Happy birthday to jonesiexxxIt may be a grey and drizzly day today, but this will not detract from my good mood, for which I have 2 very distinct reasons. The first of which is this: passing by a field on my way to the shops earlier, my heart leapt when I saw the storks had returned from wherever it is they spend the winter, and were busy foraging for frogs ( Read more... )

...not that I ever really did imagine it, but ( Read more... )

It's been 9 years since I put up my very first, and very tentative, LJ-post. At the time, I had no conception of how much this journal would come to mean to me in the years following: more than simply allowing me to keep a(n infrequent) record of my all too mundane life, it has allowed me to encounter people, knowledge and ideas I never would have ( Read more... )

A new month brings new opportunities! I was approached by a recruiter for a large telecom company who thought they might have an opening for me, and so I've agreed to meet with them on Monday. It would be another interim job, looking after large business accounts, and the profile seems to fit so...fingers crossed (again ( Read more... )

Though they're only tears of happiness for the Dune Buggy viciouswishes has gifted me! Thank you muchly, V!

Another year full of experiences over, and not the best of experiences, either. But who knows what this next, 48th year of my life will bring? I, for one, am eager to find out!

So I tried to get on here yesterday, and let you all know how much I was enjoying the fine weather the gods had deigned to gift me on my birthday, but alas! I kept encountering an Internal Server Error after hitting the Post-button. This morning I read in the paper that Facebook and Twitter were off-line all day yesterday too, so perhaps there's a ( Read more... )

And it's your birthday today, elisi. May you have a fantastic, joy-filled day today, and many more in the future!

Happy birthday, pfeifferpack!

It's my birthday, and I've invited my mum, sis, niece & youngest nephew to go to the cinema with me by way of a celebration this afternoon. I don't usually have much of one, as everyone's always away on their summer hols and there doesn't seem much point in throwing a party, so doing something to mark the occasion is a welcome departure from the ( Read more... )

A heartfelt HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! to quietlychaotic, and as the day is drawing to a close, I hope you can look back on it and say it was a really good one.