{"id":33560,"date":"2017-01-20T17:45:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T15:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=33560"},"modified":"2017-01-20T17:45:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T15:45:39","slug":"boosting-morale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/boosting-morale\/","title":{"rendered":"Boosting Morale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Work has gone from a 1\/10 to 15\/10 on the busyness scale after a much longer holiday hiatus than I could have expected. The last few days have been trying and there’s currently no end in sight. I really can’t complain and since I did so much touristy stuff in Amsterdam, I’m not having much trouble getting back into the work mode I was in in Spain as it feels like I’ve been on holidays for a solid month! I’ve only had just enough small jobs to keep me going into the red, but barely. I’m grateful to be at a point in my freelancing career where I was able to weather a break like that easily and without too much stress.<\/p>\n

At any rate, I’ve been putting together a care package for a friend and promised to get it off to her this week. So that left today or tomorrow and I was planning on tomorrow so I could get everything with a hard deadline off to the clients by tonight. But it was actually sunny today, so going down to the village\u00a0made sense. I headed out around 1:30 and got the final items for my friend, then went to the post office where I was able to package it all up for her and send it out. It was a much more positive experience than the last time I tried to mail something from the UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then, I had lunch and what I’d been craving all week, Marco’s pizza! I was going to get a pizza from Tesco as the ones I like (Dr. Oetker) were on offer for \u00a31.50, regular \u00a32.50, but I’d rather pay the extra \u00a33.50 and get real<\/em> pizza!\u00a0You know what I mean. Pizza that looks like this:<\/p>\n

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This one wasn’t quite as good as the one I had the first time as the crust was cooked a bit too long, but I’m being fussy. I love the super garlicky oil the drizzled over top and that a thoughtful server brought me some tap water before I had a chance to ask him for it. What a treat lunch was!<\/p>\n

I’m rather shocked by how far my money is going here. The exchange rate compared to last June is definitely helping (then, \u00a350 got me about 92CAD and now it’s only about 82CAD!). I am nowhere near being able to have the standard of living I had in the Balkans or\u00a0Mexico in terms of being able to eat out or for a beer whenever I want, but the UK is proving to be yet another country where my dollar goes further than it does in Canada. What a surprise.<\/p>\n

Well, my sunny trip and lovely lunch certainly boosted my morale. Back to the grindstone I go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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