A welcome quiet week after the week from hell

Guten tag

Ich wohne seit immer England. Letztes Woche war scheisse.....oh, wait, I'm not in my German lessons.....


Hello all

Well what can I say? Those who are regular readers of this blog or have me on Facebook know that the week beginning the 13th was a very difficult week for myself. It really was a week from hell.



Digging holes for myself since 1984

Well most of you know what happened to me on the Monday of last week, so I won't bore you with repeating it, but let's put it this way, what happened and my subsequent reaction has caused a major issue.

I've always been very good at digging myself a hole and the way I reacted to that situation is seen me potentially dig myself a hole that I can't get out of. To the person concerned (and you know who you are), I am sorry for my reaction and hopefully in the near future we will be able to talk again because I am ready to put this whole thing behind me and never mention it again. My reaction was unjustified and I apologise. So I hope that when you aren't busy, we can actually talk and try to get someway back to normality.


Anyway, I got hacked by someone who then claimed I was run over by a car and was on my way to hospital (obviously not true). I stepped on a glass that went through my foot, I was contacted by the passport office because of a few issues with my passport, meaning I have to sort that out now again. I saw a few old friends but whilst I was intending to show them a good night, I think I ended up boring them all to death and to top it all off, a support group that I attend was cancelled indefinitely due to external issues.

It was a week from hell.

So I got to this week and thankfully it was a hell of a lot less stressful than the previous week.

Luckily my German lessons are progressing quite nicely and I'm finally starting to get the hang of it.....I think. I was able to hold a conversation in German with a friend of mine and I think that shows progress.....I don't think I'm quite ready to move to Germany though, infact I had virtually no intention of ever going to Germany, so why I'm learning German is anyone's guess.



No more England for me....hopefully

 My applications to companies in America and Canada returned some positive results and although I got a "thanks but no thanks" from the places I really wanted to go, I got asked for an interview to various companies in various locations. Some of the companies have agreed to do the interviews over Skype, but some insist that I actually go, which means I have to hope my passport issues are sorted out soon otherwise I can't do those ones, and one is based in Toronto, which is a place I am keen to go to. Either way, things appear to be in motion.

Even if I am not successful with any of these applications, I am ready to leave England and have started booking some holidays abroad, including Norway, where I have wanted to go for some time.

The diet continues to go well and I've now lost 2 stone and am rapidly closing in on the half way mark. I always said that I wanted to be 200 pounds by the time I turn 28 (which is in September), so to be almost half way after less than 2 months is great. Obviously I'm not going to continue to lose weight at the rate I have been because the lighter I get, the harder it will become to burn the calories, especially at the levels I was burning them at at the start. I'll tell you what though, it's really nice to be able to have clothes that didn't fit me a few months ago now not even fitting the other way. I'm having to wear a belt on trousers that I couldn't get into a few months ago. It's nice.

And finally I must mention a woman called Angelica. I first started talking to Angelica a few years ago when we were both members of the RantRave forum and we got on quite well. After RantRave ended we never really spoke but on Saturday evening we had our first proper conversation in several years and you know what's good? I'm not going to go into what was talked about but it was almost like there hadn't been a six year gap in our friendship. In a time when the people I trust that actually talk to me on a semi-regular basis is down to one or two people, it's always nice to add another person to that list.

So yeah, after the week from hell, the week I've just had was very welcome. It wasn't exciting, nothing extra-ordinary happened and it was generally quite quiet. Another week like this would be very welcome.