More paperwork

It’s been a busy week. I was horrified to find out yesterday that today was the last day to get my son signed up at school for the academic coming year. I’m not fond of paperwork at the best of times.  It really doesn’t help that I’ve recently had to renew my British passport and help a friend with paperwork over the car she sold years ago. I really wasn’t…

September 8, 2011
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Cruise passengers

On Sunday I had my first job with a bus full of people from a cruise ship. I was rather nervous: new company, new route, not as much time to read up as I’d have liked. But I reasoned that I’d picked up a lot of information in 20 years of living on the island and being interested in what was around me, and made sure I got to the…

August 30, 2011
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This diet’s no yolk.

I went to someone’s leaving party on Saturday at a social club. It was nice to be invited, since my husband works with the host, not me. But the buffet was a problem. There were yummy looking croquets, which I couldn’t eat, since they were fried. Ditto the little tuna pastries. I couldn’t eat the cheese and anchovy sandwiches either. I made a beeline for the smoked salmon sandwiches –…

August 21, 2011
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Zzzzzz

I still seem to be tired all the time, and I’m getting very little done. Even my blog posts are getting shorter.

July 28, 2011
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Concert in San Jose

July 24, 2011

I’ve been frustrated by a like of progress with my writing projects, but then I was tour guiding three mornings last week, plus it’s the village fiesta (which makes it too noisy to sleep some nights) plus we had my husband’s belated birthday party on Saturday. One way and another, perhaps it’s not so very odd that I’m tired. Certainly I was tired after the birthday party, but after a…

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