Holiday blues

Holidays are great.

You plan for them for months, count the days til you can leave and then once your there time flies. You reach the end of your holiday not wanting to go back.

Now that I'm back and my sun tan is peeling I feel massively deflated. My lovely sunkissed skin is coming off like the scene in Death becomes here. I feel I might need to wear a full body suit to keep my skin intact.

The other option is to have a massive scrub and sun bed to fill in the patches.

I feel like I've lost my holiday glow and I want it back!!!

Unlike mu usually bubbly posts this has become a bit of a rant and a wallowing in self pity and that's okay.

Lots of love
MLP 

Holiday blues

Holidays are great.

You plan for them for months, count the days til you can leave and then once your there time flies. You reach the end of your holiday not wanting to go back.

Now that I'm back and my sun tan is peeling I feel massively deflated. My lovely sunkissed skin is coming off like the scene in Death becomes here. I feel I might need to wear a full body suit to keep my skin intact.

The other option is to have a massive scrub and sun bed to fill in the patches.

I feel like I've lost my holiday glow and I want it back!!!

Unlike mu usually bubbly posts this has become a bit of a rant and a wallowing in self pity and that's okay.

Lots of love
MLP 

Struggling to breathe

Work is becoming increasingly tough.

The hours are becoming unbearable. The inability to finish a task without something more important popping up is frustrating to say the least and having someone stay home sick without letting the rest of the team know is just beyond words.

Having the fire alarm go off an hour after my shift finished was the last straw that urged me to get up from seat and just walk off.

Sure I've left the office but deep down I know I'll just end up waking early to get in the office before the rest of the team to tidy up lose ends.

To add insult to injury the train is being held at every platform to regulate the service.

It's been a long day and I feel rather deflated I'm hoping a good cup of tea with my feet up will help the situation.

Lots of love
MLP

Night with the girls

Today we've managed to plan something that happens once in a blue moon.

Girls night!!

Ever since we finished uni we've all be super busy, super tired and trying to keep up with our hectic lives.

We all took different paths. One graduated to be a teacher, surrounded bt kids and is now married with a loving husband and a beautiful baby boy whose only a few months old.
One is following the biochemistry route. Running around the hospital always on her feet but fully satisfied that her patients are being treated for cancer.
Then there's me graduating to be in the quick paced fashion industry starting from the bottom with the desk job spotting trends, analysis figures and smashing targets in the hopes of rising the ranks to rub my own department within the multi million company in the center of London West end.

We all work hard and struggle to find the work life balance so when we manage to have a day to ourselves when we can all make it. It's once in a blue moon.todays plan meet up,  go out for a nice meal. Catching up in all the gossip you can't share by text or over the phone. Then of course there will be desert. We're thinking milkshakes and waffles. Can't wait

To a night with friend...

Lots of love

MLP

Sticking to it

I've made the effort and here I am again.

Today's has been absolutely manic. Being the holiday season everyone is taking their time off. It might be a few days here and there. A long weekend or in this case a whole week.

The office is manic enough as it is without having the team a man down.

Today I've had to do my work and someone else's.  Which also means I'm working underfloor 2 managers who both on ocassion pulled rank over one another. It was like a kid being stuck between divorced parents both arguing that their task is more important than the others.

Hopefully tomorrow we can find a balance of sorts and get thins organised, and running smoothly. It looks like I'll need an early start to get on top of the emails stacking up in my inbox and maybe even get a few reports ran before the rest of the team turn up with demands.

Lots of love

MLP

Struggling with Blogging

This has been alot harder than expected.

Cannot seem to keep up with Blogging at all. It seemsnto be a lot harder now that I'm constantly out and about. The only time I seem to find the time is when I'm on the train - where this blog is being written right now.

It's strange how something as simple as taking 5 minutes to sit and write about your day has become such a task. An unachievable task it may seem. 

When you stop am think and about it. 5 minutes to stop and reflect shouldn't be so hard. So I guess I will pull my finger out and make sure I make the time.

Lots of love

MLP

Tube strike....

For those of you living in London I'm sure you're all feeling the same horrid pit in your stomachs.

Tube strike.

The first nation wide tube strike was only a few weeks ago and the wounds left behind from torment are still fresh and raw.  Its starting to feel like de ja vu.

Hopefully you can all make it home okay, for all of you out there stuck getting a bus, a taxi or walking.....





Lots of love
MLP

Back in Business

Yes I've been gone a while. And yes I've been crap at keeping this up.

But it's time to stick to something and follow through.

Surprising once again I start my blog with I've found a new job. This is my 3rd since I've started this blog. I guess I can't seem to commit. Maybe I'm just bored too easily and can't stay in one place for too long who knows. Either way I've found myself getting used to new people, a new team and a new train journey.

This new job is nice. Took me a while to get used to it. I felt like the odd one out for ages. I didn't talk to many people, didn't have the same humour as others, and I'm still struggling to find common interests.

I've always been out of place but here I felt like it was magnified. Like in had managed to smuggle myself into the cool kids circle undetected. Just waiting for the day I would be discovered for the dorky nerd I've always been.

So far I've gone a year undetected co-cohabiting within the pack.

In other news I've found someone I feel connected to and plan to spend the rest of my life with. Plans for the wedding have started and were both saving up for the house.

Its all been a bit of a whirlwind. All very unexpected but I'm happy to have found someone who understands me. Who has common interests. The same childhood and a strong family bond. We both want the same things. We work hard, support our families and one day want to start our own. We bring out the best in each other and have become better people.

So right now life is pretty hectic but in a good way. There are soon many things to plan so many things to save for, so many new people to meet and our day to day lives are fitting around it some how.

This weeks plan. To blog once a day.

Whether its the stresses of work. A song that's stuck in my head. A new restaurant I've gone to. Or just a funny pic from the days adventure I will blog it up for you to see.

Lots of love
MLP