Another test. ——————

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Another test. ——————

Posted via email from quaisi’s posterous

Another test. ——————

Posted via email from quaisi’s posterous

A test.

Posted via email from quaisi’s posterous

I’m free form journalling here. Need to think about what direction my life is going to take next. I’ve been back in England for just over a year and today is the anniversary of being at my job.

The job was supposed to be a stop-gap job to get a base to grow out from. It enabled my family to come live with me and save for a better future.

It wasn’t supposed to be for a year though. I was trained today in some new techniques and the trainer said when he came it was for a stop gap position and this is his 13th year. It’s statements like this that worry me.

My daughter recently had her third birthday and will be attending school starting a year in September. We need to get her name down for a school at least a year in advance and perhaps more realistically a couple of years before she was born.

We’re living in my hometown in a small (cozy?) flat. As my wife is Japanese, jobs that she would want to do are scarce in this small town and it looks like a move is necessary. She has a degree in Chinese and speaks Japanese and English.

But what to do? Get her a job in London first and follow her? Look for a job whilst working? How do I attend interviews? Quit the job and look for a new job? How will we survive without money?

I’m going to spend the evening brainstorming.

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I’m on holiday and we had a picnic in the local park in the shade of a tree which was lovely. Brought along a couple of beers and some wine. A sort of impromptu blossom festival.

I still don’t understand why the Cherry Blossom festivals so prevalent in Japan aren’t more popular in other countries. Granted we have no cherry blossoms here but don’t let that stop you. Sit in warm sunshine under beautiful blossoms drinking alcohol. What could be better than that?

Did you know I have a daughter called Isabelle? Here she is again, this time in black and white.

Her progression in England has been interesting to watch since coming back from Japan. She appreciates the difference between English and Japanese. She’ll talk differently to me than to the wife.

She particularly llkes animals such as cats, dogs and sheep. When she sees a dog she’ll cry out “Dog!” to me and then turn to mum and say “Inu wan wan” – Dog woof woof in Japanese. If that carries on and we hope it will it’ll be great.

omorrow Mrs Quaisi’s mother is coming to stay for a month. I’m really looking forward to it. We get on well and it will be her first time to see Isabelle for almost a year.

I spent a month and a half last year away from her looking for a job in England and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.

I couldn’t sleep properly, was a bawling wreck from the time I left them at the gates to the plane and rushed into a job I thought was temporary but I still haven’t managed to leave.

She’s only with us for a month but I have to make sure it feels like a year because parting is awful.

Cars eh? We bought one after months of heated debates about whether we needed one and the drain on the finances they could be. A V reg Renault Megane. We’ll pick it up tomorrow.

I can’t drive and have rarely had the inclination to. I enjoy sitting in the back seat of a car or bus listening to music or reading a book instead of negotiating past boy racers, Sunday drivers and the general mentalist public.

I just bought some insurance for it. I actually sell home insurance and thought I’d be great at noticing the tricks he’d choose to upsell me things I didn’t need as I’ve been trained to do at my jobs. Not 30 seconds in and I was floundering.

Who’ll represent you in an accident?

I have no idea.

You have no idea?

And it went downhill from there. I found my insurers through one of the big compare websites. I went on confused.com and felt the need to have a cold shower afterwards. I felt dirty for sponsoring the ads that plague our TV. To compensate I went to the cheapest quoter’s website direct so they wouldn’t get the commission. Sticking it to the man!