Reach for the stars...

niccatw

Pah! I'm totally in the huff with the MSE gremlins. They totally stole my post last night and threw into the abyss. I'm so annoyed because I'm sure it was my cleverest post yet!

Harrumph. And, you know, genius rarely occurs on consecutive days, even for the best of us, so it's unlikely you'll get more than ramblings from me this evening!

Don't shake your head at me; go shout at the gremlins!

But I do know I said Hey! :j to Happy, lovely to see you sweetie, I hope you are doing well. xx

Actually, I shouldn't be blaming the gremlins becasue I think it was actually the psychics trying to freak me out! Cheri I believe because I'm too scared not to! I still remember waking up in a wee pension on the outskirts of Paris when I was eurorailing to see two people staring right at me. They certainly weren't real people and I have spent the intervening years telling myself I was obviously tired and hallucinating. But then there are too many co-incidences. Like all the hairs on my body standing on end when a clairvoyant said my Nana's name at a thingybob my friend had dragged me too (naturally I never said a word!!! I figured Nana would know how I felt! ) and the fact that the telly asked a question about whether or not 57% of people believed in psychics as I was typing all that yesterday....

And here you all were thinking I was a highly rational, intelligent being. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: "It's never too late to be what you might have been." Voltaire

Actually nah, I prefer rational intelligence with a pinch of madness and a glug of fun! My walking marathon partner thinks I'm nuts because I want my poncho to be dotty (we're assuming that in one month, less a day, we will still have the monsoon weather we have just now and we will have to walk 26.2 miles in it), I like to play on the swings at the park and I really want to play with the sticker book faces books I just got my nephew for his birthday (in December). I stand by all those things! (With a mischievous look, waiting for just the right moment to jump right in! :rotfl: )

Anyhoo rational intelligence tells me you guys have given me a list of alternatives for my return to the UK after VSO, should the NHS and my profession no longer exist . Although Cheri, you may have to hire me as a general Austia goffer and tea maker until such time as my German is up to scratch for any other kind of job there! :rotfl:

I had supervison today. With my supervisor and everything. And it all went incredibly well. Which is slightly unnerving but in a shrugging my shoulders, let's go with this kind of a way. I know she and my boss have met but I have no idea whether anything of note (to me) was discussed. My boss would normally have let me know she had approached the subject. But, I'll just sit back and enjoy this roller coaster (*nods to a quote on Cheri's diary posted by lionheartedgirl*) for now. (Oh and my boss is going to pay herself ('cos there's no money for training in the NHS) to come to the conference I've helped set up. Which is rather scary for me but great. And supportive.)

I have paid off the £300 to the Virgin credit card so it's back to zero. Yay! Though I was tad pre-emptive (i.e. forgetful) because the cashback credit card d/d comes out on Monday. Oops! So I'll be £30 into the o/d. I'm also £35 into my RBS o/d. Which is hardly scary stuff when I know what those overdrafts used to be!!! But it's weird when you get used to pretending your overdrafts don't actually exist and therfore aren't there for you to use... and then you need to use them.

But that's why I kept them. It's also slightly annoying that I'm not using the £300 to reduce the RBS further. Probably because the RBS is now sitting at £2,497.92 ...which is much closer to being under the 2k but not as close as I'd like as quickly as I'd like.

But it's also, I suspec,t to do with having to wait another two weeks to attend my first IPL session! Let's not get into how horrific it is being unable to do anything other than shave. I look like a man! :eek: (Albeit a rather slight, feminine man :rotfl:)
Little Miss Impatient!

MrsMoo2U

I am with you on the swings and using the stickers books. My nieces and nephews think I am mad. Mind, my brother is just as mad as me so if we all go out together the kids are embarrassed - who cares and that saying about it being compulsory to grow old but not to grow up is a good one to adopt.

Hmmm........ you have me worried about my German now, it isnt that good I am winging it and hoping it will improve when I get there to be honest.

Yes I say that I am a healthy sceptic. It hurts to sit on the fence. Some people have accused me of being a witch when I say certain things to them (they say I scare them) and I too, have "seen" them. I say it is instincts and hallucinations too.

niccatw

Oops, didn't mean to have you fret over your German Cheri. It's just the profession I currently work in might be a bit difficult for me to do in any language other than my native tongue!

However, my future plans may take me off sideways and I may find myself inadvertently changing careers so language might not be a barrier!

I have been very tired today so I'm going to sit with a cuppa and do nothing for the next wee while as I start second job at 9pm.

