Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Happy Little English Housewife

As I've told James in the last few days.....I don't mind being the English Housewife. In fact, I love it and if I didn't have to work to procure our second income just to get by, I'd probably stay home and just do housewifey things.

James has been at work for part or most of the day, for the past 6 days I've been here, and while he's away I've been....sleeping, revising my CV, applying for National Insurance Card, and applying for work. HOWEVER, I've also been....washing clothes, hanging laundry, folding laundry, (I stopped to paint my nails that sort of devilish red color to make me look like a 50s housewife and slapped on an apron), cooking, helping Alice wash the dishes, feeding/playing with the animals (2 guinea pigs, 1 bunny, and 2 dogs), vaccuming, tidying/cleaning our room, and getting rid on an old manky chair that James has always had in that room(thanks to Harry who had this room before James), that kept smelling up the place! That chair smelled almost as bad as a certain relative's house of mine....mom, you know which one.

And in all this hustle and bustle, I'm always first to the door when I hear his car screech into the drive. However busy I get, I always have time to miss my dear husband throughout the day.


A few updates and then I'll be on my way:
My national insurance card has yet to come in the post, but this weekend has been a bank holiday weekend so....there is no post. Hoping that It'll come sometime this week so i can start working by the time we move into our flat.

Bank Holiday. Happens 3-4 times a year and it usually goes like this: Post office--closed. bank--closed. other shops--close SUPER early(like early afternoon). Restaruants and hotels--OPEN! James--super tired and overworked.

I've applied for work! The listing doesn't close until Sept 4th, so I'll have a bit more time to hope my National Insurance Card gets here. And even if it doesn't get here before I start work James says they can still put me on the payroll seeing as how kids Sam's age(16) are employeed and they don't actually get their NIC until after they're 18. Apparently they just mail it out to you if you're a kid growing up in the UK and have been working. So it's not a matter of IF I'll get my NIC, just a matter of when. Anyway, the position I've applied for is a receptionist/office assistant for the Marine Conservationist Society--they're an organization located in Ross that helps promote environmental stuff like beach clean-ups, 'save the dolphins!' and all that jazz. Not a bad company to work for I'd think. And work is work. :)

The other fun thing that happened, happened yesterday. James wanted to chill out and go for a pint after work last night so we (James, myself, Tony and Alice) went down to this pub that looks like a castle--apparently used to be not a very nice pub, but it's under new ownership and it's gotten alot better...so we decided to check it out. While we were there Alice was talking to another mum who recognize her and Tony from tony's Primary school (the other mum, her son used to go to the same primary school before they moved to another district). Anyway.....the mum recommended another pub down the road that they were going to next, so we decided to follow them there. I'll tell ya, this place was a GEM. Called The Cross Keys, it's this cute pub/restaruant--lovely food, lots of space the way pubs go, a function room at the back with a pool table, skittles(wooden bowling) alley, and a jute box, a greenroom padio you can eat on as an extrention of the restarunt, and then a HUGE outdoor garden area including a swingset for kids to play on. This place was definately a family friendly style pub if i ever saw one. And it's quickly become James and my new favorite place. If we go there again this week, I'll take picture because it really is quaint and beautiful.

Ta,
Jenny Vidler