Tuesday 28th October signalled that it had been exactly three months since I started at Frog. Basically this means that my probation period is over and I’m now a permanent employee. Fantastic 
I’m still really enjoying the work and I’m learning so much it just feels so invigorating and refreshing.
We completed another office move this week, the desks have been moved around to try to make the layout a little more fluid and sit departments who need to talk to each other closer together. I’ve ended up with a window seat which is great for my SAD. combined with getting out at lunchtime in the daylight means that the last few weeks have been much better than the last month or so. The main reason for me ending up with the window this time round is because we’ve flipped sides, so we’re now facing towards the front of the office, I need to talk to Al a fair bit and he would have been on my left – absolutely useless for me with me being deaf on my left side.
I’ve got two days off to use up before the end of the year. I’m planning on taking Sue away again for the weekend, either sometime in November or December depending on prices and various other factors.
First choice would have been Disneyland Paris, it was generally this sort of time of year when we’ve gone. Checked Jet2 for prices and it was £19.99 each, each way. Great – Around £80 for the trip, similar to what I paid last time. Click Next…… £280. What…the….fuck?
Taxes, fuel surcharges, baggage fees. Sod that for a lark.
Checked Eurotunnel prices, not much different, its too far to drive and it’d be a pain in the arse on a coach.
Plus just to make sure, I checked the prices for Disney on a three night basis – cheapest I could do it for was £488. You’re looking at just short of £800 for a weekend away. Jesus Christ.
I bet for not a lot more you could do a week in Florida on a no frills.
So we’re looking at somewhere in this Country again. Blackpool is going to be mostly closed or filled with stags and hens which I just can’t be arsed with at the moment, Whitby would be really nice but we’d need to stay somewhere close to the town centre, Red House Farm was lovely but when you’re there for a weekend and you don’t have cooking facilities we found it to be a little limiting, especially when Whitby itself was a good 8 mile drive away.
Theres always Scarborough, its just a case of finding a nice, quiet, central hotel with access to decent, free parking. Itching to get out with the camera again and since the weekends are my only real oppertunity to do so I want to make the most of it.
I also fancy just spending an entire day shoving 2p pieces into pacman ball / coin dropper machines. Its fun. Some would even go so far as calling it thereapeutic.
Trying to organise a curry with the people from work next week. So far its looking good with at least 10 of us going. Mmmmmm curry.
