Tete en l’Air’s Feet On The Ground Diary

Dinah93

You know how to use a sewing machine!

Tete_en_l'Air

I know how to do certain things on a sewing machine, but I think this book will be a useful reference!

- Packed lunches all week - 2/3
- [STRIKE]Check bank statements[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]Work out what to buy for friend's birthday and father's day[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]Write and post cards[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]Cancel Sew Magazine subscription[/STRIKE] - Dinah, did you manage to subscribe again with the offer in your mum's name? I might do the same with my Gran, then OH, then....
- [STRIKE]Phone letting agents[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]Visit Grandma[/STRIKE]
- Washing
- Finish samples folder
- 3 reviews
- Transfer 6 to Ciao
- Finish wool cushion
- Sew button back on jacket
- Sew button back on cardie

Considering I feel like I went in the house last night and just collapsed, I got rather a lot of my list out the way! Going to try and finish off one of my old Dooyoos today and also write up a bit of my sewing folder sneakily at work.

Having a half day to go and look at this house and then spending the evening with OH. Have had a bit of a chewy day so far - washed my hair twice by accident when I picked up the shampoo instead of the conditioner, then spent half an hour at Gran's before work trying to extract the battery from her new camera after she put it in the wrong way. She really must have jammed it in - talk about a square peg in a round hole! A few broken fingernails later and I managed to get it out, and luckily the camera still works! THEN, I went right out of my way on the way to work through labyrinthine streets after hearing something about broken traffic lights on Albert Road on the radio, only for the traffic report to be repeated as I was pulling into the car park, specifying Albert Road in Gateshead, not Middlesbrough

tinkerbel

argh tete how annoying about the roadworks but bless you helping your Granny BEFORE work!! wow what time do you get up?!

Tete_en_l'Air

7 o'clock, I was quite late this morning actually! I was there last night too, but she only knackered the camera up after I'd left so I had to go back!

Hope the revision's going well.

Work is a total nightmare, just had a big meeting where the upper echelons want big pushes on marketing, I'm panicking because I don't know how I'm meant to find the time with everything else I've got to do I'm going to start dreaming about work again, I hate it when it gets like this.

Birdie85

Sorry to hear about the nightmare work situation! Employers seem to think that they can stretch you as thinly as possible and you'll cope... but you only cope because you have to... and you end up spending your down time worrying about work! I'm not too happy about my work right now, when I moved to this department I was told, 'Keep your head down, work hard, make yourself indispensable and be patient' and my boss told me she was trying to have me put in charge of the department, which I pretty much am at the minute, but unofficially so I have no say in anything, I just get the rubbish! Anyhoo, boss is off on maternity leave next month... and some other random manger from a different department has been put in charge of us so I have to wave bye bye to my hopes of being 'valued' within the company! Also the young office girl is leaving on Friday and won't be replaced since we can 'cope'... until one of us goes on holiday! Grrrr think I need to start looking for new jobs again!

LOL at your detour this morning!

poddle911

Tete_en_l'Air wrote: »

Work is a total nightmare, just had a big meeting where the upper echelons want big pushes on marketing, I'm panicking because I don't know how I'm meant to find the time with everything else I've got to do I'm going to start dreaming about work again, I hate it when it gets like this.

Birdie85 wrote: »

Employers seem to think that they can stretch you as thinly as possible and you'll cope... but you only cope because you have to... and you end up spending your down time worrying about work!
LOL at your detour this morning!

Ack, I know how you feel! I've really begun to feel like you have to fight your corner to get recognition and treated fairly - because if you don't, nobody else will!

Hope it's not as bad as you fear, Tete! Hang in there, girls!

Birdie, it may well be worth looking around for jobs, just so you have a back up plan. It gives you the freedom to confront (probably the wrong word) your managers and address the situation - if they can't offer what they've promised and what you deserve then you've got the option to walk away.

Sadly I think most people feel undervalued by their employers!

Tete_en_l'Air

Aw Birdie that's rubbish! And I guess your boss didn't even say anything, just 'work hard and be patient' so you can't exactly make a formal complaint or anything. I would have a look around for jobs, even if it gives you the opportunity to say, "I have to have Wednesday morning off, I'm going to an interview" - maybe THEN they'll realise how much they value you.

My problem at the minute is bosses wanting you to do things that they think is a good idea, but in practice means we're duplicating what we do already and wasting our time - time we don't have! They're also going on about a big push recruiting new courses we're running, but in all honesty we're struggling recruiting for courses that are so popular we normally have long waiting lists, everyone's so uncertain with this new government and no-one seems to want to spend any money. But at the end of the day I can only do what I can do, and I certainly don't get paid enough to be kept awake at night!

