Friday, 13 March 2009

Springcleanin'

So for a while there this was my mood Danger_deephole. Various personal circumstances and getting laid off whilst on my penultimate day of my probation period in the new job meant that I wasn't the happiest of campers. Something to do with feeling like I lost control there for a bit. And yes, I am a bit of a control freak. There. Now it's out there. But I am also blessed with great friends and lovely family, who've been patient and kind. And then, relatively out of the blue, another job surfaced (and my personal circumstances worked out better than I could've hoped). I'll start in 10 days time, and I'm very excited, since it ticks a lot of my boxes, but most of all it'll be working in digital. Hell yeah! So there you go. Happy weekend. Don't forget to smile.

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13 Mar 2009 14:04:01 | Ranting and raving

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