what a difference a year makes

before reading this, go read about my holiday

Isn't it weird the difference in a persons personality a year, a few months, a week, a few days can make?

a year ago on May 31st 2001 I was crying my eyes out saying that i hated disability services because i would be having a new part time carer the next day (June 1st 2001) and i couldn't cope with having and getting to know another part timer who obviously wasn't going to come back!

well you can guess who it was can't you - Trudi - and how wrong i was... She came back for a second shift with me (19th June 2001) just before i went home for the summer and we had a really good time sitting in the pub talking crap about muriels wedding, made me wish i hadn't hidden in my room all day the first time she worked! Even that day when we went to the pub and she told me she was thinking of doing full time and even that if she didn't she would come and take me to this bar we'd been talking about that i liked the sound of... still didn't believe her tho did i!

Then on 16th September 2001 i get a text from Sam about the new care scheme and saying that Trudi was going to be working with her

But that didn't last did it? Sam for some inexplainable reason couldn't stand her, said she was too nice and didn't want her working with her!

So then November 26th or 27th 2001 Trudi was swopped onto my team which was just what i needed after all the crap that had happened, and for both of us things started looking up.

Many many drunken nights out, two holidays, two trips to my mums, two trips to her mums, the theatre, alton towers, too many shopping trips to count, four exams, six assignments and countless lectures, trips to llandudno, manchester, liverpool, greece, oxford, cheadle, nottingham and chesire oaks later we came full circle.

yesterday was June 1st 2002 - a year on from when we first met - and what a difference a year makes...

they were tears again yesterday but this time they were because my friend Trudi has the next three days off and I have amy instead and my days with Trudi are very important too me at the moment coz i know there aren't that many left!

a year ago i hated her, now i don't know what i will do without her and i cry because she's not going to be here for three days

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