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Time has gone so quickly since my last update. An *amazing* number of things have happened, I don’t know where to start!

Ok, so I’ll start from the first bit of goodness. As many of you know, I wasn’t overly happy at my admin job at the Bank. The people were great, but the work was not very challenging and in the current financial climate the morale was very low amongst the team. For years I have been helping out various web/ tech companies with the communities and also blogging for various people. Everyone knows I am a Twitaholic and addicted to the net in general! For years, my dream job has been to become a Community Manager and build a community (ideally from scratch) and get more involved with social media. Well, with the support of my lovely Bob and various other friends (especially Sarah Blow), I decided to go for it. I went for a couple of interviews and was offered both roles. I decided on the role at an international publishers, working as a Community Manager for estatesgazette.com. I am delighted with my choice and over the past 3 weeks, I have been working with some amazingly motivated and knowledgeable people. I have already learnt a great deal and I have so many ideas, but we won’t go into that now

My second bit of news and by far the biggest and most exciting is… The wonderful boy I met just 8 or so months ago, the love of my life, the most honest and perfect man to walk the earth (in my opinion), proposed to me on the 20th November after the Cozy TweetUp and I said yes (over and over and over again!). So… I’M GETTING MARRIED!!! I just can’t believe it! If you have read any of my previous blogs, you will know this is a great deal for me. I was in a relationship for over 5 years with no commitment and little love (in the end). For years I wanted to find someone who loved me for who I am and not what they could turn me into. I also wanted to find someone whom I could trust impeccably, who would love and care for me as much as I did them. Until a rainy day back in March, I hadn’t found this person. Now I have him and his wonderful family, who I very much consider my own. I will have 2 lovely sister in laws, a very cute nephew and in laws that I love dearly! Not to mention, his son who is just awesome in every way!

My final piece of news is that my website www.girlsngadgets.com won an award at the IT Blogs 09 run by Computer Weekly! You can see pics and a run down of the evening here.

In the space of 9 months, I’ve met the love of my life and future husband, I’ve got my dream job and won an award for my website! I couldn’t be happier.