It’s always Autumn in England

Life, Work28 July 2006 8:50 pm

Well, the weather here continues to be sunny and hot!  I love it.  I have decided if/when we ever decide to leave England, we need to live somewhere where it is summer all the time.  Seasons are great, but I really do not like long, or cold, or snowy winters.  I can definately do without them.

Angela and Graham are doing great.  They bought a new laptop this week, so Evan went over to help them get it all set up.  They are keeping their PC and networking the two computers and using wireless broadband.  Since Graham works from home, it makes so much sense for them to have two computers.  We spent the afternoon/evening with them and had a BBQ, but as we were leaving Jacob woke up and appeared to have a tummy ache.  Hopefully he will settle down and they will get some sleep tonight.  He has been sleeping so well, feeding at 11pm, 2:30am and 5:30am…very good for a 1 week old baby!

Other than that work continues and not much else.  I have pretty much decided that I will stick with my job, not because it pays well, or because I love it, but because nothing else appeals, plus I just am not qualified for much else.  As soon as we have the money, I would like to get my Masters degree in something related to Psych, either Child Development/Counselling type fields…maybe Clinical Psychology, we will see. 

Once I get some more pics of Jacob, I will post those.  He had his first real bath tonight and we took several pics of that!!

Life25 July 2006 7:15 pm

Well, it is time to brag again!  Here are some pictures of my niece and NEPHEW!!


Taken the morning after Jacob was born…he is about 12 hours old!


Taken Sunday, just before church! 3 days old!

Life21 July 2006 6:24 am

 30-40 minutes after being born

  dressed in the outfit I bought for his first outfit!

Life20 July 2006 10:41 pm
Jacob Neil Richards arrived at 1950hrs on 20th July 2006.
19inches long
6lbs 10 ounces
It was quite an amazing birth…but I need to go to bed, so I can get to work early tomorrow morning.  I will add some pictures and tell the story tomorrow.
Angela and the baby are both doing well!!
Here I am holding Jacob about 2 hours after he was born.
Work, Thoughts 10:20 am

I applied for an Assistant Psychologist post within the Hospital that I work at a couple weeks ago. I got a letter today saying that I was not shortlisted, and would not be interviewed. I called to get some ‘feedback’ as to why I was not shortlisted and the lady in the recruiting office gave me the ‘official reason’. There were 150 applicants for 2 posts. They shortlisted 6 people. The others were not chosen because of ‘Lack of relevant clinical experience’. I said…’Interesting, since I have been at the hospital for a year now.’ The lady seemed genuinly interested, so she gave me the number of the guy who did the shortlisting…according to policy, she was not supposed to. But I am going to call him and find out why I was not shortlisted. Sometimes, I think I may not want to know the reason…but hey, positive criticism should be a good thing, so I am going to give it a go.

Life, Thoughts19 July 2006 8:15 pm

Today was predicted to be the hottest day of the year in the UK.  We have a local weather station and I have their website saved, so that I can look up the current Temp in Northampton whenever I want.  They take a reading every 5 minutes or so.
Today at 15:29 it was 37.3 °C even though the news said today the highest temp in England reached 36.5°C you have here a higher temp…here is the link to the website so you can see for your self!  http://www.brixworth.demon.co.uk/updates/Current_Conditions.htm

 For those of you in America, 37.3°C is 99.14°F…and no one has air conditioning.  I am lucky enough to work in a residential hospital setting, so we do, but Evan’s office is on the 3rd floor of a building with no ac…you can imagine what it is like!

Life, My Travels15 July 2006 8:46 pm

Evan and I will be heading to the States for a visit with family and friends in November.  We hope to see as many people as possible, but please do not expect us to travel around too much…it will be enough trying to get between my mom, my dad and Evan’s parents.
Hopefully we will be able to plan a couple of get togethers where we can see as many people at once as possible!

We will be in Indiana from the 10th to 26th November.  Staying with either my mom in Lapel, my dad in Noblesville, or Evan’s parents in Lafayette.

My Travels11 July 2006 6:37 pm

Evan and I bought a new tent this year. Evan plans on using it for his ‘accomodation’ while at two ECM exhibitions this year…so we got a great deal on the tent! It is a 6 man tent and will easily hold all of our gear that our old 3 man tent just could not cope with. I will add a couple of pictures, but here is the website of our tent: http://www.wynnsteroutdoorleisure.com/pegasus6.htm

    
Evan in the tent                         From the side

In other news…I might be an Auntie again in the next few days!!  I can’t wait!