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Pap's forever plodding... the final chapter =)

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  • Shoe_Gal
    Shoe_Gal Posts: 7,235 Forumite
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    Hi Pap

    Nothing to add really, sounds like you've had some good advice :D

    Take care, you are truly inspiring :A
    Sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes - that's why we need really special ones!
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  • Hi all, thought I will give you all a small update...

    CD, is still going I am back with force as I want to get rid of this last little bit as soon as possible. I have three months pay that I am willing to use for CD, no more. So that takes me to the 15th of July. Job wise I am applying for many and I actually have an interview. Its not what I want to do and certainly not what I imagined moving into but I just want to leave where I am now... I think career will come in 2011/2012. So fingers crossed for that. Its a smaller wage for 14weeks and then 10p difference for what I am on now but its all managable. Money is well gone, I have none left appart from the 'change' I get from CD. Its a sorry state of affairs really but at least I payed off £69 from my debt :D

    Otherwise its just plodding on :T
  • penelopedee_2
    penelopedee_2 Posts: 2,698 Forumite
    Hi Pap, good luck for the job interview x
    This time I haven't smoked since 6th Jan 2014 and still going ok.
    Fingers crossed x
  • Bunnyinthelights
    Bunnyinthelights Posts: 15,278 Forumite
    Pap,
    I spoke to my CDC briefly about your issue and she said to try doing 1000 cal for a week then back down to 850 cal and see how you get on...

    I would think about getting weighed on a Boots scale so you can get your fat % measured as well as you are most likely losing viseral fat. x
    Empty pockets never held anyone back, only empty heads and empty hearts can do that -Peale
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 95,562 Ambassador
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    Hope it goes as you want today hun xxxx
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  • Great news on the interview PaP x
    'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars' - Oscar Wilde
  • Bun ~ I did 1000cal this past week (although it was 100cal on CD plan ;)) and I sts with my running. I am back to SS as of monday so we shall see what happens. Fingers crossed its just my body being tempermental! :rotfl: I have my own body fat monitor and I am deffo losing fat, but I think the running is toning me up too :)

    Thanks for your well wishes. The interview went really really well. Well at least I thought it did. The person interviewing looked pleased with my answers and was certainly impressed. That however doesn't mean I have the job so fingers well and truely crossed. There are some cons to the job but just now its looks like a better place to be. We shall see....

    I was naughty though and spent £2.10 while in town. I bought a thank-you card for my collegue who swapped shifts with me and a postcard. Not too bad and that was my change from Cambridge on Tuesday.

    Now back to plodding :j
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 95,562 Ambassador
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    Glad it went well today.
    Keep plodding :)
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    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.

    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.
    ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.
  • Glad it went well for you PaP, how long until you hear anything? I am thinking of a change in career too, now OH is not wirking, I wanna start thinking about being an HGV driver - always wanted to do it but never really had the opportunity!

    Sx
    'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars' - Oscar Wilde
  • Thanks Beanie & Sarah, I wasn't at all nervous for this one. Unlike my last with the council. But I think thats because I know I can do this job whereas with the council it was stepping into the unknown. I should know in 1-2 weeks. Depends on how the interviewer thought I answered the questions, what the other manager thinks, what hr think and then my referances. So quite a long time really but it could mean I would be out of my current employer by the end of April :T

    Sarah, I have been reading/posting on your diary and sorry I am seething at your Oh. he has such a blasy attitude :mad: Anyways if you want a carrer change then why not? I know it isn't really the right time what with you Oh out of work but you can start enquiring. I guess you will need to get a HGV licence etc etc? I can really see you driving those too. And if I remember correctly (my father was a hgv) it's quite a good wage, even for newbies :D good luck if you do and keep us updatetd :A
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