Thursday, 8 October 2009

Thursday 8th October 2009

Finally, after an interminably and painfully long period Carole had her interview today. And found out within an hour that she'd been offered the position.

A brilliant result, and a relief for us all. I do believe Carole has never been this distracted - during the last couple of weeks her eyes have frequently been as glazed as a sugar topped Dunkin Donut

I'm really hungry now for some reason.

Luca will be glad to see the return of an un-stressed Mum, although he'll doubtless miss the many opportunities he's had of late to take the proverbial out of her. He's a bit too smart sometimes.

Tonight we'll celebrate in the same way all parents of young children do - with a DVD and takeaway Chinese. Par-tay as they say.

Also today I dropped my car off at the auction site in Thainstone. It go's under the hammer at teatime and I'll find out how many buttons I've gained when I call them tomorrow. As Carole doesn't want me to be without a car for any period (for purely unselfish reasons natch) I'll be conducting test drives on Saturday morning. Coincidentally the three cars I've whittled my choice down to are from the same dealer - Arnold Clark - so doubtless I'll shortly be the owner of a very little, albeit very shiny, destroyer of the ozone.

As long as the bank pulls their fingers out of their derriere (what's the odds?) and the cash transfer gos through quickly enough I may even be able to make my trip to Dundee that same day in the new motor. Fingers crossed, as I need to get to Stonehaven to meet a friend before we take on the final leg - and touch wood we can meet up with the "old man" down there too. If I'm in a good mood I may even stretch to buying him a pie and bovril.

If I'm in a good mood.

Tonight I plan to reinstall Skype on my PC and - hopefully - talk to Kelly online. I'm planning to get Luca on screen too, but this may be difficult as he's absolutely convinced of the presence of dinosaurs in our loft now, and no amount of persuasion will convince him he's wrong.

Stubborn and single minded. Hmm. Wonder who he inherited that from?

**Useless fact of the day - Skype is computer software that allows phone calls and video images to be shown online, and has been downloaded and utilised by over 200 million households**

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