**Daily Chat Thread**28th August 2008*

bank_of_slate

Hello everyone!

I've not been on here for a couple of days because I've been a hideous snot monster sat with a tissue rammed up each nostril for 3 days.
on the mend today and back in serious MSE mode.

Got my wage slip to find £400 extra this month :T

My mileage claim has been processed early AND back pay from he last wage rise, woohoo.

I'm feeling very proud of my culinary exploits today too.....
I was in the Co-Op yesterday to get milk and saw a nice big plump fresh 2kg chicken with todays sell by date reduced to £2.99
bought it, roasted it and have carved it all up (with a furry audience who seemed to think that audience participation was required)
So far it is all sorted out for
1, roast chicken dinner tonight
2, chicken & mushroom omelette for my lunch
3, chicken salad sandwiches for hubby & kids lunch
4, bones, onions, black pepper and root veg are now simmering for one of my legendary homemade chicken broths!
5, chicken & mushroom korma for me & my sis tomorrow
It's amazing how far a chicken can go isn't it?

How is everyone, what did I miss?
...Linda xx

Burlesque_Babe

bank_of_slate wrote: »

Hello everyone!

I've not been on here for a couple of days because I've been a hideous snot monster sat with a tissue rammed up each nostril for 3 days.

I now have a visionof you similar to when Blackadder put 2 pencils up his nose!!!

Glad you are feeling a bit better now.

(Land_of)_Maz

bank_of_slate wrote: »

Hello everyone!

I've not been on here for a couple of days because I've been a hideous snot monster sat with a tissue rammed up each nostril for 3 days.
on the mend today and back in serious MSE mode.

Got my wage slip to find £400 extra this month :T

My mileage claim has been processed early AND back pay from he last wage rise, woohoo.

I'm feeling very proud of my culinary exploits today too.....
I was in the Co-Op yesterday to get milk and saw a nice big plump fresh 2kg chicken with todays sell by date reduced to £2.99
bought it, roasted it and have carved it all up (with a furry audience who seemed to think that audience participation was required)
So far it is all sorted out for
1, roast chicken dinner tonight
2, chicken & mushroom omelette for my lunch
3, chicken salad sandwiches for hubby & kids lunch
4, bones, onions, black pepper and root veg are now simmering for one of my legendary homemade chicken broths!

It's amazing how far a chicken can go isn't it?

How is everyone, what did I miss?
...Linda xx

Alright Delia!! We've missed ya but did you have to come on and make me feel all inadequate!!

and well done on the extra dosh!

Lucifa73

Well that was interesting. No apology from her until at the end I pointedly said 'so if i email or text am I going to get an answer occasionally' she went a bit pink and admiited she'd been crap. We'll see...:cool:

bank_of_slate

(Land_of)_Maz wrote: »

Alright Delia!! We've missed ya but did you have to come on and make me feel all inadequate!!

and well done on the extra dosh!

Oh, I forgot the 5th thing - I cut a recipe out of this week's Closer magazine for a low fat chicken & mushroom korma which I'll be making for me & my sis tomorrow night.
She's coming down to the Myrtle Park music festival with me on Sat all day (my treat - she just lost her job:eek: )

I booked today and tomorrow off work, glad I got the cold out of the way so I'll be ok for this weekend!
...Linda xx

(Land_of)_Maz

NEWSFLASH - i haven't checked internet banking today..... someone better come and check my temperature... this just never happens.

Must be that sub conciously i don't want to see all the money i had yesterday now left my account......

angelflower_2

bit scared.....am trying to get as much work done as poss but keep clock watching as the office is about to be invaded - by a puppy party!!!!!

Burlesque_Babe

I've just had a bit of an odd blast from the past and it's made me realise how carp my life was 15 months ago.

2 days before I was made redundant from my old job (through choice because of the Cruella situation), a job was rushed through the clearing committee and a lovely manager who knew what I'd been through basically said 'this is yours if you want it'. At the time, my head was so mashed with all I'd taken from Cruella, I put every obstacle in the way to make it look as if I wasn't suitable to ensure that I'd escape from her and partly I didn't think I was suitable because I'd had 10 months of being told how rubbish I was. (I wasn't - as 6 senior managers testified in my grievance)

Anway, 15 months on........the job has come back up again. I was looking on the site because I know my friend who has just come back from travelling is trying to get back into the organisation and I saw it there.

With my head much more mended and without the fear of being told I had to take it when all I wanted to do was escape, I've re-read the job description and realise, with some sadness that , yes, I could easily have done the job.

I now feel quite sad because

a) my head was such a mess that I was willing to turn down an opportunity to stay in employment on a good-ish salary (lower band but I would have been protected for 2 years) just so I could escape Cruella 2 days later

b) she was such a nasty piece of work that she reduced me to virtually nothing.

I remember crying with fear after being offered it that they would make me stay.......

Lucifa73

That must feel weird BB. Would you go back?

bank_of_slate

(Land_of)_Maz wrote: »

NEWSFLASH - i haven't checked internet banking today..... someone better come and check my temperature... this just never happens.

Must be that sub conciously i don't want to see all the money i had yesterday now left my account......

Wonders where to pop the thermometer!
...Linda xx