Snow!

Woke up this morning to another light dusting of snow. I actually rather like it. Granted it's not much and they manage to clear of the main city streets so I can still drive to work okay.

I've slowly transitioned back into UK life again. I guess I shouldn't be so hard on myself as it only took me just under a week to get out of my funk of returning back here solo. I do credit getting back to a daily yoga practice has helped. That as well as watching the complete season of "The Rachel Zoe" project. Which I know is complete fluff - but it's what I needed. Until now I haven't downloaded any TV shows or movies. But this transition back solo coupled with the freezing cold weather and dark nights, was really quite depressing. Plus, I'm still waiting for my living room furniture to arrive (this Friday btw!)

December is going to be a crazy month. One short trip to Boston from the 12-15, back to England and then back to Portland on the 18th until January 4th. I have a lot to get done for the house between now and before I leave; plus work couldn't be more busy. We have a GLAM event next week (Global Line Adoption meeting) which is going to be held in some swanky place in Manchester (swanky for Manchester anyway). It will be nice to be out of the office and learn more about this business process. I had a major deliverable for this meeting. Basically I was handed a mess when I first started - all the catalogue production work. Unfortunately, this place doesn't have a Design Op's director that would normally pull this together. So instead they gave me the mess. Somehow I managed to get it sorted out - unbelievable - it was really a mess. So, while it looks like we'll have nice looking catalogues, I'm thinking I only have six months before the next GLAM to get a much better process in place for the product teams. But then that's a whole other story.

Ugh - boring freakin' post. I'll stop now.

Oh, wait I forgot to mention... as I was driving into work this morning listening to BBC4 on the radio, they had some authors discussing their work (of course I could barely understand most of what they were saying due to accents). Anyway, I swear I heard them saying the word "chicken shit", and it's not like they said it once, they kept referring to it over and over, "chicken shit this, chicket shit that, at the chicken shit, etc". Finally I figured out what they were really saying... chicken shed! Apparently it's some place for writers to go and write.

You have to realize it took me the entire drive in listening to this conversation, solely focused on chicken shit that I have no idea what the rest of the story was about. I was laughing all the way to work - I'm sure people driving next to me that I was some crazy person.