Uh oh

Hmm....have just checked the submission guidelines for my end of course assessment and its the 5th of October! Pants! Three handwritten copies have to be sent by post to the OU....and methinks i don't trust the european postal system. I barely trust the UK postal system....grudgingly. So i'm going to have to work my butt off even more to get it finished and sent off before we travel (am aiming to post it the day we leave England). I'm going to be knackered before we even start backpacking at this rate!!!
Now that Glen knows i'm going backpacking he has been regaling me with stories of when he and his wife went travelling for a year. I don't think he's been so animated in weeks! Not sure if its because he has finally found someone to bore with his travelling stories or because he's getting rid of me for a month. Bit of both methinks.
When my alarm went off this morning i turned it off and mumbled "hunni, time to get up". Then i turned over and realised Naidel wasn't there and subsquently balled my eyes out. No morning cuddles, no octopus, no monster. Just Guen and Ixian staring at me expectantly (i foolishly told them i am taking them travelling with us....now Guen keeps trying to get in my bergen and Ixian is bouncing around like he's had fourteen packets of Haribo...). I thought that I was ok and that I was dealing with him going back quite well, but apparently not. I'm not as bad as i was when he left in Feb, but I'm not good either. I miss him and he's only been gone a day. I got used to his warm presence about the house, and now i'm cold again. Hmph.