Goodbye 2009, Hello 2010!

Has everybody had a nice Christmas? I can’t believe that it has come and gone already. Myself and J spent most of the holidays apart this year, as he spent a few days with his family, and I travelled down to my parents house to have my own family Christmas. I don’t like being away from J during the holiday periods as it’s the time above all other times that I feel we should be together. But spending a few days with my family was important too, and I know my mum loves having me home, especially for Christmas.

J isn’t totally “accepted” in my family despite countless attempts to get everybody to get along and be nice to each other. It’s been tough getting myself accepted into J’s family too, especially as he has two grown up kids that are more or less around my age. But it all runs fairly smoothly on the whole now. But we decided to go our separate ways for this Christmas as he spent Christmas Day at his ex-wife’s house, so all the family could be together, especially as J has a new grand-daughter this year. (How old am I making him feel right now! Lol). The one member of his family that really doesn’t like me is his ex-wife!! They divorced several years before I met him, so it’s got nothing to do with that, but I guess it’s the ex’s prerogative to dislike the newer model!

But we both had good Christmas’ apart, and I returned home this past Monday, and we never lose our animal lust for one another that we have when we see each other after even just a few days apart. And we get to spend New Year’s together. Still haven’t quite decided where we’re going for New Years Eve yet, we have a couple of options.

I’ve recently picked up a part-time job at a bar on top of my standard 9-5 work schedule, so it’s still a busy time for me at the moment. It’s an expensive life I lead, and I need the extra money unfortunately. It’s great to get back into the bar-work scene though, I really do miss it. No offence to anybody who does that for a living, but I do feel that bar-work is beneath me as a career path. But it really is my calling in life – I get to dress up pretty, be leered at, be flirty, be chatty, meet lots of different people – it really is a great job to have, so I’m glad to be doing it again. Don;t know how long I’ll carry on doing it, maybe until I get bored, maybe until I pay off a few debts and don’t need the money as much, or maybe I’ll have to quit when I have to get back to studying around March time as I may not have the time.

On the topic of exams... Thanks to all those who wished me luck in my exams as well by the way, I did manage to get all three of them completed. I almost didn’t bother going in for one of them as I hadn’t done anywhere near enough study, but I did bite the bullet and went and sat it anyway. I’m just useless at home study, I always think I can be good at it, but there’s always better things to do. I did a college course for one of my papers, so did quite a bit of work for that away from home. But then the other two were all down to me to study at my own desire. And I couldn’t get the mix right, I tried studying a little bit of each every week, but just got confused, so I ended up concentrating solely on one paper for several weeks, and then lacked the time to do any proper study on the others. I really don’t know how I did – I need 50% to pass, and I’d like to think that I’m hopeful that I did enough to get at least that in all three of them. I did get 35% on the exam I took in June after all, and I only started studying for that less than a week before the exam, so I’d hope to do better with well over a month of decent attempted studying behind me.

I’m trying to get back to work on the blog – lots to talk about in coming weeks. Need to get Chapters 5 and onwards of the “Journey” blog written and posted, and have lots of current day catch-up events to bring you all up to date on as well. So I will try to get busy with that very soon, I promise.

This is my final blog of 2009, so have a great New Year everybody, and I’ll see you in 2010!

Had lots of e-mails in the past couple of months from old friends and new friends alike, so thanks for those. I’ve been trying to reply to them all as quickly as possible. And on that note...

E-MAILING ME – if you ever do e-mail me (at blogslut13@yahoo.co.uk), make sure you add my e-mail address to your safe list, as some people are finding that my replies get caught in their spam filter. I don’t want anybody thinking that I’m not replying when I am!!

Take care everybody – until next time...