Billy Joel and other such pleasures....

We are back from our little jaunt to the North of the country. The children were both convinced we were going to Scotland because they had been reliably informed that the top end of the country is Scotland. So after some explanations....they still thought we were leaving England and I decided it didn't really matter where they thought they were as long as they had a nice time.

It was our first trip with a hotel instead of a holiday home for a few years, and our baby settled into things without a hitch. Except for the fact that he and his older brother and sister decided that as they were on holiday they would stay awake for half the night....leaving no evening to enjoy, so when we got home I was desperate to sit with a glass of wine and enjoy some semi-silence while the children were all in their own beds.

I took a few cds with me when I went to get the other half from work last Wednesday because I have no idea how to connect his ipod up to the car radio, and to stick a cd in is much easier. I popped a little Erasure onto bop to, and my daughter decided that she liked the music very much, my older son liked the music and his voice but not the words (we were listening to Love to Hate you at the time) We then switched to some Billy Joel and I had forgotten how very much I like listening to his voice and his music, and the lyrics to his songs. It can make me thoughtful, and also stop me from thinking about all that is making me miserable at the moment.

I applied for another new job today, working for a solicitor in Ipswich. I had an email saying thanks but no thanks within an hour of sending my cv. How depressing is that?

I have a managers meeting at work tonight....ON MY DAY OFF!!! It makes me mad because I have been thinking about it all day, which makes it hard to enjoy not being there.

I made an apple pie today. Its my first one, and I kind of made the recipe up by myself, so I am a little worried it wont pass the vigor of testing it will be put through once everyone is home. It was made to try and cheer my darling husband up as he is feeling a little sad too.

The wind of change is still blowing strong, but its kind of blowing in on itself at the moment and so we are standing still......lets hope it makes up its mind soon and blows us all in the same direction and out of this storm.....