I'm with you on that tamsin I shouted at my mum a bit on saturday during the journey home but nly cos I love her :S sorry mum!

Today/yesterday I am happy because I have arranged a valentines weekend away with my two best girlfriends! We are having a romantic weekend or just plainly - lots of fun in cardiff!!! Soooo excited!

I have been allowed out of hospital for my sister's birthday meal this evening.

Thanks for the congratulations, folks!

Very cool! That's 2 more than I managed once upon a time!

Wow that's fantastic - many congratulations Matthew!

That's great

That's brilliant! Enjoy it.

Extremely positive annual review, containing a couple of possible-veiled-hints at Good Things...

Well done Maizie

Great result - congrats!

I have a review on January 5th...

'Good things' sounds promising!

Well done!

Just catching up on this. Congratulations!

Of course, 126 is *the* mark to get for Grade VIII piano in the 2008 C Session

Jelly beans

I have two days of term left, but only two lessons = lie in tomorrow

...and of course you're the proud owner of a grade 7 distinction in recorder!

A combination of mwl1 and finishing my UCAS form.

Miss Ross, and the completion of some Christmas shopping!

I'm not in London!

W

Congratulations!

Getting some Christmas cards with nice messages in them

Finishing my last essay of term

New music and finally getting broadband sorted for my computer!

Finding out that notmusimum has got the next Eccles playday booked

Nicki - good to see you posting again. Glad you liked the card too

Knowing that I can go and buy train tickets tomorrow.

Going anywhere nice, Miss Ross?


My teacher said he really enjoys teaching

Finish work for two and a bit weeks

The long wait is over.

First day of the school holidays - everyone is staying in their pyjamas today!

...and it was well worth the wait!

Seeing a friend who I haven't seen very much this term.

Finally got the family packed to go to Canada tomorrow to see my sister (and to ski.....)

Got my Recorder grade 8 results I got 135 20 out of 20 for sight reading!!

It's live, it's live, it's live!!

One minute I'm posting on the scream thread about disasters; the next minute on this thread because the disaster is averted; then I'm back to the scream thread with a new disaster; and then back here when it's fixed; and so on ad infinitum.

Only, not ad infinitum. It's out there, it's live, it's done (until someone decides they want to change something).

So now I have the weekend to myself (no work). And I'm going to come in at 10am all three days next week (so that's 10-4 Monday and Tuesday; and 10-12 on Wednesday )

That's brilliant - a nice early Christmas present!

Well done, Ben!

Well done.

Don't want to puncture your bubble, but sight reading is out of 21.

V.well done...

And now I'm all even more through-the-roof happy as I've just been given an 'Award' for all the work put in on this deity-foresaken project...not just a bit of paper in a photo-frame, but £350 extra in my next month's pay (:looks for 'jaw dropping on floor smilie':)

Well done Ben



And well done Maizie

It was my last teaching day and I was feeling really drained, playing carols for the groups to sing, functioning on auto-pilot and trying not to clock watch, while I willed the afternoon to end. This felt very weird, as it's not at all my normal way of working.

Anyway, when I got home I opened the cards from the girls, and one in particular reminded me of why I love my job really:

'Dear Mrs J . Thank you so much for teaching me so many new and wonderful songs. See you after the holidays, I can't wait! Come back soon, love from M xoxoxo'

Doesn't take much to cheer us up, does it? That was worth any number of boxes of chocolates.

Glad to hear all your hard work has been recognised, Maizie.

I finally got my last piece of coursework finished and sent off. So now I can start revision. Not sure if this is something to be happy about, or not!

Out of the frying pan and into the fire comes to mind.

Coming home from hospital, and having a big hug with my sister, and a good giggle!

The thought that I can go to bed in a couple of hours. But then it will all start again... *sigh*

*hugs to Miss Ross*

PCF - are you ok?

For me: Cards. Dad. Dinner. Friends.

Brilliant news, Ben! Very well done.

A really good day yesterday, still making me happy this morning Was the last day at college, had my M1 mock in the morning, but we had food and crackers and stuff as well... bizarre idea but it went pretty well Then left college, went to a friends and sung christmas songs loudly and had malteasers and mince pies for lunch Then we went and saw Twilight, which was brilliant, going to see it again on Monday with some other friends

Well done to you Ben!

Last night a group of my adult learners and I got together to play piano and have a sing along to Carols etc. It was a lovely evening.

Peppermint tea has made me happy this morning

Seeing my brother for the first time in three months or so, and his reaction to his birthday present.
I'm hoping seeing all my school friends later will add to that.

Erm, well today I got the official letter for the award (my manager was out last week). While it seems my three colleagues did indeed get £350, I got £600
I know there were three of them doing one role and one of me doing another role, but even so, I am utterly gobsmaked.
Wow.
That's like my holidays next year paid for. Or my OU course. Or a new bike. Or, or, or, or, or...just so many things (even if tax and insurance and everything else are coming out of it, it's still going to be a noticeable amount when it arrives!)

Edited: I think I am going to be mostly sensible with it. We are getting money from my parents for Xmas, with which we are going to buy a new sofa, and if there is any left over it will go to buy an extension ladder so we can paint the house and more importantly clear our guttering. So now it doesn't matter if there isn't money left over for the ladder, as I will buy it with this surprise money. I will then probably split the rest between my holiday fund and my OU fund - so for them I won't need to save up quite so much each month. Either that, or I'll keep saving at the current rate I do for both, and use the unexpected money to pay down the little that's left on my 0% credit card.

I won't be getting new recorder or new bike, honest

What a lovely surprise, Maizie! I'm so happy for you and hope it helps alleviate some of your financial worries.

My new *toy* arriving.....an electric guitar!! Watch out Suzie Quattro!!!