Living in Sin

I am now officially living in SIN with Phil! *happy dance*

Jordy moved out on the Friday we came back from France and Phil moved straight in! Although it’s only early days, it feels great. It really is ace having my man in the house. It is a little odd, I keep expecting him to go home, and it’s been a long time since I lived with a partner (not since Sam in 2005), but truthfully, it’s lovely. Really, really lovely. It gives me a strange sense of satisfaction and silly girly happy to see his things in the house, looking like they belong there. Hopefully the coming weeks will just strengthen that feeling. He seems to be settling in to the room really well and appears to be totally comfortable with everything – and he’s loving living with three cats! They seem extremely pleased too, as they have a multitude of boxes to explore and a new bed to sleep on all day! Oh, and we have a home telephone for the first time in years too! It’s all change, but it’s good change!

Jordy is obviously missed though – and not just because I’ve been doing loads more washing up! Letting him settle in this week and then all round to his and Andy’s seafront pad on Saturday for the housewarming shindig! YAY! I have a feeling I shall be visiting them a fair bit J

On Sunday we had planned to either go to the London Alternative Market in Clapham, the Steam punk Hidden Circus at the Marlborough Theatre or to see my friend Luke Wright perform at the Komedia. As always, weekends go by without anything to really “do” and then it all happens at once! Ironically, we didn’t manage to accomplish any of this, mostly due to the horrific red wine hangovers we both woke up with in the morning! Plus, funds were pretty low so we couldn’t really justify going out...but all was not lost! We ended up going to see the totally fabulous Lady Boys of Bangkok with Becca and Jonis – for FREE! Becca got some tickets through work and very kindly invited me and Phil. It was SO ACE! Stunning, stunning costumes, and stunning people! Almost unbelievable that they were truly men. I’d honestly recommend seeing them to anyone actually. It was a cabaret style performance in a gaudy Thai Pavilion on Grand Parade - there till late March, so go, go GO!

Back at work today after what feels like an eternity and yet, no time at all.

The holiday in France almost feels like it was in another lifetime, it’s quite bizarre. I came back yesterday as France celebrates May Day on the first of May, wherever in the week it may fall, and I have to take French Bank Hols (but I’m not allowed to take all of them, sadly, and there’s a lot! Everyone in the office takes a standard amount of Bank Hols regardless of the country they work for, the majority of them being taken to coincide with their country’s ones. It’s a bit complicated but it works out. Anyway)

It had been uber busy while I was away, but it seemed that most of my work had been done in my absence this time which really helped. I’m already swamped with orders but I appear to be coping so far!

Luciano got the job on the UK team which means he is now sitting at the desk right behind me! JOY! That totally rocks. From temp on the 1^st floor to permanent member of staff on the 2^nd floor, he’s going up in the world ;)