Home Sweet Home

Well I’ve been back home in London for two and a half weeks now. Had a wonderful reunion with Val and we spent our first weekend together catching up with each other. Then the last 2 weeks have seen her go off to work whilst I spend the day busy sleeping, erhum, I mean doing chores. Been job hunting, registering with agencies, deferring my student loan, trying to arrange Chris’s stag do, sorting photos out and catching up with people. Most evenings we’ve been staying in together relaxing and the weekends have involved seeing friend’s, drinking and generally having fun..

Start working again tomorrow full time - boo hoo.

We are actually getting on very well and it's been happy days. Only problem being both of us living in her bedroom in a shared house with no living room. So space issues. Val, being a woman; has a ridiculous amount of clothes. I reckon if she wore a different outfit every single day for a whole year she still wouldn't get through them all. So clothes are spilling out of the cupboards and drawers all over the floor. She's also messy and just leaves everything lying around and never clears up. So its mess & chaos in her bedroom and no matter how much tidying I do nothing's ever in its right place. My poor OCD brain can't cope! I'm fighting a losing battle to impose orderliness and organisation into the room, so I’ve accepted that only my two draws will be tidy and organised. Still it’s only a temporary measure, this sharing of her room.

Despite all this I absolutely love living with her and its great being back home. I can't believe how lucky I am to have had Val wait for me. We are getting on better than I ever thought and she is an absolute gem.

On another note I’ve started to upload some photos from my travels

Here are the photos from Last Summer before I started my journey
http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/dizeestroudy/album?.dir=/265fre2&.view=t

Here are the photos from the start of my travels, my month in the United States, Sep 06
http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/dizeestroudy/album?.dir=5dccscd&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/dizeestroudy/my_photos

I have yet to upload the photos from my 2 months in New Zealand, Oct& Nov 06 but here are my photos from Perth Nov 06 - Feb 07 where I lived with my Dad, his wife Lilian, my Nan and my 5 year old brother Josh.
http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/dizeestroudy/album?.dir=/e07are2&.view=t

Photos from New Zealand, Sydney and China will be uploaded at some other time.

Right gotta go now, do some shopping, cook dinner and then chill out before my first day at work tomorrow - Ugh. Basically agencies got me a week’s work of data entry before I start a 2 month contract doing admin work for Westminster City Council yet again, this time for the library service.