8/2/05

               The days are racing like a locomotive.  Tomorrow is already Wednesday.  I can almost smell the scent of the Weekend.   It has been a busy week!  The NHS have just gotten Ivonne’s Reference Letter and today they phoned to tell me that I am now ready to work as a NHS Professional Employee.  The job that my sister-in-law offered me at the Churchill has been filled because the NHS Professional agency took long to process my papers.  I was a bit disappointed as I really wanted to work at the Churchill.  Sue said she’ll keep her eyes open for any other vacancy for me in the near future.  I am about to receive a welcoming package from the NHS in the post.  They’ll phone me if there are any openings within the three nearby hospitals. 

          I went to the Library again today to request a new summer novel.  I received a free request over the weekend so I ordered ‘Summer Things’ by Joseph Connelly..a light-hearted English Seaside Beach novel.   I asked the Assistant Librarian if they had any beginning knitter’s book.  All the books on knitting were out!  It seems that everyone in all Oxford is knitting!  

   I started knitting last Saturday!  I bought myself two knitting needles and some yarn and I asked my sister-in-law, Kim to teach me a few stitches last Saturday.  She invited us all to a BBQ.  The A-Team enjoyed the BBQ! We had burgers, susages, potatoe salad and for pudding there was a chocolate forrest cake, another chocolate cake and some apple pie.

   Last night was the Anniversary of the Death of my Mother-In-Law!  She died a week before Our Wedding last year!  We all were a bit solemn and sad yesterday and we tried to console my Father-In-Law.  It isn’t easy for us to digest the fact that she is gone, but we’re trying to continue to thrive as we remember her as she was.  I didn’t have the pleasure of meeting her.  She died the Sunday before she and her husband and daughter was due to arrive in the US to attend our Wedding!  It was such a sad time for all of us.

I wrote her a poem which Kim’s husband read at her funeral, ‘Remembrance’…a Tribuite to Mrs. Jeannette Marguerite Aris’  I wrote it the Eve of our Wedding: