Actually had a fair few busy work days, hence the longer than intended interlude in my entries. I was going to write about my general malaise on returning from another blissful weekend in Rye. However, this was somewhat superseded by my sense of outrage at finding out my brother had got engaged from Facebook, closely followed by being asked by our (as ever useless) HR department to write my own appraisal as ‘your boss won’t bother doing it so just fill it in according to what he would expect’. Let’s just say, neither of these incidents did my self-esteem much good, nor did they lift my spirits when I needed to have them raised after coming back to the city after a lovely weekend in the country. Harrumph (no make that a double harrumph!)
However, I did decide to act as positively as possible over all these issues and chose to be optimistic and philosophical over angry and outraged! I did stomp around a bit to get everything out of my system and went for a stonking run, but I also tried to turn the other cheek and look on the bright side.
My brother’s announcement came as a shock as he had emailed me on the Friday with a quick hello type message and mentioned nothing. When I saw he’d changed his status on Monday morning I actually gasped, and my colleague, Sue, was stunned when I told her what had left me looking so dumbfounded. However, rather than rage at him about it being a nice way to find out, I sent him a nice email followed by a proper card from Kenny and I. When I enquired about the timing it turned out he’d been planning it for a while and they were awaiting the arrival of the ring. So given that he was in Canada for 3 weeks in May, I can only imagine he asked her end April/early May. Just in case I need to say it again, they met in January!
He emailed me yesterday to thank me for the card and tell me they have set a date (28 Dec 2011) and where it is being held. It only serves to remind me how very different my brother and I actually are as his choice of place and style of ceremony are as diametrically opposed to mine as it’s possible to get! I understand the blood thicker than water idea in terms of sentiment, but find it hard to reconcile how we came out of the same womb with such different attitudes to life in general.
Anyway, as I said, HR impressed me with their amazing ability to constantly underwhelm me and live up to all the clichéd expectations of Human Remains Departments. I wrote said appraisal and went through the motions but it does bugger all for me given that no one actually wants to hear my opinions and would like me to simply blend into the background and not be a nuisance.
Otherwise it’s been a peaceful enough week. I looked after the other owner of the business whilst my colleague was away, so that’s been keeping me on my toes, as have my training runs for my fast approaching 10k! I know I have still got a lot to do between now and then but I am certainly improving fitness wise and even if I crawl at the end (ha ha!) I will finish it. I do a lot of hill running in practice which makes the actual flat race seem much easier! Hopefully next week I will have more time to churn out some of my musings. Am now off to enjoy a hot and sunny weekend and a day at a spa with my friend G. Bring it on!
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