usually you have no income. So it's not like you can enjoy yourself at the same time as looking for a job, oh no, this is a serious, no fun allowed business. Right? Well I just hope it's not a long drawn out process, because it's boring me just thinking about it! hahahaha!

No, seriously though, I have been applying for jobs, but you find yourself applying for things (because you feel like you should) that you probably don't really want. I'm crossing my fingers and toes that I get interviews for the ones that I actually really want! So cross your fingers and toes for me too!!

May all of you who are back at work, remember how rubbish it is when you don't have a job, and enjoy your day!!

Much Love x x

Smiles in the cold!

I am a true believer in things happening for a reason, even if sometimes we can't see that reason. Sometimes I feel like I have everything in the world, other times I feel like everything is slipping away. I know however this is all a state of mind. The other night after coming back to Sheffield, after being at a lovely wedding, where everyone was feeling happy and close to their family, I got to my flat on my own, and the heating wasn't working - it was SO cold, and I honestly had a moment of thinking, Oh god everything is awful - I'm all on my own, I have to go and work at a job I don't want to go to tomorrow, and it's so cold I have to sleep with thermal clothing under my pyjamas.... then (after about an hour of this) I was overcome with gratitude for what I have. I actually said out loud "I'm so thankful to have a roof over my head and a bed to sleep in, I'm so thankful to have people who love me, and thank you so much for letting me meet all the wonderful people that I have, thank you for the food I have to eat...." I'm not sure who I was thanking - as I'm not religious I guess I was thanking the universe for providing all of this for me.

I'm not sure how normal it is to feel like that when it seems like it's all a bit rubbish, but thats the feeling that came over me. I guess that my reason for feeling like this was to remind me of how much I do have.

I am however looking forward to going home again for christmas - as it's still SO cold in my flat!!

Here is a smiley picture to remind me (and you) that smiling makes everything better (right?)

Stay warm

Love x x

A quick doodle...

This weekend I went to a strange indoor festival type party, well I say strange... it was only strange because it was like a festival but it was small, indoors, and it's winter. Lots of crazy decorations, dj's bands, and slightly smelly hippys.... pretty standard. It was fun though, my main reason for going was to watch Sam play percussion for Mantra Rhythms. And I only stayed until about 2.30am, as I felt 5am was a little late when I had work the next day!

I haven't had a chance to go back to the cats shelter since last time, but I'm planning on going again next week as I have a few free days. I'm actually going to be back home for a couple of days or so, which will be really nice (especially seeing as I'm only home for a really short time on christmas)

In my spare time I got my drawing hat on and did a little doodle, I made a video of it....

which you can watch here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2sKmvHPuq0

It's a little bit shaky because I had to hold my camera to film it in my left hand while I was drawing in the other! I want to get a better pen and do some more of these, it was fun :)

The picture at the top has absolutely nothing to do with anything - I just liked it!

Much Love x x

Sheffield Cats Shelter

Yesterday I went to volunteer at Sheffield Cats Shelter, I decided that I wanted to do some volunteering because, seeing as at the moment I'm only working a couple of days a week, I'm going a little bit crazy with boredom. I'm not good at sitting about all day, with nothing to do. So I called them up on Wednesday, and went in to have a look around and started to help them with their daily cleaning.

I was given Room 1 to clean. Which has 7 cats in at the moment, I was amazed that they all get along quite so well! Of course when i started moving things around and scrubbing their baskets and the walls etc, they all got moved around and one of the younger boy cats (Guy) started chasing this poor little timid cat called Pablo around the room! He wasn't happy bless him!

It was hard work but I really enjoyed it, you wouldn't believe it though, the first day I go to help out, I snapped the head off of one of their scrubbing brooms.... and then as I was going out of the lobby door the door handle came off in my hand!!! I couldn't believe it! I was trying to apologise, but I think they found it quite amusing.

I only stayed for the morning yesterday as I didn't take any lunch with me, but I think on monday I'll go again and stay longer to help out, then I can get to play with the cats for a bit too. They have about 50 cats there, there are a few that are poorly, and there are some kittens too. (They also have a cat called Donna hahaha!)

So for anyone who has a lot of time on your hands, go and volunteer somewhere, even if you only do it for one day, you never know you might like it! :)

x x

... a link to someone elses blog...

I haven't got anything to say myself on this subject that this article doesn't already say.

www.thatglassmoment.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/113/

More SNOW!

Yup! More snow!

However after I got over my whinge about it being cold and horrible, I did go for a walk to the cemetery to meet Sara who was taking some photos.... it was beautiful! I don't think my photos are going to really capture how amazing it looked, it was like something out of a storybook, really magical! I took some photos of the cemetery a few weeks ago, and it looked so Autumnal and now it's a white fairytale-land!

I know a lot of people back home are wanting more snow, and the rate it's all going I think the whole of Britain is going to get some more at some point.

I've not ever seen so much snow in this country in one go! It's very strange, at some points in the cemetery it was up to our knees.... of course we had to delve into these conditions in the name of photography (well Saras photography at least - I was just there for the fun of it)

Snow is funny, it makes everything at night-time quiet, like someone has muffled all of the noise with a big fluffy blanket, in the day-time you see so many more people out and about 'cos they can't drive their cars or go to school.

It's snowing some more big flakes now!! I'm so thankful for my warm flat and cup of tea right now!! Brrrrrr!

Wrap up warm folks, it's a blizzard out there!

Much love x x