Thought I'd post this exciting development here as good as anywhere...
The good news - I rejoin the rat race with a new contract for 6 months til mid December
The bad news - having to get up before the sun rises, home after the sun sets each day - (
) and poor old Pep, who has been quite spoilt with me working from home most of the time the last two contracts, will be left all alone again all day=not a happy puppy. (Also producing TR will slow down a lot!)
The good news: DH has changed his edict of " No long expensive overseas trips in 2014, just a week locally somewhere," to " If you want to go to Orlando for 2 weeks to see HP at Universal and WDW, that'd be OK but no add-ons like NYC or driving trips up to Canada as you want to do".
OK - I can compromise
It would be late 2014 as I will probably pick up another school review job from January to July or August but have to be before or after G20 as DH has been told he might need to be on call around that time. I really would like to do
MNSSHP....let the planning begin!!
(but I will finish current TR BEFORE I start too much forward planning) - hmmm, a more thorough read of the 2014 thread - step 1, I think. Of course if DD gets to go to Asia for several months as part of her PhD (which is possible next year) this may change to an Asian trip.....