16.09.98 - Fireworks going off and a flight from misery

I may have to break my own rule that I created that said I would create all my own graphics for this site. The reason is not that I am incapable of producing simple graphics to enhance the text and design of my site but it is merely that I don't have a working graphics package any more to create them! I had a shareware version of Macromedia's Fireworks but the clever little software people at Macromedia have put a lock on the time limited trial that means the program won't even work if you turn your clock back. It's a shame because I loved that program and it made it so easy to create my graphics. Unforunately it's too expensive for me to buy and not feel like I have given in to whim of extravagance and I am too inexperienced with graphics programs to get the full benefit from them. Maybe I will have to commission my friend Kath to create the graphics for my site. Hehehe.

I was as miserable this morning as I had been yesterday and I trudged off to work with a face longer than an aardvark. I had no patience for anything and I sat there getting more and more pissed off as the day went on. I gave my work to Pauline because she had nothing else to do (and because I am not supposed to be spending much time on statistical work at the moment anyway) and just sat there sighing and getting annoyed having to help her figure things out. I was not really annoyed with her because the work was very complicated and she cannot be expected to know how to do it without some help, I was more annoyed with myself and the overall situation. It was just as well that I had the afternoon off or I would have been dreadful by the next day. My project manager was a bit "off" with me as well. Perhaps unintentionally and perhaps I was being a little oversensitive to little things but it just got to me.

The afternoon was MUCH better. I got so much done in so little time that I really amazed myself. I usually procrastinate and fiddle arse about until I only get half the things done that I wanted to but today I just seemed to be very organised. I got my hair cut at last and didn't have to wait because there was no-one else in the barber shop. I got a bank statement (boo-hoo, I need more money!) and then got some money out. I then went to the travel agents and booked my flights to and from the USA! Wohoo!! Yes, it's true folks. You've heard the rumours, you've seen the pictures, now live the experience! Rich is coming to America!

The flight leaves London's Heathrow airport on 16th November in the late afternoon and goes via Washington on to Atlanta. I then have a week in Atlanta and come back to Washington. I have a week there and then leave and arrive back in London on 1st December. I am so excited I can hardly wait (like I can hardly wait for anything. I am so impatient!). The flights were so cheap as well. I had expected around £400 because of the two different stops I wanted to make but as Washington is a stopover destination for Atlanta anyway I only have to pay the one return fare to Atlanta which came out to a total of £293. This is really good news to my ears and had I known it was this cheap I may have done it sooner. I have been on a high ever since I booked it and I am just so pleased things have worked out so well after having had a miserable time yesterday. I thought I would be wallowing in misery for about week but luckily this was just what I needed to pull me out of it. I will get to be in America for Kath's birthday and Thanksgiving, I will see Mark, Beau and Dan the dog, hopefully I will see Theda too and I will get to see two different areas of America and I just know I am going to have the best time I have had in ages!

This weekend should be good too. It's my Mum's birthday on Saturday and then on Sunday I am meeting up with a friend for lunch in London. I didn't know what to get my Mum so I bought her a massive box of chocolates (eeek! She just told me she wants to go on a diet....oh well, she'll have to put it off until the chocolates are gone. hehe). I am going to put some money in with her card too and then offer to take her to one of the big shopping centres outside of Aylesbury if she wants. I offered tonight but she said she had no money to go shopping. She may get some for her birthday and may change her mind. Hehehe. Apart from being a bit peeved about not having a graphics program and having a headache I am very happy. Did I hear someone say "mood swings"?

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