Busy but good

Wow, am I ever behind in my blog! Sorry, people!

I am busier than a one-armed paper hanger with a cold! I've been working a lot of evenings and from home a lot, too. With the merger due diligence and the financing due diligence, it's been busy. Combined with the audit (and they're new auditors so they need lots of old background info), it's completely mad! And I've barely even scratched the surface of annual report and year-end reporting! Not to mention the information circular that we have to prepare with Grove to send to their shareholders and the complete reorganization of the office, filing system, etc. to accommodate the combined workforce. It makes me tired just to type it!

Having said all that, I'm loving my increased responsibilities with these projects and feeling challenged and valued. I just need to be careful not to slip into laziness (which is my natural state, after all!). I don't have much of a personal life - mostly working and eating and sleeping, but I have managed to get out a bit. Two weekends ago (I am a bad blogger!) I had the twins over for the weekend. It was great just spending time with them. We had fun. We bought two guniea pigs and called them Ant and Dec (they are presenters over here that seem to be joined at the hip!). The girls loved them, although Leanne is definitely more of an animal person than Stephanie. And I am loving them too. I had been thinking about it for about a week, so it wasn't really spur of the moment. I'll post some pictures soon.

On that Sunday, my friend Donna came from Canada. She's leaving tomorrow, so was here for 12 days. We've had a fantastic time, although she has spend most of it on her own, poor girl. She came out for the Business Travel Show (she's Travel Manager with Fluor Canada) and I went to it as well because we are travelling more and more and it's getting hard to keep up with everything. We went for drinks on Valentine's day with my friend Steve - three singles thumbing their noses at all the couples (ok, actually we sat in the corner and moaned). We also did some shopping and wandering around. She's been cleaning the flat and doing laundry and making meals too. I like having her around!! I think I need a wife! But it all comes to an end tomorrow. We're going to see Porgy and Bess tonight (Gershwin!), after I have a drinks things with Grove - sort of a get to know each other thing.

So, that's my life up to day. Fairly boring for all you sad gits out there with no life, but that's how it is sometimes. I often have no life either! Ciao for now! I have more work to do!