Take care all

MrsMoo2U

No not fretting Nic, no point just have to get on with it. Who knows where your future is taking you. Lots of crossroads I see on the horizon. Hope you aren't too tired for the second job. Take care of yourself.

niccatw

OOoh, use your psychic powers to read my future! :rotfl:

When Borders Books was still open I used to periodically buy the German version of various monthly magazines in an attempt to relearn my German. I'd sit there with my dictionary (which has German crosswords on grammar at the back... I appear to have completed them as a 17 year old, but I'm double that now and I have no idea what the answers are :rotfl:).

niccatw

Ugh, what a horrid day! But a quick dash round the forums tells me that's pretty much the way of it for the UK today! Pah!

I'm going to forgo an NSD to meet my friend from IoW who is here for the day. I was thinking I could walk into the city centre to meet her and that's take care of the walking training too - but if I did that, I'd need to either sit drenched through lunch or buy myself and entire new outfit!

Before I even get there I need to drink my cuppa, try not to fall asleep (even though I get to sleep at second job, it's not the same) and have a long leisurely shower.

I've had a niggly back for the last week or so. It's possibly the walking. And the absence of body balance classes for the last several weeks due to various holidays. And maybe also my matress. But if I get a new matress, I'd like it to be a memory foam one! So I may need to ask the various Santa Claus' known to me if they will perhaps contibute towards such a thing rather than waste money on something I don't need and probably don't want. So that'll be about £40 toward it.... this could take a while :rotfl: (I have looked at memory foam matress toppers but I haven't heard a great deal of raving about them and they are too expensive to buy if they are useless!)

I'm listening to Classic fm. I know nothing about classical music. Other than it's good for calming me down when I'm grumpy. (And I'm tired so...) However, I like fast classical music with crescendos. I don't like the slow stuff (actually that's true of all must these days. Little Miss Impatient. I find myself muttering "oh just get on with it!" ). It's amazing how much of it is familiar though from various TV programmes (and many episodes of Tom and Jerry )

Anyway, none of this is of any relevance to anything.

Ah, I was listening to "Eine Kleine Nacht" there

Right, off to drink my cuppa "mindfully".

MrsMoo2U

Morning (oops afternoon) raining here too. If you have iplayer take a listen to last nights proms (radio 3) I think that you might like it. Film music. If you like fast classical music with crescendos then have a listen to Tchhaikovsky's fourth symphony. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mctpTyIBt_I&feature=related

Have a lovely day

niccatw

Thanks Cheri Iplayer not playing today, keeps cutting out aftEr a few miutes due to "bandwith" but I heard some of the proms and am about to give it another go in a minute.

Yesterday was lovely. Spent the day eating and drinking with my two friends. The kind you see rarely but it really doesn't matter becasue every time you meet it, it feels as though it was only yesterday when you last spoke. I was drinking water on account of me working later so I was a little less tipsy than the two on red wine. We fairly munched our way through a lot of bread and olive oil though!

Today has been a lazy, lazy day! A bit of a stroll, a bit of snoozing to catch up on sleep, a bit of reading curled up on the safa - you just can't beat it, a bit of sweet potato and brocolli curry, mmmmm, an NSD and a swift £10.12 to RBS from bills account.

You just can't beat it. Though I haven't yet packed for doggy-sitting! Need to leave first thing Tuesday morning and I'm working tomorrow then walking and body-balancing, so should probably do that now.

I need to take all my uni stuff and stuff for a group I'm running first day back. And probably my laptop too. Mum and Dad both have laptops but I don't know what they do to them as they both run incredibly slowly!

I probably need to take any food I want to. My folks are not veggie! At all!

And clothes.... And the massive scaletrix thing my frineds were going to throw out. Going to give it to my brother and he can do what he wants with it. If I were him, I'd eep it for christmas. But I suspect he'll want to try it out and so the kids will get it whenever the are next round.

I also need to call the lease company about the car. I noticed the back seat has a massive water mark and must have been totally drenched with the rain. But as it's always just me in it, I've never noticed before. I don't want to be held liable for it...

I am still grumpy. My lodger is still annoying me just be being here. Every day this week I have locked the door on leaving work in the morning and it has still been locked when I return.

I have cabin fever just thinking about that! Argh!

niccatw

There was absolutely nothing wrong with iplayer.

Just the person trying to work it!!! It did keep cutting out after a couple of minutes when I was watching it... because it was only a 2 minute snippet of video.

Once I worked out I should be listening to it, it worked fine! :cool:

Ever the luddite! :rotfl:

MrsMoo2U

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
That is exactly the kind of thing I do.

My ancestor was murdered by luddites.