Diary of a Newlywed Drama Queen (v 2.0)

There are positives and negatives about spending a week off at home. The positive is that it's like being a student again, and suddenly a diet of daytime tv and cold pizza is the best thing ever, and you get all excited when there's a really good phone-in on This Morning. The negative is that it's like being a student again, and so going back to work is a massive shock to the system and feels profoundly wrong.

I do worry that after three and half years of working it still doesn't feel right, whereas doing nothing all day and spending hours mooching around the house or mooching around the shops feels absolutely right. Hmmm. Clearly I am naturally suited to the loafing lifestyle...

But it was a great week. Caught up with a few friends, chilled out, slept a lot, fought a lot of crime... like I say, it was a return to studenthood!

However, we did get some proper talking done and decisions made and all that kind of thing. I've decided to try and take the CELTA exam so that I can teach EFL professionally, and we're thinking about going abroad for a bit in the next couple of years. We've also decided to stick two fingers up to all the people who keep telling us to 'get a foot on the UK property ladder', and look at buying a nice French ruin for £20k or so that we can work on over the next ten years whenever we have a bit of spare cash or time.

Basically, we're looking at leaving the country a lot, trying to do six months here and six months there, and be kind of nomadic. Hurrah!