Current mood:	okay
Entry tags:	dark knight

Home alone
Well, sort of true, I am alone at the moment as R has returned to South Africa to sort the final things for the move but where I'm staying isn't really home, it's just somewhere to stay.  Once our stuff arrives it's going to be like living in a storage unit because the place is going to be too small and full of boxes!  It was actually easier and cheaper to rent a slightly bigger place and store everything there as storage is so expensive!  It's lonely without him as I go back to an empty house but it's not for long.  I really do find it hard to sleep without him but it's always been like that, I was the same when he used to work night shifts.

So, things are settling down.  New job is ok, nice people, good team, lots to get to grips with and all that.  Same as what I have done in the past but different, if you know what I mean.  Sorted out somewhere to live and a car, somewhere for the cats to stay in quarantine when they come over, somewhere for the in-laws and then all the other bits and pieces necessary to life such as insurance, TV licence, where the supermarkets are etc.  The only thing I haven't been able to sort is broadband internet access as I can't sort the phone out because the landlord has not sorted out the phone and we can't do anything until he does.  I have a mobile internet thing but it doesn't get fast speed where I am because where we are living seems to be a technological black hole.  I mean, we can't even get Channel 5 and even Freeview doesn't work there!  Good job it's only for six months but I may actually go crazy fairly soon with the internet crawling along.

Been slowly getting in touch with people telling them what is going on, been to see some of our friends and family.  Even though people understood why we were going to SA and felt that we needed to do it because otherwise you would always be thinking, "what if?", they are pleased we are back and really so are we.  Sometimes you don't realise what you wanted or liked until it is gone so we joke that we moved from London to Kent via Cape Town!  At least moving back we understand how everything works and we are not strangers in a strange land, though of course, sometimes you do wonder!

Not really had much time to do things that I usually put on here.  Been spending far too much time playing silly games on the laptop, not done much reading or stitching, not really been listening to music as such in the car because I'm reacquainting myself with Virgin Radio which I had missed plus I've joined the gym (back to body pump, hooray!) and I'm trying to find a routine.  R and I did go to a preview of The Dark Knight just before it came out and we each got a great lenticular poster  that shows Batman, the Joker and Harvey Dent.  Loved the movie by the way, great cast, good story, fantastic performance by Heath Ledger - the only thing I found annoying was Christian Bale's 'Batman voice', wish he wouldn't growl like that, makes it hard to understand and gave me the giggles.  Also, haven't posted the holiday journal as I said I would.  Sorry about that, I'll slap myself on the wrist and get around to it...