Hey, I haven’t blogged for a while because every week I keep thinking Dan will get a job this week and then I’ll write about that. Well he still hasn’t, but it feels like it’s getting closer.
He widened the search a lot so he applied for a few short term jobs which he was interviewed for but didn’t get, although one of them has come back to him with a possible other opportunity. He applied for a job with Amazon that sounded horrendous. It was to be one of their warehouse guys, but he’d have to wear steel toe cap shoes and walk 12km a day, working from 5am to 1pm for minimum wage. They were having a big recruitment day and 200 people were being interviewed at once. He also applied to work for a Muslim aid agency which advertised as “hybrid in Pairs” but had to turn them down when they said it was 3 days a week in Paris. But best of all he applied for a job with a sex shop! Hahaha sex. (It was just content writing not being in a physical shop.) Still funny though. He’s still waiting to hear back from them actually so it could still happen.
But anyway this week he had two interviews for a normal boring company based in Toulouse to do a job very similar to his last one. Unfortunately Toulouse is two and a half hours away and he might have to do 2 days a week or maybe even 3, but hopefully in time either they would trust him to not come in so much, he could find a more remote job elsewhere or option 3 we could move to Toulouse. There would be a lot of things to consider, I’d miss the sea, and we’ve started making some nice friends here now, but it’s a possibility down the line, he might not even get the job. He will go there on Wednesday to do a presentation for them.
We’re currently in the middle of a two week half term, which has been taken over quite a lot by interview stuff and me needing to look after the kids while Dan works on that, but we managed to get out for a nice family day last week to the mountains. We were hoping to sledge but there was no snow, so we went to this town called Llivia which is a tiny blob of Spain surrounded by France, mainly for the cheaper fuel. And also to the hot springs, which is a bath temperature pool with mountain views. I was surprised that it’s not actually deep enough to swim in so it’s more like a bath temperature bath actually. Which I loved because our house doesn’t have a bath.
I wrote all that yesterday while waiting for my sister Sarah to announce her big news: She’s had a baby! A massive hairy but adorable baby. She had a difficult labour with him because he was 9lbs! But don’t worry I helped her through from 1000 miles away with my hilarious jokes.
There was a lot of chat in our family WhatsApp on the 14th (Ash Wednesday/ Valentine’s Day) about the baby being called Ashley Valentino, if he was born that day, that’s such a cool rockstar name right? But he was born of the 16th. If you don’t already know the name would you like to play the name guessing game?
First name = a common Irish surname
Middle name one = a paw patrol character
Middle name two = a disciple
Last Name = Gillard.
Comment with your guesses, or scroll down to see the answer.
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| The hair! |
His name is Murphy Marshall James Gillard.
Welcome to the outside little man.
