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This is probably gonna be my last post cos I decided I'm gonna shut this down. LiveJournal is one of the things that came out of the bizarre 18 month period I've just been through and I've been offered the chance to really move on from that and so I think it's gonna be one of the casualties, along with my job and my marriage and my house and, well, pretty much everything.
I got my offer letter for the job with IBM that I've been having interviews for and I'm DEFINITELY gonna take it. 5 grand payrise and a company car and the chance to work up and down the country on the company's expense - all sounds good to me. We have some interest in the house so if we get an offer that means Kerry can move to Canada as per her plan in January/February. That means that my funds are freed up to buy myself somewhere new to live and everyone can move on. At the moment we're caught in some abusive holding pattern whereby things are all very civil (though a bit sad) for 3 weeks then we have seven days of hell whereby I get abuse from just about every angle. So me not living in Liverpool and her living on the other side of the Atlantic sounds like just about the ideal situation to me...
At least my new relationship is going well. There are restrictions about where we can live and what we can do because of the ages of her kids - they're at GCSE age and can't really be moved from their current school - but we can work around that. It's only for another year or so anyway. For now I'll probably be away most of the week anyway and back for weekends. But that gives me time and space and her too - maybe we can grow into the relationship that way more than having been thrown into the thick of certain issues because of the whole pregnancy thing.
But yeah, I'm happy about the new job. Kerry kept the car when we split so I have been pretty hampered by that - I still pay the insurance for something I never drive and have been hoofing it around on foot and public transport for 6 months now. So a car in the deal is a big thing for me. Had some fun yesterday picking what I wanted from the list. I'm down to the big three - Rover 25, Volkswagon Golf, Skoda Octavia. The Octavia is actually the best looking car (it's the only saloon of any real note on the list - well, that I wouldn't have to contribute extra money towards) but I think I'm leaning more to the Rover because of the interior. I used to like the Golf but I think the new design is a bit boxy. Heh, it's nice to be superficial once in a while...
Anyway, like I said, I think I'll be shutting this down. But I'll still probably check in with some of the people on my friends list from time to time to see what they're up to. This is my garbled explanation as to why and then I might remove the journal in a week or so. So cheerio folks, good luck to y'all.
PS What the hell happened in the election?
I got my offer letter for the job with IBM that I've been having interviews for and I'm DEFINITELY gonna take it. 5 grand payrise and a company car and the chance to work up and down the country on the company's expense - all sounds good to me. We have some interest in the house so if we get an offer that means Kerry can move to Canada as per her plan in January/February. That means that my funds are freed up to buy myself somewhere new to live and everyone can move on. At the moment we're caught in some abusive holding pattern whereby things are all very civil (though a bit sad) for 3 weeks then we have seven days of hell whereby I get abuse from just about every angle. So me not living in Liverpool and her living on the other side of the Atlantic sounds like just about the ideal situation to me...
At least my new relationship is going well. There are restrictions about where we can live and what we can do because of the ages of her kids - they're at GCSE age and can't really be moved from their current school - but we can work around that. It's only for another year or so anyway. For now I'll probably be away most of the week anyway and back for weekends. But that gives me time and space and her too - maybe we can grow into the relationship that way more than having been thrown into the thick of certain issues because of the whole pregnancy thing.
But yeah, I'm happy about the new job. Kerry kept the car when we split so I have been pretty hampered by that - I still pay the insurance for something I never drive and have been hoofing it around on foot and public transport for 6 months now. So a car in the deal is a big thing for me. Had some fun yesterday picking what I wanted from the list. I'm down to the big three - Rover 25, Volkswagon Golf, Skoda Octavia. The Octavia is actually the best looking car (it's the only saloon of any real note on the list - well, that I wouldn't have to contribute extra money towards) but I think I'm leaning more to the Rover because of the interior. I used to like the Golf but I think the new design is a bit boxy. Heh, it's nice to be superficial once in a while...
Anyway, like I said, I think I'll be shutting this down. But I'll still probably check in with some of the people on my friends list from time to time to see what they're up to. This is my garbled explanation as to why and then I might remove the journal in a week or so. So cheerio folks, good luck to y'all.
PS What the hell happened in the election?