Family Photo.

While I was away on holiday the family got together for a family photo.

When I decided I was going to the UK I managed to arrange it so my brother in Poland would also be in the UK with his family. Since mum has said for years now that she wants a family photograph I figured we could do this for her. Which we did.

So I met my nephew William and my niece Sophie for the first time. Sophie was a little unsure of me but William took to me straight away which thoroughly confused me as I'm not great with kids, especially when they're younger than 3. They scare me :I

With just a few tears and a lot of coaxing, we managed to get a fair few pictures done. Mum is really excited by them all. And I have now received my second email with photos attached. Looks like I'm going to have to get some printed.

My odd-bod family.

I'm Back!

So I've totally let things go over the last year or so. It's not even as though nothing has been happening and that's why I've not updated my blog.

In summary, my last year has gone like this:

Work
30th Anniversary of the Falklands War - very busy, lots of visitors, journalists, tv crews, etc.
Sir Rex Hunt died - again, work was busy.
The Referendum - I'll go more into this at a later date (not too much later though), suffice to say it was a very exciting time.
Baroness Margaret Thatcher died - again, very busy at work, especially since Stacy was away so I was all on my lonesome. I must say, producing a biographic programme on Lady Thatcher gave me such an insight into her as a person over just as a controversial political figure.
Members of the Legislative Assembly touring - these guys have been all over the place, specifically to South America to spread the word of the referendum. They word being YES! of course, yes to staying British.
NatWest Small Island Games - I shouldn't really add this since I was away on my jolly hols during this time.

Home
Loads of things going on in my personal life. Mother was rushed to hospital having nearly lost her sight. She wondered why her super duper migraine medication wasn't working, but it turned out she had Acute Closed Angled Glaucoma which basically was a day off burning her retinas. If this happened she would have also been deaf since she mostly lip reads and if she can't see then that can't happen. Gave me quite a scare, especially with being 8,000 miles away and unable to pop in to say 'hi, how you doing?'
My younger brother had a baby, or rather his ex did. But my baby brother is now a father and that also scares me. But I'm still 17 really.
The housework was finished, finally. Although we still don't have a kitchen floor. Instead A used that money to go on holiday. I approve of that choice.
I had an operation on my nose. A nasal resection. Basically a guy chiselled by nostrils thinner. So now I can breathe. Life is so much better now. I sleep throughout the night, I have very rare headaches now (instead of every few days) and I've only had one migraine since February. I love my new breathing ability. Of course I do want to go get this mucus reduction thing done as that will also help me. Oh, and speak better on the radio for work too!
My friend from the UK came for a visit to the Falklands. It was great and very flattering to realise someone is willing to save and spend that much money to fly thousands of miles to spend two weeks with me. I'll post a few photos soon.
I managed to save enough money to go on an epic holiday. More about that later, as I'll be setting up a new blog just for my holiday. Which was amazing!
My younger brother had to go to hospital due to his mental health issues. Also very scary to hear about. Luckily we're a strong family and we deal with these issues by being very blase about what's going on. Not to say it doesn't effect us, we just don't allow it to consume our every moment, and of course we always have to make the most innapropriate jokes about the many health issues in the family. It's what we do :)
And as has been mentioned a few time...I went on holiday! For the first time in about five or six years and left the Falklands for the first time since I arrived in January 2010. Like I said, I shall be blogging all about that.

So now I shall go, do some work and then alter the look of my blog because I've decided I need to make it look better.

A Super-Quick Catch-Up

Doesn't time fly when you're busy/bored.

I suppose I have had a busy time. Sorting out work issues, actually working, dealing with personal issues. I think things are pretty much sorted now though. Oh, and our adorable kitten Sheldon died. We miss her. We do like having our phone chargers and headphones remaining unchewed though.

Of course we have the builders in our house. So we currently have no kitchen. I'm hoping that by not being able to cook I'll lose a bit more weight. If I carry on eating sensibly, and going to the gym (Boot Camp - hard, but strangely fun) and try not to eat out, then I should do alright. I'm not after losing a whole lot of weight. Just half a stone or so. Mostly I just want to feel a bit fitter.

Some of the local shops and the Museum are interested in selling the CDs that the radio has produced. I love it, especially since I designed the covers for them, and wrote the blurbs. I also do the posters for work. I love designing posters. I have an amazing idea for the breakfast show. I have good ideas for the others too, but they're currently sat in my head waiting on me putting pen to paper.

Here are my CD cover designs. They are great, and I do like to show off.

You Can't Have Rainbows Without the Rain

This weekend I met Phil Vickery. My mum is jealous. It's a good thing :)

From just being nosy, going to see what was happening at the Jetty Centre we not only got to eat burgers, toothfish, salsa and a bean sauce made by Phil, but we got to have a chat with him, get filmed doing so, and got our photo taken with him. So on Monday myself, Scott and Ailie were on the BFBS news. Well, it was pretty much just the back of my head. But it's still cool. He's a nice man. And the food was lovely.

It was a busy weekend. What with the Barn Dance, the Pink Pub Crawl, the party at the FIDF, also with Mr Vickery being in the Islands, the first ever Falkland Islands Tourism Awards and the Run Together Run for Life event on Sunday. And winning a huge amount of wonderful veg from Government House in a raffle. I'm keepin my lovely housemates well looked after by feeding them the veg. By feeding them at all actually since they are both very busy bunnies right now.

