Today was quite a momentous day. I am back at work....CFO of a Dubai based regional education business. It is a big role with great potential and is going to go through rapid growth and quite significant changes to its structure and organisation.

 

One downside - they start at 7.30am every weekday and finish at 5.30pm. That way they can have a 48 hour week and still have the whole weekend off.

 

It is what Tai and I have been working for since we knew that we should be together in Dubai. At some stage I had to find work and find something interesting and challenging to do. I have found that. But I will miss being able to stay with her when she comes back from her trips and to be there during the days she is at home and enoying her company.

 

But we will have to try and fit our schedules together as best we can. Her days off will not always be the same as my weekends off. So we will need to make the best of the evenings when we are both here; the nights when we are both here (despite the 6.30am alarm!) and the weekends and holidays that we have.

 

For instance Tai will not land from Rome until 1.45am - so home and tired at about 3.15am. We have less than 3 hours of sleep and then I have to get up for work. But it is worth it to see her; get her unpacked and hold her until we sleep. And then I have to try not to wake her in the morning !

 

Yesterday was six months since we became engaged. I would ask her very day but she would get bored. I always want her to know how important she is to me and how much I cherish the relationship that we have. Sometimes I may try too hard or think too much. There are days like today when I really wish she was here - that I could tell her about work and the people there; the things that need to be done; that we could eat together; that we could curl up on the sofa together and hold eachother and escape the rest of the world for a few hours.

 

Even now, when she is over three hours away, my heart still beats faster at the knowledge that she will be home later.