Old Style Diary Archive - APR 06

Bargain_Rzl

cha97michelle wrote:

i totally agree with your viewpoint about w**k. I used to really enjoy it, and i know i'm better than some as i get my 'holidays' and it's well paid. But when i'm still working at 10pm most weekday nights, and then a good part of Sunday, i just want to swap it all for working anywhere. I am hoping everyone feels the same. I just keep thinking 'stop the world - i want to get off' and 'there has to be more to life than this'. I think i'm having a mid-life crisis and i'm only 27.

Let's just get this straight Michelle, you're not actually me, are you?

Also:

cha97michelle wrote:

I know what you mean about a lack of adult company Zed. Currently i am feeling it as well. I'm glad DH will be off work on Monday as i'm fed up of being stuck indoors and not doing much. Oh well.

Just a thought, and I hope I'm not speaking out of turn (just looking out for you) but with you being pregnant at the mo you're likely to end up with a year of going stir-crazy without adult contact! Perhaps you should start looking into what mother and baby groups/similar things are available, so you can take advantage to the maximum once baby comes - or else you really could end up driving yourself mad. Unless you turn out to be one of those lucky women who find motherhood is all they need in their life

SnowyOwl - I know the South Kensington area well because of spending so much time at the Proms every summer. I like the area because despite being so posh and exclusive, it's also a university area - so the budget eateries are around if you look Although I budget to double my weekly spending allowance during the Proms, it's not because the area's expensive - just that I'm out a lot and end up spending more on things like beer (Imperial College bar - v.g.value!), food (usually at the places I recommended to Essex-girl, or snacks from Gloucester Road Waitrose) and generally not being home to be organised

XBF thought about moving near there - he's very well paid and made a huge profit on his previous house, so could have bought a 2 bed flat with a roof terrace - but ended up settling on Earls Court which is not far away and got what seems to have been a real bargain.

(Now, if my dumping him isn't proof of me not being interested in him for his money, I don't known what is )

Am about to sample HM carrot cake :drool:

Rzl xx

Bargain_Rzl

Zed42 wrote:

Evening folks,

Well, it is a beautiful clear evening ... and all I can hear are the cheers of drunken louts outside the house, oh I do love my life at times.

IKWYM Zed! It's like that round our way some nights, despite it being a residential area! Today's variant, however, was that I was in my room (facing out to the front) watching the snooker all afternoon, and out of the corner of my eye was observing the frenetic ball-game that was going on in the road out the front. I sort of bet myself that before the day was out, I'd get a knock on the door from somebody saying "hello can I have my ball back?"

Sure enough at about 6:30...

Zed42 wrote:

Tomorrow I was meant to be going to a Christening, but I'm not sure I'm that brave to go with DD on my own ... last time we were in that Church, she discovered that it echoes when she shouted

Reminds me of the time the church I went to from the ages of 9-13 got on TV (local ITV "Morning Worship" or whatever - I read a prayer ). Because I was taking part, I was seated apart from my family. My mum later told me that my brother, who would have been about 4 at the time, had fixed her with a determined look, and said "Barney" (his teddy, who was in his lap at the time) "likes to jump. Very, very high".

Mum got awful vision of the whole of North-Eastern England being treated to a shot of Barney being thrown up into the roof...

...and back down again.

Needless to say she confiscated Barney, with as little fuss as possible

At the church I now go to/sing at, we've finally got a Sunday School :j :j :j It opened last week! We'd never had enough kids before. Keeps them out of mischief during the early part of the service at least, but they come back for Communion, so there's still the possibility of somebody deciding to have a tantrum just in time for us to sing "Dona nobis pacem" ("Grant us peace") :rotfl:

scottishspendaholic

Zed42 wrote:

I had dinner in a hotel in Edinburgh last year, the restaurant was on the top floor and had big glass windows and the view of the castle was spectacular. The hotel was on the Grassmarket. Wonder if it's the same one.

The Apex International. My boss had her wedding reception there - the view is just awesome (but its v. pricey!).

scottishspendaholic x

Zed42

scottishspendaholic wrote:

The Apex International. My boss had her wedding reception there - the view is just awesome (but its v. pricey!).

scottishspendaholic x

That's the one I was thinking of, thank you !!

Now, I really ought to sign off ..... I would say and "go get a life", but that's unlikely for this time of night with a childer in bed!

I've had the same glass of wine for 2.5hrs .... and it's still over half full. I must be sickening for something!

BWZN93

cha97michelle wrote:

jo - i totally agree with your viewpoint about w**k. I used to really enjoy it, and i know i'm better than some as i get my 'holidays' and it's well paid. But when i'm still working at 10pm most weekday nights, and then a good part of Sunday, i just want to swap it all for working anywhere. I am hoping everyone feels the same. I just keep thinking 'stop the world - i want to get off' and 'there has to be more to life than this'. I think i'm having a mid-life crisis and i'm only 27.

Yup, 'there has to be more to life than this' is the phrase that runs through my head every morning on the bus on loop like a tickertape or something.... Im having my mid-life crisis at 26! I need to be paid not to w**k, or at least paid to do something I enjoy that doesnt feel like w**k. Unlikely I know, but Ive got to dream for my sanity's sake!

Jo xx

Bargain_Rzl

jw1096 wrote:

I need to be paid not to w**k, or at least paid to do something I enjoy that doesnt feel like w**k. Unlikely I know, but Ive got to dream for my sanity's sake!

well, I thought I was getting there - after all, as a professional church singer I get paid for singing and going to church - the 2 most important things in my life...

and then I thought, well, that's about £1.5k a year, for 3 hours a week work that I love...

and I get more than 17 times that for doing a job that's merely OK, for a boss I hate, with oodles of unpaid overtime :mad:

and I HAVE to keep doing it cos I really want to buy a flat soon, and to carry on having a bit of a "life"...

:mad:

SnowyOwl_2

Bsrgain Rzl, JW ... funnily enough I've just been having a similar whinge to a friend via hotmail, telling my friend how believing in w*** is actually to behave like a lemming. I'm not going to go on about it...suffice to say that I am 40 this year, and other than payday, I still think the whole concept of office w*** is the biggest joke ever...

Grrr...getting cross now so...puppy dogs, fluffy kittens, chocolate, wine, christmas, snow, holidays, more chocolate, another kitten and puppy, sunny days off. Ahh these are some of my favourite things...ahhhhhh that's better....ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...........

FirstClassMale

Well, at the risk of somone else starting a thread before I finish typing. I will summarise.

All guests we had round for birthday drinks now in bed.

OH has already been sick and tried to vacuum it up with the only non wet and dry cleaner in the house at 1:30am

I am going for a cigarette and bed.

The game of outdoor jenga in the living room was great fun.

I hope everyone is well

Penny-Pincher!!

Am really miffed off...spent ages typing a reply this morning...tried to copy before hitting submit reply and wouldnt let me, so hit anyway and lost all my text and keeps signing me out after 15mins or so:mad: This has happened 3 times now since the change on the site...so can whoever please sort this out as its becoming a pain in the !!!!!!!!

Morning everyone!! Will reply later.

PP
xx

Prudent

Morning everyone. Sorry for not posting much this week - I always struggle to find time when work is busy. I keep trying to find a better option than juggling such a demanding job with being a single parent, but never manage

Going to have a fairly relaxing day today. A friend's daughter is being baptised, so just about to put the baking I have done for the party on a some trays. After church/ party I will probably try and relax a bit. I got a brand new popcorn maker at the car boot yesterday for £2 and dd wants us to try it out.