And I'll tell you what, it's absolutely brilliant having funky coloured hair again. It's like fire....

Or not. It does look cool though. I'm happy with that. Not so happy that I need my eyes checking again, or that soon I'll be going to get a root extraction...one that may break the thin layer of bone between my tooth root and my sinus. I've been told that rarely happens so I'm hoping that I have my usual luck. I'm not a terrifically lucky person, just flukey. Things always look like they are worse than they are. Like when I had a suspected prolactinoma (non-fatal brain tumour), and it turned out that my hormones are just a bit odd and all I need is to take evening primrose oil to level them out. Like when I had to go to hospital to get my lip stud cut out, but they didn't have to cut a hole in my lip as they expected, they just took a long time to break the stud. See, things look like they may be bad, when they end up just being irritating.

Sometimes, I look at my life and realise that there's very little that could change to make it better. I could complain about the awful winter (and I HATE winter) or I could complain about the slight increase in my migraines, or that the house is a mess because I'm not that great at keeping on top of it. But I like to think I'm a bit of an optomist. Winter sucks, but at least I have a wonderful alarm clock that wakes me slowly and nicely. My migraines might have increased but I still only have one every other month or so, not so many really. The house tends to be a mess, but in a few weeks time Scott and Ailie won't be working quite so much so I'll see them more and they'll help with the house more.

I love my job, I love how I look right now, I love my social life, I love my sewing kit, I love life in the Falklands, and I love knowing the endless possibilities that are out there for me.

And I love showing off how great things are :)

A Normal Saturday Night

Five complaints about me last night:
1 - I got served before some men 'because I have boobs'
2 - I got served before some women 'because I was wearing red lipstick'
3 - I'm short
4 - I have an attitude towards a fella because he's miltiary
5 - I wouldn't let a friend start a fight with said military man

What actually happened:
1 - I got served before the men because I wasn't shouting insults at the bar and behaving obnoxiously
2 - I got served before the women because I was at the bar first, oh and it was pink lipstick dumbass
3 - If you need your friend to pull for you, you can't insult people, and if you think that telling me I'm short is an insult then you're deluded
4 - I didn't have an attitude towards you because you're military, it's because you missed you bus to MPA even though I told you I didn't care whether you went back or not since I wasn't about to sleep with you anyway, oh and you're married and still trying to sleep with me
5 - I wouldn't let a friend start a fight with said miltary man. Not worth it

In Just a Month

My last blog was a whinging, whining affair. You'll be happy to know, this isn't.

It's been an odd month. I've been over-doing it with the drinking, which I am now going to reign in. And we had Jamie and Vern from 51 degrees south down here filming http://www.51degreessouth.com/. That was great. We had a wonderful interview http://soundcloud.com/51-south/51-south-interview-with-firs. I previously met Jamie when he was here with the Hit and Run History guys, so it was nice to see a familiar face.

FITV celebrated their first anniversary. That was cool, it was a good party, and I only had to work for about 25 minutes of it.

Seb emailed me. He got to Cape Town safely and had an amazing ride over there. I replied to his email.

I emailed Dad. First off it took me ages to write the email, as I knew what I wanted to say but had to find the best way to say it. I finally did, got an opinion and I sent the email. Only it bounced back. Turns out that I now have no way of getting in contact with dad. Luckily I found another email for him, but after having to ask around. So I've sent it. Just waiting for a reply now.

I brought Aphrodite into work. She's my strawberry plant that I grew from a teensy, tiny seed. She did grow a strawberry at one point. But she's only a baby still.

My best friend met a lovely man, and that's all wonderful. And FIODA put on their best performance yet at the Town Hall. It went so well that they've been invited to MPA to perform out there.

I video-skyped mum and the nieces in Poland. They're all well and it was great actually seeing mum for the first time since I left the UK. She got a touch emotional.

And that's all that's happened this last month...oh except for my week off work when I tried my hand at baking. I made some lovely bread, teaberry buns (with teaberries picked by my own fair hand) and cherry buns. It was lovely.

Craziness will drive me crazy.

I enjoy my job, mostly. It's the same as most people's. I enjoy most of it, and there are things I'd rather not do, but they're part of the job.

When someone at work starts getting at you, over the tiniest, non-important things, then it starts to make going to work quite difficult.
Now I will say, this person hasn't been too, too bad until recently. Unfortunately this is what I expected to happen sooner or later. I knew this would happen when I took on the position. People who worked here previously had warned me. Which is why I've kept my distance. So it won't hurt too much when this person decides to take against me.

I've decided that if this continues for another week or so, then I'm going to make a complaint. As it is i've been marking down everything that's happening, large or small, because I want an accurate record of the craziness that's being aimed towards me. Not just me, the others are getting a touch of it too. But I'm not willing to put up with it. I should't have to justify the things I do in my job. Especially when it's no concern of theirs.

So, I'm feeling rather infuriated. If only it were one big thing, then we could have a bit of a blow out then just get on with things. Little tiny nit-picking, constantly throughout the last three weeks, with the occasional moment of over-the-top niceness, which I don't trust at all.

I have had worse jobs. And hopefully, even if this were to continue I can just get my head down and get on with it as I need the money from this job for my savings.

Wish me luck :/