Thank Janine it's Friday!

Yes, here's some Fri-candy visual feast to celebrate the upcoming weekend. A week of revelation for globus...

- Janine looks uncannily like Abbie
- 'working' from home on a Friday doesn't really work
- British summertime is a myth
- South African girls are hot
- Myspace is still worth visiting - if only for Janine (pictured) and the fact that those sultry foxes the Saturdays are currently gracing the MS homepage
- there's life in the old blog yet :-)

Affairs of the heart

Crivens! It's June already, and only a couple of blog posts in 2009. This year is going too quick for Globus to keep up. Still, off on holiday for 2 weeks from Monday so mustn't grumble :-)

There are a few reasons why this blog has dwindled - twitter, for one - and also my wife suffered from serious post natal depression in particular at the close of last year, and then had a serious car crash in January. That's meant life was pretty frigging terrible for a while, and naturally the blog's taken a back seat, but I'm reluctant to close it because at times I need to write a post like this one.

This post is about Abbie. She's a girl who works in my company's Accounts team. Abbie caught my eye when she joined the company last Autumn. She's sassy, South African with a VERY cute accent and looks to match, and she fancies the pants off me. Over the past month and a half, we've become close, not in the biblical sense, but emotionally, we're definitely having an affair. Now this isn't a post about the why's and wherefore's - another time maybe. This one is about a lightbulb moment I just had to share with you.

Like most significant occurrences in my life, I tend to mull them over, over-worry and over-analyse about stuff, go round in circles doing some soul-searching, and then if there's nobody to talk to, and when I need answers, I usually go looking on Google. Stick 'getting over an affair' into the search engine and some useful anecdotes and posts come up.

Anyway, back to Abbie. She's single, but has morals, which means she's in turmoil about falling for a married man - and someone who works in the same place as her, to boot. As for me, my marriage has been difficult and I guess her interest was flattering - and I became very attached to her. This week on 2 days we'd arranged to catch up after work but I had to cancel each one - work's been hard taskmaster this week. Abbie wants more of my time than I am able to give right now. She text me yesterday: 'When i'm with you, it's perfect. But when I'm not, it's back to text message, and real life.....how do you think I feel not being able to see you, hear you, touch you?' Abbie then sent me a text telling me she was frustrated and was going to try ignoring me whilst I was on holiday, as it might help, as her head's messed up. So....I mulled this over....over-worried....over-analysed....and then.....

......Googled it, of course. And after doing some reading, I think the only possible outcome for an affair is hurt - even if your spouse remains oblivious. I can't see any way in which an affair can end well - can you? This is my lightbulb moment - I've finally realised infidelity can be extremely destructive and negative. It's also a very isolationist thing - Abbie can't confide in anyone at work, or any friends, as she doesn't want people to think bad of her. I can't confide in anyone but this blog, and at the end of the day, none of that sounds very healthy does it?

So I've decided that rather than try and pursue Abbie - I think I'm gonna let her go. I think it's best for both of us. I'm sure she's in love with me, and I'm know I've fallen for her. And I think letting her go won't change that. But it seems like the 'right' thing to do - don't you think?

2009 is getting better

By now it's clear this blog might be living on borrowed time. But like what an RBS banker thinks when receiving his bonus cheque, in every bit of gloom there's always light at the end of the tunnel. April's light happens to be German actress Josefine Preuss :-)

2009 is too shit.

So, credit crunchers, think you're having a tough time of it?

Jan was fucking dire. Globus managed to :

- get thoroughly stressed at work (ongoing)
- be a victim of credit card fraud
- identify that both his children were definitely psycho's in their former lives
- lose one of his fillings
- eat some dodgy chicken and contract 48 hr food poisoning
- flush one of his contact lenses down the sink (arrgh!)
- fall back into smoking, blaming the economy, global warming and pretty much any other lame excuse

In addition :

- Wife had a serious car crash, also incurring a post-Christmas apocalyptic £400 insurance excess
- Roof tiles of Globus Gables came off in a storm, resulting in (ongoing) storm damage
- Globus' bank decided to withdraw £300 from his account with no notice, in error, 3 days before payday. Despite chasing, 3 weeks later, it's still not refunded! :|
- There's an overspend on the Globus account of around £200 a month. That's a problem
- People keep deleting Globus as a friend on Facebook
- Globus is getting no sex whatsoever.

2009 so far gets the Globus 'nul points' vote. Are things gonna get any better?