Turning the page

On Monday I’ll be starting a new page in my life and I hope it will be a better one than the one I’m leaving… I’m changing jobs and looking forward to it. I never thought I would leave this job after just two years. I learned loads, not only professionally, but mainly personally.

It’s funny, I don’t have problems bossing around my partner or friends, like a good taurus does, but being a boss in a professional environment is really not my cup of tea. So, I’m returning to an operational job with enough responsabilities but without the loneliness of the boss. I’ll be working in team again, with people of my age and common interests.

And then there’s home: I’ll be married to a student again as of Monday. My partner has decided to start studying again. I’m not sure I’m looking forward to this, but we’ll see.

Anyway, right now, I’m turning this page and I love the unwritten one(s) that are coming my way…

Life for rent (Dido)

I love this song, and it’s so true…

Here is the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D80B0HCyQpQ

And here are the lyricsI haven’t ever really found a place that I call home
I never stick around quite long enough to make it
I apologize that once again I’m not in love
But it’s not as if I mind
that your heart ain’t exactly breaking

It’s just a thought, only a thought

But if my life is for rent and I don’t learn to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
Cos nothing I have is truly mine

I’ve always thought
that I would love to live by the sea
To travel the world alone
and live more simply
I have no idea what’s happened to that dream
Cos there’s really nothing left here to stop me

It’s just a thought, only a thought

But if my life is for rent and I don’t learn to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
Cos nothing I have is truly mine

If my life is for rent and I don’t learn to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
Cos nothing I have is truly mine

While my heart is a shield and I won’t let it down
While I am so afraid to fail so I won’t even try
Well how can I say I’m alive

If my life is for rent and I don’t learn to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
Cos nothing I have is truly mine

If my life is for rent and I don’t learn to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
Cos nothing I have is truly mine
Cos nothing I have is truly mine
Cos nothing I have is truly mine
Cos nothing I have is truly mine

 

Holiday pictures

Ok, so before getting fired or changing jobs, we spent a few days in the French Alps. Enjoy these pictures.

freney-doisans-pure-nature.ppt

Changes

Life has a tendency to twist in surprising turns.

One day you’re back from a great holiday where you’ve enjoyed peace and quiet, where you managed to improve your love life, where you’ve relaxed…

Then you return to the daily working life. You’re working your ass of because that’s who you are and you want to do do things properly.  And then you get a call from the HR department and you think to yourself “I know I haven’t brought that document, but come on, you asked me yesterday”. So you go up there, to their Ivory Tower, and out of nowhere they conjure up a letter in which they say “We’re sorry to tell you that we don’t want to continue working with you”… blablabla… The rest disappears in a fuzzed mind which is trying to grasp this sudden, crazy and disastrous reality… “I’ve just lost my job and I don’t get why!”

Then you start putting a fight: “I don’t get it”, and before you can continue they tell you “Some people came by, you seem to have failed sending this important fax and they don’t trust you anymore”, “but that’s been weeks ago, before my holidays and everything was fine!”, “Yeah, well, it isn’t now…” No point fighting, you’ll always lose…

You think this is  a crazy story? Ask my wife, she’s the victim… I was working when she was suddenly standing in front of me, tears in her eyes… “What are we going to do?” That’s all she could think of…

So, we’re up for changes again. I’m changing jobs as planned and she’s planning what to do next. I just wonder how the hell we’re going to pay our bills, because, unfortunately whenever they change, even by mistake, we can’t fire those… It’d be nice if life could conjure a turning change in this one…

Back

I enjoyed my holiday and I might post some pictures later on, for the moment I want to post this great You Tube thing… Women are just such a good muze…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs

and an ID list of the paintings: http://www.maysstuff.com/womenid.htm

Waiting time’s over

July 21st, 00:01: after a great countdown in one of our local bookshops, we could buy the final Harry Potter. It took me 2 days to read it and I loved it. Every day I still read bits and pieces, scenes that I especially liked, that make me cry, make me laugh, make me shiver, make me angry…

I wondered several times how it is possible to be such a huge fan of the series being grown up and having started the series when I was deep in my 20s. Well, next to the fact that I like the adventure in it and the whole story, the characters, the settings, I especially love the way it makes me feel: I really get a whole panache of feelings when I read the books, they allow me to escape reality and for a while feel in another world that seems more interesting than ours. Obviously, it’s not safer than ours, but still so great. Anyway, I’ll just miss the expectation of a new book, right now, I’m just enjoying the fan sites, reading analyses, reading the author’s comments and additions. The world of Harry Potter is still full of mistery and open questions.

But waiting time for the last chapter is over.

 And… waiting time for my holidays is over too… or at least it will be by the end of the day. We will travel to the Alps on Monday. I’m looking forward to leaving and being far away from my stressy life, job and neighbours…

 Waiting time’s over and I love it!