Britain haz coalition govt!!!

When not working I've been glued to the news. I was hoping for a Lab/Lib Dems coalition but it's turned out to be Tories/Lib Dems. I'm still learning about what each party holds near and dear and that is going to be more apparent as they start forming policies. I might have voted Lib Dem were I eligible as the party is into social justice and pro-environmental policies. Then again, I did feel that Gordon Brown was keeping the economy going with deficit spending. People were afraid the pound sterling would plunge with a Lib/Lab coalition but it's actually gone down some anyway. I find it hard to accept that people were and are so afraid of proportional representation when other European countries have been running that way for years. I would be really happy if we had Green Party MPs, not so much for UKIPs. The Green Party did win a seat so that's exciting. I do think in the future the Scottish National Party will be more represented and probably some of the smaller parties as well. IMO the more people are forced to compromise the better policy will come out of it. Too much power in the hands of too few people is a problem in my book.

Work has been busy but interesting. I asked again if I could get the A2K training and today the answer was YES!!!! Hurrah!!! Once I'm trained I can take a laptop home and do my paperwork there. I think I'll be more productive if I can work at home and will be able to avoid the parking hassles sometimes. It has gotten really bad lately. I've been very lucky in finding parking places in the permit lot when I need them but my colleagues have ended up having to park 20 minutes away sometimes. The pay bays near our entrance fill up; heck, ALL the paid parking in the whole Civic Centre fills up. Having to pay for parking is not reimbursable and one can only park for 2 hours at a time, so if you had to park 20 minutes away, you gotta leave work again an hour and 20 minutes later, walk back to your car, look for parking in the permit lot and if you can't find it, go through the whole process again. A lot of wasted time for busy social workers who are already working long hours.

It will be nice if I can spend more time with Toby too. He has been a bit lonely but he LOVES the new cat toys my colleague Mandy passed on from her cat Ravi. I can't get any good pix of him playing with them cuz when I get out the camera he wants me to pick him up, but every night when I turn out the lights he has a play session before he comes upstairs to sleep on my bed. He's a happy boy but he and I will both be happier if he gets a bit more mommy time!!!