A bed of roses

But I got through it. Did some poking around in Power App/Project and also watched some webinars that gave me some ideas. Next week's looking pretty quiet, too, so I shall continue with the poking.

I made husband laugh by mimicking his youngest brother, earlier - in an affectionate way, of course. It's good to laugh together.

Still no baby... But today is not only the birthday of one of my sisters-in-law but, as far as I could work out, of our last cat. When I told daughter it was Boris' birthday she said, 'as in the cat?'. Well... yeah... how many Borises do you think I know?!

I'd quite like her to be born tomorrow. 16 is twice 8 and 16 + 8 = 24. I like number patterns :D

But eldest grandson passed all his A Levels, the first in the immediate family to do so. Daughter and I both did the first year but then gave up due to being pregnant. I did an access course - equivalent of 3 A Levels - later, and then uni. Daughter has learned through doing. Of course, uni is always there - both our kids could cope with a degree. But it would be part-time with work and stuff.

Grandson has been applying for apprenticeships but we don't know if he's been accepted on one. Fingers crossed...

And it sounds like Clearing went well for the uni. It's a lovely feeling when you can make someone an offer but so hard when you can't. But as most of my family prove, uni really isn't everything!

Just caught up with The Rookie. Monica is so deliciously bad - but she's in danger of tipping into caricature, I think. Lopez and Harper are total bad asses - really looking forward to them taking her down. And they're juggling small children and long-term relationships AND daily danger. I know it's fiction but real police officers are parents.

Foot doctor for husband tomorrow - and I need to book the dentist for a check up.

I'm training-from-home on Thursday and Friday, so I was in the office today. Gotta make those three days up! Somehow, I managed to spend the whole day doing work-related stuff - but most of the afternoon was clearing out my sent items. This is a useful exercise, though - it means there's less electronic rubbish in my sent items (meeting invites and responses to invites, sets of minutes and or papers for meetings long in the past) and sometimes prompts me to pick up work I somehow managed to drop. Like I realised I hadn't sent the last lot of draft minutes from a project board to the PM for review - and the board was 10 days ago! 

Tomorrow looks like it could be just as tedious, so it might be time to tackle my 'archive' folder, which currently has 2k+ items in it. I don't need all of them!

On the way to the office, I called in to the Banardo's shop on the off chance that there might be a nice long, black cardigan. No cardi but I did spot a navy Coast dress with a belt and uneven hemline. It was only much later that I checked the size properly and worried it might be too small. I tried it on and it JUST fits. I am very much looking forward to wearing it tomorrow!

One problem with being in the office today is that I usually wash on a Monday. When I woke up the sun was shining, so I toyed with the idea of racing to get a load done and on the line - but first I checked the weather forecast, which said it was going to rain. So, I ended up doing the washing this evening and hanging stuff up indoors. The rain did indeed come but did not make the world any cooler - in fact, it's now stuffy and humid. Yay.

Spent some time with the boys watching old episodes of HIGNIFY and Only Connect for Comic Relief, then came upstairs for an episode of Psych, whilst they watch Traitors US. 

And soon I'll be rolling in to my lovely bed with its lovely clean bedding.

 Last night, I FINALLY got to play the Gladio/Iggy version of Ch13. It was... interesting. They took a different route through the Keep and it filled in some of the gaps in the story. I'm not sure what I was expecting, really. Anyway, I'm now at the beginning of Ch14 and expect to finish the game on my next session - which will probably be Friday.

As well as my own realisation of what's going on on the train, I watched a YouTube video yesterday that tied it all in with the rescue of Prompto. So THAT's why he asks those questions! Of course!!!

I've said it before (and I'll probably say it again!) but this game really does have the best plot of any FF game ever, but it's probably the most poorly executed. But doing this 'story only' playthrough has helped so much with making everything make sense.

We had a lovely meal on Monday night. It's just nice to be the two of us now and then.

I'm having another week of having to look for stuff to do, this week. Everyone else seems REALLY busy and I worry that I'm not doing something I should be doing - but I'm really not. I spent some time yesterday looking at some of the JDs for jobs I've applied for in the past to give me some ideas for expanding my role. I'm not interested in redrafting my own JD until I'm in a position to go for a promotion, but I need to be able to demonstrate how I am working above my grade. I have time.

The only other news is that the house sale should be completed on Friday. It's taken nearly a year but we're nearly there...