Once more into the breach...

Can't remember if I've used that title before...... never mind. Only another seven weeks till the summer holidays and still no word of a permanent post. However, I have two days booked off at BQ and two more weeks at the other school - possibly four, as the teacher whose P5 class I will be taking is going into hospital for a procedure I have had done myself and I don't see her getting back in two weeks - I couldn't have gone back so quickly, anyway, got two weeks definite work so that's good. Who knows, might even get up to the end of the term out of it? But I'll not be holding my breath or counting my chickens just yet.
I haven't done multicolored text in this blog at all, I used to do each paragraph a different colour in my old AOL blog.... Maybe I'll start doing it here too! I lke a bit of variety and colour about the place! So, what's new? Apart from the job thingy, not a lot. Still working my way through the bags of stuff I brought home - although I have managed to get some of it stuck up into the loft it will still need me to go up there and sort it all out into the correct boxes. I did have a wee trip to Ikea and purchased some magazine files and large cardboard cartons and am gradually filling them. Who knows, I may even get around to typing up and printing off the contents labels I am planning to make for them!!!! Have also been attacking little bits of the house and clearing out one area at a time. It's been quite good having the opportunity to have a few extra days with no-one in the house to get on get things done! I remember reading somewhere that when you have a humoungous amount to plough through you should set small targets for yourself. 'Select a shelf or a drawer or a small area and spend no more than half an hour sorting it out.' I must say I have found the positive mental glow of achievement from doing things in small bytes, as it were, is quite stimulating! I've been plodding on through the filing and sorting of the den and every so often I stop and go and do a small task somewhere else. It really does work and I commend the idea to the house!
Other things I have been doing is sorting out the prospective music for the Panto. Had a long chat with two friends who will be majorly helping in creating the music (we're recording it all at a friends' studio) and made massive inroads into the playlist. To say it will be an ecletic mix may be a bit of an understatement. Further comment will follow as we finalise and tighten up the definites and scrap the possiblys. Still haven't finished revamping the script but this has to be done in conjunction with the music as I have to set up the song in the preceding tract of dialogue otherwise it turns into a play with songs flung at it. Definitely having a Twilight scene though! No details till I have it all written as I would not like a random browser to perhaps hijack my idea.
Heard on the Radio that some lucky duck has won £110,000,000 on the Euro Lottery. Spent a pleasant half hour with a coffee contemplating what I would do with that amount of money. Suffice to say my family and friends would benefit, as would my Church and our Theatre. I know the house I'd buy - and yes, it is empty and for sale at the moment - how I would renovate and decorate it, I'd buy a small cottage nearby as well and employ and install in the cottage, a housekeeper and gardener (It's huge!) and we would absolutely have a dog!! Clearly I would not have to work but would probably do a bit of voluntary work in the local hospital or find something to fill my days other than reading, painting and playing with the dog. I'd want to learn Italian and go to Italy and see all the great art and architecture. I'd love to go Australia and America - not necessarily on the same trip! I'd love to go to Cape Town in January and experience the summer there.... all pie in the sky, but it doesn't hurt to have dreams and ambitions. Mind you, if this is what I'd like to aspire to, I suppose I'd better start buying lottery tickets...
Well that's been a bit of a post, haven't done this for a while! I must try and do this more often, but if I don't, well, perhaps it's because I don't have anything to say. Anyway, this'll do for now,

Till next time.