Went to see the house - it was awful really, full of damp, you could smell it as soon as you walked through the door, didn't need Mr Surveyor to tell me that! The agent said the old lady who lived there 'moved out' (died??) abnd the family want to sell the house or rent it out whichever comes first. Well there's no way anyone will rent it, because they just havent prepared it for tenants, the carpets are old fashioned, but more importantly a mess, with black marks where all the furniture has been. The bathroom and kitchen were ok but nothing's been done to the rest of the house since it was built I think, the gloss had all gone yellow, and there was no smell of smoke. The 'sunroom' was some little annexe with corrugated plastic for a roof. That said, it would be a lovely little project for anyone buying, if they'd knock £30k off the price - the garden is absolutely lovely.

We ended up having words AGAIN about houses, I'm getting sick because he won't budge on houses - he wants a particular cottage type place in a quiet village for less than £550 a month and there just aren't that many places like that round here, let alone for that price. Call me paranoid but he seems to be making excuses here. And when I said I thought he was being unrealistic he made some comment about doing what I want because everything's always about me. This makes me more and more angry the more I think about it. And the more I think about it, if we haven't found a plce by September then sod it I'm going to find myself a small cheap flat and move into it myself, I am not spending my 29th birthday in my childhood home.

AND I've gone and got a chip in my windscreen , so waiting for the Autoglass man to come today. it's borderline the size of a 5p so I hope they can just fill it with their magic resin for free, otherwise that's my car fund depleted by £70. Where's Cinny, I'm wondering how she got on with her driving test...

Cinny91

Sorry the house wasn't that nice Had my fingers crossed for you it would be perfect and you'd be all wanting to move in! It's very weird about your OH, he does seem to be very picky but maybe he's just wanting his first house with you to be perfect?? Or he has a little ideal in his head of what he wants your lives together to be like and he's trying to match it? I'll keep my fingers crossed you find something soon though.

Tete_en_l'Air wrote: »

Where's Cinny, I'm wondering how she got on with her driving test...

I failed! *sniffs* I told Birdie, but couldn't find a point in anyones threads to say and didn't just want to bring it up :rotfl: Was a silly thing he failed me on, and even my driving teacher was surprised he used it as a fault but there isn't much I could do about it. I was pretty good on everything else though (I think I got 7 faults in all) so hoping I'll pass next time. Then me and OH can start looking to move out! I say looking, I've fallen in love with a flat block and I'm just hoping when we come to move out they still have some up for rent.. they're so perfect!

Dinah93

I'm sure something will come up, but yes, I do think he's being unrealistic. To which the best course of action is to just keep taking him to places in budget until he sees the light - he either has to compromise somewhere such as a new place or worse location or up the budget. Go to both old and new, don't rule things out based on online ads unless it blatently says its missing an essential - if NIM and I had stuck to that plan we'd still be looking! I don't think he's being intentionally difficult and not wanting to live with you - I think a subconcious part of him might be rebelling in the hope you'll just say 'well we can't afford England, lets go to Oz'. I'd be spitting blood about the comment on it being all about you too, you are a very selfless person, you always seem to put his wants and needs first, from what you say he doesn't ever seem to be willing to find a middle round to meet you on - its his way or no way.

Tete_en_l'Air

Cinny91 wrote: »

It's very weird about your OH, he does seem to be very picky but maybe he's just wanting his first house with you to be perfect?? Or he has a little ideal in his head of what he wants your lives together to be like and he's trying to match it?

It feels more like he's stalling and making excuses at the minute to be honest. In my opinion, it doesn't HAVE to be perfect as long as we're together. I'm really down about it all.

Cinny91 wrote: »

I failed! *sniffs* Was a silly thing he failed me on, and even my driving teacher was surprised he used it as a fault but there isn't much I could do about it. I was pretty good on everything else though (I think I got 7 faults in all) so hoping I'll pass next time.

That's what was happening to me, I was getting 3 or 4 minor faults, but then one major one and failing - one time was because the examiner thought I was too close to a parked car when another car was coming the other way (if that makes sense) and jerked the wheel, so I knew straight away I'd failed - you could have got a bus through the gap as well *roll eyes* At least you know you general standard of driving was OK, you just need to hone it and make sure you don't do anything they can pick you up on. Good luck for next time!