God, I Am Good At What I Do

Regards the post title today, it is specifically referring to what I do at work.  Three days in, and I have already got fulsome praise from my 'customers' - being the public service, I don't think we actually have customers, do we?  But made a member of the public very happy, calmed down her panic, and got a lovely email reply back after I had sent her some useful web links.  Which was nice.

Mistress had said last night that if I stay with current job or get the new job, either place will be extremely lucky to have me.  Being a permanent position, gives me holiday pay and annual leave.  Which is another positive of permanent over temp work.  And I went through my temp contract today, and there isn't all that much keeping me with them.  They 'expect' me to see out the temp contract, but nothing that I can see that is really binding.  I might talk to Mistress about it, who has the brains and patience to go through contracts with a fine tooth comb lol.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that I had dinner with my parents and grandmother last night.  Went to a lovely pub in town, that I had been glancing at from time to time but hadn't quite gotten in yet.  Mistress, Sir and the kids stayed at home - they made a good impression last week, and Mistress had said she wasn't in the mood to do additional entertaining.  She is a bit flat lately.  Dinner was very nom though, and I thought during the middle of it that it would be nice to bring Mistress and/or the tribe there, and omg, I'm the local here now out of those that were at the table.

I will catch up with Mum and Dad next month, but saying goodbye to Grandma, I tried to hide it but I got a bit teary.  Not sure when the next time I will see her is, she isn't a spring chicken anymore, and I dunno, kind of just soaking in the conversation and the time with her.  On saying goodbye, she said to me look after yourself.  I replied, yes, yes I am.  She came back with oh stop being self satisfied and smug, to which I said seriously, I haven't looked after myself this well for a long, long time.  And then gave her a second hug.

Today, work work work.  Got home and the place exploded around me basically.  Child two was showing a bit too much cheek and Mistress and then Sir shouted at him.  Mistress was snappy at me for a bit, before she showed her Achilles heel to me - the best way to distract her from most anything else, is put a recipe book or a food magazine under her nose lol.  Just a quiet night, the deal was if I did the dishes, she would do the ironing.  We watched the television in the background for a while, before Mistress retired to bed.  Gave her a quick back massage before she went.  Which was nice.

For Sunday and Monday, I had hardly spent any time with Mistress.  Which feels a bit strange, to be honest.  Even though I was socialising with friends and family, it just felt different without The Boss around.  So it was nice to spend a few hours of quality time with her tonight.  I don't have anything else social planned for the rest of the week, and hoping to get out, with Mistress if possible, to a pub to watch some sport on Saturday.

Will see how things go.