On the up

My first week back in London after Christmas has been a good one!

Am back into the swing of thing's with work and have a plan to spend some time in the Project Management office this week to get to know a few people up there.

I've had a fairly relaxing two days off. Bar spending three hours trying to put up some flat pack furniture which turned out to be faulty! I also finally had my hair cut, it was in desperate need of a sort out. I was quite nervous about getting it done, but the salon had some good reviews. The hairdresser was brilliant and I love the result, so here it is!

I have next weekend off, the same as normal people! So I have a few drinks planned for Friday night and am spending some time with a friend Saturday. So a lovely weekend planned.

All in all I'm doing quite well :)

Birthday, Christmas, New year and other things

My last post was well over a month ago, so it's time to catch up!

I had my birthday at the beginning of December. My day was very relaxing, luckily had the day off, so I went to my floatation session I got as a birthday pressie. (For those of you who don't know what "Floatation" is, it's essentially a big tub with Epson salt water in it. The water is similar to that of the dead sea, so it's good for your skin and you float. It is very relaxing! ). After that I went on to dinner with a few friends. My cousin booked the restaurant, it looked a bit shabby from the outside but the food was amazing.

Christmas was the next best bit about December. I worked hard at getting past my "Brick Wall" in part by reminding myself that Christmas was around the corner. I spent Christmas eve and morning with my partner and his family then Christmas day with my family.We went out for dinner which was really good. Over all Christmas was quiet, peaceful and full of family and friends - Perfect!

New years eve was spent in a similar manner, Chinese take out and cuddles on the sofa with my partner! Again Perfect!

We are pretty quiet at work atm for various reasons, so lots of catching up on reading and training. It is a little boring but I am being paid to be there so can't really complain too much. My department head is back from maternity leave, we have never met, so I decided to introduce myself.

This turned out to be a very good thing. We chatted about my background and what my favourite parts of the job were, she then introduced me to the guys in Clinical Physiology. She told me it sounds like I might enjoy being part of the Clin Phys team a lot more than the nursing when it's time to move up the ladder. There is also talk of me training as the units Radiation Protection Supervisor! Department head is also finding out who I need to talk to about nursing accommodation, some space just for me without any one to tell me what to do :) So result!

Am feeling quite good about things atm, which is great. Hopefully I'm starting to beat London!