Kristian and Frances

I have been terrible with the blog recently but there's so much going on that I haven't felt the urge to write about things. It is a problem but like some people say, just getting on with life is sometimes good. And we've been keeping in touch with family in other ways.

We've been in Edinburgh for the last week I think, now. Kristian has already got a job (yep! for 3 months), I've had two recruitment agency registrations and have another one lined up and a potential job as well with one of them, I just have to prove my typing skills and then they'll consider me properly. So we'll see. Meantime, everyone send their congratulations to K, who GOT A JOB WITHOUT APPLYING FOR A SINGLE POSITION. No kidding. I'm feeling a bit insulted right now to be honest, but I'm happy that we have a better financial position of course, and that things are looking manageable.

Last night we went to meet a guy and see his spare room in his flat. I don't think he was really planning on renting to a couple, but he seemed to think we were okay, and he was a very nice guy, a dentist from Glasgow. My only reservation was that he was the kind of guy who obviously takes real pride in his surroundings, his flat was all clear glass and white sheets and so forth. Nothing wrong with that, but I don't mean neat and clean, I mean DENTIST neat and clean. And he hadn't heard of David Lynch! So we liked the place a lot, but I think we'll keep looking. Now that K has a job we're in a better position to rent our own place as well, and it would only cost a little more (the place was pretty expensive as well). That morning we'd seen another place in Leith (think Newtown before it was gentrified) which was a decent room but the rest of the flat seemed to be covered in unwashed plates and other paraphernalia....

So Edinburgh is lovely, we're optimistic, and I have a new haircut I am not ready to show to anyone back home just yet! But K reckons he likes it. The trip up to Edinburgh from London was great, and it's a shame we didn't have the car for longer, but it sure is expensive here. We're struggling to keep to the budget, and in fact for the first week here it got completely blown (but we were buying stuff for job interviews and getting haircuts and so on).