Hello!
Remember me?! Yes, I know….I’ve been utterly rubbish recently re my ramblings.
I had such a great run of things, then it all went pear shaped. I’ve always
maintained that writing my posts isn’t that time consuming, and they really
aren’t….but I genuinely haven’t had the time recently. Work has been manic recently, a run of late
nights and long weeks seem to be the norm at the moment. Few other bits going
on too have meant my focus has been elsewhere recently, but we’re motoring on
forward as is our norm! (how many 'recently's' in that paragraph??!!)
Little
update for you from Sandra Land (Beware of low flying Sandras) since we last
spoke on May 1st.
Work…..work….oh
and more work.
I enjoy my
job, I genuinely do. And I much more enjoy being busy than quiet. But things
have been an unprecedented level of busy recently, and not just for myself.
It’s across the board, so at least I’m not on my own! I realise a few of you
may have absolutely no idea what I do as a job and I’m not going to get into a
lengthy explanation as you’ll be bored to tears. In a nutshell, I work in IT
for a Life, Pensions and Investments company. I support Project Managers in
their delivery and tracking of projects, so helping out with budgets, planning,
governance and other such super sexy stuff. I also work closely with the
Account Manager for our German Portfolio. The company made a big acquisition
announcement in Feb of this year (read more here) which, as I’m sure you can
understand, means that things are a bit mad work wise at the moment. For
obvious reasons I can’t go into detail, but it’s a very busy time for us all
for the foreseeable future. It’s all
good though, and just means I enjoy my ‘me’ time more than I would normally!
Exciting
friend things
A very
close friend of mine, L, is due her first baby very soon. Super excited about
this, although I won’t get to see her and the little one until the beginning of
August. It’s worked out quite well
really as I usually have a trip to see her and another very good friend, K, in
the summer hols. L & I are both godmother to K’s son, whose birthday is
August 7th. It’s become tradition for us to all spend NY together
over the last few years, although L was away last year so I haven’t seen her
since last summer. I love our weekends together, fun and adventures with my
godson, and fun and wine with the adults. The addition of the baby this year
will be lovely, can’t wait to see everyone again and play Auntie Zsa Zsa (Godson
couldn’t say Sandra when he was younger, it’s stuck!)
I’m off to
Spain at the end of June with another very good friend, most excited about
that! We’ve both had a lot going on recently so the chill out will be needed
for us both. 10 days in the sun, but, we have a little road trip to Granada
planned to stop us going stir crazy by the pool. Neither of us are able to do
nothing for any length of time so we’re a good match for hols!
Nephews and
niece galore.
I have 4
nephews and 1 niece. A good range of ages; Joe is 12, Josh is 8 (or will be in
a week), Archie and Jess are 5 and Ed is 3. They’re all awesome, and crazy in
their own little ways. I love spending time with them and because I live away,
I tend to book weekends with my sisters so I have blocks of time with them.
Last weekend was one such time. I went over to Tadcaster to spend 3 days with Sophie,
Paul, Archie and Ed. Much fun was had, the boys are growing up so fast and make
me laugh constantly.
On the Saturday we went to the Royal Armouries in Leeds.
I’ve not been since I was 13, and when I went then I had absolutely zero
interest in the place. It was different this time and I found it fascinating. I
especially loved the War Elephant armour. It’s the most complete War Elephant
armour of any collection in the world and is magnificent.
The museum is free,
and I’d highly recommend it to anyone.
The boys loved it too even though they’re both quite young. They both
found things that piqued their interest, even if it was a VT of The Hobbit…..
On the way
back to the car to head home Archie was tiring and lagging behind. Ed was on
Paul’s shoulders, so I complained to Archie that my legs were tired and could I
have a piggy back. He laughed and said “No!! You’re too big!”. So I said that
didn’t matter, pretended to climb on his back, grabbed his shoulders and said
“Giddy up horsey!”. He galloped off giggling like mad and I galloped behind him
down the road. I looked like an absolute eejit, but I didn’t care. The game
served its purpose, he cheered up and had a spring in his step for the final
bit of the walk.
On the way home in the
car Sophie asked the boys if they’d enjoyed the museum. They both said yes, and
upon being asked which bit they liked most, Ed said “the crisps”, referring to
the crisps we’d had in the canteen half way round. Ah, the simplistic mind of a
3yr old!
It’s my
eldest sister’s 40th birthday in a few weeks and I’m looking after
her 3 whilst she and her other half go to Spain for 4 days. I’m looking forward
to it, no, genuinely I am! It’ll be hard work and I’ll be wrecked by the end of
it but it’s for a bloody good cause, and at the end of it I get to see her on
her actual birthday. Plus, Sophie is coming over for one of the days to help
out, the 5 kids love it when they’re together so it’ll be good fun! Plus, I
have a raft of stuff to keep them occupied so I’m confident they won’t be
bored. And, I’ll reward myself with wine each evening. It has to be done.
Other
random news:
I’m
massively honoured to be asked to be Godmother to a close friends little one. I’m
always incredibly touched to know that someone thinks I could be a good
influence on their child.
Having a
nightmare with a tooth at the minute, good job I don’t hate the dentist.
Paula &
Ray’s wedding is in 10 days. Can. Not. Wait.
That’s all
my news and up to date ramblings!
Until next
time, much love!
Sandra
xx
