I had the flu last weekend and was feeling pretty rotten at work the week before. My fever wouldn't go away completely for about 4 days. It was sooo annoying that I had to miss the last day and the assessment of my first aid course from the week before. Now I have to find someone to assess me on my own. That's somehow worse than being assessed at the same time as the group I trained with. I also had to miss softball on Sunday for the third weekend in a row. I blame LINKS for making me sick. I lost sleep at CTW and then the first aid course the weekend after I think it knocked my immune system out of whack. Thankfully the boys were pretty understanding when I told them they couldn't go to the park because the cold air killed my throat. I'll take them today.
The weather's been beautiful lately... once the sun's up anyway. It's still in the 40s when I wake up at stupid o'clock am. After I get off work (at 9 am) Tim and I have been making coffee and drinking it just outside on the sunny mornings while Yasmin chews her stick. She loves sunbathing... we must be related. Yesterday the dad I work for stayed home with a headache, so he took the boys after I brought them home from school and I got an unexpected afternoon off which was pretty nice. We decided to take Yaz to the park to find some friends to play with. She's such a social creature.
I have an interview tomorrow evening for a position within the LINKS HQ volunteering sector. It's called ASO (Assistant Staff Officer) Finance Assistant. The current ASO finance is looking for an assistant, and I figure it wouldn't hurt to have some experience and training dealing with large budgets for a large organization. It could come in handy at some point in my life. It's a 2 year position.
Tim has an interview for a paid job with SJA on Friday. It's a job he interviewed for before called Pathway Coordinator. The person they hired didn't last two weeks. I'm not sure what happened, but that's good for Tim.
I saw a new job advertized through my nanny agency for a new job that pays over twice what I make now. Full-time looking after a baby girl for an American mom and British dad. I'm trying to see if I can at least get an interview because that would be awesome! Then I could fly Guinness over sooner, not worry about budgeting between getting the moped and my British license, and even fly to Texas for Christmas for sure! I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Tim and me to get the jobs. Heck, if we both got the jobs, or even one of us we could get a bigger flat with a garden for Guinness.
I would make sure my current family found someone new before leaving, though. I would definitely miss the boys, but I'd be silly not to look into a job that pays twice as much when I have to worry about budgeting.
Yasmin's birthday is coming up next month. It's April 27th. It lands on a Friday. We thought it'd be fun to plan a "Birthday Picnic" for her inviting whoever wants to join us for the afternoon in Richmond Park near Roehampton University. A good few people have already confirmed. It's just a good excuse to get outside in the beautiful weather, and most people in LINKS would love to get out since lectures will be over and exams coming up. So that's something else to look forward to.
On the 22nd of April I'm going to the London marathon for a duty. It's one of the most exciting duties of the year. You're pretty much guaranteed to treat about 20 people in one day. The costumes some people wear to run 26.2 miles for charity is just ridiculous! You see some running in things like big chicken suits and then wondering why they collapse from heat exhaustion and dehydration. Anyway, exciting stuff!
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