So I made this journal a bit more public. Not sure why, but maybe I have some sort of perverse desire to have total strangers peek into my life. This is still a hidden link on the main site but anyone who knows how to view the source can find it easily enough. And I'm showing up in search engines, confound it all. Oh well :)

Went a little bit mad with the tax refund money (after the bills were paid of course) and bought a few nice things. Felt really good to do that. I still have a nice chunk left that I'm going to hang on to for a while in case I have an emergency - and I've been emergency-free for a while now so I'm sure something bad will happen fairly soon. Went ice skating the other day and had a lovely time doing that. Bit scary though as I hadn't been since I was around my daughter's age and my sense of balance has evidently gotten worse :)

There's just not a whole lot going on in my life right now. Kelly's moving to London next month and while I support her in doing so, I can't help but think she's not being very clever about it. And I speak as someone who wasn't very clever about it herself when she went. I didn't have a job lined up before I went, neither does she. I didn't have a friend to stay with - she does, but London is damn expensive. I DID have a 6 month work visa to start off with, she doesn't and any job she's likely to get will be crap pub work that pays you under the table. So she will be working illegally. I didn't move over there during a time of impending war and the government didn't crack down hard on illegal immigrants (well, they didn't bother me when I was illegal for 6 months). Granted Kelly is not from any of the "axis of evil" countries, and she's a blonde white girl, but she will still be in country illegally after her tour visa expires. I don't know... I hope she works it all out, but a tiny part of me hopes she comes back.

Ah well.. I'm signing off before I get all sniffly.