Its Thanksgiving!

No that's not my sad English turkey dinner. Its dinner from a couple of weeks ago, at the beginning of the real credit crunch. Since then I've re budgeted 12 times and scaled potential salaries up and then scaled back the increases. Taken a good hard look at all expenses. Tried to figure out which of our markets will survive and prosper. Its been exhausting.

All that work and really its back in the same place, radio and t.v. are all shouting about how we are going to hell in a hand basket and Woolworth's here in the UK just declared bankruptcy. Do we even have Woolworth's still in the US? I can't remember. Surely they have lost out to Target - wonder why they don't have Target here? Such a great store. I digress, as usual.

Point is after all that furious Excel-ing we are back in the same positions the majority of our clients are carrying on but some are slowing down. Seems to be the way all the way around the world. So, I'm having Turkey this weekend at a friend's flat and I will be thankful for family and friends and everything else that sometimes one forgets to be thankful for.

By the way, that dinner pictured above was lovely. Cheese here is really good and sparkling water with fruit juice is always a tonic.

Sproutgirl's thankful list

An old neighbor and friend of mine Jen, AKA Sproutgirl has recently posted a list of 100 things she's thankful for - see it here. Interesting test for an uptight business-girl on her day off awaiting the delivery of new flashy hob and cooker (stovetop and oven for those of you not bilingual). Will have to think about it and get back to you. In the meantime maybe you could share your own lists...

OMG, I've joined Facebook

My Friend Nancy Yost made me do it. She has wrangled a lot of old high School friends into it and I must say its been interesting. One overriding reason I didn't want to join was because it was something else to keep up with -- as you can see from the dates between blog posts, I'm not very good at keeping timely with all things digital. I find Facebook can be weirdly addictive, you spend a lot of time spelunking through the private lives of people you know, people you know and barely remember and other who are just taken with something about you. One guy wanted to be my friend because he wanted to know another Sian Llewellyn, his name is Shaun Llewellyn and he lives in Costa Rica. Others are just friends of Yost and mine that I used to go to school with. Interesting to catch up with some of them - others are readers of this blog and will know more about me than I care to share with al the world's strangers.