is where I landed today! And it also signals my third birthday blogging.Has it really been more than three years since I spilled my guts to the world???

Yes, happy birthday to me…

No cake this year because my so called lovely bacon has run off to join the circus instead of baking the weekend away. He’s back today,but it kinda spoils everything don’t it?

*bawwwwl*

Do you feel sorry for me yet? heehee.

I am, however, happier this birthday compared to the last. Mainly because I have got out of the toxic work environment that was my last workplace. With bacon moving jobs as well, we’re both better off financially as well, which is always helpful.

I am thankful for little joys, for friends made over the past year, little changes made in my own lifestyle and an inner happiness that I seemed to have acquire over the past year. I no longer look back in anger or strive for things I cannot achieve. I guess I am at peace with myself, another sign of old age! I used to believe that you can achieve anything that you put your heart to, but I have learnt that it is not nessacarily true. You just need re-routing, which is what I am doing with my life - re-routing.

So far I’ve got a watch, some gift vouchers and a toileteries gift set. I’m not materialistic at all with presents, all I ask for is that if someone’s giving me a present to be thoughtful about it and actually get me something you think that I will enjoy, rather than some crap shit even if it is expensive. Not to sound ungrateful, but giving a crap present just shows how unthoughtful and uncaring the giver is. Bizzarely enough my parents and the mil bought me a very similar card. Hmm. I’m off to work today, but am looking forward to my buffet lunch. Not sure where bacon’s bringing me tonight, but it better be somewhere really, really nice! And I want a really, really nice suprise present as well! *HINT HINT*. Yes, he reads this blog, he just never leaves any comment. Just like a stalker.

So, happy birthday to me. I have grand plans for celebrating my next in the land of Mars milkshake.

As much as I was reluctant about bacon’s new job, it does come with its perks..

Like a brand new IBM tablet laptop,(RRP £1,803!!!!) complete with fingerprint login and touchscreen feature. And revolving screen makes a nice touch

And sourrain.com takeaway courtesy of the BlackBerry. Now bacon can RSS me!!

I’m sure he took the job because of all the cool gadgets that comes with it..:). And it’s so wonderful to have a fresh out of the box laptop with practically no blocked sites. Let the geekery begin!!!!!

PS: See you next year when I get bored of playing with bacon’s tools of the trade

That we have been married for two WHOLE years? Happy aniversary bacon…..It sure feels like it’s been 20 years! Tonight we’re having dinner at where we wanted to have the wedding initially. Or Mcdonalds, where we actually ate during the big day - how romantic

Oh, and a very Happy Birthday to Mommy too!!

Santa certainly arrived in our household…

Tiffany’s Paloma Picasso’s Loving heart pendant

….and matching earrings

I love bacon, do you? And no, I did not pick them myself, it was hidden in my santa. Funnily enough,two weeks ago, I did sign for it when it arrived as I was outside when the postman arrived .Bacon nearly fainted when he saw he holding a package and snatched it away from me..:).

You know, sometimes you disagree with someone and its like waiting for an accident to happen?

From the very beginning I knew bacon wanted the big move, which completely leaves us without a doubt that we will be living here forever and ever and ever. Extreme depression. However, after my fiasco with my previous job, I know, better than anyone, that the money is not really everything. With the offer to move, he 100% believes that he will be happy in the new company. It does not help that the boss for the internal promotion do not see him with the adoration and admiration that his current bosses does…..what can you do, it’s all about the love and the internal move will remove that for him. I’ve told him, if he’s not careful he will one day end up like the dead pastor in philiphines who married the adoring girl 40 years his junior. Adored, and then assasinated.

So yes, bacon dear will be divorcing his company (irregardless of all that advice we gave him!!) of 11 years. In a way I am proud that he has the balls to leave everything he has and go for what he ‘thinks’ is his dream job. I had always think of him as mr. reliably stable, but this sudden change of ballsy-ness had obviously proven me wrong :). In another way I am so afraid that 5 years down the line he will he so bored with no direction in his career. Or worse, jobless.

With me preaching that happiness should be at a premium vs incoming £££, I just cannot stop someone who had already made up his mind where his happiness lays.Hypocritical I am not. Besides, I want to move to Hong Kong, not him;).

So all we can do now is wish him luck, and hopes he ends up earning enough to enable me more red stilettoes with matching bags.

PS: Btw, new job came with a renewed offer this morning, more ££ to cover his lost opportunity of subsidies and share options. So yes, now I can honestly say that I feel finacially secure

Interview’s gone well, so now he’s offered the both jobs. Oh jeeze…

However, the promotion is a better pay than is offered by the new company, so this itself kinda kicks the new company out of the way. And a secondment from old to new is impossible now, as it would techinically be a pay cut; promotion of course pays more than a secondment based on current job role. So that rules out the secondment for the moment.

I am picking the promotion within current company,but his now ex-boss has gone to see whether she can offer him more money or not.Sigh…which makes things complicated, as the way I see it, he should stay no matter what, UNLESS she offers him a pay rise the amount of my annual salary (just let me dream on ok…).SIGH. Men…cannot decide.

So yeah…we are currently just taking a break from the endless discussion re: jobs.Let me know what you guys think; he’s just so undecided that we will probably do a secret poll on everyone’s opinion on what he should do at tomorrow’s big family bash!!

Please, release me from this misery;). Otherwise we would be discussing this non stop until tuesday. I think I need to go shopping to celebrate…red stilettoes..

I know its been more than a week since I last posted - and that sort of thing only happens when I am on holiday.NO I am not on hols..but free time have all been filled with discussions with bacon.

You see, two weeks ago (the very last time I posted actually) bacon won some sort of award in this huge multi national that he worked in. Ever since then he has been in sort of a career conundrum…

choice 1
move to an entirely new company with entirely new excitement. And of course, quite a large salary increase. But that means not working for this current multinational which gives us (well, him) wide opportunity of moving elsewhere, i.e. Hong Kong. Moving to this new company will also mean a long commute for him but he would be working with people he enjoys working with

choice 2
Same as the above, but as a secondment from current role, which means basically minimum wage uplift.But it also means keeping all benefits of current company, which honestly do add up to quite a bit

choice 3
Remain in same company.He has an interview next wednesday for an internal job of a higher grade which should give him the comfort zone of working with people/systems he already know and also the comfortable salary increase.

choice 4
Remain in current role - hoping for a promotion soon since everyone’s jumping the current ship

For more than a week now we have been going backwards and forwards thinking about this.

Any comments or suggestions anyone?

Not going to have posts of any quality whatsoever until this issue is resolved, hopefully happily. But watch out for a yummilicious post comming up tomorrow…Well, I hope it’s yummilicious anyway,it’s still in the pot!

Guess what Bacon is wearing. The latest jewelry trend, all handmade by me.

Its been one year since I was sweating buckets in what was supposed to be the happiest day of my life..

We are so romantic,I forgot all about it until I started receiving happy anninversary cards .Happy anninversary bacon,sorry I did not get you a card or gift. I can barely remember your birthday,how am I supposed to remember two anniversaries!?

Love

is when I know I am allergic to you but yet you rule my bed.

every nap we take leaves me breathless in a choking, suicidal way.

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Hope this is nothing but the effect of dust mites and spring pollen that he brings in after every foray into the fields.But deep inside I know that I am allergic to him. BLEAH.

ps: no, he’s not actually for sale. Just to make bacon panic.muahahahaha