Last night we lay in the warm dark, giggly and wide-awake and overrun with cats. I asked for a bedtime story, and Ash took me on a virtual tour of our house. The dream house. The stone and oak barn, with a pebble driveway and a small orchard of fruit trees where the hives are, surrounded by farmland and stars. With the boot & bee-gear room, hand-crafted kitchen made of recycled timber and tiles (and obsessively organised pantry), double-height glass windows along the entire ground floor lead to squishy sofas in front of the wood-burner. This house.
In order to create this, we need to be prepared for six months of building, and anywhere up to a year to fill in all the forms and do the council planning permission voo-doo. That’s once we find and buy some land which could take months. And in order to do any of this we need dosh, moula, bread, coin, spondoolies, wonga: folding stuff. And I need a job.
Yesterday, with the help of lovely cheer-leading tweetage and some bright orange tights (worn discretely under a rather demure long wool skirt), I second interviewed for a really awesome project that will contribute to the sum total of human endeavour.
And I got it!
In 10 days time I will be working with the Smartest People in the World (seriously, my boss has a Nobel Prize. I KNOW) to help create an amazing medical research facility in London.
So this is the first step to the barn and the place. We are doing it.
I am feeling incredibly blessed and grateful today.
Hiphip hooray! Yay you, what a great job! And how awesome is that pinboard thingee with all your pics? Very cool. I will start saving to come stay right away. Skype you soon xx
warning: that pinboard thingee is such a time-sucker. but its a lovely way to dream and manifest dreams and shit! xxx
Oh, how very wonderful to have something to look forward to or, at least, something BOTH of you can look forward to. I’m very, very envious. I’m desperate for a wood burning stove and a garden big enough to grow veggies but fear I shall be stuck where I am forever.
So exciting to take that first step towards an awesome dream! Congratulations on the job , it sounds like a goodun :)
YAY YOU!!! it’s all that awesome juju you have because of all the wonderful things you do. i am so happy for you, babe. SO HAPPY. xoxox
p.s. can’t wait to visit your dream home someday ;)
Such wonderful news! First steps are so exciting!!! :)
OMG Sas, that is incredible, fabulous, WONDERFUL news! I am totally thrilled and excited for you!!! (Nobel prize? zomg COOL!)
yeah totally lucked out on the geekishness of this project! i just hope they are prepared for my questions about PROPER SCIENCE (they probably don’t call it that right?) :)
It all depends on your personal knowledge level. On one ridiculously technical project, when people would ask me rapid fire questions whose words I didn’t even know the meaning of, I would blink back at them and reply, “I’m pretty”.
my favourite branch of science is physics. there’s bound to be a physicist in there who wants to discuss quantum theory. i’ll go gently with the need for them to involve a rabbit analogy so i can actually participate.
not surprised and incredibly thrilled. love you!
totally owe you a skype! my bad. miss your face.
xxx
WOOHOO! Good on you! Congratulations!
I so love that you and Ash visualize to each other what your dreams look like. Kirk and I do that, too, and it strengthens such a sense of communion — of truth — between us to be looking at the same dream and assenting that both of us, yes, want that kind of life together.
I’m so thrilled for the life the two of you want together. Can’t wait to keep watching it unfold! xo
yeah its awesome and it constantly affirms for me that we were just meant to be together. even when he gets on MY LAST NERVE.
:)
The medical research world needs more big-brained, redheaded ladies in orange tights. This is marvellous. Bloody marvellous. Big hugs x x x
its a little taste of your world, doctor bea :)
that is bloody marvellous – go you!
I’m here in Wellington, toasting your awesomeness. x
Sas, hope you’ve read Solar? And good on you!
i have! loved it :)