I fell off the wagon

Mudbath

How are you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And welcome to psychopathbabble - I'm the resident cheerleader / stalker though I seem to have been missing in action for the last month or so.

Justruth -:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: I hope you've sorted out your little roachy friends. Could you not catch a few and sell them as pets to unsuspecting children in time for Christmas? A nice little money spinner! Good luck with your bone marrow harvest. That's a really fantastic thing to do. They won't even have my blood because of medication I'm on.

Things are plodding on here though I might be joining you on the debt fight if things carry on. DH's car burnt out last week so we're now frantically trying to save for that but then other things keep happening so we'll probably have to get a loan. Keeps me from getting bored I guess.

Catch up with you all again soon xx

justruth

Good to have you back mudbath! Sorry to hear about the car situation.

Well I should get proper professional help and advice from the council pest control department tomorrow, meanwhile my self fumigating (possibly not all that healthy for me) seems to be getting at least a few of the beasties. I have taken to discharging 2 full cans of insecticide into the wall cavities each day, and now found a few victims. Find out tomorrow about more long term solutions and perhaps the true extent of the problem.

I have soo much to do it's ridiculous and I have decided to add another year onto my uni course and intercalate. It's a better idea in terms of actual career progression and means I realistically have another year I can work before the heavy clinical years. Also means another year before I am actually earning a proper income.

It will at least be good when I'm a doctor lol

psychopathbabble

Hi Mudbath thanks for the welcome!! I could do with a little cheerleading right now....
Sorry to hear about the car, hope you get something sorted. I guess you can't claim on insurance? I hate cars!! My last one lost me thousands of money. Stupid things.
Good luck with the pest control visit Justruth x

determinedtodothis

Hey stranger! sorry i've been MIA so much going on at work at the moment is heads down!

Well done you on the marrow thing and i'm glad you got your teeth sorted. sorry to hear about your "visitors" hope that gets sorted - whatever you do dont stand on them it spreads their eggs!

I really envy you for training to be a doctor - the studying takes so much dedication, and you have all the pressures of trying to survive on student loans and part time work - i really take my hat off to you!

justruth

First things first, no signs of the beasties!!! Fingers crossed and copious amounts of poison at the ready. I do actually think I perhaps sprayed a little too much of the stuff and had to leave the flat at one point lol, there is a danger of the eggs hatching in the next 2 - 3 months and making a comeback but pleanty of poison in the appropriate places should kill them off before they get a chance to lay further eggs. That is the plan anyway, otherwise it's £110 to get it dealt with!!!!! There is also the risk that even if I totally irradicate them in my flat, if they are in the building they may come back, however since I am oh so more aware now I think I would see the whole block off before returning to having them in my kitchen!!!!

Go psychopathbable, go ppb, go ppb whoo (cheerleading as best I can) Just remember that its a marathon not a sprint, if you try to build up a longer term picture ( I am getting to my 1 year mark now) even when things get a little silly as they have for me the last month, over the course of the last year I have made a massive improvement.

DTDT, so glad you're back, although it would have been nice to actually be winning lol. The best thing about the marrow donation is that actually I do believe that most people would do the same thing in my situation, but as most people never get contacted (they might if they signed up) everyone says I'm great for doing it lol. Did have a sudden panic earlier in the evening, and had to rush to buy some pyjamas, slippers and dressing gown that weren't all tatty ready for my stay in hospital, however I'm pleased to have some nice new ones. (I had to buy them today as it was a planned spend day)

You made me blush with that bit at the end lol, it is difficult but then so is anything worth doing. I was interested that you said you envy me though, have you been thinking about a change in career? As I recall you're about the same age as me, if you are thinking about it then my advice is do it!!! As for surviving on student loans and part time work, I love my job now, it's great, and student loans is the first time in my working life that I have a stable income. Thats how I got into some of this mess lol. I feel really lucky (if a little out of my depth at times) because I love what I do and I am genuinely interested in my course. I even asked the bone marrow team if some of my uni mates could watch the op lol. It is hard, but happy hard.

NSDs for Dec I am planning at least 5 (25th should be easy, as should the 10th as I will be in hospital all day)

Have agreed to work NYE as my boss said those magic words 'double time' lol.

justruth

Managed my first NSD of the month yesterday, but I will be spending today.

Started looking everyday on gumtree for free freezers and washing machines as reasonably certain that the washing machine is actually about to stop working altogether. It was only working on one wash anyway (fortunately 40) but now I have noticed the clothes don't come out warm, and it's getting gradually less and less stable. Figure it's actually the wrong time of year to be looking for them as not many people buy them now and when they get them new a lot of companies take away the old one.

Also I should get my bursary payment a week tomorrow which improves things, my brother has promised to send some cash for my mums birthday meal (I paid it on my card as I have 0% till Feb anyway and 0.5% cash back) and he didn't have the spare money at the time so that will improve my balance.

All in all I intend to improve my balance ready for next term.

justruth

Ah well, best laid plans and all that, got out of work to find a parking ticket, then got a call from work, could I cover another shift tonight which I did, only to come out of this venue to find someone keyed all down one side of the car. However I am strangely calm about it all (another week I may have sulked) because I am challenging the parking ticket, and I already have scratch repair stuff, I can replace a car but whoever did it will always be a bit of a loser.

I am so tired after hardly sleeping all weekend that I am running on adrenaline and finding it hard to come down, and I have uni at 9am, but never mind, it's all good.

Lets be honest the extra shift is a little more money I wasn't expecting and who knows perhaps my appeal will pay off.

On the down side I didn't have time to eat at home so I had to buy food at work or it could have been another NSD, but again I know that I have at least one more of those thins week and I can try to plan and organise myself so that I don't have to go out shopping next weekend.

I have a theory that you hit a really big rut just before things go great, just so you appreciate the great more. Therefore I am going to buy a lotto ticket - just in case I'm right lol.

psychopathbabble

Try freecycle and I think freegle it's called too as there are always lots of things on there.
Fingers crossed for the appeal, and if I remember rightly your bone marrow op is soon? Good luck with that too!

determinedtodothis

ah sorry to hear about your car - some people are such idiots! and good luck with the parking ticket - i know some friends that have managed sucessful appeals.

justruth

Ha I picked up my ear piece for the radios at work today, only to find it's the wrong one. Would you believe that I am more irritated about that than my car lol.

I have to try to get everything in place tomorrow ready to go into hospital on Wednesday evening, I also have the council in doing some electrical work ready for the mains supply upgrade, and I have to get everything ready for when I come out of hospital, such as making sure I have food etc in, and I have Spanish class 6-8 and start work at 7. This one is going to take some working out.

I also have to sort out getting a new earpiece, getting into uni to do some revision and get the books I want to take out for the Christmas break, my building regs, sorting out the pile of 'to do' stuff thay seems to have built up on every surface, Christmas present deliveries for my nephew and niece and the missing gas meter (a whole new story).

Still at least I wont be bored.